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- 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
- IBM reports early. Profits up 20 percent, full year estimates reaffirmed.
- IBM, surprising Wall Street today with an early release of its quarterly earnings, reported a 20 percent in net income and EPS of $2.05. The company also reaffirmed its forecast of at least $8.75 for the year, a 22 percent increase from a year ago. Samuel J. Palmisano, IBM chairman,...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?
- Justice is being served against the kid who allegedly hacked into Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account, right? David Kernell, the 20-year-old son of Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell and a student at the University of Tennessee, was indicted on a charge of accessing...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Hacker, Computer, Kid, E-mail, Productivity, Online Communications, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Smart grid tech player Silver Spring receives a cool $75M
- Despite the ongoing financial meltdown, people still are throwing money around for greentech/cleantech companies. For now, at least. Silver Spring Networks, which develops Smart Grid technology, said it has received an additional $75 million in funding intended for global expansion. The investment round was led by Kleiner...
- Tags: Financial, Venture Capital, Financial Accounting, Investment, Telecom & Utilities, Finance, Financing Startups, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Cisco SONA
- Cisco caught my attention by asking me if I wanted to see the results of a study indicating how organizations are seeing Web 2.0 and/or Service Oriented Architecture SOA application adoption. Having executed dozens of studies of this nature while I was at IDC, I was interested in the results,...
- Tags: Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- From the vault: Lisa demo
- From my forthcoming book, Corporations that Changed the World: Apple Inc. After a tour of the Xerox PARC Palo Alto Research Center laboratories in December 1979 and a demonstration of their Alto computer, Steve Jobs decided that the Graphical User Interface GUI was the future of computing. Apple traded...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Xerox PARC, Lisa, Productivity, Podcasts, Digital Music, Digital Media, Internet, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- 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
- Techies choose Obama - by a landslide
- If techies could choose the next President, Obama would win in a landslide. Checking donors from 10 large tech companies, including Apple, Dell, Google and Microsoft, over 90% of the donations support the senator from Illinois. Why does high-tech love Obama? First the numbers The...
- Tags: Landslide, Broadband, Obama, McCain, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- HP to jump into smartphones. Why?
- HP to jump into smartphones. Why?Been in the smartphone market for a couple yearsActually, HP has been making Windows Mobile Smartphones for a couple of years now with their iPAQ 6000, 500 and 900 series. The 500 series was actually a device that looked more like a phone than a...
- Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, Compaq iPAQ, smart phone, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Mac ready the enterprise?
- Mac ready the enterprise?My work MacBook Pro just experienced this very problem...My work MacBook Pro just experienced this very problem. When I'm at home I connect it to my external 22" CRT, keyboard, mouse, etc. It stays there until I get back to work where I use it...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Notebooks, laptop computer, video, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Android has power of a clean sheet
- Android has power of a clean sheetMaybe Android is a big deal?When I first started seeing stories about Android, I figured it was an iPhone wannabe. But, more and more it sounds like my kind of device (os?).This could be the killer app (os?) for phones/PDAs/mp3 players/image viewers.Wow.The key...
- Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Programming languages, Nokia Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Roundup: Enterprise software announcements
- A roundup of enterprise software-related announcements released today: IBM unveiled new automated security software for midsize companies to help them test for Web application security vulnerabilities and find advice on how to fix their security issues. The software, called IBM Rational AppScan Express Edition, also helps smaller...
- Tags: Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software, Credit Card, IBM Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Security, Emerging Technologies, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- A great reason to jailbreak: tethering
- A great reason to jailbreak: tetheringNokia: No Jailbreaking Required[url=http://www.opentoanything.com/]Open to Anything.[/url]So much so, in fact Nokia has put Symbian into open source.What kind of smartphone doesn't allow you to tether?If you ask me, that's just dumb.Here's a [url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2008/09/nokia-n95n96-still-the-best-smartphone-of-all.html]link[/url] to one of my articles listing some of the things you can...
- Tags: 3G, INTERNET, Engineering, Cellular phones, WIRELESS, great reason, Nokia Corp., Apple iPhone, battery
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Android sucks oxygen from mobile broadband room
- Android sucks oxygen from mobile broadband roomany other Carriers?So Far it's only T-Mobile. There's all this hype, and I don't work/live in a major city. T-Mobile has the fewest towers in the country and is barely rolling out their G3 network to the major metropolitan areas. ...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, mobile broadband, mobile, oxygen, Qt Extended, OpenMoko, phone, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Anti-LHC lawsuit lands in legal black hole
- A lame-brain lawsuit to stop the Large Hadron Collider is dead. U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor has dismissed the suit because U.S. courts have no jurisdiction over the world's biggest atom-smasher based in Switzerland and France and built by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research,...
- Tags: Black Hole, Lawsuit, CERN, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Day 1 with my new Nokia E71
- Day 1 with my new Nokia E71Maybe it's your "bad karma". No problems here with WM.;-)Nokia/Symbian S60 phones are the bestMine: N95. Also have a Nokia Internet Tablet N800.I've written recently about why the N95/N96 is still the best smartphone [url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2008/09/nokia-n95n96-still-the-best-smartphone-of-all.html]here[/url].And it's no small coincidence that Nokia acquired Symbian and...
- Tags: Handhelds, Telecom & Utilities, Podcast client, Nokia E71, Nokia Corp., RIM BlackBerry, phone, new Nokia E71, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Stallman vs. the cloud computing tidal wave
- Stallman's recent statements regarding his dislike of "cloud computing" didn't surprise me in the least, given what I understand about his software preferences. In fact, I think this is less about Stallman's worry about the security implications of cloud computing, and more about his desire for a software ecosystems that adheres...
- Tags: Software, GPL, Cloud Computing, Stallman, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- LinuxCon will not be a trade show
- The Linux Foundation has learned how to put together all-day and multi-day events for a few hundred people in an auditorium. Zemlin is planning next year's LinuxCon based on an attendance of near 1,000. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Event, Portland, LinuxCon, Zemlin, Open Source Business Conference, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Queen of Italy (exe)
- This version of the Queen of Italy solitaire game differs from the traditional game in that the player has 4 cards instead of 3 from which to choose the initial choice of foundation. Also this version of Queen of Italy has only 8 tableau columns. Cards in the reserve which...
- Tags: Card, Roger Waters
- Software downloads 2008-10-01
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