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Play your own Xbox game

Play your own Xbox gameI can't wait to try out XNA Game Studio Express.There's another authoring suite called Visual3D Architect .net (www.visual3d.net) which you can develop games for non-commercial use.Good move: no reason Xbox development should be limited to big companiesTraditionally, getting access to video game console SDKs and development...

Tags: Game players, Games, Rick James, Microsoft Xbox, game, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-08-14

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Apple bans bobble head Congress app

There are few people in this country more desserving of ridicule......than politicians.A couple of observations from Rasmussen:"Only four percent (4%) of voters say most politicians keep their campaign promises. Forty-five percent (45%) believe they deliberately make false promises to get elected.""Voters by more than two-to-one think high congressional reelection rates...

Tags: Smart phones, U.S. Congress, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., iDont

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

A List: CRM(ish) Reading Worth it.

Sorry to have dropped off the radar for awhile. I was on the road.  First in Chicago having facilitated a customer event with Sword Ciboodle customers at the Union League Club - one that included a presentation by Brian Carey of Sears on what Sears is doing to improve the...

Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Social Media, Customer, CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-09-28

TechRepublic's CIO Jury: Split on deploying Windows 7

IT departments have largely ignored Windows Vista and stuck with Windows XP as the corporate standard. However, Windows 7 has received a warmer response from IT professionals than Vista did, and TechRepublic’s CIO Jury is split down the middle on whether to deploy Windows 7. On July...

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., CIO, Information Technology, Director Of Information Technology, Jury, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-07-28

AT&T ready to become Internet cop

So Comcast says it is not blocking but slowing certain kinds of traffic in order to preserve the viability of its network. As a cable provider, Comcast is much better able to offer downstream bandwidth than upstream, therefore mostly what it blocks is upstream peer-to-peer traffic, primarily BitTorrent. ...

Tags: Network, Comcast Corp., AT&T Corp., Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Networking, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-01-17

Christmas is a time for mashups

As I inevitably download "new" holiday music each year, it's painfully apparent we wouldn't *have* much new holiday music if it weren't for sampling, remixes, remakes, and mashups. The iTunes List of 44 Holiday Songs for 2007 is testament to this fact, as are the many Christmas remixes and...

Tags: Apple iTunes, Mashup, Christmas, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2007-12-24

Griffin Amplifi Speaker System w/ iPod Dock

The Griffin Amplifi is a stylish, powerful iPod speaker system that's offered at an attractive price ($149). Compared with the heavyweights in the iPod speaker system market, the Amplifi lacks the refined sound of the Bose SoundDock at twice the price, or the portability of the Altec Lansing iM600 or...

Tags: Apple iPod, Griffin Amplifi

Product reviews 2007-06-16

Slacker Web Player

Before Slacker had even officially announced itself, the company branding was all over SXSW signage, and a full-page ad could be found in the SXSW music guide. So there was a decent amount of buzz in Austin the week of Slacker's launch, though mostly among the handful of tech journalists...

Tags: Slacker, Slacker Web Player

Product reviews 2007-03-21

10-step program to SOA success

10-step program to SOA successLoved Your Rick James Sketch"IM RICK JAMES BEEYATCH!!"ChapELLE not ChappellI think you are thinking of Dave Chappelle, the comedian.I sometimes think that Enterprises dont need an SOA 10-step program, they need a 12 step program.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-step_program1)We admitted we were powerless over inflexible IT systems—that our lives had...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, God

Discussion threads 2006-08-23

Nice recognition for a great ISV

Rick Segal points out what many Tablet PC owners who use Outlook have already discovered - that Josh Einstein, developer of Tablet Enhancements for Outlook TEO, demonstrates so much about how to do software right with his product and his approach to customer support. Einstein Technologies released the long-awaited...

Tags: Josh Einstein, tablet, TEO 3.0

Blog posts 2006-07-22

When the worlds of SOA and Web 2.0 collide

When the worlds of SOA and Web 2.0 collideWow - Who cares?Web 2.0 is a myth and SOA is DOA.Much like "Barrier", "culture" is improperly used.As there is no "gigahertz barrier" (it's a [b]milestone[/b]), to say a business has culture is malarkey. Unless it's akin to bacteria, but who...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, Microsoft Outlook, SOA, Web 2.0, Web

Discussion threads 2006-04-27

Procurement--the new buzzword for 2005?

Procurement--the new buzzword for 2005?Where have these people been???Procurement may be the buzz word for 2005 but in the real world Purchasing professionals have been working for years.Most major companies have benn aware of the importance of purchasing procurement for at least that alst 40 years.It is good to see...

Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, procurement, new buzzword, buzzword

Discussion threads 2005-06-25