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 The past month has seen an unprecedented concentration of Cloud-related articles, events, tweets, and - above all - product launches, partnership announcements and M&A moves. So is Cloud Computing, after three years, finally coming to the boil? Here, by way of allowing you to judge for...Nov. 8, 2009 07:45 PM EST Reads: 389 |
 With more than 500 networks and carriers operating within the LA city center, one company stands out from the crowd as a leader in bringing the global telecommunications and Internet community together. Eric Bender is president of Wilshire Connection, a facility-based carrier focusing ...Nov. 7, 2009 02:58 PM EST Reads: 195 |
 Today I attended a very impressive talk by the Federal CIO, Mr. Vivek Kundra at a Northern Virginia Technology Council Public Policy event. His open and "matter of fact" approach to explaining the coming government IT transformation was focused and direct.Apr. 25, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,873 |
 Do you have digital camera? Do you record special events around you? Publish them on your website with the fast conversion without duration limit. Flash Video MX Std has been updated with better support to HD videos like AVCHD (MTS, M2TS), MOD, TOD formats.Nov. 6, 2009 02:45 PM EST Reads: 317 |
 The first "Ulitzer New Media Power Panel" took place today at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Streamed live to 60,000 viewers via SYS-CON.TV, the panel was moderated by Jeremy Geelan. Geelan's guests in the first power panel were Ian Thain and Tim Crawford...Nov. 5, 2009 07:45 PM EST Reads: 506 |
 An SEC lawyer told a federal court yesterday that more people could be charged in the insider trading scandal that has so far brought down senior IBM executive Robert Moffat and former AMD CEO Hector Ruiz and as good as her word 14 more were charged Thursday morning with conspiracy to ...Nov. 5, 2009 01:30 PM EST Reads: 576 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that the 5th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. The three-day event will offer a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business ...Nov. 2, 2009 11:30 PM EST Reads: 1,437 |
 Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk o...Oct. 31, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,464 |
 A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing.Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its popular list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we identified back in January of this year, to half as many aga...Oct. 29, 2009 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 42,934 Replies: 10 |
 Its hard to imagine that its been almost 25 years since my parents secretly smuggled many of our family members out of Iran due to brutal religious persecution. Persecution that is unfortunately picking up once again in todays time. A reader asked me to provide more info about this po...Oct. 28, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 341 |
 Hector Ruiz, then CEO of AMD, was the unidentified source of material information that the busted Galleon ring traded on, according to the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg.
He’s even higher up the totem pole than Robert Moffat, the head of IBM servers and storage who was arrested a...Oct. 28, 2009 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,077 |
 Jive, the Social Business Software provider, today announced the general availability of Jive Social Business Software (SBS) 4.0. The new offering is the largest, most ambitious release Jive Software has brought to market since the company first introduced its integrated SBS platform f...Oct. 28, 2009 12:32 AM EDT Reads: 358 |
 Cisco’s appetite needed feeding again so it’s buying ScanSafe Inc, the 10-year-old software-as-a-service (SaaS) web security house, for $183 million in cash and retention-based incentives.
It’s already got on-premise content security provider IronPort and is supposed to bring toget...Oct. 27, 2009 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 472 |
 Random thoughts on a lovely evening.Oct. 27, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 492 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Ulitzer was named exclusive "new media" sponsor of the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which will take place November 2 - 3 - 4, 2009, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. 4th International Cloud Computing Con...Oct. 27, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 482 |
 New equity option traders should familiarize themselves with 'the greeks' - like theta and delta - to maximize their potential trading gains. There are four primary option Greeks all option traders should become familiar with. Two of them generally need to be considered before choosing...Oct. 26, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 261 |
 If you have spent any time online using social networks like LinkedIn or Facebook, you know they can be difficult to grow your network and add contacts. But even harder is the ability to extract your contacts once you have built up a reasonably sized network. None of the social network...Oct. 26, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,295 Replies: 2 |
 Having grilled some of the top minds in the software business, this installment of Testing the Limits will deviate slightly from the norm. With us this month is John Winsor – author, entrepreneur and crowdsourcing expert.
After a successful career as a journalist and magazine publishe...Oct. 26, 2009 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 512 |
 Ulitzer provides a powerful social journalism platform for content syndication, bridging the gap between traditional and new media. For rapid awareness of news, articles, blogs and other content, Ulitzer's keyword tagging enhances searchability and allows targeted audiences to easily f...Oct. 25, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,969 |
 Barnes & Noble just recently unveiled their upcoming eReader, the Nook. On the blog of my non-techy alter-ego I've posted a comparison of the two readers that is entirely based on my own personal feelings of what is cool and what isn't, so take it as opinion and certainly not a...Oct. 25, 2009 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,684 |
 Microsoft has cut non-exclusive deals with both Facebook and Twitter for Bing to search their real-time data feeds. Google has followed suit at least with Twitter, but Facebook is the prize because it has like 40 million updates a day from its 300 million users. Not all Facebook update...Oct. 23, 2009 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,008 |
 Carl Icahn announced today that he had informed the Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc. that he was resigning as a director of Yahoo!. Mr. Icahn told the Board that in his view there was not a need at this time for an activist director at Yahoo! Mr. Icahn indicated that there are a numbe...Oct. 23, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 888 |
 The pace at which content is being added to the web has increased dramatically and so has the value of aggregating the best. How will the content aggregation landscape change in the next few years? What will the impact on content aggregation be as the semantic web starts to really tak...Oct. 23, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 497 |
 MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) are a sub-set of computer games where a large number of virtual players interact with each other online in the virtual world provided by the game. Games like World of Warcraft (WoW) and EverQuest fall in this category.Oct. 21, 2009 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 757 |
 Bottomline Technologies has expanded support for Web 2.0 and service oriented architecture (SOA) within its WebSeries Global Cash Management platform. Designed to capitalize on the benefits of SOA and Web 2.0, WebSeries provides banks and financial institutions with the flexibility req...Oct. 21, 2009 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 505 |
 Currensee Inc., the first Forex trading social network that connects traders from around the world based on real-time trades, has opened up its private beta to the public. Currensee brings trust and transparency to Forex trading collaboration by enabling members of its trader network t...Oct. 20, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 540 |
 Once a powerful profit-machine, big pharma is stumbling ,the threat of further government intervention, drying product pipelines, fierce competition from generic manufacturers, consumer concerns about safety, and false marketing claims is forcing leaders to revisit operations to secure...Oct. 20, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 533 |
 Google is doing something very un-Google. It's stooping to advertise. What started a few months ago with "Go Google" billboards on 101 in Silicon Valley, the West Side Highway in New York, the Mass Pike in Boston and the Ike in Chicago touting Google Apps went international Monday in F...Oct. 19, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 722 |
 Marketing, in more the one way, is like juggling. This strange analogy will become crystal clear if we take a close look at it. Just like the juggler the marketer too has to do these things to thrive in his business: first, he has to hook his audience; gain their attention through seve...Oct. 19, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 530 |
 Only one publication in the world has been tracking Cloud Computing 24x7 since December 6, 2006, when we first mentioned the concept in an article: Cloud Computing Journal. Since then worldwide interest in the Cloud paradigm of massively scalable IT resources and capabilities delivered...Oct. 18, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,018 |
 IBM senior VP Robert Moffat, the head of IBM's Systems and Technology Group - in other words the guy who runs all of its hardware as well its microelectronics unit - and Intel Capital's director of strategic investment Rajiv Goel, one of its VC people, were arrested Friday morning on i...Oct. 18, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,246 |
 Yahoo! is investing significantly in Cloud Computing to support the company's global applications and audience of more than 500 million users. Yahoo!'s cloud confronts technical challenges at an almost unprecedented scale - requiring tens of petabytes of storage, tens of thousands of m...Oct. 17, 2009 03:25 AM EDT Reads: 8,662 |
 Ryan Greives, Media Relations Specialist for Indianapolis-based BLASTmedia, has launched The Social Media Guide on Ulitzer. His industry knowledge and experience covers everything from consumer Internet companies and gadgets to highly complex enterprise software and hardware technologi...Oct. 16, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 882 |
 Today, after a six month sales cycle that included extensive relationship building, expensive marketing strategies and a detailed return on investment analysis that revealed a monthly savings of $ 13,347 per month (net after the expense of my new proposal), the client shared that she w...Oct. 16, 2009 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 485 |
 SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal announced today that the voting in its second annual Virtualization Readers' Choice Awards is now open. Voting will end October 23, 2009, and winners will be announced the week of November 2-4, 2009, at the 7th International Virtualization Conference & ...Oct. 14, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,230 |
 When I started my high technology career in 1982, we had an unemployment rate of 10%. Doesn’t this sound familiar? It was a brave new time in computing and no one was even sure where it was all going. Doesn’t this also sound familiar? I probably didn’t realize it at the time since I wa...Oct. 14, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 412 |
 I recently used Peter Shankman’s Help a Reporter Out™ (HARO) as a journalist, rather than a PR practitioner, looking to gain insight on a particular topic from the thousands of PR people who receive the daily queries. It was quite an exciting ...Oct. 14, 2009 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,255 Replies: 1 |
 Photon Infotech, a
next-generation Internet consulting firm accelerating innovation with
Social Media and Mobile technologies, today announced enhancements to its
Social Media Framework: Enterprise Edition. For the first time, Fortune
500 and SME organizations alike can rapidly in...Oct. 12, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 641 |
 Multiple sources are reporting that Twitter continues to be under a denial of service attack. Some are speculating that this represents the power of a coordinated bot network attack. For the government community it is also a demonstration of what a well organized adversary can do again...Aug. 10, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 862 |
 Multiple sources are reporting that Twitter continues to be under a denial of service attack. Some are speculating that this represents the power of a coordinated bot network attack. For the government community it is also a demonstration of what a well organized adversary can do again...Aug. 6, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 941 |
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