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myGrades 1.1.1 (Mobile)

myGrades is a grade tracker which adapts to many types of grading scales. With myGrades you can see where your academic progress has been and predict where it is going in a few, guided steps. With just a tap and a few seconds you can take a reassuring or motivating...

Tags: Mobile, Grade, Dramatic Technologies, myGrades, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-06-02

myGPA 1.0 (Mobile)

myGPA is focused on classes, as opposed to your entire school career. myGPA allows you to keep track of your grades as you progress through the Semester, and stay on top of how much farther you need to go for that perfect score! The application can track up to eight...

Tags: Mobile, Grade, Course, Dramatic Technologies, myGPA, Professional Development, Advertising & Promotion, Career, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-10-24

Stride 1.0.1 (Mobile)

Stride is Dramatic Technologies’ first published application. Stride is a pedometer for the iPhone and iPod Touch which focuses on simplicity and accuracy, the front interface having just two controls and an extremely apparent step count. To assure the best accuracy when using Stride, the iPhone or iPod Touch should...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Belt, Apple iPod, Mobile, Apple iPod Touch, Dramatic Technologies, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-08-06

Additional Resources

Out-Innovated by Management Practice Blowback - a Video Conversation with John Hagel

I had the opportunity to sit down for a discussion with John Hagel of Deloitte's Center for the Edge last week. My previous post about the 'Shift Index 2009' report is augmented by this video, and fellow ZDNet blogger Dennis Howlett attended the...

Tags: Innovation, Management Practice, Video, Motorcycle, Destination Point, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-29

Some important truths about pen-testing

Guest editorial by Alberto Soliño Penetration testing is a highly scientific, metrics-driven approach to IT security that has been in practice since almost the dawn of the modern computing era when programmers first began conducting organized tests, or “hacks” of their own, or others’ technologies to test...

Tags: Process, Security, Penetration Testing, IT Security, Information Technology, Organization, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-07-20

Global Collaboration Competitive Success: Old Dogs, New Tricks & The Shift Index

The above CNBC video of John Hagel Deloitte Center for the Edge discusses the huge problem of applying old business thinking when adopting new technology, and the scary new realities around global business competitiveness. 'Measuring the forces of long term change - the...

Tags: Collaboration, Knowledge, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-10

Advantage TANDBERG: H.264 Dramatic Leaps in Video

Organizations looking for dramatic leaps in communications efficiency and effectiveness can immediately take advantage of one of the most exciting developments in the history of collaboration technologies: the H.264 video compression standard. If they carefully select the right video communications systems, users will experience twice the video quality with no...

Tags: Video, H.264, Tandberg, Corporate Communications, Marketing

White papers 2009-06-17

Airlines on Climate: Don't blame us blame the Banks

I've posted before in these pages about how the business lobby, under pressure to respond to climate change, is starting to fracture. There was another dramatic example of this yesterday in Kuala Lumpur at the annual general meeting of the International Air Transport Association IATA when the CEO, Giovanni Bisignani, took an...

Tags: Bank, Carbon, Climate, Climate Group, Government, James Farrar, Management, Strategy, UK Air Passenger Duty

Blog posts 2009-06-09

Hearing the Call: A Promethean Encounter in Copenhagen?

[caption id="attachment_634" align="aligncenter" width="396" caption="Cate Blanchett: A Promethean Encounter with CEOs in Copenhagen?"][/caption] The great and the good of global business got together in Copenhagen last week to try to reach consensus on what the private sector message should be to the UN...

Tags: Greenhouse Gas, Copenhagen, Climate, Deforestation, Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-06-03

Building a vision for Government 2.0

Government 2.0 isn't waiting for a federal mandate. Earlier this week, the nation's first ever CIO, Vivek Kundra, urged the use of Web 2.0 approaches to address the needs of government and citizens at the Management of Change conference in Norfolk, Virginia. Kundra outlined several important areas where he...

Tags: Web, Citizen, Web 2.0, Vision, Vivek Kundra, Government, Vertical Industries, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-06-03

Oracle WebCenter 11g Technical White Paper

Web 2.0 technologies have made a dramatic impact on the consumer Internet by empowering individuals more than ever before. New tools and technologies such as wikis, blogs, tagging, RSS and mashups allow any user to easily author, publish categorize and share information. This "User participation" architecture of the Internet has...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Internet, Web 2.0, Productivity, Wiki, RSS, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing

White papers 2009-06-01

Poking for holes in Silicon Valley's future

Every time Silicon Valley goes through a downturn we see stories about how it is losing its lead. Here is the BBC with a long story headlined: "Silicon Valley crown up for grabs. It has one source to make this claim, Tom Siebel, the retired founder of Siebel Systems. ...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Leadership, Strategy, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Management, Hardware, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-05-04

Algorithms everywhere: Can IBM automate business decisions?

Algorithms everywhere: Can IBM automate business decisions?IBM made the same claim 25 years ago with MRPMRP Material Resource Planning and MRP II were going to solve all the problems with inventory in manufacturing. Not only would it track and order materials for a manufacture, it would do so for...

Tags: Engineering, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Tools & Techniques, IBM Corp., algorithm

Discussion threads 2009-04-15

Revolutionizing Collaboration and Learning for Teachers and Students

With the widespread adoption of e-mail, the Internet, and hosted applications for creating and sharing documents, the way in which students learn and educators teach is undergoing a dramatic shift. In most educational environments today, students complete projects using desktop software and submit them to instructors as e-mail attachments or...

Tags: Student, Software As A Service (SaaS), E-mail, Internet, Managed Hosting, Web 2.0, Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Collaboration, Emerging Technologies, Online Communications, Management

White papers 2009-04-01

Apple Mac Pro (Two 2.26GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, Winter 2009)

In addition to revamping its iMac and Mac Mini desktops in the beginning of March, Apple also updated its highest end professional-level Mac Pros. Available as before in four- and eight-core configurations, the newest Mac Pros have a number of new technologies and design features, including Intel's latest Xeon CPUs....

Tags: Desktops, quad-core, interior, Apple Mac Pro, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc.

Product reviews 2009-03-19

Is your data center ready for virtualization? Important power considerations for virtualized IT environments

Virtualization brings the potential to deliver dramatic savings in terms of server count, footprint, power consumption and cooling requirements for data centers. For all its advantages though, virtualization also brings some unique challenges. Overall power consumption will be lower, but power demands per rack will be much higher....

Tags: IT Environment, Data Center, Virtualization, Information Technology, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2009-03-19

ICANN: Largest change to domain name system in history

ICANN, the governing body for Internet addresses, today discussed global Internet address expansion at its 34th international public meeting in Mexico City, detailing "the possibility of one of the most dramatic expansions to the global Internet addressing system since it was created." Departing ICANN President and CEO...

Tags: DNS, ICANN, Domain Name, Internet Address, Estimates, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-03-06

Always On and evergreen

Always On has just announced their picks for the top fifty, privately-held, green tech companies based in the eastern U.S. Their overall winner: GreatPoint Energy. Always on concluded about the firm: "GreatPoint is commercializing a technology that converts raw coal into natural gas. This technology can yield...

Tags: Coal, Photovoltaics, Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-02

Comparison in green

Last Wednesday The register carried two green related reports. One, headlined Canadian prof: Green IT is a waste of time: Digital nomads will destroy the planet was by Lewis Page, an anti-research, anti-military propagandist whose report grossly over simplifies, and thus misrepresents, the already over simplified press...

Tags: Report, Green IT, Research & Development, Business Operations, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-02-28

How will the recession affect Silicon Valley?

I recently spoke with Silicon Valley veteran Bill Coleman about Silicon Valley and its future. Mr Coleman worked at VisiCorp on the first spreadsheet, he headed development of Sun's Solaris, he co-founded BEA Systems which sold to Oracle for $3.5bn, and he now runs Cassatt, a cloud computing tech startup....

Tags: Silicon Valley, Green Technology, Recession, Cloud Computing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-02-26