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Leopard and Vista - Has the photocopying gone too far?

Remember that "Redmond, start your photocopiers" jibe back when Tiger was released?  Are Vista and Leopard all the proof we need that the photocopiers have been running flat out both at Redmond and Cupertino? Oliver Rist of PC Magazine wrote a piece called "Leopard is the New...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Network, Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Tiger, Leopard, SideShow, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-11-30

Image Gallery: Toshiba's Portégé R400 supports Vista's SideShow, but could do it better

Editors Note: This blog entry is accompanies by an extensive image gallery that shows the various angles and features of the Portégé R400 as well as three other Vista-equipped notebooks from Toshiba. The entire gallery starts here. In terms of notebook brands, Toshibas Satellite and Portégé are two brands...

Tags: General, Vista, Hardware Infrastructure, Mobile, Wired &, Wireless, Image Gallery, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba Portege, notebook

Blog posts 2007-02-01

Vista sets up SideShow display all over

Vista sets up SideShow display all overGreat thunking Bill"The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker bills Vista as "the best operating system for mobile PCs," and the extra, cell phone-like displays on the lids could help people check the time or battery status, for example, without opening and starting the PC."Right I...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SideShow, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2006-05-24

Additional Resources

The real-life energy battles are NOT fought in Congress

Here's another sign that whatever happens on energy in Congress, if anything, will be a sideshow: the EPA plans to reject a permit for a new coal mine in West Virginia. The planned mine would be yet another mountaintop removal. That is a direct slap at Big Coal...

Tags: Permit, West Virginia, Coal, Wind Farm, U.S. Congress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Energy Battle, WEST VIRGINIA COAL Here, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Fads vs Business Value: Knowledge Management & Enterprise 2.0

Anyone with a computer and access to stock photos can put together a slide presentation and upload it to sites such as slideshare, and sometimes it seems like everyone and his brother is doing just that on social media, enterprise 2.0 and other 2.0-ish subjects. ...

Tags: Knowledge, Training, Originality, Knowledge Management, Harassment, Strategy, Training And Certification, Business Intelligence, E-learning, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Management, Data Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-27

Innovative Universal Remote Control Extends Power of PC to Your Living Room

The SilverPAC Evolution5500 is the only universal remote control in the world that streams SideShow Gadget content from a Windows PC. Users can catch up on reading email, check the weather and stock quotes, control lighting systems, or keep in touch with popular social networking services like Facebook and Twitter...

Tags: PC, Microsoft Corp., SilverPAC Evolution5500, Social Networking, Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Case studies 2009-09-01

If FaceBook is a "must-use", where does that leave us?

Yesterday I read with interest that Facebook has become a "must-use" application. The San Francisco Chronicle article noted that As for the marketplace, I suspect that, as eBay came to dominate auctions, and Amazon dominates books, Facebook is about to become the dominant social networking platform....

Tags: Facebook, Network, Social Media, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Newly nationalized General Motors goes online...any greener?

Newly nationalized General Motors goes online...any greener?Tragic endIf GM had been allowed to conduct its affairs based on its own marketing expertise, I would have assumed it would do just fine, once the onerous union agreements were modified.Now, it appears to be doomed. The corporate management puppets are echoing...

Tags: Government, Engineering, NOW IT, Volt, General Motors Corp., battery

Discussion threads 2009-07-10

Swine flu and the enviornment?

One sideshow in the current public hand-wringing over the new flu: is it possibly related to some environmentally catastrophic factory farms? Buried behind the bold headlines about travel warnings and "pandemic" pandemonium, there came this little political charge and counter-charge: the swine flu came from Mexican factory farms where pigs...

Tags: Flu, CDC, Strategy, Web Site Development, Cyberthreats, Management, Internet, Security, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-27

Yahoo's Bartz: "No comment" on Microsoft deal (but maybe a hint)

updated: Yahoo's earnings announcement - the actual financial numbers, that is - seems to be more of a formality these days. In a call with analysts today, CEO Carol Bartz made references to outsourcing or partnering pieces of Yahoo's business as the company rethinks its strategy under her leadership. Can...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Managed Hosting, Financial Accounting, Outsourcing, IPO, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Financial Services, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-21

Picture Safe 2 2.2 (Mobile)

Creates a Password Protected storage area for ANY image from your Camera, Photo Album, or the Net. Create folders for better organizing of images. Sideshow with adjustable settings. Multitouch control - Zoom, Swipe, Rotate. True Multiple Image Import - Unique to Picture Safe. Quick Hide - With a double tap...

Tags: Password, Mobile, Photograph, Image, Snoop-Stopper, Storage, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-04-15

Enterprise 2.0 promise is years off...if it materializes

At the risk of bringing the wrath of the Enterprise 2.0 fans crashing around this blog I'm taking a deliberately contrarian view of Dion Hinchcliffe's recent Determining the ROI of Enterprise 2.0. My intention is not to upend Dion's argument but to expand upon the issues....

Tags: Collaboration, Blog, ROI, Enterprise 2.0, E2.0, Hugh MacLeod, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-04-13

Next big land rush: believe it or not, is knowledge management

This sounds silly for anyone who has ever been involved in the typical hapless library exercise of a digital "knowledge management" initiative.  The lasting image for most of these efforts is of a black hole - everything goes in, nothing comes out.  But get ready for a change of tune....

Tags: Supply Chain, Collaboration, Knowledge, IP, Entertainment, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Knowledge Management, Strategy, Network Technology, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Kevin O'Marah

Blog posts 2009-04-10

News to know: Wolfram Alpha; iPhone developers; Windows 7; Cyberwar

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Wolfram Alpha: 'A new paradigm for using computers and the web' Nova Spivak: Wolfram Alpha is Coming â€" and It Could be as...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-09

Cydia and Apple: Lawsuits will be a sideshow

Cydia and Apple: Lawsuits will be a sideshowTypical of AppleGrossly over price phone and a scam to steal 30% of the money made by 3rd party app.When will apple understand that a Computer or Phone is NOT A GAME CONSOLE!I think we will never see the day when Apple will...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Digital media, Cellular phones, Cydia, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-03-06

Cydia and Apple: Lawsuits will be a sideshow

Today’s Wall Street Journal has a big article about a new renegade competitor that is challenging Apple’s App Store and in the process whetting the appetites of IP lawyers. With all due respect to the legal eagles involved, technology and the global supply chain should make this debate moot.  ...

Tags: Supply Chain, Lawsuit, Apple Inc., Cydia, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software, Kevin O'Marah

Blog posts 2009-03-06

Dell XPS 430-121B

Back in 2007, we reviewed Dell's XPS 420 that focused in on digital video with a few other light upgrades on the side. Just over a year later, Best Buy and Dell now offer the $900 Dell XPS 430-121B, a lightweight version of the Dell's customizable media-centric system. This...

Tags: Corporate communications, PCI, TV & Home Theater, TVs, digital media card reader, Dell Computer Corp., Dell XPS, Dell XPS 430-121B

Product reviews 2009-02-10

Can IBM sustain its momentum?

It's amazing how after years of clamoring for the top line, financial analysts have woken up to earnings quality as a measure of success. That is best exemplified in IBM's better than expected Q4 results which Larry Dignan dissected a short while ago. At one level you...

Tags: IBM Corp., Web 2.0, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Internet, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-01-20

Apple dumping Macworld Expo for CES?

Apple dumping Macworld Expo for CES?It maks more sense to have a Macworld Expo Hall at CESApple going to CES makes sense in that Apple is more about consumer electronics than computers nowadays. But what would be more beneficial to everyone is to move the entire Macworld Expo to CES....

Tags: Apple Inc., Consumer Electronics Show

Discussion threads 2009-01-09

Apple's Macworld saga and Jobs absence: Leadership signals and succession plans

Steve Jobs absence from Macworld's keynote this year is being taken as a sign. What signal Apple is actually sending is debatable, but some analysts are taking a strong hint that the company is ready to transition leadership. Apple said Tuesday that it will end its relationship...

Tags: Absence, Job, Steve Jobs, Leadership, Health Care, Apple Inc., Succession Plan, Company Line, Piper Jaffray Gene Munster, Munster, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-17