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Farm Parade 1.0 (Mobile)

Everybody loves cute animals on the farm. Now you can put the entire barnyard in your pocket with Farm Parade. All you do is shake your phone and a new picture of a farm animal appears, accompanied by barnyard sounds. Touch your phone to interact with each animal. Farm Parade...

Tags: Animal, Phone, Mobile, Apple iTunes, Formal Friday, Farm Parade, Digital Music, Digital Media, Telecom & Utilities, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-03-11

Zoo Parade 1.0 (Mobile)

Everybody loves going to the zoo, but some days you just can't get there. Now you can put the entire zoo in your pocket with Zoo Parade. All you do is shake your phone and a new picture of a zoo animal appears, accompanied by wildlife sounds. Touch your phone...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, Zoo, Apple iTunes, Formal Friday, Zoo Parade, Digital Music, Digital Media, Telecom & Utilities, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-03-10

Kitty Parade 1.2 (Mobile)

Shake your phone, and a new adorable kitty appears. With every shake, your phone meows signaling a precious new kitty is waiting for your love. Now you can also pet each cat to hear and feel them purr. You will have access to pictures of over 100 different lovable kitty...

Tags: Mobile, Apple iTunes, Formal Friday, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-03-01

Additional Resources

News to know: Microsoft store; Domain names; Blackberry Storm2; VoIP; Android

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.: Robin Harris: A visit to Microsoft's first store Zack Whittaker: Web addresses to extend to non-English languages...

Tags: Data Center, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Domain Name, Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Sales Strategy, Telephony, VOIP, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Data Management, Sales, Networking

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Frugal Friday: The Software of Stallman, Psystar/Apple, Parallels

provides the designer dresses at a cheap and affordable price. Give yourself a stunning look with the evening party dresses The clothing that is worn by an individual is often considered to reflect their personality. This characteristic is paid great attention by the women and therefore there are markets flooded...

Tags: Gender and diversity, software, Apple Inc., Psystar, dress, women

Discussion threads 2009-10-17

AT

ATiPhone 3G transcieveris a piece of junk. It has been problematic since the day they released the unit, and have never been able to resolve issues with it since they've patched it several times already.It has nothing to do with AT&Ts network. I carry a cheap Samsung 3G phone and...

Tags: Cellular phones, Wireless and Mobility, 3G, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone, Verizon Communications Inc., phone

Discussion threads 2009-03-10

Online Diplomacy: the Famous Fedex Twitter/Email Exchange

You may have seen the drama this week around a social media ad agency representative whose negative Twitter message about Memphis, Tennessee was read and responded to by one of his client FedEx's employees. James Andrews, '@keyinfluencer' on Twitter, was flying into Fedex global headquarters...

Tags: Memphis, Federal Express, Twitter, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Media, Online Communications, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-17

Big Three Automakers get Wall Street Fever: give us more money

Forget $25 billion for the U.S.-owned auto companies. Small change. They've upped their request from the feds. GM alone now wants $18 billion. Doesn't that raise your confidence level that these guys are really on top of the situation? Oh, by the way,...

Tags: Chrysler LLC, General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., CEO, Hummer Brand, Focus, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Apple retail stores to match prices

In a surprising move for the consumer electronics turned retail heavyweight, Apple has internally announced that retail store employees can match prices of other authorized retailers. The key phrase here is "authorized retailers" which means that Apple isn't going to price match some gray marketer selling Macs...

Tags: Retail Company, Reseller, Apple Inc., Retail, Desktops, Hardware, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Tech's economy careens into the great unknown

Trying to figure out where the information technology economy is going? Your guess is as good as mine. Or Steve Ballmer's. Or Steve Job's. Or Paul Otellini's. Or EMC's Joe Tucci's. Or Jeff Bezos'. The one trend that's emerging from a bevy of financial reports is that companies have no...

Tags: Financial, Recession, Information Technology, Economy, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-24

Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress

In the wake of the Russian-Georgian conflict, a week worth of speculations around Russian Internet forums have finally materialized into a coordinated cyber attack against Georgia's Internet infrastructure. The attacks have already managed to compromise several government web sites, with continuing DDoS attacks against numerous other Georgian government sites, prompting...

Tags: Web, Russia, Web Site, Site, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Georgia, Attack, Alania TV, RIA Novosti, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-11

FCC slaps Comcast's wrist over network neutrality; Sets precedent

The Federal Communications Commission on Friday ruled 3-2 that Comcast overstepped its network management authority by blocking BitTorrent peer to peer traffic, but stopped short of fining the cable company. The move clarifies the boundaries a bit for other carriers and sends the message that the FCC enforces network neutrality...

Tags: FCC, Network, Comcast Corp., Network Neutrality, Network Neutrality Rule, Deborah Taylor Tate, Federal Government, Networking, Government, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-01

More dissent on SAP maintenance price hike

Things are not getting any easier for SAP following the across the board maintenance price hike announced July 16th. Earlier today I spoke with Alan Bowling, chairman of the UK and Ireland SAP User Group on the topic. In an official announcement last Friday, Bowling said: "The mandatory nature of...

Tags: SAP AG, ECC6, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Corporate Governance, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Web Services, Middleware, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-28

Facebook makes its own 'data portability' move, Google to follow?

Not to be outdone by MySpace's "Data Availability" initiative, Facebook announced on Friday its own data portability strategy dubbed "Facebook Connect". Described as "the next iteration of Facebook Platform" the new feature will allow users to "connect" their Facebook identity, friends and privacy to participating sites --...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Social Networking, Channel Management, Web Site Development, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-05-12

The social network penny drops at Oracle

Courtesy of a link from Jake Kuramoto at Oracle, it seems the social networking bug has bitten inside Oracle:Oracle people desperately want to be connected to each other. We are an increasingly distributed 60,000 plus, and one of the top feature requests we’ve had is to mandate pictures. Apparently, people...

Tags: Social Networking, Oracle Corp., Network, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-08-12

Ongoing dialog with Dell

Ongoing dialog with DellDealing with big companiesYour experience is typical of dealing with DELL ... and probably all big companies. You are not overreacting and should punish all such dire customer service wherever possible. Dare I say the media should campaign hard to eliminate such shoddy actions.My most recent dealings...

Tags: Branding, Backups, Dell Customer Support, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-07-30

Foo Camping

I was invited to Foo Camp this past weekend for the first time and after going, I can definitely see why it's such a big deal to go and why it's become an uber geek event. If you've never heard of Foo Camp, there's a pretty good article over on...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2007-06-25

Avast Antivirus 4.7 Home Edition

Alwil is a Czech Republic security vendor that has been quietly producing Avast Antivirus for many years. There are two versions, Avast Antivirus Home edition, which is free and simplified, and Avast Antivirus Professional edition, which is paid and includes more advanced settings as well as additional features. In general,...

Tags: Viruses and worms, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Alwil, Avast, antivirus

Product reviews 2007-05-03

Avast Antivirus 4.7 Professional Edition

Alwil is a Czech Republic security vendor that has been quietly producing Avast Antivirus for many years. There are two versions, Avast Antivirus Home edition, which is free and simplified, and Avast Antivirus Professional edition, which is paid and includes more advanced settings as well as additional features. In...

Tags: Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Alwil, Avast

Product reviews 2007-05-03

Microsoft to Google: Play fair with your billions

Who says Microsoft wanted to lose DoubleClick to Google? Robert Scoble shares that he “asked Microsoft to buy Skype, Bloglines, SixApart, and Flickr, among others.” If he were currently still chief Microsoft blogger in residence, would he have “asked” Microsoft to buy DoubleClick?Don Dodge, still a Microsoftie, and...

Tags: Microsoft, Google

Blog posts 2007-04-15