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Ratchet-X Commander (exe)

Ratchet-X is an end user focused desktop integration platform that allows users to add new capabilities to existing applications via Web services without requiring changes to those applications. Contact Xtend is a free Ratchet-X plug-in module that allows users to integrate a plethora of contact data processing capabilities to virtually...

Tags: Plug-in, Capability, Ratchet-X, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2006-03-31

Additional Resources

Have we all become a bunch of anxious, depressed, sleep-deprived irritable stress-heads?

Let's face it, the last month or so has been a challenge for just about anyone's tolerance of stress and has made even the most "stable" of us question our own emotional and mental health. But I've discovered that IT workers in particular, or anyone who...

Tags: Sleep, Job, Beverage, Health Care, Computer, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Food & Beverage, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Constructive Data Mining: Modeling Argentine Broad Money Demand

This paper assesses the empirical merits of PcGets and Autometrics - two recent algorithms for computer-automated model selection - using them to improve upon Kamin and Ericsson's (1993) model of Argentine broad money demand. The selected model is an economically sensible and statistically satisfactory error correction model, in which cointegration...

Tags: Federal Reserve Board, Data Mining, Modeling, Governor, Inflation, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Corporate Governance, Research & Development, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law

White papers 2008-09-01

SAP pulls the trigger on higher support costs

SAP has announced that it plans to transition all customers to its new Enterprise Support offering from January 1st, 2009. SAP is pitching this as a service that adds customer value but in reality it means a cost increase. According to the press release, SAP will incrementally ratchet support costs...

Tags: SAP AG, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Corporate Governance, Construction, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-16

News to know: Searching Silverlight; IE 8; Dell; Google vs. YouTube

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: Silverlight content searchable, too Ryan Stewart: Brian Goldfarb talks about Silverlight 2 and Deep Zoom with Michael Cot LineRider releases a Silverlight 2 version Microsoft steps up self-policing of its OSI-approved source licenses ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Mobile, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Linux, UNIX, Keyboards, Operating Systems, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Microsoft to ratchet IE8 security another notch in Beta 2

Microsoft to ratchet IE8 security another notch in Beta 2Microsoft Press ReleaseOnly the other week Ed ran a story about how shoddy some people are running stories based on software companies press releases/marketing documents. Oh and that companies selling security software try and scare the market about the need for...

Tags: Web browsers, IE8 security, beta, Microsoft Corp., Beta 2, notch, security, Web

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Microsoft to ratchet IE8 security another notch in Beta 2

Sometime in August, Microsoft plans to release Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8. Yesterday, I spoke with Austin Wilson, Director of Windows Client Product Management at Microsoft, about some of the security-related changes due in this milestone, and got a preview of the changes announced today. Here are some details...

Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, ActiveX Control, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Site, Web Browser, IE8, Microsoft Windows, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Phishing, Web Browsers, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Philips 42PFL5603D

At the Consumer Electronics Show this year we selected the Philips 42PFL5603D as the best product overall because it addressed one big issue with today's flat-panel HDTVs: power consumption. Now that we've tested the "Eco TV," we can confirm that it does indeed use less power than any flat TV...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Philips 42PFL5603D, Philips Electronics N.V., Eco TV, backlight, TV

Product reviews 2008-05-30

Netflix launches device for watching movies on TV

Netflix enters the Net-to-TV video race with the introduction of a $99.99 player that enables its members to stream up to 10,000 movies and TV shows. The company has let paying members of its DVD-by-mail service watch content on their computers for some time...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Video, Netflix Player, Netflix Player Box, Corporate Communications, TVs, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Rik Fairlie

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Upcoming panel on exploiting the social graph

At a conference I attended last month on social media law (I have some interesting notes I'll post soon), I was struck by how lawyers for social media giants such as Facebook, MySpace, Google, find speedy ways to accommodate powerful copyright holders on infringement issues. When it comes to...

Tags: Social Media, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2008-04-23

Microsoft to Enter SaaS

Microsoft to Enter SaaSHow MS will enter the market... ummm, let me think long and hard about this one ....They'll massively overhype their offerings.Their stuff will underperform.It'll lock you into Windows.There'll be promises of fantastic things in the future which they'll either not be able to get to work, or...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Operating systems, Microsoft SaaS, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., software-as-a-service

Discussion threads 2008-03-02

Is Blu-ray worth it?

Now that Netflix and Best Buy are in the Blu-ray camp and Toshiba is reportedly admitting defeat, you may be thinking about buying a Blu-ray player. I've been using a Blu-ray disk player and a half dozen Blu-ray movies for a couple of months. Is Blu-ray worth it? The short...

Tags: Disk, Player, Blu-ray, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-02-13

Are data centers really meant to be green?

I was chastised this week by an attendee at a panel I was moderating in San Francisco for using the term "green" to describe strategies intended to better manage energy usage within a data center. Data centers cannot be green because they aren't meant to be,...

Tags: Cassatt Corp., Data Center, Server, Ken Oestreich, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-12-05

Build an 8 PS3 supercomputer

Less than a 10th the cost per GFlop of the $2500 supercomputer Take 8 PS 3 consoles, Yellow Dog Linux, a Gigabit Ethernet switch and your favorite protein folding or gravitational wave modeling codes and you're doing real science. On a Playstation! Try playing Ratchet &...

Tags: Supercomputer, Sony PlayStation 3, Cell, Khanna, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2007-10-29

Global warming: is it over so soon?

Global warming: is it over so soon?We still need tocurb our CO2 output, we still need to advance alternative renewable energy sources. To not pursue then and say "Oh well!" in an invitation to suicide of the human race. Personally seeing the damage done so far by the recent...

Tags: carbon dioxide, ocean, climate change, global warming

Discussion threads 2007-09-17

Only a matter of time before Microsoft combines ad business with 'software plus services'

Looking over the reports from the Microsoft financial analysts gathering this week in Redmond, Wash., I'm reminded of baseball ... modern ballparks in particular. Far as I know, most major league baseball teams have been profitable for many years, many decades. Most of the teams in large...

Tags: Software, Advertisement, Microsoft Corp., Service, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-09-03

Dell: What happens when component cost rise?

Dell: What happens when component cost rise?Costs go up as well as downWhile you can have a great quarter when some costs fall you still need to protect your price points against increases in component price increases. That is what it appears both Dell and Apple are doing. ...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Dell Computer Corp., computer price, computer

Discussion threads 2007-08-31

Ratchet: Deadlocked: Prima Official eGuide (exe)

Combat strategies for surviving the perils of DreadZone. Maps of every level with all pickups and objective locations revealed. Exclusive DVD with full-motion strategy and interviews with the Insomniac team! Not available with eGuide. Every mod, weapon and gadget covered! Find out what upgrades and equipment best suit your playstyle....

Tags: Strategy, Management

Software downloads 2007-08-06

Microsoft patent FUD working against Linux, says new study

Microsoft patent FUD working against Linux, says new studyHow to fight FUDYour opinion on how to fight FUD is interesting. Your camp says ignore them because it simply give them unnecessary publicity. The other camp says fight it by sending out as information debunking it.Both have merits. One problem with...

Tags: Linux, FUD, open source, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-08-02

Linksys iPhone Dual-Mode Internet Telephony Kit for Skype

Before there was this iPhone, there was, well, the iPhone--the Linksys iPhone, that is. Apple and Cisco--the owner of Linksys--got into a little legal dispute over whether Apple could use the iPhone name, which eventually lead to a settlement that allows Apple to use the iPhone brand while Linksys...

Tags: Home networking, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, IP telephony, telephony, phone, handset, Linksys, Skype Technologies S.A., Apple iPhone

Product reviews 2007-06-18