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Roughing it by Mark Twain 1.0 (Mobile)

This is a travel memoir about Twain's stagecoach trip through the Wild West with humorous and fanciful anecdotes.

Tags: Mobile, Anecdote, Memoir, AppEngines, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-07-23

Stories about Animals 1.0 (Mobile)

A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of ZealeStories about Animals: with Pictures to Matchby Francis CWoodworthExcerpt:In the following pages are grouped together anecdotes illustrative of the peculiarities of different animalsmostly quadrupedstheir habits, dispositions, intelligence, and affection. Nothing like a scientific treatise of any of these animals...

Tags: Animal, Mobile, Anecdote, Blackberrybooks, Handhelds, E-books, Advertising & Promotion, Smart Phones, Hardware, Personal Technology, Marketing, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2007-09-14

Martin Taylor makes a political argument

Martin Taylor makes a political argumentSorry!Didn't mean to steal your topic... of course, I got beat to the punch as well. So many people want to correct Dvorak...same goes to you"Taylor has some fine anecdotes, but anecdotes aren't proof"All your articles have anecdotes but you have nada to backup your...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., open source, Linux, Taylor, anecdote

Discussion threads 2005-07-21

Martin Taylor makes a political argument

I planned to go after John Dvorak's Creative Commons humbug, but I got beat, and that's good.So let's instead take a look at the latest from Martin Taylor, Microsoft's general manager for platform strategy.For News.Com's Eileen Yu, Taylor recently went all Karl Rove on open source, saying things you...

Tags: anecdote, Taylor, Martin Taylor

Blog posts 2005-07-21

Additional Resources

Droid Preview: iPhone's first real competition has arrived

The MicroSD card is not only expandableIt is hot-swappable. So basically your storage is only limited to how many cards you can afford.Competition is GREAT!I am glad Android is taking off, the future is Linux driven devices/appliances.To the naysayers that Linux distro devices/appliances are a 'niche' I guess Google is...

Tags: Smart phones, Apple iPhone, Droid Preview, phone, card

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Verizon Droid ad attacks iPhone on features

I'm really interested in this phone. I hear it won't drop 30% of its callsThe ad is pure genius and truly highlights how terrible the iPhone is. The iPhone also has the dubious distinction of being the only modern cell phone to drop 30% of its calls, as admitted by...

Tags: Smart phones, advertisement, Verizon Communications Inc., Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Poetry Book-You die; I die-Love Poems 1.0 (Windows)

Poems symbolizing the immortality of love and at times its fickleness. Parekh takes the reader through a paradise naturally embellished with the ingredients of eternal romance and its sporadic failures. As they say life and death are two sides of the coin, similarly with every true anecdote of love there...

Tags: Poem, NikhilParekh, Parekh, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-07

Survey: Microsoft customer satisfaction takes second quarter hit

Survey: Microsoft customer satisfaction takes second quarter hitIf they suck so muchWhy competitor can't manage to significantly increase market share in many fields where Microsoft is keeping(O.S) or even increasing(Server,B.I) its market share, like O.S market ?Could it be that much of the negative perception people has of Microsoft...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Product marketing, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft customer satisfaction, customer satisfaction, Microsoft Windows Vista, survey

Discussion threads 2009-07-15

Are Steve Jobs' management skills a corporate risk?

We all know that Apple CEO Steve Jobs is a revered figure in the consumer electronics industry for pushing the envelope and getting filthy rich doing it. But does the magic of Apple product success hide a poor business manager? ...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., CEO, Bill Taylor, O'Grady, Consumer Electronics, Leadership, Personal Technology, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-07

Parents bought me an Apple fruit, not Apple computer: FML

After the news this week, I think the vast majority of us could do with a cheer-me-up post. The FML craze has been spreading like wildfire since the start of this year: the website, Twitter and Facebook especially. "FML", stands for "f*ck my life", has its own dedicated website which...

Tags: Phone, Apple Inc., Boyfriend, Computer, FML, Productivity, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Mac users suffer Safari 4 woes

Mac users suffer Safari 4 woesNo Mac issues hereIt works well.Now on Windows, Safari is a PIG - memory, CPU, etc.Works great on my MacNo issues to report here. Nice and fast. The new UI changes here and there take a little getting used to. Overall, I'm very satisfied.RE: Mac...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Web browsers, Safari 4, Apple Safari, Safari 4 woe, Mac-user, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-06-26

The 'incredible' growth of the Mac

The 'incredible' growth of the MacThurott is an IdiotOn just about everything he writes - Windows, Mac, etc.And you have to consider the source "Windows Supersite" isn't a good place to read about Mac news. (Nor is Apple.com a good place to read about Windows).Not Really ...Check this out:http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2009/06/08/wwdc-2009-time-for-a-reality-check.aspx35...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Thurott, Mac Unit, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS X, Apple iPhone, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2009-06-09

China demands new PCs carry spyware

There comes a time when despite the allure of the market, Western industry should band together and turn its back on China. A time when the computer and Internet industry realizes that the censorship-and-repression tax the government is intent on levying is too high a price...

Tags: Software, China, PC, Spyware, Computer, Tools & Techniques, Government, Internet, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-08

The "erotic services" shell game: hypocrisy online

The "erotic services" shell game: hypocrisy onlineWhy dont they just make it legal, regulate and tax the crap out of it.If many law abiding citizens continue to break a particular law then the law is no longer socially justifiable. Laws are simply social control over behavors that are unwanted....

Tags: game, hypocrisy, Evangelism

Discussion threads 2009-05-14

Simple cost/benefit and the systems upgrade

Simple cost/benefit and the systems upgradeAnecdotal evidenceThis is the Nth time you use this particular setup of the two 690s as a basis for comparison between AIX/Power and Solaris/Whatever. As stated in another post the problems with that system has nothing to do with AIX but with design.I can counter...

Tags: Blade servers, Databases, Enterprise software, Recruitment & Selection, Storage, PCI, P690, T5440, Oracle Real Application Cluster

Discussion threads 2009-03-04

The Macintosh turns 25 (and how it was almost a Bicycle)

Tomorrow, 24 January 2009, is the 25th anniversary of the Macintosh. On that fateful day in 1984 Apple released a little toaster of a personal computer that went on to become the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface. The embedded video...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Desktops, Hardware, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-01-23

How medical device makers can improve U.S. health care

How medical device makers can improve U.S. health careIt could be that 289,241,887 less people areeasier to take care of?Population of the US: 305,682,000Population of the Netherlands: 16,440,113A minor difference to be sure.Additionally, how many people imigrate, or are illegal to the Netherlands vs the United States? Are these poeple...

Tags: ROI/TCO, Document management, INTERNET, HEALTHCARE, Netherland, DME, medical device, management system, imaging, ROI

Discussion threads 2008-11-18

Review: Why Android is for me and the G1 isn't

For me, when it comes to cell phones, it's a marriage of convenience. I value the basic function of a cell phone to connect me to the rest of the world from almost anywhere, but beyond that, I couldn't care less about the "features." Despite my power...

Tags: T-Mobile G1, Phone, T-Mobile, Cell Phone, E-mail, HTC-made G1, Telecom & Utilities, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-12

Apple's new MacBook line: Affordable enough?

Apple's new MacBook line: Affordable enough?What are the specsI haven't seen the specs yet (are they published?) but I don't think it's going to be enough. They either need to compete with Windows PC's or not. Don't half ass it. My guess is the lower price will still not match...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, new MacBook line, MacBook line

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureYou may want to edit the "More Terminology" section.In it you state and hopefully this is not your own understanding of it: [i]"T1″ is an North American telco designation for a single cable provisioned to carry up to 24 concurrent telephone conversations but usually...

Tags: Network technology, Telecom & Utilities, T1, recorder

Discussion threads 2008-09-26