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Thursday, August 24, 2006 11:10 AM

That's THE decision of the year for me...

Hi all, I just wanted to share my joy with you all. On Saturday, I'll get married! :-D I have spent almost 10 years of my life with my soon-to-be wife so I figured out that she deserved it. You know what it is, right? Living with an IT specialist is not
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Friday, August 18, 2006 9:15 PM

Boeing leaves Connexion behind ...

A couple of years ago, I was mentioning in one post how pleasant it was to work in a plane while wirelessly connected to the Internet. This service was delivered by "Connexion by Boeing" . Boeing's CEO, Jim McNerney, has decided to stop delivering that
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:07 AM

Microsoft's home page for Software as a Service (SaaS)

My readers know my interest to the "Software as a Service" concept. Microsoft has just released a complete subsite on MSDN Architecture led by our friends Gianpaolo and Fred . Here's where you can find it: http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/saas/
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Friday, August 11, 2006 6:13 PM

Heathrow ... Time to encrypt your data

With the latest news about terrorism and the extra-security in the airports, you know that laptops no longer are allowed in planes. Neither are PDAs and Mobile phone. Can you imagine how much sentive data is stored in your machines? What if they "disappear".
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006 1:02 AM

Tim O'Reilley: "one of the motivations to share -- the necessity of giving a copy of your source code (...) -- is truly gone"

Tim O'Reilley comes back to some interesting facts about Open Source software, software distribution and Web 2.0 considerations. He's saying: " one of the motivations to share -- the necessity of giving a copy of the source in order to let someone run
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Monday, August 07, 2006 11:25 PM

Improving Web Search Ranking by Incorporating User Behavior Information

Did I tell you that Microsoft Research really is essential to the future of the company. Go read this document that has been created ( among many others ) for this year's SIGIR conference. There's been a press pass about that as well.
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Monday, August 07, 2006 10:10 PM

The size of a typical IT staff

I'm seeking for information on the number of IT Staff per employee in a typical corporation . Corporations can be divided in categories and yes, I know there's no definite answer ... but here, rule of thumbs can help. IMHO, I have perceived this to be
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Sunday, August 06, 2006 10:53 AM

Dell's One2One becomes Direct2Dell

Some time ago, Dell did launch their blog site called "One2One". Of course, very naturally, everyone of us did try the web site with the corresponding URL and ended up on an adult site... Not too good for Dell of course. After many complaints, they finally
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Thursday, August 03, 2006 4:39 PM

Get ready to upgrade to Windows Visa

As most of you know already, Windows Vista is knocking at the door and should normally be on the market early next year. There are many things you can do to get ready to this upgrade. If you're part of the Customer Preview Program then you do have access
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Wednesday, August 02, 2006 1:24 PM

Office System and Architecture concerns

It's this time in the year where plenty of things have to be talked about with the managers. It's my responsability to inform, train, help and lead Architects and Architect thoughts in Belgium. So, while organizing next year, my manager came to me and
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006 2:57 PM

Windows Live new companion

Windows Live has now one new companion: the Windows Live Toolbar . This toolbar adds significant integration to your browser with the Windows Live platform offering. It integrates very rich funcationality such as: - Desktop Search - Local Live location
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