My colleague asked me to attend a roundtable briefing at SUN Microsystems’ Hong Kong office on 3 December. Having worked at a storage vendor myself years ago, in a marketing role no less, I am learned in the ways of whitewashing stories to the point where they sit between science fiction and magic. And identifying which is what is just as challenging.SUN’s Open Storage strategy promises to significantly drive down the cost of current generations of proprietary storage solutions from vendors ... [ Read Full Article ]

Pidgin, Gaim, Kopete: these days, there’s a variety of different options for instant messaging (or IM, for short) for Linux distributions such as Ubuntu. they all connect to a variety of different protocols and offer plenty of advanced features, so which one should you use?Pidgin and Gaim are basically the same program. For reasons that have a lot to do with naming rules laid out by America Online, the Gaim project recently decided to change its name to Pidgin. Pidgin offers the ability t ... [ Read Full Article ]

The opening up of industries and fast growth in sectors like automobile, insurance, logistics, finance and telecom has coupled with strong government procurement and are pushing China online market for both consumer and industrial products. On the other hand, global sourcing agents and multinational purchasing companies have expressed concerns about problems to be solved ahead of this. Wholesale online market is something that will give a business owner the opportunity to achieve a life long dr ... [ Read Full Article ]

Overview:The Martin Yale 1648 Automatic Letter opener is a high speed letter opening machine that is designed for medium and large mailrooms that deal with high volumes of mail on a daily basis.This machine was formerly known as the Martin Yale 1648 chadless automatic letter opener. However, it has recently been changed by Martin Yale and is no longer a chadless machine. The new design for this machine is actually an improvement since the chadless design was was the source of many problems with ... [ Read Full Article ]

Could it be that the evil empire has surrendered? If you haven’t heard Microsoft announced on Tuesday that they will change to a higher level of openness and interoperability with many of its high volume products including an agreement not to sue open-source developers for products that connect to Microsoft software. My question is this: Who locked Bill Gates in a closet?After all, this is by the company that brought you software bundling and the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance. They are ... [ Read Full Article ]