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Latest Articles from Jeremy Geelan
By Jeremy Geelan 'We've seen the Web moving from a publishing paradigm to an e-business paradigm to an AJAX paradigm.' That is the considered verdict of IBM Software Group's CTO of Emerging Internet Technologies, David Boloker. And he's right: AJAX is here, it's growing, and it's (potentially) the bigg... Feb. 2, 2006 06:15 AM EST Reads: 74,310 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan Charles Arthur, editor of 'Technology Guardian' - a section of the UK national Daily The Guardian - thought he was on to something big. But the blogosphere quickly corrected him. The net result? A triumph for Capitalism - literally!! Read on for the explanation... Jan. 31, 2006 11:00 AM EST Reads: 13,820 Replies: 3 | By Jeremy Geelan Kevin Turner, chief operating officer at Microsoft, and the company's CFO Chris Liddell were able on Thursday to announce revenue of $11.84 billion for the quarter ended December 31, 2005, a 9% increase over the same period of the prior year, marking the highest quarterly revenue in th... Jan. 29, 2006 06:15 PM EST Reads: 14,002 | By Jeremy Geelan 'We are pleased to be among the top 100 fastest growing technology companies in the EMEA region,' said Glenn Hasen, CEO of Kapow Technologies, as the company whose Kapow Web Integration Platform is making waves through the information and application integration market was today announ... Jan. 23, 2006 05:15 AM EST Reads: 23,094 | By Jeremy Geelan  AJAX, LAMP, Virtualization, SaaS, Open Source, SANs, Web 2.0, Blog consolidation, InfoSec, BitTorrent, Googlecrash, Adobe, IE7, SOA, REST, Single Sign-On, SemWeb, iComm, Structured Blogging, VPMNs, VoIP Phones, Semantic Technologies, Ruby on Rails, spam/phishing, VoIP, and WiFi: welcom... Jan. 22, 2006 05:30 AM EST Reads: 43,632 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan  This is traditionally the time of year for SYS-CON Media's roundup of i-Technology predictions from around the Web and the year's harvest of thoughts and viewpoints. According to our worldwide network of software development activists, evangelists, and executives, 2006 promises to be a... Jan. 18, 2006 08:15 AM EST Reads: 35,130 | By Jeremy Geelan  'Please don't read [anything] in to my not being at Sun's recent announcement with Oracle,' wrote Sun's president and COO Jonathan Schwartz the weekend after Sun (represented not by Jonathan but by Scott McNealy) and Oracle (represented by Larry Ellison) announced a broad-based reinvig... Jan. 17, 2006 02:45 AM EST Reads: 26,225 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan  A so-called 'release candidate' for version 5.0 of the NetBeans IDE 5.0 has just been released. It requires a J2SE JDK, version 1.4.2 or higher. Jan. 14, 2006 01:45 PM EST Reads: 20,285 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan 'We're going to collaborate, interoperate, integrate...and really go after what tends not to be so open,' said Scott McNealy and Larry Ellison Tuesday as they made a clear statement to both employee bases that Microsoft and IBM are the competitors, not one another. Jan. 12, 2006 02:00 PM EST Reads: 22,655 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan 'If you look at Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, the average patch time is under a day. With the recent critical WMF (Windows Meta File) vulnerability, it took Microsoft seven days.' This, claims a consulting software engineer for Red Hat, is the key to interpreting the raw data published l... Jan. 9, 2006 04:30 AM EST Reads: 22,571 Replies: 4 | By Jeremy Geelan Opera CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner has confirmed that Opera Software has added support for AJAX to both the Opera browser and SDK (software development kit). Jan. 7, 2006 06:15 PM EST Reads: 31,843 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan  One of the 'inflexion points' of the development of the Web, when commentators and analysts draw breath for long enough to chronicle its history, is certain to be the day that Google, through first Gmail and then Google Maps, opened the eyes of millions to the fact that the Web can be ... Jan. 7, 2006 03:45 PM EST Reads: 18,200 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan When the rest of us start a blog we can do so pretty much safe in the knowledge that our entry into the blogsophere will be gradual, even invisible. Not so when you're Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who's just started one devoted to his Semantic Web interests. Jan. 1, 2006 02:45 PM EST Reads: 23,811 | By Jeremy Geelan This is traditionally the time of year for SYS-CON Media's round-up of i-Technology predictions from around the Web, and this year's harvest of thoughts and viewpoints is more varied than ever. 2006 promises to be a vintage year for software development, according to SYS-CON's globe-sp... Dec. 31, 2005 07:15 AM EST Reads: 69,783 | By Jeremy Geelan The senior vice president of Design at Apple, Jonathan Ive, has been awarded a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in the UK's so-called 'New Year's Honors' list. The award recognizes Ive's international achievement in the... Dec. 30, 2005 05:45 PM EST Reads: 21,554 | By Jeremy Geelan Published reports are claiming that Google has paid $1 billion to take a 5% stake in AOL, thereby securing the significant (10%) portion of its annual sales that derives from AOL. Dec. 18, 2005 04:15 AM EST Reads: 18,746 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan  SYS-CON's offer to Ms. Jarvis will be to run the events division of the company as president and CEO with an annual salary of $150,000. Part of the job responsibilities of the president and CEO position, which is currently open, will include the launch of three international conference... Dec. 16, 2005 12:15 PM EST Reads: 60,134 Replies: 17 | By Jeremy Geelan  Sometimes people ask me what it takes to run a successful business and I, who know only the media business, am always hesitant to reply. What could someone who has 'merely' spent the past 25 years exclusively in publishing and broadcasting via radio, TV, print and, most recently, onlin... Dec. 15, 2005 03:30 AM EST Reads: 23,185 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan Gomez told the Mercury News that his aim is to 'make Skype a household name in North America,' just as it already is in Europe (from where Skype originates, with its Estonian engineers, Danish co-founder Janus Friis and Swedish CEO Niklas Zennström) and the Far East. Personally I hope ... Dec. 12, 2005 09:00 AM EST Reads: 10,930 Replies: 3 | By Jeremy Geelan If you thought that 2005 would end quietly in the i-Technology world, think again: it's going to end with a rumpus, a furore, an unprecedented worldwide commotion. Because the Secretary of the US Air Force Michael W. Wynne and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley have just ... Dec. 9, 2005 08:00 AM EST Reads: 18,112 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan  Nigel Cheshire's company, Enerjy, has just launched Enerjy CQ2, a code quality solution for Java development managers. In this exclusive Q&A with JDJ, Cheshire contends that software quality from 2002 to 2004 has diminished: 'As an industry, it's time to take this problem seriously.' Dec. 7, 2005 11:45 AM EST Reads: 18,301 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan Mandriva and LaCie will introduce a mobile USB hard drive named the 'GlobeTrotter 2.0.' The GlobeTrotter comes in 40 or 80GB and is pre-loaded with a specially tuned version of the award-winning Mandriva Linux operating system. Combined with the power and unique design of LaCie hardwar... Dec. 5, 2005 06:30 PM EST Reads: 1,569 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan For the second consecutive year, HostMySite.com has been selected to receive the prestigious Marvin S. Gilman Award of Excellence for outstanding customer service. Dec. 4, 2005 03:00 AM EST Reads: 21,033 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan The single thing that Adam Kolawa in 2004 (prophetically) said he'd like to change about Java's history is its separation from Microsoft. 'I think it is a shame that the technologies from both sides cannot be used together,' he says, in an exclusive interview with JDJ. 'Java seemed to ... Dec. 3, 2005 03:00 AM EST Reads: 47,922 Replies: 13 | By Jeremy Geelan 'Sun is making the Java Enterprise System, Sun N1 Management software and Sun developer tools available at no cost for both development and deployment,' the company said yesterday, in an announcement. The announcement also said that Sun is 'reaffirming its commitment to open source thi... Dec. 2, 2005 06:00 AM EST Reads: 9,613 | By Jeremy Geelan 'Sun is making the Java Enterprise System, Sun N1 Management software and Sun developer tools available at no cost for both development and deployment,' said the company in an announcement yesterday. The announcement added that Sun is also 'reaffirming its commitment to open source thi... Dec. 1, 2005 09:15 PM EST Reads: 33,670 | By Jeremy Geelan  Did you know that in November, Great White Sharks congregate in the waters around the Farallon Islands, a protected national marine sanctuary located 26 miles outside of San Francisco Bay? Or that Makauba marble from Brazil is blue? Or that the average cost of the vessels on Forbes.com... Dec. 1, 2005 01:45 PM EST Reads: 19,584 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan  The first SYS-CON.TV program that can now be downloaded free of charge and viewed on the iPod is Roger Strukhoff's 'India's i-Technology Triangle' show. Strukhoff recently visited India's i-technology cities and reported on the India's software business and its explosive growth in the ... Dec. 1, 2005 02:30 AM EST Reads: 24,055 Replies: 6 | By Jeremy Geelan The much-awaited Firefox 1.5 will be available for free on Tuesday afternoon PST, at www.getfirefox.com and www.mozilla.com, says the Mozilla Foundation. About 20 locales are going to be released simultaneously. Nov. 29, 2005 06:45 AM EST Reads: 19,419 | By Jeremy Geelan In a wonderfully eccentric posting last week entitled 'Does the old school accept blogging?' Alan Williamson suggests not only that I am a late adopter to the world of blogging, dragged-reluctantly-into-the-future-through-a-hedge-backwards kind of thing, but also that the reason for th... Nov. 27, 2005 07:00 AM EST Reads: 45,218 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan  SYS-CON's Geelan takes on both Nicholas Carr and Dan Farber as he ponders blogging in the context of what he terms 'insight capture' - and argues that the volume of insight worth capturing in the blogosphere is no great shakes. Nov. 24, 2005 08:30 AM EST Reads: 62,852 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan  'We are thrilled to get both the backing of such a strong group of strategic investors and a major distribution agreement with AOL,' said the 'Father of ColdFusion,' Jeremy Allaire, now Chairman and CEO of Internet TV start-up Brightcove. Allaire was referring to the announcement yeste... Nov. 23, 2005 07:45 PM EST Reads: 45,406 | By Jeremy Geelan In a recent survey of British air passengers commissioned by Google and conducted by independent market research firm Tickbox.net, 50% of those surveyed said they had nothing better to do in airport terminals than eat, drink and shop. However, 71% of respondents stated that they would ... Nov. 23, 2005 08:15 AM EST Reads: 26,769 | By Jeremy Geelan A leading developer of cross-platform application publishing and Web-enabling solutions, has announced that it has established a strategic co-marketing agreement with BlueShark Technologies. BlueShark will now offer its Apriza 5400 and 5410 thin-client hardware appliances pre-configure... Nov. 18, 2005 01:00 PM EST Reads: 22,674 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan IBM has announced new solutions to allow financial services and banking customers to centralize operations and reduce overhead costs. The new IBM Systems Solutions for Branch Banking leverages IBM's growing ecosystem of partners, and also adds another option to the IBM Virtualized Host... Nov. 16, 2005 02:00 PM EST Reads: 26,419 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan President George W. Bush has announced that IBM has been awarded the 2004 National Medal of Technology by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Technology Administration in recognition of more than four decades of innovation in semiconductor technology. Nov. 16, 2005 01:00 PM EST Reads: 22,761 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan  One of the most interesting facets of the 'Leaked Memo' incident last week is not so much what it reveals about Microsoft's Bill Gates, author of one of the two leaked memos, as what it tells us about the author of the second one: Ray Ozzie, the creator of Lotus Notes and Groove Networ... Nov. 12, 2005 08:15 PM EST Reads: 25,083 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan A year and a day exactly after Mozilla first rolled out its popular Firefox Web browser, Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 2 became available for download - made available to the techno-savvy for testing purposes only, with no end-user support. Nov. 12, 2005 04:15 PM EST Reads: 16,518 | By Jeremy Geelan New companies like salesforce.com and Google have 'real businesses that can challenge and win against the old guard companies,' said SalesForce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff this week in a public riposte to Gates's speech this week about the end of software and the switch to a serv... Nov. 11, 2005 09:00 AM EST Reads: 22,516 | By Jeremy Geelan HP has introduced an expanded Total Print Management portfolio - the company's integrated suite of devices, management software and services designed to help businesses streamline their printing and imaging resources and document output. Nov. 11, 2005 05:00 AM EST Reads: 21,082 |
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Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the all-new 
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David Linthicum
Coach Wei
Douglas Crockford
Bill Coleman
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Jnan Dash
Gary Cornell
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