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My Wine Researcher 1.0 (Mobile)

My wine Researcher help you to make notes about the taste, smell and food pair suggestions, evaluate the sweetness, body, acidity, tannin, and oak characteristics, save the review for later, share your favorites with your family and friends via email, and purchase your favorites.

Tags: Researcher, Mobile, Wine, Location Advantage

Software downloads 2009-04-16

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Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server

What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-29

Foursquare partners with Bay Area Rapid Transit

Today, BART announced a partnership with location-based social network Foursquare. BART will award $25 promotional tickets each month for the next three months to riders chosen at random from all the riders who have logged Foursquare check-ins at BART stations, starting in November. Foursquare...

Tags: Station, Bay Area, Foursquare, BART, Business Structures, Social Networking, Finance, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Apple iMac 27-inch

If we could, we'd take points away from this iMac simply because by giving it a 27-inch display Apple threatens our livelihood. You don't need our input to simply walk past the 27-inch iMac on a store shelf and recognize that it's the largest all-in-one currently available, and that it...

Tags: Desktops, Apple Inc., screen size, Apple iMac

Product reviews 2009-10-21

B&N's Nook e-reader: Weirdly unrevolutionary

In addition to this posting, please visit this clarifications posting to get the whole picture. It would be nice to say, as Matt Miller has, that the e-book and e-reader market was revolutionized today. It simply got more interesting. A careful reading of the $259 Nook's...

Tags: E-reader, Device, E-book, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Inc., Wireless, B&N, Nook, Cover-flow, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Android opens doors for Google's next-gen search, ads and tools

There's no question that there's been some pretty astounding growth around Android, Google's open-source mobile phone operating system. A year ago, there was only one Android device out there - the T-Mobile G-1. Today, Android is powering 12 devices in 26 countries with 32 carriers - and there's more on...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Google Android, Phone, Mobile, Smart Phone, Tool, Carrier, Android, Advertising & Promotion, Smart Phones, Mobile Operating Systems, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Garmin Nuvifone G60 (AT&T)

Photo gallery:Garmin Nuvifone G60If you've been following the story of the Garmin Nuvifone at all, you know it hasn't been the smoothest of rides. After being announced in January 2008, the launch of Garmin's first smartphone was delayed time and time again, and we had all but given up on...

Tags: Handhelds, GPS, Smart phones, Cellular phones, AT&T Corp., display, Garmin Ltd., Garmin nuvifone, Garmin Nuvifone G60, Nuvifone G60, smart phone

Product reviews 2009-10-09

How much can UPS efficiency save you? Eaton has some answers.

I am growing increasingly fascinated by power distribution and regulating equipment. I know, sick admission. Eaton, one of the big uninterruptible power supply UPS and power distribution equipment vendors, is starting to talk up its new Energy Saver System as a tool that data center operators can...

Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Power Supply, Uninterruptible Power Supply, Eaton, NetRiver, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-08

File Uneraser 1.4.5 (Windows)

Let's consider one of the most useful file uneraser--RaidLabs File Uneraser software. This file recovery program has the main advantage--its simplicity is as far as the user is concerned. It means that the file uneraser scans a target drive automatically and selects the right solution in each given case. You...

Tags: Disk, File, Raidlabs, RaidLabs File Uneraser, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Tools & Techniques, Construction, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2009-10-08

Can Apple replace and leapfrog Google Maps in the iPhone?

Or they could be offering choice......like Nokia do with Ovi maps, Google maps and any other GPS aware mapping software you care to use.Oh yeah, but this is Apple the control freaks not the open - and yet still utterly dominant - Nokia, isn't it?RE: Can Apple replace and leapfrog...

Tags: Smart phones, Google Maps, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Asian Paints enables growth through improved planning

Asian Paints is India's largest paint company and is ranked among the top 10 decorative coatings companies in the world. When the company needed a competitive edge in the challenging Indian marketplace, it found a clear advantage in establishing a leaner, more agile and cost-efficient supply chain. Its management chose...

Tags: Supply Chain, I2 Technologies Inc., Asian Paint, Asian Paints, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Change Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Tools & Techniques, Management

Case studies 2009-10-01

Windows 7 in action: A smarter way to manage windows

I don't see much use for dragging a window to the top of the screen.Might as well just double click on the title bar to maximize it and then double click on it again to restore it. It doesn't make sense to drag it to the top of the screen.Thanks...

Tags: Construction, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, window, title bar

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

Perks for all workers: remote/metro, small/large firms, etc.

Leveling the playing field for workers' perks I’m on the board of a firm with operations throughout the United States. About half of their workforce and plants are in major metropolitan areas while the other half are in some pretty remote areas. Management is challenged to find...

Tags: Employee, Worker, Next Jump, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-25

Spotlaser 1.3.4 (Mac)

For the 64bit version for use on Snow Leopard (10.6) please download Spotlaser 1.3.3 or visit frovil.com for more info. Every file on your computer has name, location, date and contact information, but it's not up to you to remember all this, that's what computers are for! With hard drives...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, File, Spotlaser 1.3.3, Apple Mac OS X, Productivity, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Management

Software downloads 2009-09-21

BackupMyPocket 9.9.17 (Windows)

BackupMyPocket combines a powerful backup algorithm with an easy to use interface to provide a simple but effective way to backup your external storage devices. The basic benefit of this is to keep your data safe in case your USB drive is lost, stolen or broken. BackupMyPocket implements a "reverse...

Tags: Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows, Chris Fry, BackupMyPocket, Backups

Software downloads 2009-09-21

Lenovo ThinkPad T400s (MultiTouch)

Lenovo's ThinkPad brand is virtually synonymous with business laptops, and the company like IBM before it has spent years perfecting the nondescript black-box system, with its iconic TrackPoint and double set of mouse buttons. We liked the 14-inch T400s ("s" for "slim") when we first saw it earlier this year...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Microsoft Windows 7, Notebooks, T400s, Lenovo Group Ltd., touch screen, Lenovo ThinkPad

Product reviews 2009-09-15

20 hour to upgrade Windows 7 ... maybe, but it's a fringe case

A typical engineerChris Hernandez is obviously a typical engineer who observed, measured and duly logged everything he did, for the purpose of being precise.When the data showed that they had indeed reached their stated goals he proudly publisized his findings on the net.In a typical engineer fashion he did not...

Tags: NOW IT, Microsoft Windows 7, Chris Hernandez, Microsoft Windows, user data, honesty, user profile, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Not your father's tech school

Tech schools are more important than universities now.The entire economic system has been changed so much that a university education is almost pointless. A person seeking a "job" would usually be far better off with an 18 month targeted investment in a particular skill. And we all know...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, BS Degree, CTE, job

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

Apple QuickTime 7.6.4 (Windows)

Just launch QuickTime Player, and there's no telling where you're likely to land. The Player may whisk you to the Moon or perhaps to an exotic location on this planet. Take you on a virtual field trip to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Or treat you to...

Tags: Video Compression, Multimedia, Apple QuickTime, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Video, H.264, H.264 icon.Version 7.6.4, Corporate Communications, Digital Media, Digital Music, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-09-09

How desktop virtualization will end IT client hardware maintenance (and kill off Best Buy's Geek Squad)

In one fell swoop, John Whaley might end IT client hardware maintenance. And he might kill off the Geek Squad, too. Whaley, the chief technical officer of desktop virtualization company MokaFive, says desktop virtualization is becoming more widely adopted in...

Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Information Technology, Environment, Server, MokaFive, JW, Management Cost, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-08-28