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- SAP Users start to flex their muscles
- User group conferences are always great places to test the pulse of what's happening in the real world. While wandering the halls of the SAP UK and Ireland User Group annual conference this week, I came across customer representatives prepared to openly share their experiences. While there are...
- Tags: SAP AG, Business Structures, Leadership, Finance, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-24
- GIMP dropped from default Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx installation
- I use the GIMPThe user interface stinks, but the GIMP is a powerful application. I use it regularly for editing pictures. F-spot on the other hand, I don't like much. I use gThumb for organizing my photos (gThumb was F-spot's predecessor in early Ubuntu versions). gThumb also allows some simple...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, GIMP, Ubuntu
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- NComputing announces new Microsoft partnership
- I've featured NComputing a few times in this blog, largely focusing on their solutions that turn a single workstation into as many as 10 workstations using thin client technologies. In particular, I wrote about NComputing's successful bid beating out Intel and OLPC to provide thin-client computers to as many...
- Tags: Virtualization, Partnership, Thin Client, Server, Microsoft Corp., Computing, NComputing, Microsoft Windows, Thin Clients, Terminal Services, Business Structures, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Finance, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Asia-Pacific leaders: no final deal in Copenhagen
- Here Harry, take this tylenol.You're way too excited.The end of US freedomsWelcome to the new world where you are going tobe taxed and wealth transferred to other countries.2010 Vote them out.2012 Vote him out.Here's some better newshttp://www.climatedepot.com/a/3515/Prominent-Russian-Scientist-We-should-fear-a-deep-temperature-drop--not-catastrophic-global-warmingThanks to solar cycles, there's more to fear from COOLING than warming.Harry is such...
- Tags: Government, leader, global warming, rich nation
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- Intel to pay AMD $1.25 billion as companies end litigation war; Is it a new chip era?
- Inhell got off cheaplyProbably AMD needed the cash now because it would have gotten a lot more in a trial.This is good news for computer usersGood news all around. The cross licensing will allow advancements with a minimum of lawyer intervention.Won't matter, AMD is toastThey haven't produced a CPU worth...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Processors, litigation, phenom, amd, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., chip
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Apple bans bobble head Congress app
- Apple has banned an app from the App Store that depicts our members of congress as bobble head caricatures. Not because the app put them in compromising positions or contained foul language, violence (or god help us, nudity) but because it "ridicules" them. Really? ...
- Tags: U.S. Congress, Apple Inc., App, GPS, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- Did Microsoft Windows 7 download tool violate the GPL?
- ProbablyA microsoft programmer probably used code he found in the net(IE code-plex...) instead of developping his own code...At school the programmer would have failed his course, here MS will face, once aggain, the wrath of Stallman's little cultists.if true they should get penalize ntnt It was a CodePlex project?Well...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows 7, tool, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., GPL
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- Is MySQL an "albatross" around the neck of Larry Ellison?
- The EC is CLUELESSAbsolutely NOTHING changes about MySQL or its license open source with the buy out.infiltrated M$ agents are obfuscating this issueThe MySql should be a slam dunk, but M$ agents are feeding false information to the commision to harm OSS.Are you sure about that?MySql (and of course SUN...
- Tags: Databases, MySQL, open source, Larry Ellison, Microsoft Corp., agent
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- Google spent about $780 million today
- Two acquisitions were announced today -- together totaling around $800 million dollars. This comes about a month and a half after Eric Schmidt told us that acquisitions are back on. Both acquisitions are significant -- but one cost a lot more than the other. AdMob...
- Tags: Google Inc., Acquisition, Phone, AdMob, Gizmo5, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- Washington: lots of talk about global warming
- Lots of talk around the American capital today on the topic of global warming. The CO2 emissions from various political factions and lobbyists alone could raise the global temp another degree or two. And that's not counting the carbon footprint of all the plane travel involved in moving...
- Tags: U.S., Republican, Climate Change, U.S. Senate, Global Warming, European Union, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- Apple releases iTunes 9.0.2, kills Palm Pre sync ... again
- Round up the executive and throw them in jailApple's behavior is simply unacceptable.Palm... Shakes HeadNote to Palm: Make a Front end that uses the iTunes DB or quit trying to keep hacking. It is REALLY stupid. A) You will never keep ahead of this.B) Even if you keep fixing it,...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Smart phones, Apple Inc., Palm Inc., Apple iTunes, Palm Pre
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- The month ahead: Will Droid do damage to the iPhone's mojo?
- Droid, iPhone, and Windows 7IMHO Droid will likely carve out its own niche - but won't really replace the iPhone or the Blackberry.And I think they may be underestimating Windows 7 a bit.I don't understand the Android guysDo you seriously think you can sell a phone OS as a feature?...
- Tags: Smart phones, Telecom & Utilities, VZW, Apple iPhone, Droid, Apple Inc., phone
- Discussion threads 2009-10-28
- FCC unanimously approves next steps toward Net Neutrality
- Gov't fix, oh joyUh yeah, the internet is undecidely broken. This has a strong possibility of leading to usage limits. Comcast already has walked that line because they are behind the curve on their backbone upgrades. Why would a company who is being paid not provide better...
- Tags: INTERNET, FCC, Net Neutrality, socialist, Nazi, Godwin, leader, Microsoft Windows NT, government
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Nokia frustrated by iPhone US success? Sues Apple over wireless patents
- Yes, Nokia has to be frustrated, but, they should put their efforts into anAndroid phone and forget the patent lawsuits. Patents...If Apple didn't get an agreement to use Nokia's IP, then Apple should face a court of law and be held to account.Considering all the other phone makers realize this...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, wireless, Nokia Corp., Apple Inc., patent, GSM
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- News to know: Nook; Yahoo; Sun; Net Neutrality; Apple; Windows 7
- 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. Ed Burnette: Meet Nook: Barnes and Noble's sexy new book reader Matthew Miller: B&N Nook ebook reader revolutionizes...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Sun Microsystems Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Apple MacBook, Apple iMac, Apple Inc., Net Neutrality, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, E-books, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Notebooks, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Copenhagen may not see any real agreement on greenhouse gases
- That's the conclusion of Britain's lead environmental official. He thinks the barriers to reaching agreement on how to pay for reduction of emissions is too high a hurdle to overcome in less than fifty days. The British Prime Minister already tried scolding fellow heads of state. That got...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Greenhouse Gas, Agreement, Copenhagen, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- What do you believe, your eyes or somebody's numbers?
- There is no disagreementThere really never was. Scientists are in agreement that global climate change is happening you may have noticed the conferences.We will always have idiots. It's just that some of them happen to own media and political parties or are making way too much money with...
- Tags: climate change, mankind
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- "Most, if not all" Sidekick data recovered
- Well this is going to be interesting...So they had a catastrophic screw up and it looks like they worked their tales off to get it fixed.So that got a big black eye but at the same time it looks like they got it fixed. Whoever fixed this just got...
- Tags: Backups, backup
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- 73% of residential VOIP subscribers to use wireless VOIP phones by 2009
- COIP Cellular Over Internet Protocol is Bandwidth Hog Answer to VOIPInteresting,Having been an advocate of VOIP since beginning, and seeing the improvements in technology eliminating the early poor quality call clarity. Cellular Over Internet Protocol, or COIP, as in VOIP, has broken new ground with the first dial tone on...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP phone, phone, wireless, VoIP, CoIP
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
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