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Losing net neutrality will harm the IT vendors and startups

Losing net neutrality will harm the IT vendors and startupsPerhaps they're quiet......because they understand the folly of collectivism.We MUST have true Net NeutralityWe MUST have true net neutrality if the internet is to continue to flourish. If we don't, then the telcos and the cable companies will decide for us,...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, information technology, VoIP Traffic, Net Neutrality, telecommunications company, special consideration, railroad, cable

Discussion threads 2006-05-04

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Is your culture getting in the way of your IT success?

Many enterprise IT investments lead to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches - but often forgotten is the culture of an organization itself. Commentary - While any planned enterprise IT investment leads to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches, too often left out...

Tags: Job, Team, Information Technology, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Team Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Panasonic Computer Solutions, IT management, culture, Jim King, Special to ZDNet, Jim King, Panasonic Computer Solutions, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-23

End-to-end encryption is the key to protecting data and reputations

In order to avoid the financial and brand damage associated with data breaches, businesses need to consider deploying end-to-end encryption as a tamper proof way of securing data. Commentary - Media outlets around the globe highlight new data breaches at an alarmingly regular rate. Forrester estimates that the cost...

Tags: PCI, Organization, Data Breach, PCI DSS, Encryption Key, encryption, security, Paul Meadowcroft Thales, Special to ZDNet, Paul Meadowcroft, Thales, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-11

10 ways to evaluate your IT management software

Does your helpdesk work for you or do you work for your helpdesk? Saar Bitner of SysAid Technologies tells how to manage you IT management software. Commentary - Choosing the right IT management software solution is a strategic decision that requires the careful planning and consideration of every IT...

Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Software Solution, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, IT management, software, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-05

Taxi Madrid (Mobile)

is an useful tool for taxi cabs travelers to calculate routes, distance, time and fares on map.It will use GPS to determinate your actual address and calculate all the taxi ride cost to the point you want to go.FEATURES:* Madrid destinations points of interest database: airport, train stations, touristic, business,...

Tags: Madrid, Mobile, Cell, Taxi Fares App, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-02

Ballmer: Zune services coming to 'next release' of Windows Mobile

As if Windows Mobile wasn't slow or bloated enough already...not much left to say. Windows Mobile is toward the horse's heiney of mobile platforms, right now and I doubt Apple or RIM will screw up their products just to let proven crapware back in... In a socialized world,...

Tags: Smart phones, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Microsoft Windows, Apple iPhone, phone, Steve Ballmer, strategy, Internet, smart phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Zune, mobile

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Who is a Candidate for Desktop Linux?

I personally do not fall into the group of people that can easily migrate away from Windows, but that doesn't mean you or someone you know can't make the switch. As I said in earlier post last month, the work that I...

Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Desktop Linux, Computer, Super-Casual Web Surfer, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-11

Free the Orphans: Are we being played for fools in Google Books play?

Give me a BreakGoogle paid to digitize those books. Google paid to setup the storage and bandwidth infrastructure to host the books, and google made an agreement with the authors to be able to publish those books. If anyone else would like to do the same thing they...

Tags: Google Inc., agreement, orphan

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Pharmacist pushback against insurer drugs-by-mail plan

You've got some good points, but...from where I'm sitting the problem is a whole lot bigger than you make it out to be.Thanks for bringing this topic up.Yes, there is a great deal of truth that "drugs-by-mail" operations supported by health insurance plans do hit the smaller pharmacies. However...

Tags: Insurance, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, pharmacist, pharmacy, MEDCO, Kerr, insurance company, CVS Corp., health care

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Garmin Nuvi 765T

Garmin adds another battery of incremental changes to its Nuvi line of GPS navigators with the introduction of the Nuvi 765T. This new Nuvi packs useful features, such as text-to-speech and visual lane guidance, but the best trick in its bag is free, lifetime, Navteq traffic updating. In this case...

Tags: side panel, FM Transmitter, Nuvi 765T, Garmin Nuvi, Garmin Ltd., lane guidance, cable, Garmin Nuvi 765T

Product reviews 2009-08-24

Microsoft: European XP and Vista users to get the ballot screen, too

Microsoft: European XP and Vista users to get the ballot screen, tooWhy is MS doing this??Why are they backing down? MS did exactly what Opera asked for and wanted:"Opera requests the Commission to implement two remedies to Microsoft?s abusive actions. First, it requests the Commission to obligate Microsoft to...

Tags: computer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Opera Software ASA, operating system, Web browser

Discussion threads 2009-07-27

Nikon D3 (body only)

Nikon D3 body onlyNikon D3 - Full Featured DSLRI have been a working "semi" professional photographer for the past five years, and began shooting seriously in 1992. I have had a healthy variety of both film and digital SLR cameras. I have used Canon, Nikon, and Minolta....

Tags: camera, Nikon Corp., Nikon D3

Discussion threads 2009-07-15

Web 2.5: Is it time we elected an Internet government?

As I watched the BBC News last night after getting in from London, I saw riots in China with death tolls surpassing those of the 1989 Tiananmen Square tragedy. Mobile phones have "stopped working" and Internet access is "limited" in the area, according to the news reports. ...

Tags: China, Web, Nation, Agreement, Internet, Channel Management, Government, Marketing, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-07-07

When (and why) do you buy a new PC?

When and why do you buy a new PC?Just before a new release of Windows ...... providing OEM's offer a 'free' upgrade to the next version of the OS. That way you get a copy of XP and an upgrade to Vista/ copy of Vista and upgrade to Windows7 (which...

Tags: Notebooks, Games, dell laptop, new-PC, laptop computer, game, PC

Discussion threads 2009-05-20

Veggie food v. global warming

Veggie food v. global warmingWhat is next breathing......ENOUGH already, I am sick to death of hearing about this made up lie to control what people drive, what they eat, how much energy they use to now meat!Good grief, there is NO proof of any of this except an agenda being...

Tags: global warming, Veggie food, Veggie, meat, food

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

Exam contingencies for swine flu epidemic

The swine flu (H1N1 hereon in) epidemic has gradually petered out and levelled off, but still more and more cases are being discovered every day. Over 4,700 cases have been confirmed, spreading over every continent of the world except Africa (thankfully, because let's be honest, it would be a biological...

Tags: Exam, H1N1 Flu, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-05-11

Amazon's bigger Kindle has all sorts of vertical potential

OK, so my friends thought I was nuts for spending nigh-onto $300 on my iPhone a couple of years ago. Now, Amazon wants to charge close to $500 (yes, I know it's officially $489, but have you paid sales tax lately) for the new Kindle DX. Here's...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-05-06

Click-N-Type 3.03.0385 (Windows)

Click-N-Type is an on-screen virtual keyboard designed for anyone with a disability that prevents him or her from typing on a physical computer keyboard. You get a virtual keyboard with word prediction and completion, AutoClick and Scanning modes, many available language and keyboard packs, a keyboard designer and many user-designed...

Tags: Mouse, Microsoft Windows, Lake Software, Click-N-Type, Iinstallation, Keyboards, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-05-05

Who has the most to lose from rising sea levels?

Who has the most to lose from rising sea levels?Should the Feds stop selling flood insurance in these areas?One of the ripoffs to the American peopleis that the Federal Government sells floodinsurance to people who decide to live inareas overcome by periodic flooding once adecade or more often.I'll grant that...

Tags: Financial Planning, sea level, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

Is Linux only for the poor?

Is Linux only for the poor?Cost could be a reason to switch to Linux.But it wouldn't necessarily be the right one. If a district switched to Linux and Open Source in times of tight budgets would they switch back in times of plenty? Just because Linux is free...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, operating system, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-03-22