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Is Bluetooth past its prime?

For over five years, two of the supposedly killer wireless technologies -- Bluetooth and Wi-Fi -- have been marching to the beats of their own drummers. Whereas before, the two wireless technologies had almost nothing in common with each other and were designed to address distinctly different needs, now...

Tags: wireless, David Reed, Bluetooth

Blog posts 2005-05-01

Pixerter 1.0 (Windows)

From the developer: "Pixerter is an excellent PowerPoint add-in program for adding multiple images to any presentation. But, what makes this program special is the ability it gives the user to dynamically arrange, size and crop up to 5 images on each slide. It can also generate an input file...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Image, David Reed

Software downloads 2002-12-19

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Stupid DROID Tricks, Volume 1

also if u want to talk and surf the net (get directions,or use the Map) in the same time u just have to open or switch the applications using the HOME key on the phone.Also: if u want to make a very CHEAP International calls or If you want to...

Tags: E-mail, Stupid DROID Tricks, Volume 1, phone

Discussion threads 2009-11-22

Dirty dozen: Firefox ships patch for 12 security flaws

Mozilla has released another point update for its flagship Firefox browser to provide fixes for at least 12 documented security vulnerabilities.  Some of the flaws put millions of Web surfers at risk of remote code execution attacks. The Firefox 3.0.2 update addresses two issues rated by Mozilla...

Tags: Developer, Mozilla Firefox, Attacker, Vulnerability, Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-09-24

A geek's trip to Capitol Hill on Network Management

I appeared before congressional and government staffers on Capitol Hill for a panel on Network Management sponsored by iGrowthGlobal.  This was my first time in Washington DC and while it was a little cold for my Californian bones, it was a beautiful city and seeing the capitol of the nation...

Tags: BitTorrent, Broadband Internet, Cable, Comcast Corp., Corporate Communications, DOCSIS, Geek, George Ou, Internet, Japan, Marketing, Network, Network Management, Networking, P2P, Peer To Peer (P2P), Personal Technology, Presentation, Richard Bennett, Telecommunications, Video, Wireless Network

Blog posts 2008-03-03

Comcast 'on trial' at FCC hearing Monday

The great debate over Comcast's throttling of BitTorrent and perhaps other P2P apps leaves cyberspace and enters the real world as a full panel of the Federal Communications Commission heads to Harvard for a public hearing on the issue. The FCC recently released the agenda PDF...

Tags: CBS Interactive Inc., Comcast Corp., FCC, Federal Government, Government, Professor, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-02-22

Microsoft responds to IBM's free competitor (Lotus Symphony) to MS-Office

Microsoft responds to IBM's free competitor Lotus Symphony to MS-OfficeWhy buy Office?I was content to use Office as long as I didn't have to pay for it. The first time I was faced with the decision, I downloaded Open Office. It does everything I need and more. ...

Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Office pricing, Microsoft Corp., OOXML, IBM Corp., Lotus Symphony, Microsoft Office, free competitor, Bloatfarm, OpenOffice

Discussion threads 2007-09-18

Cheerfully spreading paranoia

 A couple of weeks ago Cringley used his PBS pulpit to announce that IBM planned to lay off 150,000 people in the United States. Since IBM Global Services doesn't employ that many people, the report was quickly discredited; whereupon Cringley tried to argue that, regardless of the number, something evil...

Tags: Government, General, Enterprise Policy

Blog posts 2007-05-20

Gates Foundation gives $500 million to Global Fund

Gates Foundation gives $500 million to Global FundGates Foundation gives $500 million to Global FundBig ups to the Gates Foundation. It's through charities like this and philanthropists like Bill and Melinda Gates that donations for good causes are possible. The people with these diseases will be overjoyed knowing...

Tags: Nothing, Mr Gates, Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, United Way, Global Fund, philanthropy, Seattle Times, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-08-09

Microsoft: We were railroaded in Massachusetts on ODF

Microsoft: We were railroaded in Massachusetts on ODFDeja vue all over againMicrosoft spent two years prior to the year with Massachusetts going through these exact same arguments with the European Union TAC commission. It was the same thing, with the EU/TAC setting their test for “openness”, and Microsoft arguing...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format

Discussion threads 2005-10-14

Ohhh. The pain, the pain: The Bluetooth pain

If you read my recent post on how EV-DO saved the day during a recent heat-wave induced blackout in New England, then you'd know that I was accessing my company's corporate network through a virtual private network connection VPN that involved my Thinkpad T42 connected via Bluetooth to a Verizon...

Tags: Mike Foley, Bluetooth, Verizon Wireless

Blog posts 2005-07-25