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A feisty ride in the Chevy Volt

"But the emperor is naked"Or maybe the title should be:"Don't confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up!"The media is just full of wonderfull stories about electric carsand how they will save Michigan, the auto industry, possibiliy the whole world,and so forth.Now maybe there is something brand new...

Tags: Engineering, replacement cost, battery, car, Tesla, cell

Discussion threads 2009-08-14

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Michael Dell sticks to Windows 7 big bang theory

too old?"Windows XP is 8 years old"So What? If it ain't broke don't fix it!Windows 2000 is ten years old and still does almost everything I need. Everyone around me runs XP or newer, yet I have far fewer problems.What is good for the computer industry is not...

Tags: Operating systems, theory, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Widespread BlackBerry data outage reported, is it time to move on?

umgotta say this sounds like a justification for an iffy iphone purchase or usage maybe? you make it sound like if BIS goes down you're dead in the water, but if BIS goes down all you lose is what you don't have with any other service anyway, you still get...

Tags: Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, BIS, outage, BlackBerry Data, RIM BlackBerry, phone

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Netbooks dead? Not when sales are up 264% percent

My prediction:Intel and MS and the major brands are trying to drag the market upwards in size and cost to maintain their margins. They will shortly face a barrage of products based on ARM class processors and Linux (Chrome?), which will cost much less and have much better battery lives....

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, sales, netbook

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Virtual TimeClock Client '09 Release 3.1 (Mac)

If you're looking for a simple computer time tracking system to control payroll costs for a few employees or the power to easily manage time and attendance for hundreds of workers at multiple locations, Virtual TimeClock Network Edition is perfect for your business. Virtual TimeClock is easy to learn and...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Employee, Payroll, Redcort Software & Development, Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2009-11-13

Virtual TimeClock Pro '09 Release 3.1 (Mac)

Virtual TimeClock is easy to learn and use, yet it's powered internally by an SQL database that does all of the hard work for you. You'll enjoy easy to use employee time tracking software with powerful reporting tools that use your payroll rules to print employee timesheets and timecard reports...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Employee, Payroll, Redcort Software & Development, Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2009-11-13

Virtual TimeClock Pro 6.3 (Windows)

Virtual TimeClock is easy to learn and use employee time clock software, yet it's powered internally by an SQL database that does all of the hard work for you. You'll enjoy easy to use employee time tracking software with powerful reporting tools that use your payroll rules to print employee...

Tags: Employee, Payroll, Microsoft Windows, Redcort Software & Development, Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2009-11-11

American electric motorcycle price lowered

10 yearsIt would take me ten years of riding it 14 miles to work and 14 miles back including in the cold and the rain with gas at $1.60 a gallon to pay for the cost of the bike. Those batteries generally need replacement at 2,000 charges which would be...

Tags: Engineering, motorcycle

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

What's up with the rabbit penis, doc?

Could it apply to......brain and spinal cord injuries? Damaged hearts, lungs or kidneys/livers? A new finger/arm would be nice for amputees etc, but the above are far more debilitating and the victims in greater need of organ regeneration.InterestingBesides the obvious medical benefits from growing new tissue and organs, another thought...

Tags: Food & Beverage, High Blood Pressure, rabbit, organ

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Lenovo all-in-one ThinkCentre PC aims for business; starts $499

Could be a good time to updateWith the numbers and choices of lower cost replacement computers, this could be the time for many businesses to take a serious look at updating their office systems. Rather than try to install a new OS on their aging Pentium IIs and IIIs,...

Tags: Desktops, Processors, PC, Lenovo Group Ltd., IBM ThinkCentre

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Calling all innovators: Google hangs "Help Wanted" sign

Google hangs help Google provides no conduit for unsolicited ideas. It is arrogance - that one can get away with whilst the web is young. ZDNet should try asking why, rathering than pandering...Perhaps if their staff were given 15 minutes a week of free time to ponder on what is...

Tags: Benefits, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Deck the halls with LED

Sounds OKSounds like a reasonable idea although the cost of LED lights is quite high ($30?).lehnerus2000$30 for LED lights?We buy sets here for $15... and considering that the power consumption is so much lower that they quite literally pay for themselves in the savings on my electric bill, they're worth...

Tags: Engineering, light-emitting diode

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Laptop computers

This year the laptop list was a tough assignment for several reasons. First, the emergence of a new class of ultra-thin laptops--spawned by lower-cost processors from Intel and AMD--has made things more complicated. Second, there's a fresh crop of Windows 7 laptops, and...

Tags: Processor, Hard Drive, Performance, Apple MacBook, Memory, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Netbook, Computer, Intel Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Compaq CQ61z, Timeline 1810T, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-11-01

Separating core from context brings high returns in legacy application transformation

A widening cost and productivity division exists between older, hand-coded software assets and replacement technologies on newer, more efficient standards-based systems. Somewhere in the mix, there are also core legacy assets distinct from so-called contextal assets. There is legacy wheat and legacy chaff. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Asset, Legacy Application, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-10-29

The maintenance renewal landscape

Been doing this for years.Work for a non-profit, so unless its mission critical or has a high cost of replacement... its not going to get renewed.I think everyone should live by this rule. If they did, software maintenance would be much cheaper!SAP, Oracle very Different on Dependence on MaintenanceI'll...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, Operational accounting, cloud computing, SAP AG, Oracle Corp., SaaS Model, revenue, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Toilet Tissue, Quilted Northern, 60/Carton

Quilted Northern Goes Cheap Quilted Northern, relying on the long term customer base they established and that has the expectation of continuity, has now changed/cheapened their product. If you have old rolls compared to the newer packages the first noticeable changes are in size. To me,...

Tags: Georgia-Pacific Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Free Silverlight streaming service to be replaced by paid Azure-hosted service

Ought to be interestingSilverlight is the means by which Netflix streams their on-demand content. I cannot help but wonder if MS cut a deal with the new Blockbuster service.Does MS support "open internet", or do they want us to pay for itDoes MS support "open internet", or do they want...

Tags: cloud computing, Strategy, Media Streaming, Microsoft Silverlight, NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Corp., open-Internet

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Nine out of 10 corporate PCs can run Windows 7 ... but that's not the whole story

RE: Nine out of 10 corporate PCs can run Windows 7 ... but that's not the whole storyMost corporate PCs were not updated to Vista, because Vista didn't add any additional values; required more powerful hardware and had a very bad name from the start.Most companies will also not upgrade...

Tags: Operating systems, Software Developement, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows XP, corporate PC, PC, Win7, whole story, operating system, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Future ERP

Brian Sommer's provocative post that juxtaposes SAP's technology thinking around the 'old' and 'new' worlds provides insights into something SAP was talking about last year - the two speed world of ERP. At the back end there is still plenty to do, hardening applications, winkling out recurring bugs...

Tags: Innovation, Salesforce.com Inc., Financial, SAP AG, ERP, Brian Sommer, Brian, S-curve, Cloud Infrastructure, BRP, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Best 'bang for the buck' graphics cards

No Love for NVIDIA?I'm a little disappointed you only mention one GeForce card as if they can't compete with ATI. I'm sensing either sponsorship or bias, Adrian... but if it's genuinely based on performance, I'd love to see some benchmarking and justification for the claim.They just killed off......half the cards...

Tags: Video cards, HD 4890, card, ATI Technologies Inc., NVidia Corp., video card, graphics

Discussion threads 2009-10-16