Scott M. Fulton, III

Windows Interoperability with Linux to Come From China

August 23, 2011

For the last decade, Windows has held the emperor’s seat in Chinese enterprises. As a result, market share for Internet Explorer 9 and usage share of Bing are believed higher in China than in the U.S. When China’s National University of Defense Techn…

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New Ad Platform Makes Photos Into Inline Ad Generators

August 22, 2011

If you’re a long-time reader of the many dozens of blogs out there, no doubt you’ve run into inline contextual ads – those double-underlined terms that bring up little video screens when your mouse passes over them, courtesy of such providers as Konter…

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Who’s Validating the Validators? Reassessing HTML ‘Compliance’

August 22, 2011

Yesterday, Tristan Louis, my friend and colleague (and I reserve that phrase specifically for friends and colleagues, that’s not a euphemism) published on his TNL.net blog the results of his own study. Louis – a professional technologist who founded I…

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Compliance with New Disease Codes Leads to Health Care Software Overhaul

August 22, 2011

On October 1, 2013, the US Deptment of Health and Human Services will expect all of America’s health care providers to have transitioned their business bookkeeping and transaction records to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) standards. Althou…

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Resistance to the Resistance to Version-less Firefox

August 22, 2011

In organizations of all types around the world, executive decisions are met with objections from subordinates. For open source software projects, those objections often take on the tone of philosophical treatises. Such has been the case the past two …

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Ross Rubin: Will Google Put Dampers on Android? [Part 2]

August 21, 2011

Regardless of the size of the regulatory hurdle that the Google takeover bid for Motorola Mobility may be for the United States, the hurdle for Europe will be a formidable one. This despite the fact that both are American companies; they do business o…

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First Details of New ASP.NET MVC Macros in Umbraco v5 CMS

August 19, 2011

Easily the single most underappreciated content management system ever constructed is Umbraco, the .NET-based open source platform built by Niels Hartvig and a Danish team who present themselves as the friendliest developers on the planet. For anyone …

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Macheen’s Mobile Cloud-in-a-Box Goes Live with Sprint

August 19, 2011

Here’s a take on a cloud-based service you might not have considered (something new to attach an “-aaS” to): Suppose you’re the producer or manufacturer of a class of device that should have Internet connectivity. One hypothetical possibility: an int…

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Ross Rubin: Is Android Better Off Now Than It Was One Week Ago?

August 19, 2011

Google characterized it as “Supercharging Android.” Whether you subscribe to that characterization of Google’s takeover bid for Motorola Mobility may depend upon which end of the Android ecosystem you’re standing on. One of the factors that made Andr…

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Hewlett-Packard Traded WebOS for This: The Autonomy Gamble

August 19, 2011

The rate at which data, or content, is being produced for the Web and being generated for businesses has outpaced the rate at which conventional databases are evolving to better manage it all. It’s a fact of life that we perceive on a gradual basis ev…

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