The New Jazz Thing - Vince Outlaw's Audblog
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Apple - iTunes - Overview
Apple - iTunes - Overview: "iTunes 4 has a Music Sharing feature that uses Rendezvous to give you remote streaming access to your personal music library from any room in your house. Let’s say, for instance, that you have thousands of AAC and MP3 music files stored on a Mac or Windows computer in your home office. The iTunes software works so smoothly on both platforms that you can share music with any combination of Macs and Windows PCs on a local area network — regardless of whether you’re running iTunes off a Mac or PC. And you won’t have to manually configure anything, either."
Now there's a reason for upgrading the G4 to the latest iLife 4 apps (iTunes, iPhoto, etc.) AND installing iTunes on the home Windows box.
And that discovery started out reading an article about an iTunes Music Store custom playlist of 'silent' tunes from various albums...a 'silent' playlist. While the 'silent' part is interesting, for me the fact that someone can build a 'custom' iTunes playlist and sell the tunes in the playlist from the iTunes music store is VERY INTERESTING. What's to prevent me from making a custom playlist of TNJT - The Tunes from one of my live Jazz 88 shows to enable folks to buy the tunes right after they hear the show?!
InfoWorld: RFID may give "Tag, you're it!" a whole new meaning: February 13, 2004: By Ephraim Schwartz: Wireless
InfoWorld: RFID may give "Tag, you're it!" a whole new meaning: February 13, 2004: By Ephraim Schwartz: Wireless
InfoWorld: Get technology right: February 13, 2004: By Chad Dickerson: E-business Strategies
InfoWorld: Get technology right: February 13, 2004: By Chad Dickerson: E-business Strategies:
"he has come up with three simple principles for successfully managing IT: a long-term IT renewal plan linked to corporate strategy; a simplified, unifying corporate technology platform; and a highly functional, performance-
oriented IT organization. "
A time when the lobbyists didn't rule
A time when the lobbyists didn't rule: "Breaking down those numbers, the center found that a San Diego company called Science Applications International Corp. had been picked a year ago -- one month before the invasion -- to 'oversee much of the massive jobs of building a new government and mass media in post-war Iraq.' The administration has not revealed the price of the contract, but all the work is to be supervised by Douglas Feith, the undersecretary of defense for policy. Mr. Feith's key aide at the Pentagon is Christopher Henry. Until October 2002, Mr. Henry was a senior vice president at Science Applications International Corp."
Thawing out the CIO-CFO cold war | CNET News.com
Thawing out the CIO-CFO cold war | CNET News.com: "The most effective organizations are those with clear overall strategies that are consistently communicated. These goals should be understood and embraced by each department. It may seem obvious that everyone should be working from the same script, but the dynamics between different departments can easily become counterproductive, if members of each staff are allowed to focus more on their differences than on common corporate objectives.
Each department should identify specific actions and projects that will contribute to those goals in a cost-effective manner over the course of a defined fiscal period. The benefits and requirements of these programs should be clearly understood and communicated between the finance and IT departments.
The organization should define and implement a project evaluation technique to assess all major expenditures, including IT, and to ensure that funds are allocated most effectively in line with corporate goals. "
Interesting how an entire article can talk about Enterprise Architecture (EA, the programs that make this common vision possible) without ever mentioning the name. Kind of nice to see it explained without the sometimes loaded buzz words like "EA".
SAIC jumps river for wet lab space of Montgomery Co. - 2004-02-09 - Washington Business Journal
SAIC jumps river for wet lab space of Montgomery Co. - 2004-02-09 - Washington Business Journal: "The 10-person unit of McLean-based Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) recently broke out the microscopes to begin work on biological and chemical defense research. Its work for federal defense and civilian agencies, which is taking place in a Rockville incubator, includes figuring out a way to reduce mistakes made in testing substances that could be used in bioterror attacks. "
Help Net Security - Pointsec Becomes Only Vendor in its Sector To Receive Common Criteria
Help Net Security - Pointsec Becomes Only Vendor in its Sector To Receive Common Criteria: "Pointsec for PC underwent evaluation at the beginning of June, 2002. The evaluation process was administered by SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation), a Fortune 500 research and engineering firm authorized to conduct Common Criteria evaluation by the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP), the U.S. government's sanctioning body. "
"As a provider of enforceable, centrally-managed and multi-platform encryption software, Pointsec ensures that intellectual property stored on any kind of portable computing device remains private and secure. Its transparent and automatic protocols allow comprehensive security to take place with no performance penalty for users."
SAIC Selects MRO Software's Strategic Asset Management Solutions For Managed Services Program
SAIC Selects MRO Software's Strategic Asset Management Solutions For Managed Services Program: "Building on an existing agreement formalized by the firms in July of 2002, MRO Software and SAIC signed a managed services software license agreement which adds MRO Software's strategic asset management solutions, MAXIMO and MAXIMO MainControl, to SAIC's managed services portfolio. SAIC will combine the asset management solutions with a range of other services and enterprise applications to offer comprehensive, single-source solutions to its customers on a global basis and in a range of industries. SAIC's investments in technology and service delivery combined with its deep understanding of physical assets have delivered proven solutions to the public sector, energy, telecommunications, health care and transportation industries. "
InfoWorld: IBM to launch MS Office for Linux: February 13, 2004: By Sverker Brundin, Computer Sweden: Applications
InfoWorld: IBM to launch MS Office for Linux: February 13, 2004: By Sverker Brundin, Computer Sweden: Applications: "As part of its initiative to put Linux on the desktop, IBM Corp. wants to migrate Microsoft Corp.'s Office suite to Linux. Microsoft said it's not involved and suggests that IBM might do it by emulation. "
InfoWorld: TeamTrack keeps the business processes flowing: February 13, 2004: By Maggie Biggs: Applications
InfoWorld: TeamTrack keeps the business processes flowing: February 13, 2004: By Maggie Biggs: Applications: "Serena Software?s TeamTrack 6.1 is a powerful BPM solution because it neatly manages multiple types of business processes out-of-the-box while enabling customers to easily create custom workflows directly matched to a given business process. Moreover, project teams using TeamTrack can keep projects on track via the browser-based GUI and role-based paradigm, which provide role-specific information to all project participants. "
Well, I'm not exactly sure where this product fits in, but it does sound interesting. Does it have implications beyond IT-related workflows, such as HR process tasks or other business workflows?
