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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

Comdex days for healthcare IT

I drove from Atlanta to Orlando this morning and entered a time warp. The healthcare IT area, which calls its annual trade show HIMSS, is partying like it’s 1989. By that I mean the HIMSS trade show floor looks like an old Comdex, filled...

Tags: Benefits, Dana Blankenhorn, Enterprise Software, Estimates, Google Inc., Health Care, Healthcare, Human Resources, Information Technology, Red Hat Inc., Software, Swag, Vertical Industries

Blog posts 2008-02-25

Additional Resources

Dark Internet Fundamentals

We all think we know the internet - the service that has magically transmitted these words from my keyboard to your eyeballs - but how much do you know of the fundamentals? As I wrote about last year, the plumbing of the internet...

Tags: Network, Attack, Internet, Security, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-29

East Anglia: some new angles, but no arrests for hacking

Investigation..."If the Republicans regain control of the Senate any time soon, you can expect a full-blown Inhofe-fuelled investigation."Horrors! Imagine that, someone actually wants to INVESTIGATE to see if the "science" of global warming holds water pardon the pun? You mean people actually want to KNOW if these drastic changes to...

Tags: Blogging, NETWORKING, SECURITY, Junkscience, East Anglia, e-mail, hacking

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Five Helpful Green Printing Tips

Taking the Green Route to Printing EfficiencyIt is, of course, important that organisations choose the most environmentally efficient route for their commercial printing. Dependent on the size of the job, there are always occasions when it makes sense to outsource printing. If a company needs 1,000 sets of a 30-page...

Tags: Document management, printing

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Climate scientists saying global warming trend is worsening

Pardon me while I yawn. This is the same bunch (climate change chicken-littles) that brought the hockey stick graph and pimped out statistics. These folks have been exposed as corruptand fraudulent, driven by ideology and not science. By continuing to treat them as anything other than worthy...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

KosmicQuitter 1.0.1 (Mac)

KosmicQuitter is a simple motivational application designed to help you manage and journal problem habits such as smoking and alcohol use. Of course, a piece of software alone cannot make you change your behaviour. Only one thing on the planet can do that - and that thing is reading...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Consumption, Mugginsoft, KosmicQuitter, Leadership, Monitors & Displays, Benefits, Management, Hardware, Components, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-11-22

Paying for what does not work remains popular

We are already there, DanaYou said "But at some point your neighbors, who are paying for your excess, whether in the form of insurance or in the form of taxes, are going to start asking these hard questions"We are already there. I agree with you that many of us...

Tags: Insurance, Recruitment & Selection, Financial Planning, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, prostate cancer, job

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

ChromeOS says tear down this network regulation wall

Costs"What is holding back network capacity is politics."What's holding back network capacity is huge costs.Yep, very important to push the ISPs to free up the bits. They would love to continue selling bandwidth through an eyedropper at very high prices. They need a push.Oh, and Microsoft will not like this...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Network technology, ChromeOS, netbook, fiber

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Stock Investment Guide 3.0.9 (Mac)

The Stock Investment Guide SIG is a stock analysis tool for new and experienced investors. The software provides investors easy-to-use tools to analyze a company's earnings history to help forecast what earnings could be in five years. SIG can then tell the investor if the current PE ratio is in-line...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Stock, Investor, Churr Software, Stock Investment Guide, Investment, Finance

Software downloads 2009-11-18

How we think, and perhaps lie, about the oil supply

Oil is naturally occurring...Scientist do not understand why oil wells that we'pumped dry' are now full of oil.So in other words, it has been proven to manyscientist oil is naturally occurring substance.It is all about greed and money, if people had commonsense and used their brain instead oflistening to politicians...

Tags: oil, Bakken

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

How we think, and perhaps lie, about the oil supply

IEA keeps the oil market calm. But academics questions oil supply estimates. by Harry Fuller

Tags: Calm, Academics, IEA, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-11-16

Why not pay for what works?

Lawsuits not a costly issueThat's a typical republican, politcal response. Studies have been done to show that's it's a very small percentage of overall costs in healthcare. Not that tort reform wouldn't help, it's just a small issue in the big picture.Most unnecessarly procedures are generally performed...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Betsy McCaughey

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

End-to-end encryption is the key to protecting data and reputations

In order to avoid the financial and brand damage associated with data breaches, businesses need to consider deploying end-to-end encryption as a tamper proof way of securing data. Commentary - Media outlets around the globe highlight new data breaches at an alarmingly regular rate. Forrester estimates that the cost...

Tags: PCI, Organization, Data Breach, PCI DSS, Encryption Key, encryption, security, Paul Meadowcroft Thales, Special to ZDNet, Paul Meadowcroft, Thales, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-11

GrandTotal 1.4.5 (Mac)

GrandTotal is an application to create invoices and estimates based on your own templates The built-in template editor allows you to adjust your layout to fit your companies corporate design. GrandTotal works great in conjunction with TimeLog.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, built-In, Media Atelier, GrandTotal, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-11

Enterprises saving $26 million per project with open source

Using Only COCOMO Seriously FlawedIt assumes that every component would be developed from scratch for every project instead of being commercially licensed or re-used from another in-house project.A MySQL license purchased from Sun is much less expensive than recreating MySQL.Wow that's such total crap I'd be amazed if anyone believed...

Tags: Linux, open source

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Mandelbrot Explorer 3.0 (Windows)

This Mandelbrot and Julia set explorer allows you to zoom into areas of the Mandelbrot Set and the family of Julia Sets. You can use the mouse for easy visual exploration, or you can fine-tune the areas you view using one of the Navigation Plug-ins. The images are displayed in...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Image, James Oakley

Software downloads 2009-11-09

Domus.Cad 15.0.2 (Mac)

Domus.Cad is an architectural 3D CAD program. It is a tool for the design and modeling of architecture, interor, landscape, and urban spaces. With Domus.Cad you can immediately begin to create three-dimensional elements without needing to start from a two-dimensional plan. Elements such as walls, floors, roofs, and stairs are...

Tags: 3D, Apple Macintosh, Interstudio S.r.l., Domus.Cad

Software downloads 2009-11-05

Fireground Calculator for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

Fireground Calculator for iPhone can rapidly provide calculations, confirm your estimates, and help you practice your skills, in a fun, and simplified instrument created for fire-fighters. Taking out the guesswork, you can calculate the optimum pound per square inch in just seconds. Start by choosing either a landline, or master...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Training, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Smart Phones, Human Resources, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-03

Headline 2010: e-Reader device failure

The market knows best, right? Markets are bloody paths to progress. At this writing there are approximately 52 e-reader devices coming to market in the next 12 months. Fifty-two different devices coming to market (Here's what I wrote about Steve Jobs' approach to reader devices when there were just 45...

Tags: E-reader, Sales, Hardware, Markets, E-books, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-11-02