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The virtualization opportunity threat for Linux ve

04 Sep 2010

This is difficult for an established server vendor to accept, but I suspect it’s an opportunity for any new entrant to the market. On the Linux side, this includes both Novell and Ubuntu. Yes, Novell has been around for a long time, but its server sales are still nascent. As for Ubuntu, its primary task [...]

Get SanDisk’s Wi-Fi MP3 player for $89 shipped

29 Aug 2010

In case it’s not abundantly clear by now, I’m a bit obsessed with MP3 players. Today’s deal: the 4GB SanDisk Sansa Connect, which sold for $250 when it debuted about 9 months ago but can now be had for just $89.46 shipped.
Find more deals, coupon codes, and bargains on CNET’s Shopper.com.
(Credit:
CNET Networks)
The Connect comes with [...]

Red Hat veteran joins EnterpriseDB as CEO

24 Aug 2010

Current CEO Andy Astor will take on the global business development role and focus on building out new markets.
Congrats to EnterpriseDB for scoring such a high-profile executive and to Ed on his new role.
EnterpriseDB, known for its products based on the open-source Postgres database, today announced that it has named Ed Boyajian, former Red Hat [...]

Flickr revamp spotlights photos, social features

24 Aug 2010

(Credit:
Stephen Shankland/CNET News)

Flickr currently has more than 30 million registered users, 3 billion page views per month, and 60 million unique users per month, she said.

It doesn’t change another core part of Flickr, though, the pages that house each photograph. That will be changed in a future update, she added.

Yahoo on Wednesday started [...]

Microsoft fixes 20 flaws with 11 patches

24 Aug 2010

ms08-062: Important

MS08-063: Important
Microsoft on Tuesday released its October 2008 security bulletin. The four critical bulletins concern Windows, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Host Integration Server, and Microsoft Excel. The patch for Internet Explorer is cumulative.

MS08-061: Important
Exploitability index: 1-3.
Microsoft recommends that customers apply this update immediately. Titled “Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (956390),” this bulletin [...]

Apple’s latest chip gamble

24 Aug 2010

In any event, financial analysts awaiting Apple’s earnings conference call later this afternoon will probably attempt to get an answer out of COO Tim Cook or CFO Peter Oppenheimer. Late last year, investors had wondered what Apple was planning to do with all its cash. Now they have some idea.
Could Apple do the [...]

Top 10 trends in identity management

24 Aug 2010

BTW–I am going to make an effort to move into more technical and more start-up stuff (again) since the rest of the world seems to only write about the
iPhone SDK.
Trend No. 4: SOA and IAM are growing together
It took awhile, but now, finally, not only vendors from both sides, but also application developers, have become [...]

PGP Whole disk encryption for Mac OS X is ‘in act

24 Aug 2010

PGP released its whole-disk encryption utility for Windows in May 2005. A perpetual license for PGP Whole Disk Encryption 9.8 for Windows costs $149.

Jon Callas, PGP’s chief technology officer, told me on Monday that the software is “in active development” and will run on Intel-based Macs. Callas didn’t want to elaborate on a shipping date, [...]

My headphones are better than yours

24 Aug 2010

Amazon.com User Reviews (4.5 stars out of 237 reviews)
CNET Review (Review on its way, but check out the user section, 8.8 average rating from 12 users.)

There’s something to be said about a product still going strong after 23 years in this evolving industry.

Price: $35 with free shipping on Amazon. Maybe less on eBay.
Sound quality: [...]

Um… nevermind!

24 Aug 2010

Shorter Gartner (tip o’ the antlers to Daring Fireball):
Oh, man, we were so high when we wrote that!