Friday, April 22, 2011

Stuff that nobody proofread before shoving it out there April 18-22 2011

Less Talented, More Productive

Amazon Broadening E-Reader Market with Ad-Supported Kindle

Yahoo Search Direct Faces Off Against Google Instant

BI Needs Better Self-Service

BI: Written in the Tablets

Datanomic: a textbook case

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

Is There a Method to Social Media Madness?

Oracle Open Office vaporised

Quantum Teleportation Is a Reality
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2338718/5553367/191408/0/

Border Security Improvements with Gaming Technology

http://www.smartertechnology.com/c/a/Smarter-Strategies/Border-Security-Improvements-with-Gaming-Technology/?kc=STNL04182011STR2

Toward a Smaller, Smarter and More Efficient Data Center

Salesforce.com's Radian6 Buy Underscores Social Media Monitoring Trend

http://www.itsj.com/launchpage.aspx?CID=40508

Matt Hauser: Translation vs. localization (and those other long words)

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Google's Honeycomb blunder

Lucas Mearian: What 4,500 video streams look like

What a cyberwar with China might look like

Facebook reveals specs for new data center

Go Big Or Go Home: OpenStack Open-Source Cloud Scales Up

Megatrends in the Cloud
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72284.html

Will Triple Stores Replace Relational Databases?

Why virtualized hybrid clouds won't happen soon

LinkedIn is Facebook's mature older sibling

Obama's online trusted ID plan greeted with caution

Computer factories eat way more energy than running the devices they build

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/computer-factories-eat-way-more-energy-runnin?source=NWWNLE_nlt_security_identity_2011-04-18

Closing Flip Goes Against IT Consumerization Trend

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=102003BWG4VU&nl=2&full_skip=1

The Face of Cyberwar

http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2344700/5553367/191847/0/

NSTIC's Identity Ecosystem: True Effect on Your Privacy
http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4586383&access=EH

Will Camcorders Go the Way of the Pager?
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72281.html

Activity streams may lead to deluge of status updates

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/355824/Danger_Ahead_a_Deluge_of_Status_Updates?source=CTWNLE_nlt_thisweek_2011-04-18

'Social noise': So many platforms, and too much choice?

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/social-noise-so-many-platforms-and-too-much-choice/9491?tag=nl.e539

Social Nets as Collaboration Tools

StereoLOGIC's answer to Automatic Business Process Design

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

Collaborative SIEM solutions

Exasol knocks the spots off

A broken link can spoil customer experience

http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticle=&articleID=481035117&gid=58233&type=member&item=50952449&articleURL=http%3A%2F%2Fstrategy-crm%2Ecom%2F2011%2F04%2F18%2Fbroken-link-can-spoil-customer-experience%2F&urlhash=jR2R&goback=%2Egde_58233_member_50952449

Big Data Needs To Think Bigger

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/20/big-data-needs-to-think-bigger/

Twitter said to be in talks to buy TweetDeck

Analytics Will Take Over Your Company

http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229401796&cid=nl_IW_btl_2011-04-19_html

5 Reasons Why Product Data Integration is Like Chasing Roadrunners

How Active is Your Data Quality Practice?

Feds Look To Private Industry To Build National ID Infrastructure

Mobile location services: A fine line between cool and creepy

Can Archive Replace Backup?

IBM Launches New Business Process Management Software and Services

Should Oracle be blamed for OpenOffice.org pullout?

How WAN optimization is saving lives

MicroStrategy Announces General Availability of MicroStrategy 9.2 http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4587935&access=EH

IBM Launches Maqetta as Open-Source Answer to Flash, Silverlight

IBM Partners with Akamai to Speed Apps Across the Web

Oracle Fully Open Sources OpenOffice.org

Red Hat Putting Finishing Touches on New Cloud App Platform

OpenFlow opens new doors for networks

FAQ: What is OpenFlow and why is it needed?

Socialtext Offers On-Premises Option For Social Media

Silicon Valley is back - 2010 best year in its history

Novell Releases Identity Manager 4 Standard Edition http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4588026&access=EH

BMW Launches EVolve Mobile App and Online Dashboard, Gauging Compatibility for Electric Vehicle Prospects http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4588065&access=EH

'The Best Software Doesn't Need Support': Q&A With SugarCRM CTO Clint Oram

http://www.crmbuyer.com/edpick/72292.html

Opportunities Lost: Why Good Internet Ideas Burn Out

In reversal, Yahoo will store user search data longer
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7301040/7006273/507347/0/

Go Big Or Go Home: OpenStack Open-Source Cloud Scales Up

Working with Bill Gates Was Like 'Being in Hell,' Allen Says

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=103009GTI4DO&nl=2&full_skip=1

Starbucks Is My Office: A Guide for Mobile Over-Caffeinated Workers
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2352227/5553367/192240/0/

Blockbuster Stores to Live On (For Now)
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2352227/5553367/192247/0/

Microsoft Offers Peek At Cloud ERP Strategy

Twitter launches bidding war for TweetDeck

Ericsson to buy Telenor M2M platform

The Data-Centric World

Microsoft Rolls Out Cloud Services and Azure Tools
http://www.1105newsletters.com/t.do?id=7705541:822354

Mapping Patient Data

22 free tools for data visualization and analysis

SAP STREAMWORK NOW SUPPORTS OPEN PROGRAMMING STANDARD OPENSOCIAL
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13699418/2433922

The Usefulness of Approximate BI

Microsoft Office 365 Signals Huge Cloud Shift

http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/productivity_apps/229401843

Teradata Boosts Data Warehousing Performance With SSDs

Microsoft Lync 2010: Unified communications comes of age

EMC Isilon releases new NAS products for big data

Will Triple Stores Replace Relational Databases?

5 Reasons Why Product Data Integration is Like Chasing Roadrunners

How Active is Your Data Quality Practice?

Knowing Where to Look with Dashboards & Scorecards

Workforce Analytics Optimizes Human Capital

Giving a Single Name a Single Identity

MAGIC QUADRANT: SMALL CPM SOFTWARE VENDORS TAKE ON ORACLE, SAP, IBM
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13704937/2433922

TIP: HOW EVENT PROCESSING CAN HELP BOOST YOUR COMPANY'S OPERATIONAL
IQ
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13699654/2433922

Google, Microsoft and the Feds: The Plot Thickens
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72307.html

Will Camcorders Go the Way of the Pager?
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72281.html

Forum Systems Integrates XML Gateway, WAF On Single Appliance

Yahoo Buzz killed

If it's good enough for Shatner...

Meet the fastest public-key algorithm few have even heard of

ITIL AND BYOD: AMICABLE RELATIONSHIP OR IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES?
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13703358/2433922

HOW CLOUD COMPUTING KILLS CLUSTERING
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13703843/2433922

Yahoo moving farther away from search with more original content

Google launches Earth Builder, aims at geospatial software market

Bacteria Divide People Into 3 Types, Scientists Say

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/science/21gut.html

Feds Pass the Buck – To the Cloud

Josh Stephens: Understanding the OSI Model

First White Spaces access point gives grandma the Internet

Archive and Access Old Tweets with TweetBackup

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215911/Archive_and_Access_Old_Tweets_with_TweetBackup?source=CTWNLE_nlt_storage_2011-04-21

A Peek Behind the Curtain of My CRM Laboratory
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72313.html

Top 10 Google Predictions For 2011

The Value of In-Memory Analytics

BI Market Bounced Back in 2010

Microsoft Offers Peek At Cloud ERP Strategy

Approximate BI

Amazon EC2 Outage Hobbles Websites

Seesmic Adds InboxQ's Twitter Question Finder

ORACLE: WE HAVE A HARDWARE PROBLEM
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13713185/2433922

Social Networks Are 'Huge Boondoggle for Bad Guys'
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72316.html

Benefits and risks of DNA-based computing

Google Launches Earth Builder For Enterprise Mapping

Microsoft ties embedded computing to the cloud

Preston Gralla: Whose cloud is the dirtiest --- Google's, Microsoft's, Facebook's, or Apple's?

Amazon gets 'black eye' from cloud outage

iPhone secretly tracks user location, say researchers

The impact of SSD technology on the network and CPU
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13721995/2433922

Cisco Unveils Cloud-Based, Green Data Center

Apple Takes On Google, Amazon in the Cloud

EMC Brings Avamar Backup/Dedupe to Data Center Workloads

EMC Rides Refreshed Storage Line to Record Q1 Revenue

BI Market Bounced Back in 2010

Microsoft to relieve 'Excel hell' with Web crawler for enterprise data

NSF, Microsoft award 13 research teams free cloud computing

WHAT DOES IT MEAN THAT WAL-MART IS BUYING SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANY
KOSMIX?
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13721763/2433922

Is the 'cloud' green or not? Greenpeace scrutinizes 10 giants

Earth Day Report: Top 10 Tech Power Suckers
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2377708/5553367/193451/0/

The History of Atari Computers
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2377708/5553367/193461/0/

Apple, Google Collect User Locations