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It ain't easy being indie

Are indie game developers the next rock stars? They certainly think so. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi catches up with Kyle Gabler, a developer who may have just hit the jackpot with a Nintendo WiiWare contract. But the path to get there wasn't always easy.

Tags: News, kara tsuboi, tower of goo, kyle gabler, shalin shodhan, experimental gameplay project, etc, carnegie mellon, pittsburgh, gamer

Videos 2008-04-16

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iFixIt is traveling to New Zealand to be the first to tear down iPhone 3G

And I thought that I was obsessive. I'll be heading to the Apple store in Atlantic City at 7 a.m. on Friday to cover iDay 3G with fellow PowerPage podcaster Rob Parker but just being in the eastern time zone isn't soon enough for some people. The...

Tags: Apple iPhone, New Zealand, iFixIt, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-07

Off Topic: Desktop evaluation - Linux, Mac OS and Windows

I've been asked by a KG client to run through a specific set of functions on a specific set of desktop environments and report back to them on my experiences. I'm to include such things as how long it took to set things up, how quickly it would take their...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Environment, Server, File Server, Microsoft Windows, File Servers, Linux, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Software, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-05-02

Report: Office 2007 demand 'healthier than thought'

There is quite a bit of difference of opinion as to when and whether business users should upgrade to Windows Vista, but Office 2007 isn't suffering from the same fate. According to Forrester Research which has really been cranking out the studies in the past few days,...

Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-02

Google's app war vs Microsoft: About to ramp?

The rumblings about Google's plans to give Microsoft a run for its money in the enterprise are revving up. Robert Scoble has a post kicking around an interesting idea. Could Google do an offline version of Gmail that would compete with Exchange? It's quite possible. And it...

Tags: Google Inc., Collaboration, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-19

SOA, Enterprise Architecture, BPM all the same underneath

SOA, Enterprise Architecture, BPM all the same underneathThere never was a lineI recall jumping on to the SOA Yahoo group months ago, hoping to more fully understand the prevailing definition and practice of what is referred to as SOA. I came to the conclusion that SOA as stand-alone entity never...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Business process automation, Operational planning, Enterprise software, Middleware, Strategy, Service Orientation, SOA, BPM, Electronic Arts Inc., enterprise architecture

Discussion threads 2008-02-06

MySpace: Will its socialist-like approach to its social app developers succeed?

MySpace kicked off its developer program Tuesday by providing API's and development tools to tens of thousands of developers, with some unique diistinctions, and restrictions, that it hopes will result in high quality apps. Developers were invited to its "Sandbox" event in San Francisco to learn more about the...

Tags: Developer, Difference, MySpace, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-02-06

SOA, Enterprise Architecture, BPM all the same underneath

Is it time to fold SOA into Enterprise Architecture EA? Is there even really any fundamental difference between SOA, EA, and for that matter, BPM business process management? That's the question Kyle Gabhart asks in his latest post. (Dave Linthicum also predicted last year that SOA would...

Tags: BPM, Enterprise Architecture, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-02-05

CatNip 1.0 for Mac

Yes, Virginia, there is a cat input detection program for the Mac. The search for missing Mac apps must seek elsewhere. In a post last night, I asked whether there are missing Mac apps — software niches that are filled on the Windows side of the computing...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Cat, CatNip 1.0, Desktops, Hardware, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2007-12-12

The secret of IT transformation: It's all about the CEO stupid

The secret of IT transformation: It's all about the CEO stupidHP IT transformationTalk to HP employees about how well the IT transformation is going. I think you'd be hard pressed to find anybody who says it's going well. Let's be honest -- Hurd and Mott are all about...

Tags: Games, IT Transformation, Mott, HP-IT, information technology

Discussion threads 2007-12-12

Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (dmg)

Several years have passed since Kyle avenged his father's death and saved the Valley of the Jedi from Jerec and his band of Dark Jedi. Allowing his Force powers to languish for fear of falling to the dark side, Kyle entrusted his lightsaber to Luke Skywalker, vowing never to use...

Tags: Star Wars, Aspyr Media Inc., Productivity, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-11-19

Microsoft establishes more anti-GPLv3 precautions

Microsoft establishes more anti-GPLv3 precautionsBlog title misleadingWhy, oh why, Mary Jo, do you insist on calling your blog an "unbiased eye" on Microsoft when all it is is a "jaundiced eye" on Microsoft.Microsoft takes steps to clarify their agreements with Linux vendors after GPLv3 is released suddenly becomes Microsoft scrambling/running/the...

Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, CONVEYANCE, Microsoft Corp., GPL-3, GPLv3

Discussion threads 2007-07-18

Is Microsoft becoming a hardware vendor?

Microsoft for years has been building keyboards, mice and joysticks. More recently, it started building Xbox gaming consoles. Then Zune MP3 players. Now, with the company's official unveiling of Surface, a k a Milan/PlayTable, Microsoft is mamufacturing large-screen, multitouch, gesture-recognizing computing devices.Does all this mean that software vendor Microsoft is...

Tags: Apple, Channel, Corporate strategy, OEMs, Resellers, System builders, Xbox, Zune

Blog posts 2007-05-31

Hearings on broadband data suggest Congressional push for national strategy

Care to compare US broadband speeds to the rest of the world? Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) did yesterday, in hearings on how the FCC measures availability. The US lags in speed, availability and value, Markey said and charged that the FCC "has not kept pace with the times or the...

Tags: Congress, Municipal broadband, State &, Local Govt

Blog posts 2007-05-17

WebSideStory becomes Visual Sciences; bolsters enterprise focus

Web analytics company WebSideStory has changed its name to Visual Sciences and launched a bevy of new software products to expand more into enterprise software. Image Gallery: These screenshots show the latest Web/data analytics software from Visual Sciences. ...

Tags: Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, General, Enterprise 2.0, Datacenter, Business Intelligence

Blog posts 2007-05-09

Sign language for your cellphone

If you live in the UK, you now have an access to a dictionary of 5,000 words in British Sign Language BSL and their accompanying downloadable videos for your cellphones. The interface of this video dictionary, available at Mobilesign.org is even more Spartan than Googles home page. But its very...

Tags: cell phone, Deaf Studies, Deaf People, University of Bristol, video

Blog posts 2007-03-15

Hacker builds tracking system to nab Tor pedophiles

Hacker builds tracking system to nab Tor pedophilesAn arrest should be imminent"As to whether this is enough for law enforcement authorities to make an arrest and build a case, Moore's answer: "No idea.""Sounds like what Moore is doing is pretty clearly illegal. If he is in fact doing what he...

Tags: Domain names, Internet service providers (ISPs), NETWORKING, Network technology, hacker, JanusVM, Tor, DNS, DNS Request, applet, server

Discussion threads 2007-03-07

Entertainment economy: Are YOU the new Hollywood?

The 79th Annual Academy Awards Hollywood self-promotional love fest broadcasts to the world tonight. Does it matter? Neal Gabler follows in the Times Magazine 2006 “YOU” are the “Person of the Year” tradition to proclaim YOU are the future of movies.Gabler puts forth movie industry statistics to conclude...

Tags: Amateur Content, Content, Culture, Media, Movies, Self-Promotion, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-02-25

The DVD-R media that destroyed my SuperDrive (photos)

Yesterday I inserted a blank DVD-R disc into my MacBook Pro (2.33GHz Core 2 Duo) like Ive done dozens of times before. But this time was different. This time it destroyed my SuperDrive.After I inserted the blank DVD-R media I didnt immediately notice that it didnt mount in the...

Tags: Hardware, MacBook Pro, Media, Optical Drive

Blog posts 2007-02-20

Inherent Evil (exe)

Twenty years ago Kyle Reed lost his parents to an unexplained event that also claimed the lives of over two hundred hotel guests. Now Kyle's brother plans to reopen the family hotel. But only a few months after renovations begin, Kyle receives a desperate call from his brother in the...

Tags: Hotel, Telecommunications

Software downloads 2007-01-11