Episode 68: Collaboration in a 2.0 World -

Cross-posted from the Sharepoint Team Blog - some great tips here:

A much easier way to keep track of new SharePoint content published on MSDN and TechNet -

The following RSS feeds have been available for a few months now, but we still get questions on a weekly basis from people wondering how they can keep track of SharePoint oriented content that is published on TechNet and MSDN.

I'm attending a briefing session in July, so I will ask!

Where next for Aqualogic? - While Oracle probably would be loathed to lose customers, its strategic roadmap says very little about the Aqualogic product family... 

[Cliff Saran's Blog]

IBM Unveils Cognos Business Intelligence Software for Mainframe Customers - BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cognos, an IBM (NYSE: IBM) company and the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced that IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence software is now available, for the first time, for Linux on System z.

[IBM Newsroom]

WebSphere Application Server Version 6.1 Feature Pack for EJB 3.0 - Draft Redbook, last updated: Mon, 30 Jun 2008

- EJB 3.0 overview and technology
- JPA Persistence Architecture
- Application development with EJB 3.0

This book introduces the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0 technology and describes its implementation in IBM WebSphere products through the Feature Pack for EJB 3.0. [WebSphere Redbooks]

My hat goes off the to hauliers engaged in the latest protests. The price of oil is perhaps a little out of immediate control, but Alistair Darling needs to look at tax cuts to help seed more disposable income back into the UK economy. Falling house prices, rising fuel and food prices, and Labour's answer - more tax! Time for a change!

Inside NSA Red Team Secret Ops With Government's Top Hackers - The NSA has made headlines in the past few years for wiretapping and data-mining of questionable legality, but one of its primary functions is protecting the military's computer networks, and that's where the red team comes in.

Interesting story on data mashups in the UK public sector. I think we need a competition to solve our economic woes and remove the extortionate taxes applied by the lame duck excuse for a government we have, but I guess this is a step in the right direction - for now at least ...

Government launches data mash-up - The UK government launches a competition to find innovative ways of using the masses of data it collects.

Progress pushes for SOA evolution by acquiring Iona -

Progress Software made a strategic move to gain wider recognition in the infrastructure software market with its acquisition of integration specialist Iona.

[SOA News from Computer Weekly]

IBM Supercomputer Bolsters Cancer Research - IBM today announced the deployment of a Canada's fastest research supercomputer at the Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network. The new system will aid in the search for more effective cancer treatments.

[IBM Newsroom]