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- UrAlarm (txt)
- UrAlarm is a free software that enables you remember you important times and you can also use this program to perform auto shutdown of your computer at a specific time. When you use this program to alert you it will alert you by a sound and animated flash movie that...
- Tags: Sound, Osama H. Al-Jazzar, UrAlarm, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-11-09
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- Apple's new MacBook line: Affordable enough?
- Apple's new MacBook line: Affordable enough?What are the specsI haven't seen the specs yet (are they published?) but I don't think it's going to be enough. They either need to compete with Windows PC's or not. Don't half ass it. My guess is the lower price will still not match...
- Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, new MacBook line, MacBook line
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- How green is your vendor?
- Gartner analyst Simon Mingay on Tuesday unveiled ratings for technology vendors to highlight who's talking green and who's actually delivering. Just don't expect anything too quantitative just yet. Mingay's presentation at the Gartner Symposium ITXpo caught my attention given that every vendor is...
- Tags: Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- 9/11 suspects get laptop, no Net
- Al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed gets a laptop and 12 hours of battery time a day, but no Internet. That's what a military judge ruled last week, according to the Miami Herald. The issue in the 9/11 trail of Mohammed and his coconspirators is what resources they...
- Tags: Battery, 9/11 Commission, Laptop Computer, Engineering, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Step-on scanner lets air passengers keep shoes on
- Magshoe has introduced a step-on scanner that spares airline travelers the nuisance of having to remove their shoes so they can be X-rayed for hidden weapons. LOD, Israel--Israel has introduced a step-on scanner that spares airline travelers the nuisance of having to remove their shoes so they can be...
- Tags: Shoe, Israel, Magshoe, Scanners, Hardware, Peripherals, Reuters, scanner, security, air travel
- News items 2008-10-13
- London Stock Exchange website reports incorrect prices
- London Stock Exchange website reports incorrect pricesMicrosoft Technology at its finestSince Both NASDAQ and the London Stock Exchange were MS case studies about how great Windows is, guess Windows really is the POS we all thought it is.Funny how they never had these errors on previous systems and now with...
- Tags: Investment, Operating systems, Web site, Microsoft Corp., London Stock Exchange Plc., stock, London Stock Exchange website, incorrect price, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo email
- Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo emailI bet he is praing for an Obama winin November, as that way he has a great change at receiving a pardon from him.If McCain wins, well five years in Guantanamo is not really [i]all[/i] that bad... ;)RE: Kernell indicted in break-in to...
- Tags: Palin, Yahoo Email, Kernell, e-mail, break-in, Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- The IT role in the mortgage meltdown
- The IT role in the mortgage meltdownNobody likes a WhisleblowerYou got blacklisted for publicly Whistle-blowing at a company meeting. For your trouble you lost a job, faced economic hardship, and had to explain at interviews why this employer would not give you a reference. You did not follow...
- Tags: Leadership, information technology, mortgage meltdown, IT role, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Blogger ethics, public relations... and you
- Two different conversations that are connected at the core by the way the news media continues to grow and change. Bloggers have a significant responsibility in wielding their keystrokes, whether they have 10 readers or 10,000. Public relations professionals are still grappling with how to best work with this new...
- Tags: Ethics, Blogger, Public Relations Professional, Public Relations, Blogging, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- AMD finally announces "asset-smart" plan; new Foundry Company created
- AMD and a technology investment company backed by the government of Abu Dhabi have established a new semiconductor company that will manufacture AMD's advanced processors. The new company--currently known as "The Foundry Company"--will take over all of AMD's existing manufacturing facilities, including the two leading-edge fabs in Dresden, Germany, and...
- Tags: Asset, Foundry Networks Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Government, Hardware, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- SEC investigating false rumor on Jobs' health
- The Securities and Exchange Commission will investigate Friday's false report that Steve Jobs was whisked to the emergency room, AppleInsider reports. The inquiry: Was the posting on CNN's iReport an attempt to manipulate the market? CNN pulled the page after Apple denied the rumor. AP just reported...
- Tags: Job, SEC, Health Care, CNN, Branding, Digital Media, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Election Talking Points: A discussion place
- Election Talking Points: A discussion placeSpoken like a true believer in ...a constitutional republic.RE: Election Talking Points: A discussion placereally this post is for an opinion location,It really becomes a bunch of BSGuess doe to reports about the debate it help McCain,everyone has to put two cents of nonsense,Ok...
- Tags: Mortgages, Palin, Election Talking Points
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Obama releases iPhone campaign tool
- Obama releases iPhone campaign toolSay what you will about his politics but this manis on the ball. His fund raising via the web has been a smashing success. Now this tool for the iPhone. He knows what he's doing. He's not arrogant he's confident.Pagan jimDoes it...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, tool, McCains, Obama, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- News to know: Cloud wars; Apple; Google; China is watching you
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft's planned cloud platform. Techmeme A new mystery: What's Microsoft got up its Office Live sleeve? Zack Whittaker:...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IPO, Robots, Linux, E-mail, Digital Media, Financial Services, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- How to read your FBI file
- As part of the occasional series Life in post-Constitutional America I'm pleased to offer a brief primer on How to read your FBI file. It isn't as easy as you'd think, since the FBI has failed several times to create a modern data management system - which may not be...
- Tags: FBI, File, Mistakes, Federal Government, Government, Data Management, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Leave Windows Mobile al-o-o-o-o-o-ne!
- Leave Windows Mobile al-o-o-o-o-o-ne!It will come down to supportWill Google pull yet another "thanks for the free time, but it is Beta so we will not help you with it", or T-Mobile pushing it off on Google, to the same response?With the others you do have an infrastructure behind it,...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, Operating systems, Handhelds, Bottomline, Google Inc., mobile, phone, Leave Windows Mobile, Microsoft Windows Mobile
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Leave Windows Mobile al-o-o-o-o-o-ne!
- You will buy a Google Android phone because it has so much stuff on it that comes free. The user interface. The services. The applications. You will buy a Windows Mobile phone because Microsoft convinced you to buy it. Just as with a Blackberry or an iPhone. by Dana...
- Tags: Permission, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- RealDVD officially launches, so does lawsuit
- RealDVD officially launches, so does lawsuitThis is stupid. I already do this with AnyDVD and mymovies.Its essentially built into my movies if you pay for the anydvd software. On top of that.. you can also rip HD and Blueray.The only thing you cant do directly is burn the...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, Standing Up, RealDVD, DVD, lawsuit
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Escalation in the storage wars
- Escalation in the storage warsSun's competitors' strategyWere Sun to produce a superior storage product, would you expect it to come to dominate the market?I would expect not, because Sun has neither the products specialized for defined uses nor the controlling connection with a wide range of customers to implement it.Yes,...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., information technology, SAS HBA, storage, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Global security: is study restricted?
- With the current state of terrorism threats and attacks, and cyber-crime on the increase, I seriously wonder if academics and students have full passage to "do as we like" in terms of studying, learning and educating ourselves and others. Earlier on this year, two personnel from the...
- Tags: Security, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Government, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
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