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Blogs
by S.M. Schrama on August 20, 2007
Some people will do anything to get attention. One of The cases that popped up the last couple of days is where a church hands out iTunes for attending. The Church by the Glades in Florida has seminar...
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Business News
by S.M. Schrama on August 19, 2007
According to this article in E-Commerce Times, users only spend one third of their time online to send email. Most of the remaining 70% is consumed by reading. The only thing really interesting about ...
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Technology
by S.M. Schrama on August 19, 2007
LAX, LA's airport caused big trouble for 17,000 passengers last week, due to computer malfunction. What happened ? One single computer inside the customs office crashed. The networkcard of that co...
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Business News
by S.M. Schrama on August 16, 2007
The HotLan Trojan is the latest development of an industry that is apparantly worth a lot of money. Recently it was reported that the captcha system had been cracked, and aparently that has been done ...
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Business News
by S.M. Schrama on August 15, 2007
Oracle has never been known to be cheap, and they hold on to the image. After a long wait, the price of Oracle 11g has finally been announced at a staggering $40,000 per cpu or $800 per user. The pric...
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Technology
by S.M. Schrama on August 15, 2007
The chinese government has a different look on things. After having been a control freak over anything people might think of doing, they have finally picked up on something a certain german gentleman ...
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Consultancy
by S.M. Schrama on August 13, 2007
Business intelligence (BI) is a business management term, which refers to applications and technologies that are used to gather, provide access to, and analyze data and information about company opera...
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Business News
by S.M. Schrama on August 12, 2007
The Santa Cruz Operation, probably the most hated company that has even been involved in unix, has claimes to "own unix" for years, trying to squeeze cash out of a lot of companies. Several ...
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Consultancy
by S.M. Schrama on August 9, 2007
You probably remember how angry certain parties were when Oracle announced their unbreakable linux, right ? Weren't we sure that Linux, running on intel hardware would conquer the world and beat a...
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Technology
by S.M. Schrama on August 9, 2007
Currently, a lot of people believe that virtualization is the latest religion. If you read this site often, you might already know that I don't believe in that. But than again, I am not a religiou...
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Business News
by S.M. Schrama on August 8, 2007
Palm's latest product, the Foleo, will be Linux powered. The device is meant to be a companion for other Palm devices such as the treo smartphone, and flawlessly integrates with it.
Palm has jus...
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Business News
by S.M. Schrama on August 3, 2007
Google tried to bid on the 700mhz spectrum recently with added conditions to their bid.
google wanted the regulator to specify the winning bidder must give users freedom to connect any devices to the...
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Technology
by S.M. Schrama on August 3, 2007
Years ago I was working in an office environment on a high security level. As a consequence, we had no internet access. In order to be able to find stuff on the net anyway, I developed a little script...
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Technology
by S.M. Schrama on August 1, 2007
One of the hottest things around in IT is the environment, or how to act as if you care about it. Even companies that don't care at all play the game - as being green will generate money, and mone...
