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Arms Manufacturer Centralizes Server and Monitoring Software for Increased Efficiencies

Remington Arms Company, one of the world's largest arms manufacturers, designs, produces, and sells sporting goods products as well as products tailored to military, government, and law enforcement uses. When the company needed to increase its IT system management and monitoring efficiencies, it turned to Tidal Software, a Microsoft Gold...

Tags: Remington Arms Co., Monitoring, Server, Tidal Software

Case studies 2006-04-01

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Nothing stealthy about this Windows Update update

Nothing stealthy about this Windows Update updateStill got it wrong?!?!What part of "check for updates but let me decide" do they not understand???If the people at MS are feeling so benevolentwhy not have the programmers pop up a box when the update occurs, sort of hand holding for the wary.If...

Tags: Operating systems, Opting-Out, Microsoft Windows Update, Microsoft Windows, proper warning

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Nokia's open source Symbian is no match or threat to Linux mobile, Linux Foundation claims

Nokia's plan to open source the Symbian mobile OS platform is no threat to mobile Linux, maintains the executive director of the Linux Foundation. Jim Zemlin maintains that mobile Linux will continue to evolve and flourish in spite of Nokia's plans and the formation of the Symbian...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Mobile, Symbian Inc., Jim Zemlin, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-07-02

No crazies: 10 steps to kill IT failures

No crazies: 10 steps to kill IT failuresRe: exit stragegiesI think that, in regards to the first point of making it possible to pull the plug easily, that piece of advice should be given considerable thought before being acted upon. It is a sound, responsible thing to do to...

Tags: Backups, information technology, backup plan

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Combat Arms (exe)

Welcome to war. Prepare to drop into a lush, ever-changing theater of conflict, where you are in complete control of your gameplay--from your customizable character and your lethal arsenal of weapons to the scenarios you want to experience. Combat Arms offers a first-person perspective of immersive environments, multiple gunplay modes,...

Tags: Weapon, Arsenal, Nexon America, Patches, E-mail, Games, Online Communications, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-07-01

Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 1: USA

Eek, from Slashdot today: The FBI has confirmed to Popular Mechanics that it's not only adding palm prints to its criminal records, but preparing to balloon its repository of photos, which an agency official says 'could be the basis for our facial recognition.' It's all part of a new...

Tags: FBI, Privacy, Washington Post Co., Slashdot, Government, Federal Government, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-30

There is no Google Android delay

There is no Google Android delayAgree but disagreeI totally agree with you that Google have not delayed the release of Android (assuming they deliver before 23:59:59 on 31st December 2008), however to state H2 of 2008 and expect delivery on 1st June is a litle harsh given this is still...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Android, Google Android delay

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

Kinesis Contoured Advantage Keyboard

The Kinesis Advantage Contoured Keyboard is designed for users whose RSI-related pain is not helped by a traditional split keyboard, such as the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. Unlike a traditional keyboard, which features raised keys on a mostly flat surface, the Kinesis features two concave bowls that dip below...

Tags: Keyboards, Kinesis Advantage Contoured Keyboard, keyboard

Product reviews 2008-06-18

Firefox 3.0 final - First thoughts

Firefox 3.0 final - First thoughtsThink again. It's RC3 not FINAL.I have RC3 and it's the SAME build. so it's not what you're thinking of. They're keeping track of the location and someone decided to play a little prank and change the RC3 name to the actual...

Tags: Web browsers, Firefox 3.0 Final, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, RC3

Discussion threads 2008-06-17

Lori Drew arraigned today

Lori Drew arraigned todayThose charges dont really make any sense ...You said:"She’s charged with accessing protected computers without authorization and conspiracy."She set up an account under a false name. Nobody told her she couldn't -- and in fact, most web sites encourage registrants not to use their real identities...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Catch-Up, Lori Drew, computer

Discussion threads 2008-06-16

Health care debate not really about costs

Health care debate not really about costsThis is where you lostall your credibility and turned into nothing more than a propagandist:"And they are paying for this lack of coverage, sometimes, with their lives."People die every day in your socialist utopia nations while waiting for needed health services. In the good...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, government, health care

Discussion threads 2008-06-10

BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe This is the 4th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Note that the section this is taken from, on the evolution of...

Tags: IBM Mainframe, Environment, Mainframe, Data-processing, Computer, COBOL, IBM Corp., Flowmatic, Data Division, Identification Division, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-06

The community wars

The struggle to build open source communities is, I'm convinced, one of the biggest stories of 2008. (This illustration is selling the Devicescape developer community.) The trend began two years ago when major projects broke away from Sourceforge and began launching their own forge sites. This began...

Tags: Community, Arms Race, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Is SOA delivering value? We need to understand this better

Loraine Lawson just posted some thoughts about the results of a new qualitative study, sponsored by SAP and conducted in conjunction with the University of St. Gallen, which suggests that businesses are starting to see some results from SOA initiatives. Most organizations simply don't know what...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Google holds firm against Lieberman's call to take down Islamist videos

Sen. Joe Lieberman wants Google to take down terrorist videos from YouTube. In a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Lieberman wrote: Many of the videos produced by one of the production arms of al-Qaeda show attacks on U.S. forces in which American soldiers are injured and, in some...

Tags: Google Inc., Lieberman Software Corp, YouTube Inc., Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-20

10 attributes of bad CIOs (self test)

Chief Information Officers are responsible for both high-level business strategy and detailed technology decisions, making the job among the toughest in business. The high incidence of IT failure demonstrates the extreme difficulty of juggling business and technology goals that are sometimes in direct...

Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Indecision, Asset Management, Financial Management, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Call for military to operate botnet

Call for military to operate botnetI'd volunteer my PCs to help.If they did this above-board, with a SETI screen saver style app we could install deliberately, I'd bet they could have 50 million machines ready to help with this in a matter of weeks.RE: Call for military to operate botnetI'd...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), SECURITY, NETWORKING, Internet Service Provider, attack, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-05-12

IT politics killed White House email project

IT politics killed White House email projectDefective By DesignI think the whole IDEA was to have a sloppy, impossible to manage system! How ironic, the MOMENT they need critical emails, they just "happened" to have been deleted, and not archived, because you have minimum wage types hand filing emails, and...

Tags: information technology, e-mail, White House, RNC

Discussion threads 2008-05-06

OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up

OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows upOpenSolaris at ZDNet open sourceI just posted a piece abou tthis at Open Source http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2387 but I was not under the impression that this is aimed at the desktop market at all -- only the server side.RE: OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants...

Tags: UNIX, OpenSolaris, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Wants

Discussion threads 2008-05-05

What MicroNoHoo means for enterprises

What MicroNoHoo means for enterprisesMicrosoft real enemy is piracyI can't denied Microsoft dominate desktop operating system market but this clearly because of piracy. In my country 40% of computer users use pirated version of Windows. They only use the genuine one if it come with the computerOEM.Microsoft is loosening up...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Piracy, Operating systems, Blogging, Microsoft Corp., MicroNoHoo

Discussion threads 2008-05-04