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My Alienware Experience - Amazing gaming system!: My Alienware Experience - Amazing gaming system!Battery LifeExcellent, I look forward to that review. Would help me make up my mind where to buy a laptop from!That will be interesting.Check out how long the battery will last under full game power. I will give it 120 minutes tops.Price? Weight? Battery...; Tags: Games, Engineering, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Memory, game, Alienware, battery, laptop computer, gaming system; Discussion threads 2007-11-12

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Does IT really need to fear multicore?: While multicore chips hold great promise for applications and computing power they could wreak havoc on technology departments. That's the message from Gartner analyst Carl Claunch, who argued Thursday that IT types should fear--yes fear--multicore technology. Multicore chips carry multiple brains on them and companies like Intel...; Tags: Software, Information Technology, Multi-core, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-10-15
Constellation Wines (maker of Mondavi, Wild Horse and other big U.S. wine brands) goes solar: Pacific Power Management is building out a 1.2-megawatt solar system that will cover the winery warehouse roof for theConstellation WinesU.S. Gonzales Winery in Monterey, Calif. The system, set to be completed by the end of 2008, is supposed to produce more than 1,700,000 kilowatt hours per year. ...; Tags: Winery, Brand, Wine, Pacific Power Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-10-15
JetBlue unveils high-tech terminal Oct. 22; IT as customer service tool: Joseph Eng, executive vice president of JetBlue's systems and technology, said the company will unveil its high-tech terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York Oct. 22. The terminal when it launches will be the culmination of one big technology project. JetBlue's terminal at JFK,...; Tags: Customer Service, Information Technology, JetBlue Airways Corp., Tool, Projects, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Operational Accounting, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-10-15
360 degree virtual reality training RIA: SitePoint and TechCrunch both have some information up about something that EffectiveUI is building for Intelligence Gaming. It's a video-based virtual reality training simulation for the army. It's one of the coolest RIAs that I've seen. The application uses a combination of high quality video and hardware to immerse people...; Tags: 360-degree, Rich Internet Application, Video, Training, Hardware, Corporate Communications, Virtual Reality, Marketing, Emerging Technologies, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-10-15

Apple vs. Dell: Battle of the 13-inch notebooks: Since my last comparison, Apple and Dell have both come out with even smaller notebook computers to tempt you away from your old fashioned desk-bound workstation. How do they stack up? Today I look at the low end MacBook White and Dell Inspirion 13 to find out. ...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Battery, Apple Inc., Centimeter, MacBook White, Engineering, Serial ATA, Notebooks, Storage, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Burnette; Blog posts 2008-10-15
ManageFusion 2008: I'm sitting in the media workroom preparing for today's sessions at Symantec's ManageFusion 2008. The event is being held at the JW Marriott resort and conference center in the land of the Mouse, that is Orlando, FL. I'll be adding things to this post throughout the day as interesting things...; Tags: Software, Application, Symantec Corp., Software Virtualization Solution Professional, Steve Morton, Security, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-10-15
Use this presentation to plot your organization's projects: Classifying your projects will help you ensure that they're aligned with your company's business goals. Jay Rollins classifies projects as infrastructure, transactional, informational, or strategic -- a system that can help you balance your project portfolio so that it reflects your company's risk tolerance. This PowerPoint presentation will help you...; Tags: Project, Jay Rollins, Blogging, Microsoft Office, Internet, Office Suites, Software; Download resources 2008-10-15
Apple notebook hits and misses: The Apple product transition mentioned by Apple's CFO has arrived. Like other industry watchers, Storage Bits looked into its crystal ball to predict what it would look like. Overall, Apple did OK, with some surprising omissions and changes. Hits: Product = notebook In the first...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Quad-core, Apple MacBook, Battery, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook Pro, Steve, Notebooks, Engineering, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-10-14
Surviving the recession with Free Enterprise OSes (Part 2): In Part 1, I discussed the four Free Linux distributions that are best position to provide extended support and ample functionality to an end user through a protracted recession, as well as having the characteristic "safeness" or "stability" factor in terms of being able to weather...; Tags: Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Sun Solaris 10, Red Hat Inc., Recession, Operating System, Novell OpenSuse, BSD, CentOS, Scientific Linux, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-10-14
OLPC and Intel trumped by small-scale virtualization: I had planned for my next post to be a followup to my interview with Sun's Joe Hartley, but it's going to have to take a back seat to a story about small-scale virtualization in the 1:1 computing market. Maybe, though, this particular story suggests that Sun is headed...; Tags: Desktop, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-10-14
Secunia: popular security suites failing to block exploits: In a recently conducted comparative review, Danish security company Secunia, tested the detection rate of 12 different Internet Security Suites against 300 exploits (144 malicious files and 156 malicious web pages) affecting popular end user applications, to find that even the top performer in the test is in fact performing...; Tags: Web, Malware, Exploit, Secunia, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-10-14
More on Apple's new Mini DisplayPort (updated): One of the announcements coming out of Cupertino is that their MacBooks now ship with a new video out port called the Mini DisplayPort complete with funny capitalization and lack of space between the words. It means that you'll have to remember to bring a US$30 dongle/adapter with...; Tags: HDMI, Apple Inc., Mini DisplayPort, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-10-14
Apple's new MacBook line: Affordable enough?: Apple's new MacBook line: Affordable enough?What are the specsI haven't seen the specs yet (are they published?) but I don't think it's going to be enough. They either need to compete with Windows PC's or not. Don't half ass it. My guess is the lower price will still not match...; Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, new MacBook line, MacBook line; Discussion threads 2008-10-14
Apple gadget lust for me, but anything for Ed Tech?: Apple gadget lust for me, but anything for Ed Tech?Your Mac Lust borders on Creepy....Geez... that article is just a little bit scary. The kid on the eTrade commercials is in my head..."I seriously underestimated the creepiness factor"... he says this about a clown and I am applying it...; Tags: Corporate communications, Desktops, DVD, Consumer electronics, Notebooks, Apple Inc., video; Discussion threads 2008-10-14
Poll: Best personal finance software?: A little while ago, before the massive recession threw everyone into the depths of their portfolios, I thought it would be prudent to graduate tracking my expenses from pen and paper to software. My parents have dabbled with Quicken, and I wasn't really impressed with Microsoft Money....; Tags: Software, Quicken, Personal Finance, Mint, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-10-14
New pulseless total artificial heart: Two University of Houston UH engineering professors have received a $2.8 million federal grant from the National Institutes of Health NIH to develop a new artificial heart technology. In order to create a pulseless total artificial heart TAH, they 'are focusing on developing a control system that emulates how the...; Tags: Heart, Team Management, Federal Government, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Management, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-10-14
NVIDIA problems spread to desktop PCs: NVIDIA problems spread to desktop PCs8600GTa couple of months ago, I bought 2 8600GT cards to build an SLI system. One of these failed within 1 month. It was Gigabyte card and they did replace it, however, I have since upgraded to the 8800GT with 1GB memory to avoid problems.RE:...; Tags: Desktops, NVidia Corp., card, desktop computer, desktop, PC, Hewlett-Packard Co.; Discussion threads 2008-10-14
Cisco's Chambers sees collaboration fueling productivity gains; Web 2.0 as new enterprise engine?: Cisco CEO John Chambers said Tuesday that there will be an "instant replay" in technology-led productivity gains in the current downturn just like the U.S. saw in the mid-1990s. The difference this time around: In the mid-90s those productivity gains were based on big enterprise resource planning...; Tags: John Chambers, Web, Collaboration, Cisco Systems Inc., Web 2.0, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-10-14
Lessig: Five proposals for ending copyright wars: The Wall Street Journal is running an excerpt from Larry Lessig's upcoming book, Remix (book party in SF, Oct. 29.) In this excerpt, Lessig tells the story of Stephanie Lenz, who taped her infant child with some Prince song playing in the background and uploaded the...; Tags: Larry Lessig, Copyright Law, Regulation, Lenz, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-10-14