Legendary cryptographer and computer security expert, Bruce Schneier, developer of a number of widely used cryptography algorithms (such as Blowfish, Twofish etc) has recently written […]
Continue reading »MRM Vendor, Unica has announced that it has been acquired by IBM in this press release:
“IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Unica Corporation (NASDAQ: UNCA) today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire Unica in a cash transaction at a price of $21 per share, …
Continue reading »Adriaan Bloem, writing on CMSWatch.com discusses how the cost of SharePont FAST 2010 might not be as cheap as the relatively modest licence fee suggests, especially when considering the costs of systems integrators – many of whom may have to use client projects to get up to speed:
“However, …
Continue reading »DAM and print on demand vendors, MailPrint, who are in our featured DAM vendors directory, have recently drawn attention to some research carried out by Aberdeen Group about Print On Demand:
“Among their findings was a correlation between companies that use a Print On-Demand solution and a dramatic …
Continue reading »As reported on The DAM Show (on Peter Krogh’s “The DAM Book” site), Phase One, the company that acquired Expression Media 2 from Microsoft in June of this year have invited users to participate in a short survey about the direction of the product. The survey link …
Continue reading »The Hosting & Cloud Transformation Summit being held in Las Vegas (US) on September 13-15th (2010) promises to be the “premier forum for executives in the hosting, datacenter, CDN and cloud Internet infrastructure sectors.” The Summit features a wide range of speakers from various industries and sectors, including …
Continue reading »The Taxonomy Blog has recently published an article: “Skills Of A Classy Taxonomist” which discusses the role classification analysis has in developing a taxonomy. The authors compare this to writing a specification and describe three key benefits of this approach:
Writing on the 3bko.com blog, Richard Hancock describes how to take a “business first, technology second” approach to the issue of applying Semantic Web strategies to organisations. He describes how he held a meeting with developers, managers, information architects and analysts to introduce the concepts and the five key …
Continue reading »Jan Ozer, writing on Streamingmedia.com has carried out some in-depth testing of the Google supported WebM and H.264 video codecs:
“This article compares H.264 to WebM, Google’s implementation of the VP8 codec, using three variables, encoding time, compressed quality and CPU requirements for playback on three personal computers. Here’s …
Continue reading »In this article, Alan Pelez-Sharpe of CMSWatch.com contends that as many as 90% of documents that Enterprises hold are worthless and that it’s more productive to focus on the 10% that have an actual value to the business rather than trying to hold everything as though it has equivalent value.…
Continue reading »Writing on the Streamingmedia.com blog, Dom Robinson considers whether the developers of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) have effectively been acting as beta testers for browser developers to help them decide what features are likely to be in demand or not:
“While the prevalence of Internet Explorer will be …
Continue reading »In this article on the answermaven.com blog, Constance Ard considers the consequences of “The Information Gap” – a conceptual term used to refer to the difference between information creation and use:
“Taxonomies are just one component of good content management. And content management is only a single component …
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