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BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe This is the 4th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Note that the section this is taken from, on the evolution of...

Tags: IBM Mainframe, Environment, Mainframe, Data-processing, Computer, COBOL, IBM Corp., Flowmatic, Data Division, Identification Division, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-06

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National Wind, the wind development company focused on encouraging local investment and ownership for its wind projects, has completed its purchase of investment banker Delphi Financial. Given how quickly National Wind is signing new projects, the company figured it made sense to acquire its own renewable energy...

Tags: Turbine, Renewable Energy, Borland Delphi, Financing, Programming Languages, Financial Accounting, Development Tools, Telecom & Utilities, Investment, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Finance, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-06

Little Hopper's Memory Matching Game (exe)

Preschool and kindergarten students will have fun practicing identification of numbers, letters, animals, and things while testing their memory skills in a classic tile match up farm themed environment in Little Hopper's Memory Matching Game. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Memory, Fast Rabbit Software, Games, Flash Memory, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-09-05

Microsoft to slash price of Xbox 360

Microsoft announced that it will cut the price of its Xbox 360 game console to $199, just in time for the holiday shopping season. SEATTLE--Microsoft said on Wednesday it plans to cut the U.S. prices of its Xbox 360 video game machine, lowering the price of its entry-level console...

Tags: Console, Video, Microsoft Corp., Price, Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Reuters, video consoles, video games, Xbox, Wii, Playstation 3. Microsoft

News items 2008-09-04

Semagsoft Calculator (zip)

Semagsoft Calculator is a free compact application from Semagsoft for basic math calculations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Calculation, Semagsoft, Semagsoft Calculator

Software downloads 2008-09-04

HP ditches the box for Walmart notebook promotion

Which notebook would you rather buy as a consumer, one that comes home with oodles of styrofoam and cardboard and plastic. Or one that ditches the cardboard altogether and even comes with its own messenger bag for you to carry it home in? Both Hewlett-Packard and...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Linksys Inc., Notebooks, Home Networking, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Networking, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-03

Samsung OMNIA first impressions show that Windows Mobile can beat the iPhone

Samsung OMNIA first impressions show that Windows Mobile can beat the iPhoneNot fair to compare??Sorry, but I have to disagree. Looking at the price of an iPhone 3G it IS in the same bracket as the more powerful smart phones. All this shows is it is poor value...

Tags: Operating systems, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Matthew, Samsung OMNIA, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Apple iPhone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., mobile, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

AOV Based Fingerprint Minutiae Matching System (zip)

AOV Based Fingerprint Minutiae Matching System - Matlab source code. Minutia matching is the most popular approach to fingerprint recognition. We have developed a novel fingerprint feature named adjacent orientation vector, or AOV, for fingerprint matching. In the first stage, AOV is used to find possible minutiae pairs. Then one...

Tags: Information System, Orientation, Payroll, Luigi Rosa, Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management

Software downloads 2008-08-31

Face Recognition Based on Statistical Moments (zip)

Face Recognition Based on Statistical Moments - Matlab source code. Moment based feature descriptors have evolved into a powerful tool for image analysis applications. Geometric moments present a low computational cost, but are highly sensitive to noise. We have developed a simple and efficient technique for face recognition that combines:...

Tags: Moment, Face Recognition, Luigi Rosa

Software downloads 2008-08-31

Face Recognition Based On Overlapping DCT (zip)

Face Recognition Based On Overlapping DCT - Matlab source code. In the JPEG image compression algorithm, the input image is divided into 8-by-8 or 16-by-16 blocks, and the two-dimensional DCT is computed for each block. The DCT coefficients are then quantized, coded, and transmitted. The JPEG receiver (or JPEG file...

Tags: Algorithm, Coefficient, JPEG, Face Recognition, Image, Luigi Rosa, DCT Coefficient, Feature Vector, Engineering

Software downloads 2008-08-31

Green Plug snags heavy hitter for board

Who says green tech isn't rocket science? Starting Sept. 1, green tech start-up Green Plug, which is pushing for the concept of a universal power converter, has appointed former White House advisor George Keyworth as the chairman of its board of directors. Keyworth was Science Advisor to...

Tags: Green Technology, White House, Board, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-29

The End of SaaS? Or Just the End of Hype?

Lawson CEO Harry Debes started -- or rather continued -- a brouhaha that's getting some pixels in the blogosphere, and his position is worth commenting on for both its courage foolhardy and its excess hyperbolically so. According to Harry, the SaaS market will collapse in two years time, due to...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Customer Choice, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Steve Jobs death has been greatly exaggerated

News outlet Bloomberg gave Apple fans and investors a huge scare late yesterday when it accidentally published an incomplete version of Steve Jobs obituary over its wire service. Although the service quickly retracted the release, it's an eerily-fascinating read complete with XXXX marks for the cause and...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Corporate Governance, Venture Capital, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Financing Startups, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Microsoft to target Windows XP Pro users with Genuine 'nagware' notifications

Microsoft to target Windows XP Pro users with Genuine 'nagware' notificationsI don't know what difference it will makePeople who love Windows will still love Windows. People who hate Windows will still hate Windows. People who pirate Windows will still pirate Windows.RE: Microsoft to target Windows XP Pro users with Genuine...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Pro user, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

Valgetal Falling Numbers (exe)

Valgetal ("falling numbers" in Dutch) is an educational falling blocks-style math game with 20 progressively difficult levels for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. It is a clever twist on mathematical games and lots of fun. To advance a level, you must complete basic equations by controlling the placement of falling...

Tags: Level, Joustra Software, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-08-26

Twitter's "me too" anti-spam strategy

With Twitter's continuing growth, its popularity is logically starting to attract the attention of malicious parties, like spammers, phishers, and malware authors who wouldn't mind the fact that nobody is following them when they're actively updating several hundred users with their latest propositions. Last' week's Twitter announcement...

Tags: Strategy, Anti-spam, Spammer, Twitter, Cyberthreats, Spam, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Facebook refuses to fix obvious security flaw

[ UPDATE:  Facebook has reversed itself and fixed this vulnerability ]  The Register's Dan Goodin has the scoop on an obvious security vulnerability that's being ignored by the powers at Facebook. The issue, as demonstrated by this proof-of-concept, shows...

Tags: Facebook, Social Networking, Security, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Hundreds of Dutch web sites hacked by Islamic hackers

In what appears to be a mass defacement, where several hundred domains take advantage of a shared hosting provider, starting as of this Friday, an Islamic hacker known as nEt^DeViL -- this is not the NetDevilz team that hijacked the DNS records of the ICANN and Photobucket in June --...

Tags: Web, Web Site, Hacker, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Hacking, Security, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Olympics set the stage for Web tech fight

The summer Olympic games provided the first battleground for a war between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet's next big competition. SEATTLE--As the world's best athletes competed in Beijing, the summer Olympic games set the stage for a battle between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet's next big competition....

Tags: Software, Developer, Adobe Systems Inc., Web, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Flash, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management, Reuters, Adobe, Microsoft, Silverlight, video

News items 2008-08-25

Seinfeld and Gates vs. Apple

Seinfeld and Gates vs. AppleIn other wordsThey were successful enough to retire early.Any attempts to potshot these guys may go over well in the ABM community, but the general public will see it as sour grapes. Which means this could actually do what MS wants.Seinfeld? WHO?Oh yeah he had...

Tags: Construction, Desktops, Apple Inc., Seinfeld

Discussion threads 2008-08-21