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- 10 steps to a sweet BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) deployment
- With most of the legal matters behind, Research in Motion RIMM and its BlackBerry device is once again the tech gadget and service you want to deploy in your organization. Ric Liang's organization has gone through a very successful deployment of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server BES and accompanying devices in...
- Tags: RIM Blackberry Enterprise Server, Enterprise Server, RIM BlackBerry, Ric Liang, E-mail Servers, Handhelds, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- Download resources 2006-10-20
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- Wayback Machine: Microsoft's shot to kill Quicktime video
- Ten years ago, give a week or so, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced QuickTime 3.0 to the National Association of Broadcasters' convention. Behind the scenes in the months before the introduction, Microsoft was playing hardball with hardware and software vendors over its new A/V APIs along with demands to kill...
- Tags: Software, Apple QuickTime, Apple Inc., Mr., Video, Microsoft Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- Social networking, IBM, Microsoft etc: the Twitterverse debates
- Charles Cooper's article noting the rise of Twitter as part of the media fabric is a cue for surfacing a long conversation I had yesterday with some of my 800 Twitter followers. The pretext was my post about the end of software and the number of thanks folk posted on...
- Tags: Social Networking, Consultant, Network, Information Technology, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, IBM Corp., E-mail, Knowledge Management, Groupware, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Data Management, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Wizkid robot unveiled at MoMA
- On February 24, 2008, a new exhibit will open at the Museum of Modern Art in New York MoMA, Design and the Elastic Mind. And until May 12, 2008, you'll be able to interact with Wizkid, which looks like a computer, but is really a robot. As said the European...
- Tags: Robot, Computer, Wizkid, Productivity, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Graphene-based transistors on the way?
- The idea of replacing silicon with carbon to make computer chips is not new. However, using graphene -- a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice -- wasn't feasible because it is not possible today to make wafers as big as ones made from silicon. But two...
- Tags: Technique, Researcher, Stamp, Transistor, Semiconductors, Productivity, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Leopard file move bug zaps data
- Online sources replicate a bug that destroys data when moving files around Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. The problem can occur with local and remote storage, the sites say. The most compelling reason not to upgrade yet to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard cropped up earlier this...
- Tags: Developer, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Leopard, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2007-11-07
- It's not our job ...
- Today, Chris Dawson reminds us of the proposed legislation by Congressman Ric Keller (R-Fla.) that would allow schools to tap into existing federal education funds for the adoption of technological solutions to the epidemic of illegal downloading on college campuses. (Never mind that 70% of all universities already take...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- "You don't wanna mess...with the R-I-Double-A"
- So says the great Weird Al Yankovic in his song, "Dont Download this Song" (ironically available for download at http://www.myspace.com/weirdal). A funny song to be sure it really is and you really should download it and the RIAA will not sue you, but it certainly speaks to a growing...
- Tags: Piracy, Funding, Education Technology, Digital Media
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Leaving Education IT to clueless politicians
- Well, theyre at it again! The proposed new law is called "The Curb Illegal Downloading on College Campuses Act of 2007 (H.R. 1689)" and it would provide Department of Education funding for anti-piracy software. (See Bill would free colleges to buy anti-piracy software.) Sound good? Well,...
- Tags: Texts &, Materials, Research, Networks, Libraries, IT Management, Higher Ed, Funding, Education Technology, Digital Media
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Bill would free colleges to buy anti-piracy software
- Attacking the issue of illegal downloading on all fronts, one Congressman is proposing legislation to give grants to schools to install anti-piracy programs, reports Internet News. Rep. Ric Keller of Florida introduced legislation recently which would allow schools to apply for federal grants to help purchase anti-piracy systems. The...
- Tags: Legal Issues, Higher Ed, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Explore selection statements in Java
- Take an introduction to Java programming fundamentals, including problem-solving, object-oriented programming, GUI programming, data structures, networking, internationalization, advanced GUI programming, and Web programming. This sample chapter from Introduction to Java Programming: Comprehensive Version, 6th Edition covers: Declaring boolean type and write Boolean expressions Distinguishing between conditional and...
- Tags: Prentice Hall Inc., Programming, Development Tools, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Book chapters 2007-03-27
- Google: Hollywood vs. YouTube video games
- Will the Google-YouTube-Copyright Holders video game ever end?Web surfers will no longer be reliving the magic moments of the 2007 Oscars via YouTube. The vid-viewing site complied with a Tuesday request from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to remove all unauthorized clips, Variety stated yesterday.I just relived...
- Tags: Advertising, Amateur Content, Movies, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
- Harvard Business Review: 20 top ideas that challenge what you know
- The Harvard Business Review has a list of top 20 "Breakthrough Ideas for 2007." Some interesting, ideas here that are counter-culture in that they challenge accepted thinking in many different areas. Siobhan Ford from HBR says that the list is free to read for all of February and that the...
- Tags: Disruptive, Emerging Hotbed
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- A ring of robots to fight fires
- Computer scientists at the Washington University in St. Louis WUSTL have developed a new kind of software to monitor wireless sensor networks. For example, their software agents can help robots to navigate through simulated fires. Their real innovation is that their software agents are able to clone themselves, creating a...
- Tags: agent, Robotics, Computers &, Internet, Wireless &, Telecom, Engineering &, Innovation, WUSTL
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
- The first bionic woman
- Today, the Washington Post reports that a new life is within reach for the first woman with bionic arm free registration required. Claudia Mitchell lost an arm in a motorcycle accident, but she's now using a 'bionic' arm that she can control with her thoughts. This bionic arm was designed...
- Tags: nerve
- Blog posts 2006-09-14
- IBM talks about the future in Hollywood
- IBM still working on new technology integrationNorman Liang of IBM joins CNET News.com's Neha Tiwari at Digital Hollywood 2006 in San Jose, Calif., to speak about open entertainment, the IBM technology collaboration solution and more seamless communications. Liang also discusses the debate over open and closed systems, and within which...
- Tags: IBM Corp.
- Videos 2006-08-18
- SCO finally reveals alleged Unix violations
- SCO finally reveals alleged Unix violationsHmmm filed under court sealcan only mean that the claims are weak and if subjected to public review would probably be torn to shreds.Let's hope this is a quick and merciless slaughter of SCO. But I doubt we would have that pleasure now would we?lies...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, SCO Group Inc., rep, Unix
- Discussion threads 2005-11-01
- USAToday, you are wrong: CallVantage Heartbeat does *not* solve VoIP E911
- USAToday, you are wrong: CallVantage Heartbeat does *not* solve VoIP E911Maybe we should have Home VOIP & Mobile VOIP rules.I have VOIP, and it's set up for 911, at home. However, if in the future, I get a VOIP device for traveling, and want to hook up at my local...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, AT&T CallVantage, VoIP, E911
- Discussion threads 2005-10-11
- RIC-155GE Connects IP DSLAM Infrastructure Transparently Over Dedicated Leased SDH Circuits
- Telefonica Deutschland is a German provider of integrated data and telecommunication solutions for business users. The company wanted to transport any Ethernet traffic transparently over conventional SDH lines. The challenge was to enable broadband services, including ADSL 2+, and multimedia services, such as Triple Play, on an advanced, Ethernet-based DSL...
- Tags: RAD Data Communications Ltd., IP, Telefonica, SDH, RIC-155GE, Telefonica Deutschland, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking, Telecommunications
- Case studies 2005-10-09
- In defense of OpenOffice.org
- In last week's shootout, where I matched Microsoft Excel against OpenOffice.org Calc, OpenOffice.org came out on the short end of the stick in my benchmark tests. The tests not only showed Excel to have superior memory-handling efficiency, but superior file creation and load speeds in both the XML and...
- Tags: OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Office
- Blog posts 2005-09-20
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