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Web footage of slain reporter prompts outrage Dramatic footage of a Japanese journalist shot and killed during anti-government protests in Myanmar has drawn hundreds of thousands of viewers on YouTube, stirring outrage among viewers in Japan and elsewhere. From big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtualFrom big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtual While many IT shops see virtualization as a question of adopting EMC's VMware on servers running Windows or Linux, Nationwide Insurance has adopted the technology for both x86-based and mainframe-hosted servers. After all, notes Buzz Woeckener, the company's zLinux/Unix server manager, virtualization was invented for mainframes.  September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Purdue pursues long-term cost savings Like other adopters of server virtualization, Purdue University was concerned that its datacenter would hit the wall, exceeding physical space, power, and cooling limits. The use of EMC VMware let it combine 140 physical servers into three Hewlett-Packard DL-585 servers, a 40:1 compression ratio, says Mike Rubesch, director of IT infrastructure systems. "It helps postpone the inevitable," he adds. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT U.S. online video popularity keeps climbing People in the U.S. have steadily increased the amount of time they spend watching videos online and Google's YouTube remains by far their preferred video site, according to a study. September 13, 11:12 a.m. PDT Introducing the 2007 InfoWorld Bossies Not too long ago, open source meant starving developers; scant documentation; an ugly, outdated Web site; and software that lived in perpetual beta. Now open source software is becoming big business. “Now hiring” is a common sight on project home pages, and .org and SourceForge sites that used to point straight to source code archives are redirected to .com URLs that celebrate the commercial success of what started out as collaborations among unpaid coders of like mind. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft releases more Windows Media Extenders Microsoft is increasing the range of video formats that PCs running its Windows software can pipe to televisions around the home, with support for a new range of Extenders for Windows Media Center devices from hardware manufacturers. September 6, 3:46 a.m. PDT Google takes heat over YouTube deal in Thailand A press advocacy group is "dismayed" about Google's decision to block YouTube videos from viewers in Thailand that are considered inappropriate or illegal by that Asian government. September 5, 3:01 p.m. PDT NBC says shows will stay in iTunes Contract negotiations between Apple and NBC Universal regarding video content in iTunes are getting nastier and staying public. September 4, 2:29 p.m. PDT iTunes pricing spat with NBC seen as hurting Apple NBC Universal's pullout from the iTunes online store is more of a loss for Apple and points to fierce resistance among media companies to potential Apple dominance of online video sales, an industry analyst said. August 31, 3:42 p.m. PDT Free music site attracts wrath of industry The co-founder of a Web site that offers free streamed music from top artists said he's determined to operate his service legally despite menacing overtures from Universal Music Group. August 27, 11:12 a.m. PDT YouTube vows to protect video makers in InVideo ads Google has promised to give content makers control over advertisements overlaid on video clips they post to its YouTube video sharing Web site. August 24, 5:04 a.m. PDT YouTube fans rant, threaten to leave over new ads YouTube might need to rethink their new InVideo advertising scheme based on initial feedback to the popular video sharing Web site. August 23, 4:38 a.m. PDT Update: YouTube to launch in-video advertising scheme Google's YouTube division has launched what it hopes will be an unobtrusive way for companies to advertise on videos hosted at its popular Web site. August 22, 6:03 a.m. PDT SMB technology: Replacing in-house software with applications in the cloud In the near future, there's only one way to go for SMBs when it comes to purchasing business software -- and that's out of house. Whether it's full-on SaaS (software as a service), where users access all facets of the application through a browser, or a hosted product (including hosted Exchange, where only the server component is off-site and users employ a standard desktop client such as Outlook), either model is simply too cost-effective for SMBs to ignore. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Processors: Dividing chips into many virtual cores The current approach taken by x86 CPUs -- to stuff as many processor cores and as much cache memory as will fit on one chip -- will prove impossible to scale beyond a certain point. And adding more, big, hot processor cores may not be the best fit for server roles that call for managing large workloads over long periods of time. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Pundits on parade: What’s next in tech You’ve heard of Christmas in July, that classic advertising gimmick designed to lure shoppers into stores despite the oppressive heat and humidity. We’ll, we’ve got New Year’s in August, which invites you to stay indoors and read “The next big things in IT” -- 15 predictions about the future of technology. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Videoconferencing for world peace Videoconferencing may have a role in world peace, especially if professor Shaul Gabbay has his way. August 15, 1:01 p.m. PDT Microsoft, NASA offer 3D photos of Endeavour To highlight the launch of the U.S. Space Shuttle Endeavour Tuesday, Microsoft has teamed up with NASA to provide exclusive 3D views of the craft and a look at how the space agency prepares it for launch using Microsoft's Photosynth technology. August 6, 11:21 a.m. PDT Google: YouTube tool won't block uploads Contrary to recent speculation, an antipiracy tool Google is developing for YouTube will not block uploads to the video-sharing site. July 31, 1:49 p.m. PDT BBC courts online viewers with iPlayer media player The BBC has released a public beta of its own software application for watching video online, hoping to engage younger people who are consuming more and more of their content over the Internet. July 27, 8:37 a.m. PDT MSN streams Live Earth to 8 million people Microsoft says it set a record for streaming an online event to the most customers after offering the Live Earth concerts on MSN over the weekend. July 10, 5:23 a.m. PDT RealPlayer beta allows video downloading The growing popularity of video on the Web has prompted RealNetworks to launch a beta version of its RealPlayer software that allows users to easily record and download videos to their PCs. June 26, 10:57 a.m. PDT Microsoft looks for space in China's living room Microsoft wants to play a bigger role in China's living rooms, and the company is willing to spend millions of dollars to get there. June 22, 4:51 a.m. PDT Google localizes YouTube for Europe Google launched versions of its video sharing service YouTube in French and other languages on Tuesday. Localized versions now exist for Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, the U.K., and the U.S. June 19, 4:58 a.m. PDT YouTube, EMI ink video content deal EMI Group's EMI Music will begin making its music video content available on Google's YouTube, the two companies announced Friday. June 1, 4:31 a.m. PDT Porn director faces charges for online distribution A well-known director and producer of adult films has been indicted on obscenity charges for distributing his movies online and through the mail, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday. May 31, 11:44 a.m. PDT Facebook launches video system Facebook became the latest entrant into the online video battle Thursday, opening its Facebook f8 platform to outside developers and partners in an effort to gain ground on social networking rivals. May 25, 5:39 a.m. PDT Startup's DNS server boosts VOIP and media streaming U.K. startup 3C has launched what it calls the world's fastest authoritative DNS server, capable of answering over a million queries per second on a single CPU. May 16, 7:00 a.m. PDT YouTube starts paying a few contributors YouTube is allowing some of its most popular content creators to start earning revenue from videos they post on the site. May 4, 3:13 p.m. PDT Panther Express: CDNs for the little guy It's 1999; the dotcom bubble has inflated to a monstrous, menacing size; and tech firms all over the world are hungry for bandwidth. The reasons are simple: Accepted wisdom is that victory goes to those who can attract and keep the most eyeballs. That means that companies -- whether media outfits, B2B portals, or e-commerce sites -- have to keep their Web pages up and serving pages quickly. May 1, 3:00 a.m. PDT New scheme could boost online music services in Europe Providers of online music services in Europe should benefit from a new one-stop licensing system aimed at simplifying the complex process of obtaining music distribution rights across the continent. April 27, 6:37 a.m. PDT Sun: 160,000 channels, should be somethin' on Sun is introducing a new platform for streaming on-demand video over IP networks to put movies into the hands of customers more efficiently than cable, DVDs-by-mail, or the corner video store. April 25, 3:07 p.m. PDT Microsoft unveils Silverlight as Flash killer Microsoft Corp. this week will reveal new technology to deliver rich media applications on the Web, part of a broader strategy to go head to head with Web and design tools powerhouse Adobe Systems Inc. April 15, 9:59 p.m. PDT CBS shows coming to MSN, Joost, AOL, and others CBS will distribute its television programs more widely over the Internet, adding new deals with Joost, Microsoft's MSN and AOL to existing agreements with Apple's iTunes and Google's YouTube. April 13, 4:57 a.m. PDT Update: EC sues Apple, others over pricing The European Commission has charged Apple Inc. and several big record companies with restrictive pricing practices in the European Union, a spokesman for the Commission confirmed on Tuesday. April 3, 4:41 a.m. PDT Update: NBC, News Corp. team up on YouTube rival News Corp. and NBC Universal will challenge Google Inc.'s YouTube for online eyeballs and advertising dollars by launching a video-streaming Web site by the third quarter, News Corp. announced Thursday. March 22, 2:35 p.m. PST Viacom slaps Google with $1B YouTube lawsuit Viacom has sued Google, alleging copyright infringement from video-sharing site YouTube and seeking $1 billion in damages. March 13, 8:52 a.m. PST France bans citizen journalists from reporting violence The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday. March 6, 9:01 a.m. PST More IT war stories Off the Record, the real-world slice of life that graces the last page of InfoWorld, is one of our most popular columns. I know this from reader surveys and from all the e-mail I receive about it. As reader Roland Sickenberger put it recently, “It’s my favorite part of the magazine, kind of like a ‘Dilbert come to life’ thing.” March 5, 3:00 a.m. PST Raketu looks to combine IPTV, social networking A new application from Raketu Communications aims to integrate IPTV (Internet Protocol television) with social networking, two of the Internet's hip technologies. February 20, 3:46 p.m. PST Update: Viacom, Joost enter Internet TV deal Joost, the online TV service developed by the founders of Internet telephone company Skype, has struck a licensing deal with Viacom International Inc. February 20, 7:27 a.m. PST Microsoft's YouTube rival enters beta Microsoft Corp. has unveiled a public beta of its MSN Soapbox video-upload service, its competitor to Google Inc.'s popular YouTube service. February 15, 8:59 a.m. PST YouTube execs to talk copyrights in Japan Top executives from YouTube are due in Tokyo next week for talks with some of Japan's largest video content producers over copyrighted material available on the popular site. February 2, 4:59 a.m. PST Internet throws to NFL fans overseas On Feb. 5, at about 7 a.m. local time, I'll be watching the Super Bowl. For those of us living in foreign lands where football means a round ball, the NFL doesn't get primetime coverage. January 31, 7:14 a.m. PST YouTube may share revenue with users Video-sharing site YouTube may start paying users for their content, the company's cofounder said in a video displayed on the site. January 29, 4:42 a.m. PST Women in technology: A call to action A quick scan of almost any IT department -- from the trenches to the corner office -- confirms it: Women who embrace technology as a lifelong career remain a rare breed. To be sure, opportunity for women in technology has advanced in the past few decades, as have education initiatives aimed at leveling the playing field, but for every woman rising to prominence or embarking on a profession in IT, there seems to be another opting out of her career in technology. January 29, 3:03 a.m. PST Back to school: Getting girls into IT Despite the success of various education initiatives in the past several years, there’s little doubt that the shortage of women in technology begins on the playground. As such, many industry leaders and experts believe the long-term solution to the gender imbalance in IT lies in women technologists going back to school -- way back, to high schools and even elementary schools to mentor young girls, who too often give up on math and science at an early age. January 29, 3:02 a.m. PST Activism provides competitive advantage for IT Encountering another woman working in technology was a rare event for me when I started out in IT many years ago. In the years since, women have made significant strides, sometimes against great odds, proving their mettle as both tech execs and engineers. January 29, 3:01 a.m. PST Gender crisis in IT You don’t need a degree in statistics to recognize that IT is a men’s club. Just walk the floor of any tech conference or, in all likelihood, your own office — XY chromosomes everywhere you look. January 29, 3:00 a.m. PST The smart business of diversity Carly Fiorina served as CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005, the first woman to run a Fortune 20 company. After she was ousted, along with a $21 million exit package, Fiorina did what a lot of us would do if we had millions of dollars in the bank and some time on our hands: She wrote a book. In Tough Choices, published in October, Fiorina talks about rising to the top of a male-dominated culture. Fiorina spoke with InfoWorld correspondent Carmen Nobel for our upcoming feature on the issues women face in IT. January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Skype founders rename their video venture Peer-to-peer technology pioneers Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis have renamed their new online TV service under development and plan to open the gates to let more people test the software. January 16, 8:12 a.m. PST Netflix launches direct download service for PCs Can't wait for that copy of "Talladega Nights" to arrive from Netflix? As of Tuesday, some users will be able to watch movies they rent from Netflix directly through their PCs, the company said. January 16, 7:42 a.m. PST EMI, Baidu launch streaming music service in China EMI Group has partnered with Chinese Internet search leader Baidu.com to offer a free music streaming service in China, the companies announced on Tuesday. January 16, 3:11 a.m. PST TV CEOs: Converged services aren't there yet Even as consumers are adopting high definition (HD) television and other advanced video offerings, service providers of all kinds are split on what types of services consumers want and how they want to get them. January 9, 7:18 a.m. PST Toast 8 Titanium gets TiVoToGo, Blu-ray Roxio on Monday announced Toast 8 Titanium, the newest version of its popular CD and DVD burning software for Mac OS X. The new version touts a long list of enhancements including TiVoToGo, Blu-ray disc burning and more. It costs $99.99. January 8, 12:38 p.m. PST Sling brings TV to Vista, Palm -- and HP notebooks Users of Sling Media Inc.'s "placeshifting" system, Slingbox, will soon be able to watch their home TVs on Palm Inc. smart phones running Palm OS, consumer laptops from Hewlett-Packard Co. or any PC running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista operating system. January 8, 10:23 a.m. PST Skype founders' TV plans could blur bandwidth picture If your provider of Internet connectivity has a strict monthly limit on bandwidth usage, you could be forced to turn the channel on the new peer-to-peer TV streaming offering planned by the founders of the Skype Internet telephone service. January 8, 7:19 a.m. PST Managing content in a rich media world For years, directors at the Dallas Museum of Art faced a daunting problem that threatened to stifle the growth of the century-old organization. The prolific use of computer-generated content was requiring them to store ever more videos, audio clips, and digital images relating to the museum’s vast collection of works to assist in research, accounting, outreach, and other day-to-day operations. January 8, 3:00 a.m. PST Technology of the Gods January is named after Janus, the two-faced Roman deity of beginnings and endings, who reportedly was able to look both forward and back. So for our Jan. 1 issue, we pay homage to the mythological immortal with our seventh annual Technology of the Year Awards, an analysis of where IT has been and where it’s going in 2007. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 Year in Reviews: Platforms Novell’s Suse Linux 10 was the landmark operating system launch of the year, giving us a bigger and badder Linux server and a startlingly smooth Linux desktop. We also got good looks at Microsoft Vista and Windows Longhorn betas, and at BEA’s venerable WebLogic 9.1. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST Review of reviews It’s coming up on closing time for 2006. All around us, everyone is going into holiday mode. Not to be curmudgeonly contrarians, InfoWorld will be following suit, taking a one-week break before returning on Jan. 1 with our first print issue of the year. (It’s really only a semi-hiatus; InfoWorld.com will continue to perk over the holidays with a slightly reduced slate of stories.) December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST Cisco focuses on end-user experience Cisco Systems Inc., the techie's tech company, is learning how to please novice users. December 13, 12:26 p.m. PST In Brief: BitTorrent makes deals with major studios BitTorrent on Wednesday announced deals with several major movie studios and content producers, as the streaming software company moves towards legitimacy instead of being a tool for piracy. November 29, 4:52 a.m. PST Akamai to buy Nine Systems for media control Online delivery service company Akamai Technologies Inc. is buying Nine Systems Corp., a multimedia management service provider, expanding its toolset for online content. November 20, 12:28 p.m. PST Lycos tries to mesh social networking and online video Lycos Inc. has launched a movie streaming service that the company hopes will catch on with people by mixing elements from two of the Web's most popular services: social networking and online video. November 13, 1:58 p.m. PST Sun needs to find some sizzle Last week I attended an interesting dinnertime event at Silicon Valley's Churchill Club. For the sake of full disclosure, I’m on the club’s board of directors. The main attraction was Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, being ably interviewed by New York Times journalist John Markoff. November 10, 3:00 a.m. PST Juniper unveils branch-office strategy Enterprises have done wonders in recent years consolidating their IT operations into efficient and tightly managed datacenters. That trend has been a godsend for system administrators and IT workers, who no longer have to spend long hours on the road, in transit to far-flung branch offices to reboot servers and take care of other mundane tasks. One population that hasn’t benefitted from centralized IT operations: the poor souls who have to work in those branch offices and live at the mercy of their WAN connection. And that’s no small population. By one estimate, as much as 80 percent of employees at many companies now work outside of headquarters. October 30, 3:00 a.m. PST Redefining innovation Innovative ideas are a dime a dozen, according to Jim Andrew, senior partner at big-time consultancy BCG. In fact, at most companies, coming up with great concepts for a product, service, or process isn’t even an issue. But turning those ideas into money … ah, there’s the rub. October 30, 3:00 a.m. PST In Brief: BitTorrent inks deals to embed software in products BitTorrent has reached agreements with several companies to embed its file-sharing software in their Internet devices, expanding its ability to reach users. October 23, 6:07 a.m. PDT YouTube deletes 30,000 files on request by Japan The online video site YouTube has deleted close to 30,000 files after complaints from an organization representing Japanese copyright holders, the organization said Friday. October 20, 4:59 a.m. PDT German industry attacks planned fee for PCs More than 20 industry associations in Germany have sent a petition to state governments, asking them to shelve a new monthly broadcast fee for Internet-connected PCs and cell phones. October 18, 4:58 a.m. PDT Microsoft, BBC collaborate on content delivery Microsoft and the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) said they plan to explore cutting edge ways that the BBC can deliver content. The announcement, made Thursday, follows one earlier this year from the BBC when the broadcaster said it is working on launching services that allow it to deliver content to users whenever they want it and on a variety of devices. September 29, 6:58 a.m. PDT Yahoo buys Web video site Jumpcut Yahoo agreed to buy Web video editing and publishing site Jumpcut.com on Wednesday, as Internet companies continue to seek ways to compete with YouTube. September 28, 4:46 a.m. PDT Demofall to highlight Java Wares The Demofall show has never had quite the cache of the bigger Demo conference, but it’s still a fun time, as startups from across the tech sector give their patented six-minute pitches for why their company’s product will change the world. September 25, 3:00 a.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 Microsoft tests YouTube competitor Microsoft Corp. hopes to bank on the popularity of online video-sharing services such as YouTube and Google Video with its own competitive service, which goes into beta on Tuesday. September 18, 4:56 p.m. PDT Germans to pay TV fee for online PCs, cell phones Germany plans to introduce a monthly broadcast charge next year for homes and businesses that have an Internet-connected computer and don't already pay registration fees for television and radio service. One business association has called it "a complete rip-off." September 14, 5:25 a.m. PDT MySpace enters crowded music download market MySpace.com is launching a new music download service that emphasizes music from independent artists, the latest in a string of services announced in recent weeks that hope to topple iTunes from its crown. September 5, 3:51 a.m. PDT Sony moves on Web video with Grouper acquisition Sony Pictures Entertainment is making a foray into the fast expanding world of Web video sharing by acquiring Grouper Networks, the privately held operator of the grouper.com Web site. August 23, 4:41 a.m. PDT China may regulate online video clips Broadcast yourself? Not if China's regulators have anything to say about it, according to Chinese media reports Wednesday. August 16, 6:53 a.m. PDT AOL tests enhanced video portal AOL will unveil a revamped video portal this week, the latest move by a major Internet company to strengthen its position in this very competitive market. July 31, 5:25 a.m. PDT Screencasts show off software One of the oldest rules in the creative writing handbook is “Show, don’t tell.” The idea is to use dialog and action, as opposed to narrative, to flesh out things such as a character’s motivation or belief system. It’s a fine practice in novels, but tough to pull off in nonfiction, where the emphasis is, rightly, on the facts. July 31, 3:00 a.m. PDT TiVo adds Internet video feed to TV Basketball fans and news junkies will be able to use their TV sets to watch Internet video using a service announced Wednesday by TiVo Inc. June 7, 1:08 p.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25 The top technology slot in the enterprise has changed. Once, forward-looking CTOs and CIOs scanned the horizon for new technologies that would improve the lot of IT. Today, as many of this year’s top 25 CTOs can tell you, technology leaders must also focus on understanding the business goals of the enterprise -- and then craft technology strategies to meet those objectives. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Yahoo introduces improved video service Yahoo on Thursday launched a new site designed to make it easier for Web users to find and share videos. June 1, 5:24 a.m. PDT Hack Tales: Keeping thin clients synced from coast to coast I once consulted for a medical-records company that was rolling out thin clients to nearly 50 offices around the United States. The goal was to build a large Citrix MetaFrame farm over WAN links to the main datacenter, which was located outside Boston, providing a Windows desktop for every user without dealing with hardware problems at each site. May 29, 3:00 a.m. PDT Tech startups to watch Startups are back! or at least, startup fever is back. Scan the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and you won’t find any hockey sticks -- the level of investment in enterprise-related technology startups has actually remained fairly flat, hovering between $1.5 and $2.3 billion per quarter from 2003 through 2005. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT A casting call for my screencasting experiment I’d like to invite some of you to join me in a journalistic experiment. As you know if you’ve been following my work through the years, I preach what I practice. My analytical perspectives flow from my own hands-on work. However, my experience is necessarily limited to certain styles: Web programming, lightweight integration, semistructured data, collaboration. May 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Napster launches free on-demand music Napster has relaunched the Napster.com Web site by allowing U.S. customers to listen to music free, the company announced Monday. May 1, 8:55 a.m. PDT BBC runs with on-demand concept The British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) has launched several initiatives as a result of a year-long research project aimed at embracing emerging technologies, including a competition to re-create its home page, the company said Tuesday. April 26, 5:41 a.m. PDT Telecom, media companies protest EU plan A European Union proposal to regulate Internet TV and other new media services has created an uproar among Internet and telecommunications companies, which banded together and released on Tuesday a paper detailing their complaints April 18, 8:58 a.m. PDT US DOJ gets four pleas in Internet music crackdown Four U.S. men involved in Web sites offering music files of songs before they were commercially released have plead guilty to copyright infringement charges, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said Tuesday. February 28, 9:14 a.m. PST Opening up iTunes U Criticizing free services is always dicey. So when I dinged Stanford University and Apple for the nonaccessibility of the lectures at itunes.stanford.edu, I knew I risked seeming churlish. But there are some things about this deal that rub me the wrong way. February 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Apple follows the money I’m just back from attending the latest Macworld Expo in San Francisco, and the good news is that you don’t have to wonder anymore. Apple is no longer pretending it is interested in becoming an enterprise player. January 17, 3:00 a.m. PST Verizon service prevents purchase, not playing, of MP3s Verizon Wireless's V CAST music-download service prevents users from downloading and purchasing MP3 (MPEG Layer 3) files on their mobile phones, but it does not preclude them from transferring PC-stored MP3 files to V CAST-supported devices, a spokesman for the wireless company said Wednesday. January 11, 2:18 p.m. PST Gates shares his vision of the digital lifestyle Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates shared his company’s future vision for seamlessly connecting users to personalized digital content through next-generation software, services, and devices during his keynote at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) here in Las Vegas Wednesday. January 5, 4:35 a.m. PST 2006 Technology of the Year Awards: The winners' list See correction at end of article January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Top technologies of the year Welcome to our first issue of the year. For those of you who took a break, re-entry into the heady universe of work may be a bit discombobulating. Fortunately, last Saturday, the world’s ever-considerate timekeepers saw fit to give us an extra sliver of time -- a leap second-- to prep for the new year. And now, with the pop of the cork (or was that the buzz of a pager?), we’re ready to herald 2006, a potential banner year for the enterprise. January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST The two-way media Web For a blog entry this week, I wanted to quote an interesting remark by Iona CTO Eric Newcomer on how traditional distributed computing differs from XML-based Web services. If he’d made that remark on his blog, I’d simply have quoted the text. Instead, however, he made it on a Webcast published by SYS-CON.TV. Creating the video equivalent of a pull quote is much harder than just selecting, copying, and pasting text, but it’s doable. As I worked out the solution, I reflected on the unholy alliance that Silicon Valley is forming with Hollywood. December 14, 3:00 a.m. PST Mobile TV: Low prices, high quality are critical Mobile TV isn't all hype. Some people are already watching it in Europe, and judging by the numbers, they like what they see. November 30, 4:41 p.m. PST > Applications > Internet applications > Applications > Platforms |
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