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Read the fine print in Microsoft's new application platform license

Read the fine print in Microsoft's new application platform licenseAs it should be...You need to pay to play with these fine products. If a company is so short-sighted that they let their APA run out, they deserve to be stripped of all products covered under said APA. Microsoft is slaving...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operational accounting, new application platform, Microsoft Corp., fine print, application platform, APA

Discussion threads 2009-07-16

IT Manager Webcast: Application Platform: Advancing Your Business With IT With the Microsoft Application Platform (Level 100)

Organizations looking to align IT with their business to drive sustainable, strategic advantage can benefit from the integrated capabilities of the Microsoft Application Platform. From dynamic Web sites and pervasive business insight, to maximizing the value of existing IT systems with Service-Oriented Architecture SOA, Microsoft provides a rich set of...

Tags: Application Platform, Webcast, Information Technology, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Strategy, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Management

Webcasts 2007-04-01

MSDN Webcast: Application Platform Infrastructure Optimization (Level 200)

The Microsoft application platform helps IT organizations realize a dynamic application infrastructure for greater business efficiencies, stronger customer connections, and more informed decision making. To help customers move toward a more dynamic application environment, Microsoft offers the Application Platform Optimization APO Model, our strategic assessment tool based on industry best...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Application Platform, Webcast, Optimization, Microsoft Corp., Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management

Webcasts

Microsoft Webcast: Optimizing Your Application Platform Infrastructure

A company's application platform serves as the foundation for transactional and strategic business. The application platform dictates how data is stored and managed, how applications interact with each other, and what the user experience is like. The presenter of this webcast describes the different levels of optimization associated with an...

Tags: Application Platform, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Data Management, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Pricing, Databases, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software, Marketing

Webcasts

MSDN Webcast: Microsoft Application Platform Technologies in Manufacturing (Level 200)

This webcast explores some concrete examples of how the manufacturing industry can benefit from adopting the Microsoft application platform. The viewer will learn how Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition SCADA applications can be enhanced by the flexibility and intuitiveness offered by Windows Workflow Foundation. The presenters show how the expressive...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Application Platform, Webcast, SCADA, Microsoft Corp., Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts

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NASA app 1.0 (Mobile)

By downloading this first-ever NASA application for the iPhone, you will enjoy fast, direct access to accurate, up-to-date space mission content from a wide range of U.S. Space Agency sources - all in one easy-to-use mobile platform. The NASA software makes extensive use of built-in iPhone features and usability to...

Tags: NASA, Mobile, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Smart Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-06

News to know: AT&T, Verizon; T-Mobile; Microsoft CRM; Win7; datacenters; Sony-Ericcson

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: AT&T sues Verizon Wireless, calls map ad "misleading" but doesn't dispute accuracy Matthew Miller: T-Mobile experiences...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Data Center, Dana Gardner, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, T-Mobile, AT&T Corp., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Microsoft CRM, Sam Diaz, CRM, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows 7, Smart Phones, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Google Wave: Has potential, but let loose too soon

Open sourceKeep in mind that the code to developers is completely open source. If someone wants to make their own wave software or use the real time HTML 5 support for something else.Besides this is just a preview of the basics. Open to only 100,000 people, you can't expect much....

Tags: Google Inc., developer

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Is Microsoft a dinosaur to Google's mammal?

Random comments...How odd the mixed metaphors sound... "built from the ground up to work in the cloud"...The dinosaurs were around for tens of millions of years, and we mammals can barely say the same. The crown of creation can be wrested from the head of the wearer by something unforeseen--like...

Tags: Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Ideation, Google Inc., desktop, dinosaur, Linux, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

RemoteSight 1.0 (Mac)

RemoteSight is an application for video and audio transmission over a network. It captures video from any attached video input device (for example the built-in iSight camera included in many Macintosh computers), which can then be viewed on another computer over a network or the internet. The primary use of...

Tags: Video Surveillance, Apple Macintosh, Network, Video, Camera, Computer, Ben Bird, RemoteSight, Feature List, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-02

SquidNet 2.53 (Windows)

SquidNet Software's Cross-Platform Network Distribution Processor SquidNet allows just about any distributed processing application (Maya, Blender, Lightwave, research, educational) with a command-line based interface to evenly distribute job "slices", segments or frames amongst one or more network processors. These network processors, called Tipnodes, pull and process outstanding job requests from...

Tags: Job, Processor, Network, Microsoft Windows, SquidNet Software, Recruitment & Selection, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2009-11-02

Google "attacking" developer community?

No.Improving their apps doesn't make them evil.Killing competition by giving away apps for "free" makes them evil.Isn't it a bit hypocritical to complain?After all Android developers are using Android which they didn't need to pay for because Google gave it to them. Where do they think those development funds...

Tags: Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-01

Splendid City Sports Scheduler 6.7.3 (Mac)

Splendid City Team Sports Scheduler, and Sports Scheduling Software System is useful for people who organize team sports or game events. Use it to manage and publish sports schedules of any size and complexity. Automatically create high quality double or single elimination tournament brackets, round-robin league schedules, swiss round tournaments,...

Tags: Web, Team, Apple Macintosh, City Sports Inc., Web Site, Niagara Software, User Experience, Time Management, Web Site Development, Team Management, Games, Web Technology, Channel Management, Productivity, Internet, Management, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-31

Apple releases iTunes 9.0.2, kills Palm Pre sync ... again

Round up the executive and throw them in jailApple's behavior is simply unacceptable.Palm... Shakes HeadNote to Palm: Make a Front end that uses the iTunes DB or quit trying to keep hacking. It is REALLY stupid. A) You will never keep ahead of this.B) Even if you keep fixing it,...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Smart phones, Apple Inc., Palm Inc., Apple iTunes, Palm Pre

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

JumpBox for the Movable Type Blogging System 1.1.12 (Mac)

Movable Type is Six Apart's flagship blog software product, launched in 2001. Today, this robust social publishing platform powers the websites and blogs of many of the world's largest media companies, Fortune 100 businesses, small and medium sized businesses, and power bloggers. Movable Type is a fully integrated, scalable, proven...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Blog, Movable Type, JumpBox, Blogging, Tools & Techniques, Benefits, Servers, Internet, Management, Human Resources, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-29

US-CERT warns about BlackBerry spyware app

Justification for Apple's model?It can't be said just yet, but it's looking like a pool of trusted applications may be a good idea after all, despite the level of control wielded by Apple.No....Gee, just because someone releases a spyware app doesn't mean we need to only let RIM distribute apps....

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Handhelds, spyware app, Apple Inc., BlackBerry spyware app, US-CERT Warns, spyware, US-CERT, RIM BlackBerry, phone

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

SAP regaining its mojo?

Earlier today at SAP TechEd Vienna, Jim Hageman Snabe, SAP senior vice president in charge of products said: "Business ByDesign will be multi-tenant." It was almost a throw away line in a broad conversation discussing SAP's slow conversion to all things SaaS and cloud computing. I...

Tags: Blade, SAP AG, Operational Planning, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Roi/Tco, Servers, Business Operations, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud

Three reasons this is a bad paradigm...Security, security and...let's see, what was that other thing...oh yeah, security. The comment "enterprise customers are likely to take their time moving sensitive data into Amazon?s RDS effort" should be nominated for the understatement of the year award. What's more likely is...

Tags: Databases, Web servers, Storage, Web site development, RDBMS, Amazon.com Inc., sensitive data, database, MySQL

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

SilverX 1.1 (Windows)

SilverX converts Flash swf file with animation to Silverlight movie. SilverX supports all basic Flash features: vector primitives, images, texts and animations, so almost all Flash movie resources get accurately converted to Silverlight. SilverX is able to load Flash application SWF file and transform it into a Silverlight solution or...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Windows, CPS Labs, SilverX, Flash, Asset Management, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Finance, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-10-27

Ubuntu 9.10 launch - 29 October

Today Canonical announces the upcoming release of Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop and Server Edition, the latest version of the popular Linux desktop distribution. Ubuntu 9.10 will be available for free download on Thursday 29 October. Ubuntu 9.10 brings changes small and large that all have a common purpose - to...

Tags: Ubuntu, Ubuntu 9.10, Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Linux, Operating Systems, Open Source, Hardware, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-10-26