Overheard in the tech blogosphere

Overheard - SAP

Margaret Rouse — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:43:32 +0000

The convergence happening between social media, mobility and real time is leading to a new set of paradigms, a new set of business activities that SAP needs to go after next. There are entire economies going mobile, and we need to connect to them in real time with social media, analytics and search technologies.

SAP’s CTO, Vishal Sikka as quoted in SAP’s innovation gets overlooked

Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is SAP.

Overheard - paradox

Margaret Rouse — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:37:12 +0000

More access to information doesn’t bring people together, often it isolates us.

Joshua-Michéle Ross, Three Paradoxes of the Internet Age - Part One

Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is paradox.

Overheard - USB 3.0

Margaret Rouse — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:33:23 +0000

“If you are downloading a 27 gigabyte HD movie today from your desktop to your note book to take on a plane — with HighSpeed USB, that would take 15 minutes. With SuperSpeed USB end-to-end, you can make that same transition in 60-70 seconds.”

Jeff Cravencraft, CES 2009

Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is USB 3.0 — also known as SuperSpeed USB.

Overheard - Amazon PayPhrase

Margaret Rouse — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:48:21 +0000

“PayPhrase is less fun than it might be due to Amazon’s content restrictions. PayPhrases can’t use trademarked terms. Nor can they use language that is unlawful, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, harassing, threatening, harmful, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory, or otherwise objectionable.”

Thomas Claburn, Amazon Introduces PayPhrase Payment Shortcut

Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is Amazon PayPhrase.

Overheard - Operation Phish Phry

Margaret Rouse — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:48:39 +0000

“Criminally savvy groups recruit here and abroad to pool tactics and skills necessary to commit organized theft facilitated by the computer, including hacking, fraud and identity theft, with a common greed and shared willingness to victimize Americans.”

FBI Los Angeles acting assistant director Keith Bolcar, Operation Phish Phry: FBI Arrests 33 for Internet Scam

Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is Operation Phish Phry.

Overheard - Kill a Zombie Day

Margaret Rouse — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:51:31 +0000

“IT security and data protection company, Sophos, has called on computer users around the world to participate in “Kill-A-Zombie Day” on Saturday 31st October, also known as Halloween. Billions of spam messages are sent every day, with over 99% determined to be relayed from innocent users’ computers that have been hijacked and turned into a zombie.”

Kansas City InfoZine, International Kill-a-Zombie Day Will be a Thriller for Halloween

Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is pulsing zombie. Happy Halloween!

Overheard - Mobile marketing

Margaret Rouse — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:03:33 +0000

Mobile marketing isn’t just mobile Web sites. It also includes banners, short codes (like the codes you send text messages to when voting on American Idol), ads in phones’ video programming and even little two-dimensional codes (like bar codes) that when photographed, send mobile customers to Web sites.

Josh Bernoff, Don’t Screw Up Your Mobile Marketing Opportunity

Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is mobile marketing.

Overheard - Baby botnet

Margaret Rouse — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:42:38 +0000

I suspect that a sizable percentage of small botnets are those developed by people who understand or are operating inside a business as employees who want to gain remote access to corporate systems, or by criminal entities that have dug deep and gotten insider information on the environment…We’ve seen a growth in the number of sites that offer the sale of corporate documents that were extracted from the bots.

Gunter Ollmann, as quoted in Up To 9 Percent Of Machines In An Enterprise Are Bot-Infected

Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is micro-botnet, also known as baby botnet.

Overheard - Hot aisle / cold aisle containment

Margaret Rouse — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:33:42 +0000

In any push air-conditioning arrangement, two components need the most amount of power: the compressor and the fan. In a hot aisle - cold aisle arrangement, the need for cold air is reduced drastically because it’s needed only for the servers and not the entire room.

Smrutiranjan Das, Hot aisle - cold aisle design best practices for data centers

Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is hot aisle - cold aisle contaiment.

Overheard - WAN clustering

Margaret Rouse — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:00:28 +0000

“It’s going to involve different parts of your organization to really construct a true WAN cluster. You are going to have to involve your data storage team, your software team, your network engineering team and really look holistically at everything.”

Jeff Boles, WAN clustering emerges to provide transparent failover between physical sites

Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is WAN clustering.