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Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Increase Large Capital Project Efficiency Through Improved Project Management and Collaboration

Managing the risk of large-scale capital projects can be a balancing act of immense proportions. From meeting stakeholder demands and regulatory requirements, to complying with environmental and consumer pressures, executives must carefully direct enterprise projects to maximize returns and minimize risks. The Project Group's Large Capital Project Efficiency Solution provides...

Tags: Risk, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Project Group, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Collaboration, Groupware, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Enterprise Software, Software

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Google Wave: Has potential, but let loose too soon

Open sourceKeep in mind that the code to developers is completely open source. If someone wants to make their own wave software or use the real time HTML 5 support for something else.Besides this is just a preview of the basics. Open to only 100,000 people, you can't expect much....

Tags: Google Inc., developer

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

How to put the 'lean' in Lean IT

Vista was lean!All developers - no testers ;-)The worst I've seenWere a couple projects that had someone called a Configuration Control Manager. What a useless twit she was. Someone in charge of settings. Probably no surprise it was some friend of the senior manager who followed him...

Tags: Lean IT, IT IS

Discussion threads 2009-10-31

Making a foundation a real solution to the mySQL mess

Sounds good. Too good?This sounds like a great solution to a problem that is probably costing Oracle, destroying what little credibility Sun has as a brand, while ensuring that every website on the planet virtually retains access to a free, secure and efficient database. If we don't do something, the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Dana, MySQL, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Software that automatically fixes itself, without shutting down

Invariant DetectionThis is supposing that the software is simple enough to determine invariants and not block valid code paths that are infrequently used. It sounds a lot like applying design by contract after the fact.Software That Fixes Itself?The headline implies an application that fixes itself. The article describes and...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, invariant, software, Clearview, erroneous execution

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Smartphone wars; one platform will never rule them all

UbuntuThere are enough potential customers out there, and enough open source software available for potential OS builders that you don't really need that much market share to remain vital.Mac OS has only a fraction of the entire computer market and Ubuntu only has a fraction of Mac OS's market share....

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Smart phones, Cellular phones, Operating systems, Smartphone, phone, smart phone, Apple Inc., operating system

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Microsoft partners to allow Eclipse interop on Win7, WinServer 2008 R2, Azure

Eclipse should decline the 'plug ins'M$ only ries to extend and extinguish here folks!Self interests always......Isn't that what most things revolve around? I'm sure that if Linux had a chance to extend and draw to its platform by working with Microsoft it would, unless they are too stupid to...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Eclipse, Linux, Mircosoft, Azure, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

What the DoD now says about open source

I could just see a commander in the field ....having to wait for procurement to get a simple map through bids while his troops are getting shot up even though it is publicly available (oh wait, isn't that how the Chinese embassy got accidentally bombed?)Always use the best tool for...

Tags: Linux, UNIX, Operating systems, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Spyware, adware & malware, U.S. Department of Defense, open source, OpenBSD, attack

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Smart grid grants

Over $3 billion dollars worth of federal money will be awarded to smart grid projects in the U.S. today. President Obama has chosen a Florida solar power plant as the location for making his announcement. He'll be in Arcadia, Florida, at Florida Power and Light Co.’s...

Tags: Grant, Monitors & Displays, Wi-Fi, Hardware, Components, Wireless And Mobility, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Microsoft drops 'Family Guy' special

Viewers watch Family Guy because they want tonot because it's forced in to their cubicles at work.That doesn't fit with the Windows brand, indeed.MSFT tried to alter the content of the show"Microsoft sent MacFarlane and Fox several notes expressing their concern over the show's content but ultimately decided just to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Family Guy, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

MB Capstone Number 1.0 (Windows)

MB Capstone Number Software finds your capstone number or capstone character. In addition to telling you your capstone number or capstone character, this capstone software also provides you with the free interpretations of your capstone number. You can then get a very clear idea about the significance of your capstone...

Tags: Project, Microsoft Windows, Character, MysticBoard

Software downloads 2009-10-26

myDocuments 2.6 (Mac)

myDocuments is a clear program, crafted with love to detail, for grouping and finding documents and files. Even with Spotlight and the like it is easy to lose overview of all the documents you need for a project or a client - out of sight out of mind. With myDocuments...

Tags: Document, Apple Macintosh, Menu Bar, MOApp Software Manufactory, myDocuments

Software downloads 2009-10-18

Mono-mania: It's risky business

M$ must give away its patentsIf M$ want to have its technolgies adopted by FOSS it must give up all its patents and GPLed the code.Until then we must stay away from any code that resembles M$ technologies and support Stallman and FSF in their fight against software tirany.RE: Mono-mania:...

Tags: .NET, C#, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Development tools, Operating systems, Programming languages, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mono, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Saluting SAP & Oracle Communities

This is a fascinating big enterprise week in the US, with Oracle Open World dominating downtown San Francisco and making the taxi drivers very happy, and SAP TechEd running concurrently in Phoenix. Oracle do a good job of putting Open World online and...

Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-13

Rename Us 3.0 (Windows)

Free file utility, which allows to rename or copy group of files at once. When renaming or copying, the file names are changed according to the rules user specified in the project. User can add any number of different rules like enumeration, changing case of symbols, adding prefix or suffix,...

Tags: Rule, Vitaliy Levchenko, Microsoft Windows, Digital Music, Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-10-12

Apache 2.2.14 (Mac)

The Apache Project is a collaborative software development effort aimed at creating a robust, commercial-grade, featureful, and freely-available source code implementation of an HTTP Web server. The project is jointly managed by a group of volunteers located around the world, using the Internet and the Web to communicate, plan, and...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apache Software Foundation, Apache Project, Software Development, Open Source, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-10-06

PhotoSketch: better than sliced bread, Photoshop

Turn it 3D, and we have a holodeck!Turn it into something 3D, add voice commands - and you have something quite similar to how Star Trek usually portrays its holodeck!RE: PhotoSketch: better than sliced bread, PhotoshopYour "source code" link points to a file called Binary.zip that contains... just the binary,...

Tags: PhotoSketch, bread, Adobe PhotoShop

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

PhotoSketch: better than sliced bread, Photoshop

This is quite possibly the coolest thing I've ever seen a computer do. What if you could draw some stick figures on a screen and somehow magically create a beautiful image montage? Well, it's possible. A group...

Tags: Adobe PhotoShop, Sketch, Photograph, Image, Corporate Communications, Engineering, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-10-05

News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open...

Tags: Ubuntu, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Data Center, Information Technology, P2P, Palm Inc., Novell OpenSuse, Jason Perlow, Apple Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Tablets, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-05

I've joined the Dachis Group

As the worlds of internal enterprise, small, medium sized businesses and partner collaboration networks evolve, an increasing level of intersection with the social media world - the conversation with end users - is inevitable. The implications of this are enormous. While many people can grasp the immediate...

Tags: Social Media, Vision, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-01