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Road Test: Two Bluetooth speakerphones

In our comparative review, we road test two bluetooth speakerphones: Roadmaster's VR3 and Spracht's Aura Mobile BT. Here, in this image gallery, we get up close and personal with all of the nooks and crannies of both devices.

Tags: Bluetooth, cranny

Image galleries 2007-03-13

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GIMP dropped from default Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx installation

I use the GIMPThe user interface stinks, but the GIMP is a powerful application. I use it regularly for editing pictures. F-spot on the other hand, I don't like much. I use gThumb for organizing my photos (gThumb was F-spot's predecessor in early Ubuntu versions). gThumb also allows some simple...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, GIMP, Ubuntu

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Grid spyware: Deregulation bites us again

Grid spyware: Deregulation bites us againHow long did it take...For stop signs to be posted at intersections after the automobile came into use? Red lights? Speed limits? Look both ways before you cross?I am mystified at the apparent lack of any common sense about the digital reality...

Tags: Regulations, SECURITY, deregulation, spyware

Discussion threads 2009-04-08

Windows 7 - Revolutionary or evolutionary?

Windows 7 - Revolutionary or evolutionary?Revolutionary.1. The kind of focus MS is giving to performance is revolutionary. Its the first time that an OS is performing faster than its predecessor.:). Example in case - a 1.86 GHz single core Celeron Processor, 2 GB 553 MHz RAM, Intel 965 Express chipset...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., operating system, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-01-20

Adobe pushes Flash forward; Bolsters SAP partnership

Adobe's MAX 2008 conference kicks off Monday and the shindig's theme is pretty simple: Extend its Flash platform into every software nook and cranny that it can by enlisting developers everywhere. Adobe's goal of reaching everyone with Flash isn't new, but the company every year makes more...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Partnership, SAP AG, Business Structures, Cloud Computing, Smart Phones, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Free Software Foundation does the right thing for free culture

Free Software Foundation does the right thing for free cultureThe "community" does not represent meI don't know how the Wikipedia "community" is going to decide for me how the content I released under the terms of the early versions of the GFDL is suddenly going to be permissible under the...

Tags: GFDL, Free Software Foundation

Discussion threads 2008-11-14

Why You Shouldn't Ignore Business Analysts: Business Analysts Can Be Valuable Allies for You, if You Let Them

In this paper, one learns what business analysts do and why they can be valuable allies. Often misunderstood, business analysts can make one's life easier and help ensure the success of the project. Does it ever feel like no one really appreciates what one does as an architect? It doesn't...

Tags: Business Analyst

White papers 2008-08-12

Technology and the costs of change

Technology and the costs of changeMissing linkOne link which might solidify your thinking is to consider not the cost or the size of the change ... but its impact on customers. It is surely this link which one tries to firm up in writing a business case. It is the...

Tags: Mainframes, Operating systems, Microsoft Office, Unix, mainframe

Discussion threads 2008-05-19

Mozilla spreads malware rather than security

Mozilla spreads malware rather than securityyet another demostration that open source code is NOT safer than closedyet another demostration that open source code is NOT safer than closedSh*t happens....There is no absolute security in computing. And there never will be. Not even when you are running Linux (safe from viruses,...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, Web browsers, Murderers, security, Mozilla Corp., malware, virus, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-05-08

Crystal Cave 3D Screensaver 1 (Windows)

Experience a short journey in cave of crystals - some believe they hold cleansing, healing, and revitalizing powers. People just seem to be drawn with fascination to the raw beauty of crystals. There's just so much more to them than meets the eye - some even believe they hold cleansing,...

Tags: Atmosphere, 3D, Cave, Screensaver-network, Microsoft Windows, Construction, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-11-29

If Skype was disruptive to telcos, then Cubic Telecom is their nightmare (and good for you)

A few weeks prior to my scheduled departure for Dublin, Ireland where I ran the most recent Mashup Camp, I started handing out the phone numbers of my hotel and traveling companions to people who might want to reach me while I was over there. For cell phone usage,...

Tags: SIM Card, Web, Ireland, Phone, Call, Skype Technologies S.A., Wi-Fi, Service, Cubic Telecom, Phone Number, MaxRoam, Pat Phelan, Telecom & Utilities, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-11-27

Another nail in the coffin for xBase? Microsoft ends Foxpro's commercial run

While Im glad to hear that Microsoft is turning portions of its codebase over to the open source community, the news thanks Slashdot from Microsoft that Foxpro has seen its last commercial version marks a sad day for me. Foxpro was to dBase what Excel was to Lotus 1-2-3. If...

Tags: Desktops, Mainframes, Servers, Databases, Programming languages, Microsoft Corp., dBase, PC

Blog posts 2007-03-23

NBC Universal launches DotComedy

NBC Universal today launches its new comedy "broadband channel," DotComedy. The site is an interesting reflection of YouTube in a couple of ways. On the one hand, its a pretty obvious effort to entice users into enjoying NBC Universal-owned content under the NBC Universal tent as opposed to...

Tags: Blogging, Copyright, Denise Howell, DMCA, DotComedy, Live Web, NBC Universal, NBC Universal Inc., Social networking, Tags, Video

Blog posts 2006-11-09

Getting ready for .NET 3.0

I've spent some time tooling around what was formerly known as Avalon and Indigo, then renamed to WinFX, and finally baptized as .NET 3.0, a move that positioned the development framework as the next step in .NET's evolution which makes a certain amount of sense. By "tooling...

Tags: API

Blog posts 2006-10-31

Virtualization and confusing array of Vista legal restrictions to haunt Microsoft and users alike

According to fellow ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley, Vista's licensing is confusing enough. She literally ends up screaming for help. But, over at SecurityFocus, Scott Granneman is drawing attention to some of the more objectionable and seemingly arbitrary terms in Microsoft's End User License Agreement for the new version of...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Blog posts 2006-10-31

Google makes nice with Wall Street

Google makes nice with Wall StreetOk. I'll be the first to mar the landscape.......Google doesn't dabble. I dare say they are a serious internet services provider. I'll let you decide how many meanings that should, could and may soon carry.They're growing without forgetting the foundation of what got them started...

Tags: INTERNET, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-07-24

Does GridApp have the silver bullet of database provisioning and management?

Systems management has always been something of a black art for businesses. They start off with good intentions. You know the ones I'm talking about where, much the same way SouthWest Airlines flies only one kind of jet, businesses attempt to standardize all of their technology to make it...

Tags: database

Blog posts 2006-07-20

Google's emerging Web Office

Google's emerging Web OfficeGoogle vs Microsoft - the battle is already overEveryone is hyping the potential for Google and Web 2.0 to eclipse Microsoft.Just like the DotBomb era of a few years ago, so-called analysts and everyday people are thinking not with their heads, but with their egos and emotion.Besides...

Tags: Channel management, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web

Discussion threads 2006-05-26

Novell beats desktop Linux drum hard

Novell beats desktop Linux drum hardYea but...Good points. But there are a lot of computers in businesses that are used only for 1) Word processing and 2) Web Browser and 3) Email. Any company that can achieve the same functionality at 1/10th the price will do it -...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, desktop, desktop Linux, Novell Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-04-10

Novell beats desktop Linux drum hard

According to News.com's Stephen Shankland: Linux on desktop computers will begin taking off in mainstream markets in the next 12 to 18 months, Novell President Ron Hovsepian has predicted. This rang a bell but I couldn't remember from when. Then I realized Novell was at...

Tags: desktop, Linux

Blog posts 2006-04-10