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Great Families Also Die ebook (exe): Crime and police work abound in this murder mystery surrounding Det. Don Scarcell. After narrowly escaping death, he recalls his life as a teenager. Donnie falls in love; marries; and proceeds to raise a great family. Years later, Donnnie's family is brutally murdered. Over the next twenty-five years, Donnnie and...; Tags: Family, E-books, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2007-08-23
Crazy Eggs (zip): Crazy Eggs is a puzzle game that fun for your whole family. Start your adventure on the floating Dinosaur Island where you will help a tyrannosaurus collect lost eggs. Connect matching eggs with straight lines to clear the board and move on to your next destination. You can play it...; Tags: Family, Crazy Eggs, Games, Corporate Governance, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law; Software downloads 2007-08-08
Crazy Eggs (exe): Crazy Eggs is a puzzle game that fun for your whole family. Start your adventure on the floating Dinosaur Island where you will help a tyrannosaurus collect lost eggs. Connect matching eggs with straight lines to clear the board and move on to your next destination. You can play it...; Tags: Family, Crazy Eggs, Games, Corporate Governance, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law; Software downloads 2007-06-26
Muzzle: Saving Family (exe): Muzzle: saving family is an arcade game like Super Mario. Evil Wandolf has stolen Muzzle's family. He locked them in his own castle. Muzzle missed his family very much and he decided to find it. But the road to the castle is very hard and he has to pass woods,...; Tags: Family, Games, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2006-10-30
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

Family Feud Holiday Edition (exe): It is time to play the Family Feud Holiday Edition--the fast-paced game based on the successful TV game show. Try to guess what 100 people said when they answered the holiday survey questions. Beat the average score or go head-to-head with a friend or an entire family. Pass, Play, Steal,...; Tags: Family, Games, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2005-11-24
Home Security: How to Protect Your Family and Your Property (exe): Crimes against property occur, on average, 20 times every minute. This free eBook explains the steps you should take to protect your family and your home. A home-security/fire-safety checklist is included as well as a look at the ten best places to hide your valuables.; Tags: Security, Family, Property, E-books, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2001-10-20

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Microsoft Student Technology Day UK: Note Wednesday 1st October 2008, a little over 3 weeks away from today in your diary. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft and a whole load of influential partners and companies will be in London for the Microsoft Student Technology Day. It's a day about and for students,...; Tags: Entrepreneurial, Microsoft Corp., Entrepreneurship, Management, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Should political postings stay or go? A survey.: I've been blogging for ZD Net for several years, writing for ZD publications for almost 20 years. I've always found readers to be intelligent and thoughtful, which is why I continue to do this while doing other things as "work." My posting, A virus in your genes, think about that,...; Tags: U.S., R&D, Discovery, Blog, Politics, Survey, Creationism, Rational Rants, Research & Development, Blogging, Business Operations, Internet, Mitch Ratcliffe; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Handicapping the Fall Enterprise Software Race: SAP vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft: It's leapfrog time in enterprise software land, and the next frog to jump will be Oracle, which is hosting industry analysts next week in Redwood Shores and then hosting the entire world at its much-too-massive Open World Conference in San Francisco the following week. Oracle is...; Tags: Strategy, Small And Medium Enterprise, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Smb/Sme, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum; Blog posts 2008-09-04
The question that won't go away: What comes after Yahoo?: During an appearance at the Citi Global Technology Conference on September 4, Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell faced the same question that he's been answering for months: What is Microsoft's online strategy now that the company has decided against buying Yahoo? by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Web Browsers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Deploying and managing online communities: Who, how and why?: There was an interesting discussion at Office 2.0 that dealt with the topic of online communities. There's a lot of noise on the Web today and it's easy for that to noise to get – for lack of a better phrase – out of control. So should a company try...; Tags: Community, Marketing Research, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Are we "done" with rich Internet applications?: This week I've been putting together slides and preparing for my talk at Web 2.0 Expo New York City. I'm doing one titled "Making Sense of Rich Internet Applications" so it's more of a general talk covering everything from Adobe's stuff, to Microsoft Silverlight, to the mobile world, and now...; Tags: Rich Internet Application, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-09-04
What can we do better?: I'm collecting data from teachers across my district (using a Google Form, of course), trying to get a handle on issues we still haven't addressed, ways we can use technology more effectively, and what their wishlists might be for the coming year. Here's the questionnaire that went...; Tags: Classroom, Teacher, Notebooks, Productivity, Telephony, Projectors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Networking, Components, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-09-04
The power of standard protocols: I've spent the past few months as the primary developer at a very small company. An important technology to this company is Instant Messaging, as it plays an essential part in our approach to unified messaging. This has meant that I have had to build, in-house, our...; Tags: IM, Jabber, Protocol, XMPP, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Wireless Access: What Price Speed: Is Verizon missing a trick in its trench warfare with Cablevision? Or has the maverick cable operator found an Achilles heel in the telephone operator's methods of providing TV, phone and particularly Internet access to customers in the New York area – and possibly nationwide? One...; Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Broadband, Wireless Access, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Broadband Internet, Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Ten leading platforms for creating online communities: Creating online communities of customers and workers has been one of the hotter topics in business and technology this year. Whether you're on the business side, in IT, or are just trying to build virtual teams around shared goals, online communities are rapidly becoming a popular way to organize people...; Tags: Community, Platform, List, Open Source World, Community Platform, Joomla, PHP-Nuke, KickApps, Pinax, Open Source, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Wireless networking finally hits the ceiling: With the advent of multiple input multiple output MIMO technology that's used in Draft N (and some later 802.11g) products, wireless range isn't as big an issue for new networks as it has been in the past. But if you're running an older 802.11g network as I am in a...; Tags: Network, IEEE 802.11g, Ceiling, Wireless Networking, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Public Relations, Networking, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Sean Portnoy; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Analyst: Dollar daze around the corner for Web giants: J.P. Morgan analyst Imran Khan said Thursday in a research note that a stronger dollar will take a bite out of search, online travel and e-commerce companies. Khan's call Techmeme largely focuses on the fourth quarter given the dollar's resurgence began in the middle of the third...; Tags: Google Inc., Web, Dollar, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Red Hat acquires Qumranet: I just received a press release telling me that one of my clients, Qumranet, has been acquired by Red Hat.This was not entirely unexpected. Here's what the release said Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced...; Tags: Red Hat Inc., Qumranet Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-09-04