Time to close Business 2.0
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Time Inc. has decided to close  Business 2.0, one of the last-remaining Internet and technology  business magazines born during the dotcom era, according to a  source familiar with the matter.
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Backyard barbecue season is winding to a close and it's time to say goodbye to daylight-saving time.
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THERE is never a right time to buy technology. Something cheaper, faster and better specified will be on the market before you have even got your product out of its box.
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There's a big yellow bar on the Twitter home page today saying it will be down for maintenence betw 10AM and 10PM today. I haven't heard any grumbling about this, but it's worth a bit of a grumble. What other basic form of communication goes down for 12 hours at a time? What if the web went offline for 12 hours at a time? It's unthinkable, because the web is built on the Internet and is decentralized and redundant. A single router or server can go down for a few hours, days or forever, and the web keeps on tickin.  Same with email. If Gmail started having twelve-hour planned outages, as much as I like Gmail, I'd switch. I can't be without email for any extended period of time.  Okay, let's give the guys at Twitter credit -- they stopped being flip about Twitter taking naps or showers. No one likes jokes when a line of communication is down. Now I'd like them to take another step. Assuming these long outages are really necessary, explain to us what they're for. I can take a guess -- something about their database needs changing, and all the data in all the files must be processed to implement the change. Any updates made while such a process is running would be lost, so the server must be shut off. But this is just a guess.  Another guess -- maybe they've hired a scaling expert who needs to make one final major adjustment before these outages are a thing of the past? No one would want to make such a promise, that's offering too much temptation to Dr Murphy, but that would be good news. Maybe Twitter is getting on to solid ground, finally.  It's fairly amazing that there isn't a viable Twitter clone out there yet. I'd also like to see something much more decentralized, based on static files, available to any Twitter-like system. It doesn't seem that far out of reach. With all the scaling troubles Twitter has had it's surprising that there haven't yet been any entrepreneurs willing to enter the space as competition to Twitter.  Users and developers are learning first-hand why centralized systems are so fragile. I'm sure they're doing a heroic job at Twitter, the best they can with what they have, but it's not good enough when the service takes a 12-hour break while many of the humans that depend on it are awake and working.
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This paper introduces some techniques for making backups without needing to stop the business applications. It also describes ways to simplify and reduce the cost of system operations.
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Bye bye to Buy! Buy! Another day, another silly survey, this time claiming that nearly two million UK small businesses are "putting their data and productivity at risk by using old technology to run their business". Why? because they replace their PCs rarely or never, and miss out on all sorts of good things, such as happy staff, cheaper running costs, and smaller "footprints" and lower repair bills.â¦
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Business & money: Lowest August mortgage approvals since 2000.
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Business & money: Proposed closure of Berkshire brewery in 2010 would mean the loss of loss of up to 360 jobs
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Want to save money right now? Get rid of these manual procedures that drain help desk resources, waste valuable storage space and cost ongoing licensing fees.
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Time's running out to switch your Part D provider.
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(Source: Webex)  Last year 671,800 small businesses opened, while 544,800 shuttered their doors. Not all of these failures were due to bankruptcy. One major culprit was travel expenses. See how you can proactively react to increasing travel budgets and literally eliminate most if not all of them through web collaboration solutions.
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Retail stores owned by Apple will be closed from 2PM to 6PM on Friday, prior to the iPhone's release.
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Capital One's time in purgatory may be near an end.
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Disastrous service can turn off customers and investors.
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An era will come to an end when IBM sells off its computer manufacturing business, according to The New York Times. A Chinese company seems the likely buyer and the deal should fetch upward of $2 billion.
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With the market dropping, you have to do something, right?
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More than 200,000 customers of the internet company could lose telephone access and money paid in advance now that it has gone out of business.