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Jobs confirms App Store kill switch; 60M apps downloaded

Jobs confirms App Store kill switch; 60M apps downloaded"Admission"? Inappropriate Word ChoiceSo Jobs "admitted" there have been 60 million downloads. One "admits" to mistakes, failures, etc. One "acknowledges" successes or "brags" about them or "announces" them etc. etc.Me thinks there is a bit of ill will in your focusing on...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, App Store kill-switch, kill-switch, App Store, job

Discussion threads 2008-08-12

Jobs: App Store is huge; iPhone has a kill switch

Jobs: App Store is huge; iPhone has a kill switchWhere are real journalists when you need them?Mr. Jobs also glossed over the fact one of the most useful apps, if not THE most useful, was booted off the AppStore presumably to appease AT&T. Netshare, which allows you to tether your...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Hacking, job, Apple Inc., App Store, Apple iPhone, kill-switch, Steve Jobs

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

Revisiting iPhone's app kill switch

Revisiting iPhone's app kill switchhuhpermissions via a blacklist? I doubt it.Please list the 497 apps the ones you know about so far that you don't want to access core location?A whitelist might make sense, list the three apps that can access core location... A blacklist is unmanageable.

Tags: Revisiting iPhone, kill-switch

Discussion threads 2008-08-08

Windows, take your kill switches, interrupts, reboots AND Registry: and stuff it

Windows, take your kill switches, interrupts, reboots AND Registry: and stuff itThis isn't entirely their faultDon't get me wrong, I have plenty of problems with windows like why the WMP toolbar cant be horizontal if my taskbar is on the side but there's an easy fix to this, get Windows...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, operating system, PERSONAL COMPUTERS, Microsoft Windows, computer, Microsoft Windows Update, kill-switch, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-10-10

HP indictments, Microsoft's kill switch, Intel/Nvidia, Attention Gang and more...

HP indictments, Microsoft's kill switch, Intel/Nvidia, Attention Gang and more...The mighty need to fallI can think of sevaral phrases that fit this situation.1) If you're gonna do the crime be ready to do the time.2) If you gonna play you have to pay.I think it is both fitting and needed...

Tags: Corporate governance, Microsoft Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Attention Gang, kill-switch, NVidia Corp., Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-10-06

Additional Resources

Flipping the switch saves The Planet about $140K annually

The results of The Planet's "lights out" pilot are in: By adopting a workday-hours lights-on policy and shutting off the lights after hours, the hosting company is saving roughly $140,000 per year across its six data centers in Houston and Dallas. The reduction in annual energy consumption achieved through this...

Tags: The Planet.com Internet Services Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-07

Iceberg: cuts code, evolves your enterprise

This is a dual post written and posted simultaneously. For the perspective of how Iceberg this benefits student, check the post over at iGeneration. Some bits are the same and used in both entries; ain't easy posting the same thing for different audiences. A few weeks ago...

Tags: Web, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft SharePoint, Client, Web Site, Workflow, Iceberg, Collaboration, Groupware, Web Site Development, Storage, Enterprise Software, Databases, Software, Internet, Hardware, Data Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-07

CSI Stick grabs data from cell phones

CSI Stick grabs data from cell phonesBait and SwitchWhy is it that in both IE and Firefox the advert before the video always works, but the video never loads? Is this behavior intentional? Is all the video content just a scam to get us to watch your sponsors'...

Tags: Corporate communications, Web browsers, CSI Stick, CSI, video, cell phone, phone

Discussion threads 2008-09-06

Numark iDJ2 Mixing Console for iPod

Photo gallery:Numark iDJ2When Numark unveiled the first iDJ iPod mixer in 2005, the half-baked product required two iPods, and lacked many essential features. After three years back at the drawing board, Numark's iDJ2 ($599 retail, $499 street) finally makes good on the promise of a professional iPod DJ mixer....

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, console, Numark iDJ2, Apple iPod

Product reviews 2008-09-05

LHC scientists get death threats

LHC scientists get death threatsIgnorance produces fear...And issuing death threats is not the christian thing to do. And $10.00 to a donut will get you that a religiously motivated faction is behind the threats. Something to research further.RE: LHC scientists get death threats - is it because Roger Federer lost...

Tags: Anti-Matter, LHC, death threat

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

LHC scientists get death threats

So it's come to this: Death threats against physicists. About what? The earth-destroying Large Hadron Collider, of course. Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has even had death threats, said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University,...

Tags: Black Hole, Physicist, Scientist, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Mainstream media writes Windows obit

Mainstream media writes Windows obitMS should have never...killed off XP. Especially when such a huge segment of the market is tired of being forced fed what they do not want.This article makes a good point about users beginning to realize that as long as they can hit the web rather...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), LIKE IT, Microsoft Windows, Hewlett-Packard Co., mainstream media, Windows obit, Microsoft Windows Vista, obit, Microsoft Corp., operating system

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

2011, A News Odyssey: Digg-ing Meets Up With Digging

The crossover is close. The Internet is poised to overtake the newspaper industry in total size as an advertising medium. And the question is whether it can also overtake it as a news medium. Says here, the year will be 2011. That is likely to be when...

Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Internet Advertising, News, Governor, Internet, Operational Accounting, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Vista Audio Changer (zip)

A system tray application which allows the user to switch their Default Audio Output Device at the click of a mouse - extremely useful for users with multiple sound cards, or multiple outputs on a single sound card. Version 1.01b has added Hotkey support and Device Ordering for computers which...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Audio Card, System Tray, RSoft

Software downloads 2008-09-05

Righteous Kill (exe)

Inspired by the film, Righteous Kill follows the events surrounding a series of murders in New York City. Step into the shoes of Officer Erica Dean as she investigates crime scenes in the hunt for a vigilante who has taken to killing criminals known for perpetrating crimes against women. With...

Tags: Hunt, Merscom, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources

Software downloads 2008-09-05

Excel 2007 Ribbon to old Excel 2003 Classic Menu Toolbar (exe)

Use this Microsoft Excel Classic Menu software to convert/and include a new 'old' Microsoft 2003 Excel menu within the Excel 2007 menu interface. Do you find it difficult to use the new Microsoft 2007 menu interface. Then with this 2003 software, you can: easily plug and play this Excel menu...

Tags: Toolbar, Microsoft Excel 2003, Microsoft Excel 2007, File Splitter, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2008-09-05

Google Chrome already beating Opera

Google Chrome already beating OperaWaiting for Windows Mobile 6 version... if they can create a version for Windows Mobile to rival safari on iPhone, they'll have me seriously thinking about it.Otherwise, it's just another browser for the desktop by another large conglomerate.Full screen problemI have my task bar on the...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, work-around, Google Inc., Chrome, Google Chrome, Opera Software

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Google Chrome already beating Opera

Maybe Google really does have something here -- in just two days, they have leapfrogged Opera in market share, and have their eyes set on bigger fish. I would have thought that Google's foray into the browser market would have taken a bit more time to develop, but it...

Tags: Google Inc., Opera Software, Web Browsers, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Adobe and NBC to provide live streaming of NFL games

Adobe just announced that the NFL is going to use Flash to deliver live, online streaming video for NBC Sunday and Thursday night football games. You can go watch the games on NBCSports.com right now. It looks like they used Flex to build the player and I assume they're using...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., NBC, NFL, Video, Live Streaming, Video Quality, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Comcast sues FCC over net neutrality ruling

Comcast sues FCC over net neutrality rulingIs this Government megalomania?Or is Comcast grasping at straws in a sinking ship on a road to no return!The cable companies poor planningshouldn't hurt the users. There have been many suggestions of how they could improve the way their network runs with out...

Tags: Federal government, Cable, TVs, Broadband Internet, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, Comcast Corp., FCC, Net Neutrality, Mbits/S, cable-tv service

Discussion threads 2008-09-04