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- Obama campaign unleashes iPhone app
- Obama campaign unleashes iPhone appLMAO ntntYou know...the more you post here......the more apparent it becomes that you are a complete imbecile .Let me guess your age.From the sounds of your ramblings on ZDNet, I'll bet you're no more than 14. Which, by the way, is probably fairly close to your...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Obama, iPhone App
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- The services game: Will you trust a tech company to solve your business problems?
- The services game: Will you trust a tech company to solve your business problems?Trust IBM!?Having witnessed first hand PWC's work on implementing SAP, and IBM's capabilities as an IT outsourcing expert, the trust is gone.Not a new concept, and not isolated to IBMThe concept of providing business services that fall...
- Tags: Outsourcing, services game, business problem, tech company, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- News to know: Windows 7; Tech economy; Samsung eyes SanDisk; NetSuite
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 hits Milestone 3 Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer VMware's Datacenter OS: Windows isn't the competition ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., NetSuite Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Did McCain invent the BlackBerry?
- Did John McCain invent the BlackBerry? Well, no one actually said he did, although the Telegraph headlined a story as such. As the LA Times reports the episode, here's what happened: Asked by reporters today about McCain's grasp of technological issues, senior policy...
- Tags: Technology Innovation, John McCain, RIM BlackBerry, Tech Policy, Handhelds, Hardware, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- 'John McCain invented the Blackberry'
- A fabulous little story posted to Comcast explains how one misguided adviser (exactly who is he advising?) for Republican presidential nominee John McCain claims that the dear senator helped create RIM's popular tap-tapping device, you know, in like, a really indirect way: At...
- Tags: John McCain, RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Investment, Hardware, Finance, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- GoBootstrap: simplifying SME accounting
- I'm keen to see startups in the accounting for small business space. Part of that is because I spent more years than I care to remember in finance roles, part is in the belief that accounting systems that reflect a 600 year old methodology are well...
- Tags: Accounting, Small And Medium Enterprise, Advisor, GoBootstrap, GoBootstrap.com, Tax Estimate, General Usability, Taxes, Free Trade, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Spammers announce World War III with spam emails packing malicious payloads
- Spammers announce World War III with spam emails packing malicious payloadsSorry Nate - have to disagreePlease everyone - do not "spread the word" as Nate says it - I spend more time looking up these e-mails, and then convincing people that the e-mail they got was a hoax than I...
- Tags: Spam, ReceiverNet technology, spammer, World War III, spam email, malicious payload, payload
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- Anyone bothering to teach 35mm photography classes anymore?
- I just bought my wife a new point and shoot digital camera. The trusty Kodak 3 megapixel was getting a bit long in the tooth and more often she was lugging her 35mm SLR to take high quality shots. Since it's summertime, the Olympus Stylus 850SW seems like...
- Tags: Photography, SLR, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- New Web calculators from APC help you get a grip on the green impact of certain design and technology choices
- What tradeoffs do you have to make to achieve certain energy efficiency goals in your data center? How will adding that extra rack, for example, skew your electricity usage? Power management company APC aka the big UPS vendor figures that anyone who can help tell you that...
- Tags: Web, Energy Efficiency, American Power Conversion Corp., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Intuition Training Simulator (exe)
- Intuition is a unique and practically inexplicable phenomenon, but the way to train for it has been found. Intuition trainer will help to make friends with the subconscious mind, to develop intuition and imagination. Intuition trainer simulator develops the following qualities of intellect: the skill of fast and correct accepting...
- Tags: Intuition, Training, Intuition Trainer, Intuition Trainer Simulator, Workforce Management, Investment, Telecommunications, Human Resources, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-04-25
- I hate eigenvectors
- I'm only a couple months from wrapping up a masters degree in math. The program has been great and has catered to a cohort of educators who are all seeking to drastically improve math education in our respective schools and communities. However, every time I hear the prefix...
- Tags: Google Inc., Eigenvalue, Search, Engineering, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Thought leadership grows around advancing 'WOA plus SOA' as enterprise-cloud duo
- Respected developer, adviser and thought leader Dion Hinchcliffe has posted a watershed blog that develops a compelling rationale for Web Oriented Architecture's (WOA's) advancing role in enterprises. The logic is not to supplant or dismiss Service Oriented Architecture SOA, but rather to examine how WOA -- also...
- Tags: Leadership, SOA, WOA, Dion, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- California's Green Guru Speaks Out
- The clean-tech industry of today is in its early stages, about where Microsoft was in 1980, says Terry Tamminen, an adviser at Pegasus Capital Advisors and the former director of California's Environmental Protection Agency. Now a main force behind the state's rise to the top as a climate change policy...
- Tags: California, News, Green, climate change, microsoft, environment, Terry Tamminen
- Videos 2008-04-16
- There's more than one way to mesh
- On April 15, startup Syncplicity, was hatched. Syncplicity's management team includes a number of former (and near-former) Softies -- including Steven Hazel, a former employee of FolderShare. Microsoft acquired FolderShare, a file-sync vendor, from ByteTaxi in 2005 and recently updated the service for the first time in...
- Tags: Web, Groove Networks Inc., Advisor, Microsoft Corp., Syncplicity, FolderShare, MJF, Synchronization Service, Peer To Peer (P2P), Groupware, Storage, Investment, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Finance, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Google plans for bigger role in Microhoo scrum
- Google has hired Frank Quattrone, a long-time Silicon Valley investment banker, and his firm Qatalyst as an adviser. Hiring Quattrone indicates that Google has no plans to let go quietly as Microsoft makes its play for Yahoo. According to the New York Times' DealBook blog, Google has retained Quattrone's...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hiring Quattrone, Internet, Recruitment & Selection, Financial Services, Processors, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- News to know: The week in video; Software licensing doomed?; Windows Mobile UI; Microhoo
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Traditional software licensing: Could a customer revolt cook the model? The week in video: Cisco's virtual health care project Sun Labs looks into 'proximity communications' RSA 2008: Sizing up security RSA 2008: Emerging tech...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Video, Microhoo, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Patches, Corporate Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- ZapThink's Linthicum takes reins as CEO of data services provider StrikeIron
- Service Oriented Architecture SOA consultant and author Dave Linthicum has taken over as CEO at data services provider StrikeIron, just six months after Linthicum sold his consulting firm to and became a managing partner of SOA analysis firm ZapThink. On April 2, Linthicum was identified as CEO...
- Tags: Data Service, StrikeIron, ZapThink LLC, CEO, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Belarc Advisor (Readers' ten favorite Windows programs)
- Belarc Advisor (Readers' ten favorite Windows programs)Belarc AdviserThis program has been useful to me--it's a great source of info on all kinds of stuff, like licenses for my software.Software is God scienceAny idea from text programs to art,music and video can be brought into existence with software.Using this software is...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, C/C++, favorite Windows program, Belarc Advisor, Windows Program, Microsoft Windows, SIW
- Discussion threads 2008-03-21
- White House taps Wiki entrepreneur to fight cyberattacks
- Silicon Valley entrepreneur Rod A. Beckstrom has been tapped to join the Bush Administration to help secure federal networks against attack, the Post reported today. Beckstrom most recently founded Twiki.net, an enterprise Wiki support company, and previously created CATS Software and Mergent Systems. He's also coauthor of a...
- Tags: White House, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Cyberattack, Post Story, Hacking, Wiki, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Qantas Airways: a perfect storm for IT failure?
- Qantas, the Australian national airline, has endured two high-profile IT failures in recent years and a third major project appears to be at substantial risk. In many respects, the company offers a case study for examining how underlying management issues can cause multiple IT projects to...
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, Qantas Airways Ltd., Qantas Engineering, Peter Gregg, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
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