Saturday, April 17, 2010

Stuff I read to help me pronounce AY-yar-FYAHRT-lahr-YER-kutt April 12-16 2010

HP Breakthrough Promises Ultrafast Computers


Is Microsoft's cloud strategy really that special?


Secret Origins of Top Tech Firms
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/967068/5553367/70628/0/


Microsoft Doubles Zune HD Storage to 64GB
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/967068/5553367/70633/0/


Twitter Gobbles Up Tweetie
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/967847/5553367/70677/0/


3-D Internet Forecast Within 5 Years
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/967847/5553367/70686/0/


Oracle Releases New Apps for Portfolio Management, Enterprise Docs


HP Labs' Memristor Discovery Possible IT Game Changer


Greenplum Debuts Greenplum Chorus, The First Commercial Enterprise Data Cloud Platform http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4227050&access=EH


10 Bizarre Tech Acquisitions Of The Past Decade


Nokia buys U.S. maker of geographic intelligence tools


CRM for Telecoms, Part 2: Nailing the Customer Experience
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69746.html


Marketing Analytics Measures Effectiveness of Investments for Market and Business Objectives


Microsoft's cloud-enabled Office 2010 set to join battle with Google


Is Microsoft's cloud strategy really that special?


Nokia Acquires MetaCarta


Microsoft unveils 'Kin' phones for the socially connected


First Impressions Of Microsoft's Kin Platform


Private cloud computing nudges enterprises closer to 'IT as a service', process orientation


Microsoft Ushers in the Next Generation of the Social Phone With KIN, a New Windows Phone
http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4227513&access=EH


Twitter Announcements Unnerve Developers

Sun MySQL Head Joins EnterpriseDB


Netezza Mantra Appliance Selected by Epocrates to Support Compliance Needs


Kapow Technologies Mines

Social Media Sentiment and Intelligence to Predict Weekly

Outcomes for American Idol,

Dancing with the Stars http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4228210&access=EH


Microsoft Demonstrates Vision for Simplifying the Digital Supply Chain http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4228380&access=EH


Zune Is The Center Of Microsoft's Mobile Universe


David Intersimone: Does the software industry need manifestos?


Twitter to start pushing advertising to users


Would You Say Web 3.0 is a Convergence of Web and the Cloud?


Oracle Introduces Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Management and Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management


Oracle to Answer Questions on MySQL, but Will It Be Enough?


Business Theory, Strategy and Targets for BI


Salesforce Extols 'Facebook Imperative' for Enterprise Computing


Vint Cerf: Today's cloud is like 1973 networks


IBM responds to Oracle's Exadata with new systems


IDENTITY MANAGEMENT IN CLOUD COMPUTING COURTS ENTERPRISE TRUST
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11322239/2433922


Twitter grows up, adopts business plan


The future of MySQL according to Oracle


SAS Offers Social Media Analytics Service


Twitter Tries Promoted Tweets


Microsoft Unveils Kin Windows Phones


Internet of Things -- From Vision to Reality
http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4229179&access=EH


The Pros, Cons, and Inevitability of Unified Data Management

Analytics Trends Play to HP's Strengths


Q&A: Data Visualization Offers Rich Views


The future of MySQL according to Oracle


Greenplum's Chorus builds data marts from multiple sources


Twitter has 105M users, says co-founder Biz Stone


Startup pushes Hadoop via spreadsheet


Progress Software Launches Sonic 8.0 Enterprise Service Bus


A NEW RESOURCE FOR BI, CPM AND ANALYTICS INFO: SEARCHBUSINESSANALYTICS.COM
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11332391/2433922


Twitter Tries to Calm Hysterical Developers


SMS two-factor authentication for electronic identity verification
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11332371/2433922


The Tyranny of Consensus

Business Intelligence - Be Methodical and Trust Not the Dots


Business Theory, Strategy and Targets for BI


Inside and Out – Integrated and Federated Data Management


Inside and Out – Integrated and Federated Data Management

http://www.information-management.com/dmradio/-10017419-1.html?ET=informationmgmt:e1472:2182073a:&st=email&utm_source=editorial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=IM_Daily_041410


Microsoft unveils KIN: Will users like this all-cloud, no-apps approach?


Oracle exec defends mySQL deal, shows off "much faster" version


Enterprise IT plus social media plus cloud computing equals the future


Google Displays Historical Tweets in Search Results

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=032002XVS3TS&nl=2&full_skip=1


Will Twitter Ads Tweak Tweeters?
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/971660/5553367/71876/0/


Google to Index Your Embarrassing Twitter Trail
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/971660/5553367/71885/0/


Mashups and the Enterprise Mashup Markup Language (EMML)
http://www.drdobbs.com/java/224300049
http://www.openmashup.org/omadocs/v1.0/index.html


GARTNER BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SUMMIT: NEW TECH VS. OLD-SCHOOL
STRATEGY
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11332189/2433922


Oracle Extends Financial Performance Management Suite


Mitch Wagner: Can Twitter succeed by alienating developers?


Twitter gives the lowdown on its business model


David Linthicum: Are SOA Vendors Committing Cloud Computing Suicide?


MDM and SOA Bring Centralized Data and Faster Analytics


Appliance Alliance: Netezza and

Composite Software Team Up to Offer Enterprise Data Integration


Twitter Finally Unveils Promoted Tweets Ad Service


Business Intelligence - Be Methodical and Trust Not the Dots


Taxes and Why Excel Remains the Number-One BI Tool (Sort Of)


Greenplum Intros Chorus and DBMS Upgrade


MONITORING THE BENEFITS OF SOCIAL MEDIA, AND THE RISKS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11343495/2433922


Monitoring the benefits of social media, and the risks

http://searchcio.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid182_gci1510020,00.html?track=NL-964&ad=760618&asrc=EM_NLN_11343495&uid=2433922


10 things the Internet has ruined and five things it hasn't


The Curious Thing About

Microsoft Kin
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/972998/5553367/72335/0/


Twitter's Big News Day
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/972998/5553367/72347/0/


Microsoft, Google On Office Computing Collision Course


Library Of Congress Archives Twitter


GARTNER: WAVE THE WHITE FLAG ON EXCEL BI USE
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11350897/2433922


CA, Progress, Greenplum, Oco Release Cloud Products


Micron to bump up enterprise SSD speed


The Evolving Managed Services Landscape

Prepare to Increase Data Management Efforts, Says TDWI


Fog clears on proper precautions for putting more enterprise data safely in clouds