Energy Star for Software Again!! by Zen Kishimoto

After I posted a blog on software energy efficiency recently, I realized from some of the comments from readers that most people did not get it. When I talk about software energy efficiency, most people think I am talking about using software to make other things greener. Yes, software can be used t...






                                                 



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Hot Tech Companies by Tek-Tips

Today’s Wall Street Journal lists the top 50 Venture-backed companies as The Next Big Thing. After hearing about and reading about how bad things are here in California, “worse fiscal shape than Greece,” and how “unfriendly” California is to business, it makes you wond...






                                                 



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Shavlik Technologies' Statement on March 9 Patch Tuesday releases by Jason Miller

"After a busy February with 13 security bulletins, Microsoft is easing off the patching throttle a bit this month. Microsoft released two new security bulletins addressing 8 vulnerabilities, all not publically known at this time. It is not uncommon for Microsoft to have a large patch month fo...






                                                 



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Internet Economics: Traffic Trumps Ethics And Content Quality by Tek-Tips

Six years ago, NetHawk began dipping its toes into the social networking waters with a CEO blog and a site called ITFeedstore.  The goal was to aggregate relevant Information Technology content and syndicate it to our existing communities.  The process was automated picking up RSS and ...






                                                 



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When Does Idea Theft Rise To Level Of Crime? by Tek-Tips

In a stack of new articles published yesterday, Silicon Valley Insider claims and documents a trail of deception and greed around how Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg appropriated the technology for Facebook.  The stack lists emails and IM's from Zuckerberg to his earliest confidants and paints a...






                                                 



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Open, Simple, and Scalable Storage at a Fraction of the Cost by Sun Microsystems

This white paper demonstrates how power, cooling, and real estate requirements are finally combining—to form a perfect storm for expensive, locked-in, proprietary hardware. But open storage appliances are based on industry-standard hardware and install up to 10 times faster than traditional sy...

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Reducing Storage Complexity by Sun Microsystems

The experts at IDC predict that external disk storage capacity will grow 50% through 2010—but with that capacity comes a new set of hurdles. In this free white paper, you′ll discover 4 key storage challenges for organizations facing the future; 4 important benefits of unified storage; an...

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What Is Open Storage?: The Need for a New Storage Architecture by Sun Microsystems

This free white paper reveals how the latest generation of open storage systems is helping businesses stay flexible and profitable. Learn how Web 2.0′s massive storage requirements are pushing businesses toward storage that′s affordable, reliable, and dynamic; how open source code gives ...

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Simplify and Speed Business Intelligence and Web Analytics Deployment by Sun Microsystems

This webcast introduces the latest business intelligence technology that can help you discover your insight “needle” in a haystack of data. In under an hour, you′ll learn how to avoid expensive hardware and “forklift” upgrades, via an open-source platform; cut costs by ...

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Best Practices for Creating Defect Resolution Processes that Trigger Developer Adoption using Static Analysis by Coverity

Whether you are evaluating static analysis in your development cycle or already using static analysis today, learn what every development team needs to know, including what to look for when evaluating static analysis solutions, how to minimize the risk that noise and false positive rates pose to suc...

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Managing Software Integrity in an Agile World by Coverity

Software integrity experts Mark Donsky and George Swan, Ph.D, from Coverity present how static analysis supports Agile to automate testing and find defects earlier in the development cycle, enforces in-cycle QA to share the quality responsibility across QA and development, and is used at Coverity to...

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AVI (Audio Video Interleave)

A Microsoft-specified format for saving audio and/or video clips, referred to by Windows as "Video for Windows." You can play the files through the Media Player in Windows or through many popular browser plug-in multimedia players. Files of this type have a .avi extension.

Average Selling Price (ASP)

This term is used in the microchip manufacturing world. Companies like AMD and Intel strive for high ASPs. The ASP is an indication not only of direct profits, but how well a company is keeping up with the technology curve. It is not uncommon for Intel to have an ASP of around US$100 and AMD to be close behind.