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SayNDrive 1.2 (Mobile)

Forget about typing long street addresses, cities and states to get directions on your iPhone. With SayNDrive just say your destination address and get the route and driving directions from your current location. You can also say any one of more than 10,000 business categories to find nearby businesses. Speech...

Tags: Mobile, Apple iTunes, Metaphor Solutions, Digital Music, Speech Recognition, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Emerging Technologies, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-04-02

Metaphor Conversation Manager 3.0.2 (Windows)

Metaphor is speech application development toolset for both speech novices and experts. .NET developers can now use C# and Visual Studio for building high quality speech applications at the level of the call flow and business process. The IDE hides the low level complexities of building speech applications but has...

Tags: Metaphor, Metaphor Solutions, C#, Software Development, .Net, Microsoft Windows, Operational Planning, Development Tools, Microsoft Development Tools, Middleware, Programming Languages, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations, Enterprise Software

Software downloads 2005-09-27

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Yahoo's dwindling search share: Time to panic?

Typical MicrosoftThis is normal business practice for MS. Partner up with someone, take what they need, then discard them.Ask anyone from RealNetworks how their partnership went.It's about search.Wow, it looks like the volume of search users use the search engine that delivers better results.Google search is better than Bing...

Tags: E-mail, SEARCH, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Bing

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Time Tagger 1.3 (Mac)

Time Tagger revolutionary new tag-based interface makes time-tracking simpler and more elegant than it's ever been before. Whether you track your time for invoicing or just for productivity, Time Tagger simplifies this vital business task by eliminating the projects, clients, tasks and timers that bog down other time-tracking solutions...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Tagging, Tag, Matterform Media, Construction

Software downloads 2009-10-27

What's Cloud Computing and What's Not?

What's Cloud Computing and What's Not?Cloud Computing Definition in 4 wordsOther people's virtual serversWhat is the Cloud? What....is computing? These two terms are definitive. We don't need someone trying to define something that is defined already by its terms.Cloud computing is accessing your IT resources through the cloud. The term...

Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-05-29

Microsoft's Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexed

Microsoft's Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexedHead in the clouds...So, Microsoft "cloud computing" is another huge boon to IT Departments who want to hire more staff? I wonder if anyone will eventually wake up and realize that IT departments can usually be replaced by a dozen temp...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, Databases, Windows Azure, Azure, PDC, Microsoft Corp., data center, server, ISV

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

A conversation with Thomas Otter, Gartner analyst and blogger

While away, I briefly saw some comment about Gartner's latest foray into the blogging world. Past efforts have been abysmal but this latest attempt looks much more promising. Carter Lusher at SageCircle interviewed Andrew Spender, Gartner’s VP of Corporate Communications, via email. The answers were somewhat stilted in my opinion....

Tags: Analyst, Blog, Gartner Inc., Blogger, Thomas, Tele-management, Blogging, Internet, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-18

Thinking about multicore and software

Informit.com recently ran a fascinating Andrew Binstock interview with Donald Knuth touching on some of the same topics we discuss here - programming methods, the value of open source, and the links between programming and hardware change. I want to get...

Tags: Software, Job, T2, Multi-core, Hardware, Multi-threading, Tim Bray, Open Source, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-09

Open source a Pull-a-Part yard?

Open source a Pull-a-Part yard?So what if you want......support? In the corporate environments I've worked in, management has always insisted on support agreements, sla's etc. So who do you call for support when you have a stack of multiple products that you mashed together to build your solution?...

Tags: SourceForge, Pull-a-Part, open source

Discussion threads 2008-01-15

A surprise in nature's operating system

A surprise in nature's operating systemGenetic manipulation"Can we encode the HIV virus into the human genome, rendering it harmless, and should we?"I know it's "too geeky" for some, but in the Star Trek Deep Space 9 series they had a character, Dr. Bashir, who had been born with abnormally low...

Tags: Biotechnology, RNA, DNA, antibiotic, bacteria, genetic manipulation, operating system

Discussion threads 2007-11-29

Stop the botnets!

This is the intention of Paul Barford, a computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He wants to build a new line of defense against malicious traffic which has become today a billion-dollar 'shadow industry.' As one of 'the most menacing aspects of botnets is that they can go largely...

Tags: Network, Network Intrusion, Nemean, Achilles, Botnet Evaluation Environment, Networking, Security, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-11-09

IBM open source strategy becomes clearer

IBM open source strategy becomes clearerFabio?I'm sorry about the error. If you want me to correct it I'll do so gladly.I hope we also end up with lots of OpenOffice "distributions" as well, withas you say is true for Linux, 3 or 4 that almost everybody uses based on CUSTOMER...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OPEN SOURCE, Blogging, strategy, Lotus Symphony, IBM Corp., OOo, OpenOffice

Discussion threads 2007-09-20

eBay's new APIs: Harbingers of the Net's commerce operating system to come?

Yesterday, as can be seen from the video we captured a part of eBay's senior director of Disruptive Innovation Max Mancini's keynote address at the eBay's Developer Conference in Boston, eBay made a series of announcements. Among them, the release of two new APIs that developers can use as they...

Tags: Yahoo, Software Infrastructure, Salesforce.com, Innovation, Google, General, Enterprise 2.0, eBay, E-commerce, Berlind, Amazon

Blog posts 2007-06-12

Ten lessons the Xbox Team can teach the rest of Microsoft

Ten lessons the Xbox Team can teach the rest of MicrosoftGawd I hope they don'tLook, the Xbox is fundementally different than work based computing. I know of no one that sets down to a Word document becuase it's "fun". Two very different things, two very different markets, two...

Tags: Game players, team, dashboard, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-05-04

Technology adoption and force majeur

Technology adoption and force majeurStrangeEvery big project I know of is using Sun/Solaris or HP/UX. From the business perspective the important change of the last twenty years has been the change from ISAM and hierarchical DBMSs to SQL-DBMSs. What operating system the SQL-DBMS runs on isn't of enormous significance, most...

Tags: DATA MANAGEMENT, Operating systems, Databases, SQL-DBMS, Sun Microsystems Inc., operating system, client-server

Discussion threads 2007-05-03

Google Apps Doesn't Compete

Google Apps Doesn't CompeteWhoops, ZDNet team fails to actually USE Google Apps prior to story!Guys,you best look at Google Apps - I mean use it!OFFICE is it's target boys and it does a great job of it too!Our company (Fortune 50) signed up for it!!No, doesn't compete now, but, they...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Word processors, Google Inc., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Google Apps

Discussion threads 2007-02-23

Demo 07: GarageBand for Web testers

Ken Gardner has been around the block. He was the founder and CEO of Istante, Sagent Technology, ReportSmith, and ViewPoint Systems over the last two decades. He is back again with SOASTA, a startup that has developed a unique automated Web testing service that he claims will deliver a 100x...

Tags: General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Demo, Gardner, SOASTA

Blog posts 2007-02-01

A busy afternoon at DEMO 07

The afternoon at DEMO 07 covers a number of topics with presenting companies organized around three themes:Making it all work – companies providing the architecture and foundation for web-based applications and services.SupportSoft – System TuneUp and Security Audit – System TuneUp helps computer users speed up the performance of...

Tags: DEMO, Mobility, Productivity, Software, video, Web Apps

Blog posts 2007-01-31

SOA wikis, SOA for SaaS, and the future of business applications -- all in a webinar-as-podcast with Cape Clear's Annrai O'Toole

Read a full transcript of the podcast.Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect presentation, a podcast created from a recent webinar with Interarbor Solutions Principal Analyst Dana Gardner and Cape Clear Software CEO Annrai OToole. This sponsored webinar presents a Services Oriented Architecture SOA market perspective by Dana, followed by comments by...

Tags: Cape Clear, Agile Development, SaaS, Web Services, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA, Podcasts, Software Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-01-04

Analyst: Microsoft OneCare market share non-existent

Analyst: Microsoft OneCare market share non-existentYetThere's no guarantee that the others will continue to work at all reliably, after all.I certainly don't trust OneCare!This line from the article sums it up for me:"Folks...don't want Microsoft – which created vulnerable operating systems in the first place – securing their PCs."If they...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Cyberthreats, Operating systems, Microsoft OneCare, OneCare, security, operating system, antivirus, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-01-02