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Microsoft Corp. has discontinued a line of digital photo software, saying that the functions can now be found in Windows Vista and other Microsoft software.
A U.K. startup hopes to compete with?Apple's new iPhone by offering a flat-rate music service that can run on most of today's mobile phones.
As the number of virtual environments increases, standards and vendor collaboration will help make teleporting between different worlds a smooth experience, ensuring, for instance, that your avatar arrives in a new world still wearing the clothes it donned in your home world.
Security experts contend that a growing number of operators of compromised computer networks (or "botnets") are finding new ways to grow their networks and make them immune to potential shutdowns, including sophisticated fault-tolerance planning to help ensure that their networks can't be easily wiped out.
Once you discover the unique thing you?re great at, stick with it and play nice with others, and things may work out as well for you as they have for Paul Butterworth, co-founder and CTO of AmberPoint. Of the dozens of Web services companies that sprang up six or seven years ago, AmberPoint is among the very few that have neither imploded nor been devoured by a software giant. In fact, the company is reinforcing its solid position by forming ever deeper partnerships with household vendor names in the SOA realm.
Back in the late '90s, the Private Banking IT division of financial services giant Credit Suisse was at a crossroads. Some felt that the organization?s IT infrastructure was beyond repair and would have to be replaced wholesale. Others maintained that everything was fine and could keep going indefinitely.
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In recent years, corporate lawyers long accustomed to charging an hourly rate have found themselves facing client demands for discounts, shared risk deals (where fees are based on results), and flat rates. ?Clients now treat law firms as they do other suppliers: They make us respond to RFPs, apply rate pressure, and make us compete,? says John Alber, technology partner (the legal industry?s term for a CTO) at the global law firm Bryan Cave.
Microsoft plans to offer a few more details Tuesday on the upcoming version of its hosted Web conferencing offering, Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007.
Microsoft shared details of its long-term security product strategy as part of its ongoing TechEd 2007 training conference on June 4, lifting the lid on plans to deliver an integrated suite of its software by mid-2009.
In a sneak preview Thursday, Google revealed how it plans to integrate its AdSense advertising platform with Google Maps, meaning some push-pin graphics used at the maps site could be turned into mini-advertisements.
Makers of some of the most popular extension software used by the Firefox browser are not doing enough to secure their software, a security researcher said Wednesday.
With the official unveiling of Google Gears set for Thursday at the first ever Google Developer Day, the giant World Wide Web phenom will continue to expand its reach well beyond search.?
One of the biggest problems in the world of Web 2.0 and user-generated content is that people are already abusing blogs, wikis, and file-sharing sites to assail fellow users with spam, marketing pitches, and even malware. Venyo wants to help solve all that.
The consumerization of the enterprise is continuing at a rapid pace, forcing traditional companies to modernize their Web sites in order to capture the hearts and minds of future employees.
The U.S. Congress should think twice about making a temporary moratorium on Internet access taxes permanent, groups representing local governments said Tuesday.
With the announcement of Salesforce SOA, Salesforce.com promises "SOA as a service." That's an awfully grandiose claim as SOA is a business-driven approach to organizing an entire enterprise's software functionality, not any one vendor's technology.
U.S. Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) has asked the Department of Defense to reconsider its decision to block military access to social networking sites like MySpace and YouTube.
Code-named Purchasing Portal, American Express is expected to launch a consumer service in the fourth quarter that will give American Express cardholders access to American Express's own negotiated rates for thousands of products that it buys annually.
IBM unveiled a new IT governance and risk management strategy on May 15 that it will market to enterprise customers as a means to weave together security and compliance projects to ease planning and help drive down related expenses.
If you don't "get it," you're not going to get there. If you think that using WS-* standards, licensing an ESB (enterprise service bus), and deploying service registry means you've arrived, think again. All of the above may be desirable, depending on what you're trying to do. But by themselves those piece parts won?t reap the savings or agility that SOA promises.
The hands-on work for IT begins during the phase of mapping processes to services. This requires understanding those processes from a business view, requiring a true business-IT partnership. IT can?t just work on requirements thrown over the wall; developers must understand what the actual business goals and benefits are to understand what to deliver.
There's no question about it: Business intelligence is the holy grail of most CIOs and IT managers alike. After all, the idea behind BI is great: Pull data from all the nooks and crannies on your enterprise network into one system where it can be cleansed, correlated, and presented to executives for analysis via easy-to-use dashboards.
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SOA is typically championed by technologists. That makes it easy to view SOA as merely a technology for which new tools can be bought ? a premise vendors are all too happy to support. ?But it doesn?t matter what technology you use to do SOA,? advises analyst Manes. After all, a key premise of SOA is that services are designed to work together regardless of the specific technologies they are based on.
One of the most unloved parts of IT is ensuring the integrity of data. Data comes from multiple sources -- disparate applications, outside partners -- typically with different assumptions about meaning and usage. That has led to difficult, ongoing efforts to rationalize data through transformation, scrubbing, and master-record systems. In the past, the effects of inconsistent data models and metadata could be confined to the interfaces between applications, usually through transformation efforts.
Software developers are problem-solvers, and developing or reworking an application provides an opportunity to wade deep into a problem and solve it with new code. In SOA, development is not about creating new software but composing software from available services. And when new services are needed, they need to be developed to solve not just the immediate problem, but to anticipate other uses in the future. This is a fundamental shift for developers, who will need training in service-oriented thinking as well as incentives to work in the SOA way.
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Thanks to the IT world's ongoing love affair with Web services and the appearance of more and more Web-service construction tools, Web services are becoming easy to create -- and oh so easy to botch.
Some industry watchers may still question why Symantec moved to acquire storage software maker Veritas for $10.2 billion in 2004, but the fruits of the companies' combined labors are already proving the deal as a winner, according to executives with the massive security firm.
Microsoft has closed the public testing period for Windows Live Hotmail and has begun a months-long process of migrating users to this major upgrade of its Hotmail Web mail service, the company will announce Monday.
When Sun Chairman and then-CEO Scott McNealy first heard about the HP/Compaq merger in 2001, he likened it to ?two garbage trucks colliding with each other.? Some analysts see the rumored Microsoft-Yahoo discussions in the same light: an act of desperation by two lumbering incumbents that are falling further behind Google each day.
The dream of every CIO, says Francis Carden, CEO of OpenSpan is to instantly turn all of their legacy applications into reusable components.
As companies look to engage in more virtual business interactions, IBM's head of innovation called for more integration between the various online virtual worlds where avatars meet.
The last thing a company wants to do at a keynote speech is clear a room. But that's just what Microsoft succeeded in doing during Tuesday's keynote at?MIX 07 in Las Vegas.
Why not infuse the organic simplicity of MySpace-like social networking into the enterprise knowledge management world?? That was the question Andy McLoughlin and Alastair Mitchell posed to one another a year ago. Their answer was huddle.net, a burgeoning Web-based project collaboration solution.
Websense's $400 million buyout offer for rival network filtering specialist SurfControl should help position the two companies for short-term growth and possible acquisition in the future, according to market watchers.
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A pair of security vulnerabilities found in certain versions of Adobe Systems Inc.'s popular Photoshop products could put users' computers at risk, according to security researchers. Neither flaw has been patched yet.
Five years ago enterprise startups hit the skids, stung by a perfect storm of commoditization, vendor consolidation, and the IT spending downturn. In the intervening years, however, the skies have cleared and, to paraphrase Ronald Regan, "It's morning again for enterprise startups."??
May is a month of rebirth and new beginnings. It's a time when flowers are blooming, trees are flowering, and young bucks lock horns in battle over the privilege of choosing a mate. Those kinds of biological imperatives are a bit masked in the super-refined atmosphere of Silicon Valley, but it's safe to say that betrothal is on the minds of many a young company these days. They're complex emotions, to be sure, but they find their truest expression in a question that flits across the mind of many a traveler on Route 101 or, if articulated, is done so only in whispers: "How do we get bought by Google?"
A grand jury in Washington, D.C., has indicted two digital currency companies and their owners on charges of money laundering, accusing the companies of helping to fund illegal activities?like child pornography and identity theft, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday.
A beta version of News Corp.'s MySpace community site was launched this week in China, but users must be careful when typing the Chinese site's URL or may end up shopping for patio furniture.
Google could avoid future malware attacks carried out using advertisements posted on its Web sites if the company more thoroughly investigated customers of its AdWords system, according to security and legal experts.
