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- This robot snake wants to dance with you
- According to a short article in The Engineer Online, a two-meter high robotic snake will be shown in April 2008 at the London Science Museum. This vertical snake has been designed as an interactive sculpture. It uses sensors to react to what are doing its viewers and 'dances' with them....
- Tags: Intention, Robotics, Sensor, World First, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-02
- On the bleeding edge of platform-as-a-service
- At April's SaaScon show, Salesforce.com's head of platform development Steve Fisher demonstrated a vacation booking application he'd built with a colleague in a weekend using the since renamed as Force.com platform. As with all demonstrations, of course, what made it all look so easy was the preparation that had gone...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Intention, Application, Platform, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
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- Survey: 45% of IT departments will move to Windows 7; 43% refuse to migrate off Windows XP
- Survey: 45% of IT departments will move to Windows 7; 43% refuse to migrate off Windows XPPenny wise, pound foolish.XP is unsecurable. Enterprise AV, all the tools, etc, it is fundamentally broken. All these enterprises deal with constant and unrelenting security threats. It really has no place...
- Tags: Operating systems, survey, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-07-01
- Will Stallman C# warning fall flat?
- Will Stallman C# warning fall flat?Is this any different than Java?There are positive reasons to have someone hold the patent, mainly, that there is only one captain of the ship. I support open source, but the hitorical problem with it and UNIX has been forking. Some propeller head messes with...
- Tags: .NET, Programming languages, C#, Stallman C#, Stallman, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-30
- myManuals 1.1 (Mac)
- myManual is made for creating all kinds of manuals. It's for teacher wishing to have more attractive teaching aids, trainer dreaming of interesting training manuals with screenshots and software developers writing gorgeous user manuals. With myManuals you succeed in crafting attractive manuals and templates in no time. You are free...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Manual, MOApp, myManual, CSS, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2009-06-26
- Cybercrime doesn't pay: well it does, and very well
- A large part of me is worried about writing this post because in some way, I could be considered as promoting the idea or inciting people to commit cybercrime. Well, that's not my intention as such - instead I'm taking a more back seat approach to denounce why people commit...
- Tags: Cybercrime, Web Site, Hacker, Cybersecurity, Attack, Security Industry, Web Site Development, Government, Phishing, Web Technology, Security, Hacking, Internet, Spam And Phishing, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Microsoft preps PC makers for Windows 7 Upgrade launch
- Microsoft preps PC makers for Windows 7 Upgrade launchGet Vista, Wipe Entire Machine, Put On Windows 7I've never had a good experience doing an upgrade, it's better to just wipe completely and install the new OS from scratch.I agree but....I upgraded my Vista Ultimate desktop to the Windows 7 Ultimate...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, OEM, Microsoft Windows Vista, bloatware, Dell Computer Corp., clean install, Microsoft Windows, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-22
- iChatOnLogin.app 1.10 (Mac)
- iChatOnLoginlogs you into your iChat accounts ( AIM/Bonjour/Jabber ) when you login. Why not start iChat instead ? You can, but then you have iChat.app running, which I don't want to have running while not chatting. It's intention is to have a small application on login startup and log you...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple iChat, Jinx.de, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-06-22
- Sorry, the Help Desk Doesn't Cover That.
- Dion Hinchcliffe has another good post up, this time on Cloud vs open source: there's a third dimension I'd like to expand on, and that's user support. After all the strategic planning is done, the plumbing hooked up and sawdust swept up, the...
- Tags: Environment, Dion Hinchcliffe, Dion, Help Desk, Call Centers, It Operations, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-06-14
- Microsoft Money Just Wants to Be Free
- Microsoft is abandoning its personal finance software, Microsoft Money, after over 16 years of development and marketing. But why abandon perfectly good software when it could be released to the community as an Open Source project? This week, Microsoft announced its...
- Tags: Be Free, Microsoft Money, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Personal Finance, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- Microsoft proposes launching an IE-free Windows 7 'E' in Europe
- Microsoft is stepping up its campaign to try to appease European Commission EC regulators who are mulling possible remedies in the ongoing Opera-Microsoft browser-bundling case in the European Union. According to News.com, Microsoft's newest proposal is to offer a version of Windows 7 which strips out Internet...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, European Union, Softies, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Want to get more efficient? Tideway helps you figure out where to start.
- Last week, one of the senior Cisco Systems executives in charge of the company's vast partner network made much out of how much Cisco equipment installed out at existing customer sites (up to $9 billion worth) would reach end of life during its next fiscal year. Clearly,...
- Tags: Data Center, Tideway Systems, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- SAP's John Wookey: the task ahead
- Phil Wainewright has provided a first take on John Wookey, SAP executive VP's saas strategy session at SIIA Europe. As Wookey outlined the strategy, I could not help but feel 'about time.' SAP has been dancing around the whole saas/on-demand topic for some time. On the one hand it came...
- Tags: On-demand, SAP AG, Frictionless Commerce, Phil Wainewright, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- 2010 Mercury Milan Hybrid
- Photo gallery:2010 Mercury Milan HybridA new technology for production cars in 1997, gas-electric hybrid drivetrains have had only 12 years to mature, yet they've been subject to serious scrutiny and plenty of backlash. The system in the 2010 Mercury Milan Hybrid should silence the critics. In this application, hybrid technology...
- Tags: Milan Hybrid, Mercury Milan, car, Mercury
- Product reviews 2009-06-09
- Court hears NASA hacker 'at risk of psychosis'
- A judicial review of Gary McKinnon's extradition to the U.S. has begun in the high court in London, with questions of his health being raised. Lawyers acting for Gary McKinnon say the self-confessed Nasa hacker runs the risk of becoming psychotic and suicidal if his extradition to the U.S....
- Tags: U.S., Risk, NASA, Home Secretary, U.K., Computer, Gary McKinnon, Productivity, Strategy, Management, security, hacker, Tom Espiner ZDNet UK
- News items 2009-06-09
- The PC replacement cycle: Will Windows 7 light the fuse?
- The PC replacement cycle: Will Windows 7 light the fuse?Are your figures right?You seem to be suggesting that in 2009 300 million PC will be converting to or installed with Vista. This seems a little on the high side.Windows 7 will inevitably have an impact long term how long corporates...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Desktops, Microsoft Windows 7, PC-replacement cycle, PC-replacement, fuse, PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-06-08
- iVolume 3.1.5 (Mac)
- Tired of constantly adjusting your music's volume? iVolume ensures that all your songs play at the same volume level. iVolume calculates the volume perceived by the human ear for each song of your iTunes music collection. Thereby iVolume gets the most out of the approved Replay Gain algorithm and adjusts...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Song, Manfred Schwind, iVolume, Engineering, Digital Music, Digital Media, Processors, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-06-07
- iVolume 3.1.5 (Windows)
- Tired of constantly adjusting your music's volume? iVolume ensures that all your songs play at the same volume level. iVolume calculates the volume perceived by the human ear for each song of your iTunes music collection. Thereby iVolume gets the most out of the approved Replay Gain algorithm and adjusts...
- Tags: Song, Microsoft Windows, Multiprocessor, Adjustment, Manfred Schwind, iVolume, Engineering, Digital Music, Digital Media, Processors, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-06-07
- Why Windows 7's netbook success isn't a slam-dunk
- Why Windows 7's netbook success isn't a slam-dunkMy prediction is that Linux will gain a critical mass in netbooks, forcing MS to keep prices at or below the $15 range, and also eventually increase acceptable screen sizes and other restricted features. The Google brand could be something that will finally...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, netbook, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-02
- Google to sell e-books by end of 2009; what will Amazon do?
- Amazon, get ready: Google's throwing its hat into the e-book ring. Google has indicated its intent to introduce a program by that would enable publishers to sell digital versions of their newest books direct to consumers through Google, according to a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., E-books, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
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