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Don't Buy Software, Buy Processes: A Briefing on the Art of Effective Enterprise Software Selection

People have seen the feature comparison charts outlining a particular software platform against its competitors with the subtly emblazoned "Sign-up Today" link underneath. Valuable information, sure - a basis for making a decision to purchase, is far from it. Rule #1 in the art of effective software selection is that...

Tags: Software, Enterprise Software, Synapse SE, Tools & Techniques, Management

White papers 2007-12-02

Information Technology's M&A Problem: A Briefing on IT Integration During Mergers & Acquisitions

Merger, takeover, acquisition; call it whatever one wants to but CIOs from all walks of life will likely agree, while Merger & Acquisition (M&A) activities can be exciting undertakings, they are typically rife with tension and ambiguity. As such, the guiding principles provided in this paper are designed to help...

Tags: Merger, M&A, Information Technology, Integration, Synapse SE, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance

White papers 2007-11-27

Additional Resources

Java SE 6 (JDK 6) (exe)

Java Platform, Standard Edition (also known as Java 2 Platform) lets you develop and deploy Java applications on desktops and servers, as well as today's demanding Embedded and Real-Time environments. Java SE includes classes that support the development of Java Web Services and provides the foundation for Java Platform, Enterprise...

Tags: JDK, Java Community, Java SE, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-07-02

Adobe makes Flash searchable, crawlable

It's not gadget news per se, but if you consider Adobe Flash a tool in your arsenal, this is big news. Posted on Slashdot today is news that Adobe has figured out a way to make Flash crawlable by search engines: Today Adobe systems made an...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Search Engine, Shockwave Flash, SWF Specification, Search, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-07-01

First public beta of Opera Mobile 9.5 coming on 15 July

I first had a chance to use the upcoming version of Opera Mobile 9.5 at Mobile World Congress on a SE UIQ device and since then I posted my full review and experiences using Opera Mobile 9.5 on the HTC Advantage X7510 and on the HTC Touch Diamond. It is...

Tags: Opera Software, High Tech Computer Corp., Public Beta, Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-06-26

Nokia Symbian deal winners and losers

Nokia Symbian deal winners and losersNokia Symbian - What's in a name?Heads up! It looks like Nokia's product naming consultants did not do their homework for similar names with other mental images and associations. Check out www.sybian.com. Or, how about the Symbionese Liberation Party that kidnapped Patty...

Tags: Linux, Advertising & Promotion, Operating systems, Cellular phones, Nokia Corp., Symbian Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

Got Firefox? 503 Service Unavailable (updated)

Well I waited until 1pm EDT and tried to get into the Firefox world record site to download the latest version. It should come as no surprise that the site is down: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord : 503 Service Unavailable Failed to resolve the name of server...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 2.0, Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-17

Students (unaware/don't care) about music legalities

I think the vast majority of people aren't too concerned about the inconsistencies, confusion and misunderstood legalities of sharing, trading and even possession of music tracks. But it does seem to be a growing problem, as a news reports suggest. Many university networks appear limited to some...

Tags: Student, Legality, Music, Piracy, Peer To Peer (P2P), Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-16

Click Conversion Tracking of PPC and SE (zip)

Covert Conversion Pro CCP tracks ALL of your marketing activities that are generating traffic and sales- whether these are for the promotion of your own products or affiliate programs including: Pay Per Click PPC: Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing and MSN Adcenter; Organic traffic from search engines; and Other environments:...

Tags: Dr., Covert Conversion Pro, Marketing Research, Sales Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Sales

Software downloads 2008-06-13

SilverFast DC SE (Win) (exe)

SilverFast DC SE is specially designed for those who want to enter the world of creating and optimizing images from a digital camera. Images will be mainly benefit from SilverFasts intelligent automatic functions which help to make the process of adjusting much easier. Numerous online QuickTime Movies can be started...

Tags: LaserSoft Imaging, SilverFast DC SE, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-06-12

HTC Touch Diamond gallery 1 (Image Gallery: HTC Touch Diamond screenshots)

HTC Touch Diamond gallery 1 (Image Gallery: HTC Touch Diamond screenshots)Diamond TouchIt all looks good apart from the puny battery and the lack of a microSD slot. I would forgive the lack of slot if the internal memory were greater. The iPhone offers up to 16GB internal memory....

Tags: Flash memory, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch Diamond, HTC Touch

Discussion threads 2008-06-11

2009 Volkswagen Jetta SportWagon

Photo gallery:2009 Volkswagen Jetta SportWagonThe small wagon, one of the most practical body styles, is back with the 2009 Volkswagen Jetta SportWagon. The small wagon mostly gave way to the more sporty hatchbacks in the 1990s, but Volkswagen seems confident in the body style, launching the wagon version of its...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Mph, Jetta SportWagon, Volkswagen Jetta, Volkswagen AG, shifter

Product reviews 2008-06-09

Of telescopes, patents and the death of discovery

Of telescopes, patents and the death of discoveryPatents are the greatest threat to the software industryIt should be written in our constitution, that no idea should be able to be patented or receive some kind of legal protection - only the [b]implementation[/b] of the ideas. Virtually every software developer is...

Tags: patent

Discussion threads 2008-06-04

Camickr's UI Defaults (zip)

Camicker's UI Defaults is an open-source Java 6 SE stand-alone application that displays all of the javax.swing.UIDefaults key and value pairs that are stored in the UIDefaults object and returned as a java.util.Hashtable collection. Camickr's UI Defaults parses the Hashmap collection and categorizes the keys in a tabbed pane view...

Tags: Key, Camickr, Camicker, Programming Languages, Java, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-06-04

Debunking yet another bogus malware study

Debunking yet another bogus malware studyExcellent analysisI guess that people have come to expect bad news so much that journalists no longer verify their sources; if it's bad news about computer threats, it must be true.To be fair, this sort of problem (relying on bad sources that themselves rely on...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Viruses and worms, bogus malware, malware, OECD, Microsoft Windows XP, spyware

Discussion threads 2008-06-02

Microsoft to put Live Search Toolbar in front of millions of HP consumer

Microsoft to put Live Search Toolbar in front of millions of HP consumerre: Microsoft to put Live Search Toolbar in front of millions of HP consume[i]It’s interesting to note that neither the press release nor the blog post by Mikko Ollila (Product Manager, Live Search Partner Ecosystem) makes any mention...

Tags: Web browsers, Hewlett-Packard Co., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-02

myDiskBackup (dmg)

MyDiskBackup is a user friendly backup application. Start the program, choose which folders you want to backup and presss Do Backup. The program starts to copy all the contents in the choosen folders to your myDisk space. You do now have access to your backuped folders wherever you are in...

Tags: Mydisk UK Filial, MyDiskBackup, Backups

Software downloads 2008-05-28

Windows 7: What will Microsoft reveal this week?

Windows 7: What will Microsoft reveal this week?Could be for Pocket PC sized UMPCsThese features are probably being implemented for the Ultra Mobile PC type devices and will be useful in pocket-sized Windows enabled mobile phones as speculated here: http://www.pocketnow.com/index.php?a=portal_detail&t=news&id=5390I love my tx2000z Tablet PC especially for the Wacom enabled...

Tags: Operating systems, Web browsers, Tablets, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-27

Section 230 to Twitter and others: Delete away

Community and content management don't void a site's immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Participation in an unlawful act does. I was thus taken aback by the legal analysis included in Wired's/Betsy Schiffman's post about Ariel Waldman and Twitter...

Tags: Alteration, Immunity, Twitter, Regulations, Government, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2008-05-24

Windows 7: The information lockdown

Windows 7: The information lockdownSeriously!They're not even saying anything when they should be going beyond open sourcing their new product! They should give it away, I mean, that's how everyone makes money isn't it?! Giving away your stuff? I mean, yeah, *I* can't do that because I need to pay...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Quick Look, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-23