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CircleDog Standard 3.0 (Windows)

CircleDog Standard Desktop Customer Manager the first uncomplicated contact, customer, sales, and marketing management software for small businesses and home offices. Very easy to learn, CircleDog covers your business software needs with its unique user interface that makes it easy to manage and track customer interactions, create marketing campaigns, send...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Mission Research, Marketing Research, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-08-19

GiftWorks 2008 Standard 3.0.158 (Windows)

At Mission Research, we recognize the critical work nonprofits perform in our society and take seriously our quest to provide organizations with an outstanding tool to raise the ever-needed funds to meet their mission. That's why we created GiftWorks. GiftWorks is powerful and intuitive; comprehensive and easy-to-use. And yet, it's...

Tags: Nonprofit, Mission Research, GiftWorks 2008, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-03-21

Additional Resources

Does virtualization equal cloud computing?

I would say yesThere is no need to buy 'stand alone' servers any longer in functionality when you can put it in a Blade 'name your flavor' chassis.Virtualization with VMware/RHEL or some vendor is the best way to get it off bare-metal...Doing baremetal rebuilds is time consuming and it takes...

Tags: Data centers, Servers, Utility computing, server, cloud computing, virtualization, cluster

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Internet continues to lose its founding network partners

With the explosive commercial success of the internet, the founding builders and users of the Internet are using an alternative network for bandwidth when it requires mission critical applications to operate for research and development projects. by Doug Hanchard

Tags: R&D, Network, Internet, Research & Development, Networking, Business Operations, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-11-16

Can you teach programmers to be journalists?

Megan Taylor over at PBS' MediaShift writes about the challenges of getting programmers and journalists to work together.MediaShift . Can Programmers, Journalists Get Along in One Newsroom? | PBS It's an interesting subject because newsrooms are increasingly digital and they need to add programming skills to help...

Tags: Software, Software Engineering, Journalist, Programmer, Ms Taylor, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Microsoft exposes Firefox users to drive-by malware downloads

is this a part of - framework assistantI am using Firefox 3.5.3 and it has".net framework assistant 1.0" disabled,claiming that is not compatible with thisversion of the browser.what makes this different from the ?Windows Presentation Foundation"that was not disabled until i did it my self ?is one or both the...

Tags: Web browsers, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, Linux Distro, Mozilla Firefox, Web browser, Google Chrome, plug-in, malware, Google Inc., security, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

(NASA spacecraft crashes into the moon)

Total Waste of MaterialLets see, we explode a bomb and crash a satellite into the moon to try and confirm whether or not water is on it. And for what purpose? To make another return trip to the moon? To build space colonies? We don't have...

Tags: spacecraft, NASA, Darwin

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

The troubling thoughts re: outsourcing

Some facts and inferences should be updatedAccenture's Consulting revenue dropped 12% and Outsourcing grew by 1%http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2009/Accentures-Future-Remains-Bright-ACN-IBM-HPQ1005.aspxSome of the issues you highlighted around process innovation, dated technology, etc will continue to remain. However, the nimbler players will also adopt the benefits of innovations like SaaS and Cloud platform.Underlying platform is an...

Tags: Managed hosting, Business process outsourcing (BPO), Programming languages, outsourcing, BPO, COBOL, outsourcing company

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Nvidia: Next big supercomputer player?

NVidia has a chanceNot all that surprisingly the concept of supercomputing on a small basis has finally filtered down to audio/video recording facilities, with the bulk of basics going to the CPU and the actual processing going to the GPU. This is a clear advancement when those of us...

Tags: NVidia Corp., supercomputer, big supercomputer player, supercomputing, supercomputer player

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Building a Fountain of Knowledge

Texas Tech needed to build a new high performance computing HPC cluster to attract top-name researchers, accelerate research efforts with the fastest technology, and help fulfill its mission to be in the top tier of Texas research universities. The university deployed an HPC solution with Dell PowerEdge servers running Rocks...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Knowledge, High-performance Computing, InfiniBand, Cloud Computing, Servers, Networking, Hardware

Case studies 2009-10-01

IBM Helping Lay Enhanced Collaboration Foundations for US Bank

Here's an interesting collaboration case history: US Bank, the 6th largest bank in the United States, are rationalizing around IBM's Lotus Notes 8.5, Quickr, and Sametime for their 58,000 employees. This week I spoke first with Bob Picciano, general manager of IBM Lotus...

Tags: Bank, IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Corp., Collaboration System, Groupware, Financial Services, Collaboration, E-mail Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-18

Do video games really make you fat, depressed?

I don't know about this survey. I'll have to take it with a grain of salt. I'm sure there are plenty of overweight video gamers (we are the U.S.A. afterall), but it all depends on lifestyle and the video games being played. Take a look at the wii,...

Tags: Games, Corporate communications, game, Nintendo Wii, video game, video, baseball

Discussion threads 2009-08-19

U.S. national broadband strategy: Funding is the elephant in the room

The Federal Communications Commission held a series of discussions about broadband polices, wiring rural locales and fostering innovation, but the elephant in the room was funding. The rough goal of the Feds' national broadband dreams is to wire everything in a high-speed access utopia. Radio waves, fixed...

Tags: Broadband, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-14

Lunch.com - creating a platform for critical thinking

[caption id="attachment_682" align="aligncenter" width="475" caption="JR Johnson founder of Lunch.com"][/caption] J.R Johnson is looking very SoCal when I meet him at my favorite meeting spot Apollo Cafe. Well dressed and well groomed, tanned and relaxed. Mr Johnson is the founder of Lunch., based in El Segundo, Ca. It's a...

Tags: Founder, Content, El Segundo, Blogging, Productivity, Internet, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-08-13

ShapeWriter_English for WM6(SQVGA 320x320) (Mobile)

ShapeWriter? Inc. is an award winning software company producing breakthrough text and command input interfaces based on spin-off technologies developed for nearly 10 years by scientists at the IBM Almaden Research Center in Silicon Valley.Our mission is to make mobile phones, tablet computers, game pads, and all other touch-screen devices...

Tags: Touch Screen, Mobile, Shapewriter Inc., Inc., Touch-screen Device, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Components

Software downloads 2009-08-10

Organizational knowledge

Organizations have many moving parts. There are groups focused on finance, sales, production, research and the like. Over time each of them face issues and develop responses.  How effective the responses are tend to define how successful they are in addressing their mission. Unfortunately, in many organizations that knowledge is...

Tags: Knowledge, Productivity, Strategy, E-mail, Management, Online Communications, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-03

TechRepublic's CIO Jury: Split on deploying Windows 7

IT departments have largely ignored Windows Vista and stuck with Windows XP as the corporate standard. However, Windows 7 has received a warmer response from IT professionals than Vista did, and TechRepublic’s CIO Jury is split down the middle on whether to deploy Windows 7. On July...

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., CIO, Information Technology, Director Of Information Technology, Jury, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Cloud Survey results - everything old is new again

My friends at Stratus brought my attention to a recent survey done by Laura Didido of Information Technology Intelligence Corporation ITIC that reminds me a great deal of surveys executed by my former employer, International Data Corporation IDC. Early in the adoption cycle of client/server computing, IDC...

Tags: Survey, ITIC, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Marketing Research, Hardware, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-22

To the Moon: Rocketdyne, Keeper of the Flame

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: Engine, Moon, Aerospace & Defense, Workforce Management, Manufacturing, Human Resources, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-15

Ballmer: "I'm a PC" ads effective against Apple

Ballmer: "I'm a PC" ads effective against AppleWow...I was expecting Ballmer to say the ads weren't working at all!Microsoft ads seem backwardThe only part of the Microsoft ads that ever get my attention at all is right at the end, where the screen is almost solid green. For quite...

Tags: Desktops, advertisement, PC, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-15