Technology Today

• Windows 7 will be called... Windows 7

  It's official. The final name of the product codenamed "Windows 7" will be "Windows 7." by Mary Jo Foley

  Tags: Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Mary Jo Foley, Software, Microsoft Windows

  Oct 13, 2008 7:38 PM PDT

• LaCie's 5big Network offers five drive bays, up to 7.5TB storage

  LaCie is bringing its distinctive aesthetic sense to small business networked storage with its new 5big Network device, which offers—surprise—five drive bays and up to a whopping 7.5 terabytes of ...

  Tags: Sean Portnoy, Network, Hardware, LaCie, RAID, Storage

  Oct 13, 2008 4:53 PM PDT

• And Windows 7 is to be called ... Windows 7

  Microsoft puts us out all of out misery as to what the next version of Windows will be called - Windows 7. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Tags: Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows

  Oct 13, 2008 4:21 PM PDT

• Hoping for AppleTV update at Apple's notebook event

  The clock is ticking toward the big Apple event - you know, the one where the company is expected to announce the sub-$1,000 notebook and/or a new design to the ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Notebook, HDTV, TVs, Home Entertainment, Apple TV, Apple Inc., Sam Diaz, Tv & Home Theater

  Oct 13, 2008 4:16 PM PDT

• Copyright czar is born: Prez signs Pro-IP law

  Get ready for the Copyright Czar. President Bush just signed the Pro-IP Act (the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008), which provides for a new executive ...

  Tags: President, Management, Intellectual Property, Strategy, Richard Koman, U.S. Congress, Leadership, Research & Development, Business Operations

  Oct 13, 2008 4:12 PM PDT

• And the new name is ... Windows 7

  Last week I wondered whether the product currently code-named Windows 7 would get a new name for its release. The answer, made official a few minutes ago, is no. In ...

  Tags: Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Ed Bott, Software, Microsoft Windows

  Oct 13, 2008 3:16 PM PDT

• Microsoft and Yahoo: Ballmer's 'failure' now a 'dodged bullet'

  Remember that eleventh-hour decision -- when Microsoft opted not to buy Yahoo? Remember how so many pundits portrayed CEO Steve Ballmer's walking away as a fireable offense? What a difference ...

  Tags: Asset Management, Yahoo! Inc., Operational Planning, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley, Steve Ballmer, Search, Business Operations

  Oct 13, 2008 2:11 PM PDT

• Egnyte: using and sustaining Enterprise 2.0

  Egnyte, in a nutshell, is a software as a service, cloud storage application. But it's a lot more than just that. It feels like your online home of files, storage ...

  Tags: Zack Whittaker, Enterprise 2.0, Hardware, Egnyte, Server, Apple iPhone, On-demand, Backup Facility, Storage, Backups

  Oct 13, 2008 2:03 PM PDT

• How will Silicon Valley startups be affected by a downturn?

  Things were tough enough for startups in Silicon Valley before the credit crunch financial crisis because of extremely few exit strategies. There are almost no IPOs, and the M&A market ...

  Tags: Financial Services, Management, Financing Startups, Financial Accounting, Finance, Silicon Valley, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Tom Foremski, IPO

  Oct 13, 2008 1:49 PM PDT

• Jim Hendler and Dean Allemang to kick off Semantic Universe webcasts

  Semantic Universe, the people behind the Semantic Technology Conference, have just announced a new series of free webcasts featuring Jim Hendler and Dean Allemang. These begin on 16 October with ...

  Tags: Podcasts, Web Development, Webcast, Internet, Software/Web Development, Semantic Web, RDF, XML, Paul Miller

  Oct 13, 2008 1:32 PM PDT

• Microsoft readies next two versions of Office Communications Server

  Microsoft is on tap to show off Office Communications Server Release 2 (R2) at the VoiceCon show in Amsterdam on October 14. And the company already is working on the ...

  Tags: Microsoft Office Communications Server, OCS Release 2, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Mary Jo Foley, Software, Server, Office Suites, Communications Server

  Oct 13, 2008 12:52 PM PDT

• CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-over

  Being a CEO today just stinks. The economy is melting down. No one trusts each other. And the chieftains don't even know if their customers will survive. What's this mean ...

  Tags: Management, Pricing, Information Technology, Technology Department, Marketing, Strategy, Data Management, Enterprise Software, CEO, Business Intelligence

  Oct 13, 2008 12:26 PM PDT

• Facebook as social rule of thumb?

  This new course I'm taking introduces sociology, and I assure all you budding sociologists who read that this new-found knowledge isn't going to my head. It seems for many, especially ...

  Tags: Management, Zack Whittaker, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Strategy, Marketing, Social Networking, Facebook

  Oct 13, 2008 12:22 PM PDT

• Touchscreen Asus Eee PC available for UK preorder

  Look! There it is, on preorder in the UK: Asus' all-in-one Eee PC is available for £399.99, and seems sluggish to boot: 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, 1GB RAM, 160GB hard ...

  Tags: Memory, Components, U.K., Peripherals, Microsoft Windows XP, Hardware, Desktops, Touch Screen, ASUS, Microsoft Windows

  Oct 13, 2008 12:01 PM PDT

• OpenOffice 3 launch timed perfectly but will Sun, IBM exploit opportunity?

  Sun and IBM could not have asked for better timing for the launch of OpenOffice 3, a major upgrade of the open source office suite. Both vendors are preparing to ...

  Tags: OpenOffice, Symphony 1.2, Desktop, Conversion Tool, Sun Microsystems Inc., Training, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Microsoft Office, Software

  Oct 13, 2008 11:49 AM PDT

• Free national Wi-Fi? Pardon me not holding my breath.

  In today's Wall Street Journal, reporter Amy Schatz writes that a proposal to create a free, national wireless Internet service got a boost after Federal Communications Commission engineers "concluded that ...

  Tags: Federal Government, Andrew Nusca, FCC, Government, Wireless Internet, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Airwave

  Oct 13, 2008 11:44 AM PDT

• Economics of open source remains an academic challenge

  Explain the economics of open source, especially as it relates to international trade. Give us charts, graphs, and especially models. We like models. Then just wait for the phone call ...

  Tags: Theory, Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source, Economist

  Oct 13, 2008 11:44 AM PDT

• Does the credit crunch represent a silver lining for open source?

  If my email inbox is anything to go by, the credit crunch could be just what open source has been waiting for. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Tags: Management, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Oct 13, 2008 11:31 AM PDT

• 9/11 suspects get laptop, no Net

  Al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed gets a laptop and 12 hours of battery time a day, but no Internet. That's what a military judge ruled last week, according to ...

  Tags: Engineering, 9/11 Commission, Laptop Computer, Battery, Richard Koman, Internet

  Oct 13, 2008 10:53 AM PDT

• Facebook: Is there a Moore's Law for sharing?

  Love it or hate it, that new look to Facebook - the one that everyone has been up in arms over - stems from our increasingly comfortable attitude about sharing ...

  Tags: Finance, Sam Diaz, Operational Accounting, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg

  Oct 13, 2008 10:39 AM PDT

• More Headlines »