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TouchPoint (exe)

TouchPoint is a Web-based visitor management and office administration software,which is integrated with business card scanner, digital pen, bar coder, camera, and visitor badge printer. Modules include visitor management, contractor management, gate pass management, material management, courier management, key management, and vehicle management. It also has capability for other languages...

Tags: Management, Cogent Innovations, Scanners, RFID, Printers, Workforce Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Human Resources

Software downloads 2008-02-19

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The little wind turbines that could

I have to admit, I'm more used to reading about U.S. tech firms expanding abroad rather than the reverse. But in the case of certain green tech innovations, I suppose it makes sense to flip this idea on its head. Just heard about the example of Proven...

Tags: Turbine, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Microsoft gives a new Xbox 360 experience

Despite having what is regarded as one of the best user interfaces of all the major consoles, Microsoft is reinventing the Xbox 360's look. Despite ostensibly having what is regarded as one of the best user interfaces of all the major consoles, Microsoft is reinventing the Xbox 360's look....

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Xbox Live, Video, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, LiveParty, Spotlight Channel, Xbox Experience, Games, Game Players, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Xbox 360, Microsoft, user-generated, video games, Xbox Live, Sarju Shah, Gamespot

News items 2008-07-23

The $200 web tablet ... dream on!

The $200 web tablet ... dream on!Reinventing the wheelIt's been done albeit not quite $200 but the technology has been here--The Nokia N800/810. I've got an 800. The 800 shares the same multi-core TI ARM processor as the 810, except the 810 has a slide out keyboard. ...

Tags: Notebooks, Channel management, Keyboards, Operating systems, OS 2008, web tablet, laptop computer, Web, Nokia Corp., Linux

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Tough love: Linux needs more haters

Tough love: Linux needs more hatersGood article, JeremyI'm currently setting up our company network on Linux and will likely be bumping into some of those Samba issues. Complicated by having a mixed OS environment on the client side. Yeah, that's going to be fun. Nice that Google...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Can AOL make or break the Microsoft-Yahoo deal? Mark your calendars.

Can AOL make or break the Microsoft-Yahoo deal? Mark your calendars.Can AOL make or break the Microsoft-Yahoo deal? Mark your calendars.Microsoft should buy AOL. Strips its ad business then buy Yahoo Search. Merge AOL and MSN into Yahoo take an 40% stake into one big content company. Have several board...

Tags: America Online Inc., AOL make-or-break, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

Technology that powers Olympics on Web at center of lawsuit

Technology that powers Olympics on Web at center of lawsuitFragmentParagraph 3 Sentance 1 is a fragment, its missing the part that we need... what the lawsuit is actually about!Nothing new here folks, move along, move along.This isn't something new here. Microsoft is always infringing on someone elses IP.Are these guys...

Tags: Corporate communications, MS Silverlight, video, patent, lawsuit, Olympic Games, Web, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

Voting For A McCain

Voting For A McCainAh, milk from the the government sow..Obama's tax policies will hurt American business way more than any benefits his technology policies may provide. It's not government's role to create and invest in technology; its role is to get out of the way so that the Apples,...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Obamessiah, tax, Obama

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

Voting For A McCain

SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons So, poor John McCain. At the start of the year, he gets bounced around because he is "not well versed" in economics. In summer, he gets beat up again, because he says he is "illiterate" about technology (and the way he expresses...

Tags: Innovation, Network, John McCain, Obama, Taxes, Free Trade, Internet, Leadership, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-16

The Green Enterprise: Frog's Leap Winery

Green strategies are at the heart of operations at Frog's Leap Winery. Innovations include a solar installation on the vineyard grounds, a LEED-certified hospitality center and geothermal technologies that are powering the company's heating and cooling system. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with Jonah Beer, the winery's general manager, and...

Tags: Winery, Geothermal Energy, Solar, The Green Enterprise

Videos 2008-07-15

Enterprises still not getting full benefits of open source

Enterprises still not getting full benefits of open sourceQuestionYou say:"The real problem, it seems to me, is they don’t understand the nature of support in an open source world. It’s a mutual process, a matrix, combining your own efforts, those of vendors, and those of communities which may include competitors.The...

Tags: Blogging, Self-Reliance, open source, communism, benefit

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

In the information age, IT innovation means everything

In the information age, IT innovation means everythingInteresting.I think many IT failures are due to misundersyanding the company's business model. The nuances if you will. This is another reason to develop internally. To take it one step further. There are many good IT personnel that only understand IT. They don't...

Tags: Strategy, Leadership, Operating systems, information technology, innovation, Linux, Unix, blog

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

Distributed decision making in IT

Distributed decision making in ITMoving the SPOF rearrainging deckchairs.Lets make something clear - that the central SRSS/DumbRay server IS a SPARC. x86 just doesn't cut it for hosting so many users. SO please don't do the same thing as big blue and pull the old bait and switch - OF...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, information technology, server, decision-making

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Autonomy CEO: Web 2.0 'under all the hype, there is something there...'

An intriguing article by 'meaning based computing' company Autonomy's CEO Mike Lynch in today's Financial Times: Embracing the friend, taming the beast – Web 2.0 in the enterprise. Autonomy are mature and stable (with a 4 billion market capitalisation), rapidly becoming the second largest pure software company...

Tags: Web, Autonomy Corp. Plc, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-30

New reports try to demystify the "low carbon IT" equation

As we all know, information technology is both a culprit and a hero when it comes to carbon emissions. Various research companies estimate that information and communications technologies contribute about 2 percent of the global carbon footprint, and the larger IT companies have been falling all over each other to...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Greenhouse Gas, Carbon Footprint, Carbon, Strategy, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-25

Firefox and the horrors of the Solaris install process

Firefox and the horrors of the Solaris install processnot that i had anything interesting to sayI am used to having my comments *deleted*. ;)I'm sure incompetent top management...was to blame. Couldn't be the IT personnel.As was Fedora'syum -y updateRE: disappearing commentsAs many of you will have noticed comments sometimes...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, UNIX, Most linux distro, WinBlows, Microsoft Windows, Mozilla Firefox, horror, Sun Solaris, WINDOWS USERS, windoze user

Discussion threads 2008-06-22

Mobile Firefox "Fennec" critical to maintaining Mozilla's momentum

Now that Firefox 3 has launched, the Mozilla team is hopefully after a vacation at work on the next updates, including a major mobile version. Mozilla's mobile web browser, which is under development as part of Firefox 4 platform and code named Fennec, won't launch until 2009. Still,...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Mobile, Mozilla Corp., Fennec, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-06-19

iPhones, PPC, and DLC

iPhones, PPC, and DLCheh.http://www.virtual-laser-keyboard.com/is offline.Ever considered warning people before you link their site into a blog that sees heavy traffic?Apple designs the chips...... but doesn't make them and the PA Semi acquisition doesn't change that. Apparently from the linked article Samsung provided the manufacturing. That could mean Applehas...

Tags: Leadership, Telecom & Utilities, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, phone, innovation

Discussion threads 2008-06-19

Car makers are doing all they can, you and I are the problem

Enclave, courtesy Buick. The very nice man at the Auto Alliance did not accuse me of being stupid, nor did he even accuse you of being short-sighted. But that's the bottom line. The auto manufacturers have been making high mileage cars and bringing...

Tags: Car, Charlie Territo, Americans, Taxes, Free Trade, Fuel Cells, Financial Planning, Finance, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Apple finally goes RIA

Apple finally goes RIAPlease convince me.How can RIA and privacy coexist? I mean, the same people who are delusional about the patriot act live on myspace, youtube, and facebook where privacy is valueless.i likeits a great start, I think Apple is going in right direction.RE: Apple finally goes RIAThis...

Tags: rich Internet application, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-17