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<title>The Obama Party and the googleization of politics</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2412</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 07:21:33 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dana Blankenhorn</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2412</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama is the Google of modern American politics. MyBarackObama and Google share strengths and, perhaps, weaknesses. I just described Google's problem with the ASP loophole. By supporting the loophole Google maintains its proprietary advantage but risks losing friends in the open source community. This is a loss it can bear. It can bear the loss because its immense infrastructure allows it independence from this kind of community pressure. It can act autonomously, in its own interest, when that interest conflicts with others' ideology. Barack Obama is doing essentially the same thing, as Marc Ambinder wrote on The Atlantic's blog recently. Over at Hullaballoo, liberal blogger dday calls the result   "The Obama Party": He's building a new Democratic infrastructure, regimenting it under his brand, and enlisting new ... ]]>
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<title>Logged into Google? You may see more ads</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8776</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 07:18:50 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Larry Dignan</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8776</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google may be using its properties--iGoogle, Gmail and Apps--to step up its behavioral ad efforts. That's the conclusion from Piper Jaffray Gene Munster who tracks 400 searches on Google and Yahoo each month. Munster defines a behavioral ad as one that pertains to a past query. His takeaways: This month there were 58 percent of queries that had one or more behavioral ad, up from 27 percent last month. You get different search results if you're logged into a Google account. A logged in user gets 79 percent more ads an anonymous one. Most of these additional pitches are behavioral. Google appears to be leveraging its properties to deliver more relevant ads that could boost revenue. None of this is earth shattering, but Google hasn't yapped ... ]]>
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<title>Blockbuster can start due diligence on Circuit City</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8775</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:15 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Larry Dignan</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8775</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Circuit City said Friday that it is exploring strategic alternatives and will allow Blockbuster and investor Carl Icahn to "conduct additional due diligence." Last month, Blockbuster announced a rather perplexing plan to acquire Circuit City in an attempt to take two struggling retailers and make one strong one. In a statement Circuit City said it has retained Goldman Sachs to explore strategic alternatives. Philip J. Schoonover, CEO of Circuit City, said: "While the Circuit City board has confidence in the company's ability to successfully implement its turnaround plan and generate shareholder value, we believe that we can best serve the interests of our shareholders by exploring all possible alternatives to enhance shareholder value. Let me be clear that our decision to allow Blockbuster ... ]]>
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<title>Minimizing XP SP3 woes</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1819</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 06:43:48 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Adrian Kingsley-Hughes</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1819</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I'm getting sporadic reports of Windows XP users having problems installing XP SP3 on some systems. Here are some tips to help make the install process a little smoother. Disable AV software It seems that some AV software causes the SP3 install to hang, while the installer seems fine with others. Disable AV software before beginning the install process. Uninstall beta/RC versions of SP3 You can't apply release SP3 over earlier versions. If you're having problems, try ininstalling previous versions through Safe Mode. Uninstall IE8 SP3 won't play nicely on systems that have IE8 installed. Update drivers Might help, especially if your system is running really old drivers. Disable unnecessary startup applications It's not just AV software that can cause SP3 problems. If you're having problems getting SP3 to install ... ]]>
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<title>Google's open source problem is Affero</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2408</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 06:39:51 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dana Blankenhorn</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2408</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The best open source protection for "the cloud," as Gordon Haff notes today, is the Affero GPL license. (Picture from our Tech Republic's GeekEnd blog, written by Jay Garmon.) Affero closes the "ASP loophole" described by Fabrizio Capobianco here in March. It defines what SaaS delivers as software and requires code sharing. When the FSF approved Version 3 of the Affero GPL in November, they wrote that "It requires the operator of a network server to provide the source code of the modified version running there to the users of that server." And there hangs our tale. Google can't live with Affero. If Google's services are under Affero, Google has to give away its "secret sauce," the code which makes it different. (Its ... ]]>
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<title>Oil's superspike may make telecommuting the norm</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8774</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 05:45:22 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Larry Dignan</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8774</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Can the price of crude--currently above $125 a barrel and the high gas prices that go with it--make telecommuting the norm? These questions come up typically with crises and natural disasters. For instance, if there was an avian flu outbreak workers across the U.S. would have to work from home. If there were a terrorist attack we'd have a similar situation. But as TechRepublic's Bill Detweiler notes a surge in telecommuting doesn't necessarily need a big event as a catalyst. The increase in oil prices will do (image via Wikipedia). Bill's working theory is that most employees will work from home a couple of days a week as commuting costs spike. The lesson is that IT departments will have to prepare in ... ]]>
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<title>A conversation with Charles Phillips, president Oracle</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=390</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 04:44:21 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dennis Howlett</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=390</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This morning I participated in a round table conversation with Charles Phillips, president of Oracle, discussing his take on Enterprise 2.0 technologies and how they apply to Oracle's view of the enterprise applications space. While there was nothing earth shatteringly new in what he said, some nuggets emerged. Later this year, Oracle will be launching its Enterprise 2.0 salesforce with WebCenter at the heart of what it offers. Despite the cheesy name: "If you can come up with a better one then I'd like to hear from you", he quipped, Phillips is putting 'Enterprise 2.0' style thinking at the heart of how Oracle not only sells but trains its ecosystem of partners. "Training all or a handful of partners on a ... ]]>
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<title>Wall Street: Too much sway over the tech sector?</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8772</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 04:39:19 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Larry Dignan</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8772</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Every technology company has three main constituencies: Employees, customers and shareholders. Does that last category overwhelm the first two? Should it? These questions are worth asking--at least when it comes to putting technology companies in context. Vinnie Mirchandani and I had this back and forth about Wall Street's influence over technology companies at SAP Sapphire this week. Vinnie made the following points: Technology companies cater to Wall Street interests too much often at the expense of good strategy. Isn't what a company does for customers and developers more important than shareholder interests? What's wrong with being a mid-size technology company if customers and employees are happy and the products--software, hardware, services--fit a need? There's nothing wrong with it, but Wall Street would lead folks to ... ]]>
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<title>A brief summary</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1139</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 04:30:51 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Paul Murphy</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1139</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This is not an excerpt from Brief - those ended last week, and next week we'll start the long and boring slog through the second volume in the series: Business Information Technology: Foundations and Culture. Its purpose, where Brief is addressed to top level executives and Defen is intended for Systems management, is to educate the man in the middle: the user with no real interest in  IT, but a job mandate to work with IT people. Today, however, I thought it might make sense to look at something Sun's president, Jonathan Schwartz, posted on his blog earlier this month in the context of the single most important piece of advice contained in Brief - that whoever runs IT, ... ]]>
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<title>Avanade TCO model for virtualized environments</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=417</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 03:00:39 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dan Kusnetzky</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=417</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Steve Fink, Solutions Architect for Avanade, and I enjoyed a long chat about a TCO/ROI model that Avanade is using to help their clients project what their datacenter virtualization projects are likely to cost and what type of return could be expected at the end of that project. As a well known model jockey from my years at IDC, I'm always somewhat suspicious of models of this nature. So, I did my best to be polite while I grilled the good Mr. Fink.    First of all, let me say that Steve is really good at what he does. Before he was too toasty from the grilling, he succeeded in answering all of my questions, admitted to where the model is very ... ]]>
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<title>News to know: Office 2007 SP1; Microsoft security; KVM vs. Xen; AMD</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8770</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 02:15:59 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Larry Dignan</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8770</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Mark your calendars: Microsoft to push Office 2007 SP1 on June 16 EIC podcast: SAP; JavaOne; AMD, Microhoo Larry Dignan: Microsoft previews three critical bulletins; two for Office Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft shares more IE8 security details Richard Koman: Brewster Kahle offers a cookbook for fighting security letters Garett Rogers: Google offers enterprise web security Jason Perlow: Unixfication II WSJ: Microsoft Move Suggests Not Reversing Yahoo Decision BusinessWeek: Inside Microsoft's War Against Google David Morgenstern: Seeking the iPhone in Adobe's annual analyst briefings Paul Murphy: An idea about teaching Linux to the MCSE community Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft trickling out its Spring Live Search update Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Got a .edu email address? Pick up Microsoft Office Ultimate for $60! Data Portability: The Microsoft angle InfoWorld: OpenOffice.org beta fails ... ]]>
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<title>Psystar: Just how loud is it?</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1703</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 12:01:04 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jason D. O'Grady</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1703</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Today was my second day with my spankin' new Psystar Open Computer. Following are some observations.I don't have a wireless card in it yet and my desk is too far away from my router to string an Ethernet cable, so I'm offline for the time being and cannot test things like Software Update. I ordered a D-Link DWA-556 draft-n WiFi card which should be here on Saturday.    I noted previously (in a comment) that the motherboard is a Gigabyte S-Series, Model GA-G31M-S3L featuring:     Supports Intel Core 2 multi-core and 45nm processors   Solid capacitors design in CPU VRM   Dual Channel DDR2 800 for outstanding system performance   Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 (Intel GMA 3100)   Integrated SATA 3Gb/s interface   Features high speed Gigabit Ethernet   Integrated High Definition audio    The case ... ]]>
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<title>Comcast considering bandwidth caps, surcharges</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1706</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 08:38:14 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jason D. O'Grady</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1706</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Today's Press of Atlantic City had a tiny sidebar on a troubling trend of bandwith caps and surcharges coming down the proverbial pipe from Comcast: Comcast Corp., the nation's second-largest Internet service provider, is considering setting an official limit on the amount of data that subscribers can download per month and charging a fee for those who go over... For years, Comcast directly called customers who used up several times more bandwidth than the typical subscriber's 2 gigabytes per month - for instance, by downloading hordes of movies. The big users were asked to reduce their use or have their accounts canceled. Broadband Reports expands on the Comcast plans from a source: A Comcast insider tells me the company is considering implementing very clear ... ]]>
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<title>Seeking the iPhone in Adobe's annual analyst briefings</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1704</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 06:45:42 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>David Morgenstern</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1704</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Even if you're not an analyst, Adobe's 2008 financial briefings available online make interesting viewing, from its showcase of new AIR tools to the "soul" of Adobe, Google and Microsoft. And then there's the iPhone. The recordings cover the morning and afternoon sessions as well as a Q&A session at the end of the day. The presentations include discussions of Adobe's strategic vision, rich Internet application platforms and IDEs, creative applications, business products and a financial outlook. Adobe Flex and AIR were very big on the technology demonstrations. A number of RIA (rich Internet apps) were shown, such as NASDAQ QMX, which replays microsecond data across a time frame. It was described as Tivo for the stock market. On the financial side, company ... ]]>
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<title>Mark your calendars: Microsoft to push Office 2007 SP1 on June 16</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1387</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 05:36:19 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mary Jo Foley</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1387</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Systems administrators: Mark your calendars. Microsoft is going to start pushing the first service packs for Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007 next month. In December, when Microsoft rolled out Service Pack (SP) 1 for the 2007 Office System, company officials said they'd give customers a minimum 30-day advance notice before pushing out the service pack via its Microsoft Update (MU) auto-distribution mechanism. On May 8, Microsoft gave users that promised heads-up. From a Microsoft spokeswoman: "Today we are providing our customers more than 30 days advance notice that SP1 for the 2007 Microsoft Office system, which was made available to the public on December 11, 2007,   will be released via MU automatic distribution beginning June 16, 2008. This means that those customers who ... ]]>
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<title>Microsoft shares more IE8 security details</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1386</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 05:12:22 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mary Jo Foley</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1386</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When Microsoft officials released a first test build of Internet Explorer (IE) 8 back in March, they said they were intentionally refraining from talking specifics about new security features and functionality that would be part of the next browser release. In the past few weeks, however, Microsoft has started providing more IE 8 security information via postings to the IE Blog. This week, Internet Explorer Program Manager Matthew David Crowley blogged about the changes Microsoft is making around ActiveX controls with the next release of its browser. Specifically, IE 8 users running on Vista will allow "standard" users to install ActiveX controls in their own user profile without requiring administrative privileges. Crowley explained: "This improvement makes it easier for an organization to realize ... ]]>
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<title>Micron claims low-power server memory lead with two new modules</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=1023</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 04:42:01 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Heather Clancy</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=1023</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I think I've reported this number before, but I keep forgetting it. Anyway, there is a statistic suggesting that memory components eat up something like 15 percent of the power consumed in data centers. Not an insignificant amount, which is one reason Micron continues to focus on lower voltage as a product differentiator. It latest additions to the energy-efficient Aspen Memory line are a 1-gigabyte DDR3 module that operates at 1.35 volts and a 2-gigabyte DDR2 module that runs at 1.5 volts. The Boise, Idaho, company says these are the lowest-voltage DDR2 and DDR3 designs available on the market. (Normal voltage ranges for DDR3 are 1.5 volts, while DDR2 modules typically run at 1.8 volts.) So, for example, Micron claims that ... ]]>
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<title>TerraPass gets more granular with its carbon-crunching calculator</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=1022</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 04:27:15 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Heather Clancy</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=1022</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Popular carbon offset Web site TerraPass has updated the online calculator you can use to keep track of your carbon footprint. The update now includes options for tracking the differences between many different hybrid fuels from biodiesel to flex fuel ethanol to compressed natural gas. So, if you select some sort of hybrid you can get more granular about the impact. ]]>
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<title>KinetiCast - online presentation and promotional tracking</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=837</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 03:41:57 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ryan Stewart</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=837</guid>
<description><![CDATA[With the meme about presentation tools and SlideShare yesterday I thought now was as good a time as ever to cover KinetiCast, a company in the online presentation space that I chatted with a couple of weeks ago. One of the things that mkes KenitCast unique is that they very consciously didn't target the Web 2.0 world and instead started going after paying customers in areas like real estate, and the financial industry. I don't know what their revenue numbers look like but there seem to be a number of paying customers. The application is based on Flex and has some good features that revolve around managing a lot of presentations and tracking how well they do. You can set up ... ]]>
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<title>EIC podcast: SAP; JavaOne; AMD, Microhoo</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8771</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 02:32:15 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Larry Dignan</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8771</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan and I talk SAP Sapphire, JavaOne; AMD and Microsoft and whether it'll come back around to its Yahoo bid. As for Sapphire this week, the big question was what was happening with Business ByDesign, SAP's software as a service rollout. The verdict: SaaS is harder than it appears and SAP is rethinkng its entire model. Nevertheless, the SaaS market will be large and SAP will definitely be a player. Meanwhile, the story with AMD is focused on what isn't being said. AMD has declined to discuss its asset light model and its roadmap, highlighted by Tom Krazit, will depend on solid execution. Can AMD deliver? Dan recapped his JavaOne experience, how he caught up with Neil ... ]]>
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