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The Great and Grand Mary Jo Foley

The Great and Grand Mary Jo Foley

Maryam Scoble ran into Mary Jo Foley at the BlogHaus, where she talked about why her name was once feared on the Microsoft Campus, why she covers Microsoft topics and what she is working on now.

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Nicholas Carr – The end of corporate computing, moving from assets to shared resources

Nicholas Carr – The end of corporate computing, moving from assets to shared resources

In this Thought Leaders podcast brought to you by SAVVIS, Nicholas Carr, acclaimed business technology writer and strategist, discusses the end of corporate computing brought on by the move from assets to shared resources. He also comments on the next [See the full post…]

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Gartner’s Ted Chamberlin – Web hosting services providers and the future of IT services

Gartner’s Ted Chamberlin – Web hosting services providers and the future of IT services

In this Thought Leaders podcast brought to you by SAVVIS, Ted Chamberlin, research director at Gartner, discusses drivers and criteria for buying web hosting services, distinctions between the providers, and the future of IT Services.

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BlogHaus bloggers partying in Vegas and going to the hottest shows

BlogHaus bloggers partying in Vegas and going to the hottest shows

There’s a whole lot more than consumer electronics going on in Vegas this week. This video, uploaded by a BlogHaus blogger shows a quick clip of the amazing show last night at the Wynn. We highly recommend catching Le Reve [See the full post…]

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I Got A Zune For Christmas

I Got A Zune For Christmas

Microsoft’s Zune came out of the Christmas season with less than 3 percent of the MP3 player market share. Its overall sales rank on Amazon – a recent check showed the various 30 GB Zune models fluctuating between #77 and [See the full post…]

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Meet Microsoft Live.com’s Sanaz Ahari

Meet Microsoft Live.com’s Sanaz Ahari

Maryam interviews Sanaz Ahari about what it’s like to work as a program manager on Microsoft’s Live.com team. She is responsible for the Live.com home page, which is pretty big shoes for anyone to fill.

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Paul Davis Restoration: Ready for Disaster

Paul Davis Restoration restores homes after disasters. Their new Tallahassee branch uses an “instant office” IT infrastructure made resilient, available, and secure with Symantec solutions. It’s designed for small businesses that want to focus on customers rather than infrastructure details. [See the full post…]

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Intel Gives Your Regards to Broadway

Intel Gives Your Regards to Broadway

Intel gave people all over the world a chance to make it big in New York City’s Times Square. Jennifer Jones discussed the standout Intel Core 2 Duo Multiply promotion with Intel Senior Media Manager Thom Campbell. Related Stories: IntelMultiply

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Start a Meeting using Acrobat Connect

Start a Meeting using Acrobat Connect

Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional’s “Acrobat Connect” is based on technology originally created by Macromedia. It’s flash-based, which means that anyone invited to attend can get your message using a flash player, even if they don’t have the Adobe software.

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Adobe Acrobat 8 Packages: Combine PDFs

December 29th, 2006 |
Adobe Acrobat 8 Packages: Combine PDFs

Adobe Acrobat has had the ability to combine separate PDFs into one for some time now. In this episode you will see how not only to combine PDF pages from various documents into one PDF, but also how to package [See the full post…]

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Acrobat 8: Preflight & Fixup

December 28th, 2006 |
Acrobat 8: Preflight & Fixup

Preflighting — now you can test (and pass or fail) a pdf based on your own selected criteria. And you can fix it easily, too. The functionality in Adobe Acrobat 8 will help with compatability across the variety of Adobe [See the full post…]

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Three Girl Geeks at the Online Information Conference

December 27th, 2006 |
Three Girl Geeks at the Online Information Conference

The Online Information conference is more than 30 years old. It is one of the top Library Science conferences in the world and we caught up with three speakers who are some serious Computer Science geeks. Dr. Hazel Hall, senior [See the full post…]

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Acrobat 8 Forms

December 27th, 2006 |
Acrobat 8 Forms

Acrobat 8 Professional has new forms capabilities. Forms may not be new, but they are now much easier to deal with. The feature lets the Acrobat do the work of finding common fields and formatting them to save the user [See the full post…]

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When Content Matters: Elsevier on their ECM deployment, part 2

December 27th, 2006 |
When Content Matters: Elsevier on their ECM deployment, part 2

Part II of our EMC interview with Elsevier focuses on the business drivers for their use of content management. Paul Leland talks about walking the halls, asking people across the business how they currently find and manage content; and how [See the full post…]

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Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional

December 26th, 2006 |
Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional

A broad look at some of the features in the new Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional and the Creative Suite Premium 2.3 upgrade, which includes Acrobat 8 Professional.

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When Content Matters: Elsevier on their ECM deployment, part 1

December 26th, 2006 |
When Content Matters: Elsevier on their ECM deployment, part 1

If you’re a Content Management Architect or just want to hear a Content Management Architect talk about their planning and deployments of EMC Documentum across multiple applications, listen to this interview with Geoffrey McCaleb. McCaleb talks about what went well [See the full post…]

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CIO Dilemmas – The Challenge of Bridging Between Opposites

December 24th, 2006 |
CIO Dilemmas – The Challenge of Bridging Between Opposites

In this series, “CIO Dilemmas,” Frank Buytendijk, Vice President for Corporate Strategy at Hyperion, examines the changing demands on the CIO.  He concludes that in an environment where “if you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the problem,” [See the full post…]

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Girl Geek: Meet Sarah Blow, founder of Girl Geek Dinners

December 20th, 2006 |
Girl Geek: Meet Sarah Blow, founder of Girl Geek Dinners

Maryam sits down with Sarah Blow. She’s a programmer with a phone company in London and hated that she didn’t see many girl geeks at parties. Worse, she was accused of being a marketer, which rubbed her the wrong way. [See the full post…]

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MIH-Internet CEO Ashish Kashyap on Consumer Internet Space in India

December 18th, 2006 |
MIH-Internet CEO Ashish Kashyap on Consumer Internet Space in India

Ashish Kashyap has over 12 years of experience spanning internet, television and radio businesses. He has created many innovative consumer applications, and also launched successful businesses from scratch. Prior to his appointment with MIH-Internet (India) as CEO, Ashish was the [See the full post…]

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October Blog Roundup

December 15th, 2006 |

A Symantec Security Response podcast featuring a roundup of the top weblog postings from Symantec Security Response engineers in October. This podcast features a summary of weblogs from Jonathan Omansky, Orla Cox, Candid Wueest and Josh Harriman. More information at: [See the full post…]

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Josh Coates, CEO of Berkeley Data Systems

December 14th, 2006 |
Josh Coates, CEO of Berkeley Data Systems

Services like Gmail hit the market after their developers reengineered the solution to “work” the way the consumer expects the service to work today. Josh Coates, CEO of Berkeley Data Systems, describes his approach to creating Mozy.com, an automatic, secure [See the full post…]

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Rohit Agarwal of techTribe on Social Networking among Indian IT Professionals

December 7th, 2006 |
Rohit Agarwal of techTribe on Social Networking among Indian IT Professionals

Rohit Agarwal is the founder and CEO of techTribe Networks, a software company pioneering the use of social networking for innovation through ideas, networking and mentorship. techTribe’s goal is to enable Indian technology professionals in software and services to connect [See the full post…]

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Backing Up Lives at LifeGift

December 1st, 2006 |

A Symantec backup/disaster recovery solution at LifeGift Organ Donation Center is so cost-efficient and effective that its specifications are being shared with 97 other organizations. Samuel Holtzman III, President and CEO, LifeGift Organ Donation Center, Charley Ballmer, Solutions Architect, CompuCom. [See the full post…]

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MakeMyTrip’s Deep Kalra on Online Travel Business

November 30th, 2006 |
MakeMyTrip’s Deep Kalra on Online Travel Business

A professional-turned-entrepreneur, Deep Kalra promoted India’s most successful online travel company, MakeMyTrip in April 2000. MMT is a comprehensive travel services provider for leisure travel to, from and within India. Over the past 5 years, MMT has grown rapidly to [See the full post…]

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developerWorks Interviews: Rawn Shah

November 28th, 2006 |

IBM developerWorks Community Programs manager, Rawn Shah, talks about a pioneering university course on Web 2.0 and online communities and a ground-breaking course he helped to launch and is co-teaching at the University of Arizona. As Community Programs manager, Shah [See the full post…]

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