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Microsoft's "flat Earth" ad falls flat for me

Microsoft's "flat Earth" ad falls flat for meI have to agree: The flat Earth thing is funny.Unlike Vista, no one changed the Earth in an attempt to prove the common belief wrong.Microsoft's "flat Earth" ad falls flat for meTom Servo!Crow!The ads aren't that bad, it's just retro.RE: Microsoft'si mentioned all...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), App£e, Microsoft Windows Vista, advertisement, flat-Earth, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

Flat earth?

Flat earth?see also friedman's op-ed columnTom Friedman's op-ed piece sheds some more light on his way of thinking. See 'What, Me Worry?'http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/29/opinion/29friedman.html?In it he mentions Hagel and Seely Brown's new "periphery based thinking- the edge is now the core etc, see http://www.edgeperspectives.comAnd finally, you guys need to look a little...

Tags: Flat-Earth

Discussion threads 2005-05-01

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TimeNet 3.9.27 (Mac)

TimeNet is a simple and powerful project management/time and billing application for Mac OS X. Manage clients, projects, employees, invoices, taxes, and much more. TimeNet is also fully networkable! Features: - Keep track of mileage, flat fees, hourly rates, discounts, expenses, and payments - Clean, consistent invoices with...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Billing, Invoice, AppleSource, TimeNet, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-25

HP Pavilion dv4-2045dx

Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores.The HP Pavilion dv4-2045dx offers more multitasking muscle than many of the other mainstream budget retail laptops we've recently reviewed. Helped by a 7,200rpm...

Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, Overall IT, lid, Hewlett-Packard Co., AMD Turion II, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., keyboard, HP Pavilion

Product reviews 2009-11-24

GoPro Motorsports HD Hero

GoPro had a hit on its hands with the first-generation GoPro Hero. The small camera combined decent video quality and rugged reliability in a small package that was easy to use in action-based scenarios. However, the Hero wasn't without its flaws. Finicky battery choices that often cut recording sessions short...

Tags: Corporate communications, Engineering, battery, video, camera

Product reviews 2009-11-24

Ostendo CRVD monitor now available - but it's not cheap

Defense training?But I never was seriously attacked by any of my monitors. So I will stay with Eizo, I guess.RE: Ostendo CRVD monitor now available - but it's not cheapIf it's like all other defense spending - by the time it's "deployed" it will have cost the taxpayer 5 times...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Ostendo CRVD, Ostendo CRVD monitor, monitor

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Chrome OS will rise or fall on the safety dance

Scare tactics against Chrome OSI can see Microsoft really did the 'safety dance' with Windows it has been so successful...Chrome_OS is an entirely different modular approach plus they are using Open_Source with NO limitation of how high they can reach. I find it amazing anyone with a straight face say...

Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Chrome, Chrome OS, ChromeOS, security, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

HP vs. Dell: Showdown at the Windows 7 upgrade corral

Well, the great thing is all the competition. I like to see Acer squeezing them both from below, and of course competing with each other. Of course also great to see all the pressure on MS to innovate and lower prices.Google Chrome_OS will be hard to beatWell, with Google_Chrome_OS it...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Windows 8, Microsoft Windows, XPS, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

LG 32LH20

Photo gallery: LG LH20 seriesWe can't fault the LG LH20 series for trying. The company's least-expensive lineup of LCDs for 2009 offers more features than its competition, including the only USB port for digital photos and by far the best selection of picture adjustments. All of those tweaks...

Tags: LG Electronics Inc., LG LH20 series, LG LH20

Product reviews 2009-11-24

Astro IIDC 4.05.04 (Mac)

Astro IIDC works with a wide variety of low and high end, color or monochrome, 8 or 16 bit FireWire 400 or FireWire 800 cameras. It has a simple intuitive interface, can record movies, grab frames, grab averaged frames, grab sums of frames, has extensive Altivec / SSE3 optimization for...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Frame, FireWire, Processors, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-11-23

East Anglia: Chapter 3

Of course we are"The global warming skeptics are perfectly happy to overlook the illegality of the hacking and theft of private emails, according to this blogger."Sure, how else would this information have been made public. Many of the emails highlight to obfuscation of information, others point to the planning to...

Tags: Litigation, fraud

Discussion threads 2009-11-22

Samsung LN26B360

Photo gallery: Samsung LNB360 seriesTo a bargain HDTV shopper, the array of small-screened LCDs must seem inexhaustible and indistinguishable, but among recent models we've reviewed, the Samsung LNB360 stands out with the best picture quality. It's no reference-level display, mind you, but it managed to beat out the...

Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung LNB360

Product reviews 2009-11-20

Samsung LN32B360

Photo gallery: Samsung LNB360 seriesTo a bargain HDTV shopper, the array of small-screened LCDs must seem inexhaustible and indistinguishable, but among recent models we've reviewed, the Samsung LNB360 stands out with the best picture quality. It's no reference-level display, mind you, but it managed to beat out the...

Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung LNB360

Product reviews 2009-11-20

Conference energy levels

Coming to Dreamforce has been a revelation. The news was dominated by Chatter but that only tells a fraction of the real story. As I sat in the media room chatting sic to an old buddy it occurred to me this was a conference that annoyed for all...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Event, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Sales Force Management, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-20

Samsung Convoy SCH-U640 (Verizon Wireless)

Photo gallery:Samsung ConvoyEditors' note: This review originally reported that the Convoy does not support Verizon's push-to-talk network. In fact, the phone does support the service. We apologize for the error.Hot on the rugged heels of the Motorola Barrage comes an equally durable phone for Verizon Wireless called the Samsung Convoy....

Tags: Verizon Wireless, keypad button, Samsung Convoy, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Product reviews 2009-11-20

PTGui 8.3.3 (Mac)

Use PTGui to stitch any number of photos into a panoramic image. Some benefits of PTGui, when compared to other stitching software: PTGui can stitch multiple rows of images. Create 360 degree cylindrical panoramas, 'flat' partial panoramas and even spherical 360x180 degree panoramas. No need to keep the camera level:...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Panorama, New House Internet Services B.V.

Software downloads 2009-11-20

Asus K60IJ-RBLX05

Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores. Buying a budget laptop often means cutting corners, so let's take a look at the Asus K60IJ-RBLX05. With a 16-inch screen and a...

Tags: Processors, Notebooks, ASUS, processor, laptop computer

Product reviews 2009-11-19

HP Envy 15-1050nr

A big brother to HP's 13-inch Envy 13, this upscale 15-inch model crams more computing power into a midsize laptop than anyone outside of Alienware's m15x. And while that system is a 10-pound monster, the Envy 15 manages to be both slim and reasonably lightweight, partially by ditching the internal...

Tags: Blu-ray, Notebooks, DVD, Branding, Consumer electronics, Envy 15, Hewlett-Packard Co., laptop computer

Product reviews 2009-11-19

iTablet goes OLED,??bumped until late 2010

$2000? I doubt it.Apple puts themselves in a "premium" price range, but $2000 for a 10" tablet? Even they're not THAT crazy.No ThanksDon't need or want either, waste of space...If I want real gaming, I'd rather play real games on my PS3 or Wii on my flat screen; or on...

Tags: SunSHINE, iTablet, organic light-emitting diode, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Reid promises 60 on Saturday

promises, promises, promisesHe will not get his 60 on Saturday. There are enough senators with the backbone to avoid what will be an economic catastrophe for our nation.Obama created phantom jobsSomeone did bother looking into the jobs Obama claimed to save / create and found this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1t3zZBhJ7wBlog not about Obama or...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Reid

Discussion threads 2009-11-19