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Google extends deadline for the Android Development Contest

Google has decided to extend the submission deadline for the Android Development Contest to April 14th. Google cites the reason for the extension is because they are going to release a new version of the SDK very shortly that has lots of improvements and incorporates many user suggestions. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Deadline, SDK, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-01-29

DateCalc (zip)

DateCalc is an application that was developed to help you calculate number of days between two dates. DateCalc was written for my wife who is constantly working with deadlines. She needed a quick little app that would calculate a due-date 30, 60, 90, 120 or a user specified number of...

Tags: Deadline, Wife, DateCalc

Software downloads 2007-11-27

DeadLine (exe)

DeadLine is a program useful for solving equations, plotting graphs and obtaining an in-depth analysis of a function. Designed especially for students and engineers, it combines graph plotting with advanced numerical calculus, in a very intuitive approach. Most equations are supported, including algebraic equations, trigonometric equations, exponential equations, parametric equations....

Tags: Deadline, Equation, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Financial Services, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-07-13

Nortel Network Case Study: The Economist Group

A deadline is a deadline. And nowhere is that more important than in the media. The Economist Group is the leading source of analysis on international business and related world affairs. They wanted to enable a seamless migration from legacy TDM-based telephony to a fully converged voice and data network....

Tags: Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Deadline, Nortel Communication Server 1000, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless

Case studies 2006-09-01

Time-Driven Early Discard (TED) to Improve the Fairness of TCP Congestion Control

This paper proposes a novel adaptive AQM advanced queue management approach called Time-Driven Early Discard TED. The basic underlying idea is to set a deadline on packet service time in routers, beyond which packets are discarded. TED is shown to improve fairness among TCP connections sharing congested links when the...

Tags: Deadline, TCP, Fairness, Time-Driven Early Discard, Underlying Idea, Tcp/Ip, Networking

White papers 2006-08-29

The 70% Solution: Practical Testing and Version Control

CTOs, CIOs, and all officers who oversee major development projects have had to deliver the dreaded message. But a deadline for the sake of a deadline is a dangerous pitfall that can consume an entire project and stymie it to the point that it never launches. Over the years the...

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Additional Resources

Survey: Corporations hold out on Vista

Survey: Corporations hold out on VistaLarry isn't going to give it up...It's sad what passes for "journalism" these days. ZDNet and her "sister site" TechRepublic are so one sided it's laughable. Is this "survey" really supposed to be passed as truth? The survey was conducted by a company KACE that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, survey, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle

On July 7, the day before the release of the patch for the now infamous DNS design flaw, hacker Dan Kaminsky with the help of Black Hat conference organizers invited reporters to a press conference to "discuss the massive multivendor patch being released this Tuesday." "A synchronized...

Tags: Black Hat, DNS, Conference, Dan Kaminsky, Thomas Ptacek, Domain Names, Patches, Security, Networking, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-22

More big money for work on wind. Yes, that's $1 billion.

Finavera Renewables which has both wind and wave energy projects around the world has negotiated a deal with an unnamed corporate investor who plans to put up $1 bilion for wind power projects that will create up to 300 megawatts of capacity in British Columbia. The money...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Agreement, mW, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-22

If sameness is a recipe for losing, how do you win?

If sameness is a recipe for losing, how do you win?OT but relevant: The heavy tread of IT.Quoting from the stern warnings about SharePoint from another Comment:“As many shops are discovering, SharePoint is also a development platform that people both inside and outside of IT use to create intranets,...

Tags: Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise software, Microsoft SharePoint, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Android losing its mojo fast

Android started off being a great idea, from a great company, with lots of support from carriers and manufacturers, and an awesome $10million contest to get developers drooling. With some stiff competition from Apple, and loss of developer morale, I'm afraid of what the future might hold for this...

Tags: Google Inc., ADC Telecommunications Inc., SDK, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-07-19

Apple to Psystar: See you in court

Apple to Psystar: See you in courtPredictable......This was predictable everyone knew Apple was going to sue it was just a matter of when.I think Apple played this just right...If Psystar was just fly-by-night, why waste the time and energy? It would just risk bad press and make apple look heavy-handed....

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Litigation, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Psystar

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

What happens when you patch the Internet?

What happens when you patch the Internet?Most home users do *not* have a router...and they are the largest number of systems exposed to the network. Corporate systems are already protected, and are likely not running Zone Alarm anyway.For the home user Windows XP's firewall is less than secure --...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Patches, Domain names, ZoneAlarm, Internet, patch, server, DNS server, security

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

McAfee S.P.A.M. experiment and more ridiculous HackerSafe failures

Stay with me here readers, I'm stringing two stories about McAfee together here, a little out of the ordinary, so I hope it makes sense.  If you aren't interested in the tech details of which there are very little, please do read for a good laugh. Network World reported...

Tags: McAfee Inc., Organize-It, PCI, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Marketing Research, Storage, Hardware, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Microsoft finally launches Hyper-V

Analysts have welcomed the release of the hypervisor, but rival VMware claims Hyper-V has been a long time coming and lacks functionality. Microsoft has announced that its Hyper-V hypervisor is finally available, but analysts have questioned whether large enterprises will adopt the product as their sole virtualization...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk, hypervisor, Microsoft, VMware, virtualization

News items 2008-06-26

America's blocked labor policies

A little known fact about the H-1B work visa program - the special visa used by most foreign technology workers who come to work in the United States - is that fashion models must compete for the same category of visa, a fact about which The Economist reminded me in...

Tags: John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-06-25

Microsoft double-backs and extends DRM support for MSN Music

This seems to fit quite nicely with my "illegal music sharing/copying" post a couple of days ago. Back on the 22nd April 2008, Microsoft gave all those who downloaded music through MSN Music the two fingers, when it announced: As of August 31st, we will no longer be able...

Tags: MSN, Digital-rights Management, Microsoft Corp., Music, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Want XP on your new Dell? $50, please

You read correctly. Dell will start charging customers up to $50 for factory-installed Windows XP on some of their PCs, Computerworld reports today. Consumers interested in the bargain-basement Vostro line of desktops and notebooks will pay $20 to $50 more for Windows XP Professional installed as a...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-06-18

SocialText unveils new wiki spreadsheet

SocialText just announced its latest addition to SocialText SocialCalc, a multi-user wiki-based spreadsheet. SocialText isn't the first to deliver an online spreadsheet, but it is the first to integrate an online spreadsheet with a leading Wiki and allows linking between sheets. (Click here for our exclusive, SocialCalc screen gallery.) ...

Tags: Socialtext, Spreadsheet, Permissioning, Google Sheet, Wiki, Productivity, Online Communications, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-06-10

Venezuela - and possibly Denmark - file appeals of OOXML

Venezuela - and possibly Denmark - file appeals of OOXMLSo let me get this straight....... during an investigation of irregularities in the vote they are allowing an appeal after the dealine. Priceless!Glad to see it.When a company can't even implement their own creation that speaks for itself.No surprise on...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), ISO standards, Process improvement, Venezuelan Government, ISO, Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, irregularity

Discussion threads 2008-06-02