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Microsoft adds some multi-touch glitz to Windows 7

Microsoft adds some multi-touch glitz to Windows 7another blog about ithere's another blog about it:http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/rss.aspx..Another stab at Tablet PCsI hope MS does crucial design and engineering work to ensure that Tablet PCs take off this time. I think multitouch and the multitouch onscreen keyboard will be key to making this...

Tags: Tablets, Keyboards, Notebooks, multitouch, Microsoft Windows, tablet, multi-touch, backend service, keyboard, tablet PC, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-05-27

CuteProxy 1.0.9 (Windows)

CuteProxy is a product of CuteToolBox. It is an advanced proxy server finder. It can retrieve hundreds of pre-verified working proxies from CuteToolBox's backend service within a minute. And then user can verify them and sorting them based on proxy speed, country located and other criteria. CuteProxy relies on backend...

Tags: Proxy, Microsoft Windows, CuteToolBox, CuteProxy, Backend Service

Software downloads 2009-05-26

DriveHQ Email Manager 1.0.50 (Windows)

Drag & drop or automatically backup your emails and address book in real-time or scheduled times; manage / migrate your emails / contacts on multiple PCs or accounts like Windows Explorer; make your emails and contacts available online. The backend service is powered by DriveHQ SMTP / POP3 / IMAP...

Tags: Drive Headquarters, Microsoft Windows, E-mail Server, Backend Service, E-mail, E-mail Servers, Backups, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2008-09-25

Additional Resources

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

Students find Win 7 upgrade a tough assignment

Well DUH!Students, retired folks, IT pros, dabblers, 'nix heads, etc. would ALL find trying to UPGRADE from a 32 bit to a 64 bit OS hard. Three words - "can't be done."There, was that hard? Why is this even news?This is newsbecause some people like to keep spreading...

Tags: Operating systems, clean install, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, operating system, Migration Wizard

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

EvriChart: A Linux Success Story

Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...

Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Future ERP

Brian Sommer's provocative post that juxtaposes SAP's technology thinking around the 'old' and 'new' worlds provides insights into something SAP was talking about last year - the two speed world of ERP. At the back end there is still plenty to do, hardening applications, winkling out recurring bugs...

Tags: Innovation, Salesforce.com Inc., Financial, SAP AG, ERP, Brian Sommer, Brian, S-curve, Cloud Infrastructure, BRP, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Sidekick outage says more about the future of 'Pink' than Microsoft's cloud

This isn't about any service.This is about Microsoft in general. It brings up the question of whether they can manage a server environment. It doesn't matter what that environment is. Preservation of data is always job one. And this is the job where the failure occurred. So Pink, Azure, cloud,...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Mary-Jo, Microsoft Corp., Azure, job, Pink, IT administration

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Salesforce.com Plays In the Enterprise - Again

Back in 1999, I was a salesforce.com user and at that time, it was a rather kludgy sales force automation application that didn't do much right - for example if I tried to export a .CSV file it gave me an .XLS file and vice versa.  I read something by Marc...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Accounting, Financial, Sales Force Management, Sales Force Automation (SFA), Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-10-07

Apple acquires map purveyor Placebase

Of course they're on the outsSee: ANDROID - nuff saidRE: Apple acquires map purveyor PlacebaseAt first blush, I don't see the point in going after Google Maps. Developing apis and providing a mapping service backend to developers, that makes sense. I would expect that, just as iPhoto demonstrates CoreImage, CoreData,...

Tags: Web browsers, PRODUCTIVITY, Google Inc., Apple Inc., Placebase

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Will China save Apple?

Save Apple from what?All their industry leading profits when there is supposed to be a recession?yea, and I don't even like Applebut how can you justify a heading like this? Oh, I forgot, they have to be 'provocative', right? More and more these blogs have become running jokes and...

Tags: Smart phones, Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-27

You won't want an iPod (Tech which back-to-school students should avoid)

Back to school....This is good but don't quite see that these are all "back-to-school".For my student:Netbook - great for work and portability. It fits in his backpackFlash Drive - great for storing / transferring work on - now if the school had a working printer attached to their common...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., back-to-school student

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

The cloud gets up close and personal

The cloud gets up close and personalSame cloud pre & post deployment?Nice article and great talking to you, Dana. One point you mention at the end of this about moving a deployment ready package off the developer's desktop? While we think that is very much possible for the developer's specific...

Tags: developer

Discussion threads 2009-07-20

Google Voice Gets Presence

While Google Voice may revolutionize personal communications directing calls to the phone number of choice, businesses will find the service too simplistic for many of their needs. Yesterday, On-State Communications may have solved that problem by presence-enabling Google Voice. Now small companies can leverage the newest free Google Service...

Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Mobile, Voice, On-State Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-07-01

What really happened with SAP Business ByDesign?

Many of us who have been following the SAP Business ByDesign saga have used a combination of first hand accounts, intuition, inference and plain guess work to figure out what's been going on with the product. Or is it service? As far as I can gather, those commenting in detail...

Tags: Team, SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG, BYD, Engineers, Team Management, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-22

Obama military deference threatens health reform

Obama military deference threatens health reformWhen you see the examplesthe VA, Medicare, MedicaidDoes anybody believe the government can manage universal health care?Oh please.... we implemented an EHR system that uses both.. in 6 months.They use MySQL backend, web standards for communication and some closed source for a front end.They are...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, health care, Medicare, government

Discussion threads 2009-06-11

HP Software: Talking strategy; Looking to grow; Gunning for Teradata

Hewlett-Packard's software unit is tiny relative to the company's overall revenue, but it is being counted on to fuel future growth. The plan: Expand into the data warehouse market occupied by the likes of Teradata, focus on performance and project management and continue to automate data centers.  ...

Tags: Software, Strategy, Teradata, Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Software Unit, Data Centers, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-05

Citrix NetScaler 'push' technology aims to reduce costs for Web 2.0 service providers

We live in a tech world of instant gratification that is enabled by the convenience of Web 2.0 technologies. Unfortunately that presents an issue for some companies whose customers demand content be pushed to their various devices, also creating a strain on servers in the companies' data centers. Today Citrix...

Tags: Web, NetScaler, Citrix Systems Inc., Web 2.0, Channel Management, Servers, Internet, Marketing, Hardware, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-04-14

How to end the Fail Whales? With Blue Whales.

How to end the Fail Whales? With Blue Whales.Scary link about the Scala language interview you providedThat sure doesn't instill confidence. All this talk about using a languange "you are passionate about" blew me way.You have a service here that is failing miserably in terms of performance, and these jokers...

Tags: C/C++, Firewalls, Programming languages, Blue Whales, Fail Whales

Discussion threads 2009-04-11

Five things I'd like to see from my broadband provider

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld posted yesterday five things he would like to see change about his cable operator. As cable is practically a thing of the past over here in the UK, with satellite and Freeview free digital channels hitting most television sets, I thought long and hard about where the next...

Tags: House, Bandwidth, VoIP, P2P, Broadband, Peer To Peer (P2P), Telecommunications, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-04-08