Making the cloud more enterprise-friendly
Here are ways to make cloud computing enterprise friendly.
Thirty years of spreadsheets
It was 30 years ago this week that the first electronic spreadsheet began shipping. Here are some things to put that event into context, along with a new service from Socialtext that is worth looking at.
Useful Web Services--and a Firefox Tool
It's time for another Internet tools roundup. Last month I introduced you to Regator, Instructables, NiceCritic.com, and other useful (and fun) Web sites. This week I've got some practical tools (price comparisons, help sending large files) and some not-so-practical ones (turn yourself into a Simpsons' character!). Read on for the goods.
Using Box.net for online storage
Box.net used to be just an online file storage service, but lately it has become this Swiss Army Knife of integrated Web services that they call OpenBox. Here are just a few of the more interesting things that you can do with the service.
REST vs. SOAP-based WS-* Web services duel dismissed
There are perceptions afoot of a Web services war pitting SOAP-based WS-* services against REST services. But an official at Microsoft, which has spearheaded development of WS-* specifications, does not see the situation as being all that much of a conflict.
jfruh
Apple syncing patent can't come soon enough
pasmith
New Twitter features borrow from 3rd party clients
Esther Schindler
Open Source Changes the Software Acquisition Process
mikelgan
How to set up continuous podcast play on the new iTunes
David Strom
Five important Windows 7 mobility features
sjvn
Guard your Wi-Fi for your own sake
Sandra Henry-Stocker
Grepping on Whole Words
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.
- mburton325
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