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- Cisco gobbles up Jabber
- Cisco gobbles up Jabberhaha...that's funnyI think Cisco is losing its mind if it thinks its going to go after Microsoft on the Collaboration front. With the AD and Exchange at the centre of almost every major business, I don't see how they even think they'll be considered a serious...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., home network, home automation, Jabber, network
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- Control4 Introduces $499 Home Automation Controller
- Control4 Introduces $499 Home Automation ControllerWe need cheaper prices and easier retrofits. We need to get these down tothe cost of a wireless router, or maybe these feature added to wireless routers. Zigbee will make for easier retrofit, but you will still need one transmitter for each light in...
- Tags: Routers & switches, TV & Home Theater, X10 Wireless Technology, Home Automation controller, Control4, Home Automation
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- Control4 Introduces $499 Home Automation Controller
- Home automation has been the wave of the future for what seems like forever, but it's been more of a gentle wave than something tsunami-strength. But the ability to control lighting, security, and other home systems from a centralized unit is slowly making inroads, and that trend will continue with...
- Tags: Control4, Home Automation, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- The real end game in home automation
- The real end game in home automationHome Automation will be key ....It is the same concept that engulfs the 'aging in place' movement; different industries, doing different things, yet all saying they have the same end goal.I've been researching the real-world use of home automation to improve the quality of...
- Tags: Games, home automation, game
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- The real end game in home automation
- We're getting older, the world's getting colder. There aren't going to be enough workers available to care for us when we get into our 70s and 80s. The answer is home automation. Not just to run our TVs, either. But to manage us in our old age. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Game, Marc Fleury, Automation, Home Automation, Medical Device Approval, Healthcare, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Fleury's Open Remote is all about the software
- Once you have a standard which runs your home remotely, what about all those heart monitors and glucose meters, those baby monitors and grandma trackers, now running as proprietary, one-off solutions? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Marc Fleury, Fleury, Home Automation, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Monitors & Displays, Operating Systems, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Software, Hardware, Components, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- My road map for CES 2007
- My road map for CES 2007MacWorldI know it's not your beat, but you'd get more info on the future directions of Windows, gadgets and related technology next week at MacWorld.Control4I think you're right on with the sleeper hit of the show. Home automation is taking off right now. I'd check...
- Tags: Strategy, Control4, Macworld, Home Automation
- Discussion threads 2007-01-04
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- NSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversations
- Military linguists have come forward to say that the intelligence services routinely listened in on Americans overseas calling home and on the communications of non-suspect groups like the Red Cross. And, they say, they listened in and even transcribed couples' phone sex, The New York Times reports. ...
- Tags: Phone, Phone Sex, Telecom & Utilities, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- ISP snoops slink away: Adzilla quits US market
- The bottom is falling out of the market for spying on Internet users. Adzilla says it is leaving the North American market to focus on a part of the world with a seemingly limitless appetite for snooping – Asia. Adzilla's home page says: ...
- Tags: Privacy, Internet Service Provider, Adzilla, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Government, Security, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Is OpenOffice good enough?
- Yes. OK, obviously there's more to this story than my tongue-in-cheek answer. This came up after one of our supercool, power user secretaries (who is an Office 2003/2007 wiz) ran a training session for the other secretaries in the district. The other secretaries are largely...
- Tags: Secretary, Training, OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Look who’s buying Vista Home Basic hint: it’s not home users
- Look who’s buying Vista Home Basic hint: it’s not home usersMakes senseMakes sense. Your average small biz probably doesn't want very much. They just want something that works. If it runs the databases and the tax software, it's good enough. For a small business, a single PC is usually...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Vista Basic, Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista Home Basic hint, Vista Home Basic, Vista Home
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Look who's buying Vista Home Basic (hint: it's not home users)
- Who's buying new PCs with Windows Vista Home Basic? Judging by the name, you'd assume those OS editions would be loaded on underpowered machines for starving students and penny-pinching families. But you'd be wrong. Based on my observations of the PC market over the past year or two, I think...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Small-business Buyer, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Apple notebook for $800 - Would you be interested?
- Apple notebook for $800 - Would you be interested?If it's a netbook......then it's suicide at an $800 price point. Only fanboys and fashionistas will buy it.Apple doesn't make a notebookThey make laptops, remember?LOLI actually think that PC doesn't stand for Personal Computer, it stands for Price Conscious.When you decide...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Notebooks, Desktops, Apple Inc., Apple Notebook, Microsoft Windows Vista, notebook
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Laptops with mobile WiMax now available
- The first laptops with built-in mobile WiMax wireless broadband are now available in the U.S. Sprint, Intel and the computer companies announced the new WiMax configurations at an event in Baltimore just a few days after Sprint launched its Xohm service there. All of these laptops use...
- Tags: Mobile, Sprint Xohm, Laptop Computer, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, 3G, Chipsets, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- plagiarism, Gibberish, IEEE, and the textbook business
- plagiarism, Gibberish, IEEE, and the textbook businessi tend to agree with your wifeThis is very poor english, but does express a meaning that make sense. You may disagree with what it says, but it is coherent. I wouldn't call the extracts you chose as plagiarism. Author used one transformed sentence...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, OOA/OOD/OOP, C/C++, Operating systems, plagiarism, textbook business, IEEE
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- AudioProc (exe)
- AudioProc is a high-quality, linear-phase multiband audio dynamics processor for Winamp, utilizing 10-band compression/expansion/limiting technology that emulates expensive professional broadcast hardware. Intended to achieve a competitive 'on the air' sound signature resembling that of modern audio broadcast processors used by major market FM radio stations, AudioProc will normalize the volume...
- Tags: Clay Hellman, AudioProc, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2008-10-09
- HyperShot (exe)
- Bunkspeed's HyperShot delivers interactive 3D rendering. Its real time, for everyone, from anywhere - even your laptop. See instant global illumination and physics-based materials on models come alive, right before your eyes, with stunning photographic results. Science based and patent-pending, HyperShot equips you to simply load your models and environments,...
- Tags: Bunkspeed, Designs, Engineering, Marketing Research, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-10-09
- Remobo (dmg)
- Remobo creates an instant private network between users and lets you connect to each other over the Internet as if you were on the same LAN. Just login from your computers or add other users to your buddy list and Remobo will create an IPN between these computers, allowing you...
- Tags: Computer, AWIT Systems, Remobo, Productivity, Instant Messaging, Web Site Development, Networking, Internet, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-10-09
- Network Home Reporter (zip)
- Network Home Reporter helps network administrators keep a handle on their storage resources. By automatically generating a report for the administrator detailing the locations of each user's home directory, as well as the size and kinds of contents, you will be more able to ensure proper capacity planning or enforce...
- Tags: Network, Digital Sapience, Storage, Networking, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-10-09
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