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‘Security’ Makes Me Sick
Imagine you went to a restaurant for dinner and became violently ill. After a little investigation, you find out that some of your food was uncooked, that the salad was prepared with a knife that had been used to cut raw chicken and that the mayonnaise in the dressing had been kept in a broken…
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Bridging the Chasm
The bridge across the chasm between emerging technologies and mainstream market acceptance has always been the channel. Unfortunately, that bridge has always been somewhat rickety. For every product that makes it across successfully, there are hundreds of good products falling into the abyss of oblivion. For some peculiar reason, nobody ever seemed to want to…
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Microsoft, Sun Do Web Services Interoperability Tango
Sun Microsystems took its Web services interoperability effort, code-named Tango, to Microsoft’s campus last week for another in a series of meetings where the two companies will learn to dance with one another in the Web services arena. Microsoft hosted its second Windows Communication Foundation (also known as Indigo) Interop Plug-fest with Sun last week,…
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Report: IT Spending Shows Slight Improvement
Information technology spending is showing “subtle signs of improvement” with 19 percent of companies expecting 2006 spending to increase 10 percent or more, according to a Goldman Sachs survey. Released on March 10, the survey polled 100 managers in charge of technology purchases. Goldman Sachs analyst Laura Conigliaro found that the top three spending priorities…
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Once Disorganized, eBay Partners Now a Vibrant Channel
For many eBay users, the online marketplace is a place to find a bargain or offload items they no longer need. But for thousands of people, eBay has become a way of life. Those people include some 25,000 software developers that have built businesses around providing better tools for eBay sellers and buyers. These application…
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More Innovation Means Fewer CIO Decisions
CEOs may not understand the nuts and bolts of technology, but they will take an increasing role in the decisions previously reserved for CIOs as innovation becomes a key focus for 2006. As the role of technology moves from a business supporter to an enabler, executives from outside the technology department are expanding their roles,…
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