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What's in my gadget bag (this time)

Im off to New York City for a few days and just finished packing my gadget bag for this outing. Given the duration of the flight (about 6 hours with ime zone changes), the brevity of the layover less than an hour, and the fact that Im traveling with the...

Tags: Productivity, Mobility, Mac, Hardware, Gadgetry

Blog posts 2007-05-10

Are batteries the gating factor on mobile productivity?

Are batteries the gating factor on mobile productivity? My buddy Dennis Rice, fellow Tablet PC MVP and contributor at GottaBeMobile.com thinks so and Im in complete agreement. Even with devices optimized to squeeze as many hors as possible out of a charge as possible like the Lenovo X60t Tablet PC...

Tags: Mobility, Gadgetry, Tablet PCs, Hardware

Blog posts 2007-04-06

How I solved my Outlook-Google Calendar issues

Working on a number of different PCs and connected devices introduces all sorts of complexity. A constant issue is how to keep all of the information I need access to at hand, regardless of the device I happen to be using. E-mail is pretty easy - between Gmail and IMAP...

Tags: Gadgetry, Hardware, Mac, Mastering the Inbox, Microsoft Office, Mobility, Productivity, Software, Tablet PCs, Utilities and Add-Ins, Vista, Web Apps, Windows

Blog posts 2007-03-13

Is Skype disruptive? subversive? in trouble?

A typically interesting post on VoIP Watch turns into another fascinating conversation as mobility bloggers discuss whether or not Skype is a) disruptive, b) subversive, or c) in trouble and headed for more. There are good points being made by everyone chiming in and, frankly, I remain on the fence...

Tags: Instant messaging, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VOIP, Skype Technologies S.A., IM, T-Mobile, Ive

Blog posts 2006-12-27

Living with a MacBook - first thoughts

At this weeks Web 2.0 Summit, I left the PC home and ventured to the city by the bay with only my new MacBook to see what a week on the road Mac-style would be like. Overall, my experience was great - the machine is a delight to use and...

Tags: Productivity, Mobility, Microsoft Office, Utilities and Add-Ins, Hardware, Gadgetry, Software, Web Apps, Mac, Apple Macintosh, IM, PC

Blog posts 2006-11-11

Additional Resources

My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services

Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...

Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Have we all become a bunch of anxious, depressed, sleep-deprived irritable stress-heads?

Let's face it, the last month or so has been a challenge for just about anyone's tolerance of stress and has made even the most "stable" of us question our own emotional and mental health. But I've discovered that IT workers in particular, or anyone who...

Tags: Sleep, Job, Beverage, Health Care, Computer, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Food & Beverage, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Symantec Goes Into The Cloud With Email Filtering

Symantec today announced its acquisition of MessageLabs, a 520-person UK-based email filtering and security vendor. Given the cost and hassles that information & knowledge management professionls IKM Pros have keeping email spam down to a dull roar and keeping viruses outside the firewall, this is a great move for Symantec....

Tags: Symantec Corp., MessageLabs Ltd., E-mail, Online Communications, Ted Schadler

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Google is NOT your friend

Google is NOT your friendthe old call the enemy of my enemy is my best friendas long as google will pick on MS im willing to live with it happily .... when MS will be out of the picture will trun to the next monsterRE: Google is NOT your friendSure,...

Tags: Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

How a Mac Mini can beat a quad-core Vista behemoth (or how Apple can't write good software for Windows)

How a Mac Mini can beat a quad-core Vista behemoth (or how Apple can't write good software for Windows)Adrian - why would Apple write good Windows software?Apple has historically had an edge with video editing / graphical design applications. Now, since they've moved to an Intel platform, any hardware advantages...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital music, Desktops, Digital media, Operating systems, software, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Vista behemoth, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple QuickTime, quad-core

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Does this make me a member of the mile-high club?

Now I can say I blogged from 35,000 feet. I knew American Airlines was testing GOGO's WiFi service on select flights between New York and San Francisco, but was still pleasantly surprised this morning to find out that my 7am flight out of Kennedy this morning was...

Tags: Flight, Wireless LANs, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Josh Taylor

Blog posts 2008-10-07

ZDNet blogger: working from home

More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, intranet's and extranet's, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier...

Tags: Phone, Tea, Blogger, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Student Technology Day: Steve Ballmer Q&A

There was quite a lot to transcribe out, and many questions asked. Some questions put to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, include: Will we always need programmers? What's Microsoft's input in Facebook and social networking? Does Microsoft have any changes in mind for their...

Tags: India, Pyramid, Laughter, Network, Microsoft Office, Steve Ballmer, Product, Microsoft Corp., Programmer, Question, Microsoft Windows, Social Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Android sucks oxygen from mobile broadband room

Android sucks oxygen from mobile broadband roomany other Carriers?So Far it's only T-Mobile. There's all this hype, and I don't work/live in a major city. T-Mobile has the fewest towers in the country and is barely rolling out their G3 network to the major metropolitan areas. ...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, mobile broadband, mobile, oxygen, Qt Extended, OpenMoko, phone, open source

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

How SocialText is breaking the collaboration mold

How SocialText is breaking the collaboration moldDignan Replaces HowlettSorry about that Dennis. Per your notes here Dignan has now replaced you on my "frumpy-old-guy-thinking" list. He's clearly the king of old-thinking. I'm disappointed. I was sure you had a lock on that title. :)Signed: RotkapchenRE: How SocialText is breaking the...

Tags: Groupware, Socialtext, collaboration

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Economic meltdown: the insanity of disagreement

Economic meltdown: the insanity of disagreementI agree with your points and your questions...Way too many "loopholes" and bad decisions have been put into this bailout bill. Not the least of which is absolutely no accountability.To use Mr. Krigman's IT project analogy it would be like seeing that poor decisions...

Tags: Taxes, Team management, Leadership, Free trade, Financial services, Economic Meltdown, insanity, disagreement

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'

Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'I dont think that's true.VS brings together many well understood tools into a convenient IDE. I mean, if you know unit testing on VS, then running JUnit on Eclipse is a small learning step, right?In many way, Visual Studio does the same...

Tags: Microsoft development tools, .NET, tool, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET, PHP

Discussion threads 2008-09-29

ISPs keep their distance from deep packet inspection

ISPs keep their distance from deep packet inspectionIm sure everyone will back away except..Comcast. Anything they can do to line their pockets with more revenue from their "happy" customer-base and make their experience as "COMCASTIC" as possible - they will do. So while Verizon, TWC, and AT&T backaway, Comcast sees...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Internet Service Provider, packet inspection

Discussion threads 2008-09-26

SoftActivity Keylogger (exe)

Secretly record keystrokes, e-mail, chat and programs on your child's computer. Monitor how your computer has been used while you are away. Keep an eye on how your children use their computer online. Activity Logger runs invisibly in background and records to a log file history of visited websites, captures...

Tags: Keylogger, SoftActivity, Computer, Productivity, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2008-09-26

What comes after S S? A truly unified client-cloud platform

What comes after S S? A truly unified client-cloud platformThe Internet is the DataApple and even Google are proving that rich client and cloud are the natural mix. iTunes is a rich client application that talks HTTP to get XML data back to populate the iTunes store. Google's Picasa use...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, HTTP, rich client, Google Picasa, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-25