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The Wall Street Journal thinks that this might be the week Yahoo finally names its long overdue replacement for CEO Jerry Yang and the latest name to surface as a possible is that of Autodesk executive chairman and former CEO Carol Bartz, a veteran of Sun and DEC and, like Steve Jobs, a cancer survivor. Her name was first bruited last week by AllThingsDigital, the Dow Jones blog that owns the Yahoo story, and repeated again by the Journal. Bartz, 60, knows how to grow a software company - when she took over Autodesk in 1992 it was a $250 million company and left it two years ago a $1.25 billion company - but she has little experience of either advertising or the web. It is also unclear whether she wants the job. Yahoo, like Novell before Eric Schmidt, has a long list of people like ex-Vodefone CEO Arun Sarin who've said no and may have to fall back on an internal cand... (more)

Amazon S3 & S3 Compatibles

In a recent Amazon S3 blog, it is reported that Amazon S3 has reached 905 billion objects. As usual, we will plot the new number together with its historical numbers and see the trend line. Worked out the math, it takes Amazon S3 247 days to double. So it doubles every 8 months. We have been following it for a while and it is almost like a broken record now. Congratulations to the growth of S3 and the validation of cloud storage market. This article will now discuss more about its Compatibles. As a recent development, Amazon and Eucalyptus teamed up to allow Eucalyptus to use its “API” and Eucalyptus has been compatible with AWS for quite a long time. There are many other S3 compatibles implementations out there in the market. To name a few, Google Cloud Storage started with S3 compatible before moving into version 2 of the API; Scality and Mezeo provide S3 compat... (more)

The High Costs of FISMA and Google Lobbying, and More

Today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2012 currently being debated in the House of Representatives would cost the federal government an estimated $710 million through 2017. More here. The hacktivist group UGNazi has taken the official CIA website offline with a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. More here. Google spent $5 million on lobbying between January and March this year, more the Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook combined. More here. The Department of Defense expects to get approval from the White House within 60 days to expand its pilot cybersecurity threat information sharing program to include 200 contractors. More here. ... (more)

[2b2k] The Internet, Science, and Transformations of Knowledge

[Note that this is cross posted at the new Digital Scholarship at Harvard blog.] Ralph Schroeder and Eric Meyer of the Oxford Internet Institute are giving a talk sponsored by the Harvard Library on Internet, Science, and Transformations of knowledge. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people’s ideas and words. You are warned, people. Ralph begins by defining e-research as “Research using digital tools and digital data for the distributed and collaborative production of knowledge.” He points to knowledge as the contentious term. “But we’re going to take a crack at why computational methods are such an important part of knowledge.” They’re going to start with theory and then move to case... (more)

Windows Server 2012 Installation Options

New and flexible ways to make changes of a Windows Server 2012 installation after the fact are available. And IT pros can now convert a server from and to Server Core, and change the availability of server components that are previously committed at an installation time. This introduces new dynamics and exciting scenarios for improving supportability, efficiency, and security. This article highlights the three available installation options and some key operations based on the Release Candidate, Build 8400. There is additional information of Windows Server 2012 including: a free eBook, available editions, and a reference table summarizing the available features in each installation option available elsewhere. Server Core This is the default and preferred configuration for deploying Windows Server 2012. Server Core was introduced in Windows Server 2008 as a minimal ... (more)

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of December 16, 2012

The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile commerce and marketing, mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking, mobile ads and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Health News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly Also read SMAC News Weekly Research firm eMarketer says it now expects U.S. mobile advertising to nearly triple this year to more than $4 billion, largely driven by stronger ad sales for Facebook Inc., Google Inc., and Twitter. In September the firm predicted a more muted increase of 80 percent. Read Original Content As the year draws to a close, data from ad ana... (more)

Project Management 101: Lessons from the Titanic

101 years ago today, the Titanic failed to reach its final destination. There are many lessons this disaster can teach us about project management,... Follow us! Twitter: @IntuitQuickBase & Google+: +QuickBase ... (more)

Online retail boosts Manchester hosting company growth

e-retailers choose Melbourne Server Hosting to support web campaigns Manchester, 30 April 2013: Manchester tech company Melbourne Server Hosting, voted one of the coolest places to work in the UK, has reported a spike in business from e-retailers. In the first three months of 2013, Melbourne took almost 300 new orders for server hosting. A growing number of e-retailers including BBC Television 'The Apprentice' contestant Susan Ma's skincare brand, Tropic Skin Care have turned to Melbourne to support their online presence. Melbourne also provided new high-capacity server solutions for Manchester-based fashion brands AX Paris and Little Black Dress to support their recent TV appearances and primetime advertising campaigns. Chris Marsh, Commercial Manager for Melbourne Server Hosting, said: "Many exciting retail brands are establishing significant UK and European market... (more)

Ask.com Receives a 2009 'Webware 100' Award in Search & Reference Category

OAKLAND, Calif., May 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Leading search engine Ask.com, an operating business of IAC with 173 million worldwide monthly unique users*, today announced that its core search engine and core search technology has been honored with a 2009 Webware 100 award in the "Search & Reference" category by Webware, a CNET site. This is the third year in a row that Ask.com has been recognized with a Webware 100 Award for its search technology. Winners in the "Search & Reference" category in which Ask is being awarded are recognized for their innovative search tools and how they find and organize data. In recent months, Ask.com has unveiled a series of innovative, proprietary core and semantic search enhancements for customers - including DADS (Direct Answers from Databases), DAFS (Direct Answers from Search), AnswerFarms, and a Q&A; channel - which just ... (more)

Future Point Systems Enhances Visual Information Solutions with Starlight VIS and Starlight XEE 4.1.1

Future Point Systems, a pioneering market leader in Visual Information System (VIS) solutions, today announced the general availability of Starlight VIS™ 4.1.1 and Starlight XEE™ 4.1.1, the next generation of its award-winning flagship software suite. The new release raises the bar for collection, analysis, visual representation and management of massive quantities of heterogeneous, complexly related information to unprecedented levels of advanced functionality. Starlight Visual Information System™ provides sophisticated data acquisition, information management and analysis capabilities. Starlight XML Engineering Environment™ (XEE) enables the rapid development of custom information retrieval and processing solutions. Together, they retrieve, correlate and synthesize vast amounts of disparate data, automatically discerning non-obvious and hidden connections and rel... (more)

Shopzilla, Inc. Selects PowerReviews to Provide Product Reviews to Its Retailers in Europe

Shopzilla, Inc, a leading global comparison shopping site and pioneer in user generated ratings and reviews content, announced today that it has partnered with PowerReviews, a leading provider of customer reviews and social commerce solutions, to distribute PowerReviews’ product review solutions in Europe. The strategic partnership will enable Shopzilla to provide Europe merchants of all sizes access to consumer generated review content via PowerReviews Enterprise and Express Solutions. By expanding the breadth of ratings and reviews content, Shopzilla continues to improve the online shopping experience for merchants and their community of online shoppers. “At Shopzilla, our vision is to champion the voice of consumers and foster their relationships with retailers. By adding PowerReviews’ innovative product review capabilities to our existing research platform we b... (more)

CloudEXPO Stories
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