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tyBit Unified Search announced the release of its newest product, ty-Meeting. According to company officials, ty-Meeting is a complete Web-based conferencing platform that allows its users to hold online meetings and collaborate with a feature set that includes document and desktop sharing and significant multimedia functionality. Other features include slide presentations, audio conversations, video demonstrations via Webcams, plus private and public chat windows.

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‘The Big Switch’ elaborates on Carr’s earlier comparison of the Electricity Generating industry, at the start of the last century, and today’s Computing industry. He argues that such a move, with its massive economies of scale, was an economic necessity at the time and that today’s technological advances, combined with the same economic forces, will drive us inevitably towards a ‘Computing Utility.’

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This presentation at AJAX World Conference & Expo 2008 West discussed how BAE Systems leverage the AJAX capabilities of ICEfaces to deliver revolutionary, web-based solutions for Homeland Security. Included were live demos of incidentOS, and how ICEfaces can help take AJAX to the max. Notably, key capabilities in ICEfaces like AJAX Push, and Portal Integration - both being fundamental to incidentOS - were introduced. Stephen Markya and Ryan Moquin encouraged a greater understanding of how ICEfaces can take web application development to the next level. Additionally, this session just may have caused many to feel safer knowing technologies like incidentOS are helping secure the Homeland.

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Novell Tuesday came out with myCMDB, a web-based application that taps into social networking. It’s supposed to enhance enterprise configuration management database (CMDB) usability, accessibility and accuracy.

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Leading Technology Authors Will Get Syndicated and Earn Cash For Page Views on Their New Homes Pages

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More than a thousand sites are using Facebook Connect, says Mike Vernal, a member of the Facebook Platform engineering team, in this Exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON’s Web 2.0 Journal. Some prominent examples Vernal mentions include Citysearch for local reviews, Joost and Vimeo for video sharing, and a number of blogs, including TechCrunch and Gawker.

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If you have read the book “Wikinomics” by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams, then you should not miss this new book “Grown Up Digital” by Don Tapscott. Ten years ago, the same author wrote a book entitled “Growing Up Digital” - and this book is a sequel and traces how the Net-Geners have evolved. If you are a practitioner of social media or a policy maker involved in crafting new policies for the net generation, this might just be the book to read to understand the trends and strategies in the realms of education, citizen activism and parenting.

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