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New Dawn Technologies Case Study: The City of Long Beach Prosecutor's Office

The City of Long Beach Prosecutor's Office is one of the larger city prosecutor's offices in the state of California, employing 42 personnel who process 25-30,000 adult misdemeanors cases per year. The City of Long Beach Prosecutor's Office began seriously looking for an automated case management solution in 1999, soon...

Tags: Long Beach, Prosecutor, New Dawn Technologies, Corporate Law, Microsoft Office, Business Operations, Office Suites, Software

Case studies 2007-03-24

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Apple's Black Friday sales under analysts' microscope

A 36% decrease is considered slightly?[i]On Average, the stores were selling 8.3 Macs per hour, down from 13 on Black Friday last year according to similar checks we performed.[/i]I'd consider that significant not slight.Wait for a real report.Wow! Ambiguous reporting based on some guys going to am Apple Store and...

Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, My-Comments, Apple Inc., Munster, advertisement, sales

Discussion threads 2009-11-30

Turtle Beach Ear Force X41 - headset

Wireless headphones have been around for a while, but it's only been in the past few years that quality has gotten high enough for discerning listeners to consider using them. Many manufacturers, for instance, have turned to infrared IR technology for wireless signal transmission, which powered the Turtle Beach X4...

Tags: Game players, Consumer electronics, Turtle Beach, headphone, X41, Microsoft Xbox, headset

Product reviews 2009-11-20

Treece and truth

Treece is in Kansas and it's a toxic town. The Treece truth is in the result: nature gives no free lunch. You take resources, there's always a cost. A real-world, palpable cost, not some numbers on a computer screen. How can we short-sighted humans really imagine we...

Tags: Kansas, Treece, Treece Truth, Productivity, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-29

Carry on blues and the blame game

7mgte is right(sorry, I can't reply to a posting, just the story)It's not like the airline saves any money on fuel if you carry it on, vs. check it. It still has to lug the weight around.Just Wait for the Other Shoe Charge to DropJust wait until the airlines "solve"...

Tags: ATM, Financial services, game

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

The really inconvenient truth: real price of our energy

I've blogged before about the need for a new energy calculus. Not just market and whosesale costs to the user of the energy. Economics and business have a notoriously short-sighted, narrow-minded set of considerations. Haven't we just re-learned that ancient lesson from the hedge funder corruption and...

Tags: Coal, Inconvenient Truth, Energy, Food & Beverage, Mortgages, Manufacturing, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-17

Calling all global cooling, how about a little help here?

Don't shoot the messenger, you might not like it that the earth is getting hotter and that we need to do something about it, but, don't get mad at those reporting it.You probably don't like all of the photos of open water over the arctic either. Nor would you want...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, tax, climate change

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Sony DCR-DVD650

DVDs were never a perfect solution for directly recording video to with a camcorder. The medium makes even less sense now with hard-disk-drive and flash-memory models reasonably priced and able to store much more video in far smaller packages. About the only advantage camcorders like the Sony Handycam DCR-DVD650 have...

Tags: Corporate communications, Consumer electronics, Flash memory, Memory, Monitors & displays, video, DVD, camcorder, Sony Corp., memory stick, pixel

Product reviews 2009-10-13

Makena Beach HD Screensaver 1.0 (Windows)

HD Screensaver of the Pacific Ocean waves washing ashore on Makena Beach on the Hawaiian Island of Maui. This video was shot in 1080i and converted to an HD screensaver for your viewing pleasure. The video is approximately 1 minute long fades out at the end of 1 minute, consistently...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-07

DexKnows Mobile (Mobile)

DexKnows.com, a local search expert, has developed the ultimate local search tool. Phone numbers to five-star restaurants, show times to a newly released movie and directions to the nearest car repair shop are all at your fingertips. With intuitive search features, the DexKnows.com App guides you to the most relevant...

Tags: Mobile, Local Search, DexKnows.com App, Search

Software downloads 2009-10-01

Sleepmaker Waves Free 1.1 (Mobile)

Sleepmaker Waves Free contains real ocean waves, beaches, and coast lines all digitally recorded. Sleepmaker Waves Free has been especially recorded for anyone that loves the surf, ocean, beach, or rolling waves. Pure big surf. Sleepmaker Waves Free features four different types of Ocean Waves like gentle, medium, heavy, and...

Tags: Surf, Mobile, SoftwareX, Sleepmaker Waves Free, Engineering

Software downloads 2009-10-01

Sleepmaker Waves Pro 2.0 (Mobile)

Sleepmaker Waves Pro contains real ocean waves, beaches, and coast lines all digitally recorded. Sleepmaker Waves Pro has been especially recorded for anyone that loves the surf, ocean, beach, or rolling waves. Sleepmaker Waves Pro features four different types of Ocean Waves like gentle, medium, heavy, and underwater. It features...

Tags: Mobile, Wave, SoftwareX, Sleepmaker Waves Pro, Performance Management, Engineering, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2009-10-01

Apple declares its environmental credentials

Newsweek ArticleNewsweek recently had a list of the top 100 "green" companies. HP was surprisingly #1, with Dell at #2. Microsoft was in the top half as well. Interestingly enough, Apple wasn't anywhere in the top 100 that I saw.PR BS!What Apple fails to show is the mountains of toxic...

Tags: Public relations, Apple Inc., climate change, aluminum

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

It's flu season: connect and optimize your workers

More than technology to truly enable remote workingThis blog brings up a big point when discussing telecommuting: the technology must be able to handle the bandwidth when it becomes the norm. But that is solved by applying some well known technologies. It is a technical shift in where the bandwidth...

Tags: Development tools, worker

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Turtle Beach Ear Force X31

Last month we took the Turtle Beach Ear Force P21s for a spin using its chat function with our PlayStation 3. To be fair, we thought we would even the playing field by checking out the company's Xbox 360 headset and voice chat solution with the Ear Force X31....

Tags: Game players, audio wire, earcup, Turtle Beach Ear Force X31, P21, headset

Product reviews 2009-09-04

AT&T customers speak out over poor service

RE: AT&T customers speak out over poor serviceAll that is AT&T is EVIL & bad! Did anyone really expect different with the pretty looking iPhone? - Sierra Night TideAT&T/iPhone in AtlantaI have been out to northern California and my iPhone and the other AT&T phones in my family are just...

Tags: Smart phones, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, ATT, AT&T Corp., poor service, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Google vs. Bing: The global battle

Huh, just 67.5%??I thought it would have been like 80-90% by now.Mr Dignan uses flawed statistics, the market is actually much more skewedAccording to Hitwise, who claims to have bigger and more unbiased samples, was Google's market share up at impressive 74%, i.e. ~14 times bigger than Bing, 4.5 times...

Tags: Google Inc., Bing, global battle

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

Turtle Beach Ear Force P21

Any gamer who plays at night knows how important it is to have a solid set of headphones. We've looked at solutions in the past for Xbox 360 like the Turtle Beach X4s and the all-in-one Tritton AX Pro. If PlayStation 3 is your console of choice, you...

Tags: Games, cable length, USB extender, headset, Turtle Beach Ear Force P21, microphone, Sony PlayStation 3, game

Product reviews 2009-08-07

To the Moon: Boeing, the Rocket Foundry

The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...

Tags: Foundry Networks Inc., Boeing Co., S-IC, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-10

How to shop for your first Digital SLR

How to shop for your first Digital SLRYou ignored the most important decisionCanon or Nikon.Why?Because you are committed to a lens system forever. In the long run, you will have a fortune in lenses.ViewfinderAlso, don't forget to check out how large and clear the viewfinder image is. You're going...

Tags: DSLR, camera, first digital-SLR, battery, Digital-SLR, Minolta, Nikon Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-10