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- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V4]
- Instantly save $300 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic, ZDNet, or BNET! Offer ends June 26, 2009.View Available Dates and LocationsThis hands-on training course explores installation, configuration, and management of VMware vSphere, which consists of VMware ESXi/ESX and VMware vCenter Server. Upon completion of this course,...
- Tags: St. Louis, Irvine, Dallas, Philadelphia, Sacramento, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Houston, Washington, Cleveland, San Jose, Phoenix Technologies, New York, Baltimore, Atlanta, VMware Inc., Boston, Denver, Charlotte, Seattle, Virtualization, Hardware
- Training 2009-05-01
- The Seattle P-I bites the dust
- I'm from Seattle, so this story caught my attention. For quite some time, Seattle had two daily papers, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Seattle Times. The Post-Intelligencer, or the P-I as it's called, is actually Seattle's oldest business and has been publishing papers for 146 years. No...
- Tags: Student, News, Seattle, Seattle P-I, Portals, Web Technology, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Britain's technology stumbles in snow; Seattle shares concerns
- England, England, England. Home of the Yorkshire pudding, the field plough, a chip butty and international cricket. One thing we are not so used to, is the snow. Over the last week, we've had more snow sweeping over the country than we've had in two decades, and...
- Tags: Network, Snow, Seattle, Networking, Web Site Development, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-02-06
- Seattle tops 'America's most wired cities' list
- (Image: flickr/slightlynorth) America's most wired city this year isn't San Francisco, New York, Boston or even last year's winner Atlanta, but the home of Microsoft and Amazon: Seattle. Seattle's increased use of broadband helped it to top the competition on Forbes' annual list of...
- Tags: Forbes, Broadband, Seattle, Wireless LANs, Internet, Broadband Internet, Wi-Fi, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Wireless And Mobility, Networking, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
- Floodless in SEATTLE: A Scalable Ethernet Architecture for Large Enterprises
- IP networks require massive effort to configure and manage. Ethernet is vastly simpler to manage, but does not scale beyond small local area networks. This paper describes an alternative network architecture called SEATTLE that achieves the best of both worlds: The scalability of IP combined with the simplicity of Ethernet....
- Tags: Network, Seattle, Ethernet, Networking, Network Technology
- White papers 2008-08-22
- TeachStreet: Starting something big in lots of little places
- TeachStreet's launch of a Portland, Oregon, version of its teacher-student connection services has a lot to teach us about the evolution of Web services. The service, which lets students search for local teachers and teachers to offer classes to local and national student audiences, is where education is going: Toward...
- Tags: Education, Advertisement, Class, Teacher, Seattle, TeachStreet, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Google adds transit directions to S60 and Windows Mobile clients
- There are full navigation and routing programs available for S60 and Windows Mobile that I use for major trips, but for quick positioning and some trips I just fire up the Google Maps for Mobile application on these devices. Google just released an update that adds transit directions to these...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Microsoft Windows, Seattle, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- Seattle Bus 1.0.2 (Mobile)
- Seattle Bus provides real-time arrival and departure info for bus stops across the greater Seattle metro area including coming buses/routes, the scheduled time for their arrival, and the wait time until their actual expected arrival. Seattle Bus allows you to keep favorite stops for quick access, search through all...
- Tags: Mobile, Arrival, Seattle, Deallus Software, Seattle Bus, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-07-30
- Now I know we're in a recession
- OK, this has nothing to do with Ed Tech. Not a thing. There's no tie-in, no hidden message for us Ed Techers, just a feeling of impending doom. Fortune is reporting that Starbucks is closing 600 stores. I'll let that sink in. ...
- Tags: Starbucks Corp., Seattle, Food & Beverage, Construction, Manufacturing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Gates' tearful good-bye
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates says farewell to company employees at a town hall meeting Friday in Redmond, Wash. Gates is stepping down from full-time work to focus on his philanthropic efforts.
- Tags: News, bill gates, steve ballmer, microsoft, windows, seattle, redmond
- Videos 2008-06-27
- Bill Gates on the origin of PC clones
- At the 20th anniversary of the PC event in 2001, Gates and Compaq founder Rod Canion reflected on the events that created the modern PC business.
- Tags: PC, Desktops, Hardware, News, bill gates, microsoft, steve ballmer, george clooney, bono, u2, CES 2008, seattle
- Videos 2008-06-27
- Video: Bill Gates' last day
- At CES 2008, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates and some of his closest friends debuted a comical look at what life would be like as Bill's last day approaches. Many of entertainment's biggest heavyweights, such as Bono from U2, actor George Clooney, and director Steven Spielberg, got some laughs...
- Tags: Video, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, News, bill gates, microsoft, steve ballmer, george clooney, bono, u2, CES 2008, seattle
- Videos 2008-06-24
- ToorCon 2008
- Nathan McFeters: Pics of ToorCon Seattle 2008 by Nathan McFeters
- Tags: Nathan McFeters, ToorCon, Seattle, tech action
- Image galleries 2008-04-21
- Tap Water: Solution to Dirty Hands, High Drug Prices and Political Correctness
- Back in high school chemistry I was taught that water is the "universal solvent." Now it seems to be the universal solution. Tap water is now the easiest way to political correctness. Long ago I blogged here about the pending demise of bottled water and its plastic...
- Tags: Beverage, London, Seattle, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- Ideas for organizing your media
- Several new projects and ideas emerged from Microsoft's TechFest 2008 to help streamline people's media intake. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi has some of the highlights from the event, including a political blog aggregator and an application that can search your music library.
- Tags: techfest 2008, microsoft, music players, search engine, translation, bill gates, seattle, redmond
- Videos 2008-03-18
- Hands-on mapping from Microsoft
- Imagine a mobile device with front and back touch-screen sensitivity to better navigate a map. What about a software program that allows you to plot your journeys and share them with a friend? CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi reports on two mapping ideas that debuted at Microsoft's Techfest 2008 in Redmond,...
- Tags: techfest 2008, microsoft, maps, kara tsuboi, redmond, seattle
- Videos 2008-03-14
- Touring Microsoft's science fair
- Walking around TechFest 2008, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie talks to News.com's Ina Fried about the latest from Redmond's labs and where the company is placing its bets these days.
- Tags: microsoft techfest 2008, redmond, seattle, bill gates, steve ballmer, ina fried, research and development
- Videos 2008-03-11
- Photos: Gearing up for World Cyber Games
- More than 700 gamers from 75 countries will gather in Seattle this week for the grand finals of the World Cyber Games. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Gamer, Seattle, Games, Personal Technology, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-10-03
- Rolling walls of boiling mud, is Microsoft prepared?
- This is especially bad news for folks working at Microsoft, Nike, Amazon and other places located near the base of active American volcanoes. Not good news for Naples or central Mexico either.A British disaster expert says global warming could set off more volcanic activity and major earthquakes. Sort...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Wall, Seattle, rnrnThis, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-08-22
- A-Gnomedexing we will go
- I'll be at Chris Pirillo's Gnomedex Conference in Seattle later this week. Look me up if you are there. I'm particularly looking forward to seeing my old friend, Robert Steele, who is the foremost thinker on open source and collective intelligence in the world. Robert is speaking on Friday morning....
- Tags: Seattle, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
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