http://www.kidscountnetwork.net Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:25:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Unlike online grocery stores of yore, Wakozi's not doing any of the stocking or infrastructure necessary to get products out on its own; instead it's just acting as the middle man to get hungry people (or those in need of the spare roll of toilet paper at the most ... http://www.kidscountnetwork.net/index.php/2010/09/04/wakozi-lets-lazy-new-yorkers-get-munchies-and-booz/ It should be a good one with panelists from SAP, Cast Iron and others. We'll be talking about the enormous burden of integrating enterprise apps with SaaS. Whoever mentions this blog post will get a squeezy Mule until I run out of the few I can carry. I am on the "Integration ... http://www.kidscountnetwork.net/index.php/2010/08/29/opsource-saas-summit-tomorrow-2-28-who-wants-to-h/ Seesmic gets N95 support. But you don't get Seesmic. Also, there's now a mobile application (Nokia N95 only so far), from which you can create and view Seesmic posts. Mobile Seesmics aren't streamed live like they are with Qik or Flixwagon, but it does make it easier to play in the ... http://www.kidscountnetwork.net/index.php/2010/08/24/seesmic-gets-good-tweaks-goes-mobile-updated-in/ Riffing off the Eclipse Foundation's Mike Milinkovich, CIO.com writes: Amen. Proprietary software is all about vendor-driven innovation. Open source is all about user-driven innovation, collaboratively married to vendor innovation. It's a two-way street, and it's much, much better for both vendors and users. CIO.com suggests that open source may be the future ... http://www.kidscountnetwork.net/index.php/2010/08/23/open-source-and-innovation-a-match-made-in-heaven/ AirTight also recommends that people connect to their corporate VPN after accessing a public Wi-Fi hotspot and before they do any corporate work. And finally, the company also recommends that IT departments implement software, such as their own, that helps detect wireless intrusion. For a full list of the SSIDs used ... http://www.kidscountnetwork.net/index.php/2010/08/23/biz-travelers-beware-airport-ad-hoc-hot-spots-cou/ Someone at Toshiba has taken PR 101, where you learn that two headlines are better than one and that a trickle of information is often better than a single splash (unless you're Apple). Thus the handful of press releases that hit the wires this morning, which provide further details of ... http://www.kidscountnetwork.net/index.php/2010/08/23/more-details-on-new-toshiba-satellites/ Alas, I'm among those with teary beer: I bought a shuffle for Mrs. Cheapskate just a few months ago. But she absolutely loves it, so I will bottle up my overpay rage and pretend I'm not $30 poorer. Speaking of iPods, Apple just announced a price cut on the 1GB iPod ... http://www.kidscountnetwork.net/index.php/2010/08/23/apple-drops-ipod-shuffle-price-to-49-adds-2gb-mo/ (Credit: Rafe Needleman/CNET News) Apple has a message for its customers: let us make it up to you. At the Intel Developer Forum, more than a dozen ultramobile computers, powered by Intel's new Atom CPU, were on display. Click on the image to see more of the gadgets. That news was revealed ... http://www.kidscountnetwork.net/index.php/2010/08/23/week-in-review-apples-mea-culpa/ Despite my vain imaginings to the contrary, it turns out that Silicon Valley really is the center of the universe. Who knew? Well, except for you Silicon Valley smugsters? Actually, the real news in CNET's article is how much R&D is moving away from the Valley. Red Hat is revealed as ... http://www.kidscountnetwork.net/index.php/2010/08/23/random-sampler-silicon-valley-1-microsoft-want/ Other cases involve long-term trends that almost certainly will have an increasing impact over time. More software is moving out into the network "cloud," and--in an at least peripherally-connected shift--thin clients of various stripes are beginning to move beyond their historical ghettos in call centers and other narrow use cases.  ... http://www.kidscountnetwork.net/index.php/2010/08/23/exemplar-or-exception/