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GRE Guru 1.0 (Mobile)

Virtual Flash Cards- a great tool for any GRE aspirant. It simplifies the task of preparing for the vocabulary section of the Graduate Records Examination. It can also be used for examinations such as the TOEFL and SAT. The words are based on the list available in the Barrons GRE...

Tags: Mobile, Morning Star, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-08-01

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Carry on blues and the blame game

7mgte is right(sorry, I can't reply to a posting, just the story)It's not like the airline saves any money on fuel if you carry it on, vs. check it. It still has to lug the weight around.Just Wait for the Other Shoe Charge to DropJust wait until the airlines "solve"...

Tags: ATM, Financial services, game

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Xerox buys ACS; Makes its big services bet

ASCII/xerox allianceASCII group the worlds oldest group of solution providers has teamed with xerox in print managed services in the smb spaceRE: Xerox buys ACS; Makes its big services betI work for ACS. I was a bit surprised to get this news this morning.What Makes This Deal Different Larry ?...

Tags: Document management, Outsourcing, Xerox Corp., ACS, big service

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

Dallas Local News Free 1.0 (Mobile)

Dallas Local News provides quick access to all the top news sites for the great cities of Dallas and Ft. Worth, including many that are specially formatted for the iPhone or iPod Touch screen. The current sites include Dallas Morning News, Dallas Observer, Fort Worth Star Telegram, Dallas Business Journal,...

Tags: Dallas, Mobile, Martian Technology LLC, Dallas Local News, Smart Phones, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-09-18

Friday Fun: Your Top 10(ish) alternatives to "smartphones"

This morning, I posted an entry about the evolution of smartphones - with the news hook being the arrival of the new Motorola Cliq, powered by Google Android. In that post, I noted that the "phone" feature on the device was secondary to other apps - notably e-mail and social...

Tags: Phone, Acronym, Smart Phone, Computer, Productivity, PDAs, Handhelds, Smart Phones, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-11

Apple afterthoughts: The real news is what wasn't announced

800 lb GorillaThe Gorilla not being mentioned is why the Beatles aren't in iTunes. This was the alignment of the planets, the day of days to bring Apple Corps library into the digital age of distribution.Sam "Sour Grapes" DiazApple puts a camera in the iPod nano and you write "No...

Tags: TVs, Digital music, Digital media, TV & Home Theater, Apple Inc., TV, Apple iTunes, Joe Consumer, camera, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

Dallas Local News 1.0 (Mobile)

Dallas Local News provides quick access to all the top news sites for the great cities of Dallas and Ft. Worth, including many that are specially formatted for the iPhone or iPod Touch screen. Its current sites include Dallas Morning News, Dallas Observer, Fort Worth Star Telegram, Dallas Business Journal,...

Tags: Dallas, Mobile, Martian Technology LLC, Dallas Local News, Smart Phones, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-08-17

News to know: Yahoo, Windows 7, Palm, AMD, Blackberry Tour, Netbook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Bartz to Yahoo shareholders: Change is coming; We're not Google Yahoo: Showtime for shareholders this morning ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Richard Koman, Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, Netbook, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Pennsylvania school gets high marks for energy-saving plan

Remember how steamy hot it got in your school classroom as the days of summer vacation approached? Now, imagine if the heat in that classroom was still on every day of the year, for no other reason than that it was automatically set that way. That's just...

Tags: District, Team, Cisco Systems Inc., Team Management, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-06-15

Microsoft's naive vision of the future home

Microsoft's naive vision of the future homeCost go down and effciency goes up after a while.Most technology costs goes down as time goes by. 50+ in HDTV a 10 years ago costs mored than 10K, now you can buy them at less 1500. Cost of new technology is always expensive...

Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Zack, future home, vision, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-10

WWDC 2009 live

It's that time again: the annual Apple World Wide Developer's Conference and its highly anticipated keynote address. Phil Schiller ran the show this year, and while he's no Steve Jobs most observers agree that he did a pretty good job. Highlights include a revamping of the MacBook Pro line, the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple MacBook, Video, Scott Forstall, iPhone OS 3.0, Corporate Communications, Notebooks, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-06-08

NCIS: Episode #140: Breakout

NCIS: Episode #140: BreakoutNCIS ScriptPaul, keep taking the medication mate.Paul, you really are losing it.If you were to assess laptop marketshare by what you see used on TV, then you could easily be forgiven for concluding NOBODY BUT Apple makes laptops!This clearly isnt the reality of the world - its...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, NCIS, TV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Paul

Discussion threads 2009-05-09

A conversation with Trend Micro's Eva Chen

I caught up with Eva Chen, CEO of Trend Micro Tuesday morning just before her two appearances at the RSA security conference. She was in great form, enjoying a rare San Francisco heat wave, while we all melted into puddles. Here are some notes from our conversation: -...

Tags: Asian Team, Management, Security, Team, Team Management, Tom Foremski, Trend Micro Inc.

Blog posts 2009-04-22

Washington state rejects open source

Washington state rejects open sourcePerfect example...Of what loibiest have the power to do. MS gets the big guys in their pocket. And then those big guys could care less if they lose half their workforce so long as they get whatever MS promised them.Just what problem is he trying to...

Tags: Washington State, open source, Microsoft Corp., Dressel

Discussion threads 2009-04-17

356,800 green Linux workstations going to Brazil’s schools

356,800 green Linux workstations going to Brazil’s schoolsThanks for the link! That is very interesting. MS will have to figure out how to untangle the ridiculous licensing, or get left behind.A Belgian firm offers a multiseat PC based on UbuntuCheck this interesting link:http://www.multiseatcomputer.be/index.php/en/schoolcomputersUp to 12 users on one PC.I've seen...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Linux workstation, workstation

Discussion threads 2009-02-18

Nothing is Real - Just Ask The Tech Media

No, this isn't about A-Rod and his use of steroids in 2003. Truthfully, I'm a Yankees fan and at this point, I don't care. That was 2003 and this is now. Okay. On to the subject matter at hand. My great buddy and industry...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Media, Denis, Sales Force Management, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-02-11

DTV delay bill fails in House. It

DTV delay bill fails in House. ItDTV is a redundancy in broadcastIf you shut off analog you will drive the inventors of digital right out of their mind.You're taking the pressure distributed to TV engineers and placing it right of the digital inventor's shoulders.It's just like the time change a...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, digital television

Discussion threads 2009-01-28

OpenOffice 3 launch timed perfectly but will Sun, IBM exploit opportunity?

OpenOffice 3 launch timed perfectly but will Sun, IBM exploit opportunity?I don't think that Microsoft products cost anything to companies marginallyI believe my company has agreement with Microsoft where we pay them a fixed fee, and we get to use Microsoft software all we want. This would include Office. Therefore...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, OpenOffice, OpenOffice 3, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., software

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

I... B... Wha?

The following is a true story, and happened to me today. I'm on a business trip visiting Richmond, Virginia --  which for those of you kids reading this piece, is the state capital, has a population of over 200,000, and is home to...

Tags: Computer, IBM Corp., Productivity, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Don't leave that fridge by the curb!

I saw a television out on our street a couple of mornings ago when I left for my morning job/walk, waiting for pick-up by the garbage dudes. I resisted the urge to narc on my neighbors, since it's actually illegal to place said TVs curbside in New Jersey, but it...

Tags: Southern California Edison, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-27