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TR Dojo: Five reasons why Windows 7 XP Mode will encourage upgrades

TechRepublic's Bill Detwiler explains what XP mode is and shares five reasons why it may encourage XP hold outs to upgrade. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Reason, Mode, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-11-10

Jailbreaking the iPhone is cool, piracy is not!

I can think of a LOT of good reasons to jailbreak an iPhone, but there's one reason to jailbreak that's not cool at all, and that's to pirate apps from the Apple App Store. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Apple iPhone, Reason, Smart Phones, Piracy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Vispa 0.5.4 (Windows)

There are many reasons why you wouldn't want your operating system connect to Microsoft's server, be it for practical reasons or pure idealism. Based on the source-code of the award-winning xpy (version 0.9.8), Vispa allows you to easily tweak your Windows Vista towards better privacy and security, even system performance....

Tags: Operating System, Reason, Jan T. Sott, Vispa 0.5.4, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Security, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-03

Video: Five reasons to kill IT projects

ZDNet's sister site, Tech Republic, created a great video describing the right reasons to terminate failing IT projects. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Project, Information Technology, Reason, Video, Corporate Communications, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Chrome OS: 3 reasons it matters, 4 reasons it's irrelevant

Google has finally announced its long-expected operating system, the Chrome OS. Here's what we know about it, plus my take on both why it matters and why it could turn out to be irrelevant. by Jason Hiner

Tags: Reason, Matter, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-07-13

Google's obfuscation on privacy

Does Google have something to hide? A report in the New York Times claims that: It’s the only one of the big Internet companies that doesn’t put a link to its privacy policy on its home page. Indeed, Google believes so strongly...

Tags: Google Inc., Reason, Privacy, Privacy Policy, Internet, Security, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-27

Can a 256GB SSD save the MacBook Air?

When it comes to the MacBook Air I'm a lover and a hater. I waited forever for a real Apple subnotebook, then after getting one I find myself traveling less and craving more horsepower than the diminutive MacBook Air can deliver. But I digress. ...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Solid State Disk, Apple MacBook, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Reason

Blog posts 2008-05-27

Here are five of the reasons why tech customer support "sucks"

You so totally need to purchase the February issue of Wired. Just went on sale, and I got mine. Cover story is  Why Things Suck: The 33 Things That Make Us Crazy. Turning to the Customer Service...

Tags: Customer Service, Call-center, Reason, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Product Marketing, Real Estate, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Business Operations, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-01-19

SoundSeeing Rome Saint Peter?s (Mobile)

The center of the Catholic faith lies in a tiny city-state governed by the Pope. The largest Christian church is built upon the grave of the apostle Peter. There are plenty of reasons to visit Saint Peter's, one of which is Michelangelo's dome. And to receive a blessing from the...

Tags: Mobile, Reason, Shoeboxmedia, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-01-06

SoundSeeing Rome Vatican City (Mobile)

The center of the Catholic faith lies in a tiny city-state governed by the Pope. The largest Christian church is built upon the grave of the apostle Peter. There are plenty of reasons to visit Saint Peter's, one of which is Michelangelo's dome. And to receive a blessing from the...

Tags: Mobile, Reason, Shoeboxmedia, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-01-06

T-minus 14 hours and counting: seven reasons why Torrents are buzzing with illegal Leopard seeds

Always clued-in David Kravets of Wired.com THREAT LEVEL blog has been noticing detection of BitTorrents that seem to be carrying illegal files of Apple's new (as in being released in 14 hours from time of this post) Leopard operating system. Not only is...

Tags: Reason, Apple Inc., Leopard, Patience, Productivity, Internet, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-26

Spock Can't Handle the Pressure

As reported by Dan Farber, new people-search engine, Spock, has been unusable today.Sure, there are reasons and reasons and yet more reasons for the failure, but users are impatient and just don't care why the thing doesn't work. On the flip side, it looks like a promising tool (when it...

Tags: Reason, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-08-08

10 reasons you should upgrade to Vista (and 10 reasons you shouldn't)

There are plenty of reasons to upgrade to Windows Vista and there are also plenty of reasons not to. Although some organizations are actively preparing for Vista, others are planning to stay the course with their current operating systems. Still others are planning to move to an entirely new environment....

Tags: Reason, Microsoft Windows Vista, Josh Hoskins, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Download resources 2007-01-23

Diablo II d2.mpq patch (Windows)

This is the original patch_d2.mpq for Diablo II version 1.09d. Use this if you have replaced your original by various reasons (mods, etc.)

Tags: Version, Reason, Baal, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2003-10-23

CookBook - fish 1.0 (Mobile)

If you have troubles preparing sea food - mainly fish, this Palm Pilot program is just what you need. Well explained step-by-step and described recipes will show you the joy of fish meals, and the reason of including fish in your daily diet. We are all aware of high quality...

Tags: Mobile, Reason, Kresimir Dekanic, Food & Beverage, Handhelds, Manufacturing, Hardware

Software downloads 2000-12-27

Small Business Webcast: Top 5 Reasons to Protect Your Customer Data (Level 100)

A person's data may be safe, but what about his customers' data? This webcast explains top 5 reasons to protect the customer data.

Tags: Reason, Small Business, Microsoft Corp.

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Apple seeks injunction to end Psystar Mac clones ... oh, and $2.1m

Let's cheer the death of competition!!!Competition is good... as long as it doesn't hurt Apple. Cue the double standards...Apple, congrats for winning in the legal court. Maybe you can take that $2.1M (that you won't get) and add it to your PR budget to repair the damage you've done in...

Tags: Apple Inc., Psystar, gizmo

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Does Amazon know where it's going with the Kindle?

Amazon, please ignore AdrianNormally I'm right with Adrian, but he obviously doesn't have a Kindle, which is my favorite device. To Amazon: don't add battery sucking features (like wi-fi), we don't care about multi-purpose (it's a bookreader!), i don't want cr@apps on my Kindle (it's a bookreader!) and I don't...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Microsoft tries toppling Google with a bribe

Big CatchMySpace, Fox News, couple dozen newspapers, couple dozen magazines, other Fox channels, Sky.The major News Corp viewers will see that if they want to search, they'll Bing it.Even if people link News Corp content in Twitter or Blogs, Google can't go to those links and crawl the content on...

Tags: Blogging, SEARCH, Bing, Google Inc., News Corp., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Apple's latest TV ads defend AT&T

Defending the bottom lineThe iPhone is AT&T's highest-profile 3G device. Period. And Verizon's attack ads on AT&T's 3G service coverage may be about as devastating as it gets. After all, haven't we seen quite a number of iPhone users on ZDNet complaining about the poor 3G service...

Tags: Smart phones, advertisement, TV, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., iPhone User, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-23