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The Vital Role of Web Conferencing in Small & Medium Enterprises: A Wainhouse Research Quantitative Analysis: Web conferencing as a general-purpose business tool has undergone tremendous growth in adoption and usage over the past few years. While many think of Web conferencing as a large enterprise application, it has in fact shown remarkable attractiveness to small and medium enterprise SME users as well. ...; Tags: Web, Small And Medium Enterprise, Citrix Systems Inc., Quantitative Analysis, Wainhouse Research, Analysis, Web Conferencing, Smb/Sme, Internet; Webcasts 2006-08-29

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Microsoft's Seinfeld ads: what's the real agenda?: Microsoft's Seinfeld ads: what's the real agenda?Wow....What keen insight. What a great article.Oh. Not.Perdue, Ioccoca, Seinfeld 4?If Lee Iococca can do ads for Chrysler and have a positive effective on the brand, then maybe BG is launching a new career in advertising and media and selling the MS...; Tags: MS Window, Seinfeld, advertisement, Seinfeld ad, real agenda, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-09-06
2011, A News Odyssey: Digg-ing Meets Up With Digging: The crossover is close. The Internet is poised to overtake the newspaper industry in total size as an advertising medium. And the question is whether it can also overtake it as a news medium. Says here, the year will be 2011. That is likely to be when...; Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Internet Advertising, News, Governor, Internet, Operational Accounting, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-09-05
Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack: In the wake of the recent malvertising attacks where malicious flash ads were appearing at trusted web sites, evidence from multiple vendors and researchers indicates that spammers and malware authors have once again switched tactics, and are one again abusing legitimate services such as Google's Picasa and ImageShack. Whereas the...; Tags: Technique, Spammer, Malware, Google Picasa, Attack, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Google's Top 10 Cloud Computing List: Dontcha just love Top 10 lists? At the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco today, Matthew Glotzbach, who leads the Enterprise Products team at Google, offered a "Top 10 Things I Can Do in the Cloud That I Couldn't Do A Year Ago." No surprises that many of the tasks...; Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Mobile, E-mail, Productivity, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Software, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-09-04

The power of standard protocols: I've spent the past few months as the primary developer at a very small company. An important technology to this company is Instant Messaging, as it plays an essential part in our approach to unified messaging. This has meant that I have had to build, in-house, our...; Tags: IM, Jabber, Protocol, XMPP, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Red Hat acquires Qumranet: I just received a press release telling me that one of my clients, Qumranet, has been acquired by Red Hat.This was not entirely unexpected. Here's what the release said Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced...; Tags: Red Hat Inc., Qumranet Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky; 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
A new method to study origin of life: A new method to study origin of lifeStart from the other endStart with a conclusion, then only accept/invent things that support that conclusion. The kool-aid is so much smoother that way. ;)Phylogenetic algorhythmsAn evaluation of the worth of the methodology should start with examining how the analysis is accomplished.You may...; Tags: Biotechnology, kool-Aid, Darwin; Discussion threads 2008-09-03
Windows 7: Can Microsoft get boot time to under 15 seconds?: Windows 7: Can Microsoft get boot time to under 15 seconds?Where has this been?Oh, hello, MS, is that you? Did you remember that little OS side-project that you've had going on for a couple decades now? I'm so glad to see a renewed interest, please stick around to...; Tags: Operating systems, Boot-time, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-09-03
Xen engine 3.3 released: On August 27th, the Xen engine version 3.3 was released on Xen.org, the site that houses the open source Xen project. In the words of the organization, "Xen 3.3 includes enhancements that further advance its position as a fast, scalable, secure virtualization engine for the industry's broadest range of server...; Tags: Xen, Virtual Machine, Xen Client Initiative, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-09-03
Project Monitor (exe): Designed for anyone working on a time-for-money basis, project monitor is an easy to use time-tracking and analysis application. If your livelihood depends upon accurately categorizing and recording your working day on the basis of client, project and activity, project monitor is sure to benefit you and your business. Record...; Tags: Monitor, Analysis, Whistling Fish Software, Monitors & Displays, Productivity, Hardware, Components; Software downloads 2008-09-03
Chemspread PRO (exe): Free Java Applet is a chemistry spreadsheet calculator - balances virtually any chemical equation and follows up with stoichiometry calculations as well as equillibruim calculations. Percentage mass, titrations, ideal and non-ideal gases. Knows the periodic table and computes molecular weight of all entries. Partial pressures and Van der Waal equation....; Tags: Equation, Spreadsheet, ChemistryCalculator.com, Productivity, Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development; Software downloads 2008-09-02
Golf Stats Pro (exe): Golf Stats Pro is the new statistical analysis software application from Erebus Software, for recording your golf scores, analysing your game, and tracking your progress as a golfer. Golf Stats Pro provides you, the golfer, with plenty of useful features designed to help you analyse your game to identify your...; Tags: Statistical Analysis, Erebus Software, Games, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2008-09-02
StatusHQ - Microblogging for the enterprise?: Dennis Howlett published a great piece on StatusHQ, a microblogging service that has positioned itself to be a more grown-up version of Twitter, that claims it can be used specifically for business communications. While Howlett points out some of the service's merits (i.e. a less restrictive character...; Tags: Twitter, Tool, Productivity, Jennifer Leggio; Blog posts 2008-09-01
NetApplications Aug 08 data - Big gains for Firefox and iPhone: It's the first of the month again, and that means that NetApplications data for the previous month is available for analysis. This time round there are some interesting trends to note. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Tags: Apple iPhone, Mozilla Firefox, Market Share, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Linux, Software, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-09-01
Another view: WOA vs. SOA debate a distraction?: Another view: WOA vs. SOA debate a distraction?WOA vs. ROA vs. SOARealistically, people have been using using RESTful services as part of SOA initiatives even if they didn't realize it for a few years already. You could even make the argument that Resource Oriented Architecture is going to subsume SOA,...; Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, WSOA, WOA, SOA; Discussion threads 2008-08-31
Face Recognition Based on Statistical Moments (zip): Face Recognition Based on Statistical Moments - Matlab source code. Moment based feature descriptors have evolved into a powerful tool for image analysis applications. Geometric moments present a low computational cost, but are highly sensitive to noise. We have developed a simple and efficient technique for face recognition that combines:...; Tags: Moment, Face Recognition, Luigi Rosa; Software downloads 2008-08-31
Face Recognition in Fourier Space (zip): Face Recognition in Fourier Space - Matlab source code. A simple face recognition system based on an analysis of faces via their Fourier spectra. Recognition is done by finding the closest match between feature vectors containing the Fourier coefficients at selected frequencies. The introduced method compares favourably to three other...; Tags: Face Recognition, Luigi Rosa; Software downloads 2008-08-31
ROFLthing 2008: Have you ever been to an internet culture conference? Earlier this year, Harvard senior Tim Hwang threw one in Cambridge, Mass., and it was a massive success. This time, Hwang wanted to have a smaller get together in San Francisco to chat about memes. Welcome to ROFLthing...; Tags: Humor, Rickroll, Chuck Norris, Internet, Strategy, Management, Andrew Mager; Blog posts 2008-08-29