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Microsoft looks beyond Windows at hardware confab

Microsoft looks beyond Windows at hardware confabMessage has been deleted.Rename AppropriateWinHELL would more accurately reflect most customer experiences.Microsoft looks beyond Windows at hardware confabThere sure is a lot coming out of Microsoft. No other software company could pull off such a tremendous amount of functionality. Vista, Office, Longhorn...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Windows IS, Microsoft Corp., MICROSOFT LOOKS, intelligent people, Microsoft Windows Vista, hardware, operating system

Discussion threads 2006-05-22

Google-Yahoo-Microsft. Net and DRM neutrality, Samsung Q1 and more...

Google-Yahoo-Microsft. Net and DRM neutrality, Samsung Q1 and more...microsoft-yahoo bondingMicrosoft and yahoo seem to see Google in a different light these days.(http://www.arcon5.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=186) and there seems to be much talk about this is recent news (http://www.arcon5.com/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=10)Ultramobile PC Video Review[url=http://libsyn.com/media/jkontherun/jkOnTheRun_Audio_Edition_14.wmv]Here[/url] is a video review of the TabletKiosk's eo v7110 Ultramobile PC taken...

Tags: Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Blogging, Samsung Q1, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., digital-rights management, ultramobile PC, Ultramobile PC Video Review, intelligent people, url=http://libsyn.com/media/jkontherun/jkOnTheRun_Audio_Edition_, blog entry, blog

Discussion threads 2006-05-06

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Browser rivals to register official complaints about Microsoft's ballot screen proposal

Opera"Browser rivals to register official complaints about Microsoft's ballot screen proposal". . . and by "browser rivals" you really mean Opera, who has been whimpering and whining the whole time. A browser that barely appears on anybody's charts, but still retains a cult following.I think Microsoft is improving with IE7...

Tags: Web browsers, ballot screen, Web browser, Opera Software ASA, ballot screen proposal, Microsoft Corp., official complaint

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Water, water everywhere. So why not use it to create steam?

Here is a lesson on how little we can put in the blog...and still call it our own. Could you write less and still get paid ???sheshEver heard of Nuclear powered ships? They heat water that flashes into steam and thus turns the turbines.This short article.I think the...

Tags: Fuel cells, hydrogen, steam

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Corner of Bar vs Corner of Library: The Twitter Conundrum

On the eve of a couple of international Enterprise 2.0 Conferences, I'm revisiting in this post a core concept about the fundamental dichotomy of behavioral patterns around marketing people and business operations people. As a general rule the people running the strategy and...

Tags: Twitter Inc., Marketing Research, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-01

Spooty Attachment Extractor 2.30 (Windows)

Spooty Attachment Extractor is a program which bulk extracts attachments from e-mails stored in Outlook Express mailboxes. It saves you the hassle of having to open every e-mail and save the attachments manually. It is ideal for people who are e-mailed attachments from friends or a mailing list and want...

Tags: Mailbox, Microsoft Windows, Attachment, Spootyware, Spooty Attachment Extractor, E-mail, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, Online Communications, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software

Software downloads 2009-10-30

Green parking lots?

permeable parkingWhen I was a kid in the country we called permeable road, drive, and parking surfaces "gravel." Some poor people in the towns and cities used this too. :)This is an IT tech site, Harry.Get a job.Yes, a tech site for intelligent people that understand technology.Why...

Tags: IT Tech

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Jive hits SBS 4: SharePoint in Rear View Mirror

Hate to say it, but they to willbe crushed by MS. That is the fate of small developers building on the Windows/Office platform.Is this a blog, or an advertisement? seriously....Re: Hate to say it, but they to willAgree, very possible. I wish there were more ground up development...

Tags: Content management, Groupware, Collaboration, Enterprise software, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SharePoint

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Jive hits SBS 4: SharePoint in Rear View Mirror

After last week's announcement of SharePoint 2010 by Microsoft, with a scheduled arrival date of second quarter 2010, Jive Software announced their 'Social Business Software 4' yesterday at their San Francisco 'Jiveworld' event. It was interesting to contrast the huge Vegas Microsoft unveiling...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Mobile, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Collaboration, Groupware, Content Management, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-28

iPhone app review: Mantis Bible Study

boo!if i wanted religion, i would have gone to my nearest parish. cmon zdnet, this is a business tech site, not jesus's facebookWhy is software excluded from'tech' just because it happens to be for religious purposes? Are you saying that software made by, dare I say it, religious people...

Tags: Bible

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

Windows 7: An impressive upgrade

Windows 7 review:Windows 7 review: 'New' OS is just Vista with small changesPerformance enhancements"We have already determined that W7 won't make your computer run any faster. And if you are upgrading from XP, it might run slightly slower, just as with Vista. ......But it's not really anything new. We hate...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, impressive upgrade, operating system, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora Linux updates prepped as Win7 release nears

another nail in M$ coffinThe upcomming failure of windoze 7 and M$ going under will not leave the users exposed.Linux is here to save the day!Wrong Answerhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/windows-7-breaks-amazon-uk-pre-order-volume-record-ousts-harry/DesperationGuess it shows how desperate Vista users are to get onto Win7Windows 7 a failure?Didn't it already surpass Linux's market share? BEFORE it's GA?Failure...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, SuSE, Linux, Fedora Project, Microsoft Corp., Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Net Neutrality: Hit satire coming to a theatre near you

wow bravo again encore bravowhat what a introduction ... Come on Doug bring some more .... If this is the type of blog that you are planing ill by hook like a addict .... give us more dammit .Goverment should nationalize the infrastructure...

Tags: Net Neutrality

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Oracle OpenWorld 2009 - Social CRM Technology Rears an Actual Head

I am almost always in awe of Oracle OpenWorld.  The scope of this conference is spectacular. Can you imagine an event that the attendance is down to 37,000 attendees?  Actually, that puts me in awe of their event planners more than even the event. How in the name of whoever...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., CRM, Anthony Lye, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Netgear slammed for doing the right thing

So Welte is a 30-something who thinks his $hit doesn't stink...big deal.Wow..."Harald Welte has more power than I do, power he has earned over many years with good works."Power? Is that something that makes him special? I doubt it. Is power something that impresses you Dana? I feel sorry for...

Tags: Chipsets, Routers & switches, Semiconductors, Network technology, Operating systems, Netgear Inc., open source, Linux, router, GPL, chipset, Torvalds

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

(NASA spacecraft crashes into the moon)

Total Waste of MaterialLets see, we explode a bomb and crash a satellite into the moon to try and confirm whether or not water is on it. And for what purpose? To make another return trip to the moon? To build space colonies? We don't have...

Tags: spacecraft, NASA, Darwin

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

Ubicomp 2009 and the fusion of our digital and physical worlds

Recently, I used my newly downloaded Zipcar app on my iPhone to unlock and honk my booked vehicle from several yards away. It was more novel than useful, but a tall tale example of the countless invisible interactions we're having with sensing, inferring, and data transferring machines every day. It's...

Tags: Ubiquitous Computing, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-10-09

I've joined the Dachis Group

As the worlds of internal enterprise, small, medium sized businesses and partner collaboration networks evolve, an increasing level of intersection with the social media world - the conversation with end users - is inevitable. The implications of this are enormous. While many people can grasp the immediate...

Tags: Social Media, Vision, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-01

A List: CRM(ish) Reading Worth it.

Sorry to have dropped off the radar for awhile. I was on the road.  First in Chicago having facilitated a customer event with Sword Ciboodle customers at the Union League Club - one that included a presentation by Brian Carey of Sears on what Sears is doing to improve the...

Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Social Media, Customer, CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-09-28

Video: Wisdom of crowds basics

Crowds are not always wiseMichael, you should also consider cases in which crowds are not only unwise but make wildly deluded judgments. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_CrowdsShort link: http://is.gd/3H2yE--Frank ScavoStupidity of crowdsFrank,Totally agree with you. The key is creating conditions where one can harness the wisdom of crowds rather than fall prey to...

Tags: video, Frank Scavo

Discussion threads 2009-09-26