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Dragon (exe)

Dragon takes you on a thrilling adventure through the Far East as you eliminate chains of colored marbles before they reach the bottom of your screen. Stunning visuals and soothing. Oriental music round out this superb casual offering.

Tags: Far East, Dragon

Software downloads 2007-02-07

Tradewinds Legends (exe)

Sail, trade and battle with legendary heroes such as Sinbad in the mythical Far East. Get carried away in the latest installment in the acclaimed Tradewind Series. Enter a world of danger and intrigue as you complete over 100 unique tasks. Download & play Tradewinds Legends today and set sail.

Tags: Far East

Software downloads 2006-02-15

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What's a Little Money Between Friends?

Gaming Incentive Systems Joel Spolsky (www.inc.com/keyword/spolsky) wrote a nice piece in the October 2008 issue of Inc. magazine. The article, Sins of Commissions, provides a cautionary tale to executives who are contemplating the addition of or changes to sales incentives in their workforce. ...

Tags: Incentive, Commission, Joe, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Edongba (zip)

In southwestern china, east of the first bend of the yangtze river, set in a beautiful valley, lies the town of lijiang. Today there are more than 270,000 naxi people living in Lijiang. One of the most popular and distinctive expressions of naxi culture is the dongba script of this...

Tags: Symbol, Xiaohui Yang, Edongba, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2008-10-09

Times are officially tough: Sequoia says so

Talk about the insulated bubble that is Silicon Valley. Sequoia, one of the best venture capital firms out there, emails a bunch of portfolio companies and tells them to hunker down. And now everyone notices that things may not be so peachy in Web 2.0-ville. GigaOm has...

Tags: Web, Sequoia, E-mail, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, Government, Channel Management, Investment, Online Communications, Finance, Financing Startups, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capital

Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capitalRE: Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters caI think it's quite smart personally.foolishJust another CEO desperate to save his bonus. Once you carve up the company, quality goes downhill. The chips will suffer. AMD will be...

Tags: Balance sheets, Asset management, Semiconductors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Asset Smart, manufacturing, balance sheet, chip, asset

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

AMD finally announces "asset-smart" plan; new Foundry Company created

AMD and a technology investment company backed by the government of Abu Dhabi have established a new semiconductor company that will manufacture AMD's advanced processors. The new company--currently known as "The Foundry Company"--will take over all of AMD's existing manufacturing facilities, including the two leading-edge fabs in Dresden, Germany, and...

Tags: Asset, Foundry Networks Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Government, Hardware, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-10-07

SAP: Business drop was 'sudden and unexpected'; Credit crunch hurt IT financing

SAP said Monday its business fell off in September as the company warned that its third quarter wouldn't meet its previous targets as a broad swath of customers delayed information technology projects. In contrast to SAP's upbeat outlook in July, the company in a statement said it...

Tags: Software, Revenue, Information Technology, Financing, SAP AG, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-06

McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008

McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008McAfee: Dependable as a Cardboard Roof in the Rain, and Blind as a BatI tried McAfee because it was an option included with my ISP provider, but not long after downloading it noticed that it not only made my PC slower than a dinosaur caught in a...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), SECURITY, McAfee VirusScan, McAfee Inc., Internet Service Provider

Discussion threads 2008-10-05

California governor: Silicon Valley should go to Germany

After more than a hundred years of talk about the Pacific Rim economic opportunities for California, Silicon Valley and other California businesses are firmly focused on the west rather than the east. But Thursday morning California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be at Intel's HQ in the heart of Silicon Valley...

Tags: California, CeBit, Transportation, Strategy, Corporate Communications, Management, Marketing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Socialtext enters Twitter for the enterprise sweepstakes

Socialtext enters Twitter for the enterprise sweepstakesTwitterIt'll be interesting to see how well Twitter integrates with society in the long run, if at all.RE: Socialtext enters Twitter for the enterprise sweepstakesFound this video this morning shot several weeks ago where Ross Mayfield presents SocialText 3.0Interesting!http://www.atelier-us.com/e-business-and-it/article/socialtext-brings-key-web-20-features-to-the-workplaceRE: Socialtext enters Twitter for the...

Tags: Channel management, Socialtext, Twitter, enterprise sweepstake

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

WiMax service rolls out; Who's buying?

Sprint and its Xohm unit have finally made WiMax a reality. Now it will be very interesting to see who buys the service. In a statement Techmeme, Xohm, soon to be a joint venture between Sprint and Clearwire, announced that its WiMax broadband service, also known as...

Tags: Sprint Xohm, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-29

KAUST to house fastest supercomputer in Middle East

Thanks to one of my tipsters, I was informed the other day that KAUST, the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, have teamed up with IBM to build the fastest and most powerful supercomputer in the Middle East. KAUST is one of the most modern, dedicated...

Tags: Supercomputer, University, Middle East, Supercomputing, KAUST, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-25

Go West young IT worker!

In 1851 Indianna journalist John Soule advised: "Go West Young Man." With the financial crisis causing turmoil in the financial services sector there are tens of thousands of IT jobs being lost on the East coast and elsewhere in the US. On WebGuild Daya...

Tags: Job, Financial, Information Technology, Startup Life, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-09-24

(Hands-On with T-Mobile G1 )

(Hands-On with T-Mobile G1 )On looks Apple can relaxStylistically challenged, would be my description. It looks like a toy!Just what I wanted! Almost...This is just what I wanted! Well, almost...It's got the touchscreen, the keyboard, wifi, gps - but it lacks 2 things..(1) A simple flip cover to protect...

Tags: Bluetooth, Keyboards, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Telecom & Utilities, Monitors & displays, T-Mobile, T-Mobile G1, Hands-On, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-23

Live coverage of the T-Mobile G-1 Google Android announcement

Live coverage of the T-Mobile G-1 Google Android announcementGPS supportRumors have been that the G1 does and does not include an onboard GPS. This is a wonderful feature on the iPhone and enables credible real-time navigation and location-based services. Hope to get a positive confirmation regarding GPS on the G1...Wath...

Tags: GPS, Product marketing, Cellular phones, goggle, T-Mobile, T-Mobile G-1 Google Android, T-Mobile G-1 Google Android announcement, UMA

Discussion threads 2008-09-23

A tribute to Pop

It's been a rough week up here in our neck of the woods. Sure, global financial markets are collapsing, Sarah Palin's email got hacked, the wars in the Middle East show no signs of ending...You get the idea. However, for us, we've been taking care of my wife's...

Tags: Teacher, Computer, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-09-18

Oracle's first quarter allays worries

Oracle reported first quarter earnings that topped expectations as new software licenses were in line with estimates. Revenue, however, was light. In a statement Thursday, Oracle said it reported earnings of $1.1 billion, or 21 cents a share preview. Excluding charges, Oracle reported earnings of $1.5 billion,...

Tags: Software, Revenue, Oracle Corp., Software License, Earnings, Software License Revenue, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-18

Wall Street woes? Silicon Valley is hiring

I caught a great post by Claire Cain Miller on the New York Times' Bits blog last night about the upswing, so to speak, of the current economic crisis: that is, that if you can't keep a job on Wall Street, Silicon Valley will take you: ...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Hiring, Wall Street, Recruitment & Selection, Venture Capital, Litigation, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Business Operations, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-09-18

Tesla plans San Jose manufacturing site for electric car

Tesla plans San Jose manufacturing site for electric carIf only we the normal peoplecould afford one!RE: Tesla plans San Jose manufacturing site for electric carThis is a major move being missed by the so-called news media. An *American* firm with American technology building energy-sensible automobiles in America with American workers....

Tags: Tesla, EIA, car, manufacturing site, electric car, manufacturing

Discussion threads 2008-09-17