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- For Vista, WGA gets tougher
- For Vista, WGA gets tougherJust remember, EdYou are not the customer. Dell is the customer; you are the product.Upgrade to Vista? NFW!!!So in Vista, WGA will return with sharper teeth. Well, that's just bloody awesome news ... NOT!!!Unless and until M$ resolves the boondoggle that WGA has...
- Tags: License Compliance, prejudice, Dell Computer Corp., irony, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, software, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-04
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- Startups listen up: you've got a pricing problem
- Just about every new product coming to market is being offered as a service rather than packaged software. But pricing remains something of a mystery. A while back, I started a spreadsheet that plots price points for different saas accounting offerings. At the time I concluded that no-one has figured...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Small And Medium Enterprise, Web Application, Pricing Strategy, Phil Wainewright, Pricing, Smb/Sme, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Hollywood to kids: Pay up for preschool movies
- The scene: An Irish preschool for toddlers. The children sit on the floor in a semi-circle, watching a TV screen. They squeal with delight at "The Little Mermaid," "Toy Story" and other Hollywood kids' fare. Enter a black-masked villain, carrying a fearful letter. He is not the true villain, though;...
- Tags: Villain, Hollywood, U.S. Patent And Trademark Office, Taxes, TVs, Free Trade, Tv & Home Theater, Corporate Communications, Mice, Financial Planning, Finance, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Hardware, Peripherals, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Why bother with desktop virtualization?
- The proponents of making proper use of desktop virtualization technology including access virtualization, application virtualization and VDI the combination of access virtualization and processing virtualization do their best to make it sound like the best things since pockets. Aren't today's laptops, desktops and handheld devices good enough to get the...
- Tags: Desktop, Worker, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Desktop Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Salesforce.com: Worries emerge
- Salesforce.com: Worries emergeWhat does this mean for license holders?From the title someone is worried about Salesforce.com. Who should be worried??? If a company uses Salesforce applications and stores data on Salesforce, should they be worried?The questions above are legitimate questions to ask. I group Salesforce.com in with cloud computing companies...
- Tags: Sales force management, Salesforce.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Netkiosk Kiosk Browser (rar)
- Netkiosk Kiosk Browser is a custom version of Internet explorer and can be used at home in the office or on public Internet terminals. Netkiosk Kiosk Browser becomes your own personal kiosk browser for your units. Any basic customisation, like your own homepage, is included in any official license. This...
- Tags: Password, Web Browser, JTMKiosksystems, Netkiosk Kiosk Browser, Web Browsers, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-10-03
- File Checksum (zip)
- FileChecksum is a Java 1.4 application to compute common checksums for files: CRC32, MD5, and SHA1. Checksums are small hexadecimal "signatures" for testing whether or not files have been copied correctly, such as over a network. One person sends a file along with the checksum computed on the original computer....
- Tags: File, Keith Fenske, Checksum, FileChecksum, MD5, Web Site Development, Productivity, Programming Languages, Open Source, Java, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-10-03
- Texting? Pull Over ...
- Texting? Pull Over ...re: Texting? Pull Over ...It's scary. I went through line in a grocery store, everytime the cashier had two seconds between ringing up customers her head was down texting. I can't imagine that kind of person on the road.RE: Texting? Pull Over ...TST: None of...
- Tags: Cellular phones, stat, headset, cell phone, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Creative Commons for students
- Creative Commons for studentsminors...One thing to bear in mind is that minors cannot license or re-license their own work without their parent's consent. Students can in some cases simply pull down content from the web and re-use it -- if the use is covered by "fair use" -- which...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Creative Commons
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Roundup: Enterprise software announcements
- A roundup of enterprise software-related announcements released today: IBM unveiled new automated security software for midsize companies to help them test for Web application security vulnerabilities and find advice on how to fix their security issues. The software, called IBM Rational AppScan Express Edition, also helps smaller...
- Tags: Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software, Credit Card, IBM Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Security, Emerging Technologies, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Perens new crusade is patent law
- Perens new crusade is patent lawBull, there is no lack of innovation.True, open source is not free to take others ideas but that is how it should be. Face it, open source is nothing but knock off copies of propriatary. Sorry but thats just how it is.As to...
- Tags: Leadership, OPEN SOURCE, Software intellectual property, New software product, new crusade, Perens, crusade, patent law, patent, innovation
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- VIDEO: iTunes, mp3 rippers paved the way for RealDVD
- VIDEO: iTunes, mp3 rippers paved the way for RealDVDRealDVDFrankly, the software is pretty cool. But, in typical Real fashion, it fails miserably in a few ways.Primarily is the playback interface. Unless I'm missing something, in full-screen mode there is NO WAY to get rid of the Real interface...
- Tags: Digital music, Corporate communications, Digital media, Consumer electronics, RealDVD, iTunes mp3 ripper, iTunes MP3, CD, ripper, Apple iTunes, DVD, MP3, video
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- VIDEO: iTunes, mp3 rippers paved the way for RealDVD
- There's another legal showdown brewing between Hollywood and the techies. RealNetworks and the motion picture studios are headed off to court over RealDVD, just-released software that allows users to rip their personal DVD collections into a PC or portable hard drive. Yeah, just like everyone's been doing with music CDs...
- Tags: Rip, CD, Video, MP3, Apple iTunes, Music, RealDVD, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Flash OwnerGuard (exe)
- Flash OwnerGuard provides a brand new DRM technology called Inline DRM which allows the protected files to be accessible within any container including your website and web navigators (Internet Explorer, AOL Explorer), Microsoft Office documents, PDF Documents, Flash Player programs, or even your own applications. With Flash OwnerGuard you can...
- Tags: FLV, Digital-rights Management, Video, Armjisoft, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Corporate Communications, Digital Media, Security, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-10-02
- Leave Windows Mobile al-o-o-o-o-o-ne!
- Leave Windows Mobile al-o-o-o-o-o-ne!It will come down to supportWill Google pull yet another "thanks for the free time, but it is Beta so we will not help you with it", or T-Mobile pushing it off on Google, to the same response?With the others you do have an infrastructure behind it,...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, Operating systems, Handhelds, Bottomline, Google Inc., mobile, phone, Leave Windows Mobile, Microsoft Windows Mobile
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Apple aims to dismiss Psystar countersuit
- Apple aims to dismiss Psystar countersuitTime will tell.....However knowing Apple I have my doubts about the suits success. Still if they do loose the case there is nothing stopping Apple from switching processors again. So far that tact hasn't hurt business any.Pagan jimTheftThis is an abstraction, you're going...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Operating systems, Processors, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Apple aims to dismiss Psystar countersuit
- Apple asked a U.S. District Court judge to dismiss Psystar's counterclaims against the company. As background, Apple launched a suit against Psystar alleging that the Mac clone maker harmed its brand. Psystar all resources fired back arguing that Apple was abusing monopoly power and launched its own...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Antitrust, Apple Inc., Computer, Psystar, Productivity, Corporate Law, Desktops, Security, Business Operations, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Stallman vs. the cloud computing tidal wave
- Stallman's recent statements regarding his dislike of "cloud computing" didn't surprise me in the least, given what I understand about his software preferences. In fact, I think this is less about Stallman's worry about the security implications of cloud computing, and more about his desire for a software ecosystems that adheres...
- Tags: Software, GPL, Cloud Computing, Stallman, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft's planned cloud platform
- Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft's planned cloud platformNot really fighting MS cloudMore like fighting the traditional web hosting firms like GoDaddy that too offer Windows Server, IIS, Asp.Net and Sql Server services. Would like to see their pricing model tho.RE: Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft's planned cloud platformAs...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Pricing, Servers, Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc., strike, pre-emptive strike
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Is security really a big drag on innovation?
- Have you ever held back innovation because of information security concerns? Apparently more than a few technology executives are repeatedly gun shy. According to an IDC-RSA study to be released Wednesday security fears stifle business innovation at 80 percent of companies. This security vs. innovation theme was...
- Tags: Innovation, RSA Security Inc., Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
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