Technology Today

• Globalization's discontents

  I'm back from Africa, and what a trip it has been. Ghana was certainly a marked contrast to Zimbabwe. You would never mistake Ghana for a rich country, though compared ...

  Tags: Management, Workforce Management, Government, Strategy, Ghana, John Carroll, Recruitment & Selection, Zimbabwe, Africa, Human Resources

  May 22, 2008 10:52 AM PDT

• Apple testing geotagging for iPhone 2

  According to AppleInsider via MacRumors Apple has added a geotagging feature to the Camera application in the upcoming iPhone 2.0 firmware. The shot below is courtesy of the latest build ...

  Tags: Camera Screenshot, 3G, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Geotagging, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

  May 22, 2008 10:51 AM PDT

• Why James Bond looks so healthy

  According to The Telegraph, shaken martinis might be the secret of Bond's success. In fact, two UK researchers, a psychologist and a chemist, are collaborating with a French bartender to ...

  Tags: Finance, Roland Piquepaille, James Bond, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Investment

  May 22, 2008 10:46 AM PDT

• How much do you need to know about Windows 7 today?

  My colleague Mary Jo Foley has her ear to the ground in Redmond, and when it comes to Windows 7 she's hearing ... nothing. Under new Windows boss Steven Sinofsky, ...

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

  May 22, 2008 10:27 AM PDT

• SLES 10.2, RHEL 5.2 Linux upgrades offer better Microsoft, IBM support

  The two largest commercial Linux providers have released updates to their distributions with enhanced virtualization features and better support for Microsoft and IBM environments. On Wednesday, Novell announced availability of ...

  Tags: Servers, Storage Management, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Desktop, Hardware, Microsoft Windows, Novell Inc., Storage, Linux, Utility Computing

  May 22, 2008 9:36 AM PDT

• Is SAP's weakness its real strength?

  Conversations with Doug Merritt, a member of SAP's executive council and the person driving Business Objects as a platform for intelligence are always entertaining. Merritt represents the unconventional, disruptive element ...

  Tags: Management, SAP AG, Merritt, Dennis Howlett, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Phil

  May 22, 2008 9:08 AM PDT

• Facebook censorship; Twitter raises another $15 million; Facebook's pending redesign

  The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week? Facebook censorship.  Facebook is blocking certain messages between users ...

  Tags: Twitter, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear, Online Communications, Marketing, Social Networking, Facebook, Kirkpatrick

  May 22, 2008 8:46 AM PDT

• How fast will you upgrade your Linux installation?

  Both Red Hat and Novell are out today with news of major upgrades to their Linux distributions. (We go the extra mile here to keep our illustrations workplace safe.) Red ...

  Tags: Linux, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Storage Management, Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source, Hardware, Virtualization, Software, UNIX

  May 22, 2008 8:24 AM PDT

• OOXML backwards compatibility led Microsoft to ODF

  Microsoft blames backwards compatibility issues and changes made during the ISO ratification process for its decision to support ODF instead of OOXML in Office 2007. Microsoft's decision to add support ...

  Tags: Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, OOXML, OpenDocument, Emerging Technologies, Productivity, Business Operations, standards, ZDNet UK, ISO, Microsoft Corp.

  May 22, 2008 8:23 AM PDT

• RSnake picks on Google Health... yes, Google wants your medical records, too!

  Interesting article from Robert "RSnake" Hansen yesterday on one of Google's new innovations, the Google Health application.  Yeah, imagine that, Google wants to own the content of your medical records, too!  ...

  Tags: Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Vertical Industries, Government, Enterprise Software, Policies And Procedures, Hipaa, Nathan McFeters, Medical Record, Human Resources

  May 22, 2008 8:02 AM PDT

• How important is Mirth?

  Fred Trotter recently decided to turn his regular talks on open source health computing into a series of blog posts. They are well worth looking at. His review calls Mirth ...

  Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source, Mirth, Interoperability

  May 22, 2008 7:44 AM PDT

• Iomega releases leather-wrapped 250GB external HD

  Sure, it looks like an overpriced flask, but hey -- to each his own. Iomega posted the 250GB Brown Leather eGo Hi-Speed USB 2.0 portable hard drive on their website ...

  Tags: Andrew Nusca, Web Site Development, Iomega Corp., Internet

  May 22, 2008 7:32 AM PDT

• Mac OS 10.5.2 a lemon for music

  Long time colleague and editor of CreateDigitalMusic.com Peter Kirn confirms what I've been saying for a while: Mac OS 10.5.2 is a dog. Granted, my issues with 10.5.2 were mostly ...

  Tags: Apple Mac OS, Operating System, Operating Systems, Apple Inc., Hardware, Software, Music, Kirn, Desktops, Jason D. O\'Grady

  May 22, 2008 7:32 AM PDT

• Salesforce's international expansion accelerates

  Salesforce.com's first quarter had a bunch of high points: The company topped estimates, upped its outlook and highlighted a bevy of customer wins. But the big takeaway may be that ...

  Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales, Larry Dignan, Sales Force Management

  May 22, 2008 7:25 AM PDT

• Microsoft's ODF support looks good ... but on paper only

  Microsoft's pledge to support ODF as a native file format in Office 2007 SP2 is good news for OpenOffice – but on paper only. The devil is in the details ...

  Tags: Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Software, Paula Rooney, Office Suites

  May 22, 2008 7:13 AM PDT

• Twitter gets funding; Now stabilize the patient

  Twitter has received $15 million in venture funding, according to Om Malik. Now the fun really begins: Twitter needs to change its architecture on the fly. Om reports that the ...

  Tags: Patient, Scripting Languages, Twitter, Web Development, Larry Dignan, Ruby On Rails, Software/Web Development, Internet, Web Servers

  May 22, 2008 6:49 AM PDT

• EU shows size of Microsoft credibility gap

  The European Union will investigate Microsoft's support for the Open Document Format ODF in Office. It wonders whether the move increases competition. (Picture from BoycottNovell.) This comes just a day after ...

  Tags: Microsoft Corp., Dana Blankenhorn, Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, European Union, Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies

  May 22, 2008 6:30 AM PDT

• 87% of all teens engage in electronic communication

  87% of all teens engage at least occasionally in some form of electronic personal communication, which includes text messaging, sending email or instant messages, or posting comments on social networking ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Electronic Communication, NB, Cellular Phones, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, Teen, Social Networking

  May 22, 2008 6:01 AM PDT

• 96% of 15-17-year-old teens like to create essays

  15 to 17-age teens are somewhat more likely to create essays and create more presentations for school of writing than younger teens ages 12 to 14 (96% of older teens ...

  Tags: NB, Teen

  May 22, 2008 5:46 AM PDT

• 44% of US teens have a journal

  All teens Take notes in class 98% Write essays 93 Do short writing, from a paragraph to one page 92 Do creative writing, such as plays, poetry, fiction or short ...

  Tags: NB, Marketing, Teen, Internet, Corporate Communications, Microsoft Office, Journal, Software, Productivity, Office Suites

  May 22, 2008 5:41 AM PDT

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