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Photo: Zen Vision takes on iPod

Creative Technology is out with its Zen Vision: M, a digital media player that's taking aim at Apple's popular iPod.

Tags: Digital music, Zen Vision, Creative Technology Ltd., Apple iPod, digital media, photograph, Apple Computer Inc.

Image galleries 2005-12-09

Photo: Zen Vision takes on iPod

Creative Technology is out with its Zen Vision: M, a digital media player that's taking aim at Apple's popular iPod.

Tags: Digital music, Zen Vision, Creative Technology Ltd., Apple iPod, digital media, photograph, Apple Computer Inc.

Image galleries 2005-12-09

Sound Blaster PCI 512 Driver Update (Windows 2000/XP) (exe)

Although Windows XP includes built-in support for most Sound Blaster sound cards, Creative has optimized the drivers for certain models to take advantage of Microsoft's next-generation operating system. This update is intended to provide support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

Tags: Creative Technology Ltd., Blaster Worm, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2002-10-30

Additional Resources

Bausch & Lomb puts new CIO in charge of customer service

Eye care company Bausch & Lomb has given its CIO the customer service reins. On Wednesday, the company named Alan Farnsworth, senior vice president of customer service and information technology and chief information officer. Cutting through the rather bloated title, it appears that Bausch & Lomb has...

Tags: Customer Service, CIO, Bausch & Lomb Inc., Information Technology, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service

Using a link analysis algorithm similar to Google PageRank, researchers at the SANS Institute and SRI International have created a new Internet network defense service that completely revamps the way network blacklists are formulated and distributed. The service, called Highly Predictive Blacklisting (.pdf), will be unveiled next...

Tags: Google PageRank, Attacker, Network, DShield, Highly Predictive Blacklist, Internet, Networking, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Intuit cut 575 jobs - is this "user generated unemployment?"

The other day I reported that Brad Smith, the CEO of Intuit, had asked his managers to see which jobs could be cut because there were volunteers among Intuit's 50m users that were doing a better job -- and for free. These seem to be the emerging business benefits from...

Tags: Job, Intuit Inc., Unemployment, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs

Terry Childs's lawyer, Erin Crane, offered the court some insights into the Childs' motivations in changing SF's network passwords. She will argue today for a reduction in his $5 million bail, perhaps to something closer to the bail set for common murderers ($1 mil.) In her written...

Tags: Password, Network, Backup, Terry Childs, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-23

October Esquire magazine will use electronic ink

Earlier this month I mentioned how Hearst is embracing the mobile web by offering much of their content on mobile phones. Hearst is now going to bring a bit of mobile technology to print media with their usage of electronic ink in the October issue of Esquire. The electronic ink...

Tags: Electronic Ink, Mobile, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Microsoft turns to users for new wave of Xbox games

Taking a page from Facebook and YouTube, Microsoft will turn to users of its Xbox 360 to create new video games and broaden the types of games available on its console. SEATTLE--Microsoft will turn to users of its Xbox 360 to create new video games and broaden the types...

Tags: Microsoft Xbox Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Games, Game Players, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Reuters, Xbox 360, Microsoft, user-generated, video games, Xbox

News items 2008-07-23

Apple: Perception is Reality

When a technology columnist known for his critical views on Apple makes statements to the effect that the company should consider defining and publicly communicating a succession strategy, many Apple fans might consider the subject too close to home and inappropriate. It will generate heated discussion...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Virtual Iron Customer Profile: Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann, LLP

I had the chance to speak with Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann's David Roden, a few questions about their use of Virtual Iron's virtual server environment. Thanks for spending time with me, David! Here are my questions and David's answers: Who are you and what...

Tags: Virtual Iron, Server Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-23

90% of Americans 18-28-year-old own a PC

According to the Forrester Research, although Gen Y is a small generation of 18- to 28-year-olds, comprising only 38 mln US adults, it sets the pace for technology adoption. 90% of Gen Yers own a PC, and 82% own a mobile phone. But it is technology use that sets this...

Tags: Generation X, Mobile, PC, Generation Y, AM

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Guest blog - A lesson in compassionate capitalism

I've mentioned Dean's Beans a few times recently, probably because too many late nights of thesis-writing this summer have me fixated on caffeine. Regardless, Dean Cycon, the company owner and a local guy doing business a couple towns away from me here in central Massachusetts, offered to write a...

Tags: Blog, Starbucks Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-22

RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug

Just a quick note to update a story I wrote last week on an unpatched remote execution vulnerability affecting BlackBerry business users: Research in Motion RIM has finally shipped patches to cover the issue, which affects the BlackBerry Attachment Service component of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. ...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Hardware, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it so

Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it soPar for the course wrt anti-Vista bashers.They believe that repeating something ad nauseum will somehow make it true.Journalism or Rant?I'm afraid you've followed suit rather than taking the high road on this issue. By even responding to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, RAM, workstation, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

Twitter anti-spam efforts go overboard

Twitter anti-spam efforts go overboardLarge services such as this can not...are too big to manage. Managing this type of technology with technology will time after time result in mismanagement. Just like Gmail and other that are spamming the Internet.Networks require real human intervention to manage properly. Anything less is...

Tags: Spam, Twitter, anti-spam, anti-spam effort

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

Mayor: Cleantech leaders are finding their way to San Jose

The great thing about visiting my brother and his family in San Jose is that there is almost always a business reason for me to be here. I used my latest trip ending tomorrow to catch up with the mayor of San Jose, Chuck Reed, about his city's aggressive green...

Tags: San Jose, Leader, Clean Technology, Capital Structures, Finance, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-22

California greenlights two renewable energy development projects

California greenlights two renewable energy development projectsRenewable - Free Energy for the World – ForeverGore and T. Bone Pickens have the wrong technology.http://www.prlog.org/10091881-renewable-free-energy-for-the-world-forever.html

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, renewable energy

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

Project portfolio mgt: "Draconian enforcement doesn't work" [podcast]

Achieving successful technology implementations requires IT and business to establish shared expectations around project goals, objectives, and process. Too often, the business doesn't understand real technology constraints while IT remains blissfully unaware of why some projects were even started. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Podcast, Information Technology, Project Portfolio Management, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?

  A few days ago an industry colleague and I were having a discussion about Linux and whether or not it is necessary for it to be application compatible or simply just "interoperable" with Windows from a protocol and data exchange standpoint. His view is that Linux...

Tags: Intel X86, Architecture, IBM Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-22