Cloud Computing Adds Value
There are two major conferences being held in the Denver/Boulder area regarding organic, green, entrepreneurship and venture capitalists seeking to support environmentally sensitive firms. You can find information on them here http://www.naturallyboulderproducts.com/days/program-and-events.html and here www.cleanenergyforum.com . Expect to see a lot of content from me this week on both of these events. With over 500 investors from around the world, and over $1.7 billion invested in enviro-centric companies through just one of these channels in the past five years, there is a lot to discuss.
Faster booting with Linux
The New York Times reports that PC makers are focused on improving boot time on PCs. Sitting in front of a PC waiting for it to start up can be infuriating, especially if you've had to reboot before doing a presentation or dialing into a WebEx conference. Those two to three minutes seem like an eternity. And despite earlier technologies introduced by Microsoft, boot times seem to be getting slower, rather than faster, over the last 10 years.
The latest approach to solving the problem sounds intriguing if a quite bizarre. DeviceVM has introduced a technology called Splashtop that provides instant-on access to Web browser apps in seconds rather than minutes. How? By booting a minimal-footprint Linux kernel from flash memory that runs Firefox, Skype, a music player, or other special Splashtop apps. Today Splashtop comes pre-installed on notebooks and motherboards from ASUS, including the Eee PC. In theory, it could be used on other systems as well, perhaps running at startup while Windows or a full-blown Linux system loads in the background. HP, Lenovo, and Dell are planning on shipping similar instant-on capabilities.
The intriguing part of all this is that we might finally get the instant-on capability for some pretty standard apps. The bizarre part is that the way to speed up your slow OS load it you actually load two different OSes. Sort of like running a five-kilometer race before you run your marathon. Meanwhile, Microsoft is now stating that similar technology could be part of Windows 7, presumably in 2010 and without using any of that open source voodoo.
How Companies Use Twitter to Bolster Their Brands
When Jonathan Fields spotted William Shatner waiting to board a JetBlue flight at New York"s JFK in May, he did what any other self-respecting blogger would do. He popped open his Apple (AAPL) Mac, connected to the Web using the free Wi-Fi provided by JetBlue, and used Twitter to share the sighting with pals. "JetBlue terminal," Fields wrote on the blog service that lets users send short messages of 140 characters with status updates to groups of friends. "William Shatner waiting in pinstripe suit and shades to board flight to Burbank. Why"s he flying JetBlue? Free, maybe?"
Legal, Meet IT ... IT, Meet Legal
At most organizations, the lawyers handle the legal work, IT oversees the technology and the two departments rarely (if ever) cross paths. That's simply no longer acceptable in an age where information is paramount to success and legal requests to support litigation now routinely involve electronically stored information (ESI), such as e-mails. It is more important than ever for IT and legal to work together hand in hand to develop and implement legal holds policies and practices, or risk costly fines and irreparable damage to the company's reputation.
20 Useful Web Applications For Firefox Sidebar
Do you have a monitor so big it makes your screen looks empty when you only have one website opened in browser? This probably happens to those that uses wide screen monitors. Firefox browser comes with a sidebar that allows you to run web applications on it. So while doing the surfing on the right side, you too can have something running on the left sidebar. It greatly increases productivity if the entire browser is fully utilized.
Are S'pore SMBs aware of IT help?
More schemes and incentives are now in place for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) in Singapore to tap technology to improve their businesses, but some SMBs may still not be aware of the help available.
How To Manage Personal Passwords
Assuming that you have plenty of accounts for emails, social networks, ftp accounts, banking services, Instant Messaging and etc. Technically you might be able to register a same ID for all of these accounts but we bet you are not using only 1 password to access all of them.
Easy Solutions for Common E-Mail Headaches
E-mail is the ultimate killer app. Even technophobes who hate everything digital reluctantly acquire e-mail accounts so that they can stay in touch with family and friends.
But e-mail clients (the programs that access e-mail) don't always behave the way they should. Here I answer three reader questions about making e-mail work better--or just plain work.
10 Quick Fixes for the Worst Security Nightmares
In the world of comic books, every bad guy is an evil genius. On the Web, hackers, spammers, and phishers may be evil, but they're not required to be geniuses. They can make a healthy living just by exploiting known security holes that many users haven't bothered to patch. Or by relying on the propensity of millions of people to do things they've been told over and over not to do.
Better Music, From Your PC, for Free
Easy-to-use tool helps ensure that your high-quality music sounds the way it should.
VMware and SSL Settings: How to Stay Safe
Proper use of Secure Socket Layer security is a mystery even to many virtual server administrators, but it seems to be mysterious even to the developers who build it into their products-whether they know it or not.
The VMware v3.5.x Configuration Guide states that SSL is not enabled in the virtualization software by default. It claims that the initial contact between components is protected but no further communication.
Can you trust your data to the cloud?
Can you trust your data to the cloud? For users of an online storage service called The Linkup, formerly known as MediaMax, the answer turned out to be a resounding "no."
The Linkup shut down on Aug. 8 after losing access to unspecified amounts of customer data. The Linkup Web site has a message saying the service is no longer available and urges visitors to try out another storage site called Box.net.The Linkup had about 20,000 paying subscribers, according to a story on Demo.com.
Google Maps shows you where you want to go
Google Maps are dynamic, interactive maps that you can drag — no clicking and waiting each time you want to view the adjacent parts of a map. Type in the name of a region or neighborhood and see any part of it as easily as with a regular street map. Use your mouse or the directional arrows to pan left, right, up anddown to see areas that are hidden offscreen. Use the slider to zoom in and zoom out or press the + or - keys.
Troubleshoot Your Boot-Up and Shutdown Problems
Does your PC hang, complain, or flat-out blue-screen when you start it up or shut it down? PC World's Lincoln Spector has answers to readers' most perplexing boot and shutdown questions.
Six smart ways to grow small business IT
It's one of the great truths of capitalism: Businesses want to grow. Small businesses want to become midsize businesses, and midsize ones want to get big.
But getting bigger involves growing pains, and nowhere do many up-and-coming companies feel that pain more acutely than in IT. We've all heard horror stories of companies whose growth was hobbled -- or worse -- by inadequate support systems.
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