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TV Production Company Customizes Accounting System to Streamline Business Operations

RDF-USA is a subsidiary of RDF Media, a global TV production company headquartered in London that has produced programming for TV networks in the United States, the United Kingdom, and several other countries. The company used an accounting system that forced it to export financial records into spreadsheets and make...

Tags: Accounting, Financial, Streamline, Microsoft Corp., Accounting System, RDF-USA, TVs, Operational Accounting, Tv & Home Theater, Financial Services, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Finance

Case studies 2009-08-01

Additional Resources

Altova SemanticWorks 2010 (Windows)

Altova SemanticWorks is the ground-breaking visual RDF/OWL editor for the Semantic Web from the creators of XMLSpy. Graphically design and edit RDF instance documents, RDF Schema RDFS vocabularies, and OWL ontologies then output the format of your choice. SemanticWorks streamlines the job with full syntax and semantics checking. Additionally, context-sensitive...

Tags: Altova, OWL, Microsoft Windows, Altova SemanticWorks, RDF, Semantic Web, XML, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-11-17

Altova MissionKit for Enterprise Software Architects 2010 (Windows)

The Altova MissionKit 2010 for Enterprise Software Architects is an integrated suite of XML, database, and UML tools from the developers of XMLSpy. It delivers eight tools for less than the price of two! The Altova MissionKit for Enterprise Software Architects includes Enterprise Editions of Altova XMLSpy, MapForce, StyleVision, UModel,...

Tags: Altova, Database, Enterprise Software, Microsoft Windows, Tool, Altova XMLSpy, MapForce, StyleVision, UModel, DiffDog, DatabaseSpy, SemanticWorks, XML, UML, Productivity, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development

Software downloads 2009-11-17

Yes, based on Mac history, Windows 7.5 will suck less

Ummmm..."Windows 1: Shipped in 1985 and nobody cared.Windows 2: Shipped in 1987 and few cared.Windows 3: Came out in 1990 and PC users cared, especially with Windows 3.1 in 1992 (And I include here the introduction of Windows NT, which I believe was given a 3.x number.)Windows 4: Windows 95....

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Windows 7.5, Mac history, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-11-01

What Windows7 could mean for Linux

Success becomes a problemIf Win7 is as trouble-free as advertised, then there will be a mass-migration to it. This will make M$ great money in the short term. But once customers are there, they are less likely to EVER upgrade again! They are "happy" with XP now - save for...

Tags: SOAP, Content management, Groupware, Collaboration, Azure, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft SharePoint, Windows Communication Foundation, Microsofts, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-10-24

Psystar releases 'build your own Hackintosh' kit

there a few brain who will throw a fit big time Will nice i really wanna see what will happen on the legal side .but its a bit too late how many people already have the appz .... Well like many people ask for so long osx...

Tags: Sales strategy, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Psystar, Apple Mac OS X, EULA, EFI

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Nokia sues Apple over iPhone

?trying to get a free ride on the back of Nokia?s innovation.?What do you mean? All innovation begins with Apple. Remember when they invented the portable digital music player? Or the thin laptop? Or the smart phone and touch screens? They even invented mice and GUI's. Apple invented everything...

Tags: Smart phones, Apple Inc., Nokia Corp., Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Verizon Droid ad attacks iPhone on features

I'm really interested in this phone. I hear it won't drop 30% of its callsThe ad is pure genius and truly highlights how terrible the iPhone is. The iPhone also has the dubious distinction of being the only modern cell phone to drop 30% of its calls, as admitted by...

Tags: Smart phones, advertisement, Verizon Communications Inc., Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

iPhone: "Just works" (70% of the time)

Based on my experience...nonsense talk. I have indeed have had dropped calls, so I won't say that AT&Ts perfect or even great, but very, very few. Maybe ten in the ten months since I've been with AT&T, and some of those were because of bad signal, as opposed...

Tags: Smart phones, Apple iPhone, phone

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

Was Apple a "Liar Liar" to the FCC about the Google Voice app?

right...So now you are milking 2 cows: M$ and Apple.Google rules when it comes to software!M$ & Apple would not hold a candle if it was not for their monopolies!Awaits the impending destruction of Google by "The Followers..." ...Yes, there must be an explanation other than "Apple lied... again"[i]Apple hasn't...

Tags: FCC, Apple Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

Review: Snow Leopard ramps up performance and business-readiness of Mac OS X

Graphic Artists on MacDo Graphic Artists really have a compelling reason to use Macs anymore? Adobe CS3 isn't supported on Snow Leopard. If you want to use 64bit versions of Adobe CS4, you have to use Windows. And even on the same hardware, programs like After Effects and Photoshop...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, ZBrush, performance, Upgrading Windows, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, clean install, CS4, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

Vulnerable Adobe Flash shipped with Snow Leopard

That's all fine and goodbut Apple OSX is based on tried and tested UNIX and is immune to such vulnerabilities. Magic dust is able to discover exploits before they get a chance to spring into action.Unix was designed with security in mind and every object is securable with extremely high...

Tags: Operating systems, Cyberthreats, Snow Leopard, Apple Inc., operating system

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Is Apple worried by Windows 7?

I think Apple smells blood. Windows 7 is vulnerable.But, that said, the future is an OS that just gets out of your way and runs a browser.Apple should be worried, because.....once again Apple will be the big loser in this round. Why don't we wait until both OSes are out...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Web browsers, Operating systems, Snow Leopard, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, operating system, Microsoft Windows Vista, Web browser, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

Conversion has never been so much fun

Great conversion tool...and great post, as usual, David ! ThanksRE: Conversion has never been so much fun"Who would think that an unit conversion utility could sell the iPhone/iPod Touch?"Are you serious? Wait, let me run out and spend hundreds on an iPhone or iPod Touch so I can convert inches...

Tags: Smart phones, conversion tool, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-08-14

Apple's magic tricks and business spells revealed

I will give Apple credit for one thingThey wait for someone else to innovate a product. Then they look at the feature set in that innovative product, kill off the features that are of interest only to the 10% of purchasers who actually read instruction manuals and would notice if...

Tags: Mobile operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Smart phones, Mobile applications, Operating systems, Handhelds, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-11

Back to school goes cheap: Here comes another round of Mac vs PC

RDF AlertMaybe it's time to start living within the past 5 years."So instead, I opted to pay the premium price for a machine that doesn?t crash, doesn?t come to a crawl with multiple programs open and doesn?t just randomly disconnect from the WiFi network."Nor does any PC that I've had...

Tags: Desktops, Wi-Fi, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., FUD, PC, Back-to-School, Here Come

Discussion threads 2009-08-11

Is Apple suffering because it has outgrown its Reality Distortion Field?

the RDFwas and is nothing more than a mythological construct created by non-Apple users to explain why nobody liked their products. It can be rephrased in layman's terms as:Our stuff really doesn't suck, Apple just brainwashes and cheats.Why should they care?They are making tons of money. Such is the...

Tags: XML, RDF, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Is Apple suffering because it has outgrown its Reality Distortion Field?

Apple has grown to become one of the most influential tech companies on the planet. One trick that Apple has employed to great effect is the Reality Distortion Field RDF. But lately I can't help but feel that Apple has grown so big, so fast that it has outgrown the...

Tags: Apple Inc., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Moving Data.gov towards the Semantic Web

Government transparency in all its forms would appear to be very much in vogue at present, spanning everything from the Obama administration's Data.gov portal and Prime Ministerial pronouncements in the UK Parliament to municipal proclamations of openness in Vancouver and compelling grass-roots demonstrations by activists and even newspapers. ...

Tags: Government, Semantic Web, Podcasts, RDF, XML, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Revamped NetApplications data: Bad for IE and Mac OS, good for Chrome

Revamped NetApplications data: Bad for IE and Mac OS, good for ChromeFinally Properly Weighted Statistics ...This is what I've been screaming about in numerous posts about Net Applications so called "global" market share data that excluded most of the world's population. Finally they got the hint because they were starting...

Tags: Operating systems, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, operating system, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-08-03