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- Communicating Clearly
- Feel like end-users dont know what you are talking about? There is a new article over on Dice that discusses the age-old issue of attempting to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical personnel. The problem is getting harder with todays information technology explosion, and this is one aspect of...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Avoid
- Blog posts 2006-11-10
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- Crappy economy = great time for open source in schools
- Not only is it budget time for me right now as we put together our FY10 plans, but it's also time to figure out how we're going to make it through the rest of FY09. Since so many people have lost jobs and/or homes recently, the state and town...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Money, Hardware, Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Document Management, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Windows, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-27
- Is on-demand slowly killing traditional broadcasting?
- I'm not a big TV watcher to be honest. In the UK, we have the "licence fee" which you need to pay the government before you even connect the telly to the wall. If you don't, you can bet your arse you'll have armed police storming the windows to your...
- Tags: On-demand, Broadcasting, Cloud Computing, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Photos: 2009 Ford Flex
- The styling of the Ford Flex may be controversial, but some will definitely love its 1950s cruiser style. And everyone will like its extremely useful cabin tech, which helps you find cheap gas and avoid traffic congestion. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Ford Motor Co., CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-11-25
- iPhone jailbreakers: Problems with QuickPwn?
- On Friday, the word came out from iPhone jailbreaker community to avoid update to the iPhone 2.2 firmware. The next day, the team at blog.iphone-dev.org warned that use of QuickPwn could bring problems with Apple's iPhone Firmware 2.2 update released on Friday. by David Morgenstern
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Firmware, Apple iTunes, QuickPwn, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-11-23
- Black Friday '08: Deals, steals & specials guide
- There's always a lot of madness surrounding consumerist pseudo-holiday Black Friday, but with the economy in a chokehold, this year's event has been hard to predict. Will there be good deals because of a tanking economy, or did companies sign off on their specials before the...
- Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Home Theater, Savings, HDTV, Price, LCD, Laptop Computer, Approx, SKIP, Home Entertainment, GPS, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-23
- ... But Digital TV Transition Can Get Action
- The Bush Administration and Congress seem ready to bag it on the economic policy front. Witness the stock market reaction to its inaction this week on the auto industry and financial institutions' continued stresses. But they can take time to fix the hard-stop to analog TV...
- Tags: Stock, Digital Television, Stock Market, Investment, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Finance, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- iPhone vs. Android development: Day 4
- It's day 4 of a 5-day course on iPhone programming. As before I'll be sharing my observations from the classroom on how development on the iPhone compares to Android development. The class is presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. [Read: Day 1, Day 2, Day...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Animation, Camera, View, View Transitions, Core Graphics, Android API, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- SOA: it's only rocket science
- What can go wrong with SOA? Let me count the ways. Better yet, Miko Matsumura, Bjoern Brauel, and Jignesh Shah, all with SoftwareAG, have done the counting for us, in a new book that shows how to overcome various SOA issues, called "SOA Adoption for Dummies." (Available...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Linking processes and apps in 2008 – A new urgency
- Talk to me – please! Talk to me! Inc. Magazine this month has an interesting article ("Missing Link Getting Programs to Work Together" by Nitasha Tiku) that talks about the value derived from integrating applications with other applications. I know, BORING, but very relevant in today's economy....
- Tags: Firm, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Channel Management, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- YouTube on the Blackberry Storm
- While the new Blackberry Storm (a.k.a. 9530) from RIM and Verizon Wireless doesn't have a pre-installed YouTube client – like those available on Apple, Nokia and Sony Ericsson – you can easily view YouTube videos by navigating to their mobile Web site (m.youtube.com) from the Storm's Web browser. In this...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Corporate Communications, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Unemployed? Five reasons to build your resume with FOSS contributions
- It looks like we've gone from speculating whether we're headed into recession depression, to speculating just what that depression is going to look like. Yihong Ding, over on the Thinking Space blog,predicts that we'll have a "Golden Age" of the Web thanks to millions sitting at home with little else...
- Tags: Web, F/OSS, Channel Management, Open Source, Marketing, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- $400 XOs and recessions
- The OLPC XO goes on sale through Amazon Monday via a redux of their Give One Get One (G1G1) program that turned into such a debacle last year. It's no secret that, despite my utter willingness to give props to OLPC for spurring an entire market of...
- Tags: Recession, Amazon.com Inc., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, OLPC XO, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- Google lets you search with your voice on your iPhone
- Today Google announced that it will be pushing out an update for the Google application on the iPhone that lets users search with their voice rather than trying to use the on-screen keyboard. This voice search was likely made possible using the mounds of voice information they have been...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Voice, Keyboards, Telecommunications, Hardware, Peripherals, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Robot helicopters flying low among obstacles
- According to New Scientist, engineers at Carnegie Mellon University CMU have modified an unmanned commercial civilian helicopter to fly fast and low while avoiding obstacles such as buildings, trees or power lines. The unmanned aerial vehicle UAV from Yamaha has been adapted to integrate a sensing system able to see...
- Tags: Obstacle, Helicopter, Powerline, Scanners, Robots, Hardware, Peripherals, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille, Carnegie-Mellon University, Collision, Safe Navigation, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- SAP Makes A Dramatic Move: Ex-Oracle Exec John Wookey To Head up SAP's New On-demand Market Effort
- It's hard to know which was more significant, the announcement that SAP is going to tackle on demand at the top of its market, or the name of the person – former Oracle apps exec John Wookey – who was picked to lead the effort. Off the top of my...
- Tags: On-demand, SAP AG, Cloud Computing, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- The need for a mixed load benchmark
- The right way to do virtualization is almost always just to avoid it - and let the Unix scheduler handle resource allocations among multiple applications and users as service demands change. Unfortunately people who want to do this face an unexpected problem: no good way to size the hardware short...
- Tags: Paul Murphy, Resource Allocation, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, UNIX, Operating Systems, Hardware, Storage, Software, Operating System, Data-processing, Sun Solaris, Servers
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- How do I... Configure OpenDNS in Windows Vista?
- DNS entries are often the primary suspect on a slow network connection. From routers to individual machines, DNS entries are typically received via DHCP and, if you're mobile with your laptop, you never know if the DNS entries you will receive will be working, sort-of-working, or not working. To avoid...
- Tags: DNS Entry, DNS, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Jack Wallen, Domain Names, Networking, Internet
- Download resources 2008-11-11
- Big telecom acquiring a Google fixation
- Big telecom acquiring a Google fixationPlease clarify.I don't understand your conclusion.Quoting:What Google, and all of us, most need to do is work that problem, finding business models through which content owners can profit while the end-to-end integrity of the search-and-find Internet is preserved.That will break the link between the content...
- Tags: Strategy, Telecom & Utilities, telecommunications, Google Inc., content delivery
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- 10 candidates who could become Obama's CTO
- 10 candidates who could become Obama's CTOHow about John McCain?:-)RE: 10 candidates who could become Obama's CTOPersonally, I think Gates would be the best choice. He is a visionary. Had his vision years ago, managed to podge together ideas and technology from other sources, and create the Windows empire.The only...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy, Obama
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
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