Anith Gopal

An interview with Steve Ballmer as part of the SuperPower , season of programmes on TV, radio and online exploring. It’s proving to be a fascinating series of programmes exploring the power of the internet. Others in week one are Sam Pitroda, Martha Lane Fox, Evgeny Morozov, Ge Wang and Joe Rospars and week two sees Eric Schmidt, Philip Emeagwali, Jimmy Wales, Daniel Ek and Victor Koo interviewed.

I come across the following tools and thought it might be helpful to post them here: ClumsyLeaf.com has a tool called Cloud XPlorer which can be found at http://clumsyleaf.com/products/cloudxplorer . I myself haven’t used it but plan to in the near future

  DataViz

At the RSA conference this week, Microsoft announced the availability of the U-Prove Community Technology Preview (CTP) .  The U-Prove CTP integrates with the Microsoft identity platform technologies (Windows Identity Foundation, Windows CardSpace 2.0, and Active Directory Federation Services 2.0) and enables the issuance and presentation of cryptographically protected claims in a manner that provides multi-party security. At the same time, the U-Prove technology enables any desired degree of privacy (including authenticated anonymity and pseudonymity) without contravening multi-party security. Identity solutions enabled with U-Prove technology that provides more secure and private access to on-premise and cloud based applications through the minimal disclosure of information are critical for establishing trust in information and communication technology (ICT) systems for the health industry to encourage adoption and use of these systems by care professionals, patients, and other users of these health ICT systems.

Sometime, when we discuss with customers and partners, there are delicate topics that the one we are in conversation with seems doesn’t want to go in too much details. It’s seems to me that in his mind, there’s still di idea that “yeah, MS technologies has growth a lot, but… you may not be as ‘mission critical’ as…”.