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Six money-saving secrets to help stretch your tech budget

Six money-saving secrets to help stretch your tech budgettracking deals and couponsthe best place on the web to track deals on all the deal sites is [b]http://www.searchalldeals.com[/b]i've saved thousands just by doing a little homework.Time is moneyThe other suggestions are fairly OS agnostic, so they can be applied to whatever...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), operating system, tech budget

Discussion threads 2008-10-12

Recession fears squeeze tech budgets

Recession fears squeeze tech budgetsWouldn't Be In A RecessionIf a certain clown wasn't in the White House spending our money left and right searching for WMDs.RE: Recession fears squeeze tech budgetsYes, in the US. But other places on the planet earth are expanding ten times faster than the US. Look...

Tags: surplus, tech budget

Discussion threads 2008-01-28

Feds' tech budgets may hinge on cybersecurity prowess

Feds' tech budgets may hinge on cybersecurity prowessMakes sense[i]The government shouldn't be spending money on agencies that want to build new systems when their overall management processes remain flawed.[/i]I see this with users, they screw up their computers, usually from a lack of knowledge or lack of concern(i.e. "it's not...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, tech budget, cybersecurity, computer

Discussion threads 2007-02-08

Additional Resources

My new daughter is a lot like Linux

OK...I promise, this will be my last post this week about my new little daughter. Really. No matter what cute things she does, I'll limit my oohing and ahhing to Twitter. However, as I was changing her diaper for the umpteenth time today, I got to thinking...

Tags: Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-15

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

Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic"

RE: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are One report has at 4% market share the weekend of launch so im sure its past that already.Has Windows 7 marketshare eclipsed total OS X marketshare yet?Just wondering. :)MSFT: 1/2000 = $56. Today, $28.40Win 7 may not be the catastrophe the last...

Tags: Sales strategy, Businesses, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, stock split, Win7, recession, Steve Ballmer, sales, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Times exec hints at Apple tablet

When are people going to learn that off the record is off the recordNot open mouth insert foot.Yes, some people are excited about some new tech, but to go to some of the lengths these guys keep going to, makes me wonder.I think engadge is just in it for the...

Tags: Tablets, 3G, Notebooks, iTablet, Apple Inc., Microsoft Zune, tablet, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

HP's Hurd: Cloud computing has its limits (especially when you face 1,000 attacks a day)

HP CEO Mark Hurd is big on cloud computing, but acknowledges its limits. For instance, HP "wouldn't put anything material in nature outside the firewall." The message: The cloud has its place, but there's a vast difference between private and public computing. [caption id="attachment_26254" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Credit:...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Attack, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Virtualization, Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-20

News to know: Apple; Alex; Microhoo; Droid; FCC

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. Sam Diaz: Another strong quarter for Apple; credit strong iPhone, Mac sales Jason D. O'Grady: Apple announces most profitable...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Advertisement, Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, E-books, Federal Government, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Government, Web Services, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-20

How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?

Okay, butThey also go out and buy their own servers with some hidden budget line, then try to foist maintenance off on the CIO. And then we try to integrate the data - and the data isn't theirs, it's critical to the health, even survival, of the enterprise.Yes, we...

Tags: Strategy, Virtualization, cloud computing, Regulatory compliance, Marketing Guy, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Wither Silicon Valley? IT will be driven by emerging markets

Gartner is projecting that the "worse year ever" for IT spending---down 6.9 percent in 2009---will be followed up with dead-cat spending bounce in 2010 of a meager 3.3 percent. Does this dead-cat IT spending bounce mean traditional tech power centers---notably Silicon Valley---are no longer in the driver's seat? ...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Emerging Market, IT-spending, Application Roster, Marketing Research, Financial Services, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Netbook or a cheap Compaq for students?

Re: Netbook or cheap CompaqThe problem I see at least in my organization it is never 1:1. Sometimes I wish we could get away with a netbook or using some of our older desktop hardware for lighter 1:1 usage. We bought a small cart of Netbooks...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Compaq Computer Corp., netbook

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

News to know: T-Mobile; Cloud computing; Oracle; HP; Apple

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: HP revamps TouchSmart PCs with Windows 7; starts $899; will you ditch your desktop PC, HDTV? HP...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., PC, T-Mobile, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Palm Pre, Microsoft Windows, Smart Phones, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-13

Microsoft vs. Google: An e-mail showdown at L.A. City Hall

The city of Los Angeles has a decision to make. You see, the city's old school e-mail system is pretty outdated and in need of a major overhaul. But like most other municipal governments, the budget for new tech systems is pretty tight these days. And so, city officials have...

Tags: Google Inc., Los Angeles, City, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Online Communications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-28

ATI debuts Radeon HD 5870 with 'most powerful processor ever created'

Mad Mike Magee 35th of 50 TOP Britons in IT & 5870 Diagram:Thomas Stewart Von Drashek Pat Moorhead: MUCH TO THE CHAGRIN of Nvidia, AMD/ATI today launched its RV870 architecture with the highly anticipated Radeon HD 5850 and HD 5870 graphics cards.We could spend a whole day writing about...

Tags: processor, ATI Technologies Inc., card, Radeon HD 5870, Radeon HD, NVidia Corp., Radeon

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Microsoft Office Web Apps go to testers: Ten things to know

A TECH PREVIEW with broken bits...Is not a tech preview, its a marketing ploy. Sorry but I ahve to take MS to task on this entire roll out of Office. Its becoming quite clear to testers myself included that MS has a lot of features/functions that are up...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Web application, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

The Classmate is not a compromise

A nice piece, Chris!Those of us who've followed the Classmate know that it is not a compromise - as a netbook is - btu it has been awhile since you shared the SPECs. What do these new Classmates have under the hood?hard to find a price?I followed the link...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Classmate, netbook

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

News to know: Smartphones; Windows 7; Palm Pre; EU and Sun-Oracle

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: Smartphones to eclipse desktop PC sales by 2011 Sam Diaz: Facebook Mobile: Now 65 million strong...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Palm Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Andrew Nusca, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Smartphone, Sam Diaz, European Union, Microsoft Windows 7, Palm Pre, Microsoft Windows, Smart Phones, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales

Blog posts 2009-09-04

MIDs and netbooks - half the size, half the experience - Solomon type design

Personally - not really interested in smaller than a netbook."With AJAX, and HTML 5 coming, the Internet experience will require ever more power."Somehow I doubt that that will really take more power than video.But if it doesn't do video - yeah, it's underpowered.Frankly, though, I really don't want to go...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Solomon Corp., netbook, video, HTML 5

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

Medical insurance is not a greentech issue, or...

HmmWhile I would question whether the medical care debate is related to green tech directly, it is definitely related to IT. I think I speak similarly to many others in that we don't necessarily dislike a national healthcare plan, but we're really really worried about it being done wrong....

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Medical Insurance, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-08-22