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- Look who’s buying Vista Home Basic hint: it’s not home users
- Look who’s buying Vista Home Basic hint: it’s not home usersMakes senseMakes sense. Your average small biz probably doesn't want very much. They just want something that works. If it runs the databases and the tax software, it's good enough. For a small business, a single PC is usually...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Vista Basic, Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista Home Basic hint, Vista Home Basic, Vista Home
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Linux ready to replace Windows? Not yet…
- Linux ready to replace Windows? Not yet…Actually, all of the biggest web companies all use Linux because it is somuch more flexible and powerful. Of the biggest, MS is the only one using Windows.And, yes, the applications availability on the Desktop is a problem for Desktop Linux, but, the is...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, EEEPC, Linux, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- News to know: HP's Smartphone; Obama's iPhone app; Skype in China; Data breach bill
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: WSJ: H-P plans to unveil smartphone Jason D. O'Grady: Obama campaign unleashes iPhone app Track the Presidential election polls with...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., Skype Technologies S.A., Apple Inc., Smartphone, Obama, Smart Phones, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, RSS, Financial Accounting, Open Source, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Texting? Pull Over ...
- Texting? Pull Over ...re: Texting? Pull Over ...It's scary. I went through line in a grocery store, everytime the cashier had two seconds between ringing up customers her head was down texting. I can't imagine that kind of person on the road.RE: Texting? Pull Over ...TST: None of...
- Tags: Cellular phones, stat, headset, cell phone, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- SAS invests big in green tech for Cary campus
- If you've ever been for a visit to software developer SAS in North Carolina, you already know that they have one of the most unique corporate campuses of any high-tech company with daycare, multiple fitness centers and a dry-cleaning facility all right on site. (They've also got their own television...
- Tags: Green Technology, Farm, SAS Institute, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Thanks, but no thanks, SAS
- Thanks, but no thanks, SASSome good R linkshttp://www.johnmwillis.com/r/are-you-using-r/openIntelTry openIntel, a free data model offered by OSEd ( http://osed.com ). IT is free and it includes documentation explaining it, the tables and the relations. It was designed by Maurice Frank, the original creator of the IBM Insight at...
- Tags: SAS Institute, data model
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- News to know: Bailout bust and tech fallout; Cloud computing; Netgear; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: AP: Stunning Defeat for Bailout Plan Torpedoes Stocks; Dow Sinks Over 750. White House, lawmakers plan new bailout deal Larry Dignan: Is Apple really recession proof? Wall...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Sprint Xohm, Apple Inc., NetGear, WiMAX, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Open Source, Wireless
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Thanks, but no thanks, SAS
- Yesterday I wrote about some data analysis I need to do. It turns out, there is quite a lot of analysis that needs to take place, along with fairly serious data management, especially as we start to relate MCAS scores with other data (SATs, special education testing, socioeconomic data,...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Escalation in the storage wars
- Escalation in the storage warsSun's competitors' strategyWere Sun to produce a superior storage product, would you expect it to come to dominate the market?I would expect not, because Sun has neither the products specialized for defined uses nor the controlling connection with a wide range of customers to implement it.Yes,...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., information technology, SAS HBA, storage, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Oracle Fires A Booming Shot Across The Bow Of The Storage Vendor Establishment
- Yesterday at Oracle OpenWorld, Larry Ellison announced the database giant's first foray into the hardware realm, unveiling the HP/Oracle Database Machine, branded as Exadata. The Exadata system is a combination of Oracle's 11g database engine using Automated Storage Management ASM to manage a grid of HP Proliant servers with 12 SATA...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., Performance, Exadata System, Storage Server Grid, Larry, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Andrew Reichman
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Rating Booster (zip)
- Rating booster is a new program developed by a computer science student at the University of Southern California. It's main aim is to do what none of it's competitors do, and that is Boost your traffic ratings and Video stat ratings. Where Tube increaser falls short, Rating Booster kicks in,...
- Tags: Computer Science, Video, Site, MicroAtlantic, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-09-24
- NBC To Internet: TV Is Still King
- If NBC had to choose a single platform on which to base its business for the next five years, it wouldn't be the Internet or mobile phones. "Sorry, guys, it would be television,'' the president of NBC Universal research said Monday. That is the conclusion of NBC's...
- Tags: Olympic Games, NBC, Internet, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- CAD vs. programming...what should we teach?
- Many of us have limited resources to teach technology courses, both in terms of available staff and computing facilities. We've taught a course in CAD (Computer Aided Design/Drawing/Drafting) for some time and it has always been popular with students. The instructor has extensive experience in engineering and architecture...
- Tags: Programming, AutoDesk Design Academy, CAD, Development Tools, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- The "As close to $150 as you can get it" PC
- The "As close to $150 as you can get it" PCThe cost of the OS is the issueWhen I bought my current system, 5 years ago, it was cheaper to buy a prebuilt system then build it myself if I wanted Windows.If I had wanted Linux, then it would have...
- Tags: Desktops, Memory, Operating systems, PC, RAM, Microsoft Windows XP, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- Adaptec adds custom power management to its RAID products
- Adaptec has integrated a utility called Intelligent Power Management into its Series 5 and Series 2 Unified Serial RAID controllers. The software allows a systems integrator, OEM or IT manager to configure disks to run in one of three states: Normal Operation, which provides full power...
- Tags: Power Management, Disk, Adaptec Inc., RAID, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- 8 million iPhones sold; 10m by end of September
- According to a piece at Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog Apple has sold 8 million iPhones to date. But that's not an official stat from Apple, it's an approximation based on collected International Mobile Equipment Identity IMEI numbers. A joint project of AFB and Investor Village's AAPL Sanity...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Corporate Governance, Engineering, Blogging, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Google adds two new features to Gmail for Google Apps
- Google adds two new features to Gmail for Google AppsSimple but helpful.Yes, the new feature should have been there a long time ago but its better late than not at all. A simple feature yet definitely helpful. Thanks Google guys!RE: Google adds two new features to Gmail for Google AppsOh...
- Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Inc., Google Gmail, Google Apps
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Bright idea: Verdiem offers free energy-monitoring software
- I've written a fair amount about Verdiem, which sells enterprise power management software called Surveyor that happens to be loaded up onto some of Hewlett-Packard's green-er PC models. Well, this week the company is releasing a free consumer application called Edison that can be used to manage your desktop computer's...
- Tags: power management, pc, kwh, edison, microsoft windows, desktops, data centers, microsoft windows xp service pack 2, operating systems, software, hardware, storage, data management, heather clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Dell now ships XPS and Studio notebook with Ubuntu Linux 8.04 factory installed
- Dell now ships XPS and Studio notebook with Ubuntu Linux 8.04 factory installedPaula get this info over to Dana STAT!(He's in the market for a new Laptop):)Notice somthing about the Dell Offerings?All laptops and only one desktop:http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhsNow is your chance Dana. GO FOR THE GOLD!!! ;)Maybe, but.....As enthusiastic as I...
- Tags: Linux, PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, Notebooks, OPEN SOURCE, operating system, computer, Ubuntu Linux 8.04, Dell Computer Corp., Ubuntu Linux, Ubuntu, notebook
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
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