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Deploying Microsoft Windows Vista Business Desktops

View Available Dates and LocationsIn this 3-day, instructor-led course, get the knowledge and skills you need to successfully deploy Windows Vista business desktops throughout your organization. Discover the deployment life cycle, which consists of planning for the deployment, building and customizing the deployment method, and then ...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista Business, Deployment Life Cycle, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Training 2008-01-01

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Surviving the recession with Free Linux distributions (Part 1)

Times are tough. You're a computer geek and you need to feed your PC with the latest and greatest applications. What's a frugal nerd to do? A group of industry peers was recently asked by a colleague the following question: "If an SMB...

Tags: Ubuntu, Linux Distribution, Recession, Fedora Project, Novell OpenSuse, Debian, Times, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Debian Support Cycle, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-12

Text messages save elephants' lives, villagers' crops

As elephants' habitat is destroyed, the great beasts frequently leave their protected reserves, barging into villages and eventually are killed by rangers. But in Kenya, there is a better way: text messaging. A group called Save the Elephants has outfitted a huge bull elephant named Kimani with...

Tags: Elephant, GPS, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Hardware, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-12

Microsoft's 'conceptual touch designs'

I've written from time to time about Apple and their rumoured tablet devices, applications for tablet PC's, multi-touch and Surface, and all those touchy-feely concepts we've been hearing about, but when do we get to actually see them? Microsoft has recently kicked forward their Software+Services, which for...

Tags: Tablet PC, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Will you forget about Android?

Chris O'Brien from the Silicon Valley Mercury News has an interesting article on why he thinks we will soon forget about Android. When you look at Android up against iPhone, you have to agree that it's going to be a an uphill battle. But if anyone can do...

Tags: Google Inc., Android, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-10-10

News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Stereoscope Theatre (exe)

Travel back in time with a look at life in Turn-of-the-20th-Century America with this fun, musical, 3-D slideshow ebook download for Windows. Features a background soundtrack of Scott Joplin ragtime classics. Big, beautiful vintage stereoview scenes come to life on your computer screen with the help of red-blue 3-D glasses....

Tags: 3D, Vintage Antique Classics, E-books, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-10-10

BETandRACE (exe)

With BETandRACE you duel thousands of real opponents on original adapted tracks in Berlin, Vienna and other capitals of this world. Best of it - you can select your favorite car such as the Golf GTI. Immediately after the game installation on your PC via the free download, you can...

Tags: League, Opponent, Vanilla Live Games, Games, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Personal Technology, Human Resources

Software downloads 2008-10-10

Nobel Laureate is the father of Kevin Mitnick investigator

We tend to say that information security is a small world. Conferences quickly become real-life demonstrations of the principle of six-degrees-of-separation. After a few years working in this industry, you either meet all or are within one hop of all the major players in the space; there just...

Tags: Information Security, Kevin Mitnick, Nobel Laureate, Osamu Shimomura, Productivity, Security, Adam O\'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Laptops with mobile WiMax now available

The first laptops with built-in mobile WiMax wireless broadband are now available in the U.S. Sprint, Intel and the computer companies announced the new WiMax configurations at an event in Baltimore just a few days after Sprint launched its Xohm service there. All of these laptops use...

Tags: Mobile, Sprint Xohm, Laptop Computer, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, 3G, Chipsets, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Entellium executives arrested by FBI for making up revenue figures

Entellium executives arrested by FBI for making up revenue figuresThe FBI can have themInflating revenue figures is fraud, plain and simple.What a coincidence!Over the past 3 months I had been engaged in evaluating CRM software for my company. Entellium was one of the frontrunners alongside Maximizer CRM. And after...

Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Federal government, Software as a Service (SaaS), Enterprise software, revenue, Entellium, CRM, revenue figure, FBI

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Easing the SaaS-to-cash cycle

Easing the SaaS-to-cash cycleCredit crunchMonetization of services becomes all the more critical in these times. As volumes increase operational efficiency becomes critical. At eVapt we therefore go beyond allowing service providers to plug in eVapt billing and payment capabilities. We allow users to scale and automate collection and analysis...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, SaaS IS, SaaS-to-cash, software-as-a-service

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Apple set to release $800 notebook

Apple set to release $800 notebookNot the first time sub $1000Apple had a $999 notebook at one time. Actually, I think the iBook had that price tag at one time. My only hopes is that this $800 Notebook doesn't come with the specs of a Asus Eee 701.RE:...

Tags: Notebooks, MacMini, Apple-set, notebook, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Start-up looks to extend battery life

Start-up looks to extend battery lifeYou obviously missed the memoMercury is harmless now. Just ask any proponent of CF light bulbs.

Tags: Engineering, battery, Mercury

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Start-up looks to extend battery life

Intel-backed ZPower's silver-zinc battery is set to make its debut with a large laptop manufacturer next year, promising batteries that are 95 percent recyclable and 40 percent longer life. Intel-backed start-up ZPower may be the first to introduce an alternative to the ubiquitous lithium-ion laptop...

Tags: Battery, Intel-backed ZPower, Mercury, Battery Life, Engineering, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, batteries, laptops, ZPower, silver-zinc battery

News items 2008-10-09

News to know: IBM earnings, Blackberry Storm, WiMax arrives, Oracle+ Primavera

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: IBM reports early. Profits up 20 percent, full year estimates reaffirmed. Larry Dignan: IBM: Beats earnings target but... Times are officially...

Tags: Touch Screen, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, RIM BlackBerry, Earnings, IBM Corp., E-mail, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, WiMAX, Monitors & Displays, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Wireless, Components, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Kernell's prior: In 7th grade he broke into school computer

Kernell's prior: In 7th grade he broke into school computerprobably an arrogant kidI doubt that other kids don't wanna hang around with him due to his smartness. He probably likes to put other kids down trying to show-off himself. Why leave a computer logged into the school server? If you...

Tags: Kernell, e-mail, school computer, Palin

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Paradox Lite (msi)

Paradox Lite has been designed to vastly speed up the process of cycle counting or stock auditing by utilising existing items barcodes, the resulting audit files could then be uploaded in to a higher level in-house system, or spreadsheet apllication such as calc or excel for manipulation. This creates more...

Tags: Audit, Stock, Paradox Software, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2008-10-09

Where are all the programmers?

Where are all the programmers?It's worse than you think!I'm in SO CAL. The market for good communicating and highly technical developers vanished back in 2000 with the .com meltdown. The guys from India and China are bright, but come on, business rules that are highly complex are missed when you...

Tags: Development tools, programmer, software development

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Intel X-25M solid-state drive (80GB)

Intel's X-25M solid-state hard drive represents a major leap forward for the solid-state drive category. While we've heard about the benefits of solid-state hard drives for years--faster access and boot times, improved battery life--Intel's drive raises expectations for the category as a whole. You will most definitely have to...

Tags: Intel Corp., Intel X-25M, SSD, hard drive

Product reviews 2008-10-08