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Houston Local News 1.0 (Mobile)

Houston Local News provides quick access to all the top news sites for the great city of Houston, including many that are specially formatted for the iPhone or iPod Touch screen. The current sites include Houston Chronicle, Houston Press, Houston Business Journal, NBC Houston - KPRC, ABC Houston - KTRK,...

Tags: Houston, Mobile, Martian Technology LLC, Houston Local News, Smart Phones, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-08-25

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Houston Local News Free 1.0 (Mobile)

Houston Local News Free provides quick access to all the top news sites for the city of Houston. The current sites include Houston Chronicle, Houston press, Houston Business Journal, NBC Houston - KPRC, ABC Houston - KTRK, CBS Houston - KHOU, FOX Houston - KRIV, Outside.in Houston, Houston metblogs, H...

Tags: Houston, Mobile, Martian Technology LLC, Houston Local News Free, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-09

Oh, it's on: Apple counters Microsoft's 'Laptop Hunters' ads with 'Megan'

Oh, it's on: Apple counters Microsoft's 'Laptop Hunters' ads with 'Megan'5 viruses already, including the famous Izombie Bot net and......a new worm that ZDNet has already written about just yesterday. how many viruses/worms did OSX have? None, untill a couple of months ago.Yesterday, a 10.5.07 just came out, with a...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Cyberthreats, Desktops, Notebooks, Viruses and worms, PC commercial, Apple Inc., Laptop Hunters, advertisement, virus, Apple Macintosh, laptop computer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

DTV delay bill fails in House. It

DTV delay bill fails in House. ItDTV is a redundancy in broadcastIf you shut off analog you will drive the inventors of digital right out of their mind.You're taking the pressure distributed to TV engineers and placing it right of the digital inventor's shoulders.It's just like the time change a...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, digital television

Discussion threads 2009-01-28

Local market prepared for digital TV transition

New York is the local television market most ready for digital TV transition, with just 3.5% unready television sets. Portland, OR is the least prepared local market, with 22.4% of all households using only analog sets and over-the-air television Market % of Over the Air Only...

Tags: Network Computer, Digital Television, Computer Associates International Inc., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Thin Clients, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, NB

Blog posts 2008-03-25

Amazon S3 web services down. Bad, bad news for customers.

Amazon S3 web services down. Bad, bad news for customers.And this is whyWeb 2.0 will die. Only a fool trusts sensitive data to a third party they have no control over.Service interruptions inevitableI don't care who it is. Amazon, Google, Salesforce.com, MSFT...everyone is going to have an outage. ...

Tags: Manufacturing, Corporate governance, RAID, outage, Amazon.com Inc., BAD BAD new, Amazon S3 web service, Amazon S3 web services down, BAD BAD, AWS, white board, board, backup, Web service

Discussion threads 2008-02-15

Educators address America's crisis in math performance

American school children lag far behind many other countries when it comes to math skills - a very worrisome trend to educators. That was the main topic of discussion recently at a forum of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel, reports the San Jose Mercury News. A panel of...

Tags: Policy, Education Technology

Blog posts 2006-11-09

Power line broadband gets popular with tech firms

Power line broadband gets popular with tech firmsThey will eventually make this work ...And it will further reduce the price of broadband as increased competition forces prices down.BPL will never workThe "interference problems" that this article refers to so glibly, should be read as "violations of physics rules". If you...

Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, broadband over power line, powerline, broadband, Power-line broadband, Motorola Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-08-24

Google planning IM service, report says

Google planning IM service, report saysAnyone remember "CoolTalk" in Netscape 3.0?I wonder whatever happened with that plugin. I think the reason it died on the vine was dialup was so slow in those days (sheesh that was what 7 years ago)combined with slow machines. You spoke into your...

Tags: Instant messaging, Rep, Microsoft Corp., MSN IM, IM, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-08-23

Microsoft's Office bucks for a promotion

Microsoft's Office bucks for a promotionM$ lock in strategy is ARROGANT and will backfire!What a joke! They are sadly mistaken if they think that everyone will just sail into their little plans. Lock in via M$ just stinks! Why in the world would I want to subject...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2005-02-04

IBM shareholders voice concerns

IBM shareholders voice concernsYou think?From the article:Alliance@IBM secretary James Mangi also submitted a proposal to review executive compensation to determine if the current executive pay structures "create an undue incentive to make short-sighted decisions."What do you think the odds are of:1. This being true2. The study finding that it is...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Vertical industries, Outsourcing, IBM Corp., job, IBM shareholder, voice concern, government, shareholder

Discussion threads 2004-04-27

Pragmatism led CEO to sign SCO's Linux license

Pragmatism led CEO to sign SCO's Linux licensePragmatic or puss?I vote puss. Some things are worth fighting for, unless you're Bob Marsh, then you're pragmatic. Spineless, unprincipled people disgust me. People like that are the reason this country is in the shape it's in. Anyone got...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, EV1Servers, SCO Linux, SCO Group Inc., Linux

Discussion threads 2004-03-01