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PR Newswire 3.0 (Mobile)

PR Newswire is a primary source of breaking news, photos, audio and video directly from 40,000 organizations worldwide. PR Newswire issues some 1,000 news releases daily realtime from all businesses and focusing on key industries. Those available on your Palm include:Automotive and transportationEnergy, Metals and Raw MaterialsHealthcareFinance and insuranceIT and...

Tags: Mobile, PRNewswire, PR Newswire, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications

Software downloads 2002-03-14

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FAA hit with network glitch; Flight plans go manual

Another glitch with a linux network? Its hard to believe people still use it for anything critical like the FAA and flight tracking. Its a toy OS and should not be used when the lives of people are dependent upon it.Cisco supplies the network backboneIt will be interesting to see...

Tags: Operating systems, Sun Solaris, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, network, FAA, operating system, Flight Plan, network glitch, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Geo-engineering can save this planet

Geo-engineering can save this planetToo funnyI love it, socialism and government control of your daily life.Nothing like United Socialist States of Amerika....Population control is a better targetIf that kind of money was spent educating people about overpopulation - and how the earth can only support a finite number of humans...

Tags: Contraception, Wood, Geo-engineering

Discussion threads 2009-06-12

Ubuntu's corporate ready 8.04 is released but is three a crowd in Linux market?

Ubuntu's corporate ready 8.04 is released but is three a crowd in Linux market?Choice is the under-pin of capitalismSo the choice stops any one of these companies getting too Microsoftish.As far as support goes, if somebody cannot readily hop between an apt or rpm based system then they shouldn't be...

Tags: Operating systems, Directory services, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Mac Server, Ubuntu, Linux, Xandros, server, Astrum Inc., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-04-24

Mark Cuban wants Facebook and Yahoo to dance the rumba

Mark Cuban wants Facebook and Yahoo to dance the rumbaFacebook, "pulse360.com" & "Bid4KeyWords" ....."Unless Facebook's social APIs provide some unique competitive advantage over OpenSocial APIs, or that Facebook and Microsoft or Yahoo teaming up will pay huge dividends, openness is the path of least resistance…and enlightenment."And it's ALL (well...

Tags: Channel management, Facebook, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-11-04

802.11n Draft 2.0 gear still a neighbor killer

802.11n Draft 2.0 gear still a neighbor killerThat may be true for D-Link firmware updates but . . .they probably weren't tested by the Wi-Fi alliance because the alliance just started testing yesterday for chipsets. I wonder if meeting Draft 2.0 specifications means extra hardware inside the box.However thanks...

Tags: Home networking, Wi-Fi, Network technology, Draft 2.0, hardware, IEEE 802.11n, D-Link Systems, router

Discussion threads 2007-06-26

Vonage CEO Snyder out, spending to be trimmed

Vonage CEO Snyder out, spending to be trimmedGoodHope this means they will get rid of their stupid annoying jingle for their commercials, I freaking hate that jingle.truely unfortunateI'm a loyal Vonage subscriber and love the service. I'm really saddened to see this in the news lately. What I want to...

Tags: IT Services, Vonage Holdings Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-04-12

Details in tech journalism - a Sun Shiny example

Last Thursday Sun issued two sequential press releases signed by the same spokesman. The first, under the title "Sun Expands Solaris/SPARC CMT Innovation Leadership", announced the widespread availability of the 4GB DIMMS in the UltraSPARC T1 line, the corresponding megahertz rate increase to 1.4Ghz, progress on the "Neptune" TCP/IP...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Vonage Holdings Corp.

Blog posts 2007-01-22

Motorola ic502

When Nextel and Sprint announced their marriage last year, everyone who follows cell phones was a bit surprised. Not only do the two carriers use incompatible technologies (Sprint has Code Division Multiple Access, Nextel has Integrated Digital Enhanced Network), but their handset lineup and service offerings are completely different. Yet...

Tags: Cellular phones, Motorola Inc., Nextel Communications Inc., ic502, Sprint Communications, telephone

Product reviews 2006-11-16

Portland lets desktop Linux roll for VARs

My pharmacist got a Linux box this week.He didn't choose to run Linux. His Value Added Reseller VAR did. The new system connects with the same online resources as the old one, it has nifty black flat screen monitors, and the printer output looks better to patients. This is where...

Tags: value-added reseller, desktop Linux, Linux

Blog posts 2006-10-20

Novell ejects CEO, CFO

Novell ejects CEO, CFOLovey ...YOur ignorance never ceases to amaze me:From their financial reporting which can be found at : httpp://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-02-2006/0004312562&EDATE="During the first fiscal quarter 2006, Novell recognized total Open Platform Solutions revenue of $56 million, which was up from $14 million inthe year ago period. Total Open Platform Solutions...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., Linux

Discussion threads 2006-06-22

DVD dispute burns at PC makers

DVD dispute burns at PC makersAs a loyal Mac user......Apple's backing of Blu-ray makes me think that HD-DVD will be the eventual winner, although I sure hope not!As usual, faster-to-market wins over better designEven though we _know_ that better design is better overall, better for users, better for company costs,...

Tags: HD DVD, Consumer electronics, Games, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., iHD, HD-DVD, BD-Java, DVD

Discussion threads 2005-09-29

Microsoft and the HD DVD format wars

Microsoft and the HD DVD format warsSeems like a durability problem for Blu Ray"HD-DVDs use the same coating thickness (0.6mm, versus 0.1mm for Blu-Ray) as existing DVDs..."If this is true, and HD-DVDs will have a coating 6 times as thick as Blue-Ray from a durability perspective alone this is reason...

Tags: HD DVD, Consumer electronics, HD-DVD, DVD, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-09-27

Apple's Jobs swipes at Longhorn

Apple's Jobs swipes at LonghornNow this is funny."Windows chief Jim Allchin recently suggesting it was Apple doing the copying." Now that's funny.Everyone knows that when Microsoft talks about innovation they are usually talking about stuff they have "borrowed" from other companies, like Apple.But, for a minute, let's pretend that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, job, Apple Inc., Microsoft Longhorn, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-04-25

Finanza Real-Time 1.0 (Mac)

Finanza Real-Time is in a class of its own on the Macintosh - providing a powerful, feature-rich, and elegant solution. Finanza Real-Time offers features previously in Windows-only solutions. Finanza Real-Time provides professional-level features such as: streaming real-time quotes, real-time news, historical quotes, portfolio management tools, and alerts. Finanza Real-Time...

Tags: Volatility, Apple Macintosh, Ticker, Equity, Portfolio Management, Finanza Real-Time, Investment, Financial Services, Finance

Software downloads 2003-04-01

Finanza Real-Time 1.0.0 (Mac)

Finanza Real-Time is in a class of its own on the Macintosh - providing a powerful, feature-rich, and elegant solution. Finanza Real-Time offers features previously in Windows-only solutions. Finanza Real-Time provides professional-level features such as: streaming real-time quotes, real-time news, historical quotes, portfolio management tools, and alerts. Finanza Real-Time...

Tags: Volatility, Apple Macintosh, Ticker, Equity, Portfolio Management, Finanza Real-Time, Investment, Financial Services, Finance

Software downloads 2003-04-01