Saturday, September 10, 2011

Stuff I'm relieved to unload on you August 29 to September 9 2011

Google TV, Despite Shaky Domestic Start, to Launch in Europe

http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3228236/5553367/235490/0/

Tattoo-Like Sensors Monitor Brain and Muscles

7 Steve Jobs Products That Failed

Steve Jobs' Resignation Raises the Stakes for Apple's iPhone 5, iPad 3

VMware launches cloud-packaged Postgres

Apple locks in new CEO Tim Cook through 2021

Microsoft wants TPC-E metric to measure database availability

10 Key Steve Jobs Moments and Innovations

Amazon tablet to be 'hundreds less' than iPad

Amazon AWS GovCloud: Lessons for the Private Sector

Facebook shuts down Deals, boosts Photos

4 Main Data Initiatives for Federal CIOs

Big Process Thinking Will Power The Next Generation Of Business Transformation

How to Create an Analytics Roadmap

Google to shut down Slide social apps

EnterpriseDB adding cloud option for PostgreSQL database

The lost art of reading packet traces

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Launches New "Cloud CRM for Less" Offer
http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4717200&access=EH

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Launches New "Cloud CRM for Less" Offer
http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4717200&access=EH

Microsoft Releases Hadoop Connector CTPs for SQL Server

http://redmondmag.com/articles/2011/08/25/microsoft-releases-hadoop-connector.aspx

Google's Schmidt delusional on TV again: 5 ways to end the madness

IBM to Build Super-Storage Phenom
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73165.html

IBM's 120 petabyte drive could help better predict weather

Preston Gralla: Steve Jobs's legacy --- A for vision, F for philanthropy

The Death of the Smartphone

Amazon Web Services ElastiCache Launches

Darryl K. Taft: 15 Ways Amazon Web Services Eases Cloud App Dev

Will BI Deployment Pain Be MicroStrategy's Cloud Gain?

Microsoft Offers Cash For CRM Customers

IBM to acquire Algorithmics
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35176.wss

IBM to acquire i2 to accelerate big data analytics
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35255.wss

The Data Breach Survival Guide

Significant Growth Projected for Social CRM

Salesforce.com's Social Enterprise Vision Will Cost You

Special Report: The Social Business Technology Horizon

The Data Cold War

'Green Fields' for Business Intelligence in Heath Care

Social Networking Policy: Must-Have Elements

As MDM Matures, Mystery Morphs Into Best Practices

LinkedIn Advanced Business Analytics ? SAS Vs. R

Sybase IQ Gains Beefier Analysis Capabilities

Salesforce Beefs Up Chatter

NoSQL offers scalability, flexibility, speed

Why big data is a big deal

IBM to acquire i2 for criminal mastermind software

Kelley Blue Book taps data analytics tools to improve car valuation

IBM to buy risk analysis company Algorithmics for $387M

Infosys unveils cloud-based business apps

IBM To Acquire i2 To Accelerate Big Data Analytics

Seven Crucial Identity And Access Management Metrics

SAS Social Media Analytics Keeps an Album of Performance Snapshots
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/73137.html

LinkedIn Advanced Business Analytics – SAS Vs. R

'Green Fields' for Business Intelligence in Heath Care

As MDM Matures, Mystery Morphs Into Best Practices

Exclusive Research: The Social Business Technology Horizon

10 Lessons Learned By Big Data Pioneers

Natural Language Processing IDs Medical Complications

Alas, poor Léo: HP drifts toward disaster

Calling BS on… "the PC is dead"

Microsoft patents smart cloud storage

What CIOs need to know about HP's acquisition of Autonomy

Microsoft hits back at Salesforce, SAP

Microsoft claims its private cloud is up four times cheaper than VMware's

The Perils of 'Social Divide' Thinking
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73192.html

Google+ Adds Ignore Button To Stop Pests

IBM's Two-Day Acquisition Binge: i2 and Algorithmics

IBM to buy risk analysis company Algorithmics for $387M

Are costly SSDs worth the money? Enterprise users say absolutely

Understanding Big Data analytics
http://go.techtarget.com/r/14773414/2433922

Google+ Is an Identity Service, Stupid

VMware Launches Database as a Service

Programming Collective Intelligence

Overheard: The Behavior Behind Social Business Technology

Dell jumps deeper into the cloud

NoSQL standouts: New databases for new applications

A 20-year struggle culminating in the role and impact of business architecture

ORACLE EXALOGIC EXPERTS WEIGH-IN ON ITS POTENTIAL
http://go.techtarget.com/r/14793102/2433922

TDWI SURVEY EXPLORES THE EVOLUTION OF 'BIG DATA' ANALYTICS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/14795194/2433922

'Big data' analytics fulfilling the promise of predictive BI
http://go.techtarget.com/r/14795198/2433922

Bartz couldn't deliver Yahoo turnaround

Carol Bartz is out as Yahoo's CEO

Google+ causes stir with Suggested User list

Google Prunes 10 More Products From Portfolio

Is Facebook Too Big for Its Own Good?
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/73216.html

HILTON INC. MINES FOR GOLD WITH TEXT ANALYSIS EVALUATION TEAM
http://go.techtarget.com/r/14796343/2433922

Four industries about to be transformed by the Internet

Microsoft renews its real-time search vows with Twitter

Social Media Influence Is Overrated

Analytics and the Grevy's Zebra

SAP buys Right Hemisphere for 3-D visualization

Is Transcend planning a 2TB USB thumb drive?

Hitachi announces 1TB-per platter drives

OCZ releases its first hybrid drive, a 1.1TB rocket

DARPA cool or creepy?
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7552866/7006273/529446/0/

With Bartz out, Yahoo must refocus or die

Microsoft Dynamics CRM to Latch Onto the Social Train
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/73196.html

How Apple's iPad Is Shaking Up IT

MDM: It's Us AND Them

Programming Collective Intelligence

Dreamforce Roundup: New Social Enterprise with Chatter, Mobility and Data

The Open-Source Inflection Point, Are We There Yet?

A 20-year struggle culminating in the role and impact of business architecture

Social networking and process management - 3 of 4

Lawson Software buys Approva for governance tech

Hadoop distro vendor MapR grabs $20 million in funding

Social Location Services Not Catching Fire in the U.S.
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3239953/5553367/238785/0/

Smart Cities Will Require Smarter Sensors

5 Location-Tracking Rights You Should Demand

Gmail Makes You 80 Times Greener, Says Google

Data Disasters Only Partly About Scale

Agile BI: The Big Picture, Part 2

Virtualization is the New Norm

Overheard: The Behavior Behind Social Business Technology

Programming Collective Intelligence

MDM: It's Us AND Them

Linux at 20: How the Open-Source OS Changed IT History

REAL-TIME BI SUCCESS ACHIEVABLE, BUT BEWARE OF PERILS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/14822794/2433922

Google buys Zagat to boost business reviews

Hitachi Buys BlueArc, In Big Data Move

IBM's Futuristic Storage Aims for Speed, Density
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3242008/5553367/239202/0/

DEVOPS: KEEP TABS ON APP PERFORMANCE
http://go.techtarget.com/r/14821276/2433922

Facebook Doubles Revenue

What Is Watson?

Data storage startups: 10 emerging vendors worth watching
http://go.techtarget.com/r/14833932/2433922

Internet Red-Light District Is Open for Business
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=021001XHKMQ0&nl=2