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lget (xpi)

Allows you to initiate a direct download of a file given a URL. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Download, J. Carlos Navea

Software downloads 2008-01-22

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A place for our stuff

A place for our stuffI saw him live in '73,It was the nearest I have got to ROFLOL.RE: A place for our stuffIrony is while people were laughing at his jokes, they were really laughing at their own ignorance. I enjoyed George Carlin's no bullsh!t delivery. Tell the truth and...

Tags: George Carlin, Carlos Mencia

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

China says it's incapable of hacking Reps' computers

The folks who brought you the Great Firewall of China and the Golden Shield are wholly incapable of breaking into the cyber-fortress that is the U.S. House of Representatives. So they say. Accused by U.S. Reps Frank Wolf (R-Va.) and Chris Smith (R-NJ) of hacking into their...

Tags: U.S., China, Computer, Productivity, Hacking, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-12

CarLOS (exe)

Many attempts have been made at creating a useful front end for use in a car. Many have tried but have never really gotten it right. Well I think I did with a shiny interface, useful features and great compatibility with devices you want to work in your car like...

Tags: Car, Trevasoft, GPS, Digital Music, Handhelds, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-06-05

Did Chinese copy unattended U.S. laptop?

Update: This article was corrected to indicate that the laptop in question was government owned and didn't belong to Commerce Sec. Carlos M. Gutierrez, who doesn't carry a laptop. News flash for high-ranking government officials visiting China: You just don't leave your laptop or PDA unattended –...

Tags: Associated Press, Beijing, Laptop Computer, PDAs, Government, Notebooks, Handhelds, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-30

China's cyber-militia behind U.S. blackouts?

Chinese hackers may have been behind power blackouts in Florida and the Northeast, according to a report in the National Journal. The report, penned by Shane Harris for the National Journal, lays out a lengthy case that China has deployed hackers working unofficially and officially for the...

Tags: U.S., China, Blackout, Hacker, Intelligence Official, Takeaway, Government, Hacking, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-30

Mobile 2.0 conference debuting in Europe on July 4th

Rudy De Waele sent me a message a couple of days ago announcing that the is expanding to Europe and the Mobile 2.0 Europe Conference is coming to Barcelona, Spain on July 4th this year. This is a one day event focusing on the Mobile Web and Disruptive Mobile...

Tags: Mobile, Conference, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-27

Nanorobots to improve health care

Using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases is not a new idea check here or there. Of course, nanorobots floating inside our bodies to improve our health are still years away. However, an international team of American and Australian researchers is developing a nanorobot hardware architecture for medical defense...

Tags: Software, 3D, Protein, Biomedical, Health Care, Hardware Architecture, Healthcare, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-19

SaaSplaza opens European SaaS marketplace

SaaSplaza opens European SaaS marketplaceJose CarlosPhill is it saasplaza what we called ASP some years ago? For what I understand they give a platform for saas development companies host their applications in Saasplaza.Thanks you http://softwareyservicio.wordpress.comIt's a rangeSaaSplaza offers a range of hosting options, from ASP to full multitenancy, depending on...

Tags: Scripting languages, Phill, SaaSplaza, European SaaS, Microsoft ASP

Discussion threads 2008-05-09

IT politics killed White House email project

Data archiving in the White House is a serious business mandated by the Presidential Records Act of 1978, which was passed following the Watergate scandal. The Act requires the White House to maintain an historical archive of its activities, policies, and decisions. Despite...

Tags: Information Technology, White House, Act, E-mail, Online Communications, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-05-06

UPDATE: $3 billion Census Bureau IT failure

The Census Bureau's $600 million custom-handheld initiative has finally been scrapped. The upshot: the 2010 census will now cost $3 billion more than planned. Guess those pesky handheld computers are a bit too complicated, so it's back to paper and pencil methods.       ...

Tags: Information Technology, Translation, Census Bureau, Strategy, Handhelds, Management, Hardware, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-04-05

US Census: The future is paper

So it's not just elections. Seems that paper is the way to go for the national Census, as well. A $600 million contract to Harris Corp. to design and create handheld computers for the census takers is now just yet another government IT fiasco, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, plans to...

Tags: Harris Corp., Government, Handhelds, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-04-04

World's biggest compute job... to be done by pen and paper

The US Census Bureau, which is charged with counting and analyzing the nation's 300 million residents in 2010, has just admitted that its technology is not ready for the job. And what was originally touted to be the first "high-tech count in the nation's history" will still be a highly...

Tags: Job, CNBC, Bureau, Temporary Worker, Handheld Computer, Computer, Handhelds, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-04-03

Billion-dollar IT failure at Census Bureau

  The US Census Bureau faces cost overruns up to $2 billion on an IT initiative replacing paper-based data collection methods with specialized handheld devices for the upcoming 2010 census. The Bureau has not implemented longstanding Government Accountability Office GAO recommendations and may therefore be forced to...

Tags: Harris Corp., Government Accountability Office, Census Bureau, Bureau, Handhelds, Hardware, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-03-20

Gates no longer the richest man thanks to Yahoo bid

The Forbes list of richest people is out and the big news is that Bill Gates is no longer the richest man. He's not even No. 2 anymore because of Wall Street's displeasure with Microsoft's bid for Yahoo. The richest folks are as follows (Techmeme, Forbes overview,...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Forbes, Folk, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Construction, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-06

White House official details email hole

The White House was running a "primitive" email archiving system with a high risk of losing data, a computer expert who worked on the system told the House Oversight Committee. In a memo to committee members PDF, Congressional staffers detailed a mind-boggling scenario that smacks of willful violation of...

Tags: White House, E-mail Archiving, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-02-27

Electric dreams for Tesla Motors

After delays and technical snags, Tesla Motors is getting its first car on the road. At company headquarters in San Carlos, Calif., CEO Ze'ev Drori and Chairman Elon Musk tell CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos about some of Tesla's celebrity customers, as well as future, cheaper models coming in the next...

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Videos 2008-02-06

Southern California Edison: Why not keep your options open?

I will be the first to admit that I am not a rocket scientist. But I like to think that makes me more like most of the people who read this blog than the people that I interview for this blog. Controversy, of course, makes for good...

Tags: Utility, Hydrogen, Southern California Edison, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-01-30

Leopard compatibility ups and downs

Leopard compatibility ups and downsYou can excuse Apple for OS9 -> OS X...or Microsoft for 98 -> XP -> Vista which were all fairly major OS upgrades with fairly major changes to underlying parts of the OS (or, in the case of OS9 -> OS X and 98 -> XP,...

Tags: Printers, printer, Leopard, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-12-03

With Peru sale, is OLPC on the right track?

Things are looking up for One Laptop Per Child. After a boffo lauch to the Give 1 Get 1 program, OLPC has landed an order from Peru for 260,000 units of the XO laptop, The Boston Globe reports. The order had been expected for some time but...

Tags: Peru, One Laptop Per Child Project, Negroponte, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-12-03