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- Curiosity (txt)
- Curiosity is a Web scraper and an extensible push agent. You have the control, as you can choose: the sites you want to be monitored; the data you want to be extracted from that sites; how you should be notified of changes; how data should be formatted By means of...
- Tags: Curiosity, Site, Piercarlo Slavazza, E-mail, RSS, Real Estate, Online Communications, Internet, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2008-01-21
- Autumn Curiosity Screensaver (zip)
- The Autumn Curiosity Screensaver will allow you to see on your desktop an unicorn that is enjoying the cool Autumn days amidst the falling leaves. The Autumn Curiosity Screensaver will give you the option to enable or disable its musical background. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Screensaver, Leave, Curiosity, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-12-05
- Photos: Pens get smarter
- A new crop of companies say it's too soon to write off the digital pen.The latest digital pens are a far cry from the earliest attempts to add a brain to the standard Bic. But the question remains: will these new devices be more than a curiosity? This week, Irvine,...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, photograph, pen, digital pen, writeoff, Irvine, curiosity, cry, crop, computer company, Silicon Valley, PC, California, computer, conference, game
- Image galleries 2007-08-24
- Google Zeitgeist 2006
- Its not yet available on the Google press page, but if you know where to look you can catch a glimpse before its made public. The 2006 Zeitgeist explores whats hot, current events, milestones, entertainment and sports.Whats Hot What roils our curiosity enough to ask basic questions? Between these...
- Tags: current event, curiosity, Google Zeitgeist, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-12-18
- Search on for source of leaked Windows code
- Search on for source of leaked Windows codelook on the bright sideif enough "white hat" hackers get the code, they might be able to help find and clos emore security holes than before.MS customers win, cause they get a more secure systemOpen Source people win, cause it demonstrates their model...
- Tags: Operating systems, Linux, UNIX, curiosity, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Windows Code, security, Mainsoft, years old
- Discussion threads 2004-02-13
- Enter the World of Non-Intrusive Sales Prospecting
- Through this webcast the viewer can learn the seven steps human beings go through when deciding to purchase products and services. Then, the presenters share some ideas for getting in sync with the prospect on every step from creating curiosity to causing action.
- Tags: Curiosity, Sales Strategy, Digital Media, Sales Force Management, Sales, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
Additional Resources
- Why IT mergers fail
- Why IT mergers faileds hp lay offsTry employing writers that can count.24600 lay offs 50% will be in the USA so 12300 out 47,000 is ~25%.SidetrackThe gain from a Hurd/Fiorina style merger is easy to comprehend, Murph. Combine two companies and lay off a slew of people. All...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategy, information technology, Hewlett-Packard Co., merger, Electronic Data Systems Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- Comcast really does care (aka how Twitter helped save Nick at Nite)
- It's a little embarrassing for me to admit this, but I go to sleep every night watching Nick at Nite. Loser, right? What can I say, I never tire of the antics of Will and Carlton on the "Fresh Prince of Bel Air." All was fine last...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., Twitter, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Standards-obsessed politicians partly to blame for math/sci problems
- From the Atlantic to the Pacific, educators are coming up with the same conclusion – obvious enough to the kids and probably their parents – standardized tests and policies that require kids to learn difficult topics before they're ready actually hurt math and science education. From the...
- Tags: Kid, Kids, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- Microsoft ads are still shoulder-tapping. OK. OK. I'm listening already.
- Microsoft ads are still shoulder-tapping. OK. OK. I'm listening already.I wonder how many of the authorshere have an advertising degree?They should be focusing less on these commercials and more on their own writing skills as I have noticed that many do not get the same amount of talkbacks as others.I...
- Tags: advertisement, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft AD
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
- Google Chrome has Microsoft's code inside, says MS manager
- A senior program manager at Microsoft claims that Google took some open-source code from Microsoft and used it in their Chrome browser. And it's perfectly legal. From Rupert Goodwin's blog on ZDNet UK: And furthermore, he says, that's a good thing. A great...
- Tags: Google Inc., Blog, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Hanselman, Blogging, Internet, open source, Chrome, Google, Microsoft, IE, Rupert Goodwins, ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-09-12
- Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?
- Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?That's a pretty funny site. Some amusement in the page source too.YawnThis is getting old. Nobody said the LHC would destroy the world when it started up. They said it would destroy the...
- Tags: Micro Black hole, Large Hadron Collider, black hole
- Discussion threads 2008-09-11
- LHC and Faith-Based Science
- LHC and Faith-Based ScienceBut the scientists have to talk to us too"If you really want to point out the faults in a scientific project then you need to educate yourself and be able to talk to a scientist and express yourself on their level."That's not realistic since physicists speak in...
- Tags: Cosmic Rays, LHC, Faith Based Science, black hole
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
- iRobot's Brooks starts worker bot company
- Even as iRobot won a wide-open contract with the Army, the company's part-time CTO, Rodney Brooks, left the company to start a new robotics firm, Cambridge-based Heartland Robotics. The new company is focused on industrial robotics, which logic would dictate would put...
- Tags: iRobot Corp., Robotics, Bot, Worker, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Windows 7: Can Microsoft get boot time to under 15 seconds?
- Windows 7: Can Microsoft get boot time to under 15 seconds?Where has this been?Oh, hello, MS, is that you? Did you remember that little OS side-project that you've had going on for a couple decades now? I'm so glad to see a renewed interest, please stick around to...
- Tags: Operating systems, Boot-time, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Gary McKinnon wins short stay from extradition
- Gary McKinnon, who may be a somewhat deranged alien hunter or "the world's most dangerous hacker," as U.S. authorities style him according to the Guardian won a temporary stay of his extradition to the U.S. Last month, the British House of Lords court denied his appeal...
- Tags: U.S., Stay, Gary McKinnon, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Do you know where your computers are being recycled?
- Do you know where your computers are being recycled?Good storyIf this were a story about Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux there'd be a hundred posters yelling at each other by now. It isn't, it's just a really significant issue that affects people here rather directly... we're all using computers, that...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, One-Man, computer, Basel
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Dell now ships XPS and Studio notebook with Ubuntu Linux 8.04 factory installed
- Dell now ships XPS and Studio notebook with Ubuntu Linux 8.04 factory installedPaula get this info over to Dana STAT!(He's in the market for a new Laptop):)Notice somthing about the Dell Offerings?All laptops and only one desktop:http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhsNow is your chance Dana. GO FOR THE GOLD!!! ;)Maybe, but.....As enthusiastic as I...
- Tags: Linux, PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, Notebooks, OPEN SOURCE, operating system, computer, Ubuntu Linux 8.04, Dell Computer Corp., Ubuntu Linux, Ubuntu, notebook
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- iPhone black screen of death (updated)
- iPhone black screen of death updatedWaited 2 hours to boot...In reply to this story's update - I waited more than 2 hours the first time that this happened while I scoured the Internet looking for help. After finally giving up, I found the way to force the phone into restore...
- Tags: iPhone black screen, iPhone Black, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- Green light for hacker's extradition
- Green light for hacker's extraditionUS owned server spaceWhen he hacked into our military's network's, he was trespassing on US owned server space.The EU would cry bloody murder if we had a little pasty 16 yr old hack MI6 and do what this guy did, and we didn't extradite him. book...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Green Light, extradition, hacker
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
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