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Traditional software licensing: Why you pay more and a look at your options: It's hard to believe that some of the most profitable software companies in the world--Oracle, Microsoft and SAP--are sitting on a licensing model that is untenable in the long run and will increasingly irk customers. But there may be a revolution in the cards that could tip the balance of...; Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Open Source, Software Company, Margin, Tools & Techniques, Software As A Service (SaaS), Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-11
Why the Wal-Mart "snub" should be a big deal for gOS: My blogging colleague Dana Blankenhorn reports that ThinkgOS founder David Lui isn't worried by the Wal-Mart snub. He should be. Here's what Lui had to say: "It sounds like a big story but it's not that big a story. Right off the bat we were telling...; Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., PC, Margin, Linux, Desktops, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-03-12
Wal-Mart "snub" no big deal, says ThinkGOS: Reports on the death of the Wal-Mart Linux PC are greatly exaggerated, according to the man selling its operating system. David Liu, founder of ThinkGOS, whose Linux powers the Everex "Linux PC" which Wal-Mart has dropped from its stores, told ZDNet the move was expected, a function of...; Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., PC, Margin, Return Rate, Desktops, Linux, Open Source, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-03-11
Creating a Macro to Meet Court Requirements for Document Margins: Different courts have different requirements, or preferences, for document margins. Frequently, they do not want all the pages treated the same way. For example, they usually want a larger top margin on the first page to allow space to stamp the document without obscuring the printed text. One can accommodate...; Tags: Margin, Productivity; White papers 2007-12-01
About Text Alignment and Spacing: Many factors determine how text is positioned. Margins determine the distance from the edge for all the text on a page, while paragraph indentation and alignment determine how paragraphs fit between the margins. One can also determine how much space occurs between lines, and before and after paragraphs. Margins determine...; Tags: Margin, Indentation; White papers 2007-12-01

Biorhythm (gg): Biorhythm gives you your biorhythm through physical, emotional and intellectual charts, based on your birth date. The arrows mark the present moment. The left margin represents 2 weeks ago, and the right one 2 weeks in the future. The peak button shows the maximum and minimum of your 3 types...; Tags: Arrow, Margin, Birth; Software downloads 2007-09-13
Word 2007: Setting Up the Document: Margins, Page Breaks, and More: Document makes a first impression before anyone reads a word. The paper size, color, and borders give the reader an overall sense of the document's theme and quality. Margins, the text layout, and perhaps a watermark send further visual clues. Making the right choices about the document setup helps to...; Tags: Margin, Microsoft Word 2007, O'Reilly Media Inc., Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; Book chapters 2007-01-01
Momentum Webcast: Growing Your Firm in a Slow-Growth Market: Challenges to Protecting Your Margins (Level 100): The current economic recovery is creating new challenges for the leaders of small to midsized consulting firms. Firms are seeing lackluster revenue growth, stagnating billing rates, dangerously high utilization rates, and rising voluntary staff attrition. So how can one combat the need to work harder to earn less? This webcast...; Tags: Billing, Recovery, Webcast, Margin, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; Webcasts

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AVADirect Core 2 SLI DDR3 Gaming System: If you consider this upper midrange $3,220 AVADirect's Core 2 SLI DDR3 Gaming System representative of the value and build quality available from this small custom builder, we can report that we were mostly happy with this PC, even if we found it loud and its gaming performance a bit...; Tags: Games, AVADirect Core 2 SLI DDR3 Gaming System; Product reviews 2008-07-02
BenQ V2400W: The BenQ V2400W is the fourth 24-inch LCD we've reviewed this year and the third we'd recommend. The $600; Tags: BenQ Corp.; Product reviews 2008-07-01
Text to PDF Converter (exe): Txt2PDF is a text convert tool that can convert text to PDF format. For example, convert your text reports into PDF documents for easier presentation, emailing, and sharing over the Internet. You can custom the text font type and text size for the PDF file, set the PDF file page...; Tags: Adobe PDF, NeoMatrixes Computing, Txt2PDF; Software downloads 2008-07-01
Apple plugs 25 Mac OS X security vulnerabilities: Apple plugs 25 Mac OS X security vulnerabilitiesAnother 25?Wow, how come people are finding so many holes in OS X? Has anything changed? There never used to be so many security vulnerabilities in OS X or could it simply be that they've [b]always[/b] been there and they've simply never been...; Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OSX, Apple Mac OS X, Mac OS X security vulnerability, Mac OS X security, BSD, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, vulnerability, Apple Macintosh, security; Discussion threads 2008-06-30
A world ruled by Apple: Tributes to Bill Gates littered the blogosphere on Friday for obvious reason, as it was Bill Gates' last day as a full-time employee at the company he co-founded. This, predictably, rubbed certain people the wrong way, as the success of Bill Gates represents to some the "failure" of their preferred...; Tags: Software, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Bill Gates, Hardware, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-06-30
The Steve Jobs Premium: The Steve Jobs PremiumWhat was so thoughtfull about ....... the Apple store's answer? They sold yopu a Belkin Cable that didn't work, recommended a cable they didn't have and then sent you off to radioshack to buy the cable you already looked at. it seems the RDF is...; Tags: Network technology, cable, Apple Inc., Apple Store, Steve Jobs Premium; Discussion threads 2008-06-30
Smartphone battle royale: The land grab is good for buyers: Research in Motion misses its first quarter earnings target and cuts its outlook slightly. Palm has a hit with the Centro, but continues to disappoint. And Sony Ericsson sees a rough second quarter on "moderating demand of mid-to-high end mobile phones, in combination with a delay of new products shipped...; Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Nokia Corp., Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Symbian Inc., Smartphone, Platform Game, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-06-30
Free Subliminal Text (zip): Free Subliminal Text FST, flashes subliminal messages on screen. The default settings use very quick flashes of partially transparent text in random screen locations. Most of the time you shouldn't notice it is running, however, you can make what it does, more or less obvious. FST is still being developed...; Tags: Message, Font, Richard Warburton, Free Subliminal Text; Software downloads 2008-06-30
Microsoft finally launches Hyper-V: Analysts have welcomed the release of the hypervisor, but rival VMware claims Hyper-V has been a long time coming and lacks functionality. Microsoft has announced that its Hyper-V hypervisor is finally available, but analysts have questioned whether large enterprises will adopt the product as their sole virtualization...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk, hypervisor, Microsoft, VMware, virtualization; News items 2008-06-26
Gateway FX7026: Continuing in their line of desktop computers with quad-core processors, the Gateway FX7026 offers a loaded computer that can go head-to-head with other high end gaming and media heavy machines. The $1,099 price tag is more than fair for the amount of high performance features and comparable to a similar...; Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), DVD, Consumer electronics, Gateway FX7026, Gateway Inc.; Product reviews 2008-06-25
Oracle's Q4 results analysis: Oracle's Q4 earnings call has just finished. According to Safra Catz, Oracle CFO, the company delivered the company's highest operating margin at 41% for the quarter with software license updates and product support exceeding $10 billion for the year. By the numbers for the quarter: New software...; Tags: Software, Oracle Corp., Software License, Analysis, Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Management, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-06-25
iSuppli: iPhone 3G costs about $173 to build: iSuppli: iPhone 3G costs about $173 to buildiPhone 3G costs as litle as $100 to make....http://www.eetimes.com/rss/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208403011The raw cost of materials to build the iPhone 3G could be nearly half that of the original model, according to Portelligent Inc. Austin that conducted a teardown analysis of the first handset. The first...; Tags: Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G, 3G, Apple Inc., iSuppli Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-06-25