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Kay may have the best tech stocking stuffers, but her iPod is her Dead-Finger tech

Meet Kay. Shes a twenty-sumthin hipster who works for an ad agency and who appears to have both a personal and professional passion for technology. She clearly loves the Internet for the way it satisfies what she says is a "human beings basic need to feel connected." When she says...

Tags: Meet Kay, Apple, Wired &, Wireless, Personal Technology, Mobile, Hardware Infrastructure, Dead Finger Tech, General

Blog posts 2006-12-20

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CIOs hit the snooze button on Snow Leopard

Wow, how wrong can you be?Quote from the first paragraph of the article...[i]The [b]assumption[/b] was that this one feature could have the same kind of impact in opening the Mac market to corporate users as Exchange integration had on bringing the iPhone to business professionals.[/i]Seems that TechRepublic is way out...

Tags: Marketing research, Snow Leopard, snooze button

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100?

The Dynabook. Source: A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages, Alan Kay, XEROX PARC 1968. November 5th, 2008 was the 40th anniversary since computer scientist Alan Kay devised the "Dynabook", a theoretical computing device which was aimed toward higher education and...

Tags: Device, Student, Alan Kay, Dynabook, E-books, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Personal Technology, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-11-09

Women and leadership

Last week, my dead tree copy of McKinsey Quarterly arrived bearing the above title. This section caught my eye (p.45 and written by Joanne Barsch, Susie Cranston and Rebecca A. Craske): One surprising thing we learned as a result of talking with female leaders was that they often fail...

Tags: McKinsey & Co., Leadership, Men, Women, Leader, Personal Development, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-27

About the Windows Server 2008 stack

About the Windows Server 2008 stackNeed to corre t your article linkthe link is half the articlebut good points about MS centric users who haven't looked outside their little worldRE: About the Windows Server 2008 stackI believe the Windows registry predates MS getting any influence from the VMS world. (In...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., IPv6, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, VMS, Windows Server 2008 stack, Microsoft Windows Server, registry, Unix, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-01-30

EU issues antitrust charge sheet against Intel

EU issues antitrust charge sheet against IntelBodes Poorly For Microsoft ; Patty DunnIntel and Microsoft use to be refereed to as the evil duopoly in the USA. When Microsoft went up on antitrust charges, Intel executives are reported to have said - well thank god it wasn't us. Clearly the...

Tags: Corporate law, BGI, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., antitrust, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-07-26

SAIC deserves big share of blame for Trilogy

The Washington Post takes a deep look today at the troubled FBI's troubled Trilogy system and the true disaster at its heart, the Virtual Case File system or VCF. While Congress and press have held the FBI's feet to the fire for the fiasco, Writers Dan Eggen and Griff Witte...

Tags: SAIC, FBI

Blog posts 2006-08-18

Hysteria over State buy of Lenovo PCs a 'drive-by smearing'

A few weeks back we wrote about a Beltway Brouhaha over the State Dept.'s purchase of 15,000 Lenovo PCs. The problem critics had was that Lenovo is Chinese and they imagined that all kinds of digital moles would be installed in top-secret US locations in DC and around the...

Tags: Lenovo Group Ltd.

Blog posts 2006-04-12

We want our XQuery

We want our XQueryDon't worryMicrosoft won't leave developers stranded. At this very moment they're cranking out their own functional equivalent which will make XQuery irrelevant.You get your XQuery ......In SQL Server 2005.Please note that Microsoft *does* support XQuery in SQL Server 2005. This is described in http://www.stylusstudio.com/michael_rys.html The...

Tags: XML, XQuery, Microsoft .NET

Discussion threads 2005-05-02

Compton's by Encyclopædia Britannica (Mobile)

Easy access to the information you need...A world of knowledge at your fingertips! Compton's by Encyclopdia Britannica 2005 Handheld Edition features authoritative articles from the editors at Britannica covering art, history, geography, technology, pop culture, and more. Get in-depth answers from this wide-ranging resource on various topics that are relevant...

Tags: Mobile, Entry, Image, Compton

Software downloads 2004-12-10

Compton's by Encyclopdia Britannica (Mobile)

This product is not compatible with Motorola MPX-200 Smartphones.Easy access to the information you need...A world of knowledge at your fingertips! Compton's by Encyclopdia Britannica 2005 Handheld Edition features authoritative articles from the editors at Britannica covering art, history, geography, technology, pop culture, and more. Get in-depth answers from this...

Tags: Mobile, Entry, Image, Mobifusion, Compton

Software downloads 2004-12-10