Technology Mashup

An interesting podcast from ComputerWeekly...

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]

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]

I've got my iTunes channel up and running and all of the podcasts from Social Media, Mashups and Enterprise 2.0 are now available in the iTunes store (they are all free). I will be adding to this significantly over the next few months.

I was writing about this issue back in mid April, but it is nice to see this is now being raised at Parliament...

MPs warned of GPS jamming risks - Ministers are urged to invest in a radio system developed during World War Two as a back-up to GPS satellite navigation.

[BBC UK Technology News]

Sainsbury's suspends online shop - A computer fault forces Sainsbury's to suspend its online grocery service, meaning thousands of orders will not be delivered.

[BBC UK Technology News]

Report: IBM outpaces competitors in Application Development software market for seventh straight year - IBM today announced that analyst firm Gartner, Inc.* and market research firm Evans Data Corp. have ranked IBM as the leader in the application development software market. These rankings come just as IBM is projecting more than 12,000 people will attend its 2008 IBM Rational Software Development Conferences in 13 countries around the globe.

[IBM Newsroom]

IBM Research and Kyoto University Create First of a Kind System to Simulate Urban Transportation - Kyoto University and IBM's Tokyo Research Laboratory have jointly developed a system that can simulate a broad range of urban transport situations -- including millions of individual vehicles involved in complex traffic interactions -- to predict what will happen if a new office building, sports arena or other major facility is built and improve planning of roads and public transportation.

Microsoft's standards bid stalled - Four developing nations appeal a decision to ratify Microsoft's document format as an open standard.

[BBC UK Technology News]

Inside the Government's Backup Plan for GPS Failure - With the threat of everything from antisatellite weapons to solar flares, the Department of Homeland Security is upgrading an old navigation system to eLORAN to track signals across the country...

Epson aims to cut CO2 emissions by 90 percent -

The company has pledged to cut its CO₂ emissions by 90 percent by 2050, through a variety of strategies, including shrinking its printer parts...

[ZDNet UK Green IT Toolkit]

Call to prosecute BT for ad trial - BT should face prosecution for "illegal" trials of a controversial ad system, says a leading computer expert.

[BBC UK Technology News]

ODF Comes of Age: IBM Lotus Symphony Turns 1.0 - Open Document Format (ODF) comes of age today as IBM announces the commercial-grade, general availability of Lotus Symphony (http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony), a suite of free, ODF-based software tools for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations.

[IBM Newsroom]