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Viral video: Frozen Grand Central

Viral video: Frozen Grand CentralThe reason this was disruptiveis because the people had more class than these "secret agents" They were too polite to just shove these jerks out of the way so they could get on with where they needed to go and what they needed to do, which...

Tags: Viral Video, Grand Central

Discussion threads 2008-02-05

Enterprise 2.0 failure: Can you trust Google Grand Central?

Enterprise 2.0 failure: Can you trust Google Grand Central?E2 FailureWhy, why and why Micheal you take one company and cover the entire industry with stain? I do not know.I was last New Yew York back out, I for that reason I am not going to say I am not trusting...

Tags: globalization, Enterprise 2.0, Grand Central, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-08-18

Enterprise 2.0 failure: Can you trust Google Grand Central?

Google recently chose to exit its video sale and rental business, leaving paid customers with nothing. Now, in yet another confidence-battering move, Google has pulled some of the so-called phone numbers for life offered by its Grand Central team, with almost no warning to customers.I view this as a serious...

Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Enterprise 2.0, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-08-18

GrandCentral invitations now available

GrandCentral invitations now availableplease send me an invite...Hi! I would love to try out the service, it would be useful for me.Please send me an invite to djrivard@gmail.comThanks in advance!DominicYes pleasei'm always interested in Google's projects. If you still have invites, i'll take some of that action.Just what I'm looking...

Tags: e-mail address, Yes Please, Invite Please, Grand Central, dot-com, e-mail

Discussion threads 2007-07-07

From Web services to Web 2.0 -- same name, new game

This week's announcement that Google had acquired GrandCentral Communications reflects one brand's evolution from Web services intermediary to Web 2.0 innovator.Up until a couple of years ago, we in the Web services/SOA world knew Grand Central as a kind of an integration-on-demand provider before the concept hit the mainstream.Now, GrandCentral...

Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch

Blog posts 2007-07-03

Google buys GrandCentral, but integration with GoogleTalk won't happen right away

Google buys GrandCentral, but integration with GoogleTalk won't happen right awayShocking price tag!We have had the GrandCentral features and more for over 10 years except we dont use VOIP. We have been concerned about quality issues so we have only used PSTN Digital Fiber Optic Lines. Maybe we...

Tags: Business structures, Telephony, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Grand Central, Google Inc., Google buys GrandCentral

Discussion threads 2007-07-03

Grand Central turning to Swivel

After co-founding and leading CNET from which this blog issues forth from obscurity to Web stardom, Halsey Minor started 12 Entrepreneuring, raising over $130 million to incubate Web services companies before flaming out during the 2001 bubble bursting. One of the few incubated companies to survive 12 Entrepreneuring's dissolution was...

Tags: Grand Central, Halsey Minor

Blog posts 2005-11-28

From Minor to major...

We've entered the "practical phase" of Web services, says Halsey Minor, CEO of Grand Central in a recent interview with Business Week. "The first phase was a bunch of people designing a whole bunch of standards -- primarily those were a bunch of computer scientists. Now people are getting practical...

Tags: Minor, Grand Central, Halsey Minor

Blog posts 2005-02-16

Web services intermediaries

The InfoWorld test center has been playing with a new class of middleware designed to manage and monitor Web services. Known as Web services intermediaries WSIs, these vendor solutions incorporate a host of features into their platforms includingmessage routing, security, exception handling, abstraction, message transformation, and logging. InfoWorld studied four...

Tags: Web services intermediary, Web, Grand Central

Blog posts 2004-12-21

Grand Central's service model leaves the station

Grand Central CEO Halsey Minor also founder and former chairman of CNET Networks likes to talk about how his company is similar to salesforce.com he was the first investors in that company, which is leading the first wave of business software as a service. After interviewing Halsey, it seems that...

Tags: Grand Central

Blog posts 2004-08-11

Additional Resources

PDF Tally (zip)

PDF Tally finds all PDF files in a user-selected folder and all of its subfolders. The program returns the number of pages in each file, including a total of each subfolder and a grand total. A log file saves the information as well. The information is displayed in a simple...

Tags: Adobe PDF, Subfolder, Code Flow, PDF Tally, Log File

Software downloads 2008-10-09

Canadian Conservatives vow to implement new copyright law

Canadian Conservatives vow to implement new copyright lawCanadian Politicsare worse than we ever thought of having in this country. The vows they make are seldom carried out for one grand reason or another. I live on the border and have watched both sides of it.

Tags: copyright law

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Student indicted for Palin e-mail hack

The U.S. Justice Department today announced that a federal grand jury in Knoxville, Tennessee has indicted the 20-year-old son of a state lawmaker in connection with the compromise of Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account. David Kernell left, who was identified for a while as the alleged hacker,...

Tags: E-mail, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-10-08

2009 Mazda CX-7 Grand Touring

Photo gallery:Mazda CX-7 Grand TouringEarlier this year, we tested a Mazda's CX-9. So when we heard that we were getting a CX-7 Grand Touring in the CNET garage, we braced for more of the same, only smaller. The tiny Mazda crossover didn't disappoint; the CX-7 has a lot in common...

Tags: Mazda CX-7, Mazda Motor Corp.

Product reviews 2008-10-07

Samsung Sway SCH-U650 (Verizon Wireless)

It's clear that Samsung loves two things: slim slider phones and midrange camera phones with a flip design. Indeed, we've seen a deluge of such models over the last few years, with the latest in the slider camp being the Samsung SCH-U650 for Verizon Wireless. Also called the Sway, (why,...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Verizon Wireless, keypad button, display, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung Sway, phone

Product reviews 2008-10-07

Researchers publish details on London travel card hack

First there was Boston's Charlie card. Now, Dutch researchers have exposed the inherent weakness in the RFID chip used in London's Oyster travel smartcard, ZDNet UK says. Researchers released details at the Esorics security conference in Malaga on Monday and an academic paper PDF...

Tags: Card, Researcher, London, Chip, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Will Windows 7 get a new name for its release?

Will Windows 7 get a new name for its release?Following Steve's PhilosophyAs you so accurately noted, Steve has a knack for whole numbers as we know from his Microsoft Office reign. Office 12 (2007), Office 11 (2003), Office 10 (XP or version 2002), Office 9 (2000) and these were the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Vista R2, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, new name

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.

Companies that give their workers the option of telecommuting are seeing greater productivity, lower costs, improved employee health and greater employee retention, according to a survey released today by the Computing Technology Industry Association. Case in point: I'm typing this from this from my own home office...

Tags: Phone, Telecommuting, Telecom & Utilities, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Samsung SCH-U430 (Verizon Wireless)

Photo gallery:Samsung SCH-U430If you're looking for a basic flip phone with a VGA camera, you can always count on Samsung to deliver. Indeed, the company pumps them out by the dozen and the Samsung SCH-U430 is the latest of the batch. Sporting a simple, compact design and minimal features, the...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Verizon Wireless, Samsung SCH-U430, phone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Product reviews 2008-10-06

MozyPro for Mac goes public beta

Online backup storage provider Mozy on Tuesday will roll out a public beta for MozyPro for the Mac, a new service for businesses using Apple's Mac platform. MozyPro for the Mac resembles Mozy's business lineup for Windows. It allows online backup for the Mac like its MozyHome...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Public Beta, Backup, MozyPro, Mozy, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-06