Friday, March 04, 2011

Stuff I blew my entire R&D budget on scraping weblinks from IT newsletters Feb 28 to March 4 2011

NoSQL Databases Go Mobile

Twitter: The Business Case For And Against

Google Doesn't Hate You, It's Just Business
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1976160/5553367/173466/0/

Microsoft Shows Off the Latest in Gesture Interfaces
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1976160/5553367/173467/0/

There's No Clear Winner in Google's Search 'War'
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1976160/5553367/173468/0/

Xoom Vs. iPad: The Real Tablet Wars Begin
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1972313/5553367/173397/0/

Apple No Longer 'Thinks Different'
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1972313/5553367/173401/0/

10 Ways IT Can Prepare for an Industrial Revolution
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1972313/5553367/173410/0/

Who in the World Wouldn’t Want a Collaborative BI Architecture?

10 Problems Companies Will Face with Tablets in 2011

Google, Apple to Spar in Mobile Augmented Reality

Proposed cloud-log standard sparks controversy

McNealy: Sun could have won out over Linux

Motorola Xoom Teardown: What's Under The Covers

10 Promising iPad Alternatives Coming in 2011

Bing Adds Facebook 'Likes' To Search Results

IT Is Too Darn Slow

SAP Business ByDesign Graduates From App To Platform

The 6 biggest misconceptions about IPv6

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9211739/The_6_biggest_misconceptions_about_IPv6?source=CTWNLE_nlt_networking_2011-02-28

Special Report: Dynamic BPM: From simple to sophisticated
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13364074/2433922

Merging social streams into multimedia conversations
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13364079/2433922

Six processes where analytics can make a difference
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13364080/2433922

Inside IBM's Watson: The Hardware Muscle Behind the Machine

Obama Requests $126M for Exascale Supercomputing Projects

Build your own IPv6 lab on the cheap, part 1

Can data stored on an SSD be secured?

Novell and IBM Deliver DB2 Software for SUSE Gallery and SUSE Studio Customers
http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4540154&access=EH

SAP also introduced analytics software packages tailored for users in
six vertical industries -- media, energy, health care, insurance,
life sciences and the public sector.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13366197/2433922

Customer analytics and BI
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13366200/2433922

Greenplum’s Free Database Lures Tinkerers to Try then Buy

Years in the Making, SAP Spotlights BusinessObjects Overhaul

Amazon aims to make it easier to build complex clouds

Google launches preemptive strike at Office 365

SSDs Prove Tough To Erase

HP's Earnings Disappointment: Over Reaction Or Ominous Portent

SAP's business intelligence roadmap still a mystery to most
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13368684/2433922

Amazon Launches CloudFormation To Simplify App Deployment

Facebook Adds Share Capabilities To Like Button

How come Syncsort is so fast and what does that mean?

Facebook's "Like" Button Evolves, Replaces Traditional Sharing
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1984206/5553367/173857/0/

SAP Previews Next Wave of On-Demand Solutions at CeBIT
http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4541082&access=EH

IBM Delivers New Software to Advance Industry Transformation
http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4540754&access=EH

Doctor Watson?

http://www.smartertechnology.com/c/a/Technology-For-Change/Doctor-Watson/?kc=STNL03012011STR1

Database Gurus Tackle Cloud Challenges

BI in the Cloud: Advice for Success

SAP Updates Leverage Mobility, Twitter, Tablets, BI

Amazon Web Services Launches AWS CloudFormation

SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Mixes Expected Upgrades, Innovative Breakthroughs

Amazon wants to make it easier to build complex clouds

Google Making Android 'Ice Cream' with 'Gingerbread,' 'Honeycomb'

IBM Software Powers Smart Utilities And Buildings

SAP Takes On Salesforce.com With Sales OnDemand

Can Microsoft Build Appliances?

http://visualstudiomagazine.com/blogs/redmond-review/2011/02/can-microsoft-build-appliances.aspx

IBM points toward managing multi-cloud universe

Edison taps Teradata for smart meter data

Information Builders targets iPad, Android with BI suite

Chance Favors the Prepared Mind: The Science of Sales Intel
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/71959.html

Facebook Offers Commenting Plug-In To Other Sites

Will Amazon's Kindle Be Free By November?
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1993983/5553367/174306/0/

Facebook Likes Likes, Like, Even More
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/71966.html

10 terms and concepts related to open source

http://tek.io/flSLZ1

DataStax Preps Launch Of Cassandra Management Interface

IBM: We Don't Want to Be Google or Bing

Speed Trumps Scale In Two Oracle Exadata Deployments

http://informationweek.com/news/software/info_management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229219548

SAP Plays Games With The Analysts

Seven Breakthrough Sentiment Analysis Scenarios

SAS Takes On IBM, As IT Meets Marketing

Meet Google's human search engine for innovation

Zyrion's Traverse: BSM done beautifully

Cross-ocean clouds gain despite millisecond delays

Edison taps Teradata for smart meter data

SAP Retrofits for Analytics and Information Management

For Good Business Data, Throw the Hypotheses Away

Data Confabulation in BI

Analysis: A Closer Look at HP's Acquisition of Vertica

Five Steps to More Effective Government 2.0 Initiatives

Analysts in Action: The Rise of the Intelligent Analyst

InetSoft Gets Agile BI Right

Q&A: Why Data Virtualization is More Relevant than Ever

We need to ignite a Layer-1 revolution
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7220314/7006273/361561/0/

iPad 2: 10 Questions That Need Answering
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2003439/5553367/174841/0/

Google vs. Microsoft: Lessons on handling a Cloud Fail
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2003439/5553367/174850/0/


EXPLORING CLOUD COMPUTING SOLUTIONS FOR THE MIDMARKET
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13386117/2433922

Bing surpasses Yahoo! as second most popular search engine worldwide

Entering Marketing's Golden Age
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/71967.html

Is Silicon Valley Losing Its Edge?
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/71974.html

New Solid-State Drives from Intel Offer Fast Data Transfers

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=0020002CMVJK&nl=2

Eight Transformational Trends

iPad 2: 5 Things Apple Left Out

SAP Sales On-Demand Heads to Market

My bad

Accessing archived data

LinkedIn gaining B2B favour, possibly

How come Syncsort is so fast and what does that mean?

IBM's Watson: 'Think' Of The Implications

Made in IBM Labs: IBM Reinvents the Patient Portal
http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4544115&access=EH

Q&A: 'Save the Database, Save the World' Author Talks DB Security Lifecycle

Are smart meters real-time surveillance spies?

Going Big – Teradata to Acquire Aster Data

http://www.asterdata.com/blog/2011/03/03/going-big-%E2%80%93-teradata-to-acquire-aster-data/

Apache opens Chemistry content management tool kit

USING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR BUSINESS: DON'T RISK YOUR CONFIDENTIAL DATA
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13393697/2433922

DID IBM JUST CHANGE THE GAME IN PRIVATE CLOUD?
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13394826/2433922

Low-Power Server Startup Pitches Intel Atom For Hadoop
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13393853/2433922

SpotCloud Explores the Cloud's Utility Computing Future

Teradata buys Aster Data, boosts 'big data' wares

5 Laws of Data Integration in the Cloud

Teradata Wants All of Aster Data

Science of Business vs. Evidence-Based Management

Teradata to Acquire Rest of Aster Data for $263 Million
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703300904576178152355904180.html#ixzz1FZavkmpF

IBM advances cloud computing with new software
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/33840.wss

Why Sun Microsystems Failed

Teradata To Buy Aster Data For $263 Million

Social Nets Replace Resumes

Teradata buys Aster Data, boosts 'big data' wares

Process, governance and spreadsheets

Teradata Bolsters Big Data Capabilities with Aster Buy

Need for 'big data' analytics drives vendors' acquisitions

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/030411-need-for-big-data-analytics.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_am_2011-03-04

26 Exabytes of Data Traffic in 2010
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2022726/5553367/175857/0/

Companies Eyeing Cloud Brokers To Manage Multiple Cloud Services
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13401532/2433922

Hybrid clouds: Three routes to implementation
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13401358/2433922

What's next for unified storage?
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13401360/2433922