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Fitness Pack 1.0 (Windows)

EVen with good equipment there often are "tools" that are needed to get the best possible workout. The "Fitness Pack" is a bundle of these tools. Each is a simple, single function gadget that will run on most Windows' based computers even small screen netbooks. The bundle includes: Elapsed Timer...

Tags: Bundle, Workout, Training, Silver Bullet Technology, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Workforce Management, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Training And Certification, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-08-03

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IronKey unveils enterprise USB flash drive with crypto, self-destruct security

IronKey, maker of the "world's most secure flash drive," on Monday announced the launch of its S200 device for government and enterprise customers, featuring hardened physical security, the latest Cryptochip technology, active anti-malware and enhanced management capabilities. It's the "first and only USB...

Tags: Enterprise Management, Physical Security, USB Flash Drive, IronKey, Management Capability, IronKey S200, Flash Memory, Security, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-13

Are we too impatient with SOA?

Jack Vaughan recently pondered the fate of major technology initiatives, and wondered if SOA is going down the same path as Grid and object-oriented computing. That is, it took some time for these initiatives to come to fruition, and benefits to be delivered. In the meantime, many grew too impatient...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-29

AMD uses Radian6 as a preferred 'listening' engine

One of the biggest challenges social media enthusiasts face while trying to sell their executives on a progressive marketing program is proving the value of listening. The concept of purely outbound marketing is old, yet safe, and many companies are afraid to invite the scary conversations in and take action...

Tags: Marketing, Social Media, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Radian6, James, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-06-11

Google makes an Outlook plugin to replace Exchange

Google makes an Outlook plugin to replace Exchangethere's no much life without internet...IMHO, there's no much life without internet link in an office :-) From the other side it'd be cool to have kinda GApps Gateway to queue user messages while in offline. Though it seems very hard to implement.RE:...

Tags: Service level management, E-mail, Groupware, Outlook Plugin, Google Inc., Google Makes, Microsoft Outlook, SLA, plug-in

Discussion threads 2009-06-11

Laid off? Don't leave your personal security with your former employer

Employers aren’t the only people who have to look after security in an employment transition period. You should pay attention to threats to your personal privacy and security when you leave a job, too. TechRepublic's Chad Perrin explains in this guest post. Last Thursday’s 10 important categories of employment...

Tags: Password, Network, IM, Employer, Privacy, E-mail, Encryption, Instant Messaging, Security, Internet, Online Communications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-12

Netbooks become the bane of Microsoft

Netbooks become the bane of MicrosoftThe fact is not everybody needs a feature rich OSIn fact even those that need or desire one on their primary computer may not desire one on their secondary computer, which is what netbooks are. The purpose of a netbook is to get something done...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Corp., netbook

Discussion threads 2009-01-22

How doctors may benefit from personal health records

How doctors may benefit from personal health recordsOpening up to more than Google and MicrosoftFrom what I understand, the need for these data systems to work together is a big part of the larger electronic health record EHR challenge. It's encouraging to see Medicare tying in with existing personal health...

Tags: E-health, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, personal health record, MedeFile Card, health care, Alex Papas, benefit

Discussion threads 2008-11-14

The silver bullet of preventive care

The public debate will center on costs and mandates, but behind it will lie faith that Internet technology, if applied universally, can do what all those TV commercials telling you to watch your weight and stop smoking failed to do. Restore discipline. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Internet, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Dana Blankenhorn, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

Blog posts 2008-11-14

Resurrecting E-voting

Resurrecting E-votingDifficulty of subverting voting machinesIt seems to me that any system can be tampered with to render the vote dishonest. However, some configurations make such tampering very hard while others are much easier to subvert. You should talk about the relative difficulty and not whether or not...

Tags: SECURITY, Resurrecting E-voting, risk, e-voting

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Fossil fuel prices and the men who hate them

Fossil fuel prices and the men who hate themAirline fares are too lowEver since deregulation, airlines have allowed themselves to be sucked into a ridiculous, never ending price war.As a result, they've been forced to fly at max capacity just to break even on any given flight. That need...

Tags: FUEL PRICES, airline fare, oil, fare, fossil fuel

Discussion threads 2008-07-30

Ready for real Indian medicine?

Ready for real Indian medicine?Reply from C.A. ChienDear Mr. Blankenhorn:Thanks for your note. To clarify: (1) I wanted to document my inventive system-design and inter-connection work on [i]Medical Onshoring[/i]; thus, the USPTO filing; (2) as to the "how," head to --http://tinyurl.com/6c4tj4" .. Covering the professional world (e.g., health care, computing),...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Medical Onshoring, health care

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Another bug your tools won't find and your WAF won't prevent

First off, I want to apologize to our readers for not being here as much last week.  I had a rough week involving a random ear infection and the loss of an aunt to cancer, so it was not a week where I was very concerned about computer security or...

Tags: Juniper Networks Inc., Blog, Bug, ActiveX, Tool, Productivity, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-09

How long can AMD continue to blame Intel for its failures?

How long can AMD continue to blame Intel for its failures?Could not agree moreI think AMD relied upon "evil Intel" marketing far too much and as you suggest, even AMD fans have switched back to Intel because thats where the bang for the buck is at.Buying ATI seems to have...

Tags: Processors, Marketing research, Games, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., marketing, ATI Technologies Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-07

OLPC: the best designed notebook in the world

OLPC: the best designed notebook in the worldYou know, I was thingking the same thing. The OLPC would be great forschools right here in the good old US of A. I would think they should hire somebody to sell the idea to schools HERE. If we get a critical mass...

Tags: Behar, notebook, Design Continuum, One Laptop Per Child project, Third World, computer

Discussion threads 2007-12-19

When application failure is not an option

When application failure is not an optionWe have just completed a conversion to virtual.Since you've asked, we have just completed switching over from a large data center of discrete servers to a virtual environment. We now use VMware ESX servers running on HP blade hardware. Each frame holds...

Tags: Utility computing, Storage management, Blade servers, Servers, virtualization, application failure, blade

Discussion threads 2007-12-05

Bandwagon for electronic records rolls on

The bandwagon on behalf of electronic health records EHRs or electronic medical records EMRs as a "silver bullet" solution to America's health care crisis rolls on, despite growing reports of problems. (Picture from Norman, Oklahoma school system.) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the latest to jump on,...

Tags: Electronic Record, Electronic Health Record, Fact, Health Care, E-health, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-03

Agile development, early warning, Darwin, and failure

Some IT projects are destined to fail due to haphazard planning, poor execution, or unexpected changes in the business or technical environment. Given the high incidence of failure, innovative methods for uncovering weak projects are always welcome. If discovered in time, risky projects can be fixed or killed; of course,...

Tags: Software, Project, Information Technology, Failure, IT Success, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-11-25

Google, Cisco lend a hand to UN's fight against poverty

With the help of Google and Cisco, the UN is launching a new website to help track how the world is doing in fighting poverty and development goals. The site includes Google Earth map and satellite imagery as well as statistics on how a range of countries are doing at...

Tags: Google Inc., Poverty, Site, Cisco Systems Inc., Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-01

After authentication of senders, ending spam requires a relationship managment protocol

One thing that virtually every e-mail security expert agrees on is that there's no silver bullet to the spam problem. But if there's the equivalent of a hollow point bullet that can do the most damage what you want on the first shot, then authenticating an e-mail sender's identity...

Tags: Domain, Spam, Authentication, E-mail, Online Communications, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-10