Saturday, April 02, 2011

Stuff that Susan Sontag would have dismissed as hopelessly bourgeois March 28 to April 1 2011

Conversational Marketing: The Next Phase of Customer Engagement
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72138.html

OMG! LOL: Internet Slang Added to Oxford English Dictionary
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2191676/5553367/183780/0/

Oracle Vs. HP -- Who's Got Your Back?

http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/processors/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229400431&cid=nl_IW_daily_2011-03-28_html

Oracle Revs Overcome Sun Hardware Drag

Bing extends social search features

Big Data runs afoul of big lawyers

Oracle Exadata X2-8 and the evolution of Oracle RAC
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13545971/2433922

Are Oracle Exadata and Exalogic selling as well as Oracle says?
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13545972/2433922

Many Oracle customers to see support cost changes this year
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13545979/2433922

The problem with row-by-row processing in Oracle Database
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13545980/2433922

Paul Baran, Internet and packet switching pioneer, is mourned

Amazon Can Do IT - Why Can't You?
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72150.html

Dedicated hardware now available in Amazon's cloud

TIBCO Cuts Messaging Speed Inside a Machine by 40%

FinAnalytica Awarded Patent on 'Black Swan' Budgeting

EBay to Buy GSI

Changing Customer Service Channels: The Gap Between Social Media Haves and Have Nots

Itanium Dump Could Cost Oracle Billions

Data Gaps Plague Process Initiatives

Jaspersoft Announces Advanced Data Integration for BI Suite http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4567352&access=EH

Platform Computing Announces Support for MapReduce http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4567512&access=EH

REAL-TIME BI CAPABILITIES OFFER BENEFITS, ADD COMPLEXITIES FOR USERS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13556038/2433922

Paul Baran, packet switching pioneer, is mourned

Q&A: ANALYTICAL MDM'S PLACE IN THE DATA MANAGEMENT PUZZLE
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13555837/2433922

Big Data Keynote Focuses on Mining Geolocational Data for Insights

Facebook Scraper Unveils Open-Source Analysis Tool for 'Big Data'

Cisco among most acquisitive in 2010

NPR deploys Splunk for Web analytics

New Intel SSDs Boost Performance at Lower Prices

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=1310049ZNFDN&nl=2&full_skip=1

Amazon Cloud Drive and Cloud Player: A Hands-On Tour
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2210227/5553367/184525/0/

Hotmail's Active Views Get More Active
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2210227/5553367/184526/0/

Groupon vs. the Price of Gasoline
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2210227/5553367/184538/0/

Why iPads Will Beat E-Readers
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2210227/5553367/184541/0/

Amazon launches Cloud Drive: An easy to use tablet play that takes AWS consumer

Amazon Ups Cloud Ante With New Storage, Music Plays

Cellphones and the Brain: Faith, Hope and Calamity
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72160.html

Amazon Cloud Goes Single-Tenant With Dedicated Instances

First Cloud-Based Business Plan Dashboard Service Launches http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4567857&access=EH

Your Boss Stinks and He Knows IT

Oracle rumors swirl as Lawson users wait, wonder

Health provider seeks algorithm that can predict illness

SailPoint takes identity management to the cloud

Multicore coding standards aim to ease programming

Amazon Offers Consumers a Cubby in the Cloud
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72155.html

FUD-Bombing Intel and HP: What's Next From the Crazy Guys at Oracle?
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72140.html

Data Gaps Plague Process Initiatives

Social Media Rejected For Healthcare Communications

Will Office 365 get you fired?

The death of applications?

Google may soon launch Apple iTunes rival

Data Driver: So Long, SQL Server 2005
http://www.1105newsletters.com/t.do?id=7503443:822354

A Social Net for Plug-in Electric Vehicles

Hydrogen Pellets Could Obsolete Batteries

BI and Social Dance Together, Away from the Mosh Pits

HP’s New World Order According to Leo Apotheker

How to Validate the Data Model

Good Data Governance Finally Taking Hold

How Better Prototyping Can Improve BI

Analysts in Action: Getting Analytics Off the Test Track

From the BI Scorecard Blog: BI Licensing and Lawsuits -- A Sure Sign of Failure

Book Excerpt: Designing Parallelism into the Data Integration Models

Salesforce.com To Buy Radian6 For Social Media Monitoring

Intel Unveils Bigger, Faster SSDs

ScraperWiki, easy Web data scraping

Google Gets 20 Years of Privacy Audits for Buzz Violations

http://bit.ly/fXGdB5

Apple Expected To Grow Bigger Than IBM and HP

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=13200DIZJYZC&nl=2

Apple Expected To Grow Bigger Than IBM and HP

http://bit.ly/h8z7hZ

Amazon Cloud Drive: It's All About Android Domination, Baby
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2217587/5553367/185105/0/

Amazon's Cloud Drive Riles Music Industry
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2217587/5553367/185108/0/

5 Amazon Cloud Drive Alternatives
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2217587/5553367/185122/0/

Tech's Youngest Billionaires
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2217587/5553367/185123/0/

Google Music: iTunes Rival May Soon Launch
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2217587/5553367/185124/0/

A Model For The Big Data Era

http://www.informationweek.com/news/development/architecture-design/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229301115&cid=nl_TW_security_2011-03-30_html

Social Media Is Changing CRM

Microsoft Co-Founder Hits Out at Gates

Less Passion, Less Productivity

A need for speed: Appliances improve delivery of Web-based apps

Google gets more social with its search engine

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215357/Google_gets_more_social_with_its_search_engine?source=CTWNLE_nlt_pm_2011-03-30

JR Raphael: Amazon Cloud Drive: 3 things to consider before you commit

Amazon, Apple, Google play 'chicken' over cloud music lockers

Preston Gralla: Paul Allen's tell-all book paints Microsoft's Gates as an ogre. Can he be believed?

Amazon EC2 Dedicated-Server Offering Addresses GRC Niche

How Open Source Really Is Changing The World

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/how-open-source-really-changing-world?source=NWWNLE_nlt_linux_2011-03-30

Amazon's Cloud Drive: Perfect as-is

Informatica to Deliver Rich Info to Any Web Device, Fast

Oracle rumors swirl as Lawson users wait, wonder

Google's +1: A Facebook "Like" copycat that falls short on search enhancement

Google Delays 'Honeycomb' Code Release

Data, Truth and Ethics

Radian6 to be Acquired by Salesforce.com

IBM Launches Global Bootcamps to Help Companies Tackle Big Data Challenges

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/34008.wss

Yahoo plans to open source code for non-core technologies

Buffett warns social net investors

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215266/Buffett_warns_social_net_investors_?source=CTWNLE_nlt_wsmgnt_2011-03-31&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+computerworld%2Fs%2Ffeed%2Ftopic%2F209+%28Computerworld+Enterprise+Web+2.0_Collaboration+News%29

IBM Connects With Social Software

Flexible displays: What's the holdup?

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215053/Flexible_displays_What_s_the_holdup_?source=CTWNLE_nlt_mobilew_2011-03-31

The importance of structured data elements in EHRs

http://blogs.computerworld.com/18057/the_importance_of_structured_data_elements_in_ehrs?source=CTWNLE_nlt_storage_2011-03-31

'Silos' Of Security Processes Still Not Integrated, Study Says

FIVE TIPS FOR A SUCCESSFUL ANALYTICAL MDM PROGRAM
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13576739/2433922

Analytical MDM can aid BI -- and be a springboard to enterprise
MDM
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13576744/2433922

Salesforce.com Buys Facebook Filter Radian6 for $326M

A Midmarket Look at the Data Warehousing Landscape

Stop Trying to Put a Monetary Value on Data – It’s the Wrong Path

Destroyed hard drives kill off UK National ID Cards

Google Doodle honors Bunsen, chemistry class

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/google-doodle-honors-bunsen-chemistry-class?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2011-03-31

+1 Button Lets Users Approve Google Search Links”

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=13300C834JS3&nl=2

Erase Yourself From the Web
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2225626/5553367/185616/0/

Google Wants You to 'Like' +1: But Will You?
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2225626/5553367/185625/0/

ARE YOU A SOCIAL MEDIA EXPERT? TEST YOUR FACEBOOK AND TWITTER ACUMEN
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13576163/2433922

Google +1 Adds Social Element To Search

Google Wants Search to Be More Social

Broken Windows at Microsoft

Bill Gates vs. Paul Allen: How Important Is the Wingman?

AGILE BI DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGY TAKING HOLD IN BI PROJECT TEAMS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13577808/2433922

Business Continuity via Social Media

Paywalls Won't Save the News Industry

Radian6 To Be Acquired By Salesforce.com

Valen Technologies Launches InsureRight

HP pushes cloud printing with Google

For women, Facebook can turn friends into frenemies

Making Space for Creative Thinking

Integrating Social Media Is Hard to Do

Does Obama Really Have an Internet Kill Switch?

Salesforce.com Acquisition Points To Marketing Ambitions

Google +1 Adds Social Element To Search

Business Intelligence Crowd Appeal

Oracle's Itanium Dump Could Spark M&A Frenzy

Salesforce.com, Radian6 Deal Validates Social Media Monitoring

Google +1 = Social Overload
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2232316/5553367/186160/0/

Google +1 is Not a Social Network

Google Counts On a New Social Strategy by +1's
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72184.html