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No bailout for you? Online finance tools help you ride the economic storm

If there were any financial lessons learned in 2008, one of the big ones was understanding that your financial standing tomorrow might be very different than your financial standing today. And seeing how a government bailout to pay off your Visa bill likely isn't on the way, it's up to...

Tags: Financial, Mobile, Quicken, Personal Finance, Finance, Tool, Bailout, Rudder, Quicken Online, ClearCheckbook, Banking, Financial Services, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-30

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Flapping 'nano' aircraft takes flight

Engineers at Aeronvironment AV of Monrovia, California, have demonstrated the world's first successful flight of the smallest ever self-powered, rudderless, aircraft with flapping wings. The nano air vehicle NAV is modeled after a large insect or small bird, such as a hummingbird. It can hover indoors under...

Tags: Aircraft, DARPA, Nano Air Vehicle, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-08-13

One year after Bill Gates' 'retirement': What's different?

One year after Bill Gates' 'retirement': What's different?Who's Bill Gates?Their motto should be Microsoft:Bill who? No one even cares about Bill Gates any more.Steve will die in office as CEO because Bing will never take over Google.In 10 years people will say Microsoft the company Steve built. Bill Gates...

Tags: Operating systems, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-29

Is $100 million enough to help Microsoft gain search share?

Is $100 million enough to help Microsoft gain search share?Could it? Yes. Will it? No.Why do I think that? Gut feeling. Given the information provided that's about all we have to go with.Rebranded is worthless don't they get that by now?How many times do they have to re brand MSN,...

Tags: Marketing research, IT User, MS-search, Microsoft Corp., marketing, MSN

Discussion threads 2009-04-02

VenturCom and VersaLogic Partner to Support Real-Time Operation of Windows NT Embedded for Rudder Control on U.S. Naval Destroyers

An integrated hardware and software solution has been selected by Litton Marine Systems, Inc. (Charlottesville, VA) for a rudder control system on U.S. Naval Destroyers. The system combines VersaLogic's Panther PC/104-Plus single board computer with VenturCom's RTX real-time Windows NT Embedded technology for Windows, the companies announced today. Litton Marine's...

Tags: Venturcom, VersaLogic, Litton Marine, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows NT, Corporate Governance, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Case studies 2009-01-01

Pterodactyl-inspired flying robots

According to Sankar Chatterjee, a professor of paleontology at the Texas Tech University in Lubbock TTU, a 225-million-year-old pterodactyl might soon be reborn as a flying robot. The Tapejara wellnhoferi, which lived in Brazil, was a big flying lizard with an unusual 'accessory,' an 8-inch-high fleshy crest stuck straight up...

Tags: Professor, Texas Tech University, Aircraft, Tapejara, Pterosaur, Aerospace & Defense, Robots, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-01

McCain's copyright problem: oh, the hypocrisy

McCain's copyright problem: oh, the hypocrisyAnother hit job on McCainLooks like another leftist hit job on McCain to me. Too bad McCain is going to win anyway! :-)RE: McCain's copyright problem: oh, the hypocrisyThis is just petty politics on Browne's part. This bleeding heart liberal would not have said a...

Tags: hypocrisy, copyright problem, John McCain

Discussion threads 2008-08-15

More tech details emerge on Microsoft's 'Midori'

SD Times has seen some new Microsoft documentation that provides more specifics on Midori, the Singularity-microkernel-based operating system that is being developed by a team under Eric Rudder, the one-time heir-apparent to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: SD Card, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Midori, SD Times, Memory, Flash Memory, Operating Systems, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-07-29

Microsoft goes internal for new head of its app-platform business

Microsoft has named Sheila Gulati, General Manager of the company's Developer and Platform Evangelism unit, as the new head of the company's application-platform and developer marketing business. Gulati is taking the post that was most recently filled by Steve Guggenheimer. Microsoft acknowledged in Febraury that Guggenheimer was...

Tags: Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-11

Analysts 'debate' to focus on SOA management issues and outlook

I'm really looking forward to this Friday, Sept. 14, in Boston when I join up on the podium at the Harvard Club with Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst with ZapThink, to dig into the current and future landscape of SOA management. [UPDATE: Here is the event as a...

Tags: SOA, Management, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-09-10

Boeing kicks off the 787 era

Boeing kicks off the 787 eraDespite the EC calling them a monopoly, they still did it!Way to go Boeing!How safe is the composite materials used???I'm not sure if there have been any news or studies presented in the news regarding the SAFETY or DURABILITY of the composite materials used in...

Tags: Aerospace & Defense, Strategy, Boeing Co., information technology

Discussion threads 2007-07-09

Who's going to lead Microsoft's search effort now?

Now that Chris Payne, Microsofts Corporate VP in charge of Windows Live Search, is on his way out, its time to start wagering on who will be the winner in the Windows Live/MSN power grab. Its all rumors and speculation at this point, as the Microsoft PR team is...

Tags: Web 2.0, Google, Windows Live, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-03-08

Microsoft products, people and strategies that disappeared in 2006

Microsoft products, people and strategies that disappeared in 2006CorrectionIn your note on Eric Rudder you said: "Once Gates relinquishes his CEO title, will Microsoft become "Rudderless"?" Gates is not Microsoft CEO...hasn't been for years. Ballmer is the CTO. Gates is Chairman and Chief Software Architect. I hear second hand...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Even IBM, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, EFI, strategy

Discussion threads 2006-12-20

Microsoft products, people and strategies that disappeared in 2006

Quite a few of the e-mails I receive start out with "Whatever happened to ... (insert Microsoft product, person and/or strategy here). In that spirit, here are ten Microsoft-related disappearances about which Im left wondering as 2006 draws to a close. Anyone know the whereabouts of:...

Tags: SQL Server, System Center, Management tools, Research, SharePoint Server, Office 2007, Office, Corporate strategy, Database, Windows Live, Windows Server Longhorn, Knowledge Network, Dynamic Systems Iniative, Microsoft Corp., Cambridge Technology Partners

Blog posts 2006-12-20

Can mobile devices help you get things done?

One of my favorite blogs to read is Eric Mack On-Line and I always seem to come away from reading his entries with more knowledge about interesting topics and a desire to try something new. I just read his thoughts on the new GTD Getting Things Done Connect service and...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Groupware, E-mail servers, Operating systems, mobile device

Blog posts 2006-08-15

TheStreet.com columnist: Vonage IPO "will sink"

If you thought you were reading jaded comments in the blogosphere about Vonage's $250 million IPO, you really should check out an article on investment news site TheStreet.com.In his piece entitled Vonage and its Weather Vane Moment, TheStreet.com editorial contributor Kevin Kelleher writes:Vonage had little choice but to try...

Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., IPO, Kelleher

Blog posts 2006-02-15

EMI: We don't use rootkits

EMI: We don't use rootkitsIs it not illegalfor any company to install rootkits on a PC?InterestingI recently purchased an Epic CD Sony and it refused to mount when placed in my DVD ROM drive. I read the fine print on the case and found: "The audio side of this disc...

Tags: Rootkits, PRODUCTIVITY, CD, Sony Corp., rootkit, computer, EMI Group Plc.

Discussion threads 2005-11-07

If it's 'live' it's on Linux

A fundamental flaw in Microsoft's new-found commitment to on-demand services (it calls it 'live' software) is that its licensing policies are driving on-demand ISVs to open-source alternatives — what's known as the LAMP platform (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python). Don't take it from me, this is what Sam Ramji of the...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., on-demand

Blog posts 2005-11-04

Gartner bearish on on-demand services

The growing popularity of software-as-a-service vendors like Salesforce.com, and recent moves, like Oracle's acquisition of Siebel, are indicators that the software industry is tilting toward an on-demand future. But don't expect it to take off so fast says a recent Gartner report (client reg. req.). Despite the hype, on-demand...

Tags: on-demand

Blog posts 2005-09-30

Peace with honor

Dan Farber thinks I'm being too cryptic. He wants me to weigh in on the Microsoft announcements of today. My sense is that I've talked almost of nothing else for months now, and have mostly been ridiculed for anticipating what in fact is coming true. Namely: Jim...

Tags: Ray, Microsoft Office, Jim Allchin

Blog posts 2005-09-20