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- GamePlan (exe)
- GamePlan software is a comprehensive package of three software programs for scheduling and managing sports and recreation events. Although originally developed for tennis, these programs are useful for many other games and sports. The package includes Challenge Ladder (traditional or points-based ladders), Tournament Draw for creating tournament brackets, and Match...
- Tags: Software, Package, GamePlan Software, Tools & Techniques, Games, Management, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-07-16
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- You get what you pay for: Paid contributors drive open source
- What's the difference between a paid contributor to a FOSS project and a volunteer contributor? According to a paper by Evangelia Berdou, quite a bit. Berdou finds that paid developers take up key positions in projects, while volunteers often work on the periphery. In other words -- much of the...
- Tags: Developer, F/OSS, Contributor, Core Contributor, Open Source, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- RealDVD sales suspended, case moves north
- A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order against Real, suspending sales of RealDVD, NewTeeVee.com reported over the weekend. Hollywood studios had sought the injunction as part of a suit against Real's DVD copying software. The RealDVD website now says the product is "currently unavailable." ...
- Tags: Movie, Sales Strategy, DVD, Sales Force Management, Sales, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Welcome to the Data Cloud ?
- ‘The Cloud' is increasingly prevalent in tech conversation these days. Stalwarts of the space such as Amazon and Salesforce go from strength to strength, whilst titans of an earlier model such as Larry Ellison and even Steve Ballmer now seek to appropriate the meme. New blogs like CloudAve play a...
- Tags: Web, Data, UKOLN, Channel Management, Internet, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- The top five reasons why Windows Vista failed
- On Friday, Microsoft gave computer makers a six-month extension for offering Windows XP on newly-shipped PCs. While this doesn't impact enterprise IT -- because volume licensing agreements will allow IT to keep installing Windows XP for many years to come -- the move is another symbolic nail in Vista's coffin....
- Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., IT Department, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- The cloud finally comes to education
- Cloud computing is one of those great buzzwords in IT that, so far, has meant very little to the average Ed Tech customer. We all have a pretty good idea what it means: lots of computers somewhere (we don't actually care where) doing lots of processing to deliver services...
- Tags: Education, PC, Thin Client, Computer, Cloud, SIMtone Corp., Desktops, Productivity, Thin Clients, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Crowdsourcing? Try expert sourcing
- Corporate America has hopped on the crowd sourcing bandwagon, but they may want to start considering another option: Expert sourcing. That's one of the big takeaways from a report by Forrester Research. Forrester analyst Chris Townsend writes: Corporate use of Innovation Networks is rapidly expanding as...
- Tags: Sourcing, Crowdsourcing, Forrester Research Inc., Expert Sourcing, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- News to know: Green PCs, IT; IBM; Nokia; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebEx Matthew Miller: First impressions of the Nokia N96. Gallery right. Mary Jo...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., PC, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, IBM Corp., Podcasts, Linux, Internet, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Dropping the iPhone NDA is good for security
- Last week Apple lifted their NDA on iPhone developers, freeing them to discuss amongst themselves how to properly build applications. This decision is a "good thing" for not just applications but also application security on the iPhone. The iPhone NDA was antithetical to how developers work....
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Flaw, Programming, Development Tools, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebEx
- IBM will announce Monday that it is launching a beta of "Bluehouse," a social networking and collaboration service designed to link businesses with various partners. The move, part of a broader effort to define IBM's cloud computing strategy, will put it in direct competition with Cisco's collaboration...
- Tags: WebEx Communications Inc., Collaboration, Beta, Cisco Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- Hands-on review of the Logitech Squeezebox Boom
- After seeing my mildly skeptical post about the release of its Squeezebox Boom Internet radio device, Logitech offered to send me a sample unit to review, promising me I'd be pleasantly surprised with the audio output from the compact unit. I've been testing it out over the last few weeks,...
- Tags: Station, Radio, Logitech, Boom, Music Services, Advertising & Promotion, Engineering, Wireless, Marketing, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-04
- Using space robots to fix ailing satellites?
- According to Canadian engineers at Queen's University, there are now more than 8,000 satellites in orbit around the Earth. Of course, if they stop to work correctly, these satellites will not be able to be repaired from the ground and will become space junk. So these researchers have developed a...
- Tags: Robot, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-04
- Google releases Chrome 0.3.154
- Google releases Chrome 0.3.154Anyone else tired of version 0.0.0.0.1?I've had it with companies that "release" software with version numbers of less than 1.If you are doing a limited beta of a few thousand users, a version number of less than 1 is maybe understandable.Once you release something to the general...
- Tags: Chrome, Google Inc., Chrome 0.3.154
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Google releases Chrome 0.3.154
- If you are interested in living on the bleeding edge, and always using Google's latest and greatest browser version (the "even more beta" one), you can turn on what is called the "Dev Channel". To use the Dev Channel, download the switcher from here. Run the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Search, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Churchill Club podcast: From Cell Phones to Software & Services: One-on-One with Nokia's CEO
- Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes, sat down with Nokia President and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo to discuss the mobile market. Kallasvuo has led the company for the past two years, but has held a variety of positions in his 28-year Nokia career, including heading its North American unit in the late...
- Tags: Software, Phone, Nokia Corp., Cell Phone, Kallasvuo, Smart Phones, Podcasts, Cellular Phones, Professional Development, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Career, masaokad
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Velocity 103
- We've seen plenty of Windows Mobile devices in our day, and at times they all start to blur together--same story, just different packaging. However, back at CTIA Spring 2008, a new company called Velocity Mobile caught our eye, impressing us with a fresh approach to the user interface. Recognizing that...
- Tags: Smart phones, Keyboards, Cellular phones, Monitors & displays, Handhelds, Velocity, Velocity 103, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch
- Product reviews 2008-10-03
- Microsoft extends XP downgrade rights date by six months
- Microsoft extends XP downgrade rights date by six monthsMS extends XP downgrade rights by six monthsI did my share of begging to MS to "let the customer be right" concerning XPs continuing desirability,Thank god they actually listened to mine and probably a half million similar letters.I can now look forward...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Enterprise 2.0 and business collaboration
- Update: I hit "publish" before the article was completely finished, so I've added some images and updated some links. I can't pull the post without it leaving a trail behind it, so I may as well just own up now and say, "whoops, sorry". GroupSwim Collaboration, in...
- Tags: Security, Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0, Wiki, Collaboration, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- My growing hatred for calculators
- My growing hatred for calculatorsNokids need to think mathematically when doing math and programmatically when programming and literarily when reading literature, etc.Spreadsheeting for math? Joy. We all get to castrate mathematical symbology in order to shoehorn it into a spreadsheet cell t=sqrt(a^3)Wonderful.I guess when the only thing you know is...
- Tags: Microsoft Excel, PRODUCTIVITY, calculator, Mathcad
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- EIC podcast: Tech economy turmoil; Cloud computing; Citizen journalism fails
- On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan and I talk about the economy's impact on the tech sector, cloud computing and citizen journalism following the fake Steve Jobs heart attack story. On the economy Dan and I covered a lot of waterfront. We talked about technology spending...
- Tags: Podcast, Citizen Journalism, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
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