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Novell Responds to Clarify Announcement Messages

After I published Novell offers virtual machine driver pack my friends at Novell responded quickly to clear up my confusion about their announcement. Wow, guys, that was fast!Here's the text of their response. A clarification from Holger Dyroff, vp of SUSE Linux product management at Novell...The SUSE Linux...

Tags: virtualization, virtual machine software

Blog posts 2007-06-22

Improved Error Reporting for Software That Uses Black-Box Components

An error occurs when software cannot complete a requested action as a result of some problem with its input, configuration, or environment. A high-quality error report allows a user to understand and correct the problem. Unfortunately, the quality of error reports has been decreasing as software becomes more complex and...

Tags: Association For Computing Machinery, Clarify, Error, Tools & Techniques, Linux, Open Source, Management, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2007-04-08

Clarify project roles with this simple responsibility matrix

In a large project, you may have many people with some degree of responsibility for completing certain deliverables. It might be just one person writing a document and one person approving it. But it's often more complicated than that, with several people having a hand in the creation and others...

Tags: Clarify, Tom Mochal, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Tools & templates 2006-06-08

Clarify project work assignments with the help of this checklist

If you ask project team members what they're responsible for completing in the next two weeks and their answers aren't what you expect, it might be time to examine how clear and thorough your instructions are. One of the basic responsibilities of the project manager is to...

Tags: Team, Team Member, Project Manager, Clarify, Team Management, Management

Tools & templates 2006-02-07

Additional Resources

Microsoft isn't the only one developing a hardware-accelerated browser

It is a dumb idea.WAIT! Firefox and Chrome teams are looking to do the same?What a brilliant idea!I smell a large scale patent war brewingThis will be one that catches everybody's attention, not just the people who work in the industry.I'd bet that Office goes hardware-rendered, tooI'd bet that Office...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, IE9, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, hardware, Web browser

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Is your culture getting in the way of your IT success?

Many enterprise IT investments lead to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches - but often forgotten is the culture of an organization itself. Commentary - While any planned enterprise IT investment leads to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches, too often left out...

Tags: Job, Team, Information Technology, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Team Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Panasonic Computer Solutions, IT management, culture, Jim King, Special to ZDNet, Jim King, Panasonic Computer Solutions, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-23

Internet: A threat to government or the other way around?

The Kleptocrats that feel entitled to your money...worry that us mushrooms now have other uncontrollable sources for the "truth" and won't eat the horse compost fed to them by the monopolistic crony Main-stream Media.RE: Internet: A threat to government or the other way around?There are two things tyrants and bureaucrats...

Tags: Vertical industries, government, retraction, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Samsung launches Google Android-powered Galaxy Spica i5700

It's funny how many people snickeredwhen it was stated that there would be 19 Android devices on the market by year's end. I wonder how many we are at right now.Is this.....Apple iPhone vs MS Android all over again? It will be interesting to watch.MS Android ? WTF? ntntthat would...

Tags: Smart phones, Strategy, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Google Android, Android Devices, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., gloves off, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Revisiting the Motorola Droid on Verizon [Q&A]

Why the hate for drag and drop?Almost every review I have read faults the Droid because you can't auto-sync music:"(You can dump your music on a microSD card and pop it in, but it?s a copy-paste files affair, not a ?load my music? integrated experience.)"The Droid ships with a 16...

Tags: Smart phones, Motorola Droid, Droid, Apple iPhone, Revisiting, music, Verizon Communications Inc., Motorola Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Wordpress picks up college newspapers with CoPress

Wrong URLThe Copress website is wrong, it points to copress.com but the correct is copress.org.Great post, anyway.No official "deal" with WordPressTo clarify, CoPress has no official "deal" or partnership with WordPress. We've adopted the platform because of its features, ease of use, and flexibility, and thinks it performs wonderfully for...

Tags: CoPress, Wordpress

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Android 2.0 (Eclair) FAQ

Android 2.0 GPSWill the GPS be functional if I don't buy the expensive Verizon data plan or pay by the Mb.You would need access to the internetto download the maps as needed there would not be enough room on the phone to store the whole country locally. So unless you...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Android 2.0, phone, ECLAIR

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

With BlackBerry Storm2, RIM wins the battle but loses the smartphone war [review]

physical keyboards vs touch screensYour rant against physical keyboards was uncalled for and inaccurate. At this time, no "touch" phone exists that could capture the accuracy and speed of a physical keyboard. If you do a lot of emails, txt, or document processing, you will concede this point....

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Smart phones, Handhelds, Research In Motion Ltd., keyboard, touch screen, RIM BlackBerry, physical keyboard, Apple iPhone, smart phone

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Presentation AssistantLite 1.8 (Windows)

Presentation Assistant Lite is a cute assistant when you give a presentation. It provides various tools to bring the audience's attention to a specific spot, and allows you to zoom in and annotate the screen. Only by the simple press of a key, you can magnify any portion of the...

Tags: Mouse, Screen, Microsoft Windows, GoldGingko, Zoom Level, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-10-25

Presentation Assistant 1.8 (Windows)

Presentation Assistant is a cute assistant when you give a presentation. It provides various tools to bring the audience's attention to a specific spot, and allows you to zoom in and annotate the screen. It also enables you to open documents or programs quickly, and play background musics conveniently during...

Tags: Mouse, Screen, Microsoft Windows, Computer, Presentation, GoldGingko, Zoom Level, Mice, Productivity, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-10-25

Nook Clarified: Really solid progress for e-readers

Yesterday, I posted a long analysis of what I thought was right and strangely wrong about the Barnes & Noble Nook. Matt Miller today got a clarification about my main concern, which was that Barnes & Noble seemed to have said, according to several published reports, that Wi-Fi would work...

Tags: E-reader, Barnes & Noble Inc., Wireless LANs, Wireless And Mobility, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-10-21

Demand this from software vendors

I was getting a briefing last week from a software executive. We got to a point in the conversation where the discussion was focusing on existing products. I moved the conversation to a different space, though. If you're getting a pitch from a vendor, you should move the conversation, too!...

Tags: Software, Vendor, Customer, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques, Sales, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-20

On the future of Open Source thought leadership

After over a decade of being in the shadow of the Free Software movement and 30 years of its inflexible dogmatic principles, disruptive new Open Source thought leadership is emerging that is truly able to compromise with the realistic needs of business and end-users without carrying...

Tags: Software, Leadership, Richard Stallman, Open Source, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-08

Sony debuts Vaio X; 'world's lightest laptop': 11.1", 14-hour battery

Processor is a Z550 (2GHz)I went to the Sony ordering page and that is what it shows as the processor.RE: Sony debuts Vaio X; 'world's lightest laptop': 11.1If I were going to go to the PC route, I would definitely get a Vaio. They are the best PC laptops...

Tags: Desktops, Sony Vaio, Sony Corp., Vaio X, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, lightest laptop, laptop computer, battery, OEM, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Vonage Mobile iPhone, BlackBerry apps arrive; free VoIP calls

VoIP company Vonage is finally bringing its service to Apple's iPhone and RIM's BlackBerry devices. The free app for the iPhone and iPod touch has been approved for making international calls using AT&T's cellular network in addition to Wi-Fi. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, VoIP, Vonage Holdings Corp., RIM BlackBerry, Apss, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Smart Phones, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-10-05

Lenovo agrees to preload Windows Live services on new PCs

Microsoft readies a new 'netbook-like' Windows Server SKUMicrosoft officials themselves admitted that users are confused and looking for guidance as to which Windows sexy lingerieclient version they should be targeting in their near-term deployments. To try to clarify things, the company is updating its Windows guidance for business users.RE:...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Lenovo Group Ltd., Microsoft Windows Live

Discussion threads 2009-10-03