2007’s Top 10 Underreported Tech Stories
January 1, 2008

 

Story 1: Java is becoming the new Cobol

                – Java is losing ground to Ruby on Rails, PHP, and other cool new languages when it comes to rich internet applications, that is in favor of the most developers.

Story 2: Sun Microsystems is back in the game

               – Sun Microsystems is struggle to keep the company’s name on the buy lists of enterprise IT shoppers

Story 3: Hackers take aim at Mac OS X

                  – The days when you can assume that Apple’s products are exempt from harm are over.

Story 4: There are some threats you can worry less about

                  – Spammers have dialed back their use of so-called image spam, which tricks filters by embedding text within an attached image.

Story 5: Companies may have found a way around H-1B visa limits

               – Despite the H-1B visa limit of 65,000, the real total of visas issued to highly skilled workers is closer to 400,000 annually, according to the feds. That, say some critics, may mean that the law is being abused.

Story 6: Open source’s new commercial strategy

               – Open source companies have been steadily integrating parts of the hated commercial software subscription model into their business.

Story 7: End-to-end Ethernet finally arrives

               – Telcos and cable companies that already have fiber in the ground are offering end-to-end Ethernet also known as metro Ethernet services.

Story 8: Blade servers arrive for the masses

               – a new generation of blades is actually designed for smaller businesses, who typically don’t have sophisticated datacenters for their blades.

Story 9: BI is dead; long live BI

              – With three of the largest competitors in the field taken over by software giants, you’d think that the best days of the business intelligence market were over. You’d be wrong.

Story 10: Balance of power shifts to software buyers

               – Despite the wave of consolidation sweeping the industry, buyers have actually gained more leverage than ever when it comes to making deals with their vendors, notes a PricewaterhouseCoopers analysis.  
 


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The Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires
May 28, 2007

Whose got a copy on this? I’m craving for this one…

It is a 2 parts computer history documentary.tells the history of the PC and how it developed from big limited box to small advance GUI based machine. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Xerox P.A.R.K researchers all speak about the PC. With the excellent host of Bob.

 Please…I need to watch this…


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Video
March 14, 2007

Want a funny video?

Exclusively came from the BSIT-2A students of UIC, Sa puno ng acacia 

Enjoy! 


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