Date: 02/28/08 (Security)    Keywords: software, security

Software problems with a 28-mile pilot project send Homeland Security officials back to the drawing board--and cause a three-year delay in plans to seal off the southwestern border of the U.S. WASHINGTON--Technical problems have forced the Bush administration to retool a high-tech "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexico border and...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-189986.html

Date: 02/29/08 (Security)    Keywords: software, microsoft

US retail sales of non-games software totaled $3.3 bln in 2007, a 15% increase over the $2.9 bln generated in 2006. Thanks in large part to new product introductions from companies such as Microsoft, Apple and Adobe, the most significant increases in revenue were seen in operating system, business, finance...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14050

Date: 03/02/08 (Data Management)    Keywords: software, technology, microsoft

The blogosphere is on fire with the anticipated announcement that Microsoft will be entering the Software as a Service (SaaS) market this or next week. Just how they'll enter the market is still uncertain. My guess is that they'll in part blend SaaS with desktop technology much the way we've...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Greenfield/?p=207

Date: 03/03/08 (Security)    Keywords: software, security, virus, web

In the security industry it's not hard to run into someone predicting the demise of the anti-virus industry. But the end game will take forever to play out. The common argument: Anti-virus software can never keep up, is outdated and outgunned against rapidly evolving threats. Websense CEO...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=913

Date: 03/04/08 (Java Web)    Keywords: software

To join “Free” Software Foundation which preaches that all software should be free you are forced to pay at least 120$ per year. My simple question for FSF & Richard Stallman is: Why should we pay to join “Free” software foundation? When software (which requires human labor which costs money) should be free, as they preach, then [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-hypocrisy-of-free-software-foundation/

Date: 03/05/08 (Computer Help)    Keywords: software

Okay, so I've posted about this before, situation has changed slightly (according to my wife, anyway). Setup: my computer (no-name home-built) connected to a wireless router (Netgear WGR614v6) connected to a cable modem (Motorola Surfboard). Wife's computer is a Dell, four years old-ish now, using one of Netgear's wireless USB eggs. Problem: her computer now connects to the network (signal strength listed as excellent), but it doesn't see the Internet. I, obviously, do, since I'm posting this.

I know less than nothing about wireless networking, and am aggressive about it (I got out of hardware in the mid-nineties because I hated it), so when I plead with you to please use one-syllable words, I mean it. Anything more complex than changing a software setting I'll be calling in pros, so if it comes to that, just tell me to call the pros.

Thanks in advance.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/868241.html

Date: 03/06/08 (Data Management)    Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie outlined during his Mix '08 keynote this week a very high-level vision about how Microsoft is moving to be more of a utility-computing/cloud-computing vendor. Ozzie didn't talk specifics about any of the plumbing that makes it possible. But David Treadwell, Corporate...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1248

Date: 03/08/08 (Java Web)    Keywords: php, software, hosting

I am looking for a decent online project management software with Gantt charts. I tried several online project management software, some free, some partially free with paid upgrades like BaseCamp, Zoho etc. The free online project management software I tested are: phpprojekt (self-hosting), phpCollab (self-hosting), Basecamp (hosted only), Zoho (hosted only) and dotProject. Some like dotProject [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/decent-online-project-management-software-with-gantt/

Date: 03/09/08 (Web Technology)    Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft is continuing to roll out more Software+Service (S+S) combinations, the latest being the DeepZoom-PhotoZoom combination. DeepZoom is a feature of Silverlight 2, Microsoft's next release of its Flash competitor which is due out this fall. DeepZoom "allows users to explore collections of super high resolution imagery,...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1252

Date: 03/09/08 (Open Source)    Keywords: software, web, microsoft, google

Right now, it seems everything is about Microsoft because its software is a de-facto standard, and it's accused of constantly manipulating that standard to maintain its advantage. As that changes, as the battle shifts from client software to the Web, does Google become the ogre?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/248467615/

Date: 03/10/08 (Java Web)    Keywords: software, java, linux, microsoft

GanttProject is a free project management software written in Java (cross-platform, runs in Windows, Linux, Mac etc.). The following is a brief review of the benefits and shortcomings along with download link. GanttProject is a competitor to Microsoft Project, the de-facto project management software in many corporations. Key Features of GanttProject - Project Management Software Like [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/free-project-management-software-cross-platform-review/

Date: 03/11/08 (Open Source)    Keywords: software

Open Country, once a rising star in the open source management software market, closed doors in 2007. But its former CEO, Laurent Gharda, isn’t giving up on its software. Gharda acquired intellectual property rights to Open Country’s core assets including its provisioning software and today launched a company called LinMin that focuses on affordable bare metal [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/249617939/

Date: 03/12/08 (Java Web)    Keywords: software, web, linux, microsoft

I had a hard time in selecting a Dell configuration from their website without Microsoft Windows Vista or other Microsoft software. We are a Linux house and have no need for Microsoft products on our machine. As a technologist and a software architect if I found it hard to figure out how to strip Microsoft [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-purchase-dell-computers-without-windows-vista-microsoft-software/

Date: 03/12/08 (Java Web)    Keywords: php, software, java, linux, microsoft

I just received a mysterious call from Microsoft inquiring about our Windows usage! I was surprised to say the least. Why would a 100% Linux based company get a call from Microsoft? Read on for the juicy details. We are 100% Linux based company. We develop software products and deliver services in Java (cross-platform), PHP and [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/mysterious-call-from-microsoft-inquiring-about-windows-evil-nexus-with-dell/

Date: 03/13/08 (Open Source)    Keywords: software

You do just as you would with a press release. Only you load your software onto the stick.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/250908339/

Date: 03/14/08 (Data Management)    Keywords: software

What would it be like if it was possible to take an executable image that was built for one operating system and processor family, wave a software wand over that software and then simply run it on another platform? Wouldn't that make life for an organization's IT staff quite a...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=364

Date: 03/14/08 (Open Source)    Keywords: software, microsoft

The Software Freedom Law Center has a paper out today making this charge regarding Microsoft's Open Specification Promise. It was easily made and can be easily broken.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/251395279/

Date: 03/14/08 (Data Management)    Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft is getting into the platform as a service (PaaS) market, and doing so in a rather major, though stealthy way. It's no secret that the company's Software+Services strategy has a lot of PaaS capabilities, but putting together information from announcements and briefings at this week's Dynamics Convergence conference, as...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Greenbaum/?p=158

Date: 03/17/08 (Data Management)    Keywords: software

Today HP is announcing its salvo in the battle for the next generation datacenter (NGDC). HP wants to be the winner in the battle for the universal hardware platform for virtualized applications, the battle for management and orchestration software for that datacenter and the battle to provide key global services...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=365

Date: 03/17/08 (Open Source)    Keywords: software, asp

As the software industry increasingly moves to a Software as a Service (SaaS) model, Fabrizio Capobianco of Funambol writes, the license's closing of the "ASP loophole" will become a vital protection for software users.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/252988068/