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Intel wags mangy Centrino dog by Boeing's tail
To actively promote the idea that the open standards aren't good enough and that you need something that's Intel specific to really make sure it works is simply bad form on Intel's behalf.
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Yahoo! gets local with SearchMonkey | The Semantic Web | ZDNet.com
Continuing to deliver on their aim of enriching the core search offering with a little help from SearchMonkey, Yahoo! yesterday announced that the existing SearchMonkey apps for CitySearc...
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Surfing the Relationship Update Stream | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
Dan Farber blogs about Six Apart's new Relationship Update Stream.
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Q&A with LinkedIn’s Allen Blue: Post-funding plans, Company Groups and corporate intranets | Feeds | ZDNet.com
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Google caught “anonymously” bashing eBay | Googling Google | ZDNet.com
Garett Rogers explores the mystery behind the hottest and fastest growing tech company in the world.Google spoilers inside.
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Fixing Windows Vista, Part 4: Get smart about services | Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report
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» A good sign: Google drops its Answers project | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
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» Mozilla tinkers with in-browser social network | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
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» It could be a long wait for Windows Mobile ‘Photon’ | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com
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Participatory product development
Salesforce.com rolled out a blog that asks users to provide feedback on user interface design prototypes for a future version of the company’s hosted CRM application.
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MySQL, JBoss most likely on 'the block'
Everyone has a price, and the more I think about it the more I realize that the two companies are currently irresistible acquisition targets. The question is: Who will acquire them?
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x86 facing real competition
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Why copy Microsoft?
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Why the third world won't save open source
Having systems that integrate seamlessly with, and can consume products created by, Western corporations will continue to be important [for Asian companies].
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Passing judgement on Microsoft's media juggernaut
To credit Microsoft's monopoly for the way the company is so well-positioned to succeed in digital media is [...] ridiculous. If you really want to point a finger at someone, point it at...
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Tools for IT Transparency
Much of the mistrust that occurs between the business and IT sides of an organization is founded on misunderstanding and questions about resources.
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Schwartz: Blogs are essential for leadership
Given that any time executives send an e-mail blast to employees it typically ends up in the public domain, being more direct and transparent is more credible and helps build dialog with ...
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Do we still need the GPL?
Whether we need the GPL or not depends on whether one believes that ethical considerations, or the concept of "free software," are important.
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Might JavaOne have been NetBeans' last stand?
Developers will not only gravitate towards IDEs that they like, but the ones for which the most third party support and tools exist (known as IDE plug-ins).
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JavaOne Scoreboard: who Eclipsed who?
It doesn't matter whether or not a vendor's main plays are its servers or its IDEs, or both: They're all trying to figure out how they'll worm their way to success in an increasingly ope...
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Evidence that competition breeds innovation
Look no further than what's going on in the search arena. There is clear evidence that having multiple players competing aggressively is an optimal state.
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More on software patents
I see software patents tilting the playing field too far in favor of a small subset of corporations, and ignoring the interests of small companies and FOSS developers and users — which ...
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Microsoft probably mulling music store futures
Either Microsoft will sell the store outright to someone else, or Microsoft will turn the store into a multi-tenant e-commerce architecture that can be private labeled by anybody [...] a...
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Open source: Are Microsoft and other holdouts about to crack?
As evidenced by the way Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has adjusted his open source rhetoric [...], commercial software companies are clearly being motivated by the market to adopt an increa...
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Shining example of why patents and standards don't mix
When a proprietary technology earns the status of de facto standard, the licensor of that technology is basically afforded a legal monopoly and an unprecedented amount of market control.
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SUSE opens to yawns
Given the fact that it's a community that drives better in the case of open source, first-mover advantage may actually be more important here than in the commercial world.
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Blade.org: Standards body or boondoggle?
When IT buyers purchase a BladeCenter-compliant product from a BTLA licensee, they'll still need the chassis and other accoutrements like management modules, fans, and power supplies that...
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Service-enabling enterprise RSS
RSS, the simple publish-subscribe mechanism for syndicating XML content, is about to start expanding into business applications, and service providers are going to play a crucial role in ...
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Salesforce enters its eBay phase
Appexchange is following a Microsoft model, creating a software ecosystem of apps and developers based on proprietary software, but adding a marketplace infrastructure.
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Why copy Microsoft?
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Microsoft Office 2007…for Linux?
If [proprietary software vendors] avoid the desktop Linux market because its users don't like to pay for product, then most users will stick with a platform that has all the options, even...
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On browsers and competition
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What's wrong with antitrust
Governments manage pretty well when their goal is to create policies which enable individuals to make choices, but have difficulties when they start moving into the realm of outcomes.
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Seeking balance in open source
The voluntary nature of open source doesn't lend itself as readily to consumer-oriented technology as the proprietary model, which uses financial incentives to orient developers towards t...
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Competing with the Microsoft ecosystem
Those who decide what constitutes Linux must make hard decisions regarding what becomes standard Linux technology. [...] A consistent base-level of functionality would start to build ecos...
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Ecosystems versus centralized development
Free agents acting in unconstrained competition will always outwit centralized hierarchies, even though the anarchy inherent in the former makes the results often unpredictable.
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In a world of proprietary boats, thanks but I'll take the life raft
If you want the cost, security, stability and whatever else of your IT to be out of your hands and in the hands of your suppliers, well, you're welcome to stay on that boat.
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Web 2.0? It's more like Computer 2.0
Not only is anybody free to add a new API [to the Web] at anytime, the primary user interface — a browser — almost never needs updating to take advantage of those new APIs. Pretty unc...
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It's not about OpenDocument vs MS. It's about open standards
If you're addicted to a proprietary technology and the vendor changes the price, you have little choice but to go along. If the product has security issues, you're beholden to the vendor...
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Microsoft's unique innovation
The structure of development for open source products militates against the establishment of any consistent standard. [...] Microsoft has a financial interest in consistency, and that for...
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Of software ecosystems, symbiosis and co-innovation
The meta-ecosystem going forward will be connecting and recombining services, based on open, non-forking standards, with the platform ecosystems –based on open source or proprietary, or...
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Don't sacrifice innovation in push for standards
The problem is that "standards" are often the result of compromise between competing demands. This lowest common denominator approach is generally cost-effective but not always satisfactory.
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Why standardization is necessary
The comparative merits of [open standards versus standardization] should be considered within the context of why companies and consumers frequently choose to standardize on one implementa...
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Standards V. Standardization
When an industry develops to standards, what you get is competition, buyer choice, and technical progress. In contrast, when an industry standardizes, what you get is higher costs, reduce...
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Mashup ecosystem poised to explode
Anybody can add any API at anytime which in turn makes the mashup ecosystem incredibly ripe for innovation. [...] With mashups, fewer technical skills are needed to become a developer tha...
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What to expect from Web 3.0
Web 3.0 isn't just about shopping, entertainment and search. It's also going to deliver a new generation of business applications that will see business computing converge on the same fun...
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Web 3.0: Salesforce.com's 'Business Web'
By getting vendors to standardize on the Salesforce.com user interface, AppExchange is making an outright grab for the lucrative application-layer high ground of the Web 3.0 landscape.
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The value of intellectual property
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The shift to Social Computing
The two-way Web is increasingly moving the power out of the hands of trusted institutions and into the hands of everyday users, who decide for themselves what products they should buy, wh...
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The shift to Social Computing | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com
Optimizing for high-value tacit interactions between people will become the next major driver of productivity world-wide.
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75-year-old woman smashes up local Comcast office with hammer | IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband | ZDNet.com
Breakin' the Law, Breakin' the Law (and ultimately being served a slap on the wrist). A great hero in the digital age!
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» In zombies we trust | Ryan Naraine’s Zero Day | ZDNet.com
owning customer machines to prevent them from getting to you.
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New OneNote Powertoy adds search and replace | Office Evolution | ZDNet.com
Daniel Escapa has just released a new Powertoy for OneNote 2007 that adds a basic search-and-replace feature to the application.
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Web 2.0 | blogs.ZDNet.com
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