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- MacBook touch concepts
- Gizmodo reader David McMillan has whipped up some amazing MacBook Touch concepts, based on one of Apple's newly revealed double sided panel patents. The concepts use a transparent multi-touch display that can work as a control surface on two sides, both while the device is open and closed....
- Tags: Concept, Surface, Apple MacBook, Keyboards, Notebooks, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- TextWise offers $1million for an American semantic hack
- Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch draws my attention to SemanticHacker. The site details an invitation from Rochester, NY-based TextWise to suggest compelling applications powered by their API, in return for a guaranteed payment of $100,000 and up to $900,000 in revenue from subsequent commercialisation of the winning idea. ...
- Tags: Concept, API, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- Defeating the Same Origin Policy part 1
- The Same Origin Policy is one of the guiding principles that seek to protect our browsing experience. The Same Origin Policy was originally released with Netscape Navigator 2.0 and has been incorporated in one form or another in every major browser since. The concept has additionally been extended...
- Tags: Concept, Attacker, Java, Victim, Applet, Attack, Same Origin Policy, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- Router Essentials
- This white paper introduces the reader to basic router concepts, commands, and configurations. It is designed to address the "basic of the basics concepts" and helps lay a solid foundation for more complex routing concepts.
- Tags: Concept, Global Knowledge Network Inc., Router, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2008-03-14
- Services-Based Enterprise Integration Patterns Made Easy, Part 2: More on the Evolution of Basic Concepts
- This paper, Part 2 of the series, picks up where the user left off in Part 1. Now that one has learned about the two earliest integration patterns - data sharing socket programming and Remote Procedure Call RPC - one continues developing the basic concepts. Check out two more developed...
- Tags: Concept, Enterprise Integration, Pattern, Enterprise Service Bus, RPC, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Networking
- White papers 2008-03-06
- Bungee Labs opens developer platform-as-a-service
- Bungee Labs launched a public beta of a new version of its BungeeConnect, an on demand application development platform for professional programmers. The concept is similar to what salesforce.com is doing with its Force.com platform, although Bungee Labs claims that it is differentiated on the basis of being purely...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Concept, Application, Server, Programming Language, Pricing Strategy, Bungee Labs, BungeeConnect, Amazon EC2, Application Builder, Sales Force Management, Data Centers, Sales, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-02-18
- Does IT matter?
- As someone who has been accused of publicity seeking through grand pronouncements I can understand the motivation behind Nicholas Carr's 2003 article in Harvard Business Review: "IT Doesn't Matter". His main thesis is: For a brief period, as they are being built into the ...
- Tags: Concept, K Mart, Information Technology, Wiki, Matter, Marketswiki.com, Interactive Brokers, Strategy, Management, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-17
- Reader: here's the inside story on Comcast truck "repaints"
- Back on Thursday, I wrote a post riffing on the meaning of the fact that Comcast has apparently been painting some of their trucks with Comcast Digital Voice marketing messages. I surmised that repaints were indications-if not evidence- that Comcast is pumpin' up...
- Tags: Concept, Comcast Corp., Marketing Research, Telecommunications, Marketing, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-19
- Security breakdown? Nah, just marketing hype
- Sean Hargrave over at the Guardian seems concerned about security research firms paying hackers for exploits before they are even reported to the responsible vendor. My reaction to this issue has been: "So what, big deal". Various vendors have made defending against so-called...
- Tags: Concept, Marketing, Vendor, Exploit, Security, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- Credit-Repair-Planner (exe)
- Credit Repair Planner is an useful software that helps you to create an optimized repayment schedule which factors in credit improvement. The concept is simple: pay off the highest-interest cards first while bearing in mind that carrying in excess of 50% on any revolving credit line dings your credit score....
- Tags: Repayment, Concept, Card, Credit Card, Idea, Credit-Repair-Planner, Productivity, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales
- Software downloads 2008-01-16
- Reason (exe)
- Concept involves loading user's short term memory with as much data as possible, to be analyzed in context ofhis/her knowledge, skills, and habits. Easy operation and rapid computer response to user's reasoning are paramount in this innovative new analytic process. User designs data tables and with patented automated sorting views...
- Tags: Concept, Productivity
- Software downloads 2007-12-26
- Yahoo Answers scarier than Wikipedia
- Slate featured an interesting article on Yahoo Answers last Friday. Yahoo Answers is not something I've used extensively; however, the results from Answers often pop up in more challenging web searches. The concept is actually an interesting one: post a question about anything within community guidelines and get...
- Tags: Concept, Yahoo! Inc., Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers, Wiki, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Is your district ready for a New Tech High School?
- In my home town, a pretty typical Midwestern college town I suppose, our school district is in the process of establishing a New Tech High School. The concept has been around since 1999. Here is what the New Technology Foundation has to say: New Technology Foundation NTF™ was established in 1999 as...
- Tags: Concept, High School, New Technology Foundation, Productivity, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Networking, Internet, Marc Wagner
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- mTrax (exe)
- Trax will help you become a better musician by maximizing your practice time and letting set your own tempo. With mTrax, you will "Divide and Conquer", or more precisely, "Divide, Slow Down, Loop, and Conquer". The concept is actually simple: Learn the songs that you like by adjusting the tempo...
- Tags: Concept, Musician
- Software downloads 2007-11-29
- PowerPoint AutoClipArt Concept List (exe)
- The PowerPoint AutoClipArt concept list catalogs the AutoClipArt concepts that PowerPoint stores internally. These concepts are used by the AutoClipArt command PowerPoint Tools menu to suggest clip art you can add to a presentation based on the text in the presentation. This feature searches the presentation for words that match...
- Tags: Concept, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2007-10-04
- Sales 2.0
- David Thompson, CEO of Genius.com, discusses the advantages of combining Web 2.0 technologies with new selling techniques. The concept is called "Sales 2.0."
- Tags: Concept, Sales Strategy, Web 2.0, Sales Force Management, Productivity, Sales, Internet
- Whiteboards 2007-09-28
- ZodiaClock (widget)
- The Chinese Zodiac uses animal signs to date years in a 12-year cycle. They represent a cyclical concept of time, rather than the Western linear concept of time. This clock was created match that ancient symbolism with a modern design style. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Concept
- Software downloads 2007-07-13
- Netsplorer (msi)
- In the ever growing world of media publishing, the launch of branded news readers is a radical innovation. This unobtrusive application will bring Web links, news, video clips and podcast directly to the end users desktop. The concept is based on the demystification of the RSS format, read, manage and...
- Tags: Concept, Web, RSS, RDF, Podcasts, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-06-12
- Marginal Interpretation of Subject-Specific Curves: Logistic-Normal Regression
- This paper proposes the percentile curves concept as conditional probabilities curves across representative percentiles of the distribution of curves induced by random effects in a logistic model with random intercepts. The authors extend this concept to a logistic model with random intercepts and slopes and propose a methodology to approximate...
- Tags: Concept, SAS Institute
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Standardizing Network Access Control: TNC and Microsoft NAP to Interoperate
- Two leading network access control standards - TCG's Trusted Network Connect TNC and Microsoft's Network Access Protection NAP - will now interoperate, providing enterprises with simpler, more cost-effective, scalable, and interoperable endpoint integrity and network access control. To improve endpoint and network security, enterprises have been quick to embrace the...
- Tags: Concept, Network, Microsoft Corp., Access Control, Endpoint, Networking
- White papers 2007-05-01
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