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Zhu3D (zip): Zhu3D is an interactive OpenGL-based mathematical function viewer. You can visualize explicit functions, parametric systems and isosurfaces. The viewer supports zooming, scaling, and rotating as well as filed lighting or surface properties. Special effects are animations, transparency, textures, fog, and motion blur. Equation systems can be solved with a fast...; Tags: KDE-Apps, Zhu3D, Engineering; Software downloads 2008-01-14
Apple office software seems likely: Apple office software seems likelythis site is so slow with newsThis has been reported on every news site out there.. Now ZDnet runs it... like theyre doing something.. How about not pilfering news from other sites? Or better yet..... Do some real journalism.... Cancel my user account... this site sucks...Interesting...; Tags: Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Desktops, KDE-Apps, Apple Inc.; Discussion threads 2005-01-04
Open-source developers focus on accessibility: Open-source developers focus on accessibilityI like the competition between KDE and GNOME.It keeps the inovation flowing. Also notice that this is compatible with what they have done in GNOME, another win. In general, because of open source, these two desktops can run all of the same applications.Outstanding!The folks with diabilities...; Tags: KDE-Apps, Loverock, GNOME, KDE, FUD, open source; Discussion threads 2004-08-25

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Sage to step into the on-demand ring: News started leaking late last week that Sage, the UK's largest software company, will release an on-demand accounting application called SageLive aimed at the SMB market. Details are sketchy beyond a blog post by competitor KashFlow but it seems the company is finally getting serious about the on-demand space after...; Tags: Accounting, On-demand, U.K., Details, Sage 50, Cloud Computing, Smb/Sme, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Databases, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-12-02
Zoho's CloudSQL: a real step forward: Zoho just can't stop churning out software. Today it is launching the Zoho CloudSQL. Put simply, this is the first step to providing a cloud based integration framework that allows developers to pass data between Zoho applications and their own. This is exciting stuff. For the...; Tags: SQL, Cloud, Zoho, Smb/Sme, Databases, Programming Languages, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-12-02

Palm: On track to become a historical footnote: Remember when Palm - maker of the Pilot and Tungsten PDAs and later the Treo smartphone - was the dominant player in the handheld device business? Today, it's a completely different landscape. Apple's iPhone has recently dominated the smartphone space. RIM is making a big push with the launch of...; Tags: Palm Inc., Smart Phone, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-12-01
Robert Scoble: 'No bigger week for Nokia' than this one: Robert Scoble of Scobleizer fame is in Barcelona, Spain for Nokia World, a week where Nokia talks to its top customers, and according to him, there is no bigger week for Nokia than this one: It's their "touchiest week." So what's Nokia got to say, you ask?...; Tags: Nokia Corp., Robert Scoble, Apple Inc., Bluetooth, Smart Phones, GPS, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Wi-Fi, Handhelds, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-12-01
News to know: Mumbai attacks, Microhoo, Holiday shopping, HDTVs: Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jennifer Leggio: Mumbai attack coverage demonstrates good and bad maturation point of social media Social media marketing opportunism during tragedy = fail Oliver Marks: Mumbai Attacks...; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Digital Video, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Open Source, Personal Technology, Internet, Security, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-12-01
The App Store hits a milestone: 10,000 apps: The App Store, the aisle of Apple's iTunes Store devoted to selling software, reached a big milestone some time over the Thanksgiving weekend (here is the U.S.) adding its 10,000th application. That's a far cry from the 552 apps that were available when the App Store launched...; Tags: App, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-11-30
Black Friday Deals at the App(le) Store: App Store Apps has a posted a list of over 50 iPhone application that are currently on sale many are free for Black Friday which begins at midnight ET tonight. A sampling: A Binary Clock Signboard Polyomino Puzzles Code Alpha Football...; Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple iMac, Apple Inc., Desktops, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-11-27
Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Best Apple iPhone, iPod touch apps: Just about everyone seems to have either an iPhone or iPod touch these days and the companion App Store is chock full of over 5,000 great gift ideas. From powerful databases to file storage to music, this list has something for you. Can't decide? Give your special someone...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Database, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iPod Touch, Apple iTunes, US$5, BeatMaker iPhone, Intua, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-11-26
Fastest Apple handheld? iPod touch 2G: A surprising piece of information came out of a TouchArcade interview with Handheld Games Corp's CEO Thomas Fessle. Fessle noted that performance of their 3D TouchSports Tennis game (iTunes, US$5) is noticeably different across models and that it runs best on the new iPod touch second generation: The most...; Tags: Apple iPod, Handheld, Apple Inc., Apple iPod Touch, 2G, TUAW, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-11-25
Cloud definitions and economics: Like Phil Wainewright, I attended the excellent CloudCamp in London several weeks back. Unlike Phil, I walked away with more questions than answers but with my enterprisey antenna on high alert. Two things struck me. Rhys Jones of Royal Bank of Scotland's assertion that while cloud computing...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., James, Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-11-25
App Store developers stuffing the ballot box (again): App Store developers are known for finding creative ways to game Apple's App Store for financial gain. In July 2008 crafty developers discovered that changing the titles of their apps to include all spaces and/or special characters would make them appear at the top of the category...; Tags: Developer, Review, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-11-24
T-Mobile G1 Android gets Opera Mini and visual voicemail: It seems like the gold rush of applications for the T-Mobile G1 see my review has slowed down considerably over the last couple of weeks with just a few apps trickling out here and there. I imagine most of this is because developers are waiting for the commercial functionality when...; Tags: Opera Software, T-Mobile G1, T-Mobile, T-Mobile G1 Android, Fusion Voicemail, Web Browsers, Telecommunications, Internet, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-11-24
Android netbooks? Wouldn't it be loverly?: Once again, fellow blogger, Jason Perlow, has hit on a concept entirely useful to business users, but perhaps even more useful in education. The idea of an Android-based netbook isn't entirely new, Jason hits the nail on the head in his post: What we really should...; Tags: Education, Developer, Google Inc., Novell OpenSuse, Jason Perlow, Android, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-11-24
News to know: Kumo; Zune; Storm; Google: Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Would you 'Kumo' it? Phil Wainewright: When to spend cash in a SaaS business Brian Sommer: Taleo's November to forget ...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Zune, RIM BlackBerry, Nokia Reliability Labs, E-mail, Home Entertainment, Handhelds, Open Source, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Hardware; Blog posts 2008-11-24
IBM Acquires Transitive: Last week, I received a notice from IBM's PR company that IBM was going to acquire Transitive, that clever supplier of operating system and hardware virtualization technology. It's clearly a move to strengthen IBM's claim on being the premier supplier of systems for the next generation datacenter. ...; Tags: IBM Corp., Generation Datacenter, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-11-24
Google adds contact syncing for your Blackberry: A piece of news that somehow didn't get a lot of attention is that the Google Sync utility for Blackberry now does contacts too. This is a huge leap forward for Google Apps -- users now have the ability to do true two-way syncing with their Blackberry for mail,...; Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Garett Rogers; Blog posts 2008-11-23
SAP's Apotheker: 'Happy John Wookey joined us'; Business hasn't gotten worse: SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker said Friday that John Wookey, a former Oracle executive, is "a great software man" who will help the enterprise software giant push its software as a service meets on-premise applications strategy. Separately, Apotheker noted that business hasn't gotten worse from the outlook the company gave on...; Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-11-21