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The debate continues whether in times of economic challenges, companies should continue or cut back on investments on technology - the one factor that may give them the competitive edge.

Maybe it is not as sacrosanct as thought.

Of the companies polled by Forrester Research, 49% in the United States said they’d cut back IT budgets, which compares to 38% of companies in Canada, 33% in the Britain, 32% in France and 28% in Germany.



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F# Programming language?

Microsoft will deliver a new general-purpose language known as F# to developers next year. F# supports financial modeling and analysis, scientific data analysis, algorithms and academic computing. F# is a functional programming language for .NET.
- NEW YORK Microsoft
plans to deliver a new general-purpose programming language to developers,
known as F#
(pronounced F Sharp), that takes advantage of the functional programming
model.
Speaking at the VSLive New York conference here on Sept. 8, Luke Hoban, the
F# program manager at Microsoft,…

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Its about time! Portable will not be really portable if you have only 2 hours before looking for an electrical outlet!

Hewlett-Packard is claiming that the HP EliteBook 6930p, when coupled with new features and a 12-cell lithium ion battery option, has enough battery life to last 24 hours. The HP notebooks battery life claim comes a few weeks after Dell announced its Latitude E6400 corporate notebook that offers up to 19 hours of battery life with a special Dell battery feature.
- The battle to create the notebook with the most battery life stepped up a notch this week when Hewlett-Packard announced a new set of features for its HP EliteBook 6930p that will push the battery life up to 24 hours.
HPs claims of a notebook with 24-hour battery life come just about a month after …

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Yes, how do you compete with Free?

But it is a fact of life….

If you cannot sell it, because you are competing with established players, the most logical way to gain ground is to give it out first, especially if this does not cost much to reproduce.

While we sell software ( because clients are willing to pay for it), I am for now, my first year as an author and therefore is still not known…. so I am giving free ebooks away.

Free is a business strategy, not necessarily for philanthropic or altruistic purposes only, but also as a means to compete.

Red Hat’s CEO discusses the companys expansion to new platforms and markets, and the challenges around building solid business models for products that can be obtained for free.
- Red Hat, which bills itself as the worlds leading
open-source solutions provider, has managed to make free software pay by
gathering, extending and packaging Linux and complementary open-source
components into certified and supported products that are ready for enterprise
consumption.
As the fo…

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Ellison of Oracle is known for vocal ourburst, but while sometimes he is off the mark, sometimes he does make sense.

After all, cloud computing idea is simply a bigger idea he defined almost 10 years ago which he called network computing - only at that time, while undoubtedly the database, and the applications are stored in servers, now it is still stored in servers, and however, available through the public internet.

As an executive who has two offices, and therefore may either work in office 1, office 2, in the house, or in the road, I find it very appealing that the infrastructure exists that while I maintain desktops in each of the location ( I can still have access to the file I may have on the other location).

However, while this is applicable to us nomads - who wants to be productive anywhere we are, we do see that a majority of people in the office has an office, and only want to be productive or access the file there.

So cloud computing may be trying to address the market for certain segment who will find it compelling, but whether it becomes mainstream is still a big question.

Speaking at OracleWorld, CEO Larry Ellison says the computer industry is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion and cloud computing is simply the latest fashion. Go to Source

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Google is betting on ethe same thing — make the interface simple, and then make it a few microseconds faster. Then try to get a lot of friends….

Google is betting that its Chrome browser will speed up Web search, Web advertising, and Web applications–even if it’s because it forces Microsoft to improve IE.
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Its good somebody is looking at this….

its still 2028, but hey, if an asteroid has the chance to become near, maybe what we see in the movies is not so far fetched after all.

Proposed plan to protect planet with plastic film

An PhD student with the University of Queensland’s School of Engineering has won top prize in an international competition for her plan to wrap a giant asteroid with reflective sheeting to prevent a collision with the Earth.…

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Too many people can ruin a good website… or any other projects for that matter.

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I think the march of technology so far has been unimpaired.

Worldwide IT spending will reach $3.4 trln in 2008, an 8% increase over 2007, according to Gartner.



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For people in developed countries, this is actually an opportunity:

Read — entry level tech jobs are being outsourced so if your skills are not advanced, you risked losing your job…. BUT if your skills are advanced, then it is needed to handle the many entry level people that is being offshored, and you actually will get a better pay raise….

Offshoring blamed for cash bonanaza

The IT skills shortage in the UK is being made worse by the routine offshoring of entry-level tech jobs.…

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