Saturday, April 30, 2011

Stuff that XMLgrrl originally marked up in SGML oh so many years ago April 25-29 2011

Is 'Social' Business Collaboration Just an Expensive Fad?
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72317.html

Amazon Kindle Library Lending Coming Later in 2011

Who in the World Needs a Hard Drive?

How to format a hard drive

Open Source is Expensive

Your Android Phone is Tracking You
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2383990/5553367/193612/0/

Despite Improvements, Data in the Cloud Remains Dirty
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2383990/5553367/193624/0/

Is the Single-Function Device Doomed?
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2383990/5553367/193625/0/

Phone Location Tracking: Google Defends, Apple Stays Mum
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2389046/5553367/193692/0/

Watch out Groupon, Here Comes Google Offers
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2389046/5553367/193696/0/

Web 3.0 Increases Business Intelligence

How Geeks Drive Everyone Else Nuts

Approximate BI

The Value of In-Memory Analytics

BI Market Bounced Back in 2010

Supply Chain Analytics: New Kid on IT's Block

Corticon and DST: Bringing Business Rules to AWD http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4592831&access=EH

IBM tailors BPM for small business

Consumerization and the Future of Business Intelligence

Datawatch Offers Shorter Path from Data to Information

Will Apple's enterprise success spark a business cloud offering?

Microsoft's own numbers suggest declining Windows share

Social Marketing Yielding 95% ROI

Quora: The next social network IT pros need to know?

Banks go social to collaborate, reach customers

Benefits and risks of nanotechnology

Facebook adds two-factor authentication

The 10 best ways to visually represent IT data

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/the-10-best-ways-to-visually-represent-it-data/2431?tag=nl.e101

Are smartphones getting a little too smart?

Big Apple, Big Google, Big Brother

Seven lessons to learn from Amazon's outage

Apple vs. Microsoft by the numbers

In-house 'app stores' ease tablet-management woes

SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 releases to tackle 'big data' issues
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13731684/2433922

BOBJ-enhanced SAP GRC 10.0 platform rolls out
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13731685/2433922

Mzinga Applies 'Design for Change' to Social CRM
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72305.html

Need IPv4 addresses? Get 'em here

Apple's Jobs reportedly writes: 'We don't track anyone'

Michael Dell Looks Beyond PC Business

Are You Talking to Me?

Fearless DB2® Database and Application Performance Management from Cradle to Grave http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4593473&access=EH

Yahoo buys TV content indexing, recommendation company

Cloud brokering: Building a cloud of clouds

Pitney Bowes Business Insight: trying to put its stamp on the software world

NASA's wondrous views of Earth

Why IBM's Hardware Business Is Flying High

Databases Alone Can't Conquer Big Data Problems

Politicos Line Up for Location-Tracking Fight

Netflix Shifting From DVD Rentals to Media Powerhouse

Yahoo Mulls Spinoff for Hadoop Software Unit

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704729304576287343518337646.html

REDMOND DIARY: NoSQL, No Peace

Capturing Social Media, Online Communications In The Cloud

Twitter launches bidding war for TweetDeck

Quora: The next social network IT pros need to know?

Microsoft explains its location data collection practices

Google crushes, shreds old hard drives to prevent data leakage

Apple patent app shows plans for location data

Microsoft explains its location data collection practices

SETI hunt for alien life put on hold

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9216189/SETI_hunt_for_alien_life_put_on_hold?source=CTWNLE_nlt_emgtech_2011-04-27

Friendster rethinks site, will nuke users' info

Infor-Lawson Set To Mount ERP Software Offensive

The Powerful Punch of CRM and Sales Training Combined
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72325.html

Frank Talk About Cloud Architecture
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72290.html

SYNCHRONIZING THE ANALYTICAL MDM PROCESS WITH OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13741191/2433922

CLEAR PLANS CRUCIAL TO SAP DATA ARCHIVING, GARTNER SAYS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13746487/2433922

Cloud Face-Off: Google Docs vs. Microsoft Word Web App

IBM Unleashes Middleware Magic with WebSphere 8

Geo-Tracking Means You Can Run, but You Can't Hide

Why Amazon's Outage Shouldn't Change Cloud Views

Culture Eats Strategy For Lunch

What's Instrumental to Your Data Governance?

Data Science – Part 1

Datawatch Offers Shorter Path from Data to Information

Capturing Social Media, Online Communications In The Cloud

Supreme Court Hears Health Care Data Mining Case

Cost, IT Support Top BI Obstacles

Get To Know The New HP

Force10 taking data centers into zettabyte era

IBM, Akamai to speed enterprise access to public apps

What's Next In Storage Interfaces

3 Fundamental Principles for BI Success

TDWI Conference Recap: Hyper BI Isn't Hyperbole

"Successful BI" Survey Needs Your Input

Q&A: BI and Cloud Computing

VIDEO: The Myth of the Efficient Business User: The Cost of Ownership of BI

Data Quality as a Catalyst for Lowering TCO

The Rising Wave of Gamification
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72336.html

20 worst-named tech products

The Physical Layer: Understanding the OSI Model

http://blogs.computerworld.com/18169/understanding_layer_1_of_the_osi_model_the_physical_layer?source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2011-04-28

Why speed matters

http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/04/why-speed-matters.html

Josh Stephens: The Physical Layer: Understanding the OSI Model

Barnes & Noble Claims Microsoft Is Out for Android Blood

Cloud Computing: Yahoo Might Spin Out Hadoop: WSJ

http://links.eqentia.com/520b2ad1536d771f/?dst=http://www.ulitzer.com/node/1810943&utm_campaign=visibli&utm_source=cloudcomputing&utm_medium=twitter

Yahoo Hadoop Spin-off Could Propel Software's Growth

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20110428/tc_pcworld/yahoohadoopspinoffcouldpropelsoftwaresgrowth

BMC buys app performance vendor Coradiant

Geo-Tracking Means You Can Run, but You Can't Hide

Mobile BI: Raising the IQ of the Enterprise One Device at a Time

Virtualized Data Protection a Mixed Bag

The Data Governance Oratorio

Capturing Social Media, Online Communications In The Cloud

Everyone Wants to Own Your Activity Stream

HP SHOPS EXPLORE ORACLE EXIT STRATEGIES
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13761482/2433922

Why two Microsoft cash cows are better than one

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/why-two-microsoft-cash-cows-are-better-than-one/9320?tag=nl.e019

SAP's McDermott: 'HANA pipeline 10 million euro a week'

Darlene Storm: EFF: We need an Open Wireless Movement

Apple vs. Microsoft by the numbers

BMC Makes Deal for Coradiant

New Data Warehousing Platforms from Teradata

IBM Builds Out the Cloud

Information Builders Announces Partnership With Teradata to Deliver a Fully Integrated Appliance to Speed Data Warehouse Implementations

http://financial.tmcnet.com//news/2011/04/29/5476618.htm

Netflix Is Leaving the Door Wide Open for Competitors
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72353.html

CoTweet Pulls Social Media Conversations Into CRM Systems
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72315.html

PepsiCo Debuts Social Vending Machine

IBM Tutors Yale Students On Social Media Analytics

Wireless a catalyst for 'Internet of things'