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Gradience Attendance (exe)

Keeping track of employee attendance is a must for any size business. Yet, tracking attendance, scheduling vacations, and documenting other calendar-based tasks can be time-consuming. Gradience Attendance Software makes it easy to view time-off balances and store related documents. The software also allows you to run more than a dozen...

Tags: Attendance, G.Neil, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2008-05-05

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Top-10 Rankings music -bands and artists category in US in April, 2008

Rank Website Domain Share 1 Coldplay www.coldplay.com 2.53% 2 Def Leppard www.defleppard.com 1.91% 3 The Clayboard theclayboard.yuku.com 1.73% 4 Bill Gaither www.gaither.com 1.28% 5 Chris Brown www.chrisbrownworld.com 1.23% 6 Neil Diamond www.neildiamond.com 1.07% 7 Beyonce World...

Tags: Music, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-06-11

The MS Office 2008 for Mac scandal continues

Can Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit expect anything but frustration from its installed base of users? The excuses from the development team are wearing very, very thin. The news today was that the group was able to get its first batch of 1,000 bug...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office 2004, MacTech, Ticktin, Scripting Languages, Microsoft Office, Desktops, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Neil Young gives his name to a spider

Canadian rocker Neil Young made headlines this week for appearing at the JavaOne conference and for releasing his musical archive on Blu-ray discs. But he was also honored by a East Carolina University ECU professor of biology, who named a newly discovered trapdoor spider Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi after the legendary rock...

Tags: East Carolina University, Species, Myrmekiaphila, M., Neotype, Blu-Ray, Investment, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Finance, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-09

EIC podcast: SAP; JavaOne; AMD, Microhoo

In this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan and I talk SAP Sapphire, JavaOne; AMD and Microsoft and whether it'll come back around to its Yahoo bid. As for Sapphire this week, the big question was what was happening with Business ByDesign, SAP's software as a service rollout....

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-08

JavaOne '08: Neil Young chronicles music career

Legendary musician Neil Young shows off a new multimedia project spanning his music career. Joining Young onstage at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco to demo the project--which uses Java and Blu-ray technology--is Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green, Sun executive vice president of software.

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., JavaOne, Professional Development, Programming Languages, Career, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Neil Young, JavaFX, Sun Microsystems, Shakey Pictures, Java

Videos 2008-05-06

Profits-strapped Sun continues decade-long pitch to developers on Java dominance

Leading up to the JavaOne developers conference, Sun Microsystems posted an embarrassing quarterly profit loss, is making OpenSolaris more open than ever, bringing the OpenSolaris platform value to the Amazon Web Services cloud, and is still using variations on the projectile theme to send T-shirts into the international crowd of...

Tags: Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., NetBeans Ecosystem, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-06

Microsoft preps pay-as-you-go Office for June launch

After more than seven years of lobbying by service providers, Microsoft is finally set to allow pay-as-you-go licensing for Microsoft Office and other products downloaded to PCs using streaming technologies, according to information the company recently made available to channel partners. Many observers will see the move as a new...

Tags: PC, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Business Services, Desktops, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-04-30

Judge decisively rejects RIAA legal theory

A federal district judge has delivered a pretty resounding blow to a theory the RIAA has been using to win verdicts in its copyright-infringement lawsuit campaign. In Atlantic Records v. Howell, Judge Neil Wake refused the RIAA's motion for summary judgment based on the "making available" theory. ...

Tags: Theory, RIAA, Judge, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-04-29

Churchill Club podcast: Navigating media upheaval

In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, experts weigh in on the upheaval in the media and what you can do to cash in. Speakers: Neil Chase, VP, Author Services, Federated Media Gordon Crovitz, Former Publisher, The Wall Street Journal and...

Tags: Upheaval, Podcasts, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-15

Fickr user revolt; Why I deleted my twitter account

The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… Flickr video feature spurs online revolt. Not all that surprising to see a mini user revolt after Flickr finally added video uploads. A segment of the...

Tags: Flickr, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-04-10

Gartner: Windows collapsing under its own weight; Radical change needed

Microsoft's Windows juggernaut is collapsing as it tries to support 20 years of applications and becomes more complicated by the minute. Meanwhile, Windows has outgrown hardware and customers are pondering skipping Vista to wait for Windows 7. If Windows is going to remain relevant it will need radical changes. ...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Operating System, Gartner Inc., Microsoft Corp., Michael Silver, Neil MacDonald, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-09

Untangling the Microsoft mesh

"Mesh" was Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie's word of the day last week at Microsoft's Mix '08 conference. Ozzie waxed prolific on "social mesh," "device mesh," "seamless mesh" and more. But what are the technological underpinnings that will allow users and developers to bring everything together...

Tags: WinFS, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Sync Famework, Microsoft Horizon, Microsoft Windows, RSS, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-10

Using bacteria as medical robots

Does the idea of turning bacteria into cancer-fighting robots sound like science fiction? Maybe today, but not in a near future. A researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a four-year grant of more than $1 million from the National Institutes of Health to study the feasibility of...

Tags: Mouse, Forbes, Bacteria, Salmonella, Mice, Robots, Hardware, Peripherals, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-02

NOC-NOC%2C+who%27s+there%3F+Or%2C+%22I%27ve+seen+the+thumbwheel+and+the+damage+done%22

NOC-NOC%2C+who%27s+there%3F+Or%2C+%22I%27ve+seen+the+thumbwheel+and+the+damage+done%22AbsolutelyI am still a BlackBerry fan but there is definitely a need for better redundancy at the NOC levelRE: NOC-NOC, who's there? Or,What if RIM send an army of PI's to dig your dirt and send them anonymous to everybody you know? What if RIM send an army of...

Tags: NOC-NOC, What-If

Discussion threads 2008-02-14

NOC-NOC, who's there? Or, "I've seen the thumbwheel and the damage done"

NOC= (Blackberry-maker Research In Motion's Network Operations Center in Waterloo, Ont.) As to the latter portion of this post's title, NOT an original. Readers of a certain vintage may recognize that saying as an adaptation from an old Neil Young song entitled "I've...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, Outage, Tom, Manufacturing, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-13

Should we even bother?

Should we even bother?Not just for presentationBear in mind that technology shouldn't just be used for presentation but also for interaction. That doesn't necessarily mean doing anything fancy - for example, cloze exercises that can be completed on-screen can be created using basic word-processing tools. But in that case, I...

Tags: Corporate communications, Microsoft Office, One Laptop Per Child project, SnapKast, PBS Frontline, video, education

Discussion threads 2008-02-11

Beware of rigged CPU efficiency study

Beware of rigged CPU efficiency studyProcessors are only part of the power problemsI support data centers for various companies. The real cost of server ownership is the power required for Hard drives, multiple complex controllers, and network switches. We have a mix of storage appliances, servers and SANs. we are...

Tags: Processors, Servers, NASA, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., CPU, quad-core, processor

Discussion threads 2008-01-15

Complex Event Processing and SOA: a 'beautiful thing'?

Complex Event Processing and SOA: a 'beautiful thing'?Decision glueAll true. As I have blogged before (http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/decision_management/2007/07/soa_eda_bpm_and_cep_are_all_co.php) I think one of the powerful effects of automating and managing operational decisions is that it helps link SOA, EDA/CEP and BPM. Decision-making logic must be shared effectively across these different approaches and that...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, Complex Event Processing, beautiful thing, SOA

Discussion threads 2008-01-04

12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008

12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008SAAS SilosI'd like to see more service providers that focus on one element of Enterprise and do that one thing real well.Make it real open, secure, scalable, ,and all the other important aspects of Enterprise 2.0.And make it so you can access this...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Software as a Service (SaaS), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, Web 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, SOA governance, software-as-a-service, Interesting list Dion, Big SOA

Discussion threads 2008-01-03