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Is LogMeIn the route to laptop Linux?

You point this Netbook to LogMeIn, and use it to access your own desktop back at the office. You do all your work that way. You use all the Windows or Mac applications you have now, but the device you use them on is basically a terminal. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: LogMeIn, Laptop Computer, Press Agent, Linux, Notebooks, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-08-26

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Excerpt: Marketing 2.0 From CRM at the Speed of Light 4th Edition

I'm going to try something out here. I am ready to cringe as the tomatoes and old iPods are thrown at me, or the praise is showered on me...oh, wait, that's someone dumping buckets of tar over my head. I'm providing an advance excerpt of Chapter 13 of CRM...

Tags: Advertisement, Attention, CRM, New Competition, Engagement Rating, Marketers, Marketing Professional, Marketing Research, Marketing, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-05-29

Spam: Has the answer been hiding under our noses this whole time?

Spam: Has the answer been hiding under our noses this whole time?very nice ideaThis is a great idea. People will have to actually press 'GET MAIL' or whatever, in order to get their mail, instead of actually just having their inbox filled with spam all the time.GENIUS!An epiphany...Talk about thinking...

Tags: whole time, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Yes, There Is Such A Thing As A System Problem

Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Yes, There Is Such A Thing As A System ProblemYou're kidding, right?I just can't get it through my head that even the most computer illiterate would go and stuff 4 CD's/DVD's into their drive at once!RE: Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Yes, There Is Such A Thing As A System ProblemWell...

Tags: E-mail, PRODUCTIVITY, Troubleshooting

Discussion threads 2009-05-08

Guttenberg's wake

Doc Searls points to what strikes me as a shallow exercise in self-congratulation by Vanity Fair, How the Web was Won, an "oral history" of the Web told by a select few, whom VF considers winners or power brokers. As Doc says, its "far from Compleat History," but the real...

Tags: Web, Printing, Blogger, Guttenberg, Compleat History, Document Management, Printers, Blogging, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Peripherals, Internet, Marketing, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-04-13

Fannie Mae IT contractor indicted for planting malware; Mortgage giant didn't revoke server privileges

A former Fannie Mae IT contractor has been indicted for planting a virus that would have nuked the mortgage agency's computers, caused millions of dollars in damages and even shut down operations. How'd this happen? The contractor was terminated, but his server privileges were not. Rajendrasinh Makwana...

Tags: Fannie Mae, Information Technology, Malware, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-29

PhoneFactor 2.3 (Windows)

PhoneFactor is a phone-based two-factor authentication system. It works with any phone. PhoneFactor offers professional grade security free for up to 25 users with free authentications to zones in 30+ countries worldwide. PhoneFactor integrates seamlessly with any VPN appliance (Cisco, Juniper, F5, Sonicwall, etc.), enterprise applications (Citrix and Microsoft Outlook...

Tags: Phone, Microsoft Windows, PhoneFactor, Telecom & Utilities

Software downloads 2009-01-14

4Ps to Publishing Success 1.0 (Mobile)

Here's what you will learn: SMART writing goals Making time to write Boost creativity Develop your authentic voice Write great opening lines Create page-turning copy 35 phrases to avoid in your writing Nonfiction book proposal Novel synopsis What you should never say about your novel Find markets to publish your...

Tags: Mobile, Agent, DMBC, Real Estate, Business Operations

Software downloads 2008-12-05

Tom Bihn Checkpoint Flyer

We're not the first publication to fall in love with Tom Bihn's Checkpoint Flyer briefcase. The costly laptop carrier is lightweight, well-thought-out, and extremely easy to use. Plus, it meets the TSA guidelines for bags that will let you zip through airport security without removing your laptop. Our greatest concern...

Tags: Notebooks, laptop carrier, Checkpoint Flyer, laptop computer, front panel

Product reviews 2008-10-22

Entellium executives arrested by FBI for making up revenue figures

Software as a service company Entellium's future is uncertain after its CEO and CFO were arrested by the FBI for inflating sales to land venture capital. The U.S. Department of Justice said in a press release that CEO Paul Thomas Johnson, 40, and Parrish Jones, 39, were...

Tags: Revenue, Entellium, FBI, Revenue Figure, Federal Government, Operational Accounting, Corporate Governance, Government, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Mobile Edge ScanFast Backpack - notebook carrying backpack

Frequent travelers rejoiced when, earlier this year, the TSA issued guidelines for the construction of a bag that would let you zip through security without removing your laptop. The official guidelines suggest a butterfly, trifold, or sleeve-style case that keeps your laptop separate from other travel detritus so that a...

Tags: Notebooks, notebook, mobile, zipper, laptop computer, compartment, Mobile Edge ScanFast

Product reviews 2008-10-03

Perens new crusade is patent law

Perens new crusade is patent lawBull, there is no lack of innovation.True, open source is not free to take others ideas but that is how it should be. Face it, open source is nothing but knock off copies of propriatary. Sorry but thats just how it is.As to...

Tags: Leadership, OPEN SOURCE, Software intellectual property, New software product, new crusade, Perens, crusade, patent law, patent, innovation

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

CODi Phantom CT3 laptop bag

The CODi Phantom CT3 is one of a handful of laptop bags we've seen recently that comply with recently released official guidelines from the TSA for creating laptop cases that can go through an X-ray machine with a laptop still inside. It's a potential win for any harried traveler who...

Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, compartment, CODi Phantom CT3

Product reviews 2008-09-23

Targus Zip-Thru laptop bag

Air travel--while a requirement of modern life for many--has become, at best, a barely tolerable experience that tests the patience of even the zen-like commuter. The chokepoint most likely to raise one's blood pressure is the infamous security checkpoint, with its required shedding of shoes and belts, and, of course,...

Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, Targus, Targus Zip-Thru, Transportation Security Administration, x-ray machine

Product reviews 2008-09-22

Hollywood preps new copyright bills

Hollywood preps new copyright billsMy favorite part... is the civil forfeiture. This gets completely around the whole business of proving that a user actually committed copyright infringement and goes straight for the router, computer, etc. presumptively involved.Our County Sheriff and Prosecutor have been funding a lot of their operations...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, civil forfeiture, tax, forfeiture, taxpayer

Discussion threads 2008-09-12

Are telecommuters inherently greener than the rest of us?

Ah, yes, I'm enjoying another day here in front of my office window, which is flung wide open to the crisp autumn-esque New Jersey air. Because I'm a consultant and a freelance writer, it's natural that I live the life of a telecommuter, which is just the type of network...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Telecommuting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-11

Voicent Predictive Dialer 6.2.1 (Windows)

Voicent Agent Dialer is a predictive dialer and semi auto dialer combined. Voicent Predictive Dialer assists marketing or sales people for telemarketing campaigns. Predictive dialing supports VOIP through Skype and remote agents. Automatic dialing can play audio messages, transfer calls, and record conversations, all by the press of a key....

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Dialer, Voicent Communications, Voicent Agent Dialer, Voicent Predictive Dialer, Telemarketing, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Marketing Research

Software downloads 2008-09-04

Do it Yourself Mojave

Yup. I'm now a Vista user. As I mentioned in a previous post, circumstances have recently required that I buy a new desktop PC. It's not that I wasn't happy with my old PC -- it was a generic ASUS M2N32 Athlon...

Tags: desktop, jason perlow, machine, microsoft windows, microsoft windows vista, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), microsoft windows xp, operating system, operating systems, ram, software

Blog posts 2008-08-08

Scribes, professionals and the decline of mass media

Clay Shirky, in his Here Comes Everybody, devotes a chapter, "Everyone is a media outlet", to a comparison of the decline of scribal production to the decline of "professional" journalism. He sets up this analogy on faulty legs that leave the argument that "what was once a chasm is now...

Tags: Journalist, Journalism, Stock, Media, Photograph, Image, Music, Investment, Document Management, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Managerial Accounting, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-06-09

AT&T disables free Wi-Fi for iPhone users

You'll recall that around Wednesday or Thursday of last week AT&T began offering free Wi-Fi access to iPhone users at select Airports, Borders and Starbucks locations. The Internet was quite giddy over the concept of the deal which seemed like a nice way for the locations to get more iPhone...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless

Blog posts 2008-05-04