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Sidekick outage says more about the future of 'Pink' than Microsoft's cloud

This isn't about any service.This is about Microsoft in general. It brings up the question of whether they can manage a server environment. It doesn't matter what that environment is. Preservation of data is always job one. And this is the job where the failure occurred. So Pink, Azure, cloud,...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Mary-Jo, Microsoft Corp., Azure, job, Pink, IT administration

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Get off Microsoft's back, EVERY mobile OS has different co-existing versions

There has been a lot of talk today on the Internet about the possibility that Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Mobile 7 will co-exist in 2010. I have to say I really don't understand why people seem to think this is a big deal. We currently have different flavors of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Windows Mobile 7, Mary-Jo, Mobile Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Mobile Applications, Handhelds, Wireless And Mobility, Software, Hardware, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Windows Azure: a very difficult concept explained

Since the announcement of Windows Azure, codenamed "Red Dog" as discovered by my colleague Mary-Jo Foley, at PDC 2008, I have felt an element of doubt hanging over the service, simply because I didn't know enough about it. This post will explain everything you need to know about Azure -...

Tags: Operating System, Server, Microsoft Corp., Service, Windows Azure, Mary-Jo, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Data Centers, Storage, Software, Hardware, Data Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-05-01

Windows 7: preview of final user interface and 'studenty' features

It's a difficult and strange time for many in the IT industry. It seems most people from home consumers to students, IT professionals and governments have rejected Windows Vista, and many have their reservations about Windows 7. Will it be another disaster like Vista? Or will it...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, PDC, Mary-Jo, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-28

Additional Resources

John Hagel on Real Time, Social & Mobile Web

3 short video clips full of insight from John Hagel Real Time Web: Exception Handling Social Web: Tacit Knowledge Mobile Web: Early stages of value propositions in integrating physical and virtual worlds ...

Tags: Web, Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Marketing, Internet, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Prayer Beads for iPhone 1.01 (Mobile)

Prayer Beads for iPhone were designed for those that meditate or pray regularly. Simply select how many sets you would like to do and how many beads between each divider bead. To count past a bead is just to click the bead in the center to move onto the next...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Bead, Mobile, LOLriffic Stuff, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-26

Was Windows 7 totally your idea?

W7: Whose ideas?It is pretty clear that Apple and Microsoft "borrow" from each other. I don't think that's a problem, all competitors "borrow" each others' ideas and the consumer wins.What is clear, though, is that Microsoft did listen to alot of people but it wasn't those people that use...

Tags: Desktops, Crispin, Microsoft Corp., PC, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Net Neutrality: Hit satire coming to a theatre near you

The world is a simple place, until someone wants to tell you what to do.  The realization that not everyone believes in common ground that surrounds each of us seems to be a new discovery to some. The sanctity of individual requirements is wrapping around our lives with a plethora of effects that...

Tags: Net Neutrality, Actor, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-10-21

AT&T: Google has it in for nuns, mom, and apple pie

Ummm what?Ok let's start:Blocking ambulance services: Errrm would a call to this service always be without error? no.Blocking other numbers: ok they might have a case.Does the blocking of the other numbers prevent the User from contacting those numbers by not using Google Voice?... I think not.Does AT&T has...

Tags: Federal government, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Sister Mary, pope, Google Inc., AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

AT&T to FCC: Close loopholes and write rules that apply to Google, too

AT&T has taken off the boxing gloves in its fight with Google over the Google Voice service and proposed Net Neutrality rules. In a letter to the FCC PDF this week, AT&T went on the attack to portray Google as a big powerful company that's trying to fool the FCC...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., AT&T Corp., Net Neutrality, Federal Government, Telephony, Telecommunications, Government, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-15

Gartner: Windows 7 is 'all but inevitable'

Completely Disagree with Gartner's Recommendations...I would be skipping Vista at this point, and aborting all Vista deployment plans. Why? Simple...Any IT staff that is deploying Vista en mass to their enterprises bought it with Volume Licensing, which means they probably bought it with Software Assurance... better to use those support...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), gartner, Microsoft Windows Vista, Win 7, Microsoft Windows 7, Gartner Inc., Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Angelus for iPhone 1.0.2 (Mobile)

Angelus for iPhone is a Marian devotion in memory of the incarnation. It consists of three texts that summarize the mystery. It recited in an alternating verse and responses, between each of the three texts are recites of the Hail Mary. It contains the Regina Coeli prayer, which is recited...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Text, EBSolutions, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-13

Angelus Deluxe for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

Angelus Deluxe for iPhone is a Marian devotion in memory of the incarnation. It consists of three texts that summarize the mystery. It recited in an alternating verse and responses, between each of the three texts are recites of the Hail Mary. It contains the Regina Coeli prayer, which is...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Text, EBSolutions, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-13

Are Mac OS X and Apple servers making inroads with the Feds?

Silly Question comes with silly answer"Are Mac OS X and Apple servers making inroads with the Feds?"No, "the Snow Leopard bug hosed [our] data".No, it didn't."No, "the Snow Leopard bug hosed [our] data"."Snow Leopard just failed to recognise the data. A trip to Terminal can fix that and recover...

Tags: Operating systems, Snow Leopard, Apple Server, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, server, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

Comparing oranges to oranges: Microsoft's hosted collaboration suites vs. IBM's LotusLive iNotes

I'm way tired of you....BEAOTCH!!Are you for real?Dude - please disappear and never come back to ZDNET. Really. CYA.....How odd...A claim to be comparing "oranges to oranges" when all you did Mary was toss your opinion about Microsoft's offering and Microsoft's statements about their own product rather than anything that's...

Tags: Collaboration Suite, collaboration, IBM Corp., orange, LotusLive iNotes, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

7 Horrors books 1.2.2 (Mobile)

7 Horrors books contain the best classic horrors gathered in one application. A must have book collection for real horror fun and classics lovers. It includes Dracula by Bram Stoker, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson,...

Tags: Mobile, Readdle, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-30

Impressionism Art Screensaver - 900 Paintings 2eb (Windows)

Over 900 Paintings by more than 100 Impressionist artists in one slideshow screensaver. Works by Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Eduoard Manet, Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Camille Pissarro, Thomas Eakins, William Merritt Chase, Winslow Homer, and Gustave Caillebotte. Radicals in their time, early...

Tags: Screensaver, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-30

Save Our Spirit 1.0 (Windows)

Lord Longstep has set off on a grand adventure across the globe to save the love of his life, Mary. After a whirlwind honeymoon, a mysterious secret society has kidnapped Mary Longstep for her mystical powers. The dark society will use these mystical treasures for evil purposes unless stopped. Embark...

Tags: Globe, Society, Adventure, SpinTop Games, Lord Longstep, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-28

Pink and Microsoft Tablet (Take 2): A couple of updates

Microsoft should release a High end WM 7 PhoneIn fact a high end phone which will effectively show off all capabilities of WM7, because i don't think that Microsoft can rely on any of its partner to do that. Especially as its biggest partner for WM phones,HTC, is more and...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Holy Rosary Deluxe 1.1 (Mobile)

Holy Rosary Deluxe brings well-designed application for praying the Rosary on your iPhone. It allows you to meditate while praying the Holy Rosary with gorgeous and inspiring images of each mystery. Its features include allows you to start over or continue from the point where you left off, inspiring images...

Tags: Mobile, Mystery, AppsCode

Software downloads 2009-09-15