From smh.com.au:
Apple has been dealt a severe blow, having been told that it no longer has a monopoly on the letter ”i” as a prefix for all its products. A trademarks tribunal has knocked back Apple’s bid to stop a small company from trademarking the name DOPi for use on its laptop bags and cases [...]
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Apple’s “i” monopoly ends
Web Standards for E-books
An article from Joe Clark:
The internet did not replace television, which did not replace cinema, which did not replace books. E-books aren’t going to replace books either. E-books are books, merely with a different form.
I once had quite a quirky dinner with Joe one night in Chinatown Sydney with Lachlan.
Read the full article on A [...]
TechnologyOne in $67m TAFE deal
In this article it is announced that Student Management gets a win:
Australian software maker TechnologyOne has been selected to replace student management systems for Victorian TAFEs as part of a $67 million systems overhaul package announced by the Victorian Government today.
Congratulations to the hard working crew. I knew this system once upon a time.
5 Steps to Buidling Social Experiences
An article from boxesandarrows:
What’s your social object? Make sure there is a “there” there. Give users a reason to rally. Why would someone come to your site?
Give people a way to identify themselves and to be identified.
Give people something to do.
Enable a bridge to real life (groups, mobile, meetings, face-to-face).
ently Moderate. Let the community elevate [...]
Web cache 101
Far too simple for anyone involved in enterprise web development, but maybe a good start for others:
The two primary reasons for using web caches are:
Reducing latency: Because an intermediate cache (which is closer to the client than the web server) can serve the content, it takes less time for the resource to reach the [...]
Testing during Agile development
It sings, it dances. Oh whatever, I will read it anyway:
This e-guide offers expert insight into the agile development lifecycle and how to implement effective agile testing. This compilation of agile development tips will assist organizations in planning and executing software tests during agile development. Read this E-Guide to learn how to maintain test consistency [...]
Cisco and HP end partnership
Taken from computerworld:
In a move that perhaps seemed inevitable as the one-time strong partners began to butt competitive heads more and more in the data centre, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) have ended the last vestiges of their partnership.
Australia’s most successful business iPhone app?
By James Thomson on smartcompany.com.au:
Listed franchisors Domino’s Pizza has laid claim to having Australia’s most successful iPhone apps released by a business, after revealing that its pizza ordering app has generated $2 million worth of sales in just 12 weeks.
The success of the iPhone app, released in November 2009, was announced as Domino’s posted a [...]
Puppet: Ruby-based Server Management Automation Suite
I have been watching Puppet roll out for Production purposes. Nice to watch a professional team do great work.
About Puppet:
Following a client-server model, and with its own declarative language, Puppet tries to solve one of the challenges of server systems administration: how to reliably automate server configuration management and distribution, an essential requirement in large [...]
Google Officially Ditching Gears for HTML5, Drops Safari Support Entirely
Well this was on the cards:
If you’ve wondered why there haven’t been many Gears releases or posts on the Gears blog lately, it’s because we’ve shifted our effort towards bringing all of the Gears capabilities into web standards like HTML5. We’re not there yet, but we are getting closer.
Extracted from the Gears API Blog