Apple announced the new iPad 2 right on schedule. Typically Apple introduces product upgrades on an approximate 12 month cycle and the new iPad is no exception, coming in squarely at the 11 month marker. Upgrade highlights of the new tablet include an all-new design, evolutionary but not “marginal” improvements. The new unit is dramatically
Read More...From The PeopleSoft Blog: Rowset and XML doc data source are deprecated Connected query as a new data source XML generated in C++ for query data source Schema files no longer required for bursting Email as an output option “File name” field on the output page in report definition Use “Alt XML” for previewing the
Read More...Pete Swabey over at Information Age interviewed analyst and author Vinnie Mirchandani (@dealarchitect on Twitter) and others to compile a list of 11 ideas to shape IT strategy and spending in 2011. The ideas range from iterative (#1) to fairly revolutionary (#4, #9): 1. Use the Internet as your WAN 2. Allow staff to use
Read More...Know This Vanity Fair’s A. A. Gill has posted a downright funny (and thorough) review of L’Ami Louis in Paris, which he has decided is the worst restaurant in the world. Anthony Atala, a tissue engineer, prints a dummy (but biocompatible) kidney model onstage at TED 2011. The Reddit community interviews a 4 year old
Read More...Not liking your chances at beating Deep Blue at chess or Watson at Jeopardy? Here’s your chance to beat a computer – which learns as it goes – in Rock-Paper-Scissors. There are two modes, Novice and Veteran, the latter being considerably tougher because the computer draws on a historical database of known human patterns to
Read More...A popular thing to do today – especially as a proof point in a debate — is to quote famous figures when it’s become apparent that something they said a century (or more) ago has come true. This sort of thing creates an image of a person as a seer, a genius, as never being
Read More...Hands down, the best conference for ALM (asset lifecycle management), EAM (enterprise asset management) and MM (maintenance management) is Oracle’s Annual Maintenance Summit. It’s a no-pitch, no-pressure meeting of the brightest minds and companies in the EAM space, and Oracle puts a tremendous amount of effort into encouraging information sharing and relationship building. We’re less
Read More...Always a fantastic read: Throughout my lifetime, politicians and pundits have constantly moaned about terrifying problems facing America. Yet our citizens now live an astonishing six times better than when I was born. The prophets of doom have overlooked the all-important factor that is certain: Human potential is far from exhausted, and the American system
Read More...Know This You never again need to curse your weak-flushing toilet again. American Standard has just introduced its Champion toilet, a high-tech device so powerful it can flush 18 golf balls at once. Or 56 chicken nuggets. Regardless, these won’t get clogged. Ever. Google rakes content farms by tweaking its algorithm to punish content farms
Read More...Jamie Murai, a potential developer for RIM’s upcoming Playbook tablet, throws in the towel: You win. I concede defeat. I no longer want to attempt developing an app for the Playbook. Are you happy now? Surely you must be. Considering how terribly designed the entire process is, from the registration right through to loading an
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