- Consumerization of Enterprise Software
A good piece on consumer IT driving enterprise technology, with attention to sorting out what to do with legacy IT. - A Sneak Peek into Flash Player “Square” « Adobe Flash Player Team Blog
Windows, Mac, and Linux 64bit beta (or "preview") for Flash Player. - Microsoft delivers Google Chrome IE9 beta • The Register
- IE9 Beta Now Available For Download
- Steve Jobs Stopped at Japan Airport Over Ninja Stars, SPA! Magazine Says
This is pretty fantastic: "Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs said he’ll never return to Japan after officials at an airport barred him from taking Ninja throwing stars aboard his private plane, SPA! magazine reported in its latest issue." I hope he weaves that into his next keynote! - New ‘People View’ Feature from Spiceworks Makes IT Management Personal | Business Wire
Making a person a primary pivot point – an "asset" even – in IT. - Adobe Labs – Melrose
"Melrose (codename) enables developers and publishers to distribute and make money with Adobe® AIR® applications through application stores. Melrose provides a repository that distributes applications to multiple application stores so that publishers can reach millions of users. Intel AppUp Center and the Adobe AIR Marketplace are the first two storefronts available in Melrose. Melrose also provides analytics that let publishers measure success of their applications." - Hacks/Hackers Chapter Kicks Off in Austin – Hacks/Hackers Austin (Austin, TX) – Meetup
"Hacks/Hackers is an international organization that brings together journalists (hacks) and technologists (hackers) for information sharing and a better understanding of what each other does. Anyone in the communication or programming fields (professionals, students and faculty) is invited to attend. In a digital news and information era, it becomes increasingly important for both groups to learn to speak the same language. Hacks/Hackers ATX will sponsor social and professional events to help bridge the gap and encourage collaborations." - The ultimate mobile HD video rig for traveling around the world | No Baggage Challenge — Around the World with no luggage
- How we make the videos (and how we lost one in Cairo) | No Baggage Challenge — Around the World with no luggage
- Amazon.com: Azden WMS-PRO Wireless Microphone System: Electronics
Along with the little mixer and a few extra wireless mics, I think this will do the trick. - Get Satisfaction Raises $6 Million For Customer Support Forums
Also, note that Jeff Nolan now works there. - 13 Austin companies land on Inc. 500 list
Note Bird's Barbershop! - JPMorgan Said to Test IPhone, BlackBerry Alternatives
No one will admit it on record, but off record large banks are looking to allow iPhones: "Cost savings and employee preference were the two biggest factors cited by companies for the shift in the Sanford Bernstein survey. Employees would rather own an iPhone and are increasingly willing to buy the device themselves, which helps cuts costs as companies look to rein in spending, said Sanford Bernstein’s Ferragu." - ‘Nokia Is Back’ And Ballsy; ‘We’re Not Sorry We’re Not Apple’
"'In the past quarter, people bought far more Nokia phones than Apple and Android combined. On average, people buy 260,000 new Nokia smartphones every day – that’s more smartphones sales than any other company by far – period.' The N8, which has been taken on by over 100 carriers globally, is the first Nokia handset to be released with the re-engineered Symbian 3 OS on which Nokia’s smartphone future will depend, and Nokia expects to ship at least 50 million." - V CAST App Store to compete with official Android Market? – Android and Me
Check out the channel conflict: Verizon seems to be looking to host their own app store instead of just using the Android Marketplace. Yay, fragmentation. - ARM Mounts Next Offensive Against Intel
"Pete Hutton, a vice president of technology and systems at ARM, noted that consumers could expect to see smartphones in 2012 that have about the same performance as a current business laptop. The fastest phones at that time will have four 2.5-gigahertz processor cores and be able to handle things as complex as running virtualization software." - Dell shifts its focus back to larger businesses
"Dell is returning to its roots. The 26-year-old company, whose first customers were companies and universities,is focusing on contracts with large businesses of more than 500 employees, federal and state governments, non-profits and education. To a lesser extent, it is pursuing small business (less than 500 employees) and consumers…. It gleaned about 80% of its $52.9 billion in fiscal year 2010 sales from commercial users…. About $13 billion is gleaned from Dell's 10 million small-business customers worldwide, most of whom are outside the U.S." - 3-D Printing Is Spurring a Manufacturing Revolution
Whao! 3D printing in the NY Times: "Depending on the type of job at hand, a typical 3-D printer can cost from $10,000 to more than $100,000. Stratasys and 3D Systems are among the industry leaders. And MakerBot Industries sells a hobbyist kit for under $1,000." - IDC: Virtualization boosts Ethernet switch sales | Networking – InfoWorld
"IDC's research also shows an 87.9 percent year-over-year increase in the revenue from 10-Gigabit Ethernet, and for the first time there were more than 1 million ports shipped in one quarter. The increased use of 10-Gigabit ethernet is driven by virtualized data centers and cloud computing, IDC said." - VMware vCloud Director gets Zenoss monitoring app
Support for monitoring VMware virtualization: "he Zenoss software can provide an independent monitoring for organizations using VMware vCloud Director, said Bill Karpovich, Zenoss CEO. It derives state and configuration information from the VMware vCloud API." - ActiveState Python honed for databases
- Windows Phone 7 set for Oct. 11 launch, according to report
With Microsoft's past performance in mobile and the crushing success of Apple, few people have an upbeat view of the tragically named Windows Phone 7. But, it hasn't really hit the market yet, so it's tough to judge beyond knee-jerk Microsoft sentiment. The more open the platform is, the better chance it'll have vs. not only Apple, but Android. - Great News for Developers (Adobe Featured Blogs)
Users of Packager in Adobe's Creative Suite 5 can now use it to create apps for iOS, Apple's iPhone, iPad, and such platform: "This feature was created to enable Flash developers to quickly and easily deliver applications for iOS devices. The feature is available for developers to use today in Flash Professional CS5, and we will now resume development work on this feature for future releases." - Adobe adds HTML5 controls to Illustrator
Several "creative" types I speak with keep wondering how they can use HTML5. - Microsoft: Silverlight safe against HTML5
Gavin Clarke ponders Silverlight vs. HTML5: "The question for Microsoft will be, how far it chooses to continue pushing its own technology versus HTML5. Also, how far it continues to tweak its APIs to deliver a 'richer experience' for content delivered on Windows, and – as a result – prioritize Windows at the expense of other platforms." I figure they'll go pretty far, actually. Silverlight has proven itself good for DRM-friendly video (Netflix uses it). I'm not sure it's had the app development success that Adobe Flex has, at least re: ISV adoption which, anecdotally, seems to be the major use of Flex-based RIAs at the moment.
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