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Airship 1.3 (Windows)

Imagine empowering your child with the ability to explore the World Wide Web through a fun, safe, 100% secure portal. Imagine access to kid-friendly websites, automatic content scanning for objectionable words, and access to filtered e-mail. Imagine the feeling of security in knowing your child can explore the Internet with...

Tags: Child, Microsoft Windows, Kid Innovation, Airship, Portals, Web Technology, Internet

Software downloads 2009-11-06

Razzul 1.3 (Windows)

Razzul provides a safe, fun educational online experience for kids to explore the internet. Using Razzul, children can go to kid-friendly Internet sites in a wide variety of categories, including toys, sports, educational sites, and library and story sites. They can also draw, color, play games and engage in other...

Tags: Children, Microsoft Windows, Kid Innovation, Razzul, Internet, Productivity, Web Site Development

Software downloads 2009-11-03

Additional Resources

Spring Design sues Barnes & Noble over Alex, Nook

I kind of want to see barnes and noble win this one...The whole concept of a sliding image preview isn't exactly revolutionary, and it does look decidedly different from the bulky, 2003-esque block interface of the alex.On a personal note, I think the alex looks like some children's toy out...

Tags: Sales channel, E-books, NDA, Barnes & Noble Inc., B&N, credit card, patent, Nook, password

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Google's Schmidt: Washington politics "not very interesting"

Google CEO Eric Schmidt, in Washington this week as a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, popped into The Washington Post to chat with reporters and editors about a number of topics, including an FCC vote on net neutrality. Google's name has...

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Washington, Net Neutrality, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-23

Designers build portfolios, maybe land jobs at 99 Designs

Culture of cheap cr@p...at least one designer landed a few bucks for his work and 3) other designers have another design for the portfolio.It's exploitation as far as I'm concerned. Graphic design ... at least good graphic design ... is not a hobby some kid does when he runs out...

Tags: Desktop publishing, Branding, job

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

Inside Curve: Lane Bryant Scores Plus Plus

Who doesn't love style and fashion?  Well, I suppose I don't love fashion, judging from my incredibly poor clothing selection skills (I rely 100% on my wife, who has mad skills when it comes to picking out good looking clothes) but I am in love with style. I love to...

Tags: Apparel, Exclusion, Community, Brand, Women, Network, American Eagle, Bebe, Curve, Jay, Kate Moss, Gender And Diversity, Social Networking, Branding, Human Resources, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-08-03

FCC's more proactive stance: Should we cheer or worry?

FCC's more proactive stance: Should we cheer or worry?Regulation is not micromanagement"At some point, the FCC meddles in free markets. It will micromanage."Clearly you think more about business than you do about government. Or maybe you're just conservative, politically, and ideological to a fault.This is about the public's interest...

Tags: Federal government, FCC, proactive stance

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

Apple celebrates App Store birthday on 11 July, 56,000 apps in 1 year

Apple celebrates App Store birthday on 11 July, 56,000 apps in 1 yearApple celebrates App Store birthday on 11 July, 56,000 apps in 1 year56,000 apps, and 49,000 of them are tip calculators or flash light apps :PA great game app for killing time is called "Flight Control". Keeping...

Tags: Games, Strategy, Telecom & Utilities, App Store, Apple Inc., game

Discussion threads 2009-07-07

Can open source police open source?

Can open source police open source?we need an international lawthat will allow the governments to go afer the GPL violators and use the proceeds to reimburse the authors.*sigh*There's plenty of people who are "here today, gone tomorrow" ripping off all sorts of code, be it open source or proprietary, not...

Tags: UNIX, GPL, open source, BSD

Discussion threads 2009-06-23

Google Street View images can now be "deleted"

Google Street View images can now be "deleted"Street view should be bannedShould be banned in all city and residental locations. I have not found the service useful at all and that to me just leaves the service as a better tool for evil then good... Places like Iran must be...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Street View, Google Street View Image, Street View

Discussion threads 2009-06-22

Invisible Linux

Invisible LinuxLinux on the mobile "desktop"Many/most of the major smartphone/mobile OSes are based on Linix: Android, WebOS, LiMo, Moblin, Maemo, Ubuntu, .... The iPhone OS is based on FreeBSD, a cousin of Linux.Thus, Linux/*nix is already entering the "desktop" of the average user, through the use of mobile devices. And,...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Invisible Linux

Discussion threads 2009-06-08

Microsoft to show off new search: Will it matter?

Microsoft to show off new search: Will it matter?yeah....we're just talking about search engines, not about having a frenzied commitment against a single company taking over your life.Just a search discussion. Deep breaths. Not a Vista thread. There you go. Clueless kid!Do you even know what...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, SEARCH, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-05-20

The two trends that are conspiring against Microsoft

The two trends that are conspiring against MicrosoftOpen Source softwareOpen Source software that frees a business from the grasp of licenses and enables them to branch out.Good article......I largely agree with the points made.MS have lost direction a bit and need to focus again.Neither trend is sustainableSmartphones are an awkward...

Tags: Smart phones, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-04

Dell targets SMBs with tiered-IT services

Dell today announced a three-tier service offering targeted at small and medium-sized businesses, which the company sees as one of the sweet spots for growth in a sluggish economy. Statement Small and medium sized businesses are often overlooked as headlines focus on things like data center virtualization,...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Small And Medium Business, Smb/Sme, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-14

Apple's iPhone 3.0 event - beyond the live blog

Apple's iPhone 3.0 event - beyond the live blogNo Background apps...? Now they get to release the iPhone 4.0 service pack...with a new innovation... Multitasking! WOW. You mean like Windows Mobile and Blackberry have had forever? Just like the cut and paste nonsense.... Nice Service Pack...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Blogging, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3.0, live blog, Apple iPhone 3.0 event, MMS, blog

Discussion threads 2009-03-17

iTunes gift cards cracked and selling for 1.3 cents on the dollar

iTunes gift cards cracked and selling for 1.3 cents on the dollarHaha!!Apple security... what a joke. :)I hope this ends with the studios pulling support from iTunesThat would be [b]HILARIOUS!!![/b] :)Apple should stop using M$ softwareand adopt FOSS.Apple paid M$ for the generator and now the hackers are having a...

Tags: Digital music, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, CORPS, Apple Inc., illegal activity, Apple iTunes, iTunes Gift Cards, gift card

Discussion threads 2009-03-11

Are open source developers too dominant? Ubuntu, Firefox prove yes

Are open source developers too dominant? Ubuntu, Firefox prove yesGetting excited about a browser or an OS???? Why?Those should be just mature very reliable tools. The excitment should be in the things they allow you to do without getting in your way. I bet that at one time you were...

Tags: Web browsers, open source, Ubuntu, Mozilla Firefox, open-source developer, punk, Web browser

Discussion threads 2009-03-02

Who's to blame for America's loss of innovation?

I blogged about one study of forty nations that showed the U.S. falling in competition and innovation. Down to 6th from its former leadership slot. Can we stop the slide? The talkbacks posit various interesting theories and placing of blame. Several indicate...

Tags: Innovation, U.S., America, Teacher, John Muir, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-26

The Mac at 25: GUI battles in business

The Mac at 25: GUI battles in businessSystem 7 was the worst OS I've ever usedShudder, that thing was S...L...O...W... Well, that's not totally true. It would crash really fast, really often. The whole System 7, 8, 9 line was absolutely terrible. It wasn't until Apple gave up trying to...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., GUI

Discussion threads 2009-01-23

Let’s talk about the economics of great journalism

Responding to various recent postings about journalism, including Ethan Zuckerman, Seth Godin, Dan Gillmor, Amy Gahran and Lisa Williams. I think the economics of journalism and ethics are deeply related and we tend to talk about them separately, emphasizing the dying channels for distribution at the expense of understanding the...

Tags: Journalism, Coverage, Reporter, News, ON24, Team Management, Benefits, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Human Resources, Marketing, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-01-19