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- Hands-free software applications and services for your mobile phone
- My fellow MobileTechRoundup podcast host, Kevin Tofel, is a freelance writer and one of his articles just appeared on the New York Times that I thought some of you may be interested in. The article is titled Souping Up a Cellphone for Maximum Multitasking and after reading the article I...
- Tags: Software, Phone, Mobile, Article, Cell Phone, Cellular Phones, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- Encyclopedia English (zip)
- Look no further - the world's biggest Encyclopedia for mobile devices. Over 1.5 million articles, 100 times as many articles as in Concise Encyclopedia Britannica. Product Features: Over 1.5 million articles carefully checked for accuracy and completeness by a team of experts. Hundred times as many articles as in Concise...
- Tags: Article, MobileReference, Encyclopedia Britannica, Wiki, Team Management, Online Communications, Management
- Software downloads 2008-03-19
- Got room in your heart for a hacker?
- I was looking over famed security researcher and cryptography expert Bruce Schneier's blog today and found an article on hacking medical devices. I have to admit that I was surprised, but I shouldn't have been. These days, if you can build it, we can break it seems to be the...
- Tags: Device, Researcher, Article, Hacker, Schneier, Hacking, Security, Digital Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- "They" could be listening to your VoIP calls: here's what to do about it
- Paul Ogle at VoIP-News alerts me to a newly posted article on their site. The article is entitled, Is Someone Listening To Your VoIP Calls? Premise: Calls transmitted via a LAN, a WAN or the Internet can be easily intercepted by anyone with a protocol...
- Tags: Article, Encryption, IPSec, VPNs, Telephony, Network Security, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Security, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- Revealed: The mysteries of Apple's logo and other high-tech brands
- Like other high-tech companies, Apple sometimes changes its logo to better express its brand and its current corporate personality. However, few of the logos from its silicon-era peers have undergone such a vast transformation as Apple. A post by Alex Santoso on the Neatorama site tracks the...
- Tags: Logo, Brand, Article, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Branding, Service Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Microhoo update: Culture clash, Alibaba and board room politics
- With the tech world on holiday in the U.S. for President's Day, the fate of Yahoo still hangs in the balance. That's doesn't mean the blogosphere has been taking a vacation from the topic. In the NYT, John Markoff and Matt Richtel write about the culture clash...
- Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Article, Microsoft Corp., Battleground, Alibaba Group, Corporate Governance, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Software, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-02-18
- Dilbert's insight into managements view of virtualization
- Today's Dilbert comic strip (which can be found here ) was clearly meant to present an exaggerated view of some management behavior the author must have seen in his time at Pacific Telesys. I've observed the same behavior in my time. A manager reads a non-technical article describing some very...
- Tags: Article, Behavior, Manager, Dilbert, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Strategy, Hardware, Storage, Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- WikiReader (21-Setup)
- WikiReader makes loading and reading of WikiPedia articles easier. Just press a hotkey in any Windows application and the WikiPedia article will pop up in a small window. In the WikiReader window, articles from WikiPedia are displayed without menus, logos or other cluttered elements. Articles already viewed are cached, thus...
- Tags: Article, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-02-12
- Microsoft wants to help you speed up Vista
- Microsoft has published an article aimed at helping Vista users speed up their system - but the article takes a somewhat hit-and-miss approach to speeding up a PC. Oh, and the best performance tip of all has been left out! Since several of you sent me...
- Tags: Performance, PC, Article, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
- Wi-Fi routers vulnerable to UPnP attack from hackers
- A couple of weeks ago we discovered that it's possible for viruses to quickly spread among unsecured or WEP-encrypted Wi-Fi routers in densely populated urban areas. The solution seemed to be simple: Use WPA encryption and strong passwords. Now, based on an article Gnucitizen, there's another way for hackers to...
- Tags: Router, Article, Wi-Fi Router, Wi-Fi, Hacker, UPnP, Attack, Gnucitizen, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Networking, Rik Fairlie
- Blog posts 2008-01-15
- Excelgestion (zip)
- Create easily your invoices (as well as other commercial documents). Store the documents into the archive sheet and reuse them. Have your generic articles modified as you wish (a generic article can be modified for every invoice). This program uses the common Excel interface: articles, customers, suppliers, VAT (three rates)...
- Tags: Stock, Article, Invoice, Taxes, Microsoft Excel, Investment, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-01-14
- Erosion of privacy is a corporate strategy
- CNET reports on Google's efforts to expose Google Reader user's shared items to Google Talk contacts. The article compares this to the Facebook Beacon project, which would have made purchases and other personal preferences available to people who are Facebook friends. That's not an exact analogy,...
- Tags: Strategy, Google Inc., Facebook, Article, Privacy, Freedom, Security, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2007-12-27
- What's the real story on the Windows Home Server data corruption bug?
- In the software industry, data-damaging bugs are every product manager's nightmare. When a reproducible bug in this category is identified, sirens go off, vacations get canceled, engineers lose sleep, and product managers pop Maalox until it's fixed. That's the context behind the alarmingly terse Knowledge Base article 946676, published last week. The entire article...
- Tags: Article, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Bug, File, KB, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2007-12-27
- ePlatform launches Techmeme competitor and application platform
- ePlatform has developed an on demand platform for building Web applications platform, and its first example app is a set of meme trackers, similar to Gabe Rivera's popular sites, Techmeme, WeSmirch, memeorandum and Ballbug. ePlatform launched Technology, Politics and Entertainment trackers, based on its RSS, Search...
- Tags: Article, ePlatform, ePlatform Search Engine, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- I love Linux, but it's not going to save the world
- I read an article on CNN a couple days ago about Linux and ewaste reduction. It wasn't until I spent far too long shoveling my driveway tonight, though, that I had time to give the article any thought. At first blush, it seems to be another ringing endorsement...
- Tags: Operating System, Article, Hardware, Computer, Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Productivity, Open Source, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- Rooster RSS Reader (zip)
- Rooster is powerful RSS and ATOM Feeds Aggregator and News Reader for Windows. Some of the key features include: Download articles per feed basis. Simultaneously download articles for multiple feeds. Edit and store download conditionals such as scanning intervals. Store articles for off-line reading. Manage (display/move/delete/flag) articles off-line. Give names/aliases...
- Tags: RSS Reader, Article, Rooster, RSS, Microsoft Windows, Web Site Development, Internet, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2007-12-11
- The Big English Encyclopedia (zip)
- Look no further - the world's biggest Encyclopedia. Features: over 1.5 million articles carefully checked for accuracy and completeness by a team of experts; 100 times as many articles as in Concise Encyclopedia Britannica; 15 times as many articles as in the 17 volume paper edition of Encyclopedia Britannica. The...
- Tags: Encyclopedia, Article, Encyclopedia Britannica, Wiki, Team Management, Online Communications, Management
- Software downloads 2007-11-29
- Pathway
- Pathway's aim is to help you discover Wikipedia without having to worry whether you'll have enough time to read everything you want, or if you'll get lost. It accomplishes this by presenting you with a graphical "network" representation of your visited article pages. A node represents an article, a connection...
- Tags: Network, Article, Node, Pathway, Wiki, Networking, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2007-11-27
- Kensington MicroSaver lock defeated with a penny
- As a fan of both Numismatics and Macs I found a recent article in 2600–The Hacker Quarterly most troubling. "A Penny For Your Laptop" (Autumn 2007 issue, page 19) by Atom Smasher demonstrates a very simple vulnerability in the Kensington Micro-Saver Notebook Lock. Apparently it can be unlocked very...
- Tags: Bank, Article, Lock, Laptop Computer, Corporate Communications, Notebooks, Financial Services, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2007-11-23
- SlashDock (6)
- SlashDock is a simple Mac OS X dock-based application that fetches and updates headlines for the lastest postings on slashdot. Updates are obtained every 30 minutes, if new articles are available, the dock icon will flash with an image representing the article 'topic'. Selecting an article from the dockling menu...
- Tags: Article, SlashDock, RDF, Apple Mac OS X, XML, Apple Mac OS, RSS, Operating Systems, Internet, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-11-23
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