The release this week of the Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine has gotten a lot of attention from the media and Web pundits, and, strangely, lots of these people have gotten Wolfram|Alpha completely wrong. The most common thing that people say.
Topics: Database, Enterprise Applications, Search

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With the Microsoft earnings report this week, the big news was the first ever year-over-year decline in quarterly revenue for the software giant. But to me the interesting news in the report was the fact that the company's servers and tools unit...
Topics: Application Development, Infrastructure, Windows

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With mergers and company failures regularly in the news, the amount of healthy competition in the technology world is clearly decreasing. This, of course, means that more companies will gain a monopoly in their markets. This got me thinking about...
Topics: IT Management, Search

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Is the devil you know—and expect—better than the one you don't? Consider this: You run into person No. 1—let's call her Melissa—on the street. Without warning, Melissa hits you in the face and then proceeds to beat you up as...
Topics: IT Management, Security, Windows

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Click here to see the slideshow While the varying parties in the operating system wars like to tout the advantages that each OS holds over its rivals, all of them share one thing in common. Whether it's Linux, Mac OS X or Windows, none of them are...
Topics: Desktops and Notebooks, Linux & Open Source, Mobile and Wireless, Reviews, Windows

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