Friday, May 20, 2011

Stuff that's rough and tough May 16-20 2011

HP, the Steve Jobs Way

Facebook's Sly-Dog Aspirations

Microsoft Research Turns Walls into Remote Controls You Can't Lose

Launching Spaceflight for the Masses

Ford Building Smarter Cars with Google's Prediction API

EMC Focuses On Cloud and Big Data

Is the Cellphone Killing the Honeybee?
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2536190/5553367/200806/0/

Microsoft, Facebook Could Use Skype Against Google
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2536190/5553367/200809/0/

Facebook Combats Spam, Clickjacking With New Features
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2536190/5553367/200810/0/

Microsoft's Skype Buy Could Boost Unified Communications
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2536190/5553367/200814/0/

Will Netflix Save TV?
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2540795/5553367/200880/0/

How Invasive is Google Social Circles, Anyway?
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2540795/5553367/200883/0/

Top 10 technologies for 2011

TIBCO Spotfire launches new version of analytics platform

Talend delivers converged platform for better data services integration across multiple applications

Skype Buy First Of Many For DOJ-Free Microsoft

25 Top Information Managers: 2011's Best and Brightest

Continuation Of The BI Software-Plus-Services Convergence Trend

Predictive Analytics for Research Organizations

New Startup in Predictive Analytics Market

Why Microsoft Plus Skype Is An Enterprising Idea

NIST Releases Federal Cloud Guidelines

SAP Opens Next Chapter of Business Analytics Vision With Enterprise Performance Management Solutions http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4614155&access=EH

HP advances next-gen 'memristor' memory technology

The Social Reality -- And How To Keep It Secure

Crowdsourcing analysis helps light the way to BPM success
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13867576/2433922

It's official: SSDs rule the high end

Microsoft deepens Bing's use of Facebook data

SAP revamps performance management suite

A quick guide to "4G" phones

As 'big data' grows, IT job roles, technology must change

Integrated identity management: How to get it?

9 Ways Microsoft is Winning!...and Losing!
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2547417/5553367/201320/0/

HP Advances Next-gen 'memristor' Memory Technology
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2547417/5553367/201338/0/

Attensity Releases Analyze 6.0, Next-Generation Text Analytics Application for Customer Experience Management http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4615498&access=EH

Attensity Introduces Text Analytics Solution for Retail Banks http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4615504&access=EH

Case Study: Integrated Monitoring

Stupid Questions at the Help Desk

http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Stupid-Questions-at-the-Help-Desk-893572/?kc=BLBLBEMNL05172011STR2

Bing uses Facebook social data to strike at Google

NetApp offers Microsoft cloud blueprint

Skype: Three Ways Microsoft Can Blow It

Lithium's Social Analytics Starts With Community

SAP and Sybase Boost Mobile Worker Productivity in Key Industries With Release of New Real-Time Enterprise Mobility Apps http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4615625&access=EH

Most Data Integration Tools are not Meeting 'Big Data' Demands http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4615646&access=EH

SAP and Sybase Step Closer to Reaching 1 Billion People With Release of Next-Generation Sybase® Unwired Platform http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4615652&access=EH

MIT STUDY: DATA-DRIVEN DECISIONS MEAN HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY, PROFITS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13877971/2433922

Customer data you should collect for your customer analytics program
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13877973/2433922

Is BI The Key To Personalized Medicine?

Where is the cloud storage market headed?

Thornton May: It's the data, stupid

SAP, Dell partner on in-memory and the cloud

INDEPENDENT ORACLE SURVEY SAYS: LOYALTY MIGHT BE WANING
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13876771/2433922

Talend Launches New Open-Source Enterprise Service Bus

Hot Storage, Virtualization Developments from EMC World

Queplix Launches Cloud Service to Integrate Cloud Systems

Social Media Shapes Up As Next Analytic Frontier

Microsoft details cloud ops

Trust, respect and personal datastores

Bing, Facebook Deepen Ties, Threaten Google +1
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2556002/5553367/201677/0/

14 Leading Social CRM Applications

EMC World: 10 Storage Products For Virtual, Cloud Environments

The Data Factor's Critical Impact on Sales Results
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72458.html

DARPA takes aim at building iron-clad cloud services

Mono project moves to new company

Obama Administration Unveils New Cyber Security Plan

Autonomy to Buy Digital Data Assets from Iron Mountain

Social Nets Face More Regulations

Compressed data search tech goes mainstream

Better Health Through Analytics

Does the Skype acquisition signal a new risk-taking market-making Microsoft?

SAP: In-memory to hit all applications; Collaboration, mobility in focus

Location data is personal and private confirms EU watchdog

SAP and Microsoft to Deliver Tighter Integration for Application Development and Cloud Deployments

http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4616851&access=EH

SAP Launches Gateway, Vastly Extends the Reach of SAP to New Users http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4616882&access=EH

SAP and Amazon Web Services Partner to Deliver Enterprise Solutions in the Cloud http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4616892&access=EH

CPM Announces Smartphone Owner Identification Model http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4617192&access=EH

GARTNER: BI BENEFITS HINGE ON ORCHESTRATION, PERFORMANCE METRICS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13888207/2433922

Magic Quadrant: Small CPM software vendors take on Oracle, SAP,
IBM
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13888211/2433922

CROWDSOURCING ANALYSIS HELPS LIGHT THE WAY TO BPM SUCCESS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13887377/2433922

New Horizons for Mono and Silverlight

Microsoft and the DOJ: The End of an Era

Better Health Through Analytics

Hot Storage, Virtualization Developments from EMC World

SAP's Culture Change on Display

The Alpha and Beta in Economic Recovery

Beyond the Crossroads of Validating Digital Trends

BI and Analytics Rule CIO Concerns

How to Select a New Marketing Automation System

Is BI The Key To Personalized Medicine?

A refined definition of 'telepresence'

Alas Poor Skype, I Knew You Well

Microsoft faces reality with open source outreach

How bin Laden got email now known ... but the porn?

It's the human threat, stupid

Tips on loading and real-time searching of big data sets

HP Maps Memristor Structure, Function

DARPA Seeks More Resilient Cloud Infrastructure

CLOUD-BASED BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOR FAST MOVERS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13886913/2433922

BURIED IN PAPER, CFO TAKES THE LEAD ON BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE STRATEGY
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13887998/2433922

A Peek Inside Larry Ellison's House In San Francisco

Exclusive: SAP-Oracle Tussle Alters Hana Appliance Plan

The 14 Biggest News Days on the Web

LinkedIn Sizzles Ahead of Pricing

Echoes of 1990s in Stock Gains

Digital Newsstand Is Previewed

Data centers, under strain, expand at furious pace

Microsoft: Google's Cloud Productivity Play Is 'One Size Fits None'

What's the worst thing that could happen?

Fiorano announce new releases

Netflix grabs greater share of bandwidth

The Retreat Up Market
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/72466.html

Springer and TEMIS Extend Their Collaboration on Semantic Analysis of Scientific Content http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4618236&access=EH

NICE to Showcase its Cross-Channel Interaction Hub at Interactions 2011, its Annual Global Customer Conference

http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4618247&access=EH

How Steve Jobs Would Change Google

NetApp offers Microsoft cloud blueprint

SAP launching in-memory computing cloud

Microsoft's 'Mango' Update Faces Enterprise Challenges

Cisco to dump Linksys, WebEx?

Ford developing in-car health monitoring tech

Tech leaders to 2011 grads: Go to the bathroom, don’t be a jerk and take risks

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/051811-2011commencement-chambers-cisco-wozniak-apple-ballmer-microsoft.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_security_2011-05-19

EMC, IBM introduce replication, geoparity capability

CLOUD INSURANCE AND SECURE IDENTITY MANAGEMENT ALLEVIATE SLA CONCERNS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13896692/2433922

Open Source’s Mainstream Invasion

Who in the World Doesn’t Want to be Big, Strong and Fast?

SanDisk To Acquire Enterprise SSD Maker

Azure Makes Presence Known at Tech-Ed 2011

California looks to protect smart meter data
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7347400/7006273/512745/0/

3 Early Errors That Can Kill CRM in the Cradle
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72484.html

'Like' Button Follows Web Users

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704281504576329441432995616.html?mod=djemTECH_h

Alliance to foster the adoption of open virtualization technologies
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/34545.wss

Social Media's Secret Weapon: Email

Intelligent Data

SAP Builds On Cloud Partnership With Microsoft

LinkedIn's wild ride prompts puzzlement, raises expectations

Amazon: E-books now outsell print books

Microsoft to update AppFabric tool set

Scenes From EMC World: Work, Play And Newbies

Elegant Intelligence - location without spatial

Social Media: How Does Your Small Business Stack Up?

LinkedIn's wild ride prompts puzzlement, raises expectations

Google rolls out social search in 19 languages

HP Records New Breakthrough in Memristor Development

HP's Apotheker Mounts Massive Technology Services Transformation

Verizon: Say So Long to Unlimited Data
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2581369/5553367/202835/0/

IBM launches Hadoop-based analytics software, big data services

Microsoft, Cisco Partner On Data Warehouses, Virtualization

EMC Struck By Lightning

Microsoft readies 'Austin,' an Azure-hosted event-processing service