Posted on 12.28.08 by templeton @ 11:00 am
Novell has canceled its 2009 BrainShare, the annual conference that this year drew 5,500 to the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City. The Waltham, Mass.-based company, whose largest operation is in Provo, Utah, with about 1,200 employees, said many of its customers were saying economic conditions would keep them from traveling to Utah in March of next year. “It was really our customers that drove the decision,” said spokesperson Ian Bruce. Novell remains committed to BrainShare, which has been staged regularly for more than 20 years, Bruce said.
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Posted on 12.28.08 by templeton @ 11:00 am
Todd Pierce recently put his job on the line. To meet the computing needs of 16,300 employees and contractors at Genentech, Pierce took a chance and decided not to rely entirely on business software from Microsoft, IBM or another long-established supplier that would have let Genentech own the technology. Instead, Pierce decided to rent these indispensable products from Google. The Internet search and advertising leader will run Genentech’s e-mail, as well as some word processing, spreadsheet and calendar applications, and it will do it over an online connection.
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Posted on 12.28.08 by templeton @ 11:00 am
With one finger, Noah Norman flicked through a screenful of credit card transactions that was constantly being updated. Not a computer screen—T-Mobile’s G1 cell phone. Visa announced the launch this week of new commercial mobile payment-related services on the G1, which runs on Google’s Android operating system. At the Wired store in Manhattan recently, Norman—who set up the temporary location—demonstrated one feature of the new Visa Mobile application, a free download for G1 owners. “The primary function is to link to your credit card,” he said.
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Posted on 12.27.08 by templeton @ 3:00 am
The traditional process for sourcing creative work contains significant risk for the buyer along with the potential for wonderful reward in the form of great design. The typical risks are threefold: first, finding and working with the right designer for your project; second, the inherent limitations in choosing design concepts; and third, the problem of committing to buy something you have not yet seen. There is, however, a non-traditional option that many businesses are pursuing—crowdsourcing creative work.
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Posted on 12.24.08 by templeton @ 11:00 am
Linux has proven that the open source model works—it addresses two of the biggest challenges for IT professionals: the high cost of infrastructure software and the limitations a closed stack imposes on the enterprise. Open source is particularly appealing for cost savings, vendor neutrality, access to source code and innovation.
Using Linux is one thing—it is a widely used and contained piece of software—but using open source software higher up the stack can be unnerving. Unlike the operating system, middleware components are often integrated with other components.
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Posted on 12.24.08 by templeton @ 11:00 am
PicSay is one of the winners of the Android Developer Challenge, a contest Google set up to get a batch of decent apps into the Market in time for its launch. Cash prizes went to the devs who built the coolest apps for the platform. It’s just an entertaining little app—it’s not likely you’ll be using it for anything productive. It does make decent use of the resources available to everyone: photos and the phone’s touchscreen. PicSay is pretty cartoony, but this app is all about silly fun.
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Posted on 12.23.08 by templeton @ 3:00 am
There’s no leap of imagination needed to expect the arrival one day of a T-Mobile “G2” Android-based smartphone, an expected though still hypothetical follow-up to T-Mobile’s popular G1. At this point, however, one does need some imagination to guess on a delivery date and describe a possible feature list. A variety of rumors have been swirling around the Web, citing anonymous sources in reports that have, for the most part, been appropriately labeled “rumors.” Cell Phone Signals credits an anonymous tipster with a Jan. 26 announcement date.
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Posted on 12.23.08 by templeton @ 3:00 am
It was a relatively quiet week on the Linux blogs last week, as the world counted down the final stretch before the holidays. On Digg, the biggest discussion to follow the now-famous Teacher’s Letter Controversy—which we covered last week—revolved around an Okii Living blog post titled “Is Linux ready for the average user? My wife thinks so.” Almost 350 comments had been made on Digg by Friday, in addition to the more than 50 on the blog itself.
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Posted on 12.21.08 by templeton @ 7:00 pm
The eternal dilemma of the educational technologist is how to approach the advent of any new innovation. On the one hand, any innovation offers seemingly unlimited potential in how it may change education for the better and address specific problems currently being encountered. On the other hand, there is a long history of the abuse, misuse and just plain non-use of innovative technologies despite their potential. Although these should be lessons already learned, proponents continue to describe how technologies can be used for positive change with little regard for their weaknesses.
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Posted on 12.20.08 by templeton @ 11:00 am
It’s evolution according to Ron Hovsepian. When the CEO and president of Novell surveys the computer software industry, he sees old molds breaking, big companies getting bigger, customers demanding that barriers between different software be busted down and demands that all things high-tech be made simpler to use. For Utah’s information technology sector, the Novell chief says this means new ways of doing business are coming to the fore, and opportunities exist. They will be based on collaborations, delivery of software and services online, and huge “clouds” of computers.
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