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- Amazon bolsters Kindle catalog, inks pact with Simon & Shuster
- Amazon said Friday that the Kindle will get 5,000 additional titles from Simon & Shuster for its e-book library. Simon & Shuster is a unit of CBS, which is buying CNET, parent of ZDNet. With the Simon & Shuster deal, Amazon adds titles like...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Digital Content, Simon & Shuster, Kindle, E-books, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
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- The Path of Enlightenment (exe)
- The Path of Enlightenment is a challenging mix path forming game, done by turning the octagon tiles, and Simon says. The game has 33 levels, each with their own challenges, and 10 mini game levels, 3 levels of difficulty and two modes of play. This game has been called addictive...
- Tags: Stratus Technologies, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-10-10
- The utility of Ubiquity
- It's a bit of a stretch to pigeon hole something coming out of Mozilla labs as appropriate to the start-up genre that Alley espouses but Ubiquity is such a useful Firefox add-in that I believe it is well worth attention on these pages. There's plenty of debate...
- Tags: Ubiquity, E-mail, Wiki, Collaboration, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- Google to launch browser to target IE; Is Firefox a target or tag-team partner?
- Google to launch browser to target IE; Is Firefox a target or tag-team partner?Internet Explorer and StandardsI really hope the product is a success and is just as standards compliant as Opera. What would be ideal is that Internet Explorer becomes a minority. I would gladly give up...
- Tags: Web browsers, Milton Bradley, Web browser, Google Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox
- Discussion threads 2008-09-01
- Photos: Cracking open the famous Simon
- TechRepublic looks at the innards of the classic Milton Bradley game, the life of many '80s get-togethers. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Innards, Photograph, Games, Personal Technology, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-08-31
- VIPRE performance shoot-out - Does it really not slow down your PC?
- VIPRE performance shoot-out - Does it really not slow down your PC?How about the corporate versionI've been using Symantec Anti-Virus corporate for years and subjectively it seems a lot less "in your face" i.e. much less of an impact compared to its consumer cousin Norton Anti-Virus. I actually steer...
- Tags: Performance management, Firewalls, Desktops, SECURITY, Network security, Viruses and worms, VIPRE performance, DOES IT, PC, NOD32, performance
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- Cisco faces tricky fourth quarter report
- Cisco Systems reports its fourth quarter earnings Tuesday and an analyst says the quarter may be "the trickiest in memory." Wall Street is expecting fourth quarter earnings of 39 cents a share on revenue of $10.31 billion, according to Reuters' Thomson Financial. But observers will be combing...
- Tags: John Chambers, Analyst, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- JavaFX Preview SDK to be released this week
- Sun will release a preview version of the JavaFX Software Development Kit later this week, fulfilling a pledge made at JavaOne this year. Joshua Marinacci writes: I'm excited by what we've put together but also exhausted. We've done an incredible amount of work during the last year. Now...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., SDK, Adobe Illustrator, Tool, Joshua Marinacci, Productivity, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Citrix and Xen not versus Xen
- Simon Crosby, CTO of Citrix's Virtualization Management group, contacted me after reading the post, Citrix versus the Xen community, to clear up some misconceptions that he thought were the basis of my post. After reading his message, it's clear that what he had to say was very persuasive. Thanks Simon...
- Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Xen, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Citrix versus the Xen community
- As the virtual machine software competition heats up, one would expect representatives of each of the suppliers to take shots at one another in the media. I've seen a recent example of this.Two of the proponents of Xen, Citrix and Virtual Iron, appear to be having at it in the...
- Tags: Community, Citrix Systems Inc., Xen, VMware Inc., Technology, Virtual Machine, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- GNOME knows why there's no Sun up in the sky
- GNOME knows why there's no Sun up in the skyNo questionKDE is my preferred UI, but picture a new user--they'll benefit immediately from GNOME's simpler interface and pure ease of use.GNOME is a well put together GUI.ThanksAnd, that is one of the messages that we need to get out. With...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Sun Microsystems Inc., GNOME
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- Obama resisters claim campaign to silence blogs
- On the battlefield that is Blogger, a fight is raging, apparently, between pro- and anti-Obama bloggers. Some pro-Clinton, anti-Obama bloggers are reporting that, all of a sudden, their blogs are being flagged as spam – and Google bots have dutifully blocked the bloggers from updating their sites. Simon Owens reported...
- Tags: Google Inc., Blog, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- News to know: Nokia Symbian; XP phase-out; Apple badware
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: No reprieve: XP phase-out begins June 30 Dancho Danchev: Trojan exploiting unpatched Mac OS X vulnerability in the wild Spam attack shut downs Marshall Islands email service 200,000 sites spreading web malware, China's...
- Tags: Nokia Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc., Symbian Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), E-mail, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Leadership, Advertising & Promotion, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Hardware, Operating Systems, Management, Marketing, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Sorry Simon, but you're still screwing up
- Sorry Simon, but you're still screwing upSorry Dana, but you scewed upHi Dana,I totally agree that more transparency would be a good thing for Sun and its products and projects, and more openness would be the next big step. Beyond that I don't agree with much that you wrote here.>...
- Tags: Team management, Databases, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, Simon, non-development community, open source project, team, MySQL
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Sorry Simon, but you're still screwing up
- No one person, inside or outside Sun, should be plotting its open source strategy. You can guide it, you can concentrate your own energies at key points, but there is no I in team. Open source requires team-building. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPC
- Supercomputers are like muscle cars for IT: Few of us have one, but boy they are fun to look at. IBM on Tuesday touted that its supercomputer built for the National Nuclear Security Administration's Los Alamos National Lab is the most powerful system in the world. It...
- Tags: Supercomputer, Blade, Sony Playstation, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Chip, Supercomputing, NNSA Supercomputer, Roadrunner, Roadrunner System, Intel Quad-core Blade System, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- SocialCalc: a killer app?
- David Greenfield details SocialCalc, the wikified spreadsheet from SocialText. While David's assessment is comprehensive, I partially disagree with his analysis that: ...SocialCalc will have a long way to go. Today there's no Excel integration, something that Google Sheets already offers. What's more the range of functions provided with SocialCalc...
- Tags: Killer Application, Socialtext, Spreadsheet, SocialCalc, Google Sheet, Productivity, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- News to know: Adobe; Apple; Facebook; Microsoft security
- Notable headlines: Zack Whittaker: Students try to bring down Facebook Dancho Danchev: Microsoft's CAPTCHA successfully broken Ryan Naraine: Microsoft issues Safari-to-IE blended threat warning Obama looking for help thwarting Web site hackers Chinese female hacking group spotted ActiveX...
- Tags: Security, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Facebook, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Fuel Cells, Utility Computing, Hardware, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Amazon bolsters Kindle catalog, inks pact with Simon
- Amazon bolsters Kindle catalog, inks pact with SimonThe Kindle - and new writersThe news from Amazon, Mr. Bezos and the outlook for the Kindle is particularly interesting for new writers: for now it seems, electronic readers are providing traditional content but with the lowering of overhead costs (and for the...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Simon
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Does running Vista make you feel safe from malware?
- [UPDATE - This is a reposting of a TalkBack comment I made on Ed Bott's post "Puncturing the myth of the invulnerable OS": Are we disagreeing? ??? I start the post by referring to the PC Tools report (at the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Malware, UAC, UAC Prompt, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Security, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
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