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MacBook Err

MacBook Errcaption"This one goes to 11. 12. 13. 14..."Suggestion for a new function key....F-off :-)RE: MacBook ErrAs much as I like reading this blog, I sometimes think that some entries would be better not being written. Beside the second key would obviously lower down the volume (unlike what...

Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, F11, Nigel Tufnel, Spinal Tap, keyboard, Apple MacBook, St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls, heavy metal band, World-famous, metal band

Discussion threads 2008-05-20

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TuneUp Companion (exe)

TuneUp works seamlessly with iTunes to automatically clean your incorrectly labeled music. It finds your missing album cover art, it lets you know when your favorite bands are performing in concert, and provides you with the best music content on the web. Do you have a lot of songs named...

Tags: Music, Tuneup Media

Software downloads 2008-07-14

Teachers want more training...no kidding

Teachers want more training...no kiddingThe new OpenSUSE 11 has an education software sourceYou may want to check out the new OpenSUSE 11 released yesterday: it has an education software source which you can turn on easily. :-)Important new feature: Yast has become a whole lot faster.It's standard long term...

Tags: Workforce management, training and certification, Ning.com, Moodle, Novell OpenSuse, training, OpenSUSE 11

Discussion threads 2008-06-20

Social networking on the 'New York Times'

CNET News.com reporter Caroline McCarthy talks with Derek Gottfrid and Nick Thuesen, who developed TimesPeople, a new feed that lets people recommend stories to other readers on 'The New York Times' Web site.

Tags: Network, New York Times Co., Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, News, caroline mccarthy, New York Times, TimesPeople, social networking, news

Videos 2008-06-18

CERN demos giant 3D digital camera

At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Derek Mathieson, project leader for the world's largest particle physics laboratory, CERN, shows off the Atlas detector, a six story high, 100-megapixel camera with 100 million data channels. Mathieson explains how the detector uses open-source Java applications to collect data and how grid...

Tags: 3D, CERN, Digital Camera, Camera, Mathieson, Digital Cameras, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, JavaOne, Atlas detector, physics

Videos 2008-05-12

Interview with the Vista Pwn2Own contest winners

Update 04/03/2008: I've updated the article as apparently the link to k2's blog was broken.  Also, it's important to note that Derek Callaway was a part of this research and exploitation as well, and I neglected to mention that. So obviously our coverage of the Pwn2Own contest has...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Vulnerability, JavaScript, Microsoft Windows Vista, Exploit, Data Execution Prevention, Flaw, Nate, Programming Languages, Java, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-04-02

Vista falls in Pwn2Own contests final day to a flaw in Adobe Flash

Update 3/29/2008: Just to clarify in case it wasn't clear, this is a flaw in an Adobe product, Adobe Flash, and not in a Microsoft product or in the Windows Vista operating system.  This is important to note, as it's not quite as glamorous as the flaw that took down...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Flaw, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Security, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-03-29

Healthcare clamors for iPhone treatments

Healthcare clamors for iPhone treatmentsnot for me.My doctor shows up with an iphone, and I get a new doctor.nothing new! similar devices have been around for 5 years!Its amazing how a shiny animated new interface can help a concept sell something old...Yet another piece of poorly researched "so called...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Handhelds, Apple iPhone, iPhone treatment, health care

Discussion threads 2008-03-17

Blame Zuckerberg (and Twitter) for poor SXSWi keynote; Parents joining Facebook; Paramount movies go viral

A Facebook special of The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… Blame Zuckerberg and Twitter for poor SXSWi keynote. By all accounts see Techmeme, Sarah Lacy's on-stage interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg...

Tags: Facebook, Idea, Twitter, Washington Post Co., Sales Strategy, Social Networking, Sales Force Management, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-03-10

From gas to solid, that's not just physics, that's green tech

Courtesy: Carbon Sciences Every inspirational speaker will tell an audience to take a negative and turn it into a positive. Politically CO2 emissions have become a negative in many parts of the world. CO2 is deemed to be one of the greenhouse gases...

Tags: Green Technology, Carbon Dioxide, CSA, CS, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-03-04

Air pollution finds a home

Carbon Sciences says it has come up with a relatively efficient way to turn carbon dioxide from smokestacks into chalk, which can then be used to make drywall or other products. CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos checks out the company's mobile prototype with CEO Derek McLeish.

Tags: news, michael kanellos, carbon dioxide, chalk, environment

Videos 2008-02-19

Google on Markey net neutrality bill:let's stop the "gatekeepers"

Without mentioning Comcast's broadband Internet throttling by name, Google's Public Policy analyst and blogger Derek Slater has just made a post resoundingly in favor of the net neutrality legislation introduced this week by Congressmen Ed Markey and Chip Pickering: Today, Rep. Ed Markey and Chip...

Tags: Google Inc., Broadband, Net Neutrality, Broadband Policy, Internet, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-14

NAC Best Practices: Three Simple Steps to Deploy Network Access Control

You need network access control NAC--not just to ensure compliance of known computers whether managed or unmanaged--but also to exclude unauthorized computers. Having an enterprise-level strategy for security compliance and access control is essential to protecting your organization from a broad spectrum of potential threats. The key...

Tags: Webcast, Network, Sophos Plc., Best Practice, Productivity, Networking, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Webcasts 2008-01-17

Is 2008 the year the telcos crack SaaS?

Is 2008 the year the telcos crack SaaS?Telcos Being Behind the Curve Worries MeDoes it worry anyone else that the Telcos, the underlying architecture of the Internet is so being the curve when it comes to emerging trends in technologies.The are so burdened by their traditional way of thinking they...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Software as a Service (SaaS), Mobile Phone Technology, Salesforce.com AppExchange, telecommunications company, British Telecommunications, software-as-a-service

Discussion threads 2008-01-14

Complex Event Processing and SOA: a 'beautiful thing'?

The drums keep beating louder for the impending marriage of SOA with Event Driven Architecture and Complex Event Processing. This is top of the news for many analysts, and something IBM, Oracle, and other vendors are positioning future offerings around. Is this the year when organizations will start linking SOA...

Tags: Business Process, BPM, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-01-04

AskEraser takes on Google, Yahoo and Jason Bourne

So here we all are sharing all our latest news with everyone on MySpace and Facebook ("I just went to the loo!!!" "My baseball cap just fell off on the Golden Gate Bridge!!!") when along comes Ask.com and, appropriately, asks the question: "Hold on. Are our egos...

Tags: Google Inc., MLB, Search Engine, Ask.com, Yahoo! Inc., Server, AskEraser, Ask, Search, Investment, Finance, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-12-11

Mobius Amsterdam 2007: Windows Mobile present and future, welcome to the HTC MAGIC Labs

Introductions: Today was the first full day of discussions and presentations at the Mobius 2007 event in Amsterdam following last night's evening reception. John Starkweather started off the day by laying out the ground rules for the event where most everything was completely open and we were invited to interact...

Tags: Chipset, High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Mobius, Social Computing, Qualcomm Inc., Photograph, John, MAGIC Labs, Sony Reader, Chipsets, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2007-11-29

The computer orgasm. Is it real or is everyone just faking it?

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk finds it odd that nearly a third of single Americans feel that the Internet is "sufficient companionship" and about the same percentage of young Americans would sell their name for a piffling $100,000. Research shows that there are basically only two types of...

Tags: Men, Survey, Computer, Chris, Gender And Diversity, Internet, Marketing Research, E-mail, Human Resources, Marketing, Online Communications, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-11-02

With Google, everyone is an armchair HR critic

The handwringing over Google's hiring practices is getting to be comical. Google hired 2,130 people in the third quarter and now employs almost 16,000. Oh no! News.com's Elinor Mills asks what these people do? Short answers: Sell ads, cook up new technology and add brainpower to the...

Tags: Hiring, Google Inc., Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-19

eBay: All is not well

Forget the Skype acquisition debacle. It's eBay's core business you should be worried about. That's the takeaway from Wall Street on Thursday after eBay reported what appeared to be strong third quarter results also see Techmeme. But there's the fine print. Currency effects--if you haven't noticed the...

Tags: eBay Inc., Taxes, Free Trade, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Financial Planning, Finance, Investment, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-18