Friday, June 24, 2011

Stuff I've decided to open-source June 20-24 2011

What Makes a Good CIO?

The Systems of Social Media

4 Main Metrics of CRM

Mobile BI: 10 Frequent Mistakes

Google Suggests Googling Yourself

http://bit.ly/m7spAL

As Fed CIO Kundra Departs, Will Progress Stall?

Eight RSA SecurID Alternatives

iCloud or noCloud?

MapReduce could be the server's newest friend

Clear old messages from your Gmail inbox

Salesforce.com's Benioff pushes 'social enterprises'

Huawei Calls Charge of Government Help 'hogwash'

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/230671/huawei_calls_charge_of_government_help_hogwash.html

Federal CIO Kundra Heads to Harvard With IT Goals Unfulfilled

Information Builders Advances Business Intelligence for Smartphones and Tablets

Kapow Mobile Katalyst debuts as new means to rapidly convert web applications to mobile apps sans AP

Deep-dive panel discussion on HP's new Converged Infrastructure, EcoPOD and AppSystem releases

John Linnell of They Might Be Giants: A Technologizer Tech
Interview
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2803554/5553367/212496/0/

Facebook Facial Recognition Flap Gains Momentum
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2808771/5553367/212566/0/

MICROSOFT SETS AZURE FREE; APPLIANCE FLUTTERS TO FUJITSU
http://go.techtarget.com/r/14157676/2433922

Feisty Ballmer Talks Cloud, Office 365, And Big Data

How Information Builders Battles BI Goliaths

Nimble Social Contact Manager Launches Team Editions

What are your customers really saying? How text analytics can help
http://go.techtarget.com/r/14159474/2433922

NICE Introduces Situation Management Solution for Public Safety,Building on Success in Other Security Segments http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4647912&access=EH

NICE Introduces New Capabilities in NICE Inform for Enhanced Next Generation 9-1-1 Readiness http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4647913&access=EH

Attensity Debuts Voice of the Customer Command Center at Forrester Customer Experience Forum in NY http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4648090&access=EH

Microsoft Office Division to Make Announcement http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4648108&access=EH

HP's Vertica Adds Developer-level Access

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/230743/hps_vertica_adds_developerlevel_access.html

Coming soon to the Internet: The .whatever address

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110620/ap_on_hi_te/as_internet_domain_names

SAP's HANA in-memory analytics engine now available

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217779/SAP_s_HANA_in_memory_analytics_engine_now_available?source=CTWNLE_nlt_pm_2011-06-20

Go for data integration tech that focuses on the cloud

10 outdated technologies our dads refuse to give up

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10-outdated-technologies-our-dads-refuse-to-give-up/2546?tag=nl.e106

Microsoft relaunches, revises SkyDrive, its Dropbox competitor

Supercomputer with 68,000+ CPUs is world's fastest

What the Departure of U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra's Really Means

U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra's Departure Raises Questions About Nation's Top IT Role

Google Kills Google App Engine For Business

Meet the new BI: real-time analysis on unstructured data

Twitter's importance to SEO seen as growing

Next-gen marketing combines local, social, mobile

Can geeks save bitcoin after hellish week?
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7396323/7006273/517601/0/

IBM's new future: Quantum computing

82-year-old Father of the cell phone buys new smartphone every 2 months

IBM Accelerates Social Business Initiative with New Software
http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4649164&access=EH

Deep Web Technologies Adds Multilingual and Multimedia Search Capabilities to Its Explorit Research Accelerator
http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4649228&access=EH

NICE Introduces Situation Management Solution for Public Safety,Building on Success in Other Security Segments
http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4647912&access=EH

NICE Introduces New Capabilities in NICE Inform for Enhanced Next Generation 9-1-1 Readiness
http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4647913&access=EH

Attensity Debuts Voice of the Customer Command Center at Forrester Customer Experience Forum in NY
http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4648090&access=EH

IBM, YALE WELCOME SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYTICS INTO THE CLASSROOM
http://go.techtarget.com/r/14174701/2433922

The Website Paradigm Heads Toward Extinction

SAP HANA(TM) Now Generally Available to Customers Worldwide http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4648992&access=EH

10 Lessons In IT Strategy From Ex-HP CIO Randy Mott

HP Boosts Its Big Data Analytics With Vertica 5.0

http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/hp-boosts-its-big-data-analytics-with-vertica-5-0-32264

IBM's Netezza rolls out large-scale analytic appliance

Acquisition Expands Oracle's Content Management Software Lineup

IBM Aims to Bring Social Media Into Compliance
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72713.html

Content analytics software helps companies hear voice of the customer

http://searchcontentmanagement.techtarget.com/news/2240036828/Content-analytics-software-help-companies-hear-voice-of-the-customer?asrc=EM_NLN_14175559&track=NL-544&ad=838892

Analytics And The Move Toward An Information Democracy

Kinect: Microsoft's Accidental Success Story
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2826192/5553367/213545/0/

LexisNexis Takes On Hadoop With Open Source HPCC

Web Addresses Enter New.Era

Oracle Buys Web Management Firm FatWire

Agile Data Modeling: Evolving Toward Excellence

The Rise of Data Integration Storefronts

Q&A: Survey Highlights Data Governance Best Practices

Last Chance for Your "Successful BI" Input

OCZ releases new customizable enterprise-class SSD

IBM's new future: Quantum computing

DARPA, NASA seek ideas for starship travel

MDM: Erratic, Pervasive or Both?

On Enterprise Collective Intelligence

Information Builders Rings Up Mobile BI

WHY COMPANIES PURCHASE THE WRONG PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
http://go.techtarget.com/r/14188891/2433922

Pentaho Centers Update on Business Side

BI and the Customer Lifecycle

IPv6 Day post-mortem: Smooth sailing or hidden gotchas?

Patience is a virtue even when it comes to Microsoft and Skype

HPCC A New/Old Kid In Town To Take On Hadoop

Has business intelligence failed?

Location-Based Services Helps Power iMapWeather Radio App, Delivering Voice and Text Emergency Alerts Based On A User's Exact Location
http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4650516&access=EH

Spansion Collaborates With Freescale on Memory Development Platform
http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4650687&access=EH

New IBM Analytics Technology Helps Clients Unlock Big Data
http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4650862&access=EH

Oracle Buying FatWire To Boost Web, Cloud Engagement

Information Builders Advances Business Intelligence for Smartphones and Tablets

How to Build a Customer-Centric Enterprise

Five-Step “Cure” for Data Quality

Pentaho Centers Update on Business Side

MicroStrategy and Kognitio Deepen Partnership to Solve Big Data Problems http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4652088&access=EH

Why Nokia Is in Deep Trouble

Health Care at High Speed

Q&A: IBM's Steve Mills on Oracle, Ellison and Watson's future

Cerf: Streaming network crunch could be eliminated

Pentaho courts business users with new UI

IBM Revs Channel Recruitment For Netezza Data Warehouse Appliances

When Will Data Center Networks Gain Cloud Intelligence?

ICANN't Believe It: New Internet Rules Will Be a Mess

http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2834820/5553367/214082/0/

Feisty Ballmer Talks Cloud, Office 365, And Big Data

Microsoft Drops Fees For Moving Data Into Windows Azure

On Enterprise Collective Intelligence

IBM Launches First Netezza Appliance Since Acquisition

Supreme Court Overturns Ban on Drug Data Mining

Twins Drop Case Against Facebook

Analytics technology helps clients unlock big data
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/34876.wss

Digital Eternity Feels Hellish

FBI used Twitter, Facebook in hunt for 'Whitey' Bulger

The Basic, No-Nonsense, Undisputed Truth About the Customer
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72728.html

Oracle's Ellison: We're cloud 2.0, multitenancy religion a crock

Microsoft Drops Fees For Moving Data Into Windows Azure

Enterprise Software Failures Stem From Ignorance, Incompetence

Will IBM Go 'All In' On Cloud Computing?

HP, Oracle War: IBM Winning

HP Boosts Vertica Analytics Offering With Cloud Enhancements

Intel Demos Its Version of Future Supercomputing

Four companies rethink databases for the cloud

Unified data storage adoption rate rising among users
http://go.techtarget.com/r/14214871/2433922

Quantum launches StorNext storage file system on appliance
http://go.techtarget.com/r/14214872/2433922

Data is the new oil for online marketers - valuable but dangerous