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Google Analytics problems irritate users A string of recent technical problems at Google Inc.'s Analytics service has webmasters and publishers concerned about this Web site traffic monitoring service. McAfee sets Rootkit Detective free On July 26, McAfee will begin offering a new application called Rootkit Detective, designed to detect and remove dangerous rootkit attacks. The software will also help end-users ward off the threats, as well as funnel new intelligence into the company's ongoing research operations.  July 25, 1:12 p.m. PDT Technology with no past To the extent that it’s possible, I’m declaring today the beginning of recorded history in information technology. On this day, the phrase “information technology,” abbreviated IT, came into being as shorthand for electronic devices that aid humans in storage and sharing of, analysis of, protection of, and access to significant amounts of digitized content. Content? That’s anything you’re capable of holding in your brain for even a nanosecond. IT is not a department or a group of people. It’s a smart phone. It’s a room full of SPARC servers. A telephone headset? A keyboard? I don’t know. They’re new terms. We’ll work that out as we go. I do know that if we didn’t have such things, information technology would be inaccessible. September 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT IT laughs at itself A British TV show has taken the best and worst of IT administrator stereotypes and packed them into a clever, side-splitting comedy. August 9, 4:16 p.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25: Mike Stonebraker It may have been “a million years ago” that he co-built Ingres and Postgres, but Dr. Mike Stonebraker is no dinosaur. Today, he’s co-founder and CTO of StreamBase Systems, a company on the cutting edge of CEP (complex event processing) for streaming data. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Model-driven development, AJAX shortcomings aired SANTA CLARA, CALIF. -- Interest in model-driven software development and AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is high, but plenty of room for improvement remains for both technologies, according to speakers and attendees at the SD West 2006 conference on Wednesday. March 15, 4:45 p.m. PST Scaling your applications to 64-bit computing At Microsoft’s annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in April 2005, Bill Gates predicted that 64-bit hardware, operating systems, and software would “transform the way we work and play.” Systems using 64-bit processors would be mainstream by the end of 2006, he said, and 64-bit computing at the server level would happen more quickly than any other platform changeover in the past. December 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Is it time to scrap your Big Iron? See correction at end of article November 17, 3:00 a.m. PST When mainframes make sense Not everyone sees the mainframe as a relic of the past. In 1996, motor manufacturer Baldor Electric, beguiled by promises of lower costs and the desire to move to the SAP platform for all its CRM and ERP transactions, left the mainframe in favor of a Windows environment. According to Mark Shackelford, Baldor's IS director, the company was very unhappy with the results. November 17, 3:00 a.m. PST Sabre's customer-driven SOA How does a technology-driven company with massive performance and scalability requirements -- and incredibly varied customer and supplier bases -- transition to SOA? For Sabre Holdings, the answer was a lot of in-house development and a complex interweaving of the old and new. November 7, 3:00 a.m. PST Edge Dynamics offers anti-counterfeiting application to pharmaceutical industry Drug companies on Monday acquired from business-intelligence vendor Edge Dynamics another weapon in their arsenal to prevent fraud, counterfeiting, and speculative buying on the part of wholesalers. October 3, 2:31 p.m. PDT E-Trade buys JP Morgan's online brokerage for $1.6B E-Trade Financial Corp. has agreed to pay $1.6 billion in cash to acquire BrownCo, JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s online brokerage. September 29, 1:33 p.m. PDT SAP promotes ESA ecosystem Customers, software developers and other partners attending SAP AG's TechEd workshop in Vienna are being urged to embrace the company's new Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA), which has moved out of the lab and into the enterprise. September 21, 8:41 a.m. PDT The end of 'one throat to choke'? OK, first let's dispel two myths foisted on us by big-name software industry personalities. September 20, 4:00 a.m. PDT The real returns of RFID Despite the hype associated with RFID, when you hear success stories from a very large organization, you have to believe there really is something there. August 9, 5:00 a.m. PDT Farewell, CTO Connection If you haven’t checked out this week’s columns yet, let me be the one to break the bad news: Chad Dickerson is hanging up his InfoWorld CTO spurs and heading off to Yahoo, where he’ll be toiling away in the brave new world of search. August 8, 5:00 a.m. PDT Open source business intelligence Customers and ISVs face steep fees when licensing existing BI software, so it's only logical that work on BI within the open source community is heating up. First out of the gate was the Eclipse Foundation, which has made BI one of its seven top-level projects. The Foundation released Version 1.0 of its BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) in June, under its own, Open Source Initiative (OSI)-approved Eclipse License. August 8, 5:00 a.m. PDT Open source RFID If there's one area of the IT industry that's gotten as much buzz as open source itself during the past year, it's RFID. So far, however, it's been a big-ticket item, with its strongest backing coming from megaretailers such as Wal-Mart. Companies have had to rely on expensive commercial packages to get the ball rolling in their own businesses, but that could be set to change. Founded by two Canadian entrepreneurs, the RadioActive Foundation aims to develop a suite of open source RFID applications that support EPC (Electronic Product Code) and other standards from the EPCGlobal Network. August 8, 5:00 a.m. PDT That Aha! moment You gotta love Greg Raleigh’s attitude. The man who invented the technology behind the forthcoming 802.11n Wi-Fi standard insists that solving problems is easy. The real challenge, he says, is “deciding what problems are interesting to solve.” August 1, 5:00 a.m. PDT Sonic’s ESB takes new approach to fail-over If the SOA movement had an official flag, on that flag would be a diagram of an ESB (enterprise service bus) — an open and distributed integration platform that provides interfaces to a wide variety of systems and applications and ensures reliable messaging among them. And if you dotted the flag with the logos of leading SOA vendors, Sonic Software’s would surely have to stand out from the rest. August 1, 5:00 a.m. PDT What's really driving BPM Among the many great quotes in David Margulius’ BPM in the trenches is one from Mike Barnett, who describes the rise of BPM as “a near revolution of management against IT to get more control over the rules that control the enterprise.” June 27, 5:00 a.m. PDT In search of the perfect price point A year ago I rarely heard the term price optimization. Now on any given day my inbox has two or three e-mails announcing software with that capability. In addition, during the last year and a half the big four consulting firms have all added pricing optimization practices to their portfolios. June 14, 5:00 a.m. PDT Optimizing your enterprise through statistical analysis “Every company is trying to be more competitive with the same money and fewer people. The pressure is on. But what do you do when you run out of obvious things you can do with common sense? Turn to extras. This is high-tech stuff.” April 26, 5:00 a.m. PDT An irresistible supply-chain story Want to hear what could be one of the best supply-chain success stories ever? Take the $4 billion commercial and consumer equipment division of a $20 billion company, reduce inventory by $500 million, and as sales grow, keep inventory constant -- thus avoiding an additional $500 million in inventory. This is what John Deere did starting in 2002, with the help of supply-chain optimization software vendor SmartOps. April 19, 5:00 a.m. PDT BI startups aim to undercut bigwigs BI just may be poised to become the next big piece of the open source puzzle. April 18, 5:00 a.m. PDT Data-centric architectures Enterprises have always been concerned with data quality and integration. But the interest in improving data and content management is clearly on the rise, as companies are increasingly focusing on unifying their enterprisewide data and on designing architectures to maximize the usefulness and accessibility of that data. March 11, 3:00 p.m. PST Statistics wrapped in a red dress February is Heart Month, a time set aside for focused public education campaigns about life expectancies, calorie intakes, and good fatty foods and bad ones. Unfortunately, the month-long statistical assault, which is meant to educate and motivate, turns out to be numbing. February 18, 3:00 p.m. PST Hubba hubba: Get ready for data hubs Data hubs — also called data repositories or master data records — are the next evolutionary step in solving the problem of data integration. January 7, 3:00 p.m. PST Dynamic models demand detachment Where some see stasis, those of us of a certain age tend to see slow-swinging pendulums. Where some perceive exciting ideas as brand new, others perceive in them shades of the past. November 19, 3:00 p.m. PST CPM software: an elegant way to measure business indicators Ask any corporate executive the secret to success and there's a good chance you'll hear that the management team must work on the same goals using the same assumptions and facts -- with transparency to the CEO and board. Yet most companies don't work that way, setting the stage for missed opportunities, hidden problems, and political gaming that uses siloed data and its analysis as a departmental weapon rather than as an enterprise asset. October 8, 3:00 p.m. PDT Hyperion launches Essbase 7X Hyperion Solutions, a vendor of business intelligence applications, will announce at its Solutions 2004 Hyperion International Conference in Paris this week, Essbase 7X, a greatly enhanced version of its analytic suite. September 20, 6:00 a.m. PDT Showdown at the VM corral The CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) is the backbone of the Perl community. It includes hundreds of modules that extend Perl in every imaginable direction: networking, directory services, XML processing, statistics, you name it. Before writing a substantial piece of new code, a seasoned Perl programmer will check CPAN to see whether an existing module can meet the need. The same holds true for users of PHP, Python, Ruby, and other dynamic languages. August 6, 3:00 p.m. PDT Novell releases first Mono beta After months of delay, Novell expects to release a final version of its Mono software development platform by the end of next month, the company said, after releasing the first public beta of the Mono 1.0 software on a Web site earlier this week. May 6, 3:38 p.m. PDT Digital Envoy sues Google over licensing spat Web site analytics technology developer Digital Envoy Inc. filed a lawsuit Monday against Google Inc., charging the search-engine operator with abusing a licensing agreement between the two companies. March 30, 1:20 p.m. PST > Applications > Business > Data management > Web services |
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