A friend of mine is working on NFC and I wondered if my Android device would support it – well it didn’t but there is a new version of the phone in development that was just tested by the FCC for NFC compatibility. http://www.nfcrumors.com/08-17-2011/is-the-htc-incredible-s-the-next-google-wallet-enabled-nfc-phone-it-just-passed-through-the-fcc/
While I was in college I worked summers for a glass company. My job was in the engineering drafting department where I drafted furnace parts, conveyor belts and paint bands that hides the goo they use to stick your windshield to your car. During this time American automakers struggling cope with the explosion of Japanese [...]
Managing access to applications and data resources can be a time-consuming and error-prone process. IT administrators are often asked to grant access to sensitive data without knowing the business justification why a user should have it. The result may be inappropriate authorization, access delays, or groups that are bloated, outdated and inaccurate. This lack of [...]
Following up on my post at the beginning of August about Skype possibly being discontinuedand today it was announced that Ebay is selling off 65% of its share of Skype in a move that is called “Unsurprising” by some analysts. Check out MSNBC’s coverage here.
IBM announced a new service that allows administrators to upload desktop images to their subscription based service. Once uploaded, the administrator can grant access to that image to users from anywhere they choose. There is a fifty desktop minimum and if the administrator doesn’t want to use IBM’s hosted service, IBM can provide them the [...]
Motorola Mobile Device division choose Google Apps as their primary email and office application platform. They put together a nice marketing video for Google explaining their decision to choose Google over other offerings.
I didn’t get a chance to blog about yesterday, but Late Monday the Mcirosoft Exchange team shipped a Release Canidate which esentially is a final beta of the product. It appears they are still on track to have a late year release. http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/08/17/451976.aspx
Google continues to improve their cloud service by adding the ability to share content to a group of additional users. This means you can setup a group and grant it the ability to contribute to your google apps data and so when people are joined to the group they get the permissions you have given [...]
ActiveRoles Quick Connect for Base Systems: SharePoint Integration provides real-time Provisioning & Deprovisioning of SharePoint access. This integration extends the SharePoint access provision already in ActiveRoles Server. Today, ActiveRoles Server can automatically provision/deprovision in real-time SharePoint access if AD groups are used to grant access to SharePoint resources. With Quick Connect for Base Systems: SharePoint Integration, ActiveRoles [...]
We have posted the public beta of Quick Connect for Base Systems: SharePoint Integration. This beta provides group synchronization between Active Directory and the SharePoint groups in the site of your choice allowing all of the ActiveRoles Server provisioning, deprovisioning, work-flow, self-service, attestation and temporal access management features to work immediately for SharePoint Access Managment. To [...]
