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Microsoft finally bows to EU antitrust measures

Microsoft finally bows to EU antitrust measuresROTFLMAO[i]If you can't compete whine to the courts.[/i]... and that's exactly what MS did. Alas, they didn't get what they wanted.Please. An Abacus competes with Windows and Wins!Windows is a horrible failure. After years of success (due to mis-information, illegal OEM contracts, unethical...

Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, strategy, Abacus, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Spyglass

Discussion threads 2007-10-22

Fossil Caller ID Wristwatch w/ Bluetooth

Fossil has tried its hand at creating "tech watches" before, with wrist PDA watches that are able to sync with your Outlook Calendar and office e-mail, but they haven't really been successful. Not only did they appeal to a small, niche audience, but the watches themselves were large and not...

Tags: Bluetooth, watch, telephone, Fossil, Abacus

Product reviews 2006-11-14

ABACUS Online Backups (exe)

ABACUS has been called The easiest, most effective backup system possible. No financial info. required to run the fully functional trial, allowing up to 4 Gb of online backup. Fully automated, no special hardware required. Email reports sent daily. Works with Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, Netware. Runs in every language,...

Tags: ABACUS, Backups

Software downloads 2006-02-15

ENIAC: First computer makes history

ENIAC: First computer makes historyIf only my XP box worked that well!*sigh*ABACUS Makes Mind Stronger.ABACUS is simple Counting Frame, Where YOU DO mechanical operations from your OWN minds trained method, counting up result at end. It wasn't until early 1960s' that computing machine could calculate faster than ABACUS. ABACUS operator...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, ENIAC, computer, Abacus

Discussion threads 2006-02-13

30% of catalog purchases took place on the Web in 2003

DoubleClick's Abacus division released a study on catalogs showing that people are increasingly turning to the web to make their catalog purchases. Already accounting for 30% of transactions in 2003, Abacus expects this year to see 36% in Web sales, and for that percentage to grow about 5% each year,...

Tags: Web, Abacus

Blog posts 2004-10-08

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iPhone vulnerable to phishing, spamming flaws

iPhone vulnerable to phishing, spamming flawsBut I was told OS X would save me from things like this.[i]In the meantime, iPhone users should avoid clicking on links in the Mail app that refers to trusted sites.[/i]So if my mom sends me a link to a web album, I shouldn't open...

Tags: Spam, Cyberthreats, Desktops, SECURITY, spamming, Apple iPhone, PC, phishing

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

What's wrong with an exploit being sexy?

First off, let me start by saying _dietrich has been following our blog for quite some time and is a consistent poster, providing good advice on how to use Linux securely, sometimes as an alternative to Windows technologies.  I wouldn't have commented about this in a blog posting, except that...

Tags: Exploit, ActiveX, Flaw, Dietrich, openSUSE, Microsoft Windows, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Operating Systems, Middleware, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-10

RIP MSN Direct SPOT watches, so few of us knew thee well

I am probably one of the few who actually bought a SPOT watch and have been paying for the yearly service since they were launched back in 2004. I found the technology interesting, but it took a year or so for the watches to evolve into something smaller and more...

Tags: MSN, Watch, SPOT, GPS, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software, Hardware, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-04-24

Abacus-Portfolio Performance Calculator (msi)

Application was designed to help individual investors and investment professionals accurately measure, analyze and compare performance metrics of their investments. The application calculates the real rate at which a portfolio is growing. Abacus can be used to analyze performance of various asset classes including stocks, bonds, real estate, etc. This...

Tags: Performance, Abacus.PPC, Performance Management, Investment, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance

Software downloads 2008-03-26

Microsoft: Vista SP1 will break these programs

Microsoft: Vista SP1 will break these programsNYT ReaderI had the NYT Reader installed when I ran the SP1 package. I also kept all my peripherals (7 USB devices) connected during the upgrade and it went surprisingly without errors and finished in 19 minutes. NYT Reader and all my other apps...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), NVidia Corp., Dxdiag, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, SP1, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-02-21

Marauding headlines: fallout from a Torvalds interview

Marauding headlines: fallout from a Torvalds interviewBias?I read the same thing you did and didn't walk away with any of those impressions, nor yours. His talks seem in line with what I have read previously.Was he quoted out of context? Sure. Was he quoted accurately ? Yup....

Tags: Linux, Apple Mac OS, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Gilbertson, Torvalds

Discussion threads 2008-02-11

Researchers hack Microsoft wireless keyboards

Researchers hack Microsoft wireless keyboardsXOR?Heh, that is pretty insecure. Tsk tsk Microsoft, you should know better by now. Good thing I don't have any wireless keyboards...- John MusbachRE: Researchers hack Microsoft wireless keyboardsexclusion-orIs that the same as exclusive-or?Wow, showing that humans can crack other human's creationsand MS, what a not...

Tags: Keyboards, keyboard, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Wireless Keyboard, Microsoft Wireless

Discussion threads 2007-12-05

Take that, iPhone:new BlackBerry will have faster processor than iPhone

Take that, iPhone:new BlackBerry will have faster processor than iPhoneWow. 4 megahertz faster.Take that, indeed, iPhone. After all, 4 mHz is the difference between an abacus and an IBM XT (give or take .77 mHz)!One fourth the RAM of the low-end iPhone, but the processor speed bump will...

Tags: 3G, Apple iPhone, faster processor, processor, iPhone:new BlackBerry

Discussion threads 2007-11-30

How many medical gadgets changed the world?

9. That's how many medical related devices turn up on The Independent of England's arbitrary list of the "101 gadgets that changed the world." In some ways the list is rather silly but it does give some indication of which medical gadgets are considered...

Tags: Gadget, Tablets, Team Management, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-30

Abacus HelpDesk (exe)

Abacus HelpDesk supports your help desk with complete service and support, call tracking, knowledge management, problem resolution, call management, statistic reports, and invoice handling. With the SQL-connection module, Abacus HelpDesk supports MS SQL server to handle large databases. Multi-language support, Citrix and Terminal server support, and remote computing. Version 4...

Tags: Support, Microsoft Corp., Help Desk, Call Centers, Microsoft Outlook, Knowledge Management, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Strategy, It Operations, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Management

Software downloads 2007-11-23

National Security and the PC

National Security and the PCAnd not Sun?Are you saying that Sun doesn't buy any of their chips from foreign suppliers? Doesn't do any significant development work in non-allied countries?This is an issue with pretty much all software and electronics, not just PCs and Windows.Well, let's just go back to...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Desktops, PRODUCTIVITY, Network technology, Semiconductors, Sun Microsystems Inc., PC, software, chip

Discussion threads 2007-11-14

Open source booming in K-12 education

Open source booming in K-12 educationOne thing...Peer reviewed journals are nice and all. But do you really expect high schoolers to understand the papers, and how many of them are free and accessible for free from home?Other than that, I'd be interested to see you delve deeper into this topic.I...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, open source, Internet, computer, K-12

Discussion threads 2007-08-31

(Photos: Computers of yesteryear)

(Photos: Computers of yesteryear)Nice.. i have an IBM Powerstation 340 sittin on the shelf:)Great memoriesI have an Epson QX-10/16, CP/M OS that still works fine with all its programs including the original "Valdocs," and many others from Peach Software and Epson.I'm Disappointed....No Microsoft BoB? No Windows ME?? No...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Mainframes, Servers, E6B, photograph, PDP-11/73, disk, computer, mainframe

Discussion threads 2007-08-20

Yes, Windows Vista does crash ...

Ahhh, it's been a busy week so I thought I'd end with a funny ...Here a funny (well, I found it funny) error message that we caught over at the PC Doc HQ the other day:We waited ... nothing happened ... eventually we clicked on End Process ... nothing happened...

Tags: Microsoft, Vista

Blog posts 2007-06-15

Are you sure there's not a place for a smart watch on your wrist?

I used to wear a watch all the time while I was in the military and then I went through a phase where I just used my phone to for my timekeeping needs. MSN Direct with SPOT Smart Personal Objects Technology was launched on watches and I had the opportunity...

Tags: Microsoft, Gadgets

Blog posts 2007-06-04