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<item><title>Open-Source Software, Now</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:27:09 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Open-source software offers a number of advantages, including cost savings and the availability of a professional support organization.   -   The time has come for the enterprise to consider open-source software. OSS, like Apache Web servers, Asterisk IP telephone switches, Linux desktops and others, can be less expensive to maintain and easier to support and scale. It can also provide a level of professional quality that, in some cases,...]]></description>
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<item><title>Open-Source Social Networking Project Launched by Defense Contractor</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The nation's largest defense contractor, Lockheed Martin, launches Eureka Streams, a new open-source project for enterprise social networking.   -  Lockheed Martin, the nation's largest defense contractor, has launched a new open-source project for enterprise social networking called Eureka Streams. The company is inviting developers to give the technology a whirl.

The Eureka Streams technology, which looks and behaves much like existing com...]]></description>
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<item><title>Completed HP, Palm Deal Means webOS Developments Ahead </title>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[HP, the world's top-selling PC maker, with access to Palm's webOS mobile platform and Pre and Pixi smartphones, will now be able to &quot;participate more aggressively in the highly profitable, $100 billion smartphone and connected mobile devices markets,&quot; HP said in a statement July 1.   -  HP announced that its acquisition of Palm is now complete, and that the companies are looking forward to developing Palm's webOS platform, embracing the smartphone market and getting to work on a roadmap that includes slates and netbooks.

Hewlett-Packard has completed its $1.2 billion acquisition...]]></description>
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<item><title>Google Chrome OS Engineer Moves to Facebook</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Could Facebook have cloud operating system designs of its own? Less clear is how this loss will impact Chrome OS, which is still on track to roll out on netbooks from HP, Acer, Asus, Lenovo and Dell beginning this fall.   -  Facebook has poached Matt Papakipos, the lead engineer behind Google's important Chrome Operating System initiative.

Papakipos, who last November introduced Chrome OS as a fast-loading cloud operating system for netbooks, announced the move in a tweet on Twitter June 28:  quot;Now that Chrome OS ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Amazon.com's Kindle for Android Released</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The release of Kindle for Android adds to the number of devices capable of running Amazon.com's e-reader software.   -  The application requires Android OS 1.6 or higher, allowing it to run on the newest Android phones such as the Motorola Droid X, and includes the ability to adjust text size. Amazon.com recently enabled its Kindle app for Apple mobile devices to play embedded video and audio, possibly trying to appe...]]></description>
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<item><title>IBM Launches Lotus Notes Traveler Beta for Android</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[IBM June 17 released the beta version of its Lotus Notes Traveler for Android software, a free collaboration application for Lotus Notes customers who use a smartphone running Android 2.0 or later operating system.   -  The app will work for the Android 2.1-based Motorola Droid, Nexus One, HTC Droid Incredible and HTC Evo 4G. IBM also said its next version of Lotus Connections social software will support Android.

Following similar offerings for Apple's iPhone, and most recently for the iPad, Lotus Notes Travele...]]></description>
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<item><title>The Worldwide Release of Microsoft Office 2010</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The worldwide launch of Office 2010 follows the software's release to business consumers, along with SharePoint 2010, on May 12.   -  Microsoft announced the worldwide availability of Office 2010, more than a month after releasing the software to business consumers. In a bid to bolster its hardware partners, Microsoft is touting the versions of Office 2010 pre-installed on new PCs. Although Office 2010 is expected to sell well, it...]]></description>
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<item><title>Adobe Unveils Digital Magazine Viewer</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The application aims to imbue digital magazines with rich content, including video and 360-degree images, as well as a heightened degree of interactivity; with Wired's iPad edition, users can navigate through content via tough gestures, rotate the page into horizontal or vertical modes, and zoom out to see the entire issue at a glance.   -  Adobe is unveiling an application for viewing digital magazines on June 1. The technology has been used to build Wired magazine's iPad edition, which is ironic considering the ongoing battle between Adobe and Apple over Flash, which enables many Websites' rich content but remains unsupported on Appl...]]></description>
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<item><title>Putting Software to the Test</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:38:29 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Testing software is no simple proposition. Tiny errors can result in bugs, breakdowns and irate customers. Enterprise infrastructure and application services firm Keane developed a best practices approach to ratcheting up software quality analysis and squashing defects.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Integration as a Service at Office Depot</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:07:18 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Software services help Office Depot help customers it couldn't always satisfy previously.   -  Office Depot Inc. is looking for ways to increase revenue and boost market share in this slowly recovering economy. For the Boca Raton, Fla., retailer of office supplies and services, keys to achieving those goals include retaining its most valued customers and creating an edge over its competitors....]]></description>
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<item><title>Web 2.0 Building Blocks</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:00:56 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[MasterCard follows four guiding principles during any application development that involves Web services.   -  Faced with budgetary and time limitations, companies are using Web 2.0 technologies to speed, simplify and reduce the cost of software development. Making individual software components reusable and interoperable like childrens building blocks means these components can be rearranged and combined wi...]]></description>
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<item><title>The New IT Alignment Gap</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:49:14 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The gap between application development and IT operations management is escalating. With the rise of new  technologies, the lack of energy spent on maximizing existing IT infrastructure, the lack of coordination between application groups and operations, and the lack of retiring legacy systems and older software, the IT alignment gap is showing signs of being widened by IT itself.   -  CIOs are continuously challenged to partner effectively with the enterprises business side. At the same time, the gap between application development and IT operations management is escalating at an alarming rate. In many organizations, this gap results in a staggering amount of unplanned cost, risk...]]></description>
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<item><title>Questioning Software Usability</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:44:21 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Whether youre purchasing new software, developing an in-house system or assessing the application tools you already have, be sure to ask these questions.   -  IT companies spend billions of dollars to create and market software designed to improve efficiency and increase effectiveness, but many of these tools are failing users. When we have to work hard to interact with technology, that means the technology has broken its promise to make our lives easier....]]></description>
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<item><title>Active Risk Management: Doing IT Projects Wrong</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:14:19 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In IT projects, Bruce F. Webster writes, you have to be honest and vocal in pointing out legitimate risks or else your budget, team and client are all going to end up losing the project battle. Being honest about project issues upfront can help win over clients trust and show your team that managing for success begins with a smart, organized approach to risk mitigation.   -  
IT projects are typically full of risks. There can be many human factors, many external factors, and many unknown factors, all of which can interact in unexpected ways. Because of that, it is critical that you actively identify, track and manage those risks. But to do that means that you have to b...]]></description>
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<item><title>Second-Class Software Quality in Major IT Projects</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:35:10 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[You would think, given the dollar amounts at stake in information technology projects that every effort would be made to ensure that the quality of the software was handled by best practices in quality assurance (QA). You would be wrong.   -  
Many years ago, computer author Gerald
Weinberg famously said that if builders built buildings the way programmers
wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy
civilization.
Id like to say that efforts at software quality have
improved since he first said that, and ...]]></description>
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