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Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform: In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...; Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2009-11-08
Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap (or even free): RE: Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap or even freeGreat post, Ed! Seeing how you outlined the cheapest way to get Microsoft Windows 7 there should be no reason why anyone would not want to upgrade now. Price is no longer an issue. This would be...; Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, legal way, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows; Discussion threads 2009-11-06
Best Practices for Translating Customer Satisfaction into Revenue: Today's support organisations are focused on two top-level metrics: financial results and customer satisfaction. For most, it's easy to track financial performance, but customer satisfaction is akin to speaking a foreign language. How do you quantify customer satisfaction? Download the Best Practices...; Tags: Revenue, Customer Satisfaction, Best Practice, Product Marketing, Marketing; White papers 2009-11-06
OpenLink Lite Edition ODBC Driver for SQL Server (TDS) 6.02.3280 (Mac): High-Performance ODBC Drivers provide transparent access to remote databases from any ODBC-compliant application. Desktop Productivity Tools (i.e., Spreadsheets, Word Processors, Presentation Packages, Desktop Databases, Personal Organizers, etc.), Client-Server Application Development Environments, Web-based Database Publishing Tools, and Computer Telephony Integration packages, are just a few of the many products that can...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase Adaptive Server, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise, Server, OpenLink Software Inc., ODBC Driver, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Software downloads 2009-11-05
A-squared Anti-Malware 4.5.0.27a (Windows): A-squared Anti-Malware uses two full scan engines in the battle against Viruses, Trojans/Backdoors, Spyware/Adware, Worms/Bots, Keyloggers, Dialers and all other types of Malware that are waiting on the internet. But there is no doubling of the scan duration as it would be the case with two separate scanning programs. Considerable...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Engine, Emsi Software, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Security; Software downloads 2009-11-05

Peak Performance for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile): Peak Performance for iPhone will assist you in your efforts to gain or maintain a high level of physical fitness by combining sound nutritional and physical fitness practices. An overview of basic nutrition and physical fitness programs including aerobic conditioning and strength training are provided. Information for designing exercise programs...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Nutrition, Performance, Mobile; Software downloads 2009-11-03
Sony Vaio X (VPC-X115KX/N Signature Collection, gold): Sony has thus far taken a position just adjacent to Apple's when it comes to the question of Netbooks. Rather than embracing these low-cost, low-power systems that have become incredibly popular with bargain-hunting consumers, Sony stayed out of the market initially. Its subsequent entries have skirted the outer edges of...; Tags: Desktops, Sony Vaio, Vaio X, Sony Corp.; Product reviews 2009-11-02
Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Top Five HDTVs: Whatever the size of your wallet, every living room should have a respectable television set. Good news: HDTVs are cheaper, bigger and better than ever. Here are my top five picks for this year. Splurge: Samsung UNB8500 Series ...; Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., HDTV, Video, 1080p, TVs, Corporate Communications, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Sean Portnoy; Blog posts 2009-11-01
Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Laptop computers: This year the laptop list was a tough assignment for several reasons. First, the emergence of a new class of ultra-thin laptops--spawned by lower-cost processors from Intel and AMD--has made things more complicated. Second, there's a fresh crop of Windows 7 laptops, and...; Tags: Processor, Hard Drive, Performance, Apple MacBook, Memory, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Netbook, Computer, Intel Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Compaq CQ61z, Timeline 1810T, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris; Blog posts 2009-11-01
Onkyo SKS-HT870: Onkyo is known for having speaker expertise, even though it's not primarily a speaker company. That's because of Onkyo's success selling home-theater-in-a-box systems HTIBs, which combine a speaker system and an AV receiver in a single box, taking some of the confusion out of putting together your own system. The...; Tags: center channel, speaker, Onkyo; Product reviews 2009-10-30
FoxTrot Professional Search 2.5.1 (Mac): FoxTrot Professional Search is a powerful find-by-content solution that offers precision tools for finding the proverbial "needle in a haystack" directly within PDF, HTML, word processing, e-mail and rich-media content and metadata. The product has been especially well received in legal law firm and courts, media (newsrooms researchers, ad agencies...; Tags: Client-server, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Server, CTM Development, FoxTrot Professional Search, Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Servers, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware; Software downloads 2009-10-30
Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server: What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...; Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet; News items 2009-10-29
Fast Link Checker 1.6.0.586 (Windows): Fast Link Checker is used to find broken links on web sites. It works like a search engine bot (Googlebot, MSNBot, WISENutbot, Alexa, etc.). You specify the starting file and Fast Link Checker goes through all pages this file has links to until it checks all links on the site....; Tags: Link, Microsoft Windows, WebTweakTools, Fast Link Checker; Software downloads 2009-10-29
Onkyo HT-S7200: Photo gallery:Onkyo HT-S7200"True" home theater fans may look down on home-theater-in-a-box systems, but sometimes that elitist attitude is unwarranted. The Onkyo HT-S7200 may technically be an HTIB, but that's just because it comes in a giant box; the system is composed of two separate components, the SKS-HT870 7.1 speaker package...; Tags: speaker, Onkyo HT-S7200, Onkyo, HTIB; Product reviews 2009-10-27
2010 Scion xB: Photo gallery:2010 Scion xBWith funky styling and a reputation built around the tuner crowd and the sound-off set, the Scion xB almost single-handedly established the market for little boxy city cars in the North American market. However, the current generation xB faces stiff competition from the likes of the even-quirkier...; Tags: Performance management, Scion xB; Product reviews 2009-10-27
SAP regaining its mojo?: Earlier today at SAP TechEd Vienna, Jim Hageman Snabe, SAP senior vice president in charge of products said: "Business ByDesign will be multi-tenant." It was almost a throw away line in a broad conversation discussing SAP's slow conversion to all things SaaS and cloud computing. I...; Tags: Blade, SAP AG, Operational Planning, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Roi/Tco, Servers, Business Operations, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2009-10-27
News to know: Apple tablet; Android; Social Search; Netflix on PS3; Verizon: 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.: Jason D. O'Grady: Times exec hints at Apple tablet Larry Dignan: Apple slate "impending," says NYT exec editor; Much...; Tags: NetFlix Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Phone, Social Search, Sony PlayStation 3, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Telecom & Utilities, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Web Services, Enterprise Software; Blog posts 2009-10-27
A Net Neutrality Solution: Opinions Wanted: Iâ€™ve been thinking about Net Neutrality for some time and wanted to get your thoughts and feedback on a solution that seems, well,Â so simple and obvious that I can't believe nobody has proposed it.Â A bit of background before you dive-in. Before analyzing and tracking...; Tags: Content Provider, Net Neutrality, Gold/Platinum, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2009-10-26
Can open source software stop IT failure?: I'm not so sure #1 is valid#1 is a variation of "many eyes make all bugs shallow"Does it help? Yes. But it also makes the implicit assumption that everyone that can view the code is competent to do so. So it goes back to resource allocation being an issue, if...; Tags: Strategy, OPEN SOURCE, information technology, IT Failure, F/OSS, software, open-source software; Discussion threads 2009-10-26
Enterprise IT's trust level of Google will increase: That pie will increasingly favor Google. Though Google DOES need to support something more like what Amazon does, so you can just rent a Linux box in the cloud that grows and shrinks.Great potential here for Google; p.s. - dont make Yahoo's mistakesThere is great potential for Google from...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, Enterprise IT, Google AppEngine, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.; Discussion threads 2009-10-26