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- A quick Presidents' Day post
- A quick Presidents' Day postOK, Chris...If you're posting a blog entry to say you're taking the day off from blogging, you're not taking the day off from blogging. ;-)You paid handsomely for that alleged Mac ease of useThe Mac is a FreeBSD box. But nobody likes FreeBSD and...
- Tags: UNIX, Desktops, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, education world, Apple Macintosh, Linux, FreeBSD, software, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-18
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- On IT failure: IDC group vice president Mike Fauscette [podcast]
- IDC's Group Vice President, Mike Fauscette, leads a team of enterprise software analysts for one of the largest research firms in the world. To better understand IT failures, read this interview. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Information Technology, Vice President, International Data Corp., Podcasts, Strategy, Internet, Management, Michael Krigsman, Software, Software Company, Failure, Tools & Techniques
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- The final debate: Don't expect Obama and McCain to spar over net neutrality
- When John McCain and Barack Obama take the stage tonight for the final debate before the election, I expect to hear plenty about the economy, domestic issues and foreign policy. What I don't expect to hear about is net neutrality, wireless spectrum or broadband. In tech circles,...
- Tags: Wired Inc., Broadband, John McCain, Net Neutrality, Barack Obama, Internet, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- MacBook Air gets Penryn and MBP17 gets minor bump
- Although they didn't get fancy glass trackpads or unibody aluminum frames (like Apple's other new notebooks) the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro 17-inch received minor speed-bumps when Apple announced its new MacBooks yesterday. The MacBook Air went from: ...
- Tags: Processor, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Judge freezes assets of massive spam ring
- The Federal Trade Commission won a huge antispam victory in court yesterday, with a federal courts in Chicago's order to freeze the assets of a botnet spam group generally known as HerbalKing. The group used botnets to spread its poison around the globe. Just one botnet...
- Tags: Asset, FTC, Spam, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Open source and the bottom line
- It has been a hard decade for software billionaires and the next decade will be just as hard. Because the open source genie is not going back into the lamp. But net-net, the world is much better for it. The bottom line is in the eye of the beholder. by...
- Tags: Bottom Line, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn, Software, Matt Aslett, Tools & Techniques, Benefits, Management, Human Resources
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Gartner Top 10 embraces the Cloud
- As in previous years, the analysts at Gartner have unveiled their 'Top 10 Strategic Technologies,' and Jason Hiner provides details elsewhere on ZDNet. The press release is here. One of the analysts involved David Cearley discusses the Top 10 over on YouTube, and posts the information from...
- Tags: Gartner Inc., David, Jason, Semantic Web, Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Workout for brain just a few clicks away
- Researchers at UCLA studied people doing Web searches and found that it sharpened the memories of middle-aged and older people. CHICAGO--Searching the Internet may help middle-aged and older adults keep their memories sharp, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. Researchers at the University of California...
- Tags: Brain, Internet Search, Internet, Search, Reuters, research, search, brain
- News items 2008-10-15
- Can the Semantic Web help education?
- Dr Jason Ohler certainly thinks so, and discusses his views in a recent paper and during a conversation that we recorded earlier this week. Both Jason and I struggled to think of examples where educationalists and educational technologists are already working with these technologies, or seriously considering...
- Tags: Education, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Vroom! Was that an Obama billboard?
- So you made up your mind ages ago about the Presidential election and have moved on? Thought you'd check out on the horse race, name calling, innuendo and financial meltdown by kicking back with a little Xbox? Forget about it. Barack Obama has...
- Tags: Advertisement, Barack Obama, Games, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Child predators apparently don't use Gmail
- A few years ago, a piece of popular legislation made its way past Illinois lawmakers (including Barack Obama, who voted in favor of it, as well as teacher unions, public health officials, etc.) offering comprehensive education to school children that, among other things, would have taught them to identify and...
- Tags: Education, Google Gmail, Sex Offender, Safety Education, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Secunia: popular security suites failing to block exploits
- In a recently conducted comparative review, Danish security company Secunia, tested the detection rate of 12 different Internet Security Suites against 300 exploits (144 malicious files and 156 malicious web pages) affecting popular end user applications, to find that even the top performer in the test is in fact performing...
- Tags: Web, Malware, Exploit, Secunia, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Stop wasting money on security
- Stop wasting money on securityWasting money on securityNot a bad article as far as it goes. However, instead of reiterating the same thing in different ways I think the author may have garnered a lot more support by including at least the basic examples, statistics and real world verification...
- Tags: Stop Wasting Money, security
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- The University of iTunes
- The ability, or rather art, of being able to be in bed, pyjamas on (or off, if that's your style), mug of tea in your hand, cuddled up all warm and snug, whilst being able to listen to their adoring lecturers waffle on in class about particle physics or some...
- Tags: University, Apple iTunes, Lecture, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Keeping the dream alive - bootstrap your way out of the death spiral
- Keeping the dream alive - bootstrap your way out of the death spiralGreat post RyanAs someone who got layed off in not quite as public a manner as you but at the same time I can relate! My own search for funding hit a wall when our prime prospect...
- Tags: death spiral
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- IT's challenges: The end of device charging; ROI; Super programmers
- Gartner on Tuesday outlined its grand IT challenges from 2008 to 2033 and it includes a world where you'll never have to charge your device. That was one of the futurama type predictions outlined by Gartner analyst Ken McGhee at the firm's Symposium ITxpo. These prediction presentations...
- Tags: Device, Information Technology, Gesture, ROI, Programmer, Programming, Wireless, Roi/Tco, Strategy, Development Tools, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- 'I'm a PC. A $999 MacBook still doesn't tempt me' (or does it?)
- 'I'm a PC. A $999 MacBook still doesn't tempt me' (or does it?)MS will have nothing exciting on the OS front for Christmas this year.If you want to do something exciting, you will have to buy a Mac. And, it only gets worse for MS on the MID/NetBook front. That...
- Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Laptop sale, Desktop sale, PC, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, laptop computer, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- How green is your vendor?
- Gartner analyst Simon Mingay on Tuesday unveiled ratings for technology vendors to highlight who's talking green and who's actually delivering. Just don't expect anything too quantitative just yet. Mingay's presentation at the Gartner Symposium ITXpo caught my attention given that every vendor is...
- Tags: Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- MacBooks: out with the old, in with the new
- MacBooks: out with the old, in with the newMulti-touch trackpad: gimmick or useful feature?The thought of having to use gestures with 4 fingers on a small trackpad as opposed to a touch screen display sounds absolutely nightmarish in terms of UI usefulness. Multi-touch on the iPhone is a total joke...
- Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, multi-touch, Apple MacBook, keyboard, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- LiveBlog: Apple's notebook event
- LiveBlog: Apple's notebook eventThat Jobs fellow always looking out for us![i]Jobs said the licensing for Blu-Ray technology is still too complex to burden customers with the costs associated with it.[/i]Thanks Jobs! I'll be thinking of you while watching Blu-Ray movies on my HTPC Vista machine that cost me ~$60...
- Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Apple Inc., LiveBlog, notebook event, notebook
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
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