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Tech policy and presidential politics: Is it a vote getter?

Tech policy and presidential politics: Is it a vote getter?Tech Policy should be highest priority.No one in congress or the presidential race has a clue about technology, which is the basis of our entire economy. And everyone wonders why we are falling behind in the world. Energy technology...

Tags: Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Fluorescent light, vote getter, presidential politic, getter, IS IT

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

Is open source a vote getter?

Is open source a vote getter?It's another step in the right directionalong with the rise of the Social Enterprise.Is it a vote getter? The majority of people barely know what a computer is, and have little interest in the damage that extreme Capitalism is causing the human race.Ignorance is also...

Tags: Branding, vote getter, getter, open source

Discussion threads 2008-04-07

Additional Resources

Met Sat Getter 2.2.28.1 (Windows)

MetSatGetter is an EUMETSAT satellite images downloader. We have set up the program to be able to collect any of the file sets that are offered on the EUMETSAT Web site as regularly updating sets, however not all sets are included as the visualized products sets from Metosat 0 are...

Tags: Set, Microsoft Windows, Satellite, DA Software, MetSatGetter, Network Technology, Networking

Software downloads 2009-10-21

WSJ challenges NFL's ridiculous policy by live-blogging game

I have to admit that I don't normally click on the pages of the Wall Street Journal for my sports news so I'm certainly not logging into the Journal's site for play-by-play commentary during a live NFL game on Sunday. But a recent live-blog entry on the Journal's Daily Fix...

Tags: Wall Street Journal, NFL, Blog, Blogging, Games, Internet, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-05

Works of Peter B. Kyne. FREE Author's biography & partial work in the trial 10.1 (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference

Software downloads 2009-09-11

A killer Windows 7 bug? Sorry, no

A killer Windows 7 bug? Sorry, noWhy are people so obsessed with unused RAM?What, pray tell, is the purpose of RAM if it isn't for it to be used by something? Bragging about unused RAM is like bragging about how your grocery getter has 500HP even though you never use...

Tags: Operating systems, RAM, memory, Windows 7 bug, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, killer

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

PHP Getter 1.0 (Mobile)

Remotely shut down your computer, start a program, or edit text. PHP Getter makes a GET call to the PHP page you specify. You can create a PHP web page to save the button you pressed to a file. You can create a quick Java program that presses a key...

Tags: Mobile, PHP, Cinn Dev, PHP Getter, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-06-22

Entrepreneur Steers to Success With HP Officejet Pro 8500 All-in-One

Look in shop windows in the Edgware suburb of London and one might see flyers advertising Natalie's Driving School. Natalie Cooke, the company's owner, used to print these on a non-HP color inkjet printer. Lately, the flyers have grown sharper and more vibrant. That's because she switched to an HP...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., All-in-One, Cooke, Team Management, Management

Case studies 2009-06-01

Amulet 1.0.1 (Mobile)

Use a neck holder and let Amulet display the most splendid adornment. The application comes with a variety of virtual jewels and unusual decoration to express your mood. Keep it diffident or showy but always peculiar. You can configure Amulet to match your clothes even take a photo and adapt...

Tags: Amulet, Mobile, Apple iTunes, Dirk Holtwick, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-03-24

Apple iPod touch sets child's pants on fire; parents sue

Apple iPod touch sets child's pants on fire; parents sueNot related, probably, can children constantly bullied in schools sue the districts in which they grew up?Since everything has an effect on everything else around it, I say Apple should be sued. Quality Control is not a sin. Especially...

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iPod Touch, Apple iPod, Apple Products

Discussion threads 2009-03-13

Comparison in green

Last Wednesday The register carried two green related reports. One, headlined Canadian prof: Green IT is a waste of time: Digital nomads will destroy the planet was by Lewis Page, an anti-research, anti-military propagandist whose report grossly over simplifies, and thus misrepresents, the already over simplified press...

Tags: Report, Green IT, Research & Development, Business Operations, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-02-28

A Microsoft smartphone: No. A Microsoft phone chassis: Yes

A Microsoft smartphone: No. A Microsoft phone chassis: YesIt's sounds rosyA very positive outlook on their embedded front. A 'cool' factor is yet to please in my view however. They would really benefit from going 'even-smaller' to compete in the market, really. For instance, 'pimp-yo-glasses' would be...

Tags: Smart phones, Microsoft Corp., phone, hardware, smart phone

Discussion threads 2009-02-06

Amulet Lite 1.0.2 (Mobile)

Use a neck holder and let Amulet Lite display the most splendid adornment. The application comes with a variety of virtual jewels and unusual decoration to express your mood. Keep it diffident or showy but always peculiar. You can configure Amulet Lite to match your clothes even take a photo...

Tags: Mobile, Apple iTunes, Dirk Holtwick, Amulet Lite, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-02-01

Hey, Microsoft. About those ads... Yeah, like that.

I used to be a PC. But I'm pretty much a Mac guy now - not that there's anything wrong with that. (Sorry - just a little tribute to Jerry.) What a cool club of nerds and jocks and teachers and models and artists...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Advertisement, Commercial, PC, Club, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-09-19

Real ready to fight Hollywood

Real ready to fight HollywoodBrass OnesYou've got to admit, this guy has a pair. RealNetworks has fallen behind, and Glasser is using a semi-extortion play to get back into the game. I'm betting that he's angling for some other deal from Hollywood, and this is the attention getter. The threat...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Consumer electronics, Digital media, Glasser, DVD, DVD Ripper

Discussion threads 2008-09-09

News to know: IE 8; Code name of the day; Facebook security; Office 2.0

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: A Microsoft Codename a day: Rouge Dancho Danchev: Hundreds of Dutch web sites hacked by Islamic hackers Twitter's "me too" anti-spam...

Tags: Security, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Office 2.0

Blog posts 2008-08-26

Tech policy and presidential politics: Is it a vote getter?

Welcome to the week that is the Democratic National Convention followed by another one with the Republican National Convention. We'll get coverage out the wazoo with a heavy dose of the technology implications from our sister site and parent, News.com and CBS News, respectively. While the technology policies of Barack...

Tags: VP, Policy, Strategy, Regulations, Management, Government, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Proving Scoble wrong, Qik lives on and opens public beta to boot

Qik, a popular streaming mobile video service, has finally opened its public beta program and has released a slew of new features to go along with it. This is great news considering last month tech pundit Robert Scoble declared Qik all but dead in the wake newcomer Kyte. ...

Tags: Public Beta, Robert Scoble, Handset, Video, Integration, Qik, Kyte, Kyte.tv, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-07-20

Ticking bombs in enterprise land

I believe the enterprise software industry is heading for major problems. It started when I read Francine McKenna  where she talks about what she sees as a doomsday scenario for at least one of the Big Four audit businesses. Francine's focus is on questioning the effectiveness of current methods for...

Tags: Software, Audit, Francine, Tools & Techniques, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-07

News to know: AMD; IT spending; Google; Microsoft Mesh; ULPCs

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Google App Engine: When will Microsoft field a competitor? Garett Rogers: Google announces App Engine: Should Amazon worry? Michael Krigsman: Heathrow T5 failure: What really happened Larry Dignan: AMD: Sales weak; Layoffs on tap ...

Tags: Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Jason O'Grady, IT-spending, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Printers, Fuel Cells, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Notebooks, Open Source, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Hardware, Peripherals, Emerging Technologies, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-08