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Word Speed 1.0 (Mobile)

The objective is to unscramble words as fast as you can in the time allotted and achieve as many points as possible. Get a word right and score points. Get a word wrong and lose points. The number of points are based on the length of the word guessed or...

Tags: Mobile, Point, Professional Intellectual Development, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Games, Microsoft Office, Advertising & Promotion, Office Suites, Software, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-04-07

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The uncertainties of social media for traditional brands

Guest post: Drew Bartkiewicz is a vice president of Technology and New Media Markets for The Hartford, and author of the upcoming book, Unseen Liability. In today's 24/7 business world, companies and their customers are consuming, sharing and storing data at an unprecedented rate. This data has...

Tags: Web, Brand, Network, Social Media, Tiffany, Web 2.0, Intellectual Property, Internet, Research & Development, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Enhanced Professional Networking and Its Impact on Personal Development and Business Success

At the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, the Watson Women's Network WWN devised an innovative format for a networking event to facilitate professional networking between IBM's technical and business communities. The WWN organized two networking events based on the devised event format. The paper used social network analysis and...

Tags: Network, IBM Corp., Networking Event, Networking

White papers 2008-09-09

Professional Services Firm Maximizes Knowledge Sharing With Collaborative Intranet

Oliver Wyman - Delta Organization & Leadership, a global consulting firm, has intellectual property that was previously dispersed among multiple hard-to-access intranet systems. Consequently, the firm's consultants and business users had difficulty finding and using information for new business proposals and client projects. In fact, they often were forced to...

Tags: Knowledge, Professional Services, Intranet

Case studies 2008-07-01

Physics - getting a raw deal in schools?

Physics - getting a raw deal in schools?physics is not a fundamental application of mathsPhysics is the basis for understanding any physical phenomenon. I do not see any sense in studying biology w/o a strong physics curriculum, as w/o physics you will have a hard time understanding what...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, raw deal

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

Microsoft Meets Open Source: Glasnost 2.0

Last week I spent two days on campus in Redmond with about 40 of my industry colleagues at the Microsoft Technology Summit, an annual invite-only event where Microsoft selects a swath of people from all over the world -- key technology influencers -- to learn about what the company is...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-03-31

For 2008 expect more Linux applications

For 2008 expect more Linux applicationsLinux Desktop is pretty amazing ...It has shown an ability to thrive with a hardly measurable marketshare. It has easily the most highly energized fan base and the most highly motivated detractors of any computing technology in existence bar none. Each year it...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux desktop, Linux, Linux Applications, operating system

Discussion threads 2007-12-18

Facebook infltrating the enterprise: the ups and downs

My colleagues at Enterprise Irregulars are not your typical Facebook demographic. Heck, I can't even make the top end 40-49 age group. But that doesn't stop us from arguing whether Facebook and other forms of social media are appropriate for enterprise usage and if so, where they fit.Some of us...

Tags: Social networking, Social software, Enterprise applications

Blog posts 2007-07-29

Sun demurs from adopting GPL v3 for OpenSolaris, keeps CDDL only

I wonder what that was all about. I mean the last dozen months of Sun Microsystems seemingly interested in and participating in the definitions of GPL v3, only to come out now that GPL v3 is defined to say they will stick to CDDL for OpenSolaris and for now GPL...

Tags: Windows, Sun Microsystems, Software Infrastructure, Red Hat, Patents, Open Source, Microsoft, Linux, Intellectual Property, IBM, GPL, Enterprise Java, Apache

Blog posts 2007-06-30

Sue-happy RIAA gets hit with malicious prosecution claim

Sue-happy RIAA gets hit with malicious prosecution claimOld Harry would envy these guysSee my small cartoon:http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2007/06/the-new-old-har.htmlBye,OliverGo gett'emI hope her and more people go after these sick twisted freaks.We need some street justice.....monitoring internet connection without warrent, time to stop these anti-Americans.I was out on a popular hacker site and it...

Tags: Litigation, RIAA, music

Discussion threads 2007-06-27

China says U.S. piracy case will 'badly damage' ties

China says U.S. piracy case will 'badly damage' tiesWhat can the WTO doI think the WTO is really useless. It's a big dog with no teeth. The US regualarly ignored WTO rulings. Why should China care?Copyrights are thing we invented. Not everyone agrees with them or finds benifit with them....

Tags: Free trade, Network technology, NETWORKING, IP, World Trade Organization, piracy

Discussion threads 2007-04-24

Bungee Labs starts off Web 2.0 Expo with a bang -- web development as a service with a low-cost hosting model

Its time to add another IT category to the official IT lexicon: software development and deployment as a service SDDS. And this ones a keeper.Thats my conclusion after seeing a demonstration of Bungee Labs new Bungee Connect offering, which combines the virtues of online web application development with a near-real-time...

Tags: Web Services, Virtualization, Testing Tools, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA, SaaS, Open Source, Microsoft, Internet, IDEs, Google, Enterprise 2.0, Eclipse, Developer Tools, content delivery network, Application Lifecycle Management, Amazon, Akamai

Blog posts 2007-04-16

Microsoft reaches limit on Vista, Office giveaway

Microsoft reaches limit on Vista, Office giveawayMicrosoft reaches limit on Vista, Office giveawayThat was a very quick sell out. 30,000 copies given away for free in a day. Goes to show that people DO want Vista despite the opinion of a few ABMers on ZDNet. I wish I...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Office giveaway, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2006-12-01

Assembling great software: A round-up of eight mashup tools

There is a frequently recurring piece of software development lore that plays on the fact that good programmers are supposed to be lazy. In these stories, a good programmer will take a frequently recurring, monotonous task like testing and instead of doing it by hand, will instead...

Tags: tool, mashup

Blog posts 2006-09-02

Microsoft puts cybersquatters on notice

Microsoft puts cybersquatters on noticeNo Ax, let's start a companyThere's got to be some Web 2.0 system we can set up so customers can automatically sue everyone they know!It would seem as Microsofts Lawyer'sare suing anyone now if and when they hear a pin drop ."In a world without...

Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Corp., alliance, independent inventor

Discussion threads 2006-08-22

How to be a champion user at your school

Many teachers feel left behind by their ultra-savvy students. Kids who have grown up with a plethora of technology use it blithely, but are desparately in need of teachers with the experience, wisdom, and critical thinking skills to help them use these technologies as effectively and safely as possible....

Tags: teacher

Blog posts 2006-04-17

Documenting human capital: The next wave of economic development

Documenting human capital: The next wave of economic developmentMessage has been deleted.Human & Financial CapitalIf we accept Peter Drucker's thesis that knowledge workers people who think for a living own the means of production through the collectiveexpression of their human capital, what do financial capitalists or shareholders really own? Legally,...

Tags: Financial accounting, human capital, financial, human capitalist, financial capitalist, capitalist, intangible asset

Discussion threads 2006-02-23

The future of the Internet - What role for developing countries?

The future of the Internet - What role for developing countries?If the other countries don't like the U.S. running the Net......then let them build their own Net. U.S. tax dollars paid for the development of the Net and now the others want to control it. I say TAKE A...

Tags: developing country, patent system, Internet, Useless Nations

Discussion threads 2005-11-24

Blogging as 'intellectual hydroplaning'?

Blogging as 'intellectual hydroplaning'?Thank God for intellectual hydroplaningBefore blogs existed, I had to formulate my ideas on scraps of paper and wait until I'd come to some sustainable conclusions before I could publish something marketable. Now I can just throw ideas out there and see what sticks -- the...

Tags: Wainewright, Socrates, blog, blogging

Discussion threads 2005-11-22

Depoliticizing open source

Depoliticizing open sourceThe only way to depoliticize itis to take the economics out of it (sorry but the word "deeconomize" just looks too weird).I gravitate to GPL software not so much for RMS-type political reasons, but because it give better bang for your buck. Yes, the fact that most of...

Tags: open source, Depoliticizing open source

Discussion threads 2005-05-05