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- Photos: Unmanned vehicles take to air, land and sea
- Unmanned vehicles allow military, researchers to explore dangerous areas without putting people in harm's way.Sleek robotic aircraft may have been the scene-stealers at this year''s Association for Unmanned Vehicles International AUVSI show, but land vehicles are also playing an important role in military operations. This ruggedized PackBot, made by iRobot,...
- Tags: photograph, Unmanned Vehicle, helicopter, catapult, aircraft, iRobot Corp., BAE Systems Plc., Northrop Grumman Corp., researcher, MLB, zoom, Lockheed Martin Corp., U.S. Army, complement, camera, Mountain View, Iraq, robot, display, monitoring, government, image, Sony Corp., pho
- Image galleries 2007-08-09
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- Dam Beavers (exe)
- Like most ducks, Quax loves swimming. But today an unruly gang of beaver baddies insists on building their dams upstream, reducing his favorite swimming pond to a mere puddle. Determined to swim again, Quax has constructed a dam-busting catapult to smash the beaver dams and restore his peaceful pond, but...
- Tags: Dam, Pond, SpinTop Games, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-07-11
- Install Expert mobile Installation Kit (exe)
- Pilot Catapult was the first installation kit specifically developed for the needs of the Palm computing platform. Instal Expert Light is the successor of Pilot Catapult, the name change reflects both the enhanced product scope, it can target Palm OS, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry handhelds, as well as the developer/consumer...
- Tags: Mobile, Palm Inc., Beiks, Advertising & Promotion, Palm OS, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Marketing, Software, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-05-25
- Wyse, HP hope XenDesktop will drive thin client sales
- Wyse and HP have launched new lines of thin clients that are optimized for Citrix's XenDesktop and the virtualized desktop. Citrix's much anticipated XenDesktop, which will compete against VMware's VDI technology as well as Qumranet's KVM-based desktop virtualization solution SolidICE, was officially introduced to the market here...
- Tags: Desktop, Desktop Virtualization, Hewlett-Packard Co., Thin Client, Citrix Systems Inc., Sales, Wyse Technology Inc., XenDesktop, Thin Clients, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Why Client-server fails
- Why Client-server failsControlling the what happens on the client.You control what happens on the client by requiring of it the least possible functionality ("fill this form in"), and placing no application logic there.If you do validation on the client, this is only as a convenience to the user, and all...
- Tags: Servers, Nothing, client-server
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
- ITSBITS Tech Support (msi)
- Our TechSupport Workshop Software taken from the ITSBITS Catapult Garage is designed for the IT professional to help support end users with technical support problems, but the average user will also find it invaluable in times of trouble. This workshop gives you a quick indication of where your network connectivity...
- Tags: IHS Inc., Network Connectivity, Network Administration, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-04-01
- ITSBITS Catapult Garage (msi)
- ITSBITS Catapult Garage is a collection of essential tools no one should be without--there's something for everyone to love. Multiple custom desktops speed your work and won't change when you plug into a different monitor or projector. Navigate directly to a folder you want--even if it's on a different machine...
- Tags: IHS Inc., ITSBITS Catapult Garage, Productivity, Network Administration, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-03-27
- Robots fly over Antarctica
- Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey BAS have successfully run a series of flights by autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs over Antarctica. These robotic planes have a 2-meter wingspan and weigh 6 kilograms. They are powered by Lithium Ion Polymer LIPo battery packs -- similar to the ones in your...
- Tags: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Antarctic, Robots, Engineering, Advertising & Promotion, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- Mozilla's T-Bird 3 to get calendar, search, UI, config, add-on improvements in late 2008-early 2009
- The newly minted Mozilla e-mail subsidiary has moved out of stealth mode and is targeting the release of the next generation of Thunderbird for late 2008. The open source Thunderbird 3, now under development, will feature integrated calendaring, better search, easier configuration, significant user interface improvements...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Open Source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Mozilla Thunderbird, Plan, Mozilla Corp., E-mail Clients, E-mail, Software, Online Communications, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Merger target suspect Citrix assembles virtualization products as Delivery Center
- Citrix Systems, Inc. has announced a restructuring and rebranding of its key virtualization products, as well as the introduction of a new orchestration technology. My question is when will the cloud computing, virtualization, SaaS and advertising combined synergies bubble up to show Citrix' substantial strategic worth? Who...
- Tags: Merger, Citrix Systems Inc., Workflow Studio, Citrix XenServer 4.1, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Is Microsoft's Danger play a poke at Apple? Google? (updated)
- Microsoft said Monday that they're acquiring Palo Alto, CA-based Danger Inc., maker of the T-Mobile Sidekick QWERTY smartphone. Sidekicks feature a novel flip-up screen that reveals a full-size keyboard making easy work of texting and email. It could even be argued that the Sidekick (which the company...
- Tags: Google Inc., Acquisition, Mobile, Operating System, T-Mobile Sidekick, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Wikipedia, iLounge, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Marketing, Software, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Citrix strays far from XenSource's original open source mission
- In 2005, hot new startup XenSource was positioning itself as the open source alternative to VMware and Microsoft Virtual Server. Then came a controversial pact in 2006 between the powers that be at the Palo Alto virtualization software company and Microsoft. The mail goal, XenSource executives...
- Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Xen, XenSource Inc., Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Open Source, Hardware, Storage, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Dirk Meyer, the man to watch at AMD
- Dirk Meyer, the man to watch at AMDRuiz is fine, they need product developement disciplineThe article brings up god points about Ruiz. He is a business man and had done well for AMD. What AMD needs is product development leadership that enforces discipline. Dirk may be the guy to do...
- Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Processors, repercussion, industry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Ruiz, Meyer
- Discussion threads 2008-01-03
- (Photos: From airborne ops to laser gunship)
- (Photos: From airborne ops to laser gunship)Puff the Magic Dragon"During the Vietnam War, troops often referred to the C-130 gunship as "Puff the Magic Dragon."Ummm, wasn't that a converted DC-3?C-130 HerculesI spent four years in the Marines as a jet engine mechanic and ground support crewman, working on and around...
- Tags: Aerospace & Defense, laser, Wikipedia, photograph, C-130 Hercules, Herc, aircraft, AC-47, gunship, DC-3
- Discussion threads 2008-01-02
- County Develops More Comprehensive, Efficient System With New Technologies
- The government of Hillsborough County, Florida, maintains an area of 1,072 square miles and serves a population of 1.1 million. Hillsborough County needed new IT applications to support its court-clerks' systems, so it turned to Catapult Systems for help. To validate the proposed application architecture, county and partner representatives visited...
- Tags: County, Partnership, Microsoft Corp., Business Structures, Government, Finance
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- News to know: Google's Facebook killer; HD DVD price war; Ellison's lockbox
- Notable headlines: Dan Farber: Google's OpenSocial: What it means. Garett Rogers: Google's OpenSocial platform is great! Techmeme. Dion Hinchcliffe: Significant workplace inroads for Enterprise 2.0? CIO Sessions: BT's JP Rangaswami. George Ou: HD DVD price war begins at...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, David Berlind, Larry Dignan, Open Source, HD-DVD, Microsoft Corp., Hd Dvd, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Marketing
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- Google phone, Motorola Razr2 will finally catapult role of open source, Linux in mobile market
- Google phone, Motorola Razr2 will finally catapult role of open source, Linux in mobile marketExcellent story!nt
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Motorola Razr2, Google Phone, mobile market, Motorola Inc., open source, Google Inc., Linux, mobile, phone
- Discussion threads 2007-10-30
- Google phone, Motorola Razr2 will finally catapult role of open source, Linux in mobile market
- The impending release of the Google phone and Motorola's first Linux-based Razr2 device shown above in the U.S. will catapult open source's status in the mobile market. In spite of efforts from numerous Linux organizations and specialty startups, proprietary platforms from RIM, Microsoft,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Phone, Mobile, Mobile Linux, Motorola Inc., Funambol, Linux, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- Apple iPod Touch will cannibalize iPhone
- Apple iPod Touch will cannibalize iPhoneI won't get an iphone nowbut I will get an iPod Touch. AT&T was what had me on the fence about the iPhone and now I don't have to worry about it. The cannibalization issue all comes down to people care about getting a phone...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Digital music, Digital media, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Apple iPod Touch, Apple iPod, iPhone sale, sales, AT&T Corp., switcher
- Discussion threads 2007-09-05
- Evidence builds around the serious synergy between open source and SOA
- Fellow ZDNet blogger Joe McKendrick beat me to the punch on the interesting findings from a recent Unisys-sponsored survey by Forrester Research on open source use in enterprises. The bits on SOA were particularly revealing, and add more gist to the mill of evidence building around the compelling economics that...
- Tags: Enterprise Java, Enterprise 2.0, Eclipse, Developer Tools, datacenters, HP, IBM, IONA, IT Management, Java, JBoss, management, Open Source, Podcasts, Red Hat, SaaS, SOA, SOA architect, SOA Governance, Software Development, Software Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
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