UK Technology4Good awards launched
AbilityNet, BT and others have launched the Technology4Good Awards to promote the use of ICT to improve the lives of our communities.
The accessibility blog contains short pieces of news and thoughts on accessibility and usability. Accessibility covers making all of ICT easier to use by people with disabilities and challenges and how to make peoples lives easier by the use of ICT. Deeper examination of product and supplier matters appear in Peter Abrahams publications and articles for Bloor Research.
Who will be Snow White?
Six of the new generation of warehousing vendors have been acquired. Is there anything useful to conclude about the companies being bought?
My bad
Infoglide competes with IBM in the identity resolution space but the both potentially have an issue.
HP has another go
TDWI annoucements: HP buys Vertica and Kognitio announces Pablo
Usability and Accessibility of Apple Mac App Store
The App Store for the Mac makes finding and installing new tools a walk in the park.
So, what is data virtualisation?
Data virtualisation is all the rage. But it's not data federation. Or not always.
Geographic and geospatial musings
Some thoughts on GIS and spatial analytics
Bye-bye Neoview?
Reports suggest that HP is pulling out of HP. Why am I not surprised?
Netezza still sparkles after acquisition by IBM
Gerry Brown attends the user conferences of two acquired enterprise software companies and comes to some very different conclusions
Adobe Reader X improves usability and accessibility
The new Adobe Reader allows comments to be added to any PDF document (electronically scribbling) - great for the print disabled.