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Paradigms lost

Well, the week may have started with the announcement that Oracle would acquire PeopleSoft. However, Tim O'Reilly, founder and president of O'Reilly & Associates, has provocatively stated that "eBay will someday buy Oracle." O'Reilly's facetious point is that the interconnected, globalWeb is enabling a new power shift that tends to...

Tags: software, O'Reilly, eBay Inc., O'Reilly & Associates

Blog posts 2004-12-15

Additional Resources

JDAFTS (zip)

JDAFTS, which stands for Jones Dykstra & Associates Forensic Tool Suite, includes case data management applications that extend beyond the capabilities of currently-available forensic software applications. JDAFTS is designed for computer forensics, corporate, government, and law enforcement investigators as well as universities. Easy to use, the tool suite allows forensics...

Tags: Web Browser, Jones Dykstra & Associates, JDAFTS, Data Management, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Web Browsers, Storage, Government, Databases, Management, Internet, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2008-07-04

My 15 minutes with Bill Gates, and how the Web was born

My 15 minutes with Bill Gates, and how the Web was born BG Saw It ComingIf Bill Gates saw the Internet & the World Wide Web coming well in advance of everyone, why was his company the very last to do anything about it?The real truth is that Bill Gates...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Digital media, Web, Bill Gates, software

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

Wi-Fi in cable set-top boxes coming (not so soon)

Cable TV providers are planning to add wireless to their set-top boxes, according to panelists at a recent Connect event sponsored by Park Associates and the CEA. A report in EE Times say cable companies like Cox Communications are planning to...

Tags: Set-top Box, Set-top, Cox Communications Inc., Wireless LANs, Ultrawideband (UWB), Wi-Fi, Cable, Wireless, Tv & Home Theater, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Rik Fairlie

Blog posts 2008-06-30

The lighter side of Bill Gates

As you all probably know, considering the 2 year lead-up to today and the considerable press coverage, it's Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft. I'd like to take a slightly different spin on covering his career and life, by pointing out the stupid stuff, in the hope it will appeal...

Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 95, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Sales, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-27

Bill Gates bids farewell

Bill Gates bids farewellHe brought a lot to the computer world!Yeah, vicious predation, greed, and arrogance.iMiss BilliWill miss Bill. He brought a lot to the computer world!Bill Gates bids farewellA fine speech from a magnificent man! He had visions, he had missions, he had it all! The IT...

Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Windows NT, Bill Gates, Abramoff, Preston Gates, vision, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

I'd love to tell you about this article, but...

I'd love to tell you about this article, but...Chris, you should have quoted the article anyway...Or even better, quote a little piece of the Odyssey that relates to the article. I don't think Homer holds the copyright on that since around 500 B.C.(if today's copyright terms applied) :)Re:Chris, you should...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Homer

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

Tonium Pacemaker

Photo gallery:Tonium PacemakerThe Tonium Pacemaker ($800) squeezes the performance and functionality of a full digital DJ rig into a single pocket-size device. Fitting a DJ booth into a product the size of a Sony PSP requires some compromises in design and features, but the end result is a new breed...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Tonium Pacemaker

Product reviews 2008-06-20

The Associated Press plays role of Metallica in Napster-esque war with bloggers

The Associated Press plays role of Metallica in Napster-esque war with bloggersHey, Jennifergood and HOT blog. Exactly what we needed :)Good Job, Jen...As a published author and a blooger of sorts myself, I am damned happy to be a part of the Internet and what it has done both professionally...

Tags: E-books, Postal Service, Metallica, e-book

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

More Microsoft 'Oslo' modeling details fall into place

While Microsoft isn't planning to provide testers with "Oslo" code until late October, the company did finally start putting some real meat on its software-modeling bones at the TechEd Developers Conference in Orlando this week. Until this week, Microsoft would say next-to-nothing about Oslo. Until the TechEd...

Tags: Repository, Oslo, Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Web Services, Application Servers, Middleware, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Microsoft OOXML opponents won't back down

After Hillary Clinton spoke last night I listened closely for what the loudspeakers would play. It was Tom Petty's hit "I Won't Back Down." (UPDATE: Clinton did back down Wednesday, with the official announcement now expected in two stages Friday and Saturday. OOXML opponents, meanwhile, fight on.)...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Hillary Clinton, Office Open XML, Opponent, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Space Shuttle tech works on brain tumors

A robotic surgeon based on military technology has performed its first brain operation in Canada. The neuroArm was developed as a collaborative effort by the University of Calgary and MacDonald Dettwiler Associates Ltd. MDA, a Vancouver military contractor whose best known device is Canadarm used on the...

Tags: Space Shuttle, Surgeon, Model-driven Architecture, Model Driven Architecture, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Ipevo PoV Web Camera

Ipevo would have you believe that its pen-shaped PoV Web Camera is the only Webcam you can detach from the top of your laptop or monitor to control its point of view. While it is true that you can point the PoV cam at objects other than a talking head...

Tags: Instant messaging, Ipevo, Webcam, PoV Web Camera, camera, Skype Technologies S.A.

Product reviews 2008-05-30

Does it blend? Zoho and Google

The announcement earlier today that Zoho has added an import capability for those using GoogleDocs to its Writer apps is great news. It is something I asked for a short while ago and is an excellent example of how an agile cloud computing vendor can respond to a need when...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Docs, Commoditization, Abundance, Zoho Writer, Business Services, Tools & Techniques, Software As A Service (SaaS), OpenOffice, Management, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Digital Marketing and Event Solutions Agency Boosts Productivity and Morale With SharePoint Intranet

Cramer is a Boston-area agency specializing in digital marketing and event solutions. To maintain content and brand consistency, Cramer needed a system for management and version control of templates, budgets, forms and other data in a central repository that would increase efficiency in proposal development and help support the sales...

Tags: Brand, Agency, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Intranet, Cramer, Branding, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Case studies 2008-05-22

Lessig: Bill to fix orphaned works is 'unfair and unwise'

Larry Lessig championed the need to fix copyright law with regard to "orphan works" – those works that are covered by copyright but whose owners are unknown. He was a guiding force behind the Internet Archive's 2004 suit to get the courts to address the issue. (See Free the...

Tags: Larry Lessig, Work, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-21

You are being talked about online…

Regardless of security restrictions inside your enterprise, you and the projects you are working on are probably being talked about online. There's always been dialog between colleagues and friends – after work in the pub, on the phone, through personal emails. What's new is the emergence...

Tags: Facebook, Employee, Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-05-20

MB Kabbalah Runes (exe)

MB Kabbalah Runes Software is an accurate and precise program that associates the rune stones to the Jewish form of mystique i.e. the Kabbalah. This advanced yet handy software calculates your Sun Sign based on your date of birth and integrates it with the Kabbalah Tree of Life and also...

Tags: Birth, MB Kabbalah Runes Software, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2008-05-19

20% of Americans have not used e-mail yet

About 20% of all US heads-of-household have never sent an e-mail, and about 20 mln households, or 18%, are without Internet access, according to Parks Associates. 21% never searched for information on the Internet. by AM

Tags: Parks Associates, E-mail, Internet, Online Communications, AM

Blog posts 2008-05-18

MB Kabbalah Tarot (exe)

MB Kabbalah Tarot is a zodiac sign based software that associates a person's sun sign with the Kabbalah Tree of Life and also with the corresponding Tarot cards. The software reveals your positive and negative characteristic traits, your lucky day, color, ruling planet, element, your position in the tree of...

Tags: Software, Person, MysticBoard, MB Kabbalah Tarot, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2008-05-16