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Business class SaaS

The Software as a Service market is expected to double by 2012. Martin Capurro, senior director of product management at Qwest Communications, examines how security, performance, compliance and portability are affecting overall adoption.

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Martin Capurro, Business SaaS, security, performance, compliance, portability

Sponsored whiteboards 2009-10-01

PortAbility 2.0 (Mobile)

PortAbility provides a heads-up display showing the status of all of your critical servers. PortAbility can check the status of individual services on machines, meaning that you know whether your machine's mail server is down, even though the web site is still online and the machine still responds to ping...

Tags: Mobile, Portability, PoorEsq Software, Web Site Development, E-mail Servers, Servers, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-04-24

Modular Media for Sports Marketers

This whitepaper is intended for marketing or advertising professionals in the sports industry who have heard about "Modular media technologies" (e.g., widgets, RSS, and Vortexes) and wants to learn more about how they can be effectively deployed in a strategic marketing program. After reading the white paper, the reader will...

Tags: Web, Advertisement, Knowledge, Media, Portability, Real Time Matrix, Channel Management, Strategy, Marketing Research, Marketing, Management

White papers 2008-01-01

Do ordinary users care about data portability? And if not, should they? Four social networks respond.

Social networks operate on the premise that it should be as easy as possible for a user to input their data into the system: user profiles, blog posts, media etc, but if they try to move their data someplace else or simply want to make a backup, more than often...

Tags: network, web 2.0 crowd, Web 2.0, data portability, VoX, Web, portability, social networking

Blog posts 2006-12-13

Additional Resources

Does Amazon know where it's going with the Kindle?

Amazon, please ignore AdrianNormally I'm right with Adrian, but he obviously doesn't have a Kindle, which is my favorite device. To Amazon: don't add battery sucking features (like wi-fi), we don't care about multi-purpose (it's a bookreader!), i don't want cr@apps on my Kindle (it's a bookreader!) and I don't...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Invent Upshot 1.1.0.60 (Windows)

Invent Upshot is a new, feature rich and low TCO, agent-free network discovery, hardware & software inventory and remote tool, with which you can manage a single PC to several home and corporate networks in a few minutes hard wired or wireless. This software is not just another network inventory...

Tags: Software, Network, UpShot, Microsoft Windows, Aplixio, Networking

Software downloads 2009-11-25

What open source can teach medical practice

Great article, Dana.You did in such a short piece what CNN, MSNBC, FOX and other media journalists failed to do: tell the story as it really is. You didn't take what was news worthy and sensationalized it, nor played up a negative reading of it to frighten those possibly affected,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, open source, medical practice, CNN

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Who wants tea with their turkey?

Push comes to shove.....I still believe Reid will throw down the reconciliation card. I'm sure he doesn't want to, but he won't accept defeat. If he can't get the sixty, he'll settle for 51.Which is a shame, because while the stated goals of this bill are admirable, in...

Tags: Vertical industries, GOP, Dana, Lieberman Software Corp, tax

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Chrome OS: More questions than answers?

And exactly why....would students be part of the target market or any other particular group for that matter?This is a silly post. Chrome will be lean, cloud based, local caching of data, some and growing off-line capabilities and probably grow in features/capabilities over time. It will NOT be everything to...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Outlook, Wi-Fi, operating system, Google Inc., Chrome, HTML5, Chrome OS

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

ARRIRAW Toolkit for Final Cut Studio 1.0.6 (Mac)

ARRIRAW Toolkit for Final Cut Studio allows users to import and work with files created by the ARRIFLEX D-21 Digital Cinema Camera. The software will perform all of the importing, playback, debayer, Exposure Index/ASA and White Point color correction functions. Any QuickTime enabled application is instantly compatible with the ARRIRAW...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple QuickTime, Glue Tools LLC, STwoARRIConvert, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-11-21

Chrome OS - The good, the bad and the ugly, and how it fits in with Windows, Mac and Linux

Chrome OS - The good, the bad and the ugly, and how it fits in with WindowsI gave it some thought too and realized that Chrome OS only has the bad and the ugly. There is nothing good about it. All data stored in the cloud, and on Google's...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Chrome, Google Inc., Chrome OS, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Amazon slashes price of Palm Pre to $79.99, Pixi to $24.99

I don't want ......ANY misleading bargain with a two or three year contract. Sell me the HW at a fair price and let me select the carrier and package of my choice.I am not an idiot. RE: Amazon slashes price of Palm Pre to $79.99, Pixi to $24.99When you limit...

Tags: Smart phones, Price-cutting, Palm Inc., Pixi, Palm Pre, Amazon.com Inc., phone

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

EmEditor Professional 9.05 (Windows)

EmEditor Professional is a lightweight but extensible, text editor for Windows, which supports JavaScript or VBScript macros, Unicode (allowing for multi-language support), text encoding support (automatic encoding detection, Byte Order Mark support, file reload with a different encoding, detection of encoding errors), plug-ins, syntax highlighting (including embedded scripts in HTML,...

Tags: Macro, Emurasoft, EmEditor Professional, Keyboards, Scripting Languages, Microsoft Windows, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-19

New ultra-thin laptops ready to catch on?

They still seem a bit over priced for what they do. I feel the same way about the netbooks too.They will NEVER take off like Netbooks becauseThey violate the netbook Trinity. These are the three contributing factors which are required for the extreme mass market appeal of a netbook....

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, netbook, laptop computer, ultra-thin laptop, New ultra-thin laptop

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Netbooks dead? Not when sales are up 264% percent

My prediction:Intel and MS and the major brands are trying to drag the market upwards in size and cost to maintain their margins. They will shortly face a barrage of products based on ARM class processors and Linux (Chrome?), which will cost much less and have much better battery lives....

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, sales, netbook

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Size zero devices: How thin is too thin?

Thin is betterIt is better to be skinny than fat, and in ITthin and light weight is best!"learn to type with our tongues"I believe the rest of us call that speaking, but nice concept. :pYou know where this is heading don't you?I call it "tatoo tech" you need a new...

Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Gartner: 2010 will be the year e-book readers take off

D?j? vu all over again.It will be interesting to watch. Seems to me the publishers are facing the exact same issues that RIAA was/is facing. Lock-in and DRM seem to be the preferred solutions still.Edit: This site clearly does not like French. Deja - is that better?$99 . . .Interesting....

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, E-books, digital-rights management, Gartner Inc., e-book Reader

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Teaching Templates Quiz Maker 8.0 (Windows)

The Teaching Templates Quiz Maker-a set of 12 authoring tools to help you create interactive educational exercises, tests and quizzes. The exercises can be put on a Web page, or run as standalone programs at home or in the classroom. The Teaching Templates Quiz Maker offers full Unicode support to...

Tags: Exercise, Tac-Software, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-10

JumpBox for the Joomla 1.1.14 (Windows)

Joomla a Content Management System CMS that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. It's one of the most popular Open Source applications around and the JumpBox for Joomla is a huge time saver. It captures the experience of a skilled IT admin in a package that's...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, JumpBox, Benefits, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-11-09

JumpBox for Tomcat Java Web Application Deployment 1.1.1 (Mac)

Apache Tomcat is an open source servlet container that implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages specifications. Like other deployment JumpBoxes, the JumpBox for Tomcat makes it easy to deploy a web application (specifically a java-based web application). Notable features of this JumpBox include: Flexible deployment options: Applications...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Web Application, Backup, Apache Tomcat, JumpBox, Application Servers, Open Source, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-03