The concept of retweets was born in the Twitter community. According to ancient legend, Tim O'Reilly initially popularized, and may have invented, the concept of the retweet. Now the Twitter dev team is making them an official feature. In doing so, will they make twitter.com a better alternative to 3rd party clients, at least in the short term?
Do you struggle with PST files? You're not alone. Robert Sparnaaij, author of the popular HowTo-Outlook Web site calls managing PST files "true hell." You break roaming if you store them on local drives, but you shouldn't store them on network drives. Investing in a proper server-side archiving solution that allows you to disable the use of PST files will earn back the investment quite quickly.
From now until January 15, 2010, Google will offer free wireless access in more than 45 different airports around the US, and in all Virgin American flights. The airports, including my home town of St.
Development of an IT scorecard is often a "once in a career" event for IT managers, says Robert Ryan, co-author of The Business of IT. Here he offers 6 must-dos for successfully developing an IT scorecard for your organization.
Yesterday the gaming industry was rocked by news that mega-publisher Electronic Arts was spending $300-$400 million on a social media game company while cutting 1500 existing jobs from various in-house development shops.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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AISO founders envisioned a Web hosting company that was environmentally friendly. While the company employed energy-efficient innovations like solar panels, its infrastructure produced unacceptable power and cooling requirements. Find out how AISO leveraged AMD technology to overcome their challenge in this case study white paper.
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On a typical day, weather.com, the Web site for The Weather Channel in Atlanta, serves up between 15 million and 20 million page views. But in September 2004, when back-to-back hurricanes ransacked Florida, the peak traffic on one day more than tripled: over 70 million page views by more than 7 million unique visitors. Read the full success story now.
