Joy BlakeJoy's InfoWorld WatchGMail POP- (Found July 5, 2008 ) PalmAddict Hoorah POP email for GMail coming soon! This from Stephen Cosgrove about GMail as he pointed me to this over at Infoworld. "Google Inc. will roll out POP3 (Post Office Protocol) support gradually over the coming weeks to Gmail users, who will be able to use the feature to download e-mail messages from Gmail servers to e-mail applications on devices such as PCs and wireless devices." Read in full over at InfoWorld.http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2004/11/website_gmail_p.html Gmail adds POP3- (Found July 5, 2008 ) aishel First sighted at Shaftek, there was an article at InfoWorld talking about Google slowly enabling POP3 capability for people using Gmail. "Have you enabled POP in your Gmail account We're rolling out POP access to all users in phases. Once it's available to you, a 'Forwarding and POP' tab appears on your 'Settings' page. You need to have this tab in your Gmail account before you can configure POP in your mail client." I don't have it yet, does anyone else I'm looking forward to this...http://nberry.baltiblogs.com/archives/2004/11/11/gmail_adds_pop3.html Big Iron Redux- (Found July 5, 2008 ) ZDNet Blogs Theres a great piece out by InfoWorlds Eric Knorr on the impending resurgence of the ultimate SOA machine: the mainframe. Big Iron is constantly given up for dead, yet IBM is reporting record sales, especially the ones that run Linux. A very short history mainframes were accessed by "green screen" terminals that were eventually emulated on PCs, then through browsers. Now, Web services components capture mainframe-based processes, while leveraging Big Iron as a data repository. Web..http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/index.php?p=17 Identity Management made easier...ideally- (Found July 5, 2008 ) onClick Biometrics Since the post on defining identity management solutions just days ago, I've come across another juicy bit along the same lines. Microsoft drops some infromation on Gemini, the next version of Microsoft Identity Integration Server to be realeased in 2006 or 2007. It is supposed to provide a simple, cost-effective solution that let users manage the identity information themselves. No talk yet as to whether it will be an option to incorporate the biometrics they have just...http://onclick.blogs.com/biometrics/2004/11/identity_manage_1.html EU objects to Microsoft-Time Warner ContentGuard deal- (Found July 5, 2008 ) CyberLaw NewsWatch The European Commission has issued a formal set of objections to Microsoft Corp. and Time Warner Inc. taking control of ContentGuard Holdings Inc., a digital rights management (DRM) company, according to sources familiar with the case.http://hdc-cyberlaw.blogspot.com/2004/11/eu-objects-to-microsoft-time-warner.html The world according to AT&T- (Found July 5, 2008 ) VoIP: Points of View In a word, that strategy comes down to services. Not voice services, or even VoIP, but SoIP (services over IP). Eslambolchi told me emphatically, just short of pointing his fork at me, that AT&T is no longer a voice company. It is a data company. The stats, albeit from AT&T, appear to back up that claim. Its IP network handles 1,700TB of data per day, while its public switched network handles 450TB per day. SoIP includes IP security, application hosting, managed network...http://www.voipov.com/blog/2004/11/infoworld-world-according-to-att.asp Open Source- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Blogzone of Peter Dawson Enterprises are opening up to open source alternatives to commercial software, panelists said at the SDForum conference "Open Source Entering the Mainstream," held in Santa Clara, Calif., last week.http://peterdawson.blogspot.com/2004/11/open-source.html Screen recording and publishing- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Julien Couvreur's programming blog A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a demo video is often more useful when it comes to software, especially GUI. Of course text still rules and man pages shouldn't be replaced with "man videos", but demos are a great way to learn about an application. Some products offered online flash introductionstutorials, but most of the time they are impersonal and soporific. Recording of live demos are more interesting. Channel 9 has been doing some (ex: Monad...http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000220.html?from=atom Dull Sales Lacking In Product Knowledge- (Found July 5, 2008 ) AMDZone Infoworld has an article on Dull having major communication and product knowledge issues largely due to outsourced sales. "A long-time Dell customer, the reader says that this type of experience has become all too common. "I used to buy everything from Dell, but their customer experience has deteriorated so badly that I have started to purchase more and more items elsewhere," he wrote. "I don't buy their desktops anymore and am probably going to stop buying their laptops and servers as.http://www.amdzone.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1730 Telco vs. City Wireless Uproar Update- (Found July 5, 2008 ) The Wireless Development Weblog The list is growing Telecom carriers that provide DSL and cable access are standing up and taking notice of this whippersnapper upstart that is wireless. Here is a wrapup of the past few days articles on the subject as it applies to city-funded wireless deployments: Todays Wall Street Journal article. And the online discussions from WSJ.com readers. An amazing poll of WSJ.com readers reveals that 49% are in favor of city-run municipal Wi-Fi while 51% prefer...http://wirelessdev.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000837021392/ |