Oracle and Sun: winners and losers
Sun is a hardware company that has, historically, been rubbish at marketing and selling software. Oracle, on the other hand, is very good at selling software but has no experience as a hardware...
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.
Accessibility has its rewards
Working in accessibility sometimes feels like an uphill struggle with little external recognition. We keep chipping away at the issues because we know it is the right thing to do and because we do...
Data warehouse snapshot
This is going to be very concise. By which I mean that so many things have been happening that there isn't enough space to talk about all these announcements in any detail. I'll start off on...
Aleri merges with Coral8
Aleri has merged with Coral8, although since it is arguable that there is no such thing as a merger—this being just a friendly name for a takeover—and as the new company will be trading...
Untangling events part 3
There has been some delay in this, the third and final article on untangling events. And just as well. I initially asked the question as to whether the log and event management vendors were more...
Wheelchairs and accessible ICT
A wheelchair symbol is often used to identify information about accessibility of computer systems. At first sight this might seem reasonable as it is a well-known symbol for disabilities in...
Latest iPod Shuffle smallest and accessible
Apple have just announced the latest iPod Shuffle. It is the smallest iPod yet—about the size of my thumb but thinner. They have managed to make it so small by getting rid of the screen. All...
Virtual Instruments’ NetWisdom 3.0 plugs VMware I-O performance monitoring gap
Network performance measurement start-up Virtual Instruments (VI) has built some neat new functionality to extract extra VMware virtual machine (VM) input-output (I-O) performance metrics into...
iWay introduces EIM
iWay, the Information Builders subsidiary, has introduced an EIM (enterprise information management) offering. Since the term EIM may not necessarily be clear I had better explain that this is a...
WCAG 2.0 Rap and Easy YouTube
If you are going to present on accessibility and would like a coffee break intro then you might like to use this WCAG 2.0 rap on Easy YouTube. The video is fun and well made and helps to make...