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Mobile Master (exe)

Mobile Master is a powerful PIM and synchronization tool for mobile phones and iPod. You can synchronize mobile phones addresses and calendar with Outlook (97-2007), Outlook Express, Windows address book, Windows contacts, Lotus Notes, Thunderbird/Sunbird, Palm Desktop, Novell Groupwise Tobit David InfoCenter. You can load, edit and save your phones...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, Jumping Bytes, Mobile Master, Telecom & Utilities, Microsoft Outlook, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-04-03

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HP to jump into smartphones. Why?

HP to jump into smartphones. Why?Been in the smartphone market for a couple yearsActually, HP has been making Windows Mobile Smartphones for a couple of years now with their iPAQ 6000, 500 and 900 series. The 500 series was actually a device that looked more like a phone than a...

Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, Compaq iPAQ, smart phone, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

HP to jump into smartphones. Why?

Hewlett Packard is jumping deeper into the crowded smartphone market, announcing plans for an iPaq smartphone that will be marketed toward consumers to be released first in Europe before the end of the year and later worldwide, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. In...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Smart Phone, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-03

D-Link ships new Xtreme N Dual Band Gigabit Router (DIR-825)

Having pretty much juiced everything they can out of "Draft N" as a buzz term, router manufacturers have turned to "dual band" as the hot concept in 2008. With its new Xtreme N Dual Band Gigabit Router (DIR-825), D-Link adds another one to the list, though...

Tags: D-Link Systems, Router, DIR-825, Routers & Switches, Home Networking, Network Technology, Networking, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-10-02

1080p HDTVs are a harder sell than you might think

Never mind the fact that most people can't tell the difference in sets smaller than 50 inches, never mind that there's not much available content if you don't own a Blu-ray player or a next-gen game console: You have to have 1080p. Or at least that's what you might think...

Tags: HDTV, 1080p, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-09-26

Apple cuts iPhone 3G build plan; Suppliers to take a hit

Apple cuts iPhone 3G build plan; Suppliers to take a hitBack again?Always to be found around here bashing Apple. He's just upset that Microsoft is becoming increasingly irrelevant. (Its value as a company peaked NINE years ago!)Not to mention that Windows Mobile is going down the tubes since developers are...

Tags: Cellular phones, windows mobile, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, 3G, supplier

Discussion threads 2008-09-26

Managed Switch Port Mapping Tool (zip)

The Managed Switch Port Mapping tool is a program that communicates with a managed Internet switch via SNMPv1/v2c and maps the physical port connections to MAC and IP addresses of the attached devices. Shows VLAN assignment, port status, speed, duplex, bytes in/out, connected device interface manufacturer. Spreadsheet format results can...

Tags: Tool, Northwest Performance Software, Managed Switch Port Mapping Tool, Productivity, LANs, Internet, Networking

Software downloads 2008-09-25

Have an idea that can change the world?

Have an idea that can change the world?Trust this contest for what it isJust keep in mind that a company called Apple Computer held their "I Changed the World" contest back in '92 for the same reason. I know of one acknowledged/awarded idea that changed their entire platform to...

Tags: Google Inc., RFID

Discussion threads 2008-09-24

Microsoft vs. Apple: the multi-touch war

Because the Evil Queen of Numbers has kept the Windows branch so quiet about Windows 7, we've been relying entirely on speculation, the blogosphere, leaks and occasionally "that dreaded New Yorker" as Sinofsky would probably say. Multi-touch is the latest craze it seems. Once the technology was...

Tags: Multi-touch, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Voice Technology, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-23

The price of a pink slip

The price of a pink slipdouble-edged swordThis is a double-edged sword. Employers are going to be much more reluctant to hire someone if they know they will have to continue paying them after they fire them. And what's the incentive for a laid-off worker to look for a...

Tags: pink slip, worker

Discussion threads 2008-09-23

Verari: A system builder that claims to be green tech to the core

It seems to have become sort of de rigueur for the server vendors to introduce blades optimized for virtualization and, of course, the last VMware software technology. I wanted to make note this week of one such offering from Verari Systems, not necessarily because it's the only game in town...

Tags: Data Center, Green Technology, Verari Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-21

Google takes Street View mobile; no creepier than desktop version

For some people, Google's Street View is already creepy. Yes, someone actually drove through your neighborhood, snapped some pictures, and put them next to your address on the Internet. I can see where that would bother some people. Now, Google has taken Street View and wrapped it...

Tags: Desktop, Google Inc., Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-09-17

Your capacity will vary

Your capacity will varyA "wordo"I dictated the first draft of the article, and while the software is pretty good about not misspelling words, if it gets the wrong word it can be hard to spot. Like "desk" for "disk". Thanks for noting it.Robinhours of ten?Should it be "powers of ten"?If...

Tags: Storage, RAID

Discussion threads 2008-09-17

RadicalPJ (zip)

RadicalPJ automates research on the french yellow pages. It records all the results and offers the possibility to export. Extremely fast RadicalPJ can import more than 50 000 addresses per hour. It can store more than 3 tera bytes of information. With its many filters and export options you can...

Tags: Web-software, RadicalPJ, Fax

Software downloads 2008-09-17

Your capacity will vary

By an increasing amount Why is your storage capacity always less, sometimes a lot less, then what you see advertised on the box? There is only one rule: you will never get the capacity the vendor advertises. Storage vendors don't mean to be lying. They just...

Tags: Disk, Capacity, Disk Capacity, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-09-16

Semantics in Advertising

Whilst there's quite a tendency these days to stick 'semantic' in front of almost every word in the dictionary and attempt to create a new industry segment, the related markets of advertising and marketing do actually seem ripe for this sort of engagement. Ion Interactive President &...

Tags: Advertisement, Contextual Advertising, COGITO Advertiser, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-09-15

Does interoperability violate the GPL?

Does interoperability violate the GPL?Open source, development method or moral philosophy?I'm not certain that efforts to separate the two will always be successful. Many of the people who are supplying the work that allows reduced staff expenses are probably doing so because they believe to some degree in open...

Tags: Operating systems, Proprietary Developers, GPL, Linux, proprietary software, open source, interoperability, software

Discussion threads 2008-09-12

Sen. to carriers: Why do text messages cost $1,300 per meg?

Sen. to carriers: Why do text messages cost $1,300 per meg?I don't get it[i]If cell phone users don't like it, call the person, it doesn't cost anything extra. [/i]How does this save me from having to pay for the SMS that some marketer sent me, or the one that was...

Tags: Cellular phones, carrier

Discussion threads 2008-09-10

Is iTunes 8 causing BSODs on your Vista system?

Is iTunes 8 causing BSODs on your Vista system?No BSOD but ITFITF - It Takes Forever to load anything now in iT8.Phone syncs okay, but feels like iTunes is running in molasses.....When I open iTunes, I will get a time out error from the iTunes store site most times....Version 7,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital music, Digital media, iTunes 7, Apple iTunes, BSOD, Microsoft Windows Vista, iTunes 8, Vista System

Discussion threads 2008-09-10

Did Microsoft tech play a part in London Stock Exchange meltdown?

Did Microsoft tech play a part in London Stock Exchange meltdown?In light of this news, look at this old Sun commercialhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNqPTOb31S8I like Windows on my desktop but for the back end... no thanks. The reasons aren't worth getting into but for particular services, identity management ActiveDirectory and RDBMS SQL Server,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, Operating systems, UK Economy, London Stock Exchange Plc., tech play, meltdown, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-09