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Technology: Google at Ten

By Dick Weisinger

Google was ten years old yesterday.  Over that short period of time they’ve come a long way towards “organizing the world’s information and making it universally accessible and userful”.  Every second people all over the world are relying on Google…

Technology: The e-Discovery Team

By Dick Weisinger

We live in a world of specialization. It’s no different in the legal profession. Regulatory compliance has created the need for a legal council that is savvy in both technology and the changing legal climate. These e-Discovery attorneys are a…

Storage: The CyberInfrastructure Initiative

By Dick Weisinger

A team at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD is advancing the idea of investing in cyber infrastructure (CI). Fran Berman, directory of the supercomputer center, says that “Fundamental to modern research, education, work, and life, CI has the…

ECM: Adobe goes Live with Alfresco on Acrobat.com

By Dick Weisinger

Adobe has raised some eyebrows with the rollout of their high-volume on-line SaaS service Acrobat.com for creating and converting PDF files powered by Open Source Alfresco. One might have expected Adobe to home-grow this kind of high-profile technology or to…

Technology: Need a Job? Know Anything about Open Source?

By Dick Weisinger

The on-going slowdown in the economy may be a driver behind rapid growth in the adoption of Open Source software in the enterprise. An O’Reilly report shows that 5 to 15 percent of all open IT jobs mention open source…