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Anonymous Friend (exe)

Anonymous Friend masks the IP address by routing your traffic through foreign anonymous proxies. This way your Internet activity cannot be traced or your surfing habits cannot be recorded. The anonymous proxies supporting post allow you to surf, read mail, news, play online games, participate in newsgroups, and post messages...

Tags: Proxy, Anonymous Friend, Games, Internet, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2006-06-08

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Podcast: gadgets for Christmas, iPod lovin' and the Blu-ray war

Zack Whittaker has taken a few days off to "get his head together", but last week took half an hour out to record a podcast with his best friend, Elliot Harrison, who has stepped up to the firing squad to cover this week. Some notes for...

Tags: Apple iPod, Web Site, Blu-ray, Zack Whittaker, Podcasts, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Music, Digital Media, Internet, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Mervyns – The cautionary tale of selling one's business

Too Many Cooks Spoil the Livelihoods of Thousands BusinessWeek (12/6/2008) did a great job of dissecting of what went wrong in the collapse of U. S. retailer, Mervyns (see "What Have You Done to My Company"). The subtitle of the story pretty much sums up the...

Tags: Private Equity, Private Equity Company, Firm, Mervyns, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Who put the 'crap' in 'Crapintosh'?

Zack Whittaker has taken a few days off to "get his head together", so in the meantime his best friend, Elliot Harrison, has stepped up to the firing squad to cover this week. The hate campaign certain Windows users have against Macintosh users must ...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Zack Whittaker, Desktops, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-12-02

See You in the Cloud

This post marks the end of my relationship with ZDNet -- though not the end of my blogging career by a long shot. I'll still be blogging -- can't seem to give it up now that it's in my blood -- but over on my own Wordpress site, where the...

Tags: Blog, Blogging, Internet, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-12-01

The uncertainties of social media for traditional brands

Guest post: Drew Bartkiewicz is a vice president of Technology and New Media Markets for The Hartford, and author of the upcoming book, Unseen Liability. In today's 24/7 business world, companies and their customers are consuming, sharing and storing data at an unprecedented rate. This data has...

Tags: Web, Brand, Network, Social Media, Tiffany, Web 2.0, Intellectual Property, Internet, Research & Development, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-25

The ultimate student handheld: something for Christmas?

I've taken many months looking for the ultimate student device; something fairly cheap and not too expensive especially in this current credit climate, something that'll last for a while, something which which can be multi-purpose; none of this "buy a camera, a phone and a sat-nav" when you can have...

Tags: Phone, Handheld, Video Call, Video, Camera, E61, E71, Multimedia Having Fun, Telecom & Utilities, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-11-24

The case for Scala

Programming languages are like screwdrivers for developers. One size does not fit all, so good programmers keep several in their tool belt. The problem is, new languages are coming out all the time and you've only got so much room on your belt and in your schedule to learn them....

Tags: Function, Method, Functional Programming, Language, Scala, Seq, List, Scala System, HQ9+, env:Env, David J. Biesack, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-11-24

Web 2.0 security? What a mash

* Ryan Naraine is away on vacation. Guest editorial by Guillaume Lovet Ah, Web 2.0. Its endless composition of heterogeneous sources (aka "mash-up") possibilities, its social networking-oriented nature, its user-provided content... A Web adapted to today's powerful machines, linking people together in world...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Facebook, Codec, YouTube Inc., Video, Web 2.0, Corporate Communications, Channel Management, Security, Internet, Marketing, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-11-24

Opening arguments in Drew case

The opening argument in the Lori Drew case may hint at just how difficult it will be to keep the case focused on the actual charges of computer fraud and misuse, rather than Drew's liability for the suicide of Megan Meier. The New York Times reports federal...

Tags: Mr., Ms., Productivity, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-20

Witnesses set for MySpace suicide trial

Well, it's shaping up to be a juicy time at the trial of psycho-mom Lori Drew, the woman whose weirdo obsession with a neighbor girl led to the teen's MySpace-driven suicide. A long list of witnesses are poised to testify, Wired reports, including the parents of...

Tags: Juror, Suicide, MySpace, Internet, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-19

CRM 2009 Forecast: How'd I Do in 2008? Gimme A High Four!

Usually, when I begin my forecast for the coming year, I like to look at how I did the previous year - which is usually disconcerting to say the least.  So, in honor of my first non-intro post for this ZDNET blog, I'm going to be nakedly transparent and show...

Tags: Social Media, Business, Tool, CRM, Zoho, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-11-18

Kindle Economics

A few weeks ago I evaluated Amazon's Kindle. While I really liked the device, the big problem I had with it was that at its current price of $359.00 it was too expensive at this point for mass consumer adoption. I also had a number of...

Tags: Cost, Semester, Amazon.com Inc., Textbook, Amazon Kindle, E-books, Microsoft Excel, Personal Technology, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-11-16

Nostalgia: Steve Ballmer, why so serious?

It's been a long road for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, he was just a business-savvy best bud of Bill Gates -- long before he spent his days explaining why Microsoft's stock was at risk. A friend of...

Tags: Nostalgia, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Construction, Operating Systems, Software, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-14

A year after YouTube ban, Pentagon launches TroopTube

After blocking YouTube from oversease bases last year, the Defense Department has launched TroopTube, as an authorized alternative. It is, the site says: the new online video site designed to help military families connect and keep in touch while miles apart. The site is designed...

Tags: YouTube Inc., Video, Site, Pentagon, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-12

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

Blog posts 2008-11-12

Gmail launching voice and video chat!

Google just updated their "What's New" page for Gmail with information about a new feature called "Voice and Video Chat". The voice and video chat plugin that you must download in order to use the feature incorporates a technology called Vidyo. Vidyo provides for high-quality, low-latency,...

Tags: Video Chat, Google Inc., Google Gmail, Voice, Video, Feature, Vidyo, Corporate Communications, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-11-11

Marketers, stop the hate! Customers are not the enemy

Guest editorial by Susan Etlinger Back in the seventeenth century, soldiers would spend the cold winter months in towns and garrisons until the weather cleared enough for them to venture back into the field (in Italian, nella campagna) to resume fighting. And...

Tags: Technologists, Sales Strategy, Marketing Research, Sales, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-11-11

ExpertCEO for the lonely CEO . . .

It can get very lonely at the top and that's why ExpertCEO was created, to let CEOs know that they aren't alone -- it just feels that way sometimes. The site recently emerged from private beta with 600 members and is growing at a fast clip...

Tags: Mr., CEO, Recruitment & Selection, Corporate Communications, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Social Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Sales, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-11-10

Intel preps launch for latest power-optimized chip family

Intel preps launch for latest power-optimized chip family2009 is not the last year of the decadeHi Heather, good news! 2009 is not the last year of the decade, so you have another year. If you buy a 10-pack of beer, are you completing the pack when you lift...

Tags: Intel Preps, chip family, chip, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-07