Enterprise 2.0 Conference Day 1: Social Computing Platforms hosted by IBM & Microsoft 9-12

That’s right its your boy, and I am here at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston giving you the live updates real time. In this session there will be presentations by:

Speaker – Heidi Votaw, Program Director, Social Computing Software, IBM

Heidi was part of the team that was responsible for providing the first social software offering from IBM. She currently runs the team that is responsible for the overall Lotus Connections business which includes a mixture of Product Management, Offerings Management and Program Management that is part of the Lotus Software Group within IBM. Her team provides the strategy and direction for the emerging area of Social Software.

What’s Wrong With The “New” AVG Anti-Virus?? (Will The Real AVG Please Stand Up)

I have been a loyal user of Grisoft’s AVG anti-virus software for almost 5 years now and I am sad to say this is the first time I have been truly disappointed in it. As an IT specialist and go-to computer fixer for all my friends, I have either recommended or installed AVG hundreds of times. If anyone asked me I would tell them that it was the best available freeware. I used to tell them with AVG as the core you could build quite a formidable security scheme around your computer… I USED to tell them. I just recently upgraded to the new 8.0.1 version because it informed me that come the end of the month, the old version would no longer be supported. I had tried to avoid this as soon as long as possible because I had installed it on my test machine and noticed some strange things.