Do You Trust Cloud Computing? In thinking about this issue, we posed the question on the social web aggregation service (and new-fangled discussion board), FriendFeed to see what people would say. Surprisingly, even on a site that tends to attract a lot of technology’s earliest adopters, the responses were mixed. When asked the question: “Do […]
Month: January 2009
open-source enterprise search plan
Enterprise search: The target is moving By Larry Dignan, ZDNetTuesday, January 27, 2009 10:25 AM Lucid Imagination, an open-source enterprise search company, is looking to compete with established players like Autonomy, Microsoft’s Fast, and Endeca, but the target is already shifting. Paula Rooney highlights Lucid CEO Eric Gries’ open-source enterprise search plan: be the Red […]
TCS Gets Sony F35 CineAlta Camera
The New York based professional equipment company, TCS (Technological Cinevideo Services), recently took delivery of the new Sony F35 camera. The camera is already hard at work. “We chose the F35 because it allows cinematographers to use all the 35mm glass they have grown to know and love,” explains Erik Schietinger of TCS. “Sony provides […]
Law, nonsense, and predatory dinosaurs
Sympathy for the typo Pouncing on a typo may seem petty. For one thing, everyone makes them, and they sometimes survive endless diligent re-readings. But they can cost big time, and not only when the typo consists of a misplaced decimal point in a dollar amount. In one famous dispute a telecommunications company risked losing […]
Sweetening the Depresso
Suddenly, Hollywood Seems a Conservative Investment, writes Brooks Barnes in The New York Times. His thesis? “Wall Street, real estate, the art market – all of those other supposedly stable investment areas – are now such a mess that Hollywood is one of the safer places you can park money.” But, he goes on to […]
Vpress launches free DAM model for Core series
Vpress launches free DAM model for Core series Simon Nias, printweek.com, 23 January 2009 Web-to-print software developer Vpress has announced the launch of a free Digital Asset Management (DAM) module for clients of its Core range of print management systems. From 1 February, users of CorePrint, CoreDirect, CoreImpact and CoreQuick will gain access to CoreAssetManager, […]
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ADAM pops Britvic’s soft drinks artwork
Deinze, January 20th , 2009 – ADAM Software (www.adamsoftware.net) announces that Britvic Soft Drinks Ltd uses ADAM to manage their digital assets. Britvic is the latest client of ADAM Software’s system integrator partner TEEC (www.theenterprisecompany.co.uk). “We use ADAM as central core repository for storing all of our digital assets linked to our brands including pack […]
Who can do my keywording and scanning?
Once you get a DAM, you may have a lot of analog data (paper, prints, negatives, etc.) you want to get into your DAM, but you’re wondering… “How am I going to scan all this stuff and add keywords to it all in a timely manner?” First of all, you should cull through to see […]
Please allow me to introduce myself
Please allow me to introduce myself …. Hi, I’m Scott Simmons. you may remember me from such such blog posts as A Case Against Color, Compressor hatred. Resolved? or the infamous What’s wrong with the young FCP editor? It’s not all about bagging on FCP since I use it all the time and like to […]