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Dartmouth engineering students go green, go fast, go everywhere, in balanced fashion

Dartmouth engineering students go green, go fast, go everywhere, in balanced fashionNice to see the green techmoving forward! ]:)

Tags: Dartmouth, engineering student

Discussion threads 2007-05-18

Even as first woman wins Turing award, it's hard to find a woman in compsci

Despite the fact that a woman won high-techs most prestigious award this year, the industry woefully lacks in training and recruiting women into engineering and programming, reports USAToday. IBMs Fran Allen became the first woman to win the A.M. Turing Award for computing recently but shes still a...

Tags: Education Technology, Computer science

Blog posts 2007-02-21

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How do we address the have-nots?

I attended a leadership summit on Monday (it was actually pretty good stuff, with concrete plans, goals, and generally more than you get out of your average bit of professional development) and, not surprisingly, a serious focus was on technology. I think people are finally realizing that, while technology...

Tags: Kid, Productivity, Business Structures, Wireless LANs, Transportation, Leadership, Wi-Fi, Finance, Wireless, Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Tapulous developer fired

Mike Lee, founder of Tapulous and developer of Twinkle was fired recently after a disagreement with management. According to Daring Fireball he was forced out. Lee blogged his side of the story in an appropriately titled post. So it came to pass that when my Engineering...

Tags: Developer, Team, Photograph, Team Management, Management, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Psystar countersues Apple, alleges anticompetitive business practices

Psystar countersues Apple, alleges anticompetitive business practicesCan Apple mention the original IBM PC/Compaq cloning incident?Whoops, I mean Psystar. Apple would be hanging a noose around its own neck if they brought up that ye olde lawsuit into court...Never mind "Apple hardware" is off-the-shelf PC hardware too, even their OS...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Desktops, Psystar, Apple Inc., Compaq Computer Corp., Phoenix Technologies, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

Go ahead...bring in your laptop

Go ahead...bring in your laptopWe allow people to use their ownso long as they allow me to install security software and updates and inspect the machines at my discretion. Those who do use their own see this as me doing them a favor, not the other way around.I use my...

Tags: NETWORKING, Cyberthreats, network, Go-Ahead, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

Magna Charta: Welcome Back, Ross Perot

So, EDS is gone again, subsumed by HP. But, lo and behold, H. Ross Perot is back, just in time for the presidential elections. Now, you can view his slides about the dangers of the federal deficit and debt online, any time you want. Or, hear him posit...

Tags: Ross Perot, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-26

One Router to Connect Them All

One Router to Connect Them AllWives and out of townI have the same problem. I usually get infuriating phone calls where I have to talk her through the whole device reboot process each time, and she forgets how to do it.God awful from where I liveRead my "Harsh reality of...

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, Broadband Internet, router, cable, Vonage Holdings Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

Are we seeing a serious greening of Colorado? Sure seems that way.

Are we seeing a serious greening of Colorado? Sure seems that way.Yep, going green allrightIt's called moss growing over all the abandoned homes and industry as Colorado slips into economic depression.The question now becomes how much misery will Americans allow greens to foist upon us until we've finally had...

Tags: serious greening, Microsoft Excel

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

News to know: IE 8; Code name of the day; Facebook security; Office 2.0

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: A Microsoft Codename a day: Rouge Dancho Danchev: Hundreds of Dutch web sites hacked by Islamic hackers Twitter's "me too" anti-spam...

Tags: Security, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Office 2.0

Blog posts 2008-08-26

Office Ultimate 2007 for $16,014,000,000,000

Office Ultimate 2007 for $16,014,000,000,000termsThe second part of the terms are likely because some universities give their students lifetime access to their .edu email address. As long as they have graduated.Microsoft is going to find it very hard to keep Office Suite prices northof 50 bucks. Enterprises are not...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, allway, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, OpenOffice

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

Office Ultimate 2007 for $16,014,000,000,000

Seriously! A copy of Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for just over $16 quadrillion Zimbabwe dollars. Bargain! I know I sometimes bitch on about Microsoft as being as evil as an al-Qaeda suggestion box, but this time they've excelled themselves. I got a press-release through a couple of...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Intuit: software and services. Are you kidding me?

I must admit to have been befuddled by Larry Dignan's interpretation of Intuit's current go to market strategy as analogous to Microsoft's software plus services mantra. This is the salient quote from Intuit's Q4 earnings call my emphasis added: We've talked about the fact that our growth for the...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Intuit Inc., Payroll, Intuit QuickBooks, Service, SaaS Offering, Software As A Service (SaaS), Operational Accounting, Cloud Computing, Payroll Solutions, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Mandatory email

Mandatory emailWe need better emailFrankly, email is currently broken - spam and scams and phishing make it a mess to wade through, even with the best spam blocking stuff.Problem is, we decided to use "adaptive filtering" statistical junk rather than solid encryption and digital signatures. What do the spammers do?...

Tags: e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

Over my dead body

Over my dead bodyStick to what you know, Murph!Hmm, last week you were saying you had little experience with SMEs and were offering space on your blog to those who do, today you are making stunningly sweeping generalizations about their employees! Where's your data!?My business focus, since 1993, has been...

Tags: SMB/SME, PRODUCTIVITY, dead body, villain, small and medium enterprise

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

Mandatory email

Is it wrong of me to expect teachers and administrators to check their email once a day? We all check our boxes regularly for paper notes, mail, handouts, and the like, so email seems an easy step, right? A lot of my teachers are fairly savvy...

Tags: Teacher, E-mail, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-24

Belkin GoStudio

If you're a musician, amateur podcaster, or college student looking for a way to capture CD-quality recordings on your iPod, the Belkin GoStudio is an all-purpose solution with some impressive bells and whistles. The GoStudio is not without its flaws, but at $120 you're likely to take its shortcomings with...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod, Belkin Corp., Belkin GoStudio

Product reviews 2008-08-22

My Awesome IT Job: Vice president of Operations, Limelight

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: Event, Information Technology, Internet, Cloud Computing, Team Management, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-08-22

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Get MS Office Ultimate for $59.95

Got a .edu e-mail address? If you don't, you might want to ring up your alma mater for an alumni account. Why? Because Microsoft is again selling a 91 percent student discount on Office Ultimate 2007. Officially, you're supposed to be...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-08-22

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureDefinitionsI don't know if there is any official definition for "application appliance" out there, but you are using it differently than I would.You are using it to mean "a machine that runs applications whose internal operation is a black box," or something along those...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Tools & Techniques, application appliance, software-as-a-service, server

Discussion threads 2008-08-22