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- EDS' troubled legacy of failed IT projects
- Observing the news that HP is acquiring EDS, perhaps it's time to reflect on EDS' troubled history with IT projects. I've written about a number of failed projects where EDS played a role. Warning, some of these stories are ugly: More EDS issues over...
- Tags: Information Technology, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Strategy, Government, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- A U.S military botnet in the works
- Make botnets, not war? In April, last year, I asked the question "Why establish an offensive cyber warfare doctrine when you can simple install a type of Lycos Spam Fighting screensaver on every military and government computer and have it periodically update its hit lists?" A year...
- Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, Military, Attack, U.S, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- News to know: HP's to buy EDS; AMD; XP SP3; iPhone; Spam attacks
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: HP bidding for EDS; Deal would ramp up services. Dennis Howlett: HP to take out EDS: does it make sense? AMD rejiggers management; Forms central engineering group Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Integrate Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0 and Windows Media...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Hewlett-Packard Co., Nokia Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Attack, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Podcasts, Data Centers, Homeland Security, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Google releases Reader BETA for iPhone
- Google Reader is one of the most active projects at Google as far as adding new features and creating interfaces that work well on other devices. They even have Google Reader designed specifically for the Wii. Now they have released a brand new interface for the iPhone for...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Google Reader, Blog, Interface, Blogging, Internet, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Electrical outages make you appreciate mobile technology
- I awoke this morning to the crackle and thunderous crash of a 100-year-old oak tree snapping and falling in my next-door neighbor's yard (iPhone picture above). We're lucky that no people or property were damaged, but the tree fell on a power line knocking out service for my...
- Tags: Mobile, Apple MacBook, Battery, Outage, Engineering, Modems, Notebooks, RSS, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, Internet, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Official: Google's 'Friend Connect' brings social networking to the Long Tail
- In case you didn't think Google wanted to be a big player on the Social Web -- Orkut, Google Talk and shared items in Google Reader aside -- the search giant revealed an ambitious new strategy today: 'Friend Connect' is a platform designed to help the 'long tail' of sites...
- Tags: Long Tail, Google Inc., Network, Friend Connect, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Is anyone ready to process a trillion events per day?
- What is event processing and how could it make a difference? Here is one example of where it could take us: Scientists are talking about the possibility of an in-body network that could detect heart attacks or diabetic collapses and alert emergency services. A typical company deals...
- Tags: Event, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Sales Strategy, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
- Philips DCP851 portable DVD player w/ iPod dock
- While the DCP750 and DCP850 weren't the first portable DVD players to include built-in iPod docks, the Philips brand ensured that they made a bigger splash than earlier models from the likes of iLuv. For 2008, Philips has overhauled the design, opting for a tablet configuration instead of the standard...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Consumer electronics, Media players, DVD player, Philips DCP851, Apple iPod, Philips Electronics N.V., DVD
- Product reviews 2008-05-09
- Why do Macs need so much fixing?
- Why do Macs need so much fixing?My point exactly (nt)(nt)I guess we're both the luckiest people in the world.All of my systems (Windows, OS X, Linux, and Solaris) work fine. No muss, no fuss, no problems. It's good to be me.Come come nowRoss2000: [i]Am I the luckiest guy in the...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Macs need, Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Data Portability: The Microsoft angle
- Data Portability: The Microsoft angleLets see is MS can devise a systemthat will allow data in and out of MS systems with an open format that has no locked data formatting which will generate into "We can't let you have the format as it contains our "IP" ".Let me guess[B]....
- Tags: Desktops, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Lets See
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Minimizing XP SP3 woes - UPDATED
- I'm getting sporadic reports of Windows XP users having problems installing XP SP3 on some systems. Here are some tips to help make the install process a little smoother. Disable AV software It seems that some antivirus (AV) software causes the SP3 install to hang, while...
- Tags: Service Pack, Microsoft Corp., AV, Service Pack 3 Setup, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- BarCodeLite (exe)
- BarCodeLite is the simple, easy, Lowest Cost, convenient solution to print 1D and 2D bar code labels BarCodeLite enables you to save your barcode as an image file, or copy it to the Windows clipboard for easy pasting into Your program, also you can use Barcode Scanner Feature to detect...
- Tags: ATSoft, BarCodeLite, Network Technology, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-05-09
- Some PDF to Txt Converter (exe)
- Some PDF to Txt Converter is a pdf to txt, pdf to text convert tool. You don't need Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader software to convert pdf to txt. Easily convert pdf to txt, pdf to text with Some PDF to Txt Converter. This version is the first release on...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PDF, SomePDF
- Software downloads 2008-05-09
- sMail Reader (msi)
- sMail is closed email system designed for parents and their children. With sMail, you and your child must use the sMail Reader to read and send email only to other sMail users who are part of your network of family and friends. You, the parent, control who your children can...
- Tags: Network, Melwin Enterprises, sMail, E-mail, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-05-09
- Some Text to PDF Converter (exe)
- Some PDF to Txt Converter is a pdf to txt, pdf to text convert tool. You don't need Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader software to convert pdf to txt. Easily convert pdf to txt, pdf to text with Some PDF to Txt Converter. This version is the first release on...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PDF, SomePDF
- Software downloads 2008-05-09
- A new must-read for math/science teachers
- I stumbled across an extraordinary children's book at our local library (for a town of 600, we somehow manage to have a great library). The book, though published in 1995, is still available new on Amazon. Called Math Curse, it was written by John Scieszca, and answers that fundamental...
- Tags: Cereal, Teacher, Math Curse, Fibonacci, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- HP Officejet J6480
- The Officejet J6480 is Hewlett-Packard's newest all-in-one printer with a host of features designed to appeal to small-to-midsize businesses that want a low-cost, feature-rich device capable of handling projects across the board. This $200 multifunction printer certainly delivers everything you want in an AIO: Autoduplexing, photo finishing, one-touch faxing, a...
- Tags: Printers, Fax, Officejet J6480, printer, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Product reviews 2008-05-08
- Data Portability: The Microsoft angle
- MySpace unveiled on May 8 yet another industry initiative to allow users and developers to share their social-networking data -- a goal Microsoft also has in its sights. The first partners announcing their participation in MySpace's Data Portability initiative include Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket (also owned by News...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., MySpace, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Top five (last-minute) digital camera accessories
- Don't worry--you still have a couple of days to get it together for Mother's Day. If your favorite mom already has a digital camera, getting her one of these cool camera accoutrements is sure to put a smile on her face. Pandigital PanTouch Photo Frame ...
- Tags: Accessory, Digital Camera, Camera, LensPen, Millipod/Wrap-up Combo, Janice Chen
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
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