Feed New York Times: Bits : Too Much TV for Cisco (nytimes.com)
Ever wonder who buys those big, big TVs? Ever wonder if they ever get used?
Feed New York Times: Oracle Buys Dutch Web-Application Vendor (nytimes.com)
Oracle has bought Moniforce, a Dutch vendor of Web application performance management software, for an undisclosed sum.
Submission + - Microsoft wants OLPC system to run Windows XP
Stony Stevenson writes: In a move sure to provoke controversy, Microsoft wants the designers of the XO laptop to add a port through which the storage capacity required by Windows XP can be added to the system. Making the laptop compatible with XP would give students in poor countries access to "tens of thousands of existing educational applications written for Windows," said James Utzschneider, a Microsoft general manager, in a blog post Wednesday. Utzschneider says a shrunken version of Windows XP could potentially run on 2 Gbytes of flash memory. The XO, however, can only hold 1 Gbyte. As a result, Microsoft wants the XO's designers to add a slot through which more memory can be added via a secure digital (SD) card, Utzschneider said. Microsoft's renewed interest in participating in OLPC might be viewed by skeptics as an admission that a rival offering for developing markets called Classmate — which uses an Intel processor on Microsoft software — has failed to catch on.
Submission + - AT&T Wireless Network Is Open Too, Company Say (itworld.com)
narramissic writes: "Following last week's much-heralded announcement that Verizon Wireless would open up its network, AT&T is making it known that its wireless network is also open to outside devices. 'By its nature, GSM technology is open,' said Michael Coe, an AT&T spokesman. 'Customers could always use GSM phones not sold by AT&T on our network. We can't guarantee the performance of the device, of course.'
AT&T will start to publicize that information through salespeople at AT&T stores, Ralph de la Vega, CEO of the company's wireless business, told USA Today."
AT&T will start to publicize that information through salespeople at AT&T stores, Ralph de la Vega, CEO of the company's wireless business, told USA Today."
Comment Re:Cerberus Helpdesk (Score 1) 236
Zaaj is right. I've been using Cerberus Helpdesk for 4 years with a moderately-sized helpdesk, and it has worked well. In the more recent versions, you can ditch the closed-source email parser and use cron and their PHP parser script to get customer email into the system. (A lot of folks use it with S-POP and Gmail, and we have found it to be reliable with Exchange.) If you know a little PHP, modifying Cerberus to work with an LDAP authentication system, even Active Directory, would be easy. Support from them has been pretty good, but I haven't had to use it much. There are some CRM-lite features in the product, but only knowing your exact requirements would indicate if there was a fit.
Cerberus Helpdesk is worth a look. You can monitor 1 email account for free, and you can set up the software in about 30 minutes.
Cerberus Helpdesk is worth a look. You can monitor 1 email account for free, and you can set up the software in about 30 minutes.
Submission + - Apple grants DRM-free distribution to all labels
SexCaptain writes: AppleInsider gives details of a letter circulated by Apple to all producers of content for the iTunes Store, announcing that from May onwards they can sell their music at higher quality and free of DRM. Hopefully this opens the doors for labels like Netwerk, and although its unclear exactly what Apple means by 'higher quality', and there is no mention of price changes, this is a big step in the right direction.
"Many of you have reached out to iTunes to find out how you can make your songs available higher quality and DRM-free," Apple wrote in the communication. "Starting next month, iTunes will begin offering higher-quality, DRM-free music and DRM-free music videos to all customers."
"Many of you have reached out to iTunes to find out how you can make your songs available higher quality and DRM-free," Apple wrote in the communication. "Starting next month, iTunes will begin offering higher-quality, DRM-free music and DRM-free music videos to all customers."
Submission + - The 20 year evolution of handheld consoles
marcellizot writes: "It has taken a while for handheld consoles to crawl from the primordial 8-bit slime to today's apex predator polygon juggling brutes. To illustrate just how much things have advanced over the last 20 years, Pocket Gamer has pulled together a few facts and figures in pretty chart form. Pitting the vital statistics of the critical handhelds of today and yesteryear against one another, there are some interesting facts to be gleaned from this infotainment extravaganza."
Submission + - MPAA: we're committed to fair use... and DRM
Doctor Jay writes: At a LexisNexis Conference on DRM this week, MPAA Dan Glickman announced that the MPAA was fine with consumers ripping DVDs for portable video players and home media servers. 'In his speech to industry insiders at the posh Beverly Hills Four Seasons hotel, Glickman repeatedly stressed that DRM must be made to work without constricting consumers. The goal, he said, was "to make things simpler for the consumer," and he added that the movie studios were open to "a technology summit" featuring academics, IT companies, and content producers to work on the issues involved.'
Feed Everyday Life In Pompeii Revealed (sciencedaily.com)
Until recently archaeologists working on Pompeian artefacts have tended to concentrate on examples of art, some of it erotic, from the town that was suddenly destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in August 79 AD. Now archaeologists are gaining new understandings of everyday life in Pompeii.
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Feed Samsung builds a better, smaller 4GB DIMM (engadget.com)
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OCZ may have recently laid claim to the title of some of the world's fastest RAM, but Samsung seems to have found room to do a little boasting of its own, trotting out its first 4GB DDR2 DIMM based on WSP (or wafer-level-processed stacked package) technology. According to the company, that process not only makes the module smaller, but faster and more energy efficient as well. Not so clear, unfortunately, is what effect the seemingly cure-all technology will have on pricing or availability, with no word on either from Samsung as of yet.[Via PCLaunches.com]
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