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Fences 1.0 (Mobile)

Fences is a board game for two or four players. Each tries to be the first to move across the board. The strategic aspect is that each player starts with a set of fences, and on each turn may either move his/her piece or try to place a fence so...

Tags: Mobile, Board, Fence, Eric House, Fences, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Safe Harbor 1.0.1 (Mobile)

This clone of Binary Arts' "Stormy Seas" puzzle game includes 40 puzzles and their solutions. Solve them by sliding wave bars to the sides and moving "boats" in any direction until you are able to get the pointed or red boat safely into the harbor at the bottom. Features include...

Tags: Boat, Mobile, Safe Harbor, Eric House, Web Browsers, Games, Internet, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Additional Resources

The case of the fake money-mules: Inside the URLZone Trojan network

Security EvangelistHi, boy I sure wish people would stop using the word Evangelist in the wrong way. An Evangelist is someone you preaches the Gospel of Jesus Christ, not a secular title at all. Wikipedia recently removed the secular definition and Webster is researching it. Evangelist is from the Greek...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Banking, E-business/E-commerce, Viruses and worms, Cyberthreats, Personal finance, SECURITY, network, trojan horse, online banking, bank, virus

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Why I'm suspicious of the Facebook 'RockMelt' browser

In the 21st century, the main portal to your life besides the front door to your home is the window of your Web browser. That's why the competition between Microsoft and Mozilla and Apple and Google (and Opera and...) is so intense and so important. If the...

Tags: Facebook, Marc Andreessen, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., RockMelt, Web Browsers, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-08-14

News to know: SOA, Google Voice app; Twitter bots; Google Wave; Clunkers

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Joe McKendrick: More SOA tools emerge in the cloud Jason Hiner: Forget the iPhone app, Google Voice coming as...

Tags: Google Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Jason Perlow, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Bot, Twitter, Attack, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), XML, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Schmidt resignation: Is Apple search on the way?

When the first iPhone came out two years ago I was astounded that there was no way to search its contents: Searching For Search On the iPhone One year later, in 2008, after many updates to the software and new hardware: still no search function! Only now, in the...

Tags: Google Inc., Brand, Search Engine, Apple Inc., Search, Branding, Marketing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-08-04

The history and future of Chrome OS

Chrome OS is Google's first attempt at a desktop operating system. Due to be released in the second half of next year, the Chrome OS has many people baffled as to what it is exactly. What possessed Google to directly take on Microsoft in this way? Is Google getting too...

Tags: Google Inc., Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Chrome OS, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-07-11

Time to dump Schmidt from Apple board

Time to dump Schmidt from Apple boardHow much money does Apple have in the bank?$30 [b]BILLION[/b]? How about you? How much money do you have in the bank? Less than $30 [b]BILLION[/b]? Yeah, thought so.Why do all of you Apple haters feel you can tell Apple what to do when...

Tags: Corporate governance, Apple Inc., board

Discussion threads 2009-07-10

Google on offense: Chrome OS is a wager on the future of computing

When it comes to Google's entry into the Microsoft-dominated computer operating system business, there's a bigger question as to whether Google's move is an offensive one or a defensive one? Microsoft's official comment on Google's latest announcement seems to be a big fat "no comment" from Bill...

Tags: Google Inc., Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Computing, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-10

Judge's idea to outlaw links won't save newspapers

I continue to be blown away by what I read about how newspapers can be saved. The latest comes from U.S. Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner who, in a blog post last week, suggested that one way to save newspapers from their demise would be "to bar linking to...

Tags: Newspaper, Consent, Blogging, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Personal Finance, Internet, Human Resources, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-02

PR firms battle over Google's inside track to White House

The Washington Post takes a look at Google's complex relationship with Washington. For starters, CEO Eric Schmidt was closely tied to the Obama campaign, and is part of Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. But with three Google executives having left the...

Tags: Google Inc., White House, Public Relations, Corporate Law, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Judge rejects telecom cases but Al-Haramain moves forward

Bad news for the EFF's and ACLU's attempts to sue telephone companies for cooperating with the NSA. Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker rejected the groups’ lawsuits because Congress had passed the FISA amendment giving telecoms immunity. The groups plan to appeal on constitutional grounds. While...

Tags: Court, Statute, Obama Administration, House, Government, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Vertical Industries, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-04

Would you go the extra mile to get rid of an old computer responsibly?

There was a massive electronics collection day this week in Washington, D.C., coordinated by asset disposition company Redemtech. The company hasn't reported yet on how much was taken in, but they did send this photo of a Capitol Hill employee who not only made a donation but carried it to...

Tags: Electronics, Computer, Redemtech, Transportation, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-05-29

Your guide to SxSW Interactive 2009

During the second week of March each year, there is a mass pilgrimage of geeks from the San Francisco bay area to the heart of Texas. Not for BBQ, not for a sun tan, but for probably the best interactive web conference in the history of the world. ...

Tags: Facebook, Barbecue, Twitter, SXSW, Scott Beale, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-03-08

HL7 wants fewer standards, more patience on health IT

HL7 wants fewer standards, more patience on health ITAnd what about HIPAA?I am an IT admin in a university hospital, and I am required to make sure that ANY patient info is guarded like top secret information...which it should be.I just don't see how online medical records will ever be...

Tags: Regulatory compliance, Regulations, E-health, HIPAA, health-IT, fewer standard, HL7, PHR

Discussion threads 2009-02-23

Forget MacWorld and the keynote. Jobs as Obama's CTO? No.

So Mike Contaxis at MacSoda had the "real reason" why Steve Jobs was not going to give the keynote today at MacWorld. This was before Jobs' disclosure of the "hormonal imbalance" that his medical team has determined is leading him to lose weight. Jobs is set to...

Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, CTO, Macworld, Obama, Internet, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-06

Senate introduces IT failures bill: No wiggle room

Senate introduces IT failures bill: No wiggle roomIt's what the President should have been requiring alreadyThis really isn't what Congress should be doing, but there should be such rules.RE: Senate introduces IT failures bill: No wiggle roomA little accountability goes a long way. I just hope the legislation is...

Tags: Government, Strategy, DEF, information technology, IT Failure, U.S. Senate

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

Thanks to Google, writers' lives may be even more thankless, unless....

The announcement that Google has settled its book scanning lawsuit with The Author's Guild raises all sorts of hopes for digital use of new and previously published books. But without some radical changes in the publishing industry, the results of the settlement are not going to make it easier to...

Tags: Author, Business Operations, Finance, Google Inc., Litigation, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe, Operational Accounting, Pain Point, Strategy

Blog posts 2008-10-28

The technologies which will change our lives

The technologies which will change our livesThe real areas of change are nanorobotics and AI.Companies such as Zyvex and Novamente are working on nanomanufacturing and AI and they predict 5 or so years until products are available. Such products would allow for everyone to live disease and aging free,...

Tags: INTERNET, Semiconductors, Network technology, nanotechnology

Discussion threads 2008-10-25

TechCrunch50: Day 3

Photo by Steve Maller I've been covering TC50 for the past few days, and believe it or not, I'm still hungry for more startup pitches. 6:30 a.m. The final sessions of the conference are posted on BusinessWire: s Akoha...

Tags: Hollywood, YouTube Inc., Video, Photograph, Bojam, Truecar, Playce, Panelist, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-09-10