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Chef (exe)

Chef is Windows software to help manage your recipes and your kitchen. Tired of flipping through your cookbooks time and time again? Are your family recipes fading on stacks of notecards? Get Chef and put those problems behind you. Once your recipes are entered into Chef, they become extremely easy...

Tags: innovation, family, chef, leadership, strategy, microsoft windows, management, operating systems, software

Software downloads 2008-03-12

Protect Your Family With Windows Vista

The presenter of this webcast discusses how to use new technology in Microsoft Windows Vista to help protect children, family, and computer from common threats on the Internet and from applications such as violent video games or inappropriate Web sites.

Tags: family, microsoft windows vista, microsoft corp., microsoft windows, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), games, internet, operating systems, software, personal technology

Webcasts 2006-07-21

California Almond Farm Family Says "Nuts!" to Linux and Embraces Windows Small Business Server 2003

Every autumn, when the almonds are ready to be harvested and processed, the Assali family, owners and operators of California Grown Nut Company, gear up for another season of 24-hour work days that culminate in the annual income for their family and their contract growers. Working smarter, not harder and...

Tags: microsoft windows small business server, family, microsoft corp., microsoft windows small business server 2003, document management, content management, microsoft windows, managerial accounting, groupware, linux, operating systems, enterprise software, software, finance

Case studies

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Parents spy on underage social networkers

Children regularly circumvent age verification systems on social networks such as MySpace, Bebo and Facebook, according to a new survey of young people's online activities in the UK. In response, reveals the survey, net savvy parents are monitoring their child's underage social networking activities by spying on their accounts. by...

Tags: network, social networking, online communications, marketing, advertising & promotion, steve o\'hear

Blog posts 2008-08-07

MS Patch Tuesday: Critical IE, Office, Excel patches coming

Next Tuesday (August 12th), Microsoft will ship 12 security bulletins with fixes for serious vulnerabilities in a wide range of of widely deployed products. Seven of the 12 bulletins will be rated "critical," Microsoft's highest severity rating. The critical bulletins will cover remotely exploitable...

Tags: microsoft access, vulnerability, patch management, activex control, microsoft internet explorer, microsoft corp., microsoft excel, microsoft windows, activex/com/com+/dcom, microsoft office, security, operating systems, software, software development, software/web development, office suites, ryan naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-07

Last.fm is rocking on various mobile operating systems

While I enjoy listening to music, I actually have a very small personal collection and primarily listen to the FM radio or stream my music over the internet. The recent iPhone 2.0 update opened my eyes to Pandora, AOL Radio, and Last.fm on mobile devices. I enjoy listening to Last.fm...

Tags: apple iphone, microsoft windows mobile, nokia corp., mobile, operating system, music, last.fm, advertising & promotion, tablets, marketing, hardware, notebooks & tablets, matthew miller

Blog posts 2008-08-07

Will the Olympics melt the Internet?

Okay, sky-is-falling fans and network neutrality proponents: We're about to find out whether the Internet can – or will – break down under the strain of mass consumption of streaming video. At least that's the opinion of Brick Eksten, the president and CEO...

Tags: nbc, network, video, stream, internet, corporate communications, web site development, marketing, tom steinert-threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-07

Time Warner's Olympic boost, courtesy NBC

If you're Jeff Bewkes, the chief executive of Time Warner, you might get pleasantly surprised over the next couple weeks at the number of your Time Warner Cable subscribers who use their Internet connections to access streams of video of the 25 sports being sent live via www.nbcolympics.com. ...

Tags: nbc, time warner inc., cablevision systems corp., corporate communications, business ethics, internet, digital video, marketing, leadership, management, personal technology, tom steinert-threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-07

UPDATE: MIT team working on $12 NES, not Apple II

Looks like the Boston Herald got it wrong. The MIT group that was researching how to make a $12 computer for developing nations was actually working on a machine that's more Super Mario than Steve Jobs. Computerworld's Eric Lai discovers the truth: ...

Tags: team, apple ii, massachusetts institute of technology, apple inc., productivity, wiki, team management, online communications, management, andrew nusca

Blog posts 2008-08-07

Report: Intel's Atom chip, Netbooks demand strong

Demand appears to be stronger than expected for Intel's Atom chip and the netbooks that they power, according to a Citi report. In a research note, analyst Glen Yeung said: Field checks from Japan suggest Intel has ordered 20M Atom flip-chip packages for 3Q08 and 25M...

Tags: intel atom, intel corp., chip, semiconductors, network technology, processors, hardware, networking, components, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-07

Vonage narrows losses: Can it grow?

Vonage has narrowed its losses two consecutive quarters, but it remains to be seen whether the company can grow. The company reported a second quarter net loss of $7 million, or 4 cents a share, on revenue of $228 million. Revenue was up 11 percent from a...

Tags: revenue, vonage holdings corp., marketing expense, operational accounting, marketing research, finance, marketing, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-07

RDBMS market reached $18.8 bln in 2007

2007 was a year that saw continued steady growth in the relational database management systems RDBMS market, with signal improvements on the part of several of the top five vendors in this space. The RDBMS market is estimated to have grown by 12.6% from $16.7 bln in 2006 to $18.8...

Tags: rdbms, databases, enterprise software, software, data management, nb

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Sorry, no-can-do, says Tufts

Tufts University responded last week to a subpoena in yet another file-sharing case by explaining why they could not actually identify the "Does" named in the case. While this is hardly a new argument, the IT department at Tufts did a particularly nice job of refusing politely, with a...

Tags: dhcp, tufts university, riaa, peer to peer (p2p), networking, internet, christopher dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Expert: SOA vulnerable to DNS security flaw, too

This just in from the Black Hat security confab currently taking place in Las Vegas: Dan Kaminsky, a well-known IT security researcher, disclosed his findings around the Domain Name Server flaw or DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, and where it can bite. Tim Wilson of Dark Reading reported on Kaminsky's presentation,...

Tags: security, dns, server, soa, flaw, domain names, service-oriented architecture (soa), networking, internet, web services, enterprise software, software, joe mckendrick

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Microsoft contracts stymie IBM laptop Linux plans

Microsoft contracts stymie IBM laptop Linux plansWhere had you read that?[i]When it comes to new hardware, most makers charge you for Windows even if you don’t get it. They do this to maintain their relationship with Microsoft[/i]Actually, I hear that these companies charge you for FreeDos, (though they claim it...

Tags: operating systems, ibm corp., microsoft corp., oem, lenovo group ltd., microsoft windows, agreement, linux

Discussion threads 2008-08-06

Oracle: Gimme an L. Gimme an I. Gimme an N-U-X

Oracle: Gimme an L. Gimme an I. Gimme an N-U-XWidespread adoption in what arena?Everytime someone says this I can't help but wonder what they mean. Linux is quite common in the server room which appears to be the arena Oracle is talking about.Because "Unbreakable" went so well last time they...

Tags: unix, operating systems, open source, i. gimme, linux, oracle corp., gimme, n-u-x

Discussion threads 2008-08-06

Mozilla taps crowd for concepts: Will the browser usurp the OS?

Mozilla Labs has launched a casting call for concepts for the successor to Firefox and after watching a few videos it's striking how a common theme emerges: The browser could nudge the operating system out of the way. Mozilla's concept series is really a crowd sourcing effort...

Tags: operating system, web browser, mozilla corp., mozilla labs, web browsers, operating systems, internet, software, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-06

VMware launches new system builder, certification programs, joins Linux Foundation

VMware is investing more resources in the channel and IT community -- and getting more involved in the Linux community -- to preserve its lead in the virtualization software market. At LinuxWorld and Next Generation Data Center Conference this week, the Palo Alto, Calif. virtualization software leader...

Tags: vmware inc., system builder program, virtualization, linux, cloud computing, utility computing, storage management, open source, servers, hardware, operating systems, software, storage, paula rooney

Blog posts 2008-08-06

IBM should spend another $1B to sell its Symphony OpenOffice-Linux desktop to the masses

IBM is enlisting the help of the top three Linux distributors to help its desktop Office and messaging software gain ground. It's a small step forward but Big Blue must reach out to the masses to win this game. At LinuxWorld, IBM announced that Canonical/Ubuntu, Novell and Red...

Tags: microsoft office, ibm corp., linux, open source, unix, operating systems, desktops, software, hardware, paula rooney

Blog posts 2008-08-06

A new data center? Expect to sing the blues along the way.

A new data center? Expect to sing the blues along the way.Virtualizing a Data CenterThe two key impact points I currently see are:1) For an existing Data Center, being that the engineering teams are hyper focused on P-to-V'ing the existing environment, without having a parallel team running trap lines to...

Tags: data centers, storage, data center

Discussion threads 2008-08-06