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Just let Google give us the books already!

ZDNet Government's Richard Koman declared Google's foray into orphan books to be "all but dead." A deeper look into features in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, however, show us what we really stand to lose in education Not too long ago, I...

Tags: Google Inc., ZDNet Government, Orphans, Litigation, E-books, Quality, Business Operations, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-06-10

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AppDelete 3.0.1 (Mac)

AppDelete is an uninstaller for Macs that will remove not only Applications but also Widgets, Preference Panes, Plugins and Screensavers along with their associated files. Without AppDelete these associated items will be left behind to take up space and potentially cause issues. For a proper uninstall don't just delete but...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Item, Reggie Ashworth, AppDelete, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-07

News to know: IDF; Skype; New neutrality; HP; Palm; Madoff

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. John Morris: Intel: 32nm is just the beginning Sam Diaz: Intel on laptop chips: Speed kills Mary Jo...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., Twitter Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-24

Free the Orphans: Are we being played for fools in Google Books play?

Give me a BreakGoogle paid to digitize those books. Google paid to setup the storage and bandwidth infrastructure to host the books, and google made an agreement with the authors to be able to publish those books. If anyone else would like to do the same thing they...

Tags: Google Inc., agreement, orphan

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Free the Orphans: Are we being played for fools in Google Books play?

The Internet Archive's Brewster Kahle argues that a revised settlement that preserves Google's control over orphan works is no improvement at all. by Richard Koman

Tags: Google Inc., Internet Archive, Internet, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-09-23

Give Google a break!

soooo over googlegoogle has joined microsoft and apple on the dark side.i stopped using google after they ceased being a search engine and became a money factory. security, privacy and ownership issues shouldn't be played out in court after the fact, they should be delt with in the board room...

Tags: COMPANIES, Google Inc., copyright law

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

Microsoft to close the till on Microsoft Money

Microsoft to close the till on Microsoft MoneyWell if they....stick Silverlight on it they only allow Mac to use it really. I'm sure they're looking for places to prove Silverlight.wrong thread nt.Anyone smell a cloud replacement ?ntI did not know that was even aroundQuickBooks took care of that.Give software users...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Intuit Software, Microsoft Corp., software, Microsoft Money

Discussion threads 2009-06-10

Just let Google give us the books already!

Just let Google give us the books already!Make the plaintiffs step upThe plaintiffs in the lawsuit should be required by the DOJ to digitize and make available all of the books they are seeking to prevent Google from digitizing. I am willing to bet most of them would drop it...

Tags: Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-06-10

Internet Archive's Kahle: Stop Google's book grab

Kahle: 'Google would get an explicit, perpetual license to scan and sell access to these in-copyright but out-of-print orphans.' by Richard Koman

Tags: Google Inc., Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-05-19

HP Oracle Database Machine: Extreme Performance for the Data Warehouse

Data warehouses are managing more and more information while business users expect consistently fast query response times. But, getting the right balance of servers, storage, networking and intelligent software to meet these critical business needs can be a challenge. Meeting these growing demands for more information in a timely manner...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Performance, Business Intelligence, Storage, Data Centers, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware

White papers 2009-04-01

Alesis TapeLink USB

Cassette tapes are the ugly, forgotten orphans of the digital-audio age. You probably have a trunk of tapes in a closet or attic somewhere, gathering dust and serving as a time capsule for music that makes you cringe. Some of us, though, still treasure the old mix tapes, bootlegs, and...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, PRODUCTIVITY, Cassette Tape, Using Audacity, Alesis TapeLink, cassette, cassette deck, Alesis TapeLink USB, EZ Tape Converter, software

Product reviews 2009-03-30

Nielsen Mobile, an Altor Networks Customer

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Nick Portolese, Senior Manager of Data Center Operations for Nielsen Mobile, an Altor Networks customer. He spent a few moments sharing his experiences with their software. Nick's comments follow. Please tell me who you are and what...

Tags: Network, Environment, Network Security, Server, Virtual Machine, Tool, VMWare ESX, Nielsen Mobile, Altor Networks, Nielsen, Productivity, Data Centers, Ip storage, Networking, Security, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Expensive repairs for Large Hadron Collider

Expensive repairs for Large Hadron ColliderWellno one ever said destroying the universe would be cheap!RE: Expensive repairs for Large Hadron ColliderIf even that can be achieved. The problem is much worse than even this new number. When the transformer failed, the ring heated up very fast, tweaking delicate...

Tags: Expensive Repair, Large Hadron Collider

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

Arctor Disk-To-Disk Backup Free 2.1.1.5 (Windows)

Arctor is hard disk backup made smart, fast, simple and powerful. At a price of less than $1 per GB, today's cheapest and fastest backup media are hard disks - so why not simply use one for your backups? Backups on hard disks are much quicker and easier to restore,...

Tags: Hard Drive, Microsoft Windows, Arctor, Arctor Version 2, Backups

Software downloads 2008-10-31

Teleport VLX 1.57 (Windows)

Teleport VLX is also an enhanced capability webspider, having exploration, filtering, and rewriting capabilities that Teleport Pro lacks. Its enhanced abilities allow you to: Use regular expressions to specify included as well as excluded areas to crawl Specify domain aliases for crawling servers with multiple names Borrow the browser's cookie...

Tags: Server, Web Browser, Tennyson Maxwell, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-10-02

Arctor Disk-To-Disk Backup 2.1.1.3 (Windows)

Arctor is hard disk backup made smart, fast, simple and powerful. At a price of less than $1 per GB, today's cheapest and fastest backup media are hard disks - so why not simply use one for your backups? Backups on hard disks are much quicker and easier to restore,...

Tags: Hard Drive, Microsoft Windows, Arctor, Arctor Version 2, Backups

Software downloads 2008-06-13

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

Larry Lessig championed the need to fix copyright law with regard to "orphan works" â€" 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

Who will win open source professor cage match?

In this corner, the challenger, the former executive director of MIT's Media Lab, software guru, now with Sugar Labs, the champion of Linux, Walter Benderrrrr! And in this corner, the champion, the co-founder of MIT's Media Lab, best-selling author, founder and chairman of One Laptop Per Child OLPC,...

Tags: Professor, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Hardware, One Laptop Per Child Project, Nick Negroponte, Walter Bender, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-19

What is the future of Sugar?

Walter Bender, who recently left OLPC amid ideological differences over the future of the Sugar interface and the use of Windows on the XO laptop, launched a new foundation last week to advance the UI independent of the XO. The Sugar Labs Foundation intends to continue working with OLPC,...

Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Sugar Labs Foundation, Sugar Labs Wiki, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-18

Fixing Windows Vista, Part 3: Top Troubleshooting Tools

Fixing Windows Vista, Part 3: Top Troubleshooting ToolsVery InformativeThanks Ed.1 question: My machine performs fineit is fast and reliable, I have had no major or even minor issues, 0 BSOD since it arrived last October. Do I still download the latest drivers. There is a bios update available. I always...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), acer, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-05-06