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- Network Magic simplifies tasks for home users
- Network Magic from Pure Networks isn't a new product, but it's new to me. I've been playing around with this home-network manager for a week or so, and I think it's a great solution for those who are unfamiliar with networking. Its clean design and easy-to-understand interface helps you perform...
- Tags: Network, Network Magic, Network Map, Network Advisor, Networking, Rik Fairlie
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Nokia kicks off strategy to focus more attention on the U.S. wireless market
- I have been enjoying the recent posts on the Nokia Conversations site and a couple that I found particularly interesting was the post about Nokia's changes in the USA and the interview with the N96 and N78 creators. One is directly applicable to U.S. users of Nokia products, like myself,...
- Tags: U.S., Strategy, Phone, Device, Nokia Corp., N96, Telecom & Utilities, Smart Phones, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Blockbuster can start due diligence on Circuit City
- Circuit City said Friday that it is exploring strategic alternatives and will allow Blockbuster and investor Carl Icahn to "conduct additional due diligence." Last month, Blockbuster announced a rather perplexing plan to acquire Circuit City in an attempt to take two struggling retailers and make one strong...
- Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Blockbuster Inc., Diligence, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- A brief summary
- This is not an excerpt from Brief - those ended last week, and next week we'll start the long and boring slog through the second volume in the series: Business Information Technology: Foundations and Culture. Its purpose, where Brief is addressed to top level executives and Defen is intended for...
- Tags: Information Technology, MySQL, Jonathan Schwartz, Open Source, Databases, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Images: How to make your car run on tequila (sort of)
- Start-up E-Fuel shows off a home ethanol distiller the company says can fuel your car in your own backyard for as little as $1 per gallon. by CNET News.com
- Tags: News.com, Run, CNET News.com, Food, It', Food & Beverage, Government, Manufacturing
- Image galleries 2008-05-09
- Comcast considering bandwidth caps, surcharges
- Comcast considering bandwidth caps, surchargesBackdoor rate increase, time for regulators to step in!I can see how this is going to play out in several jurisdictions: Comcast quietly enacts this rate increase, then customers start getting whopper monthly broadband bills because they don't realize that using Comcast for web gaming, Youtubing,...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Regulations, Channel management, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Broadband Internet, Comcast Corp., bandwidth cap
- Discussion threads 2008-05-08
- 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
- Mark your calendars: Microsoft to push Office 2007 SP1 on June 16
- Systems administrators: Mark your calendars. Microsoft is going to start pushing the first service packs for Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007 next month. In December, when Microsoft rolled out Service Pack (SP) 1 for the 2007 Office System, company officials said they'd give customers a minimum 30-day...
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Service Pack, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Update, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- KinetiCast - online presentation and promotional tracking
- With the meme about presentation tools and SlideShare yesterday I thought now was as good a time as ever to cover KinetiCast, a company in the online presentation space that I chatted with a couple of weeks ago. One of the things that mkes KenitCast unique is that they very...
- Tags: Presentation, Presentation Creator, Productivity, AJAX, Web 2.0, Microsoft Office, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Office Suites, Software, Ryan Stewart
- 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
- Data Portability: Social Infrastructure still very much wanting
- In a penetrating analysis of the Facebook developers forum, 20bits shows that the participation of programmers in the discussion about the Facebook platform is rapidly dwindling, which suggests the platform itself is incompatible with the needs of the market. The fewer programmers writing for the Facebook platform, the less relevant...
- Tags: Facebook, Data Portability Standard, Social Networking, Development Tools, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Google offers enterprise web security
- Postini, a company acquired by Google, is now offering enterprise web security. All traffic is routed through Google, and they take care of making sure traffic meets your corporate policies. The interesting part of all this though is how it secures computers, even when they aren't in the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Postini Corp., Web, Web Security, Productivity, VPNs, Blogging, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Network Security, Networking, Security, Telecommunications, Internet, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- SaaSplaza opens European SaaS marketplace
- Europe's first pureplay SaaS hosting venture opened its doors last month with a roster of 50 vendors and integration partners on board and an estimated 1 million end user subscribers. Based in the Netherlands but with a Europe-wide reach, SaaSplaza projects its platform will generate more than €100 million (around...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Microsoft Corp., SaaSplaza, Siennax, SaaSplaza Venture, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Monetizing social media: Still an uphill climb; Some friends may be worthless
- Monetizing social media: Still an uphill climb; Some friends may be worthlessSomething is worth exactllywhat someone else is willing to pay for it.Couldn't be because they stink?Their revenue shortfall and lack of growth could just as likely be traced to their notorious right wing bias. As the neocons fall...
- Tags: MySpace, social media, advertiser, social networking, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2008-05-08
- How much are your friends worth?
- News Corp. revealed yesterday that its new media subsidiary Fox Interactive Media (FIM) has missed this year's revenue target of $1bn by 10 per cent. FIM's portfolio is dominated by MySpace which accounts for the majority of its revenue, bringing into question once again the ability to monetize the huge...
- Tags: Advertisement, Google AdWords, News Corp., MySpace, Advertiser, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- iTunes FairPlay DRM - Protecting artists and labels, or helping Apple sell more iPods?
- iTunes FairPlay DRM - Protecting artists and labels, or helping Apple sell more iPods?Adrian, I do not think it is a lack of ....motivation as much of lack of knowing that DRM even exist until they are trapped by it.Oh, come on man...You think people are stupid about this in...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., digital-rights management, Apple iTunes
- Discussion threads 2008-05-08
- An idea about teaching Linux to the MCSE community
- Frequent contributor Roger Ramjet has a bit of a bee in his bonnet about path and naming standardization across a multi-vendor distributed Unix architecture. If I understand him correctly, he believes that it's both possible and sensible to build what amounts to a standardization harness - a set of scripts...
- Tags: MCSE, Standardization, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Strategic Planning, Open Source, Software, Strategy, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- AMD's new roadmap: Can it execute?
- AMD's new roadmap: Can it execute?Is "asset smart" the new term for "fabless"?Is the term "asset smart" another way of saying, "Fabless"? I mean, "Fabless" does have a negative connotation to it. "Asset Smart" sounds new and fresh and exciting. I like it !!! Perhaps it means...
- Tags: Video cards, Semiconductors, Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., graphics, chip, Intel Corp., graphics chip, new roadmap, Puma, asset
- Discussion threads 2008-05-08
- Second Life is the latest reason our kids are doomed
- Second Life is the latest reason our kids are doomedSecond LifeShouldn't keep telling people to get a life . they have...a second one.Ban Republinazis from Congress.And while we're at it we can start hanging the traitors.Even him...Maybe somewhen he could suffer a seizure and become a terrorist/rapist or whatever word...
- Tags: INTERNET, Second Life, predator
- Discussion threads 2008-05-08
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