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Club Backup (exe): Free Online Backup - You can backup your documents, databases, photos, videos, music, and anything else you have that is important to you. You simply check off what folders are important to you and relax. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: American Systems, Backups; Software downloads 2008-04-11
Universal Converter (1251): Convert hundreds units of measurement. All units are grouped by type--Mass and Weight, Distance and Length, Capacity and Volume, Speed, Time, Pressure. It provides not only metric and American systems, but also Ancient Roman, Old French, Nautical, Ancient Greek, and Astronomical.; Tags: American Systems, Unit, Aleksei Vassiljev; Software downloads 2006-05-10
Print Screen Deluxe (exe): Print Screen Deluxe provides a fast and easy way to capture, print, and save your screen. With one keystroke you can capture and print the entire screen, the current window, or a selected region. Capture the text in lists, read only documents, or Web sites. You can also shrink, and...; Tags: Screen, American Systems, Image, Print Screen Deluxe; Software downloads 2005-12-13
Integrated Security Solutions: Government agencies and corporations have witnessed an explosion in security technology options in recent months. Operationally, security has morphed from a fragmented, decentralized mode to being a critical component of the management infrastructure. There is even convergence of physical and IT security. The combination produces a need for an integrated...; Tags: Security Technology, Combination, American Systems, Security; White papers 2005-05-24
Helping to Automate IT Security Controls, Demonstrate Compliance, and Improve Security and Operations With BindView Solutions From Symantec: With minimal IT staff resources available, American Systems needed to migrate a complex national network while minimizing the challenges of security administration and compliance reporting. The BindView Consulting Practice from Symantec Consulting Services helped American Systems complete its migration successfully, delivering substantial savings due to an inventive clustering solution. BindView...; Tags: Symantec Corp., IT Security, Information Technology, BindView Corp., American Systems, Compliance, Security Administration, Security; Case studies

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A 1968 computer demo that changed people's lives: Can a computer demo change people's lives? I've seen plenty in my time but none that moved me in any significant way. Yet 40 years ago, Doug Engelbart gave a demo that did change people's lives and changed the entire course of computer systems development. On Monday...; Tags: Mr., Collective Intelligence, Computer, Demo, Productivity, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-12-02
Group calls on Washington to establish national Broadband strategy: It's time for the U.S. to step up to the broadband plate. A coalition of companies that includes Google, Cisco, AT&T and Verizon, among others, has sent an open letter PDF, asking President-elect Obama and Congress to make broadband deployment a high priority for 2009, according to a CNET report....; Tags: Strategy, Washington, Network, Broadband, American, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-12-02
How to hire innovators: Scott Elrod, VP of the hardware systems lab at PARC, explains how the company really got into clean tech. By hiring curious and passionate people, management doesn't even need to hand down directivesâ€”employees get together and start these things all on their own. by Administrator; Tags: Hardware, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Administrator; Blog posts 2008-12-02
Detecting cancer with laser printing tech: Scott Elrod, VP of the hardware systems lab at PARC, explains how the company applied its history of laser printing technology to the bio-medical fieldâ€”and came up with the fastest method for scanning slides for cancer cells available today. by Administrator; Tags: Laser, Printing, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Administrator; Blog posts 2008-12-02
Lowering costs with clean tech: Scott Elrod, VP of the hardware systems lab at PARC, says that lowering costs is key in clean tech. By looking at their ink jet technology and applying it to solar cells, the company was able to come up with a lower price per wattâ€”making solar an even more cost-effective...; Tags: Inkjet Printer, Clean Technology, Administrator; Blog posts 2008-12-02
PARC VP, hardware systems laboratory: Scott Elrod: Scott Elrod, vice president of the hardware systems laboratory at the Palo Alto Research Center, talks to CNET's Dan Farber about researching and supporting innovation at one of Silicon Valley's most storied tech institutions. He discusses new advancements in erasable ink, clean tech and what it takes to stay...; Tags: Innovation, Xerox PARC, Hardware, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Administrator; Blog posts 2008-12-02
PARC VP: Lowering costs with clean tech: Scott Elrod, VP of the hardware systems lab at PARC, says that lowering costs is key in clean tech. By looking at their ink jet technology and applying it to solar cells, the company was able to come up with a lower price per watt—making solar an even more cost-effective...; Tags: Inkjet Printer, VP, Xerox PARC, Clean Technology, clean tech, solar, PARC; Videos 2008-12-02
Sage to step into the on-demand ring: News started leaking late last week that Sage, the UK's largest software company, will release an on-demand accounting application called SageLive aimed at the SMB market. Details are sketchy beyond a blog post by competitor KashFlow but it seems the company is finally getting serious about the on-demand space after...; Tags: Accounting, On-demand, U.K., Details, Sage 50, Cloud Computing, Smb/Sme, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Databases, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-12-02
Dell applies its own data center lessons to new green IT services: As a business society, we've been pretty much used to thinking of information technology as a disposable asset. Even data centers were built with a 10-year lifespan in mind, which means a lot of the work done and systems deployed around the year 2000 is quickly reaching that maturity point....; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-12-02
IT faces 'dire shortage' of core skills, study: The skills needed to modernize core IT assets are in short supply, according to latest report from the application-management company The lack of core IT skills is a major impediment to modernizing key IT assets, according to a survey by application-management company Micro Focus. ...; Tags: Skill, Information Technology, Micro Focus, Survey, Strategy, Marketing Research, Management, Marketing, IT management, jobs, skills, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk; News items 2008-12-02
Welcome to MegaTom: Tom Raftery, analyst at Greenmonk and another Irregular pinged me this morning to let me know about a new community: MegaTom. Born out of an idea from Gavin Starks and Simon Wardley, MegaTom seeks to act as the hub around which people can discuss the many green issues facing our...; Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Tom, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-12-02
Talking is a good thing: I had a great meeting with one of the elementary schools in my district today. The principal turned over most of a staff meeting to me today in part for some training and professional development, but largely for a discussion of technology in the district. I...; Tags: District, Budgeting, Principal, Teacher, Financial Services, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-12-01
SOA eased the way for recent shotgun financial mergers: These are times that try banks' souls.Â Over the past few months, some financial services companies have been vaporized, and others have been absorbed or merged to save their skins. It's possible that SOA efforts that have been underway at these organizations in recent years may have...; Tags: Bank, Merger, Financial, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-12-01
Hi Def Voice: Cool Sounding, But Do You Care?: Who doesn't hate a bad phone connection, but just how bad does a connection have to be before you're willing to pay for a really good one? That's the question telephony vendors are wondering, as they deliver hi-def...; Tags: Phone, Voice, Codec, Voice Channel, Telecom & Utilities, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-12-01
What a difference one atom makes: A new study by researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science shows exactly how important a single atom can be in a complex molecule. Reporting in the Nov. 26 edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Yang Yang, a professor of materials science...; Tags: University Of California At Los Angeles, Solar Cell, Polymer, Solarmer Energy Inc., Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-12-01