A survey of IT pros by Embarcadero Technologies shows time management and poor planning are key challenges facing DBAs. – The No. 1 challenge facing database professionals: There just aren’t enough
hours in the day, according to a recent survey.
In a poll
of 1,230 IT pros (PDF) by Embarcadero Technologies, roughly 43 percent
cited time as their key challenge when it comes to projects. Another 40 percent
cited poor…
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is leading 38 states in an investigation into Google’s WiFi data collection, which was done with Street View cars. He will sue if he doesn’t receive answers from Google. –
Thirty eight states led by Connecticut Attorney General
Richard Blumenthal July 21 asked Google whether it had tested its Street View
software was intended to collect data from unsecured wireless computer
networks.
Blumenthal, who has aggressively defended Connecticut against …
While Microsoft and Google continue to gouge each other, startups such as Zoho sneak in to lure small and midsize businesses to their low-priced cloud computing apps. The startup harbors no illusions about its inferior market position to the Microsoft Office and Google Apps giants. Zoho sees the market evolving to componentization, with office apps becoming components within other apps. This threatens the $19 billion Office cash cow as Microsoft Office 2010 enters the market. – <p>With all of the
smack-talking and chest-bumping (http://googlewatch.eweek.com/content/google_vs_microsoft/google_ratchets_up_the_rhetoric_as_it_steels_for_microsoft_office_2010.html) going on between Google’s enterprise team and
Microsoft’s Office group, it’s easy to forget about other cloud co…
NEWS ANALYSIS: At its F8 developers’ conference April 21, Facebook is expected to unveil a Like button publishers can embed on their Websites to let users share content with their Facebook friends. Facebook’s effort is being preempted by a group of companies intent on not letting Facebook infuse the Web with its members-only approach to the social graph. Meebo April 19 launched XAuth, a platform for automating the way users share content on social networks, with partners Google, MySpace, Microsoft, Yahoo and others.
– Facebook, which popularized the notion of shared
content for its social network, is expected to unveil a quot;Like quot; button
publishers can embed on their Websites to let users share content with their
Facebook friends.
The New York Times reported
that
Facebook at its F8 developer’s confe…
An ALF-CIO report pokes holes in U.S. guest worker programs and sheds light on the core issue of wage reduction for technical professionals in the United States and expanded entry of guest workers into newer fields such as health care and education. The report touches on the oft-cited abuse and mistreatment of guest workers from foreign countries, as well as closely examining near-stagnant wages for U.S. workers and H-1B visa holders.
– Based on the research of the National Research
Council, the Government Accountability Office, the Department of Education, the
Computing Research Association, the National Academy of Sciences, the National
Academy of Engineering, the RAND Corporation and a host of other university research
sourc…
Microsoft decided that 2009 was the year it would challenge Google on the search giant’s turf, through launching a rebranded search engine, Bing, and signing a search-and-advertising partnership with Yahoo designed to give Microsoft more share in the U.S. search engine market. Microsoft spent much of the fall incorporating new features into Bing, although it also experienced some minor hiccups, notably a small downtime incident and a conflict with The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.
– Microsoft decided to challenge Google more robustly in the U.S. search-engine arena in
2009, pouring millions of marketing and development dollars into a revamped and
rebranded search engine, Bing.
Microsoft originally announced Bing as the replacement for
its Live Search at the seventh annual D…
Microsoft and the European Commission may be close to a deal on packaging Internet Explorer 8 with Windows 7, with Redmond agreeing to offer users an automatic ballot screen from which they can choose a rival browser. Such an agreement would alleviate the Commissions antitrust concerns, but Google, Opera and Mozilla plan on asking the regulatory body for as-yet-unannounced changes to the agreement.
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Microsoft may not quite be out of the woods yet with regard to its antitrust
dealings with the European Commission, the regulatory body that investigates
possible violations of European Union antitrust rules. Although Redmond and the
regulatory body seem close to a deal over the integration of …
