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R-Wipe & Clean 8.5 (Windows)

R-Wipe & Clean is a complete solution to wipe useless files and keep your computer privacy. Irretrievably deletes private records of your on- and off-line activities, such as temporary internet files, history, cookies, autocomplete forms and passwords, swap files, recently opened documents list, Explorer MRUs, temporary files, etc., traces from...

Tags: Google Inc., R-tools Technology, Microsoft Windows, Google Chrome, Mozilla Corp., R-Wipe & Clean, Irretrievably, Productivity, Web Browsers, Internet

Software downloads 2009-03-11

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Secure Eraser 2.2 SE (Windows)

Applying five well-known and acknowledged deletion standards Secure Eraser deletes your sensitive data irretrievably - and offers an easy to use user interface. Additionally to overwriting sensitive files with random data Secure Eraser supports other acknowledged deletion standards such as US DoD 5220.22-M ECE, German standard and Peter Gutmann standard...

Tags: ASCOMP Software, Microsoft Windows, Quality, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations

Software downloads 2008-09-02

Unintended Consequences and the Future of Maintenance Revenue: SAP Jettisons TomorrowNow

When Shai Agassi called me in early 2005, he asked me a loaded question: How would I respond if SAP decided to take the fight to Oracle by providing third party maintenance for Oracle’s recently acquired PeopleSoft customers? I told him it would be an incredibly aggressive move, but that...

Tags: Revenue, Maintenance, Oracle Corp., Customer, SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Software As A Service (SaaS), Public Relations, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Pondering Apple in a post-Jobs world

Before all of you start sending nastygrams my way about how tasteless and premature this blog post is, let me just say upfront I agonized about whether or not it should even be written in the first place, and my industry colleagues I consulted about it told me that the...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Strategy, Corporate Governance, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Pondering Apple in a post-Jobs world

Before all of you start sending nastygrams my way about how tasteless and premature this blog post is, let me just say upfront I agonized about whether or not it should even be written in the first place, and my industry colleagues I consulted about it told me that the...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Strategy, Corporate Governance, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Mobile Web: Over before it began?

Mowser, a Menlo Park, Calif. startup focused on the mobile Web browsing, is going away, but not before its founder sounded the death knell for the so-called mobile Web. Russell Beattie, founder of Mowser, delivered the news that his startup is disappearing. The usual suspects--lack of funding,...

Tags: Web, Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Channel Management, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-14

3D printers...coming soon to geek homes?

3D printers...coming soon to geek homes?Nice idea.Of course, not everything is made from plastic, and the printer would need some spectacular resolution make all the intergrated circuits in anything electronic.I think nano-bot contruction is more realistic. Huge pool full of contruction fluid could build every we need. Where would all...

Tags: geek home, 3D, movie

Discussion threads 2007-12-20

OpenDocument Foundation's 'woes' have little to do with OpenDoc Format's future

I've been so busy with other stuff that I've only peripherally been paying attention to an ongoing meme on the Internet about how the World Wide Web Consortium's Common Document Format CDF had been identified by the OpenDocument Foundation as a superior document format to the OpenDocument Format that it...

Tags: Drama, OpenDoc, Fact, OpenDocument Format, Disagreement, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-16

Can Microsoft ever stop kernel tampering in Vista?

Can Microsoft ever stop kernel tampering in Vista?Windows defender is supposed to be an antispyware programIt seems lately it only is used by microsoft to get rid of unwanted hacks of their os. It doesn't stop vundo or smit-fraud or anything really. So much for the much heralded free antispyware...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating systems, SECURITY, Like Google, Windows Defender, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, device driver

Discussion threads 2007-08-21

This Microsoft-Novell partnership's not all it's cracked up to be

This Microsoft-Novell partnership's not all it's cracked up to beMicrosoft...... is shelling out considerably more than $40 million.If they can [i]"agree to disagree"[/i] over the patent issue so easily then that is obviously not that central to the deal. If it was core item I would expect considerably more rancour.I'm...

Tags: Programming languages, Free trade, payoff, partnership, Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., open source, Linux

Discussion threads 2006-11-21

Weighing in on the browser as the new OS

Weighing in on the browser as the new OSThe PC is dead! The PC is dead! Yeah … right.Thin client computing has kept on trying to take down the PC, ever since the PC significantly displaced it in the 80s. When all is said and done however, it is generally...

Tags: Web browsers, Channel management, Web 2.0, Thin Client Computing, operating system, Web browser, Web, web app, thin client app, PC

Discussion threads 2006-10-24

Organize and protect your digital photo archives: Construct and maintain a sound digital asset management (DAM) system

In photography, digital asset management DAM refers to the entire process that takes place after the taking of the digital picture, through final output, on to permanent storage. If you take digital photos, you practice some form of DAM. The question is, are you using your time and resources wisely?...

Tags: Digital Photograph, Digital Asset Management, Photograph, Operational Planning, Business Operations

Book chapters 2006-10-11

Confessions of an IT pro: My nine biggest professional blunders

What's the worst mistake you ever made during your IT career? Was it as bad as deleting all the VP's files... irretrievably? How about modifying a payroll program so that nobody received any overtime pay? IT pro Becky Roberts has spent the past 16 years building a solid tech career,...

Tags: Information Technology, Becky Roberts, Professional Development, Strategy, Career, Management

Download resources 2006-07-12

Counter-Forensic Tools: Analysis and Data Recovery

Among the challenges faced by forensic analysts are a range of commercial 'Disk scrubbers', software packages designed to irretrievably erase files and records of computer activity. These counter-forensic tools have been used to eliminate evidence in criminal and civil legal proceedings and represent an area of continuing concern for forensic...

Tags: Data Recovery, Carnegie-Mellon University, File System, Analysis, Tool, Productivity

White papers 2006-05-15

Tug-o-war over Mass Bay Charter: Harbinger of things to come?

While reading yesterday's Boston Globe, I read with great interest a story about the tug-of-war over the Massachusetts Bay Charter. Written in the early 1600's, the Massachusetts Bay Charter came from the throne of England and gave the settlers rights to create their own government. You can't read...

Tags: Massachusetts Bay Charter, OpenDocument Format

Blog posts 2006-04-03

Anti-Apple DRM sentiment rising

Brad King who writes about emerging technology and culture for MIT's Technology Review is speaking out against Apple's digital restrictions [sic] management DRM strategy:...Jobs' deal with the entertainment industry and its DRM practices are bad for consumers....[having to hack DRM to DVD-ize TV recordings] is not what really, really sticks...

Tags: digital-rights management, Brad King

Blog posts 2006-01-05

Passive and active fixes available for .wmf

Watching folks run around "hair on fire" over the .wmf vulnerability, often giving bad advice described by our own George Ou, got me thinking about the process by which we go after all this.There are both open-source and closed-source approaches on display here. The closed source process is passive,...

Tags: closed-source approach, Microsoft Windows Metafile, open source

Blog posts 2006-01-04

Why does ad-supported software inspire such antagonism?

Phil Wainewright "responded" yesterday to my defense of ad-based software, or to be more specific, Microsoft's ruminations regarding the viability of offering free or low cost versions of some of their products using ad sales as a revenue source. I used quotes around "responded" because he delivered his arguments while...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., advertisement, software

Blog posts 2005-11-17

Motorola iTunes phone faces uphill battle against MS media juggernaut

Motorola iTunes phone faces uphill battle against MS media juggernautI see MS having the uphill battleI would seem to me that iTunes already has a huge consumer base, and with profit sharing between the carrier, it would be of greater interest to users, than using an entirely carrier owned music...

Tags: Digital media, Digital music, phone, Microsoft Corp., MS media juggernaut, MS Media, juggernaut, carrier, Verizon Communications Inc., Motorola Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-06-27

Novell: Microsoft 'sucked $60 billion' out of IT

Novell: Microsoft 'sucked $60 billion' out of IT$60 billion is chump change...What about the HUNDREDS of BILIONS of dollars each year MICROSUCKS has defrauded consumers Worldwide out of with defective operating systems??? When are they gonna be held accountable for this fraud???Microsoft "sucked $60 billion" out of IT....and Novell just...

Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Windows NT, Servers, Operating systems, Masochism, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., information technology

Discussion threads 2004-09-13