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Software for the other five billion
Insight perspective If businesses want to win over the five billion people without computers, they must adapt their approach. Here are seven assumptions not to make.
Tags: Business applications, Protocols and platforms, Personal applications, Microsoft Corp., Graphics, Quocirca, distributed system, Literacy, Clive Longbottom, software
Cisco offers open source alternative to Soap
News The networking equipment maker has developed its own messaging protocol Etch as an alternative to the Soap standard, and made it open source.
Tags: Web services, Open source, Security, Cisco Systems Inc., GPL, W3C, CIO, performance, software, networking equipment company
Thinking outside the ERP box
Insight ERP architectures are usually structured around messaging, monitoring, and workflow. Learn how to reconfigure these resources into document management , compliance enforcement or help desk automation systems.
Tags: Business applications
Ten examples of SOA at work, circa 2008
Techguide In the past year, many companies have finally moved on beyond the experimentation and pilot stages when it comes to SOA. Joe McKendrick presents stellar examples of where and how SOA made a difference for some companies in 2008.
Tags: Web services, Standards, Mainframe, ITIL, SOA, CERN, Enterprise Service Bus, Lufthansa, United Airlines, AbeBooks.com
Researcher: Operating systems inherently flawed
News The architecture of the most common operating systems is a threat to corporate security, a security researcher warns.
Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows
Take advantage of idle system power with the Condor distributed system
Insight Enterprises often have large-scale computational needs, but that doesn't mean that they need a huge budget for a dedicated cluster. A distributed system using open source Condor can harness the processing power sitting idle in large numbers of machines.
Making encryption popular
Techguide Find out what it takes to instill the importance of good security practice to as wide an audience as possible.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Data security, Security Management, Security implementation/standards
Include partners in application recovery
Insight How to include inter-company applications in disaster recovery planning.
Intel talks Linux, netbooks and rivalry with ARM
Insight newsmaker Intel's Imad Sousou discusses the evolution of the Moblin Linux distribution at recent Open Source in Mobile conference.
Tags: Mobile processors, Development/design, Mobile platforms, Open Source, ARM, Google Inc., Intel Corp., Operating System, Experience, Moblin
Readers: Windows XP isn't worth the trouble
News If News.com's readers are any indication, Windows XP may be a tough sell. The reasons: a new activation requirement and few compelling features.
Cruising along tech waters
Insight Star Cruises' IT head Kenny Ng says getting management's approval is easy, if you can show the returns of the tech investment.
Tags: IT Management, Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
Emirates soars high on tech
Insight Swapping proprietary products with home-brewed IT concoctions is just one of the ways Emirates is taking to the skies, says airline executive.
Tags: IT Management
Wallem embraces blogs, wikis
Insight Implementing new business applications, knowledge management systems and blogs are some of the many projects keeping Wallem Group CIO Patrick Slesinger busy.
Tags: Web 2.0, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Business applications, Knowledge management, Data mining & analysis, Data warehousing/business intelligence, IT outsourcing, Outsourcing
Google offers curriculum to China's top universities
Blogs At last week's 2007 Software Innovation Summit, Christophe Bisciglia from Google introduced to the attendees Google 101....
Tags: Servers, Web sites, Web servers, Web services
Internet Archive's BookServer could 'dominate' Amazon
News A new initiative from the nonprofit Internet Archive aims to make all books, commercial or public domain, available for digital distribution. If it works, Amazon could be in serious trouble.
Tags: Handhelds, Publisher, Google Inc., Barnes & Noble Inc., search engine, e-reader, Amazon.com Inc., BookServer, public domain, Amazon Kindle
