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Linking The Web (exe)

Linking The Web is a free utility that regularly monitors all backlinks to your sites. If some of the links don't exist, contain wrong anchor, are covered by a "nofollow" flag or hidden by robots.txt then you will be immediately notified by email. Also the program can keep track of...

Tags: Web, Link, S5 Development, Channel Management, Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Construction, Monitors & Displays, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2008-07-14

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JetBlue unveils high-tech terminal Oct. 22; IT as customer service tool

Joseph Eng, executive vice president of JetBlue's systems and technology, said the company will unveil its high-tech terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York Oct. 22. The terminal when it launches will be the culmination of one big technology project. JetBlue's terminal at JFK,...

Tags: Customer Service, Information Technology, JetBlue Airways Corp., Tool, Projects, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Operational Accounting, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-15

80 ways to mix open source and business

Open source and business do mix. In fact, according to Matthew Aslett at the 451 Group, you can mix open source into more than 80 combinations of development model, licensing model, and revenue schemes. Usually, people talk about three licensing combos: Proprietary, mixed, and "pure" open source...

Tags: Aslett, Open Source, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Apple vs. Dell: Battle of the 13-inch notebooks

Since my last comparison, Apple and Dell have both come out with even smaller notebook computers to tempt you away from your old fashioned desk-bound workstation. How do they stack up? Today I look at the low end MacBook White and Dell Inspirion 13 to find out. ...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Battery, Apple Inc., Centimeter, MacBook White, Engineering, Serial ATA, Notebooks, Storage, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Firefox 3.1 raises the browser bar ... again

Competition is a good thing, and the way that Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome have re-invigorated browser development will mean good a better web experience all round. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Web Browser, Firefox 3.1, Web Browsers, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Google Chrome

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Firefox 3.1 raises the browser bar ... again

Competition is a good thing, and the way that Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome have re-invigorated browser development will mean good a better web experience all round. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Web Browser, Firefox 3.1, Web Browsers, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, firefox, mozilla, minefield

Image galleries 2008-10-15

Surviving the recession with Free Enterprise OSes (Part 2)

In Part 1, I discussed the four Free Linux distributions that are best position to provide extended support and ample functionality to an end user through a protracted recession,  as well as having the characteristic "safeness" or "stability" factor in terms of being able to weather...

Tags: Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Sun Solaris 10, Red Hat Inc., Recession, Operating System, Novell OpenSuse, BSD, CentOS, Scientific Linux, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-14

New Wi-Fi chipsets promise up to 2x throughput of current 802.11n devices

A couple of weeks ago I did a post on the Home Theater blog about Celeno Communications' wireless chip that the company claims can support four different HD streams simultaneously. Now another company has announced its own Wi-Fi technology that promises significant performance improvement over the 802.11n spec. Quantenna's QHS...

Tags: Throughput, IEEE 802.11n, Quantenna, Chipsets, Wi-Fi, Semiconductors, Wireless, Hardware, Components, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Keeping the dream alive - bootstrap your way out of the death spiral

Jennifer Leggio is on the road. Guest editorial by Ryan Kuder I was very publicly laid off from Yahoo! back in February. It's a gut-wrenching experience for anyone who has gone through it. At the time, my choices were to get a new...

Tags: Dream, Network, Yahoo! Inc., Start-up, Jennifer Leggio, Ryan Kuder, VC, Angels, Networking

Blog posts 2008-10-14

What OpenOffice site crash means

What OpenOffice site crash meansSo, I should pay for free software so I don't pay Microsoft?It's not for everyone. However, the reason Microsoft has more robust features is because they spend more money on it. That money is funded by higher prices for their software. If you or your company...

Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, object-oriented, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, free software, Open Office Writer

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Would you pay $1,499 for the Microsoft 'Oahu' Surface table?

Microsoft has been dangling the possibility of a smaller, more consumer-centric version of its Surface multi-touch tabletop computer for the past few months. Now that form factor has a codename: Oahu. Long Zheng of istartedsomething.com has more details on Oahu, which he has gleaned from a Microsoft...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Survey, Oahu, Marketing Research, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Avanade software helps you get a grip on more than 100 green IT variables

For those of you seeking a green IT / power management calculator that isn't necessarily tied to one vendor's view of the world, you might want to consider a tool being used by services company Avanade to evaluate more than 100 different variables related to the data center. ...

Tags: Software, Data Center, Green IT, Avanade, Data Centers, Productivity, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Digging into the Silverlight 2 announcement

Digging into the Silverlight 2 announcementEclipseRyan - I guess the point with the Eclipse stuff is to appeal to Java developers who don't want to step out of Eclipse to do RIA development, much the same approach Adobe took with Flex.RE: Digging into the Silverlight 2 announcementHey Ryan,I totally agree...

Tags: Java development tools, .NET, Middleware, Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe Systems Inc., Eclipse

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Stealth Company decloaks... as Siri

Silicon Valley stealth-mode startup, Stealth Company, revealed a little more about itself overnight and rebranded as Siri. Stealth Company's website has proved vague at best over the past few months, for example tantalising with allusions to underpinning technology; "We are not building...

Tags: Software, SRI International, Siri, CALO, Tools & Techniques, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Growing open standards pressure on healthcare

Growing open standards pressure on healthcareStandards? What standards????I work in healthcare IT, and to be honest, the greatest problem that I encounter is the incompatability of user systems. Our medical records filing software isn't compatable with our medication chart software; which leaves staff having to manually re-inter data that should...

Tags: open standard, health care

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

Open source protectionism?

Open source protectionism?Advocating Open Source locally is fine, however...Mandating it should not be done. I support an open architecture and the mandate of open standards, but not the enforcement of Open Source. If MS adopts ODF well and it makes sense for you, then you should be free...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, open source, open standard, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

Silverlight 2 is released, available for download tomorrow

Microsoft announced this morning that Silverlight 2 will be available for download tomorrow. So after a long beta period that included big events using Silverlight including the Olympics and the DNC, the bits are going to be out there. The press release includes some impressive numbers: ...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Silverlight 2, Productivity, Corporate Communications, Linux, Open Source, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Open source protectionism?

I just caught a rather interesting piece by fellow blogger Dana Blankenhorn on the subject of the "value and values" found in open source ecosystems. Near the end, he references an article on InfoWorld which questions whether it is wise to "protect" open source development by mandating its use at...

Tags: Open Source, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-10-13

EU group demos quantum cryptography

Under the auspices of the European Union, the world's largest quantum-encrypted network has been unveiled in Vienna, Silicon.com reports. It's the product of four years of work by 41 organizations from 12 countries, overseen by the SECOQC (Development of a Global Network for Secure Communication Based on...

Tags: Cryptography, Quantum Cryptography, Cable, Network Technology, Digital Security, Security, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-13

SharePoint: What are the risks, rewards?

What does it say about SharePoint when a presentation focused on whether you can survive it packs the house? Mark Gilbert's presentation--"Can the CIO survive Microsoft SharePoint?"--at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo filled up an auditorium. There are two ways to read this: There is...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Gilbert, MOSS, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-13