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Skype's new upfront North America calling plan: a stage in a broader strategy

Skype's new upfront North America calling plan: a stage in a broader strategyIt was only a matter of time free endedSkype to phone quality stinks. You can't even use touch tone navigation. They only offered free calls to kill the Vonage IPO.Guess it didn't workVonage seems to be...

Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Linux Client, strategy, VoIP, phone, Vonage Holdings Corp., Skype Technologies S.A., SkypeOut, end-of-the-year

Discussion threads 2006-12-13

Top ten predictions for 2006

Hey, everybody's got a list... so in no particular order: The EU's grumbling about Microsoft will continue to be largely irrelevant. Apple will end its Intel relationship. "C" will make a comeback as a politically correct development language. Sun will continue as an active co-conspirator...

Tags: end-of-the-year, Web

Blog posts 2006-01-02

AMD aims to triple server share

AMD aims to triple server shareThe end of the year is still a long way offIntel finally got off of it's tail and moved on this, that with the fact that MS delayed delivery of 64 bit Windows servers until after the end of the year is not going to...

Tags: Processors, Network technology, end-of-the-year, server, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., InHeLL Ads, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-08-03

Additional Resources

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

Wireless soil sensors to help farmers

A research team at Iowa State University ISU is developing wireless soil sensors to improve farming while minimizing environmental impacts. ISU says that 'the prototype sensors are designed to collect and send data about soil moisture -- and eventually soil temperature and nutrient content -- while working completely underground.' According...

Tags: Iowa State University, Sensor, Wireless, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-11

Report: Three Intel Nehalems in November

Intel will launch its first three Nehalem processors on November 17, according to a report on the site Expreview.com. These Bloomfield high-end chips will include the 3.2 GHz Core i7-965XE ($999), 2.93GHz Core i7-940 ($562) and 2.66GHz Core i7-920 ($284). Nehalem is manufactured using the same 45nm...

Tags: Desktop, Mobile, Intel Corp., Chip, Nehalem, Server Processor, Chipsets, Semiconductors, Processors, Network Technology, Hardware, Components, Networking, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-10-11

Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-10-10

My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services

Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...

Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Are there really 750 million mentally ill?

Chan said "these are not insurmountable problems" and "the way forward is bright and solidly paved." A "scaling up" of the professions will cost just 20 cents per person per year. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Depression, Worker, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-10-10

America's airways ready for NextGen

It's time – long past time – to upgrade the U.S. air traffic control system. The current system, designed during World War II, contributes mightily to flight delays, customer dissatisfaction and a massive energy wastefulness. But a GPS satellite-based system, on the drawing board for more than a decade, has...

Tags: FAA, Air Traffic Control, Greenhouse Gas, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM

A Wall Street investor has suggested that the stars may be aligned just right for Microsoft to make another run at Yahoo, this time for $22 per share. Investment fund Mithras Capital, which owns more than 1.9 million shares, or 0.14 percent, of Yahoo, said Microsoft has a window of...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Financial Accounting, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-10

My Awesome IT Job: Director of Rich Media Group at Microsoft

Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Rich Media, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Forrester: Credit crunch may freeze tech services projects

Forrester Research in a report is confirming that the credit crunch is beginning to hit technology services firms. The extent of the damage is unclear, but IBM's lower-than-expected third quarter revenue its earnings are stronger than expected may indicate something worse is afoot. Forrester's...

Tags: Service Provider, IBM Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Business Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-10

easyStock DataGenerator (exe)

With easyStock DataGenerator the user can produce random generated stock price data. The data looks like real stock prices but is not. User may use this type of data to test trading systems against 100% unknown data. Up to 50000 data periods are possible (end of day = 200 years)....

Tags: Stock Price, Stock, Data, easyStockDater, Output Format, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2008-10-10

easyStock Game (exe)

easyStockGame is a stock trading simulator. Use it to compete against real time data. Use it to check indicators and or you skills with indicators. Try various included end of day data to trade for swing and trend trading. The user can specify and save commission costs, slippage, profit stop,...

Tags: Indicator, Commission, easyStockDater, easyStock Game, easyStockGame, Sales Force Management, Sales

Software downloads 2008-10-10

Larva Mortus (exe)

An action horror game about hunting of supernatural monsters in a dark atmosphere. Full of undead, terrifying, and demonic nightmares. With a superbly creepy orchestral soundtrack. At the end of 19th Century, dark forces shade the world once again. A brave agent, experienced in exorcism and combat, comes to face...

Tags: Monster, Real Estate, Games, Business Operations, Personal Technology

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

Facebook: Revenue plan by 2011; Growth is key for now.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's more focused on growing the social networking site than he is in finding a way to monetize it - at least for now. In a Q&A interview with German blog Netzökonom, Zuckerberg has basically given himself and the company three years to come up...

Tags: Revenue, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Social Networking, Operational Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Look who’s buying Vista Home Basic hint: it’s not home users

Look who’s buying Vista Home Basic hint: it’s not home usersMakes senseMakes sense. Your average small biz probably doesn't want very much. They just want something that works. If it runs the databases and the tax software, it's good enough. For a small business, a single PC is usually...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Vista Basic, Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista Home Basic hint, Vista Home Basic, Vista Home

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Look who's buying Vista Home Basic (hint: it's not home users)

Who's buying new PCs with Windows Vista Home Basic? Judging by the name, you'd assume those OS editions would be loaded on underpowered machines for starving students and penny-pinching families. But you'd be wrong. Based on my observations of the PC market over the past year or two, I think...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Small-business Buyer, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-10-09