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Why Windows users don't switch to Mac

Over on Apple Matters I came across an interesting post by Steven Leigh which considers 8 reasons why Windows users don't switch to Mac. Leigh is a recent Mac switcher and he has an interesting insight into the issues surrounding making a switch, but I think that there are...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Truth, User, Ignorance, Leigh, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-10-10

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Works of Elizabeth Gaskell. FREE Author's biography & stories in the trial 10.1 (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference

Software downloads 2009-09-10

Works of Elizabeth Gaskell. FREE Author's biography & short stories in the trial 10.1 (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference

Software downloads 2009-09-10

Is this the great greentech break-through?

Twenty-five years ago nobody thought computers would revolutionize human communications and commerce. Computers were speedy calculators with the ability to store data, right? The phone and fax and video camera were the dominators of all communication. Right now greentech is dominated by the rush for better and...

Tags: DNA, Biotechnology, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-26

News to know: Microsoft; Oracle patches; Google; HP; Facebook; Win 7 systems ;

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft makes it official: Forefront reaches the cloud Ryan Naraine: Microsoft tackles patch management metrics with Project Quant Oracle...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Data Centers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Taxes, Patches, Free Trade, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-16

Leigh Dodds talks about Talis Connected Commons

I wrote about Talis' Connected Commons last month, and today spent some time talking with the company's Platform Programme Manager, Leigh Dodds. The conversation has just been released as a podcast which looks at the rationale behind the company's offer and the specific licensing choices that beneficiaries...

Tags: Connected Corp., Podcasts, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-04-15

Client Incompetence: why there will always be a need for consultants

40th Anniversary of the Peter Principle Inc. magazine has reminded us this month that this is the 40th anniversary of the publication of the Peter Principle. This book laid out the premise that people continue to get promoted until they reach their level of incompetence. At that...

Tags: Consultant, CEO, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-04-05

Wolfram Alpha: A model for data jobbing?

Wolfram Alpha: A model for data jobbing?It's just yes or no.To review (in response to http://tinyurl.com/cel9p5)...You bet that "Kimball's ruling" would be overturned on appeal. I bet it won't. In context, this would be the ruling we're talking about: [b][i]"But in August of 2008, Kimball granted Novell's request for summary...

Tags: Wolfram Alpha

Discussion threads 2009-03-24

Open source and innovation as maintenance models

Following my piece on a proposed model for enterprise applications maintenance, two fresh posts, one from Matt Aslett at 451.com and another from Leigh Cauldwell offer alternative ideas around how the present conundrum might be solved. Matt offers the open source position arguing that:  This would appear to be...

Tags: Innovation, Leigh Cauldwell, Matt, Savio Rodrigues, Open Source, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Wikipedia is the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

This is just a quick followup to my post on Google Knol, a slick new service from Google that lacks the breadth of Wikipedia, but seems intent on compensating in verifiable depth. Comments were mixed, ranging from agreement with my position that, pedagogically at least, Knol is already on...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Knol, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-28

Run Google's Android OS on your Windows Mobile device

I had a chance to play with the generic Google Android device that has been floating around at Mobile World Congress a couple of months ago. Now, you too can play with the Android OS on your Windows Mobile device as you can see in the videos posted by Leigh...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Android, Device, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Operating System, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Marketing, Software, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-04-14

Consulting objectivity

Suppose your company wanted to hire a consultant to advise on appropriate computing infrastructure strategies for the next five years. Suppose further that you're down to two choices distinguished mainly by their answers to the question: are you biased toward one technology over its competitors?One says that he isn't: that...

Tags: Sun Solaris, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Paul Murphy, Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc., right software, first reaction, software, consulting

Blog posts 2007-08-30

Microsoft's Google concessions

Microsoft's Google concessionsMotive?Since I would assume there is no charge for Google's desktop search component, what is Google's motive for wanting to be there? Why is Google so insistent that its desktop search be able to replace Microsoft's (which it could to begin with, but that's apparently anotehr discussion)?Carl RapsonDid...

Tags: SEARCH, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., desktop search, desktop

Discussion threads 2007-06-20

Digital privacy behind virtual walls

Ubiquitous computing was the only subject discussed at the 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on May 13-16, 2007. As reports the National Post, in the future, everything will be a computer. As ultra small computers can now embedded in virtually everything, pervasive computing applications...

Tags: Computers &, Internet, Leisure, Robotics, Social Sciences, Wireless &, Telecom

Blog posts 2007-05-27

A Pulitzer Prize for Dave Winer (the bearded, prickly one)?

Blogging had its tenth birthday party this week. What a big big boy it has become. Even I acknowledge that not each and every 70 million bloggers are fools and not each and every one of their 1.5 million daily blogs are idiotic. The question is how to determine value...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-04-08

Our next teachers: avatar experts

Researchers from Illinois and Florida are developing a networking system which will create virtual representations of real people to improve our knowledge. They will use artificial intelligence and natural language processing software to enable us to interact with these avatars. The goal of the project, sponsored by the National Science...

Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Computers &, Internet

Blog posts 2007-04-04

No Larry Ellispin zone: Yahoo still dating Red Hat

On Oracles earnings conference call CEO Larry Ellison said the company displaced Red Hat for Linux support at Yahoo. The truth is a bit more nuanced. Yahoo said it is using both Oracle and Red Hat for Linux support. Stephen Shankland reports:Red Hat and Yahoo both said that Red Hat...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Yahoo! Inc.

Blog posts 2007-03-22

IT: where success fails, and failure succeeds

In reviewing discussions responding to last weeks "what users want" theme I was struck by the extent to which most of us get so wrapped up in fighting alligators that we completely forget about draining the swamp. Fortunately theres always somebody willing to remind us - in...

Tags: Sun, IT Retardants, Enterprise Policy, General

Blog posts 2007-03-08

MindMeister - collaborative web-based mind mapping

MindMeister - collaborative web-based mind mappingI'm interested in MindMeisterThis is something for which I've been looking!My address is "info [at] adamcreighton [dot] com".I'm inLooks interesting and I would love to try it out. I'm bljarv@[google's email offering}.comI'd like to try it, Marcdave.leigh@cratchit.orgI'd like to try itismael@itredux.comYes pleaseI would like...

Tags: collaborative Web, Mindmeister, FreeMind

Discussion threads 2007-02-21

ODF vs. OOXML - the way I see it

In a blog post on Friday, I asked in the title whether ODF has sufficient detail after discovering a post by Miguel de Icazas on the subject of ODF vs. OOXML. The point from that post I keyed on was that 6,000 pages isnt a problem so long as those...

Tags: General, IT Management, ODF, Office, Office 2007, Open Source, PC Forum, Software Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-02-19