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A year and a half ago I pulled together several thoughts on Cyber Deterrence which had come out of years of dialog on the cyber threat.   I wanted to capture some key challenges since in my view many were making foolish assumptions regarding what our nation should do in the domai... (more)

BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- LTech (www.ltech.com), a leader in enterprise cloud computing products and services, today introduced the latest version of its LTech Power Panel for Google Apps (Power Panel). Power Panel is a Google Apps add-on product that provid... (more)

BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- LTech (www.ltech.com), a leader in enterprise cloud computing products and services, today introduced LTech Single Sign-On for Google Apps, its latest cloud enablement product for the Google Apps platform. LTech Single Sign-On for Go... (more)

SAN MATEO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/16/09 -- Appirio, a cloud solution provider, today launched the first interactive cloud ecosystem map. The map builds on Appirio's experience moving hundreds of enterprises to the cloud, and seeks to provide better transparency into the evolvin... (more)

Google has announced a revised settlement [redlined pdf faq pdf] that it hopes will address the concerns raised by the Department of Justice and many other groups. Here’s a summary of the summary Google provides [pdf], although IANAL and I encourage you to read the summary, whic... (more)

What? Leveling the intellectual playing field with Stanford? The home of elite, wealthy and over-privileged? While eLearning is nothing new to the Internet generation, traditionally eLearning content was dull, "uninspirational," and in many cases an ineffective alternative to re... (more)

Recently I had the pleasure of speaking with Peter Coffee, of eWeek fame.  Peter, as industry veterans may be aware, was eWeek’s Technology Editor, and is now Director of Platform Research for Salesforce.com, a leader in cloud computing. Our conversation began with my blatant at... (more)

Email Archiving Journal I don’t know about you, but when I get long emails my eyes go running around my head. Too many words for me to take in during a busy day when I’m sure I’m suffering from some form of ADHD as I try to multitask beyond human capability. So I ask folks to pl... (more)

Everyone knows that the longevity and ultimate success of a platform lies in the developers willing to create on that platform. Creating a healthy developer ecosystem in which both the developer and the platform vendor can grow and prosper is very important. No one knows this bet... (more)

e-Commerce Journal Zend has gotten Varien, apparently a hot e-commerce platform, to ship the free Community Edition of Zend Server, the PHP web application server with the free Community Edition of its open source Magento e-commerce software. Varien, in turn, will contribute a nu... (more)

We are all familiar with the popularity contests of high school.  The idea of becoming homecoming queen or the student council president scared me as a teen, as neither were my thing.  I was more quiet and into other pursuits.  What is funny is now, some twenty years later, I fin... (more)

Oracle on Ulitzer Oracle, the company that the European Commission thinks can't be trusted with an open source database, trotted out Berkeley DB Java Edition 4.0 the other day. The new release of the database family that's as open source as MySQL offers high availability, enhan... (more)

Chip Design Journal Waleed Al Muhairi, the COO of Mubadala, the Abu Dhabi government-owned investor in AMD as well as the chairman of Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), AMD's Abu Dhabi government-owned partner in Globalfoundaries, its fab spin-out, said at a conferen... (more)

Open Source Journal It is one thing to use open source software and evangelize its capabilities to a marketplace. It is quite another to actually attempt to contribute to that software. I've read all over the internet that 1 in 100 contribute, or some implementation of The Drak... (more)

Global Media giants GDS International are famed for catering to the needs of the worlds fortune 500 companies, running leading publications and news websites for the world's biggest Jet setters. But with the economy still recovering and the cost of fuel rising Chairman Spencer Gr... (more)

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ec8384/google_apps_for_ex) has announced the addition of the "Google Apps for Executives - Tips, Tricks & Everything a Business Professional Needs to Know About Using Google Apps" audio conference to their offerin... (more)

Under the pressure from Windows Azure release in a week, Amazon unveiled today a new AWS SDK for .NET Developers providing .NET developers the libraries, code samples, and documentation needed to build an AWS-powered application using any programming language capable of making .N... (more)

Amazon Web Services LLC, the company’s cloud arm, figures to push into Asia-Pacific in the first half of next year, so businesses can deploy its EC2 compute and S3 storage resources closer to their end users there to minimize latency and increase performance. It said software de... (more)

LAS VEGAS, November 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the release of the latest Microsoft creation Windows 7, online gamblers worldwide breathe a sigh of relief as their Casino Classic software operates perfectly in the new operating system. New OS upgrades are notorious for wreaking... (more)

Latin America is home to the "B" in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) quartet of leading emerging economies, but is still relatively small as a regional telecom service market, accounting for only 10 percent of total global revenues. A combination of large geographical ... (more)