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BiziSuite LE 0.11 (Windows)

BiziSuite LE is an automation system interface that allows control over networked audio, video, and infrastructure devices. The program interfaces with most third party controllers and is maintained solely on the user's PC. BiziSuite LE supports multiple, per button, ASCII commands as well as carriage return and line feed. The...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Button, Control Centric, BiziSuite LE, Buttons, Commands, Network Technology, Networking

Software downloads 2009-03-01

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Is Turkey's search engine a backlash against US Internet firms?

Does the name "Quaero" ring a bell?We had a phrase for this approach in Web 1.0 - "walled gardens". Turns out they die from lack of sun.This seems to apply to nation/region/culture-centric search engines too. Remember the European Quaero project, launched with great fanfare by Chirac...

Tags: SEARCH, Internet, YouTube Inc., search engine, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-30

Samsung SCH-220 Code - silver (MetroPCS)

The Samsung Code (SCH-i220) is MetroPCS's first Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone, which seems like a step backward seeing as Windows Mobile 6.5 devices are available. However, that shouldn't detract the customers from getting the messaging-centric device. The Code offers a sleek design, easy-to-use keyboard, and decent performance and call quality....

Tags: Mobile operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Mobile applications, Operating systems, Cellular phones, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Product reviews 2009-11-18

AT&T loses lawsuit over Verizon's map commercial

Ha! Take THAT Such a silly waste of the court's time. If they finally lose, I hope they are made to pay treble court costs just as a lesson in frivolous lawsuits clogging the courts. That would send a much needed messageThat if a corporation is going to...

Tags: Cellular phones, AT&T Corp., GSM, CDMA, Apple iPhone, Verizon Communications Inc., W-CDMA

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

More evidence of the coming collision between home broadband and the smart grid

Collision?Not the word I would have used.In any event, I think this is a positive and necessary direction to go. In order to manage more diversified, less dependable/consistent sources of energy, the demand side HAS TO be managed. Without it, we are just setting ourselves up for a lot of...

Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, collision, home broadband, grid, smart grid

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

LG Chocolate Touch (Verizon Wireless)

When the LG Chocolate first came into the scene with the VX8500 model back in 2006, it was preceded by a ton of hype. And such is the case with its fourth and most recent incarnation, the LG Chocolate Touch. As the name indicates, it is a touch screen phone...

Tags: LG Chocolate, phone, home screen, touch screen, LG Electronics Inc., Verizon Wireless

Product reviews 2009-11-07

Introducing the VMware vCenter Product Family: What Top Performers Know About Managing Virtualized Environments

There are more opportunities than ever before to achieve greater efficiency and control of the IT operations with dynamic infrastructure. And managing IT as a service is a critical ingredient to the success. This webcast will help to evolve toward a service-centric management model and reduce the cost and complexity...

Tags: Information Technology, Environment, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Strategy, Hardware, Management

Webcasts 2009-11-03

Meet Mozilla's Raindrop: Like Google Wave, but different enough to co-exist

When it comes to new ways to communicate online, Google's Wave might be too much for some - after all, it's definitely complex and, yeah, it can be somewhat intimidating, too. Now, along comes Mozilla with a new venture in what I'll call extended communications - that...

Tags: Google Inc., Messaging, Mozilla Corp., Raindrop, E-mail, Instant Messaging, Groupware, Online Communications, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-23

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

Microsoft breaks Firefox

IE Welded into WindowsIE is welded into the Windows Operating System,that is why Windows is so insecure and proneto viruses/worms.They thought by making IE basically explorer.exein concept they would ruin any competitor likeNetscape well they did in a way.Interesting part of it is, they failed becauseFirefox is the most popular...

Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, Operating systems, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Corp., flaw, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Skype's New Revenue Model

www.skypeishype.comWWW.SKYPEISHYPE.COMWe are the team of inventors behind US Patent 7,089,319 issued in 2006 titled "Method and system for instantaneous on-demand delivery of multimedia content over a communication network with aid of content capturing component, delivery-on-demand client and dynamically mapped resource locator server". We introduce "Skype-killer" application, with new innovative "Internet...

Tags: Venture capital, INTERNET, Litigation, Managed hosting, Telephony, Peer to peer (P2P), Skype Technologies S.A.

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

A close-up look at the new Office Web Apps

Looks like 'View and correct', rather than 'Create and maintain'Basically, it looks like Office Web Apps is for viewing and minor editing, but not risking breaking Office docs.Ok... So it's definitely a version 1.0 product. Meanwhile, Office 2007 is the 6th version since Windows 95. It's also still a BETA...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Virtualization, cloud computing, OPEN SOURCE, Office Web Apps, Microsoft Office, Office Web, VMware Inc., software, Web application, new Office Web App, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-20

WSJ: Expect Net Neutrality rules at FCC speech next week

BAD IDEA.Like a lot of liberal legislation (Employee Free Choice Act, etc.) the actual idea is the opposite of the name.The idea here is not neutrality, but CONTROL. This provides a way for the government to start regulating the internet.Despite the on-the-surface intent of the rules, the traffic management...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Vertical industries, Federal government, Net Neutrality, Internet, Internet Service Provider, government, FCC

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

Introducing the VMware vCenter Product Family: Evolving Toward a Service-Centric Management Model

There are more opportunities than ever before to achieve greater efficiency and control of the IT operations with dynamic infrastructure. And managing IT as a service is a critical ingredient to the success with this infrastructure. The presenter of this webcast will help to evolve toward a service-centric management model...

Tags: Information Technology, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Strategy, Hardware, Management

Webcasts 2009-09-16

Microsoft to preview two Silverlight 4 features

Self serving "Features" ?Woow, since when limiting the rights of users is a "feature" to be desired by users?How can the article say that SilverLight is an alternative to flash, when Silverlight is a windows-only platform? SilverLight, while technically good, is designed to keep the web clients windows-centric.Now that there...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, NOW IT, Linux Support, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

Packaged software, an accident of history

"government engineered" ????"dysfunctional business model"Sounds like someone is looking for a new "revenue stream"!This sounds suspiciously like the "lease a car" vs "rent a car" debate. Change the looks of the same old clunker to "generate sales" without really improving anything.Feudal Europe had the royalty owning the land and...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Web Standard, software, accident

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

With virtualization, a way to wrangle mobile data costs in the enterprise

Are you an IT pro who's tired of rising mobile bills? Does incorporating personal smartphones under the enterprise security umbrella keep you up at night? Bob Tinker may have a solution. Tinker, chief executive of mobile enterprise solutions provider MobileIron, is...

Tags: Virtualization, Mobile, Information Technology, Smart Phone, Enterprise, MobileIron, single-OS Strategy, Employee Self-service, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-08-10

TechRepublic's CIO Jury: Split on deploying Windows 7

IT departments have largely ignored Windows Vista and stuck with Windows XP as the corporate standard. However, Windows 7 has received a warmer response from IT professionals than Vista did, and TechRepublic’s CIO Jury is split down the middle on whether to deploy Windows 7. On July...

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., CIO, Information Technology, Director Of Information Technology, Jury, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-07-28

HTC Ozone (Verizon Wireless)

The HTC Ozone is Verizon Wireless' answer to Sprint's HTC Snap. Though its design is slightly different, it offers many of the same features and is positioned toward the same group of messaging-savvy users. In a great move, Verizon added Wi-Fi and dual-mode CDMA/GSM support, but we missed support for...

Tags: space bar, Verizon Wireless, volume rocker, ozone, High Tech Computer Corp., Snap, HTC Ozone

Product reviews 2009-07-10

Microsoft to integrate Twitter into its CRM

Microsoft to integrate Twitter into its CRM I don't like Microsoft's new direction.I remember when data security and privacy meant something. Are people forgetting the lessons of the past? Is everyone jumping on the trust-the-big-guys wagon? Privacy and security are PARAMOUNT!There is too much temptation for MS...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Twitter, open source, CRM

Discussion threads 2009-07-10