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Birthday Buzzer (dmg)

Birthday Buzzer is a program that reminds you of upcoming and already-missed birthdays by integrating with Apple's Address Book. It has a variety of reminder options automatic reminder at login usually the same as startup; automatic reminder at a chosen day and time; shows a window with a list of...

Tags: Birthday, Sean McBride, Construction

Software downloads 2007-03-14

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ROFLthing 2008

Have you ever been to an internet culture conference? Earlier this year, Harvard senior Tim Hwang threw one in Cambridge, Mass., and it was a massive success. This time, Hwang wanted to have a smaller get together in San Francisco to chat about memes. Welcome to ROFLthing...

Tags: Humor, Rickroll, Chuck Norris, Internet, Strategy, Management, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-29

A peek into Silicon Valley and beyond . . .

I enjoy being a journalist and reporting on the business and culture of Silicon Valley. Most of my reporting is done the traditional way, with a notepad and pencil. Increasingly journalists have to do more, carry a camera, do podcasts, run video. Software engineers have to...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Tom Foremski, Journalist, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-08-26

Facebook and Beacon partners slapped with class action suit

Facebook and Beacon partners slapped with class action suit45,000 PLUS WORDS, WHY?The most memorable incident involved a man who purchased a diamond ring from Overstock.com as a surprise Christmas gift for his wife - and then found that the purchase had been broadcast to his network of Facebook...

Tags: class action, Facebook, class action suit

Discussion threads 2008-08-14

Talent development

Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...

Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Symantec says Microsoft Access ActiveX attacks to increase

Symantec has reported that the Neosploit toolkit has been updated to include attack vectors for the recent Microsoft Access ActiveX vulnerability.  Neosploit is a toolkit for sale on the market (price estimates fall between $1500-$3000) that seeks to automate and extend the capability of browser exploits. Symantec...

Tags: Web, Symantec Corp., Microsoft Access, Vulnerability, Trusted Site, ActiveX Control, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Site, Site, Zone, Intranet, Attack, Neosploit, Internet, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Web Browsers, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-14

News to know: Midori; Yahoo; iPhone; VMware

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: On the road to Midori: RedHawk, MinSafe and Sapphire Next Microsoft enterprise instant messaging/VOIP server: Think 2009 Microsoft to push XP SP3 via Auto Update on July 10 Microsoft to deliver SQL Server 2008 in August...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Open Source, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., VMware Inc., Phishing, 3G, Cyberthreats, Hardware Upgrade, Spam, Strategy, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-10

Intel's Sean Maloney talks about the "fog" of online marketing

I was recently over at Intel as part of the Intel Insiders group of leading bloggers pulled together to offer marketing advice to the world's largest chip maker. Sean Maloney, the number 2 exec at Intel and Chief Marketing Officer spoke about the "fog" of marketing online. ...

Tags: Intel Corp., Marketing Research, Marketing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing - Symantec's take

Microsoft's announcement of Hyper-V, as with other Microsoft announcement, brings out the spin-miesters in the marketing departments at Microsoft's partners and competitors alike. Over the past few days I've been posting a summary of some of the conversions I've been having about Hyper-V. This time, I spoke with Sean Derrington...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Marketing, VERITAS Software Corp., Environment, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Storage, Security, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Polar warming, hot time in the Arctic Ocean

Polar warming, hot time in the Arctic OceanThey're having similar problems on Mars.Seems the polar ice caps on Mars are warming and thawing as well.It must be all of those CO2 spewing space probes we've sent there.Funny thing is...the level of CO2 in the Martian atmosphere is something to the...

Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide, ice cap

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

Reggae MP3 Songs (gadget)

Introducing the Amazon Reggae MP3 Song Gadget. This MP3 Song gadget lets you play music samples in the Reggae genre from Amazons DRM-free catalog of over 5 Million songs, with artists like Bob Marley, UB40, Wyclef, Rhanna, Sean Kingstonand the Black Eyed Peas. You can listem to the songs and...

Tags: Song, Sidebar Gadgets, Digital Music, Digital Media, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Microsoft Windows, Media Players, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Security, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-06-27

Enterprise 2.0 Conference notebook

Ironically this week has probably been my most offline in months - Sprint failed the brand new Westin Hotel in Boston disastrously with terrible or non existent wifi service. It was a real shame because Jive Software had an instance of Clearspace for the conference attendee community and there was...

Tags: Security, Notebook, Collaboration, Environment, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Wireless LANs, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-12

Webcast: IDC Expert: Preparing Your Organization for a Growing Mobile Workforce

According to the most recent IDC Worldwide Mobile Worker Population Forecast, close to 75 percent of the U.S. workforce will be mobile by the end of 2011. If you're not paying attention to the mobile workforce trend, you and your company may be falling behind. Listen to...

Tags: Webcast, Mobile, Citrix Systems Inc., International Data Corp., Workforce, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Marketing

Webcasts 2008-06-11

Data Loss Prevention - Strategies you can use to protect your company today

Data loss prevention DLP is a serious issue for companies, as the number of incidents and the cost to those experiencing them continues to increase. Whether it's a malicious attempt or an inadvertent mistake, data loss can diminish a company's brand, reduce shareholder value, and damage the company's goodwill and...

Tags: Strategy, Webcast, Data Loss, Ironport Systems Inc., Data Loss Prevention

Webcasts 2008-06-10

What do Mac developers want from Apple?

In advance of Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference, several longtime Mac developers share hopes, suggestions and even concerns for their primary technology provider. The discussion spans iPhone, graphics acceleration and Apple's strategy for technology licensing. Of course, the talk across the industry is about the iPhone. Still,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Apple Macintosh, Performance, Operating System, API, Apple Inc., CPU, Graphics, GPU, Desktops, Hardware, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-06-05

The Netbooks are coming: Laptop cannibalization today; Smartphone war tomorrow?

The message out of Computex this week is loud and clear: The Netbooks are coming. Intel is touting its Atom processor. Acer is on the board with its Aspire one. Microsoft is adapting Windows to the Netbook market. Nvidia says Netbooks will be graphics intensive. The big question: Are buyers...

Tags: Computex, Device, Acer Inc., Smartphone, Laptop Computer, Netbooks, Computing Device, Smart Phones, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-03

Why James Bond looks so healthy

According to The Telegraph, shaken martinis might be the secret of Bond's success. In fact, two UK researchers, a psychologist and a chemist, are collaborating with a French bartender to prove that 'shaken, not stirred' martinis are different. They'll show the difference on June 4, 2008, during the Cheltenham Science...

Tags: James Bond, Food & Beverage, Investment, Manufacturing, Finance, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Microsoft releases Virtual PC 2007 SP1

Via Microsoft's Ben Armstrong, I learned last week that Microsoft has released Virtual PC 2007 Service Pack 1 (x86 and x64 packages are available for download, and release notes are also online now). The new package supports Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3 as host and...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Virtual PC, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-05-19

Novell to Sun: Here's an offer you can't refuse

Novell to Sun: Here's an offer you can't refusewell can we trust Novell to anything now sincethey made deal with MS ......Don't think so. Well even if thay you be very nice to have a unix-fication under a mother distro .....im worry that MS goes up with dirty...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Virtualization, OPEN SOURCE, toughie, Novell Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., NOVELL HAS

Discussion threads 2008-05-12

SCO chief testifies: 'Linux is a copy of Unix'

SCO chief testifies: 'Linux is a copy of Unix'there a few people that are out of realitymac bride is one ballmer is also a other one keep spinning idiot spinning .......They aren't dead yet? ]:)The sad thing is......I strongly suspect that he really believes it.Words right outta...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Unix, SCO Group Inc., LINUX IS, SCO Chief

Discussion threads 2008-05-02