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MB Personal Day Number (exe): MB Personal Day Number Software is a software which reveals that particular day, when your powers are heightened, and you have the potential to achieve a lot. The Personal Day Number is calculated by summing up the calendar month, with the day and personal year. Version 1.55 has been changed...; Tags: Potential, MysticBoard, MB Personal Day Number Software, Personal Day Number, Tools & Techniques, Management; Software downloads 2008-05-16
Webcast: pureXML Critical to Capitalizing on ACORD's Potential: More than ever before, real-time responsiveness to every constituency in a carrier's information chain along with adaptability to changing conditions are the hallmarks of sustainable success. Only by capitalizing on the potential of the current standards-driven environment - with it's promise of enabling seamless business process transformation;...; Tags: Potential, Webcast, IBM Corp., Carrier, Business Structures, Finance; Webcasts 2007-03-27
SoftCollection Parallel Port Library For .NET (zip): SoftCollection Parallel Port Library For .NET lets you a full control over the parallel port of your PC. You can set separately an electrical potential, 0v or 5v, on each writable pin, and you can get an electrical potential from each readable pin of the parallel port of your PC.; Tags: Potential, PC, .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Desktops, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware; Software downloads 2006-11-15
How to avoid Rusher's Gap: The potential for budget disaster can be high if you don't embrace the fudge factor.; Tags: Disaster, Business Management, Potential, Factor, Gap; Whiteboards 2005-04-28

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EA's 'Spore' aims to create new worlds, businesses: Electronic Arts's creature-building game "Spore" offers players a chance to develop new worlds--and maybe even new lines of business for the video game maker. RALEIGH, North Carolina--Electronic Arts's creature-building game Spore offers players a chance to develop new worlds--and maybe even new lines of business for the video game...; Tags: Electronic Arts Inc., Spore, Games, Personal Technology, Reuters, Electronic Arts, video games, Nintendo; News items 2008-09-05

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
EIC Podcast: Google Chrome; Apple; Dell and Salesforce.com: On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk Google's Chrome browser, Apple's iPod event next week and my theory that Dell and Salesforce.com should merge. On Google's Chrome browser we riffed on the importance of the launch, how it's really a battle over cookie files...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Web Browser, Sales Force Management, Web Browsers, Digital Music, Digital Media, Sales, Internet, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Access Virtualization for Mac OS X - Aqua Connect ACTS 3.0: Aqua Connect is an exception. It focuses on providing access virtualization for users of Mac OS-based servers. (For those keeping track, the post, Aqua Connect Access Virtualization for Mac OS X, introduced the company back in December 2007.) This time, the good folks at Aqua Connect are in the process...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Access, Operating System, Environment, Unix, Aqua Connect, Apple Mac OS, Virtualization, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS X, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Drug profit incompatible with scientific method?: Drug profit incompatible with scientific method?Patentability and ProfitThe problem with new drugs like Vytorin is that we must rely on short-term studies & short-term observation in order to gamble on the drugs' safety. There is, presently, only one cholesterol medication that has not only proven to be most effective in...; Tags: tobacco, new drug, drug company; Discussion threads 2008-09-03
A new method to study origin of life: U.S. researchers at Penn State University have developed a new computational method to understand how life began on Earth about four billion years ago. According to the scientists, their method 'has the potential to trace the evolutionary histories of proteins all the way back to either cells or viruses, thus...; Tags: RNA, Method, Team, Penn State, Protein, Virus, Biotechnology, Team Management, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Management, Security, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-09-03
Google's Tim Armstrong on YouTube; IE 8 and Microsoft Cashback: Google's Tim Armstrong talked up YouTube's profit potential and dished a bit on Microsoft's cashback program to gin up search market share. Armstrong also declined to chat about IE 8 and the possibility that Google launched the Chrome browser to combat its privacy feature. Armstrong, speaking at...; Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Armstrong, Social Networking Site, Social Networking, Web Browsers, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-09-02
Google's Chrome browser: It's all about the ads and cookie files stupid!: For all the talk about Google's Chrome browser and whether it's a Web operating system, platform for applications and future Microsoft killer it's quite possible that folks are overthinking the search giant's intentions. Perhaps Google's browser is really about protecting its ad backside. Sure, Google's browser Techmeme--designed...; Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Cookie, Chrome, Google Chrome, Lindsay, Web Browsers, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-09-02
Microsoft downplays BitLocker password leakage: Microsoft is downplaying the severity of a password leakage issue in BitLocker, the full disk encryption feature built into Windows Vista, insisting that a real world attack scenario is "very unlikely." According to an advisory from iViZ, the password checking routine of Microsoft Bitlocker fails to sanitize...; Tags: Password, Microsoft Corp., BitLocker, BIOS, Hardware, Components, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-09-02
Samsung OMNIA first impressions show that Windows Mobile can beat the iPhone: Samsung OMNIA first impressions show that Windows Mobile can beat the iPhoneNot fair to compare??Sorry, but I have to disagree. Looking at the price of an iPhone 3G it IS in the same bracket as the more powerful smart phones. All this shows is it is poor value...; Tags: Operating systems, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Matthew, Samsung OMNIA, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Apple iPhone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., mobile, Microsoft Windows; Discussion threads 2008-09-02
Is Google Chrome an IE/Firefox/Opera/Safari killer?: Is Google Chrome an IE/Firefox/Opera/Safari killer?Splintering of non IE usersI suspect that this in fact will cause an immediate splintering of non IE users (causal users and ones that are anti-MS). Furthermore there is only so many OSS developers and now a bunch of them are basically replicating the Mozilla...; Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, Google Chrome, Google Inc., IE/Firefox/Opera/Safari, IE/Firefox/Opera/Safari killer, Microsoft Internet Explorer; Discussion threads 2008-09-01
Google to launch browser to battle IE; Is Firefox a target or tag-team partner?: Updated: Google will launch a Web browser called Chrome that will take on Microsoft's Internet Explorer and apparently Mozilla's Firefox, which the search giant essentially funds. In an odd leak, Google sent Google Blogoscoped a comic book outlining the technology in its Chrome browser. The leak was...; Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Philipp Lenssen, Web Browsers, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-09-01
See the heart beat in real time from outside: See the heart beat in real time from outsideUltrasound has gone a long wayBack in '71, when my wife was about 6 months along carrying our first born the hospital where she worked got the first ultrasound in the state. The Dr. (a friend of my wife's) came running...; Tags: Ultrasound, patient; Discussion threads 2008-08-29
Cool Tools - What is your Twitter grade?: HubSpot has launched what it is calling the Twitter Grader, which seems to be the now-defunct Tweeterboard reincarnate -- yet with a proposed business purpose. The grader allows Twitter users to enter in their screen names and the names of others into its secret algorithmic stuff generator and find out...; Tags: Twitter, Tool, HubSpot, Productivity, Public Relations, Marketing Research, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jennifer Leggio; Blog posts 2008-08-29
Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy: No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of "data processing" while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHA's, I'm already starting to see evidence of consolidation between India's major...; Tags: CAPTCHA, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-08-29