Microsoft technology has generally been light enough–in terms of cost and in terms of resources required to deploy and manage it–to enable enterprises to add its technology into existing environments, rather than forcing immediate, wholesale rip-and-replace decisions. With a beachhead in place, enterprises slowly (or quickly) find themselves deploying more and more Microsoft software.
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See also: The Social Graph API, as explained by David Glazer at Google.
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For example, when you use the Flirtable dating app, you’re accessing all the app’s users no matter what network they’re on. In a very cool twist, if you use [...]

“Organizations have an obligation to protect sensitive customer information like this,” Cleary said. More than half of the data breaches these days are due to insiders leaking the information, he added.

The outside lenders are believed to have accessed LendingTree customer loan request forms between October 2006 and early 2008. The lenders then tried to [...]

It is critical that these organizations share a reasonable portion of their sizable revenues with those of us whose content attracts audiences and, ultimately, helps to make their businesses viable. This decision will go a long way toward protecting the ability of songwriters and composers to be compensated fairly as the use of musical works [...]

Oracle’s got a lot more riding on its “data warehouse appliance” (as Mark Hurd described the HP Oracle Database Machine) than in the days when the network computer was Ellison’s rallying cry. The first units feature 168 terabytes of disk data and 64 Intel cores. HP, which made the systems according to an Oracle [...]

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To handle the increased demand, the Democrats have enlisted the support of Qwest, Cisco Systems, and other companies to upgrade the technical infrastructure at the Pepsi Center and Invesco Field.
Working with two large facilities made the logistics of the convention more challenging, said Damon Jones, a spokesperson for the Democratic National Convention Committee. [...]

The liquid crystal display (LCD) industry probably doesn’t have much to worry about yet. OLED panels are incredibly expensive to produce right now, and, yes, they’re awfully pretty. (Sony’s 11-inch display achieves a 1 million-to-1 contrast ratio, which is by far the best available for a TV.) But even as production increases from one manufacturer, [...]

One snag I ran into is that it’s nearly impossible to add other panoramics you’ve done into a single slide show viewer without first saving them as their own photographs, then plugging them back in. It’s kind of irritating, but easily fixable. Otherwise get used to making panoramics one at a time. The panoramic tool [...]