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The Semantic Enterprise

The video above by Manu Sporny of Digital Bazaar provides a clear and simple overview of the semantic web for 'newbies', explaining the limitations of the internet in its current incarnation and the potential of next generation intelligent agent machines to help us find information. While the...

Tags: Environment, Information Context, Semantic Web, Internet, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-04

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A Better Finder Rename 8.41 (Mac)

A Better Finder Rename is the most complete renaming solution available on the market today. That's why, since 1996, thousands of hobbyists, professionals and businesses depend on A Better Finder Rename to organize and maintain files. A Better Finder Rename's user interface supports complex renaming tasks without sacrificing ease and...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, File, Small And Medium Business, Better Finder Rename, Instant Preview Feature, Smb/Sme

Software downloads 2009-11-19

Salesforce Chatter: Facebook for the Enterprise

Salesforce is announcing today a Salesforce Chatter, an enteprise collaboration application akin to Facebook. The move puts SalesForce in competition with offerings from other providers, including IBM Lotus. Here's what's being delivered. Features: Profiles: Just like profiles on popular consumer-oriented social networking sites, Salesforce Chatter profiles include...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, Platform, App, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Evernote Web Clipper 3.0.0.65223 (Windows)

Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere. This extension provides a button and context menus to easily add a selection or an entire page to Evernote.

Tags: EverNote, Evernote Web, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-18

Internet Governance Forum goes to Egypt and hits a few snags

Yeah, leave it to the Arab countries to defend freedom.ntAllow the UN to practice "Governance" over the Internet?I will never understand the sort of cognitive disconnect required in order to think that it's a sane idea to let the world's premier body of corruption, mostly run by the world's political...

Tags: Internet Governance, Internet Governance Forum, Totalitarianism, Article 29, Human Rights, Universal Declaration, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Understanding Enterprise 2.0 Tolerances & Scale

We're at an interesting intersection in the collaboration world where projects both large and small tend to be discussed with the same terms. This can be very confusing to the lay person since it's hard to know what sort of scale is being described. ...

Tags: Environment, Enterprise 2.0, Small And Medium Business Need, European Enterprise 2.0 Scene, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-14

Counting vulnerabilities is pointless

Suddenly it doesn't matter any more? Vulnerability count is an indication of software qualityIt goes directly to the process the vendor went through to root out vulnerabilities before shipping. At least if you compare products with the same general purpose and which receives the same amount of scrutiny.Time to fix...

Tags: Web browsers, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Mozilla Firefox, vulnerability, Microsoft Internet Explorer, malware, risk period

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

Pre-Copenhagen climate talks end in Barcelona

Who could he be talking about?How about the 57% of people in America who don't buy carbon emissions causing global warming?Looks like the other "vested interests" needs to step up their re-education regime, er, I mean, need to do more "raising awareness."Lies told to control populationOh yeah, look at Al...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Kevin Rudd

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Live Webcast: LCC International on 3 reasons to consider Google Apps

At LCC International, a 1,200 employee wireless engineering company, VP of IT, John Buckholz, has managed cc: Mail, IBM Notes/Domino and Microsoft Exchange systems in his career. But his most recent choice for messaging and collaboration is Google Apps. Why? LCC International saved 60% over bare-bones alternatives and he and...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Webcast, Information Technology, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Management

Webcasts 2009-11-06

Samsung HZ15W

The Samsung HZ15W is a camera that looks good on paper but doesn't live up to the specs. The main attraction is the 24mm-equivalent wide-angle lens with 10x zoom, which is certainly a plus in a camera this size, giving you a lot of shooting flexibility for less than $280....

Tags: Samsung HZ15W, camera, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Product reviews 2009-11-05

New Epic 3D game engine toolset: Fabulous, fun, and free!

Creation of content for UT3, GoW, etcUnforunately this new toolset doesn't allow creation of context for existing UE3 engine games, like UT3 and GoW. There is information regarding this on Epic's forums.Not so fabulous and fun anymore. Epic FAIL, Epic.Um, dude......that's harsh. They gave away the whole damn...

Tags: Games, EPIC, game

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

LivePVR Professional Call & Meeting Recorder (Mobile)

LivePVR Professional Recorder Windows Mobile Professional LivePVR Professional is a application which can automatically and silently record Phone calls, Meeting notes,Voice Mail, Audio notes in the background and save them organized in folders named with the respective information. Forexample, for Phone Calls and Voice Mail messages, the file names will...

Tags: Phone, Caller ID, Recorder, Mobile, File, Desktop Application, Files

Software downloads 2009-11-01

Needles and haystacks: Balancing precision and recall

Attivio's Sid Probstein says for traditional search, the conventional model is to return many results to get high recall; somewhere in there are the right answers. But what if you want a more precise answer? Commentary - These terms are bandied about in most every...

Tags: Recall, Pregnancy, Attivio, Spam Email, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, search, Sid Probstein Attivio, Special to ZDNet, Sid Probstein Attivio, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-29

Ubuntu Karmic Koala launches to mixed reviews

Not released yetKarmic koala hasn't been officially released yet and the bug that this article was talking about has been fixed for the official releaseMultiple hard drives issue already fixedThe problem only affected the 64-bit version of the release candidate, and it has apparently been fixed for the final release.wowwow,...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Karmic Koala, Dana

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

40 years ago the Internet was born - now it devalues everything it touches

you are devaluing your proffesionshame on you.internet is one of the greatest invention in human history.Establishing walled islands on the InternetThe Internet is like a huge river, or better yet, sea, that allows users to move from small island to small island web application, to find the things they care...

Tags: Web site development, e-reader software, e-reader, Internet, Web site

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

DoorStop X Security Suite 2.3 (Mac)

An integrated, comprehensive approach to securing your Macintosh on the Internet. Learn. Protect. Understand. Learn. The new electronic edition of "Internet Security for Your Macintosh" is accessible from all products in the Suite. Whether you read it section-by-section or look up information on specific services or access attempts as you...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Open Door Networks, Firewall Advisor, Internet, Desktops, Security, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-26

So about this SIF thing

The Systems Interoperability Framework SIF is something that people in ed tech talk a lot about and yet few understand its potential, its implications, and its hurdles. It just happens to be on my mind since we're about to undertake some pretty big SIF integration projects and I'm working...

Tags: System Interoperability, Systems Interoperability Framework, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-10-23

Directory Lister Pro 1.21 (Windows)

Directory Lister Pro allows you to create and then save, print or send via e-mail listings of files from selected directories on hard disks, CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs, floppy, USB storages and network shares. Listing can be in HTML, text or CSV format for easy import to Excel. You can print standard...

Tags: File, KRKsoft, Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-10-23

Archivarius 3000 4.25 (Windows)

Archivarius 3000 is a full-featured application to search documents and e-mail on computer, local network and removable drives (CD, DVD and others). The program will extract and save full information about documents, which allows users to search and overview documents even if they're not physically accessible.Key features include:Instant full-text search...

Tags: Network, CD, Microsoft Windows, Likasoft, Archivarius 3000, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2009-10-21

TreeSize Personal 5.3.1 (Windows)

TreeSize Personal is a powerful and flexible harddisk space manager. Find out which folders are the largest on your drives and recover megabytes on them. TreeSize Personal shows you the size, allocated and wasted space, the number of files, 3D bar and pie charts, the last access date, the file...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, JAM Software, TreeSize Personal

Software downloads 2009-10-18