David on air Wednesday (yep, more)

For those of you who might have missed David on the radio today, he’s back on the air tomorrow and you can hear him pretty much everywhere. He’ll be on CRN Digital Talk, which is syndicated by Time Warner National Radio throughout the country (3,000,000+ listeners!!).

He’ll be on with host Chuck Wilder at 12:40PM Pacific time, and 3:40PM EST. Just click into CRN Talk and listen the CR1 stream.

Posted on: September 23, 2008 9:00 am

Comcast’s plan to limit heavy users

Comcast officially submitted its network management plans to the FCC. As expected, they include no more stomping on BitTorrent, replacing that scheme with "slow(ing) Internet speeds for its heaviest users at peak times when its network is congested," the Wall Street Journal reports.

Posted on: September 22, 2008 9:00 am

Apple security not ready for enterprise

Last week Apple proved they are not ready for prime time enterprise relationships. Apple has tried to position the iPhone as enterprise-ready, but this last round of software updates demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt how far they have to go to understand the enterprise mentality.

Posted on: September 22, 2008 9:00 am

How HP’s layoffs will impact IT

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das and senior editor Sam Diaz talk about the recent announcement that Hewlett-Packard will be reducing its workforce by nearly 25,000 due to its integration with EDS. They also discuss how HP is competing with IBM for more IT services market share.

Posted on: September 22, 2008 9:00 am

Cisco buys Jabber

Cisco agrees to buy Jabber for its enterprise instant messaging technology, which is based on the open-source XMPP standard. Jabber will help bolster Cisco’s unified communications and collaboration software strategy versus Microsoft, IBM, Google and others.

Posted on: September 22, 2008 9:00 am

David on the air Tuesday

We thought we’d give you a quick heads-up. David will be doing two radio interviews tomorrow morning (Tuesday, the 23rd) about the Sarah Palin email hacking incident.

The first will be at 8:05am EST with Charly Buler on WOWO in Fort Wayne, Indiana. You can listen in at the WOWO Web stream. David will also be on WAMT 1190 in Orlando with Doug Guetzlo. You can listen into the WAMT live stream at 11:04am EST (David may come on the air as late as 11:30, so stick around).

We hope you get a chance to tune in.

Posted on: September 22, 2008 9:00 am

New article: Willy and Wally install a SAN

Hardware engineers Willy and Wally decided to move eight Notes and Domino servers to SANs. To Nancy Hand, just the idea of putting eight servers on one set of disks made her queazy. Read on to find out what happened.

Read this DominoPower article.

Posted on: September 21, 2008 9:00 am

Google fixes Gmail spam bug

Gmail users may have noticed a recent spike in spam clogging their inbox, but Google says it has fixed the problem.

For the second time in as many months Gmail users saw a sudden increase in spam, and they reported the issue in the Webmail service’s official discussion forum in recent days.

On Thursday, a Google employee named Sarah chimed in by posting to the main thread devoted to this topic to say that the complaints were well-founded and had pointed Google toward a solution.

Posted on: September 19, 2008 9:00 am

A solution for spreadsheet overload

Learn how you can use IBM Mashup Center to retrieve and consolidate the most up-to-date information into a situational application. View an example of data consolidated from several spreadsheets along with some external data sources to see how to create a Sales Manager’s Dashboard.

Posted on: September 19, 2008 9:00 am

Palin’s email problems exposed

The alleged hacking of governor Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account has sparked a media feeding frenzy. Rick Davis, lobbyist in chief for the John McCain campaign for US president, has described it as a "shocking invasion" of her privacy, and the FBI has confirmed that it is looking into the matter. But Sarah Palin cannot do much about the media speculation, because it appears that, when governor of Alaska, she conducted official state business using her private Yahoo email account.

Posted on: September 19, 2008 9:00 am