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April 26, 2007

[Video] Sun's MPK20 is Second Life for professionals

At Sun Labs' open house today, we talked to Nicole Yankelovich who's working on research project MPK20: Sun's 3D Virtual Workplace. MPK20 (which includes Wonderland's 3D graphics engine and the the demo world) is available as open source and built...

[Video] HP does 200,000 business intelligence implementations per year!

We just uploaded a short video of Ben Barnes, HP's VP & GM of Business Intelligence. Here are some of the highlights of his presentation:...

April 25, 2007

[ad:tech] Wired.com drops Copyright bomb, adopts Creative Commons license for content: grab, modify, re-post...

At the digital marketing conference this morning, Wired Digital's general manager revealed that the site will adopt the Creative Commons license for its content in a couple weeks. "Our readers will be able to take our content, modify it and...

April 24, 2007

IBM and MySQL in reselling/technology deal (update)

At the HP Business Intelligence meeting today, a journalist colleague mentioned that MySQL and IBM are about to announce a reselling deal. I don't have any more details than that, especially if it involves only Big Blue' services arm and/or...

HP launches next-gen $645,000 data-warehouse appliance!

This morning HP is hosting a "Business Intelligence Chalk Talk" for the media. There, Ben Barnes, the head of HP's Business Intelligence group, part of what he calls, the company's "new" (sic!) software group presented Neoview. The data-warehouse software is...