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TreoAlarm 1.16 (Mobile)

Not only it will wake you up, TreoAlarm will also deliver local weather report and 5-day forecast to your smartphone. Best features: Multiple alarms; use any built-in or downloaded MIDI polyphonic ring tone. Gradually ascending ring tone volume gently wakes you up. Up-to-date weather report and five day weather...

Tags: Mobile, Weather, Ring Tone, Software Trenches, Wireless

Software downloads 2006-04-10

Remote Lock for Treo 1.0 (Mobile)

How important is the privacy of information on your Treo? What could happen if your phone is lost or stolen? Every Treo comes with a built-in security system but not every Treo owner activates it. If you are like the author of this program and do not keep your phone...

Tags: Security, Mobile, Palm Treo, Software Trenches, Registration Fee, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2005-10-08

TreoAlarm 1.0 (Mobile)

Add Alarm Clock with Weather Forecast to your Treo. Not only it will wake you up, TreoAlarm will also deliver local weather report and 5-day forecast to your smartphone. Version 1.0 includes updated look and feel and new weather icons.

Tags: Software, Mobile, Software Trenches, Smart Phones, Tools & Techniques, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Hardware

Software downloads 2005-09-19

Additional Resources

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Get a vendor-neutral overview of your virtualization options

This sample chapter from Practical Virtualization Solutions examines popular virtualization strategies from an application and performance perspective and looks at the pros and cons of each technology. Title: Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches Authors: Kenneth Hess and Amy...

Tags: Pearson Education Inc., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware

Book chapters 2009-10-27

Collaboration Strategy Shortcomings? Whack the Community Manager

There's been a good flow of conversation around the role of 'community management' in large companies recently, with an underlying idea that although it's a tough job things will work out if the right people are involved, although Dennis Howlett recognises the danger of burn out....

Tags: Exec, Community Manager, Underling, Underlings, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-03

Staying on legacy systems ends up costing IT more

Sorry, but ....This sounds like the car commercials targeting struggling consumbers to "take advantage of great deals" to prop up the sagging sales at the expense of overburdened buyers.Yes, there are cost savings but at a greater price than the actual savings.I may save $100 a month on gas but...

Tags: Hardware upgrade, information technology, legacy system

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

The coming "big crunch" - IT systems will start failing on a large scale

ScaremongeringAll that was missing - the placard reading 'The End of the World is Nigh'.So my critical, clustered systems are going to start failing are they? Why did I cluster them then?My RAID arrays are going to start failing are they? Why did I go RAID then? And have I...

Tags: RAID, Hewlett-Packard Co., IT System, power supply, information technology, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Will Microsoft always be seen as open source Astroturf?

Long ago......people gave up any semblance of being able to separate the message from the messenger. We saw it with the anti-Bush tirades, we see it now with the anti-Obama (and the anti-anti-Obama) tirades, as we see it in the anti-Microsoft tirades. Microsoft could announce that the sun was going...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., publically-traded company, open source

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

Anticipating Sharepoint 2010: Making Enterprise Foundations More Flexible?

Last weekend's New York Times technology section piece about Microsoft Sharepoint is still their ninth most emailed tech story nearly a week later. 'Microsoft’s SharePoint Thrives in the Recession' is very general: Companies like Ferrari, Starbucks and Viacom have used SharePoint to...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office 2010, Collaboration, Groupware, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-08-13

Apple drops (another) Mac OS X security patch

The patch to fix the patch that fixed the patch that Jack builtI laugh and I laugh and I laugh at those who suggest that people have to patch Windows more frequently than OS X. Those same people will then turn around and cheer Apple for releasing patches "as soon...

Tags: Patches, Emperor, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Apple Inc., vulnerability, patch, OSX, security

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

SAP's Schwarz & Sikka: The Road to More Agile Business Performance

Last week I had the opportunity to spend time with SAP CTO Vishal Sikka and separately SAP executive board member John Schwarz, and I've been ruminating on our conversations a lot since those meetings. Fortunately I was part of a group of bloggers who have been following SAP closely, and...

Tags: Performance, SAP AG, Financial Planning, Change Management, Performance Management, Strategy, Finance, Tools & Techniques, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Eclipse Galileo release train now arriving at gate 3.5

Besides death and taxes, there is one other certainty in the life of a software developer: slipping schedules. Every year, though, Eclipse continues to defy that expectation by releasing a major new version in late June. Today, the Eclipse Galileo release train arrived exactly on time, for the 6th year...

Tags: Eclipse, Eclipse Galileo, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Iranian opposition launches organized cyber attack against pro-Ahmadinejad sites

Approximately 24 hours ago, the Iranian opposition coordinated an ongoing cyber attack that has successfully managed to disrupt access to major pro-Ahmadinejad Iranian web sites, including the President's homepage which continues returning a "The maximum number of user  reached, Server is too busy, please try again later..." message. ...

Tags: Denial Of Service, Web, Server, Web Site, Site, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Tool, Iran, Attack, Presstv.ir, SupportIran.php, Web Site Development, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-06-15

U.S. Army servers breached by Turkish hackers

U.S. Army servers breached by Turkish hackers A question that puzzles meWhy on Earth is an US Army's Ammunition Plant and an US Army Corps of Engineers running insecure software from M$, more precisely Microsoft SQL Server?Presumably there are many other critical US institutions running dangerous software from M$. The...

Tags: Databases, SECURITY, Servers, server, SQL injection, Turkish Hackers, SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., vulnerability, U.S. Army

Discussion threads 2009-06-01

IBM's Mills: 'Find me a company not interested in SOA principles'

IBM's Mills: 'Find me a company not interested in SOA principles'SOA is DOAYes, check back a few years and you will see that it WAS me that coined that phrase. I should have said that SOA is RPC.[I challenge anybody in the room to bring forward a company anywhere in...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, IBM Corp., SOA, information technology, application asset

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

Block your calendars for some Microsoft Green IT tip sessions

Got a few hours to kill in "learning mode"? Microsoft is getting set to run a series of Green IT education TechNet Web seminars starting May 1, 2009. The first event, "Transforming the Data Center with Energy" (scheduled for May 1 at 11 a.m. Pacific time) will...

Tags: Information Technology, Green IT, Microsoft Corp., Pacific, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-04-30

The CIA's Collaboration Growth Curve & IBM's Lotusphere ecosystem

One of the highlights of last June's Enterprise 2.0 conference was Don Burke and Sean Dennehy of the US Central Intelligence Agency CIA describing how their 'Intellipedia' wikis were transforming the agency into a more collaborative organization: that presentation is embedded above. Ten...

Tags: Fax Machine, CIA, Network, IBM Corp., Intellipedia, Fax, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-16

Sharepoint's DisneyWorld Style Strategy

Dennis Howlett thinks the promise of Enterprise 2.0 is years away and feels Dion Hinchcliffe's ROI value accrual model is more evangelizing hand waving than evidence of any substantial uptake. From my perspective I think we're at a point where many of the...

Tags: Strategy, Environment, Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett, Business World, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-14

How far behind the tech curve is health care?

How far behind the tech curve is health care?A long, long wayHealthcare is a long, long way behind the general curve when it comes to technology. Here's why, though electronic records have the power to be transformational, the core basics of healthcare don't necessarily digitize well. Charting is...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, patient

Discussion threads 2009-04-07