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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

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The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Headline 2010: e-Reader device failure

The market knows best, right? Markets are bloody paths to progress. At this writing there are approximately 52 e-reader devices coming to market in the next 12 months. Fifty-two different devices coming to market (Here's what I wrote about Steve Jobs' approach to reader devices when there were just 45...

Tags: E-reader, Sales, Hardware, Markets, E-books, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-11-02

In recession, VoIP makes strong case for cutting your home landline

Tempting, but I will passI've considered VoIP several times over the years, but it usually just takes a few phone calls with a friend or relative who is using VoIP before I change my mind! Not infrequently, the conversation becomes a warbling mess. Then there are times we...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, phone, recession

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Private Ear Recorder for iPhone 1.21 (Mobile)

Private Ear Recorder for iPhone is a secure audio recorder that will only record when there is a sound to record. Record anything, anywhere, and listen to it later with Private Ear Recorder for iPhone. You will be taken to a screen displaying the current sound levels in the room....

Tags: Apple iPhone, Recorder, Mobile, Sound, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-28

DateTime Report 2.0 (Windows)

DateTime Report counts all date and time elements for the events based on the current time, and list the difference in the years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds unit. Besides, it provides a powerful reminder, which can remind you of the event in any type of recurrence pattern. You...

Tags: Event, eTimeInc Software, DateTime Report, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-20

'Evil Maid' USB stick attack keylogs TrueCrypt passphrases

Security researcher Joanna Rutkowska has released a PoC proof of concept of a keylogger that is capable of logging TrueCrypt's disk encryption passphrase enabling the attacker to successfully decrypt the hard drive's content. Dubbed, the 'evil maid' attack due to its 'plug-and-exploit' functionality requiring 1-2 minutes for...

Tags: Disk, Passphrase, USB, Laptop Computer, Attack, TrueCrypt, Hotel Room, Mobile Proximity Alarm, Notebooks, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Two Views of the Software Market

A Bridge Too Far? In a blogger briefing this week at SAP’s TechEd, SAP CTO, Vishal Sikka, drew a chart of the application software market and what new areas of technology are of interest to the firm. I’ve tried to reproduce his freehand drawing into the following...

Tags: ERP, Vishal Sikka, S-curve, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Windows 7 stability and reliability update available for download

It use to be called ...... a Service Pack. I guess it's to soon for that, it would not have looked good before the launch, so they renamed it.^o^RE: Windows 7 stability and reliability update available for downloadlooks like to me that it was not tested thoroughly. Although I...

Tags: Patches, Operating systems, service pack, released to manufacturing, operating system, patch management, Win7, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Snow Leopard

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Computers have speed limit as unbreakable as speed of light, say physicists

Yeah, they have been saying this same thing for years....and everytime, they find a way to make computers even faster. I don't think that they will EVER reach a limit for computer power. Not ever.FacinatingI always knew there would be a wall somewhere, but what will be needed with that...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Oracle OpenWorld 2009 - Social CRM Technology Rears an Actual Head

I am almost always in awe of Oracle OpenWorld.  The scope of this conference is spectacular. Can you imagine an event that the attendance is down to 37,000 attendees?  Actually, that puts me in awe of their event planners more than even the event. How in the name of whoever...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., CRM, Anthony Lye, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-10-14

The burnout risks for E2.0 community managers

Dion Hinchcliffe's piece on community management surprised me. There is a sense that Dion is trying to lay down some ground rules in an area that is too new for anyone to draw anything other than tentative and early stage conclusions. That's not to say that conclusions are incorrect. There...

Tags: Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Global warming: relax, nothing is going to happen

RE: Global warming: relax, nothing is going to happen...When a leading proponent for one point of view suddenly starts batting for the other side, it's usually newsworthy.So why was a speech last week by Prof. Mojib Latif of Germany's Leibniz Institute not given more prominence?Latif is one of the leading...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Sony PSP Go preview event

It's going to be a failure.While an all-digital, download only gaming device IS the future, the PSPgo isn't it.If I buy a PSPgo for $250, I won't be able to buy used UMD's from retailers around town, I won't be able to trade-in any digital downloads, and the pricing for...

Tags: Games, Sony PlayStation Portable, UMD, Sony Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

The 10 biggest moments in IT history

Missing: Tim Berners-Lee?The Mouse, and the GUI ...... without the invention of the mouse or the GUI/WYSIWYG there would not be as many users as there are today, and I would hazard a guess that it would be restricted to business applications like accounting, and Data Analysis.LudoRE: The 10...

Tags: Mice, Strategy, Operating systems, GUI, PARC User Interface, mouse, Microsoft Corp., IT History, Xerox PARC, operating system, IBM Corp., information technology

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Movavi Media Octopus 1.1.3 (Windows)

Movavi Media Octopus is the answer to your media library management needs. Transfer video to portable devices, import files to your PC, make backups, download YouTube videos and rip DVDs. With Movavi Media Octopus managing your media collection is no longer a chore. Here's what you can do with Movavi...

Tags: Media, Microsoft Windows, Video, MOVAVI, Movavi Media Octopus, Media Collection, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-21

Before Copehagen, there'll be Pittsburgh, and then there'll be...

a whole string of international meetings aimed at coming to some kind of globally acceptable agreement on global warming. Consider this a warm-up for the sci fi imagined event of the killer asteroid headed our way. Can humans really co-operate on the mega-scale? We haven't so far....

Tags: Agreement, Climate Change, Global Warming, Pittsburgh, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-17

Poll: How often do you use your pocket camera?

I fall into that "Only on special occasions" category so I selected every few weeks because that's about right. I always have it with me in my bag but typically only use it for vacations and festivals and that sort of thing.RE: Poll: How often do you use your pocket...

Tags: camera

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

The ultimate guide to scareware protection

Throughout the last two years, scareware fake security software, quickly emerged as the single most profitable monetization strategy for cybercriminals to take advantage of. Due to the aggressive advertising practices applied by the cybercrime gangs, thousands of users fall victim to the scam on a daily...

Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Web, Search Engine, Antivirus, Malware, Social Engineering, Security Software, Search, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-13

Has the iPod idea train hit the buffers?

The "hype" Apple gave it?Apple sent out 2 notifications to the press. First there was an announcement of the event date and then later there was a "post card" invite that clearly marked it as a music event. Get something straight, Adrian, Apple didn't hype this event -...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, camera, Apple Inc., Apple iPod, Adrian, buffer, phone

Discussion threads 2009-09-10