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Office 2.0: a digital revolution for students worldwide

Office 2.0: a digital revolution for students worldwideI choose option 5"I rarely use software that isn't run locally, and if Office 14 is cloud-only, I'm not going there."First, don't get me wrong - I've got nothing against using Cloud Computing, but I don't trust my Internet connection enough to rely...

Tags: digital revolution, Office 2.0

Discussion threads 2008-11-18

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Sorry Kindle owners, the new firmware still doesn't support local public libraries

Library DRM'ed contentThat is one of the few circumstances where DRM actually makes sense, legally as well as traditionally/historically. Maybe the publishing industry should compete with libraries in this regard - DRM'ed content for dirt cheap, valid for a couple of weeks. On top of that they should offer non-DRM'ed,...

Tags: E-books, firmware, e-book, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Media Revolution 2.9 (Windows)

By it's enormous function range and the support of numerous media formats Media Revolution is the only player you really need on your PC. Apart from playing video and audio files as well as DVD's, you get a complete media administration and a digital video recorder. The product rounds useful...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, MEDIAKG, Digital Video, DVR, Processors, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-11-24

Flipping Fantastic

I used to carry around a 1/2 dozen.......100 watt daylight-balanced, blue incandescent photoflood bulbs that I'd use to swap over at any normal interior location, to boost up the ambient light levels. With excellent automatic white balance nowadays, you wouldn't need the expensive blue photo bulbs, just ordinary incandescent...

Tags: camera, Kodak Zi8

Discussion threads 2009-11-21

40 years ago the Internet was born - now it devalues everything it touches

you are devaluing your proffesionshame on you.internet is one of the greatest invention in human history.Establishing walled islands on the InternetThe Internet is like a huge river, or better yet, sea, that allows users to move from small island to small island web application, to find the things they care...

Tags: Web site development, e-reader software, e-reader, Internet, Web site

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Schools Improve Educational Experience, Enhance Security With System Upgrade

The New South Wales Department of Education and Training decided to give high school students and teachers a computer as part of the Australian government's Digital Education Revolution initiative. To give students access to the latest technology, the department has begun upgrading its computers to the Windows 7 operating system....

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Productivity, Government, Security, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Case studies 2009-10-22

HP's kinder, gentler stance toward printer paper

I know I'm dating myself, but when I was a girl hooked on Nancy Drew mysteries, disappearing ink was all the rage as a tactic for covert operations. Now, as I sit staring at my printer every day, reluctantly printing out notes and other items that I just can't deal...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Photograph, Printing, Printers, Document Management, Digital Cameras, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Spring Design debuts Google Android-based e-book reader, Alex

Myself, I do not even want a separate device, no matter how cheap. AND, I want to be able to read my books on any of my devices, such as smart phone, netbook, or desktop.ExactlyI would like to read my eStuff on my desktop, laptop or any other device. I...

Tags: E-books, Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Google Android, Google Inc., e-book Reader, e-book, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

IBM XIV® Storage System: Ideal Storage for the New Media Era

The last decade has seen a revolution in the way in which digital information is generated and organized. The IBM XIV® Storage System provides a revolutionary solution for these requirements, in that it combines unlimited scalability and unprecedented ease of management with groundbreaking TCO. We investigate...

Tags: Storage System, IBM Corp., Storage, Hardware

White papers 2009-10-12

Who is a Candidate for Desktop Linux?

I personally do not fall into the group of people that can easily migrate away from Windows, but that doesn't mean you or someone you know can't make the switch. As I said in earlier post last month, the work that I...

Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Desktop Linux, Computer, Super-Casual Web Surfer, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-11

(NASA spacecraft crashes into the moon)

Total Waste of MaterialLets see, we explode a bomb and crash a satellite into the moon to try and confirm whether or not water is on it. And for what purpose? To make another return trip to the moon? To build space colonies? We don't have...

Tags: spacecraft, NASA, Darwin

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

What's the point of non-profit news ventures? Stop the handouts...

Intervention"Finding a new business model for news and other media is the most important question about the future of the Internet."The fact of it being media is not so important, quintessential is that the Internet is a (the 5th) technological revolution which COULD lead to major advances in CIVILISATION, PROVIDING...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, media

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

EC ramps up PR war with Intel (by publishing 518 page decision)

Not a big surpriseThe EC is a protectionist tool extorting technology and money from the creative genius of the US and other countries outside the EU. If you are successful, you are a target.RE: EC ramps up PR war with Intel (by publishing 518 page decision)Well that says it...

Tags: Intel Chip, Intel Corp., page decision, PR War, public relations

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Conspiracy theory: Yellow Submarine iPod touch on 9/9/9

already predictedNo, we didn't hear it here first. Merlin Mann's been predicting this particularly the Yellow Submarine iPod since 2007. Give credit where credit's due.RE: Conspiracy theory: Yellow Submarine iPod touch on 9/9/9Interesting theory. It would be nice to finally see the Beatles on iTunes since they clearly are a...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Merlin Mann, Beatles, conspiracy theory

Discussion threads 2009-08-27

Inching closer to the perfect e-reader for students

Give it away, just like Cell PhonesIf Sony,Amazon,Plastic Logic, IREX, etc... want people to start reading content on eReader devices, they need to start giving them away for free... with a service contract, much like the cellphone industry.Most people already understand these types of contracts and will feel like they...

Tags: E-books, Smart phones, Cellular phones, Note-taking, e-reader, perfect e-reader, eReader

Discussion threads 2009-08-26

An Operational Model for More Effective Cyber Security

Over the last two decades the digital revolution has transformed the global society and cyber space has become as much a part of the everyday lives as the real world. However, despite cyber security receiving increased international attention, it is still playing a game of catch-up. The operations of most...

Tags: Cybersecurity, Detica, Security

White papers 2009-08-21

DOJ gives blessing to Oracle-Sun, awaiting EC approval

Yeah but...Sure wish they'd fire McNealy & Schwartz, then it would make it all worthwhile.Michael Murdock, CEOWell I never liked Oracle anyway......good way for Oracle to shoot itself in the foot. :)Did you know that large snakes can misjudge prey and try to eat something too big? Then they literally...

Tags: Linux, Processors, UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft development tools, U.S. Department of Justice, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

Let me say it again: Stop sharing music!

They're being bankrupted because they choose......to be bankrupted. I believe both defendants are being offered manageable settlements to this day. Only their "principles" prevent them from doing so.When you don't like the price......of a product, that doesn't give you the right to steal it. Gee, I want a Ferrari...

Tags: Ferrari, RIAA

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

Let me say it again: Stop sharing music!

This message is for kids, certainly, college students, and schools. File sharing is bad. I don't care where you stand on the modernization of copyright law - the courts have spoken and now the Department of Justice has spoken. According to a piece in PC Magazine (and...

Tags: P2P File Sharing, P2P, Music, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-08-17

Making the tablet computer "classroom-ready"

Deja VuSince it's already been tried so many times before, what makes you think it'll work this time?Tablets are dirty, if not now, they will be soon as people can't keep their fingers off them ;-)WiznotesWhat do you think about students from high school to college using Wiznotes for taking...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, tablet computer, Wiznotes, computer, software

Discussion threads 2009-08-16