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Serial Port Control (bin)

Serial Port Control is an inexpensive royalty-free component. You can use it with any development environment, such as VB, VB .Net, VC++, C#, Delphi, etc. Just put it on a form and vou've got all the functionality you need to access an RS232 port. The event driven architecture makes it...

Tags: Microsoft Visual Basic, Serial Port, FabulaTech, Serial Port Control, Microsoft Development Tools, Programming Languages, C#, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-06-26

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Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate

The last few days I've been exchanging email with R 'Ray' Wang, VP and principal analyst at Forrester about the kerfuffle over SAP's unilateral decision to apply a price hike to its maintenance and support fees. Ray specializes in the enterprise market and has special experience of SAP going back...

Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc., Ray, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Scammers introduce ATM skimmers with built-in SMS notification

The bust of the notorious ATM scammer going under the handle of Cha0 in early September, once again puts ATM skimming in the spotlight. Among the main insecurities scammers face while embedding an ATM skimmer, is the retrieval process of the device that is now containing the credit card details...

Tags: Device, Credit Card, built-In, SMS, Scammer, ATM, Network Technology, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Networking, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capital

AMD said Tuesday that it will split off its manufacturing operations in a deal with the Advanced Technology Investment Company of Abu Dhabi. AMD will also receive a capital infusion from Mubadala Development Company, which will wind up owning more than 19 percent of Intel's smaller rival. ...

Tags: Asset, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATIC, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Image Gallery: HAVA Platinum HD

The HAVA Platinum HD lets you connect your HD source to the device and then watch your HD content on your PC, Windows Mobile device, S60 device, or Nokia Internet Tablet. You can even control your TV source just as if you were there in front of your TV/HD source....

Tags: Device, Tablets, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Operating Systems, TVs, Handhelds, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Matthew Miller, product photos, hava, slingbox, tv placeshift, s60, windows mobile, nokia tablet

Image galleries 2008-10-07

The Secrets of CEOs

I just finished reading an advance US manuscript of 'The Secrets of CEOs - 150 Global Chief Executives lift the lid on business, life and leadership' by Steve Tappin, who is a managing partner in the global CEO & board practice of Heidrick & Struggles, and Andrew Cave, a leading...

Tags: CEO, Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Apple manufactures 10M iPhones

About a month ago creative individuals determined that Apple has sold 8 million iPhones based on collected International Mobile Equipment Identity IMEI numbers. A joint project of AFB and Investor Village's AAPL Sanity board have been collecting iPhone IMEI numbers and recording them on a big Google speadsheet. Based on...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, 3G, Sales, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Welcome to the Data Cloud ?

'The Cloud' is increasingly prevalent in tech conversation these days. Stalwarts of the space such as Amazon and Salesforce go from strength to strength, whilst titans of an earlier model such as Larry Ellison and even Steve Ballmer now seek to appropriate the meme. New blogs like CloudAve play a...

Tags: Web, Data, UKOLN, Channel Management, Internet, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Data Processing scores big success! Linux loses, again!

When Canada's Do Not Call registery came on-line last week it was an instant success - well, it took a bit more than two years to issue the outsourcing contract for it, nine months to get it working on Linux, and perhaps two days to port a highly secure (and...

Tags: Do-Not-Call, Web, Linux, Phone, Data-processing, Web Site, Site, Bell Canada, Error Message, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Telemarketing, Advertising & Promotion, Web Technology, Public Relations, Telecom & Utilities, Internet, Marketing, Marketing Research, Corporate Communications, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Microsoft bad cop is up against the wall

Microsoft bad cop is up against the wallEnough open-source propagandaIf this was about a technical violation of a license, focus on that and leave out the bias. I think we've all seen enough crappy and inept open source code that your comment about "being in retreat" against it is laughable.As...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., cop, open source, bad cop

Discussion threads 2008-10-05

Hands-on review of the Logitech Squeezebox Boom

After seeing my mildly skeptical post about the release of its Squeezebox Boom Internet radio device, Logitech offered to send me a sample unit to review, promising me I'd be pleasantly surprised with the audio output from the compact unit. I've been testing it out over the last few weeks,...

Tags: Station, Radio, Logitech, Boom, Music Services, Advertising & Promotion, Engineering, Wireless, Marketing, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-10-04

Using space robots to fix ailing satellites?

According to Canadian engineers at Queen's University, there are now more than 8,000 satellites in orbit around the Earth. Of course, if they stop to work correctly, these satellites will not be able to be repaired from the ground and will become space junk. So these researchers have developed a...

Tags: Robot, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-04

More on wikipedia abuse

More on wikipedia abuseThanks!That's an interesting report - if the research stands up, the method used could form the basis for a more general approach. Thanks for pointing it out.RE: More on wikipedia abuseReaders might be interested in seeing a study on vandalism of US senator's WP articles here :...

Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia

Discussion threads 2008-10-04

Lenovo ThinkPad SL400

Take the ThinkPad R series, remove the internal roll cage and the TPM chip, add dedicated GeForce graphics, an HDMI port, and a glossy lid, and you get the ThinkPad SL400. This 14-inch laptop is Lenovo's play for small business buyers, trading in enterprise features such as the aforementioned security...

Tags: Notebooks, Lenovo ThinkPad, IBM ThinkPad, ThinkPad SL400, lid, Lenovo Group Ltd.

Product reviews 2008-10-03

Velocity 103

We've seen plenty of Windows Mobile devices in our day, and at times they all start to blur together--same story, just different packaging. However, back at CTIA Spring 2008, a new company called Velocity Mobile caught our eye, impressing us with a fresh approach to the user interface. Recognizing that...

Tags: Smart phones, Keyboards, Cellular phones, Monitors & displays, Handhelds, Velocity, Velocity 103, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch

Product reviews 2008-10-03

Panasonic Viera TH-58PZ800U

The big-screen HDTV arena is still owned by rear-projection models, but with every passing year flat-panel versions, especially plasmas, fall in price and become attractive targets for folks seeking massive home theater pictures. But prices haven't fallen far enough yet for most people, so for the foreseeable future big-screen plasmas...

Tags: Quality, TV & Home Theater, TVs, plasma, Panasonic, Panasonic TH-58PZ800U, THX Display Certification

Product reviews 2008-10-03

Washington Times amongst newspapers putting semantic technologies to work with help from Inform Technologies

New York-based Inform Technologies issued a press release earlier this week, reporting the success of their recent partnership with the Washington Times on a major website redesign. Having spoken to both Inform's CEO Jim Satloff and the Washington Times' Executive Editor John Solomon, there's an interesting story to tell of...

Tags: Story, Editorial Staff, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Corporate Communications, Operational Accounting, Channel Management, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Finance, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Valleywag, Consumerist sites announce layoffs

A source close to Gawker Media informed me a moment ago that popular sites Consumerist, Valleywag and NSFW Fleshbot will may be shuttered will lose most of their editorial talent. "Nineteen jobs will be cut," my source says, with a formal announcement from Gawker Media coming later...

Tags: Layoff, Gawker Media, Site, Consumerist, Workforce Management, Team Management, Human Resources, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Election Talking Points: A discussion place

Election Talking Points: A discussion placeSpoken like a true believer in ...a constitutional republic.RE: Election Talking Points: A discussion placereally this post is for an opinion location,It really becomes a bunch of BSGuess doe to reports about the debate it help McCain,everyone has to put two cents of nonsense,Ok...

Tags: Mortgages, Palin, Election Talking Points

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Mimicking electric eel cells to produce energy

Mimicking electric eel cells to produce energyI'm thinking electric cars.I'm thinking this could push electric car technology further and make it more feasible. Put a whole bunch of these things into a large batteries. The ability to control the output (and hopefully the input when charging?) should be very useful...

Tags: cell

Discussion threads 2008-10-03