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- Garmin Nuvi 1690
- Garmin made a pretty big splash last year when it debuted the Nuvi 880, its first-ever Internet-connected portable navigation device PND featuring MSN Direct data service. With MSN Direct scheduled to go offline in the very near future, Garmin had to create something to fill this void, so it partnered...
- Tags: Garmin Nuvi, Garmin Ltd., data service, portable navigation device, suction-cup, cradle
- Product reviews 2009-11-24
- Is Google the Center of the Universe?
- It's not even a year since the triumphalism of Jeff Jarvis's Google 'reverse engineering' book 'What Would Google Do?' hit the book shelves, but it seems an age ago now. Jarvis's publisher Harper Collins claims this book is 'all about you' in their promo blurb - how you...
- Tags: Google Inc., Rupert Murdoch, Jarvis, Wiki, Online Communications, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-24
- TrailRunner 2.1v453 (Mac)
- TrailRunner is the perfect companion for runners, bikers, hikers, and all people wandering under the sky. Plan routes on a geographical map. Import GPS or workout recordings and journalize your activities in a diary. Features: View Maps and Elevation Data from Internet mapping services like USGS topo...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Garmin Ltd., Workout, Berbie, TrailRunner, GPS, Handhelds, Digital Music, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-11-22
- Rupert Murdoch and the dirty little secret about Google traffic...
- Dangerous generalisationsNEWCASTLE UK - While I might agree with your argument in the special case of WSJ your logic breaks down for newspapers in general. The WSJ is a broadsheet for a very small sector,the Financial World, as opposed to The Times or The SUN where the aim is the...
- Tags: Rupert, Rupert Murdoch, Washington Post Co., Google Inc., music
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- Wireless users may be shut off if sharing copyrighted files
- ACTA: The Bigger Picturehttp://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4510/125/Not likely to happenWhy? Because the internet companies are not going to shut off paying customers just because they are accused of sharing files 'illegally'.... they will either tell the companies to file a lawsuit against the people in question or give them some REAL evidence that...
- Tags: Strategy, wireless, Acta, rights holder, shut-off, intellectual property
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- VelaClock Deluxe 2.2.1 (Mac)
- VelaClock Deluxe is a world clock widget with a highly configurable user interface. Users can quickly display the time of sunrise, sunset, or twilight, duration of daylight, moonrise, moonset, phase of moon, time zone information and more. VelaClock Deluxe has all the features of the standard version, plus: Add...
- Tags: Internet Connection, Apple Macintosh, Daylight, Daylight Saving Time, VelaClock Deluxe, Daylight Saving Time Rule, Internet
- Software downloads 2009-11-09
- VelaClock 2.2.1 (Mac)
- VelaClock is a world clock widget with a highly configurable user interface. Besides displaying local times, users can quickly display the time of sunrise, sunset, or twilight, duration of daylight, current phase of moon, time zone information and much more. The interface can easily be configured to use a minimum...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Daylight, Moon, VelaClock, Internet, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Software downloads 2009-11-09
- A Net Neutrality Solution: Opinions Wanted
- First thoughts"the incumbents fought it tooth and nail"Same thing happened in the last 4 industrial revolutions!I'm broadly in favour of your improvements ... with a few caveats ... and will look at the 2 papers you plugged, sorry referenced ;-)"Users should be concerned that the Internet services they pay for...
- Tags: Fiber optics, Net Neutrality, Net Neutrality Solution
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Tracking efficiency
- Array Technologies has been in the solar tracking business for a couple decades. And using GPS systems for solar tracking is nothing new. GPS itself is now an ancient tech dating back to 1993. Hell, it's older than even the public-access Internet. GPS itself is a...
- Tags: Panel, Array, GPS, Handhelds, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Less than 24-hours on and a potential Windows 7 Achilles' heel surfaces
- 3 Words for you...Windows Live Essentials...Saves on bloat?It was nothing to do with that. Microsoft have said that they unbundled a lot of things from the OS build as it allowed for easier and more frequent updates.Good point.I use Hotmail but also use Live Mail on my own machines as...
- Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Operating systems, Groupware, E-mail providers, e-mail, Microsoft Windows, Windows Mail, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- Beware the allure of Fool's Cloud
- no securityNo one in their right mind would send theircritical apps off to the cloud.Another pie in the sky to dream up getting ridof expenses only to make more expenses.Still no Security or...Public clouds are not secure. They are just like the regular Internet. Only put on the public cloud...
- Tags: Strategy, cloud provider, Clear, public cloud, security
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- When will Microsoft's Live Mesh matter?
- I consider live Mesh to be one of the killer apps...... on my Windows Mobile phone. That explains a lot there. If Microsoft can't get Windows Mobile straight, what hope is there for ancillary services?it is oddIt's bizarre that they haven't used it in other ways. I love it...
- Tags: Mobile operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Live Mesh matter, Microsoft Live Mesh
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Why on ZDnet?
- I think most of the folks who read this section of ZDnet understand how digital tech and the future of energy, mineral and water and air resource use are so closely interconnected. But occasionally somebody who really doesn't want global warming written about, or hates the very idea that...
- Tags: Pollution, Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-04
- Blowin' in the wind, and power under the sun
- Why?Because any future energy system , even if coal-powered, will make great use of IT, software and digital technologies. As will any affort to convert energy systems to solar, wind, tidal, etc. Even the digital and nano-tech being used in cars now and in future will come from...
- Tags: Low Tech, wind farm, blog
- Discussion threads 2009-10-04
- Lightsoft Weather Center 1.1.3b6 (Mac)
- Lightsoft Weather Center LWC is a weather graphing, monitoring and analysis application for Mac OS X. LWC is designed to work with the Davis Vantage and WS-2300 series of hardware weather stations as well as using Internet based weather sources to monitor two other locations. As data is gathered and...
- Tags: Web, Apple Macintosh, Server, Weather, Web Page, Lightsoft, Lightsoft Weather Center, E-mail, Channel Management, Storage, Web Servers, Databases, Online Communications, Marketing, Hardware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-10-04
- Home Weather Center 1.8.6b2 (Mac)
- Home Weather Center HWC is a weather graphing, monitoring and analysis application for Mac OS X. HWC is designed as a virtual weather station utilising Internet based weather sources rather than the more traditional and costly hardware based sensors. As data is gathered and stored in its database HWC...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Weather, Lightsoft, Home Weather Center, Storage, E-mail, Databases, Hardware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-10-04
- Microsoft Bing cashback: 'splendid commercial bribery'
- Great Google in the sky?you should say, disgusting google in the hell!RE: Microsoft Bing cashback: 'splendid commercial bribery'Yes, I agree its a smart move,it also enables partner sites and affiliattes to offer greater incentives.If he wanted to sound like a child...he may have opted for that route. If he...
- Tags: Sales force management, Now Let, Bing, Microsoft Bing cashback, commercial bribery, cashback, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Bing, incentive, bribery
- Discussion threads 2009-08-31
- News to know: Pixie; Google Books; Time Warner-YouTube; PayPal; iLike
- 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. Andrew Nusca: Next Palm webOS-ready phone, Eos 'Pixie', to arrive Oct. 2010 Richard Koman: Lawyer files a full-throated attack...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., PayPal, Canon Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Word, Blogging, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Operating Systems, Software, Security, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Internet
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Microsoft cries the sky will fall if injunction not stayed
- Microsoft will pay the judgment and will appealntActually, MS should just license it and then, they can claim their product is better because they have kludged xml, and OpenOffice does not!!RE: Microsoft cries the sky will fall if injunction not stayedwell isn't that true? The injunction was a bunch...
- Tags: OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft PowerPoint, I4i
- Discussion threads 2009-08-19
- 5 years of insights and lessons as a professional "journalist - blogger"
- It was about five years ago that I left my job as a reporter and columnist for the Financial Times in the San Francisco bureau. And it's been a tremendous journey. I didn't realize at the time that I would become the first reporter to leave a...
- Tags: Newspaper, Blogger, Blogging, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
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