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Robots working 6,000 meters below sea level

MercoPress, a news agency based in Uruguay, reports that German engineers are using an aquatic robot able to work 6,000 meters below sea level. This remotely operated vehicle ROV, dubbed Kiel-6000, is operated by the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences from the University of Kiel. The robot weighs 3.5 tons...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Remotely Operated Vehicle, Kiel-6000, Colin Devey, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-17

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Are there really too many Windows editions?

Are there really too many Windows editions?Are there really too many Windows editions?Nope!Still, from a consumer point of view, he wants one version, 20 bucks,enable any features you want. The multiple versions are ONLY for Microsoft's benefit in order to extract more money from YOU the eager customer.There is something...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, SKU, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

QuickMac (exe)

QuickMac is a keyboard macro recorder that can record your keystrokes for those repetitive keyboard tasks. It can be operated entirely through keyboard or through its interface. Instructions: upon launching QuickMac an icon will apprear in your systray where your clock is, this is how you will interact with QuickMac....

Tags: Azad Ratzki, QuickMac, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2008-10-10

Archibald's Adventures (exe)

Help Archie to overcome all of the pitfalls of the Dr. Klumpfus mansion in this funny action puzzle game. Test your skills and wit in more than 100 uncanny levels! Archibald offers gameplay mixed of action and puzzle elements with gradually rising complexity. The player starts as a boy on...

Tags: Action, Archibald, Construction, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-10-10

Vehicle Manager 2008 Fleet Edition (exe)

Vehicle Manager 2008 Fleet Edition tracks your vehicle fleet maintenance, service expenses, parts and part numbers, vendor information, contact information, service reminders, service schedule, and fuel log. Version 2.0.1048 has updated the export to .csv feature.

Tags: Kaizen Software Solutions

Software downloads 2008-10-10

Garmin Nuvi 265WT

The Garmin Nuvi family of portable navigation devices PNDs is growing constantly, and the GPS manufacturer has added a new line called the Nuvi 2x5 series that focuses on providing high-end features for an affordable price. The flagship model of this line is the Garmin Nuvi 265WT, and it offers...

Tags: Keyboards, GPS, Network technology, POI database, Garmin Nuvi, Garmin Ltd., Garmin Nuvi 265WT

Product reviews 2008-10-09

2009 Dodge Ram 1500 Laramie Crew Cab

Photo gallery:2009 Dodge Ram 1500 Laramie CrewWhen we first laid eyes on the Dodge Ram, a few words came to mind: gargantuan, behemoth, colossal. The words that didn't immediately come to mind when the big ol' truck rolled into the CNET garage were "high" or "tech." However, after--literally--climbing into the...

Tags: Memory, RAM, Dodge Ram, beep

Product reviews 2008-10-09

London Stock Exchange website reports incorrect prices

London Stock Exchange website reports incorrect pricesMicrosoft Technology at its finestSince Both NASDAQ and the London Stock Exchange were MS case studies about how great Windows is, guess Windows really is the POS we all thought it is.Funny how they never had these errors on previous systems and now with...

Tags: Investment, Operating systems, Web site, Microsoft Corp., London Stock Exchange Plc., stock, London Stock Exchange website, incorrect price, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

$236m judgment against spammer couple

$236m judgment against spammer coupleSadly, it's pointlessSadly, in reality such a judgment is pointless.Let them pay it in jail time$236m is a fair bill to run up. I say let them paying it back in jail time.Let's even be generous and say 1 day in jail will reduce the bill...

Tags: Spam, Email Ads, e-mail, spammer, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

The IT role in the mortgage meltdown

The IT role in the mortgage meltdownNobody likes a WhisleblowerYou got blacklisted for publicly Whistle-blowing at a company meeting. For your trouble you lost a job, faced economic hardship, and had to explain at interviews why this employer would not give you a reference. You did not follow...

Tags: Leadership, information technology, mortgage meltdown, IT role, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

2009 Mazda CX-7 Grand Touring

Photo gallery:Mazda CX-7 Grand TouringEarlier this year, we tested a Mazda's CX-9. So when we heard that we were getting a CX-7 Grand Touring in the CNET garage, we braced for more of the same, only smaller. The tiny Mazda crossover didn't disappoint; the CX-7 has a lot in common...

Tags: Mazda CX-7, Mazda Motor Corp.

Product reviews 2008-10-07

The top five reasons why Windows Vista failed

The top five reasons why Windows Vista failedSimpleDo you really think that MS decided to do that on its own? Would that really make sense for them to make it alot more complicated? MS did not want to do that, their own emails to each other prove that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Intel Corp., top-five, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-06

The cloud finally comes to education

Cloud computing is one of those great buzzwords in IT that, so far, has meant very little to the average Ed Tech customer. We all have a pretty good idea what it means: lots of computers somewhere (we don't actually care where) doing lots of processing to deliver services...

Tags: Education, PC, Thin Client, Computer, Cloud, SIMtone Corp., Desktops, Productivity, Thin Clients, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Using space robots to fix ailing satellites?

According to Canadian engineers at Queen's University, there are now more than 8,000 satellites in orbit around the Earth. Of course, if they stop to work correctly, these satellites will not be able to be repaired from the ground and will become space junk. So these researchers have developed a...

Tags: Robot, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-04

Apple: Perhaps it needs the enterprise after all

Apple: Perhaps it needs the enterprise after allThe 35% of Fortune 500 companies......testing the iPhone means "35% of IT departments doing their damn jobs by testing a competing product before coming to the realisation that it isn't as good as their current solution".As for Apple getting a foothold in mainstream...

Tags: SMB/SME, Apple Inc., small and medium business, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Skype says Tom violated agreement for Chinese service

Skype has a further response on the Chinese monitoring situation. And they don't sound that pleased about it. Here's Skype president Josh Silverman: In April 2006, Skype publicly disclosed that TOM operated a text filter that blocked certain words in chat messages, and it also...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Agreement, Tom, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Texting? Pull Over ...

Texting? Pull Over ...re: Texting? Pull Over ...It's scary. I went through line in a grocery store, everytime the cashier had two seconds between ringing up customers her head was down texting. I can't imagine that kind of person on the road.RE: Texting? Pull Over ...TST: None of...

Tags: Cellular phones, stat, headset, cell phone, phone

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

VIDEO: iTunes, mp3 rippers paved the way for RealDVD

VIDEO: iTunes, mp3 rippers paved the way for RealDVDRealDVDFrankly, the software is pretty cool. But, in typical Real fashion, it fails miserably in a few ways.Primarily is the playback interface. Unless I'm missing something, in full-screen mode there is NO WAY to get rid of the Real interface...

Tags: Digital music, Corporate communications, Digital media, Consumer electronics, RealDVD, iTunes mp3 ripper, iTunes MP3, CD, ripper, Apple iTunes, DVD, MP3, video

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

SMART Disk Monitor (exe)

SMART Disk Monitor is a network-wide disk space monitoring tool enabling system administrators to centrally monitor free disk space, SMART predictive failure, directory sizes, user access permissions, file extensions, and recently accessed files.Remotely monitor your servers free disk space, apply warning and critical thresholds, automatically clear alerts for re-notification, monitor...

Tags: Monitor, Disk, Corner Bowl Software, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2008-10-02

Palin had '10 to 15' secret email accounts

Somehow I'm not surprised to read that Gov. Sarah Palin has more email accounts. It's now very well known, of course, that her office operated Yahoo accounts. Someone breached one of the Yahoo accounts, prompting an Internet manhunt. Now the Washington Post reports (yeah, I...

Tags: e-Mail Account, Yahoo! Inc., Governor, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-01