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Salesforce demos Service Cloud 2
At Dreamforce Global Gathering 2009 in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Kraig Swensrud, senior vice president of product marketing, show attendees the ...
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Salesforce CEO chatters about new social media platform
At Dreamforce Global Gathering 2009 in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and technology head Parker Harris show attendees Chatter, a new collaboration and ...
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Adobe CTO: Flash in the future
At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch talks about how the companys Flash software is coming to new devices ...
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NBC brings new media player features to Winter Olympics and NFL
At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, Vertigo CEO Scott Stanfield shows new HD video player features for the Winter Olympic Games, adding ...
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Peering inside Microsoft's giant data center
CNET's Ina Fried speaks to two of the designers of Microsoft's just-opened data center in Chicago.
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Facebook COO sees economic models changing on the Web
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg talks about the how the Web usage patterns are shifting from an ...
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U.S. CTO: Health care needs better billing systems
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Franicsco, U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra talks about IT changes that need to be made to the current ...
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HP CEO: The challenges of cloud computing
At the Gartner Symposium in Orlando, Fla., HP CEO Mark Hurd talks about how the company plans to layer cloud services on its infrastructure ...
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Microsoft demos Twitter feeds in Bing
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Yusuf Mehdi, a senior vice president at Microsoft, previews Twitter integration with Bing search results. One ...
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GE shows off mini ultrasound device
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, GE Chief Executive Jeff Immelt introduces a handheld ultrasound gadget called Vscan. Immelt believes that the ...
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Twitter CEO: Why he turned down Facebook
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Twitter CEO Evan Williams explains to Federated Media CEO John Battelle his rationale for turning down ...
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Gartner: 'Worst year ever' for IT spending
At the Gartner Symposium/ITExpo 2009 in Orlando, Fla., Peter Sondergaard, a senior vice president of research at Gartner, says 2009 was the worst spending ...
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Oracle announces Exadata 2
At Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison previews the company's Exadata Version 2 computer. He says the new database computer is ...
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Michael Dell brings self-service IT to the enterprise
At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Dell CEO Michael Dell talks about how his company is delivering a more efficient enterprise with its services. ...
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Nokia jumps into Netbook game with Booklet 3G
This Windows 7 Netbook is set to arrive on October 22 for $299 with a two-year AT&T wireless contract.
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Sony unveils new Windows 7 Vaio PCs
Just in time for the launch of Windows 7, Sony throws a party for the new additions to its Vaio lineup, from touch-screen all-in-ones ...
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Microsoft unveils Windows Phone
Microsoft's Robbie Bach gives details on a new platform called Windows Phone that features a mobile app store. The company also unveiled updates to ...
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Windows 7, a better power saver?
At Microsoft's Silicon Valley Campus, ZDNet's Sumi Das talks to Microsoft's chief environmental strategist, Rob Bernard, about power-saving features in the new Windows 7 ...
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Intel unveils the Net-savvy CE4100
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Eric Kim, senior vice president at Intel, revealed a new Atom-based CE4100 chip. It is designed ...
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Microsoft's new version of Silverlight on Moblin
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Microsoft General Manager Ian Ellison-Taylor and Intel General Manager Renee James show attendees Silverlight 3 running ...
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Peering inside Microsoft's giant data center
CNET's Ina Fried speaks to two of the designers of Microsoft's just-opened data center in Chicago.
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Facebook COO sees economic models changing on the Web
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg talks about the how the Web usage patterns are shifting from an information model to a more social model, which benefits Facebook rather than Google. In the future, she adds, more Web users will glean referral information from friends rather than strangers.
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HP CEO: The challenges of cloud computing
At the Gartner Symposium in Orlando, Fla., HP CEO Mark Hurd talks about how the company plans to layer cloud services on its infrastructure in the future. However, with more than 1,000 hacks a day, security creates an important need on differentiating what they put in public versus private clouds. "We wouldnt put anything material in nature outside the firewall," Hurd says.
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U.S. CTO: Health care needs better billing systems
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Franicsco, U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra talks about IT changes that need to be made to the current health care system. He believes one of the biggest areas of waste is the money spent on billing within the system, with 17 cents of every dollar going towards medical billing. He says his department is working on solutions to reduce these costs.
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Microsoft demos Twitter feeds in Bing
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Yusuf Mehdi, a senior vice president at Microsoft, previews Twitter integration with Bing search results. One of the interesting features he introduces is "hottest topics." He explains that the Bing-Twitter search will aggregate information around the most popular links shared on any given topic.
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Adobe CTO: Flash in the future
At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch talks about how the companys Flash software is coming to new devices such as game consoles, smartphones, and TVs. Lynch says Adobe is working with chip vendors and TV manufacturers on a variety of different television platforms to bring more interactivity to the living room.
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Microsoft unveils Windows Phone
Microsoft's Robbie Bach gives details on a new platform called Windows Phone that features a mobile app store. The company also unveiled updates to Zune HD and Xbox 360, including the ability to stream HD video to Microsoft's gaming console.
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Twitter CEO: Why he turned down Facebook
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Twitter CEO Evan Williams explains to Federated Media CEO John Battelle his rationale for turning down Facebook in October of 2008. He says, "he didn't see a reason to sellthe point is really what we can build."
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Windows 7, a better power saver?
At Microsoft's Silicon Valley Campus, ZDNet's Sumi Das talks to Microsoft's chief environmental strategist, Rob Bernard, about power-saving features in the new Windows 7 operating system. Bernard says Microsoft made energy efficiency a core design element, with better battery optimization, and Bluetooth and DVD features that won't be activated until necessary.
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Gartner: 'Worst year ever' for IT spending
At the Gartner Symposium/ITExpo 2009 in Orlando, Fla., Peter Sondergaard, a senior vice president of research at Gartner, says 2009 was the worst spending cycle ever. He adds that Silicon Valley will no longer be in charge of the rebound and emerging regions will drive IT spending and how it's deployed.
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Microsoft exec outlines Windows 7 security
Mobile-device security, two factor log-ins, and AppLocker, a code-signing feature for applications, are just a few of the security advancements Microsoft is rolling out with its Windows 7 operating system. Scott Charney, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing division, explains at the RSA Conference in San Francisco how it will be safer, easier, and faster to sign in remotely to a business network.
>> So what have we been doing? The first thing of course is we're starting to use the TPM hardware based encryption to do security. In Vista of course we had Bit Locker which is full volume encryption and in Widows 7 there's also Bit Locker to go which doesn't rely on the TPM but takes your portable removable devices and makes them secure when you pull them out. The other thing that we're doing is what's called app locker. One of the key points I made earlier is you need to know the source of the applications you're running. In Windows 7 app locker allows a system administrator, a group policy to require code signing before things are installed in client machines. As a result of that it gives you the ability to block unsigned code or code from organizations that you don't trust or for other reasons just don't want running on your internal network. The other important thing that we talked about earlier in arts key note is this idea of a security ecosystem. In Microsoft products for some time we've had information rights management which has been very helpful. We basically create a mail, attach a document, click a button and by clicking that button you ensure that the mail does not proliferate across your organization because you can set permissions for the recipient of that mail so they can only read it for example without forwarding or printing it. One of the challenges with IRN though has been that is works great within an organization but not across organizational boundaries. This is a classic case where we are better together when we partner with others then we can be alone and by doing this partnership with EMC we take the capabilities of IRM and go cross boundary. It goes to the concept that we heard about earlier that we have to be more information centric. You all know the rumor death of the firewall right that we were gonna eventually go to an environment where we weren't basically having walled gardens but focusing more on individual devices as well as pieces, discrete pieces of information. It's very important to understand that some of that comes true in something called Direct Access in Windows 7. I'm going to explain kind of how this approach came about. I've been using Direct Access now for quite some time. It is a huge productivity gain. Here's what happened. It used to be in the old days if you were remote from work you would razz in and you would go through this kind of laborious razon assumed spelling process and then you'd connect to the corporate network and you'd have access to the entire network. It turns out most people who were razing in just wanted email and calendar. So by using RCP over HTTP in Outlook we created an environment where you could just load Outlook connect to your mail and your calendar and get that stuff without going through the razon process. The challenge was when you got a mail that asked you to prove an expense report you'd click on approve and of course it would say server not found because you didn't razz into the corporate network. In Direct Access we have a different model. It uses IP sec over IPV6 and when you're connecting to your mail and you click on the expense link your machine, your client goes out and makes a pure to pure connection with the expense server and you approve the expense report. The fact is where ever I am whether it's in this hotel next door at the W in this conference center wherever I am at home it's like being in the office. And the interesting thing from a security prospective is it means that your machine, your box, your client becomes all that more important because it has credentials that give you access to your network in this model. So one of the things we require is 2 factor log on to the client. Whenever you close the lid, whenever you boot it up you've got to do 2 factor. I tell this story because we've always had the ability to enforce 2 factor for years but customers didn't want it. Users at Microsoft didn't want to have to pull out a smart card or a USB dongle assumed spelling with a smart card in it so that they could just connect to their client. Suddenly though when you say you're willing to do that you get this productivity gain, suddenly their all over it. It really goes back to the model that security is for securities sake does it work well? You really need to think about how to encourage people to embrace and adopt new technology by giving them a productivity gain or features that makes the security tax if there is one worth paying.
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