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Why Android's Dominance Is Bad
Google's Android platform grabbed a commanding 72% share of the smartphone market during the third quarter. That needs to change.
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The SPARC SuperCluster
Oracle has been providing a lead in the Engineered Systems business for quite a while now, in accordance with the motto "Hardware and Software Engineered to Work Together." Indeed it is hard to find a...
View ArticleWhere are my date ranges in Analytics coming from?
In the P6 Reporting Database there are two main tables to consider when viewing time - W_DAY_D and W_Calendar_FS. W_DAY_D is populated internally during the ETL process and will provide a row for...
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Stolen NASA Laptop Had Unencrypted Employee Data
Data breach drives NASA to now require that at minimum, all sensitive files stored on laptops be encrypted.
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TI Cuts 1,700 Jobs, Exits Mobile Chip Market
High profile customers like Amazon will need to find alternative platforms for devices like the Kindle Fire.
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Looking Under the Hood of ...
copyright 2012 Rob Lang Fair is fair. Our last post featured a conversation with the beautiful and talented Eva Mendez, so today we're featuring something for those of you who prefer the other gender...
View ArticleTexas Instruments Plans to Cut 1,700 Jobs
The company plans to stop developing chips for smartphones and tablets.
View ArticleCisco to Buy Cloupia for $125 Million
The startup sells automation tools for data center and cloud infrastructure management.
View ArticleThe Perfect Fit Gap Tool for Upgrading to PeopleSoft 9.2
If you’re thinking about upgrading to PeopleSoft 9.2, you will need to perform a fit gap between your current version of PeopleSoft in order to find the differences. This is a daunting task to do when...
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Semantic Web still a pipe dream
Eleven years ago Tim Berners-Lee envisioned the next logical step for the World Wide Web was to become semantic. One day machines would be able to read and understand Web pages because content would be...
View ArticleNASA Steps Up Security Measures After Laptop Theft
The stolen laptop was not encrypted and contained personal information for employees.
View ArticleCybersecurity Bill Fails in Congress
Some observers now expect President Obama to issue an executive order related to cybersecurity.
View ArticleBosch Software Innovations: More About A Surprise Player In The iBPMS MQ
The Gartner iBPMS MQ released in September of this year has been controversial, to say the least; I’m not here to talk about that controversy, but rather address the general reaction to one of the...
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3 Questions to Ask for Marketing Success
Internal politics are often the bane of any Marketing Manager’s existence. There is a always a strong undercurrent at most marketing conferences where Marketing Managers try to figure out how to get a...
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SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 is available - this time for sure!
Last week I mentioned in passing that Service Pack 1 is now available, while I was blogging from the PASS Summit keynote . I wanted to put up an official post instead of having it appear as a footnote...
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November 2012 Security Bulletin Webcast, Q&A, and Slide Deck
Hello, Today we’re publishing the November 2012 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. During the webcast, we fielded ten questions focusing primarily Windows RT, Windows 8, and...
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When Should You Upgrade vs Overhaul your Business Technology: Is the Verdict...
Excerpts from a recent ebizQ discussion shed some light on the topic.
View ArticleWorkday to Tackle Talent Acquisition
One of the major announcements at the recently held Workday Rising 2012 conference was that Workday will develop its own talent acquisition suite from scratch and deliver it in early 2014. This is a...
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Queries barely over the Cost Threshold for Parallelism
I had discussed SQL Server parallelism in Oct 2010, with my thoughts on the best settings for: Cost Threshold for Parallelism (CTP) and Max Degrees of Parallelism (MAXDOP) in Parallelism Strategy and...
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