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Amigo (zip)

Amigo is a Facebook notification client and launch pad for the Mac. It lives discretely in your menu bar, giving you quick and easy access to all your friends on Facebook. Once installed on your computer, Amigo will also notify you when you have new messages or notifications. This version...

Tags: Facebook, Objx Development, Amigo, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-06-17

Smarter homes with an Amigo

I'm sure that some of you remember Jini, an initiative launched in 1998 by Bill Joy of Sun Microsystems. This software was supposed to turn all the devices we use into 'network citizens,' as Joy said. It never really worked. And even if the electronic devices we own are...

Tags: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Interoperability, Device, Network, Middleware, Information And Communication Technology, Amigo, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Networking, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-01

Amigo (zip)

Amigo is an application which allows you to manage your favorites list in a very fast, flexible, and powerful way. The main application Amigo sits in the system tray and does not block any part of your screen. There is a plugin for IE which can ease bookmarking simply by...

Tags: Web, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Keyword, Amigo, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-05-15

The Amigo Service Architecture for the Open Networked Home Environment

The Amigo project aims to develop a networked home system enabling the ambient intelligence / pervasive computing vision by effectively integrating devices and their hosted services in nowadays home. The Amigo system architecture poses limited technology-specific restrictions, supporting interoperability among heterogeneous services. This paper outlines the Amigo service-oriented system architecture...

Tags: System Architecture, Environment, Amigo

White papers 2005-09-15

Additional Resources

Smarter homes with an Amigo

Smarter homes with an AmigoThanks, but no thanks...Okay this whole complete home network starting my dryer from my phone idea is pointless. You can't possibly convince me that it's gonna take *less* effort to maintain the connection between my dryer and my phone as it will to just get off...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, dryer, phone

Discussion threads 2007-12-01

Amigo brings open source to home networking

One of the biggest unmet challenges of this decade has been linking computing, entertainment, mobile, and and home automation systems in a single network. Many people wonder whether it should be done at all. It should be done, because many functions cross these product...

Tags: Mobile, Home Networking, Philips Electronics N.V., Open Source, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-24

Are proprietary firms paying gringo price?

Are proprietary firms paying gringo price?Well it's not the software per se ...but the intrinstic value of the Zimbra branding and book of business which is what the valuation of the company is based on. Now weather this is intrinstic value is worth the price paid is of course debatable,...

Tags: Zimbra, gringo price, proprietary firm, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-09-27

Amid questionable benchmarking choices, AMD 'claims' speed title with new Opteron 2222SE

Amid questionable benchmarking choices, AMD 'claims' speed title with new Opteron 2222SEThe problem is...Figures never lie, but unfortunately, liars can figure...It's a hollow victoryhttp://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=462Who's whiningWhy can't AMD show bench testing. Hell Intel does & uses older AMD chips to compare them too...Forgot another spec. Electrical draw.The 5160 draws about 80...

Tags: benchmarking, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-04-04

The source of Steve Jobs' paranoia: Cooperation

The source of Steve Jobs' paranoia: CooperationUnbox is not a serious competitorHave you read their terms of service? Seriously, how dumb would you have to be to agree to them:http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/15/amazon_unbox_to_cust.htmlThe one difference that bothers me....In looking at all the ways that consumers can get media content, be it music...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Music Files, music, Unbox, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Steve Jobs, digital-rights management, PC

Discussion threads 2007-02-09

Is SugarCRM open source?

David Berlind has a long interview, available as a podcast, with SugarCRM President John Roberts today. The key question -- is SugarCRM really open source?Roberts insists it is. The SugarCRM license merely combines elements from two existing open source licenses -- the Mozilla Public License and the Attribution Assurance License.Trouble...

Tags: SugarCRM, badge, marketing, Database Management, Legal, Software Licensing, Applications, General

Blog posts 2006-12-07

Hurricane victims tell it best

Hurricane victims tell it bestMy heart sunk ...... when I was reading the posting, and I'm helping monetary as much as I could. Yet at the same time I couldn't help notice that the level of compassion around the world pales in comparison to the days after 9-11. Have we...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Leadership, neocon, swamp, Federal Emergency Management Agency

Discussion threads 2005-09-01

Senators push for anti-spyware law

Senators push for anti-spyware lawRe: Senators push for anti-spyware lawHearings on spyware but no hearings on the national ID card? It's all theater..The scary thing is.. what will they bundle with this one?I can't see how that is legal.. I guess it's like reading the fine print.Just pass...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, spyware, YYYY corporation, YYYY, anti-spyware law, XXXX, software, anti-spyware

Discussion threads 2005-05-11

Firefox improves pop-up ad blocking

Firefox improves pop-up ad blockingA First by Open Source?Oh wait, I forgot, Open Source Software always follows proprietary software and attempts to offer a free version of a superior Product. I am sure this will be the spiel we get when Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 7.0downloadHow do I...

Tags: Web browsers, Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, pop-up ad, Club Shepherd 2005, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, software, dnld, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2005-04-05

Microsoft to implement EU's Windows changes

Microsoft to implement EU's Windows changesOver a year, ONLY 99%, and still not compliant …… can you play the shuffle ? Talk about dragging feet … and a probable effort at creating new bugs for people stubborn enough to want alternatives to WMP. What a good corporate citizen ! Go,...

Tags: Operating systems, WTF, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, WMP

Discussion threads 2005-03-29

FBI cans controversial surveillance tool

FBI cans controversial surveillance toolSo they're canning the controversial snooping tool......but have no intentions of canning their controversial snooping. They're just using another tool to do it.Does Anyone Remember the Bill of Rights?If we give up our freedom for security .. what have we secured?FBI and softwareHmm, the FBI is...

Tags: Federal government, FBI, software

Discussion threads 2005-01-19

With IBM system, Army hopes to crush paperwork

With IBM system, Army hopes to crush paperworkGoodAn incredible number of civilian products come from military research. It's good that the military can use civilian products, and save a bundle in the process. It also says something for the maturity of the products that the military, with its...

Tags: carbon, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-12-17