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Lord Of The Rings Screensaver 3 (zip): When the Fellowship breaks, Frodo continues the quest together with his loyal companion Sam and the treacherous Gollum. Meanwhile, the wizard Gandalf and Aragorn, heir in exile to the throne of Gondor, unite and rally the Free Peoples of Middle-earth in several battles culminating in the War of the Ring.; Tags: Throne, Screensaver, Heir, Wallpaper Screensavers; Software downloads 2008-03-25
Hovsepian now heir apparent at Novell: Hovsepian now heir apparent at Novellthats$650,000 annum salary amounts to almost $60K a month. Are executives and CEO's worth that much money.Could mean what the article implies, ...... that Mr. Hovsepian is heir apparent with inheritance soon to arrive.Or it could mean he's receiving an incentive to stay at Novell...; Tags: Novell Inc., heir, open source; Discussion threads 2005-11-03

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The Steve Jobs Standard: The Steve Jobs StandardWell saidIn a world of greed, that last sentence was a breath of fresh air.Amen, Tom ntntThe unsung hero of AppleJohnathan Ive.An Apple product develops something like this:Jobs to Ive: Give me something sexy.Ive: Here you go.Jobs: Awesome.Gee - Maybe he should be a SaintNo doubt Steve...; Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Ive; Discussion threads 2008-06-30
ByDesign, the younger person's ERP: Many of the small and mid-sized businesses to whom SAP would like to sell its Business ByDesign SaaS offering are family-owned, especially in sectors like manufacturing, distribution and retail. SAP seems to feel that ByDesign will appeal to the forward-looking younger generation of those families — the future heirs of...; Tags: Peter Zencke, Product, SAP AG, ERP, WIMA, Roi/Tco, Sales Strategy, Outsourcing, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Sales, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-21
Is IT abuse a threat to democracy?: Here's a bit from a Washington Post report dated Dec 22/07 and headlined "FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics": CLARKSBURG, W. Va. -- The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of peoples' physical characteristics, a project that would...; Tags: Database, Information Technology, FBI, Ballot, Catalist, Federal Government, Government, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-04-17

A Tale of Two Kingdoms (exe): A Tale of Two Kingdoms is an epic faerie tale, in the classic style of the famous Sierra and LucasArts graphical adventure games. It is a full-length game with an atmosphere of magic and intrigue. Featuring five different endings; several sidequests and alternative solutions; teamwork with non-player characters; 75 minutes...; Tags: Kingdom, Crystal Shard, Games, Team Management, Construction, Personal Technology, Management; Software downloads 2008-04-17
If I were to design Windows 7: My colleague and fellow ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley continues to polish her crystal ball about Windows 7's delivery date in her last Friday's column, based on interpreting new statements from Microsoft chairman Bill Gates as well as the party line about the already stated 3-year release cycle. I've always...; Tags: Virtualization, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-04-07
SAP's Succession Plans: Making Things Safe for Business ByDesign?: SAP executed the beginning of a well-orchestrated and otherwise somewhat boring and boring is good management transition with the much-expected elevation of co-CEO Leo Apotheker to the more important title of heir-apparent. In the process, Henning Kagermann assumed the title of retiree-in-waiting, and all was good with the world. ...; Tags: Peter Zencke, SAP AG, BBD, Corporate Governance, Sales Strategy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Force Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum; Blog posts 2008-04-02
Catching x86 between Rocks and Cells: Catching x86 between Rocks and CellsA note about TII wrote this one before going ski-ing (just in case..). Since then Sun announced thatTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co would be providing fabrication services for its next generation 45nm chips - and, I'm guessing, that really means the Rock series.StampedingMovement away from x86...; Tags: Processors, Intel x86; Discussion threads 2008-02-25
MacBook+Heir%3F+Lenovo+X300+is+everywhere+this+week: MacBook+Heir%3F+Lenovo+X300+is+everywhere+this+weekCool. Just one question:Can the Lenovo X300 run OS X Leopard? It would be even cooler if it could.Vaporware?What will it cost?What will the REAL battery life be?The Air is here and now, and the people who want it are buying it. They won't be in the market...; Tags: Operating systems, Lenovo X300, MBA; Discussion threads 2008-02-15
MacBook Heir? Lenovo X300 is everywhere this week: Thanks to specs that match up nicely to the MacBook Air--it also fits in an interoffice envelope--Lenovo's still unannounced X300 ultraportable got a lot of press this week culminating in a February 25 cover story in BusinessWeek. Prior to that, The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg...; Tags: Lenovo Group Ltd., Apple MacBook, Expresscard, Image Processing, Laptop Computer, Lenovo X300, Modems, Notebooks, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris; Blog posts 2008-02-15
Microsoft%27s+Yahoo+play%3A+Some+love+it%3B+some+hate+it: Microsoft%27s+Yahoo+play%3A+Some+love+it%3B+some+hate+itForgotten MSN?Microsoft is in the entertainment business, though it's easy to forget. Yahoo does manage entertainment.And there's money to be made in internet advertising, of course. A great deal of money growing quickly. Microsoft is buying market share, though the premium is high.Google makes its money selling...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Data centers, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft%27s+Yahoo+play%3A+Some+love+it%3B+some+hate+it; Discussion threads 2008-02-01
Taking the reins and tending the cows at WebEx: As a direct result of rolling out web meeting capabilities across its entire organization in the past six months, Cisco has found that its travel and expense budget is down by almost a third. The statistic is an unexpected benefit of acquiring WebEx in a deal that closed last May,...; Tags: WebEx Communications Inc., Statistic, Cisco Systems Inc., Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-01-24
News to know: Red Hat's new CEO; RIM; FTC on privacy; Best PC components: Notable headlines: Red Hat names new Whitehurst CEO; Szulik stays chairman. A message from Matthew. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Dec 07/Jan 08. Without competition from AMD, Intel starts to put the brakes on releases Podcast: A look back at 2007 ...; Tags: Google Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Red Hat Inc., PC, Privacy, RIM BlackBerry, DoubleClick Inc., FTC, Mergers & Acquisitions, Handhelds, Investment, Finance, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-12-21
Cisco loses chief development officer and heir apparent Giancarlo: Cisco loses chief development officer and heir apparent GiancarloI think that should be..."reins"; Tags: Giancarlo, Cisco Systems Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-12-20
Cisco loses chief development officer and heir apparent Giancarlo: Charles Giancarlo, Cisco's chief development officer and characterized as CEO John Chambers's heir apparent, joined Silver Lake, the Silicon Valley private equity firm. Chambers was not happy to lose Giancarlo, who said that he wasn't keen on waiting another three to five years for the current CEO...; Tags: John Chambers, Cisco Systems Inc., Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-12-20
OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent 'Foundation': When in mid-October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation (ODf, yes, that's a little "f" that's not to be confused with the OASIS- and 400-member strong OpenDocument Alliance-backed big F-ODF: the OpenDocument Format) announced that the World Wide Web Consoritum (W3C)-backed Common Document Format CDF was the heir-apparent to what it believed...; Tags: W3C, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., OpenDocument Foundation, ODf, Matusow, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-11-29
Battle for Wesnoth (dmg): The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. In later games, recall your toughest warriors and form a deadly host against whom none can stand! Choose units from a large pool of specialists,...; Tags: Wesnoth Open Source Developers, Games, Strategy, Personal Technology, Management; Software downloads 2007-11-27
OpenDocument Foundation's 'woes' have little to do with OpenDoc Format's future: I've been so busy with other stuff that I've only peripherally been paying attention to an ongoing meme on the Internet about how the World Wide Web Consortium's Common Document Format CDF had been identified by the OpenDocument Foundation as a superior document format to the OpenDocument Format that it...; Tags: Drama, OpenDoc, Fact, OpenDocument Format, Disagreement, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-11-16
Steve Jobs proves you can't please all the people all the time: Steve Jobs proves you can't please all the people all the timeSpot onWell written. I do agree and have made a similar case myself on occasion though not so well written. Apple is a luxury brand (well, probably more of an interesting blend of luxury and commodity).RE: Steve...; Tags: Desktops, Telecom & Utilities, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Apple Products; Discussion threads 2007-09-24