Saturday | 30 August, 2008
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Facebook seeks trusted relationships on the 'Net 04/07/2008 09:57:22
Facebook's director of engineering dissects product design, development and search efforts at FacebookWhile perhaps best known as a major social networking site in the Web 2.0 vein, Facebook is becoming a popular place to interface with potential customers, similar to what companies such as Scribe and iLike have done. Facebook also is being viewed as a place for enterprise collaboration, with Serena Software leveraging the site for this purpose. To get perspective on Facebook, InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill recently spoke with Aditya Agarwal, Facebook director of engineering. Agarwal formerly worked in the Oracle server technologies division. - +
Q&A: Your disgruntled customers may be complaining to this man -- and all of the Internet 01/07/2008 10:00:02
GetSatisfaction CEO says 'people-powered customer service' site can be a boon to marketersMeet the man who could be your company's de facto customer service representative - a man you have never met and certainly isn't on your payroll. Thor Muller is founder and CEO of Satisfaction Unlimited, which runs an online community where customers air complaints about companies like Comcast, Apple, United Airlines, Whole Foods, Washington Mutual, Snapfish and Expedia to fellow customers and to the Internet at large. - +
The A-Z of Programming Languages: Forth 27/06/2008 08:01:45
Charles H. Moore talks about the origins of Forth and how it shows that a computer language can be simple and powerful.Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into the most widely-used programming languages. Previously we have spoken to Alfred v. Aho of AWK fame, S. Tucker Taft on the Ada 1995 and 2005 revisions, Microsoft about its server-side script engine ASP, and Chet Ramey about his experience maintaining Bash. - +
Cisco's new CTO talks first impressions 26/06/2008 09:54:20
The new CTO's assessment of CiscoIt's been three months since Padmasree Warrior left Motorola to become Cisco's CTO. Since then, she's not been available for interviews -- until now. Jim Duffy caught up with her at the Cisco Live! customer conference in the US. - +
The A-Z of Programming Languages: C++ 25/06/2008 21:50:12
Bjarne Stroustrup of C++ fame dissects the history of his famed programming languageComputerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into the most widely-used programming languages. Previously we have spoken to Alfred v. Aho of AWK fame, S. Tucker Taft on the Ada 1995 and 2005 revisions, Microsoft about its server-side script engine ASP, and Chet Ramey about his experience maintaining Bash. We have also spoken to Charles H. Moore about Forth. In this interview, we chat to Bjarne Stroustrup of C++ fame about the design and development of C++, garbage collection and the role of facial hair in successful programming languages. - +
The low-down on Open Source Law 25/06/2008 08:58:35
Open Source Law founder, Brendan Scott, discusses the legal implications of FOSS in Australian government and enterprise organisationsOpen Source Law founder, Brendan Scott, discusses the legal implications of FOSS in Australian government and enterprise organisations. - +
VMware's CEO talks Microsoft, security, EMC and cloud computing 25/06/2008 08:53:38
Diane Greene says VMware was prepped for freebie Microsoft hypervisorDiane Greene is the president, CEO and co-founder of VMware, a pioneer of x86 server virtualization and one of the most innovative companies to hit the IT world in the past decade. Greene was in Boston last week with her VMware team, briefing analysts on new technologies that haven't been made public yet. She took some time out to speak with Network World's Jon Brodkin about a range of topics. - +
Career Watch: Finding your balance 24/06/2008 08:59:41
Career planning and networkingQ&A with Randall Craig, the president of Pinetree Advisors discusses some of the ideas in his book Personal Balance Sheet: A Practical Career Planning Guide. - +
Red Hat CEO on patents, open-source virtualization 23/06/2008 13:41:12
Jim Whitehurst talks about his first six months and the future of Red Hat.A half-year after becoming president and CEO of Linux vendor Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst was in Boston last week for the annual Red Hat Summit. The former COO of Delta Air Lines sat down with Network World's Jon Brodkin to discuss open source, a new patent settlement, and Red Hat's moves in virtualization. - +
How the used gear industry is winning the fight against counterfeiters 20/06/2008 10:46:15
A used gear dealer shares tricks for detecting counterfeit gear, but says the biggest issue is Cisco's lack of cooperationOver 100 attendees gathered for Network World's live chat on counterfeit network gear -- how to detect it and protect yourself -- with guest Mike Sheldon, chief executive officer of Network Hardware Resale. NHR employs more than 200 people in the United States and Europe. Sheldon discussed methods for identifying fake gear, the refurbished hardware industry's efforts to educate users about counterfeits and Cisco's role in eradicating this growing problem. - +
Open Enterprise Interview with Ryan Bagueros, North-by-South 19/06/2008 12:40:48
Latin America is emerging as a real hotbed of open sourceLike the future, open source is already here, it's just unevenly distributed. In particular, Latin America is emerging as a real hotbed of not only free software coding, but free software uptake by governments - to an extent that puts the UK's pathetic bumblings in this area quite to shame. - +
Tips for aspiring tech entrepreneurs 19/06/2008 09:16:12
Co-author of the The One Minute Entrepreneur and The One Minute Manager offers insight on steps technology entrepreneurs should take -- and avoidIT professionals with strong technical backgrounds can drum up some great ideas for start-up companies, but they often lack the business acumen to keep those companies afloat. To help these would-be captains of industry, Computerworld recently spoke with Ken Blanchard, the best-selling co-author of The One Minute Entrepreneur and The One Minute Manager to gain insight on the steps that technology entrepreneurs should take -- and avoid. Step one: Remember the basics. - +
Looking back on the Top500 19/06/2008 10:25:13
15 years ago the big question was whether all 500 systems together would amount to 1 teraflopThe Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers passed a milestone Wednesday with the first system to achieve peak performance of 1 petaflop/s, or one quadrillion floating point operations per second. - +
Microsoft answers interoperability concerns 18/06/2008 08:00:42
Microsoft Australia's CTO discusses motives behind interoperability principles and what they mean for Aussie IT managersThe launch of Microsoft's new interoperability principles have been both cautiously welcomed and sceptically scrutinised as the company goes about convincing the IT industry that it is genuine in its pursuit to provide interoperability with rival products, more consumer choice, less vendor lock-in and greater collaboration with the open source community. - +
Why women quit technology careers 17/06/2008 08:28:09
More than half of the women in science, engineering and IT leave the field at midcareer. Here's the reason.What if half the men in science, engineering and technology roles dropped out at midcareer? That would surely be perceived as a national crisis. Yet more than half the women in those fields leave -- most of them during their mid- to late 30s.
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Computerworld Live Podcast #97: The Future of Enterprise Networking 25/07/2008 09:45:36
This week CW Live chats with Mark Thompson, global sales and marketing manager for HP ProCurve, on the future of the enterprise networking. Mark discusses the trends we can expect to see in the near future and how the right infrastructure can ensure your enterprise network is secure. - +
Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
Data Management Edition #10: Multi-Petascale Systems 02/05/2008 09:12:33
This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future.
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