<<At a time when major U.S. telephone operators are spending billions of dollars to expand, telephone software maker Skype on Tuesday says it's building a...
Fashions in clothes and computing frequently get recycled and reinvented. The computer bureau becomes the ASP which becomes "service not software", e.g....
<<Predictive Monitoring is a new capability, developed by Accenture Technology Labs, that identifies and addresses equipment failures before they occur....
As far as I can remember, there has always been an oscillation over years between server-centric and client-centric architectures. The trend today seems to go...
The trend from thick client to thin client arrived due to the capability of sharing information and services across network - with the advent of internet. ...
<< "Are software patents useful? That's pretty clearly not the case. Software patents are clearly a problem," Torvalds said at the OSDL Linux Summit here. ...
Sure, Interesting to notice that a protocol created to serve static web pages is now used with a complete different scope. Nobody would have believed that just...
Something that will provide (is providing) impetus towards the use of thick clients is Eclipse - the "universal tools platform" (see eclipse.org). You get so...
Are any of you going to be at the 3GSM conference in Cannes the week after next? If so and you would be interested in meeting up drop me a line at NAME...
Gervas, Interesting post and commentary. I agree with you. However, I also wanted to remind that patenting is not for a technology, it is for the people -- to...
"Robin" <it@...> ... With Jini, you can take advantage of the ServiceUI feature and have the rich client pushed to the user, much like an applet. But,...
Does anyone know whether the Linux project is at risk due to patent infringement. My understanding is that it will be extremely difficult for anyone to prove...
Here is another article by David Luckham on CEP: <<Some people, I'm told, get scared when they hear the word "complex", as in "Complex Event Processing" (CEP)....
Well, James, no one has come up with any immediate threats on that front. Obviously the SCO-Microsoft-Sun axis is holding their fire on that one. Here is an...
Gervas Weinberger has a newsletter called Joho - journal of the hyper-linked org - he publishes it every couple of months and has a site that you may be...
<<A global network of computer users has clocked up more than 4,000 years' worth of computer calculations in under three months as part of a huge grid project....
<<The number of firms interested in implementing SAP software on Linux is rising, but enterprises are making small and careful initial investments, according...
<<Translation software that develops an understanding of languages by scanning through thousands of previously translated documents has been released by US...
I'm actually involved in an implementation of SAP CRM, BW and Enterprise Portal on Linux for 5000 users, so these things are definitely starting to happen. We...
<<If Microsoft wants to innovate, how about moving by the Xerox Parc user interface that is the foundation of the Mac, Windows and every other graphical user...
<<A coalition of financial institutions is working to develop an open-source alternative to proprietary message queuing technology, hoping to make Web services...
In computing fashions are also cyclical. Decades ago there were operating systems like IBM's VM and ICL's incomparable VME, both of which were in effect...
Peter Cochrane (ex-BT Martlesham) usually knows what he is talking about when it comes to telecoms and paradigms: << For the last few months I have been...
<<The immediate usefulness of Linux running under Windows is obvious. You can use all the Windows drivers for all the peripherals that don't run under Linux....
<<Too often, though, it seems as if application developers—or perhaps, in most cases, their clients—are valuing images over other forms of data by that...
<<Take a look at Google Suggest. Watch the way the suggested terms update as you type, almost instantly. Now look at Google Maps. Zoom in. Use your cursor to...
Will we ever have tools which obviate the need for programming skills? <<As evidenced by their never ending pursuit of mortals who'd much sooner slit their...
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