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by S.M. Schrama on July 31, 2007
When Novell adopted linux, we all thought this was not going to last. But it seems that it is a (relative) success, as Novell has made SUSE Linux grow up and they've accomplished selling it to lot...
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by S.M. Schrama on July 31, 2007
SUN Microsystems is doing well. It has been troublesome for quite some time, after the rise of Linux which was more flexible from the beginning. Where SUN tried to gain ground by trying to convince cu...
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Technology
by S.M. Schrama on July 30, 2007
France has just announced to triple the amount of 'public surveillance' cameras. I cannot help but wonder about the impact on their network and hardware that will have to support this extra vi...
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Solutions
by S.M. Schrama on July 27, 2007
online communities are a typical product of Web 2.0. The internet has evolved into much more that just a place for computers to connect, it has become a place for people to meet. Years ago, the rise o...
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by S.M. Schrama on July 25, 2007
Skype, probably the biggest non-SIP voip provider in the world, violates GPLv2, the open source license. The software itself is fine, but one of the SMC phones they sell through their site runs linux....
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Technology
by S.M. Schrama on July 25, 2007
Evolution is a process that takes many thousands of years. We, animals as well as plants, adapt slowly to the ever changing environment we live in, to fit better and maximising chances for survival. I...
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by S.M. Schrama on July 24, 2007
Nokia is one of these companies of which you don't expect to move into another field but the cellphone business. But Nokia looks beyond it's horizon and expands into the Web world.
Not so lo...
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by S.M. Schrama on July 23, 2007
Tomtom, the famous producer of gps navigation units, currently the biggest in Europe, has announced a bid of €1.8bn on Teleatlas, a creator of maps for use in electronic navigation devices. It's a...
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by S.M. Schrama on July 22, 2007
Nickelodeon is one of the bestknown producers of programs and shows for children - my little girl (3) loves the nickelodeon junior channel here in the Netherlands, and she's right. Some of the sho...
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Office solutions
by S.M. Schrama on July 20, 2007
I have always wondered how people come to a choice like outlook and exchange when it comes to office e-mail, it is one of the least efficient, and most bulky overblown mailsolutions I have ever seen. ...
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by S.M. Schrama on July 20, 2007
In the US, a company called Ooma offers a VOIP solution with free domestic calls for the rest of your life. You can obtain this by buying their phone (called the Hub, 399 USD), which connects to your ...
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Technology
by S.M. Schrama on July 18, 2007
I have written about virtualization before here, but I would like to take the discussion one step up. All hardware and software manufacturers treat virtualization as if it is the latest religion in IT...
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by S.M. Schrama on July 17, 2007
Sunrocket is a VOIP provider, which means their main product is a telephone connection running over an IP network, which is in most cases, the internet.
Sunrocket has closed it's doors.SunRocket ...
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Technology
by S.M. Schrama on July 16, 2007
Startups. A word that doesn't mean a thing to some, and means the world to others. The others are entrepeneurs, or investors. In order to have a startup, you need the right ingredients. And the re...
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by S.M. Schrama on July 13, 2007
IBM has never had the reputation of being open before, but in 2007, where SUN's Solaris is now known as OpenSolaris and can be downloaded for free, IBM has shown they did not get stuck in the eigh...
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Consultancy
by S.M. Schrama on July 11, 2007
Fujitsu Siemens Computers just started marketing a SAN that is intended for small businesses. The company calls it "My First SAN".
Explaining the rationale behind the strategy, he said the ...
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Technology
by S.M. Schrama on July 10, 2007
In the old days, the data produced by customers was hardly ever more than what you could put inside a generic unix server, and in cases where it wasn't enough we could make use of disk cabinets fo...
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Technology
by S.M. Schrama on July 10, 2007
About ten years ago, the term ITIL made a lot of people look very angry. Most sysadmins I knew saw it as an invader in there holy territory and refused to work by it's rigid rules, that seemed out...
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by S.M. Schrama on July 9, 2007
eSnailer is a webservice that let's you send regular mail (aka snail mail) to anyone in the US using only your webbrowser. Why ? I am not sure, however I know there are cases where you simply need...
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by S.M. Schrama on July 6, 2007
Verbatim is one of the biggest producers of media (cd's, dvd's and such) worldwide, providing solid quality at an ever-growing demand. Verbatim has just aquired SmartDisk, a vendor of portable...
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Technology
by S.M. Schrama on July 5, 2007
Sun, the company behind the world's most succesfull Unix based on the berkely unix, has made some interesting moves the last couple of years. One of the most remarkable one was the opening of the ...
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by S.M. Schrama on July 5, 2007
RIM, the company that invented and markets the blackberry will start selling blackberry devices in China. This gives RIM a big headstart in the mobile messaging market. The only remaining question is ...
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by S.M. Schrama on July 4, 2007
Apple obviously wants to become the biggest in the electronic music delivery world, and Vivendi's Universal wants to be art of it. The two signed a deal for two years, which was extended with on y...
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Sponsored Post
by Creative Weblogging on July 4, 2007
Founded by William Hamilton in 1987, TechSmith initially developed custom software for Windows for use in various commercial applications.
Since then, TechSmith has turned into the world's numbe...
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Technology
by S.M. Schrama on July 2, 2007
WorldWideWireless. This word means paradise to me, and probably to a lot of people like me as well. What is it ? Boingo, one of the biggest hotspotproviders in the world, has understood that timebased...
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Technology
by S.M. Schrama on July 1, 2007
green power is a hot subject at the moment. I don't understand why it is hot right now, because in my opinion it should have been hot years ago. But apparently it is now. The consequences hereof a...
