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Time Series API 2.1.0 (Windows)

Time Series API is a professional C++ class library for simulating backtesting and deploying financial trading strategies as well as general purpose time series modelling. The library is a stand-alone time series engine that can be extended via a component object model. Models are defined using 'formula syntax and semantics'...

Tags: Investment Strategy, API, Microsoft Windows, The Library Corp., PERITECH, Models, Personal Finance, Investment, Workforce Management, Finance, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-08-17

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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

What makes Microsoft's SharePoint tick?

Make a post explaining what SharePoint is...As you said, it is a complex product. I remember when Lotus Notes came out, it was difficult to pin it to a traditional category - what IS it? SharePoint may have some of the same issues of perception.What is SharePoint:There are 2 SharePoint?s,...

Tags: Content management, Groupware, Collaboration, Enterprise software, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SharePoint

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Corporate open source is more vulnerable

RE: Corporate open source is more vulnerableI feel so much better now that the government is moving toward open source.'Nuff said.RE: Corporate open source is more vulnerableI feel the title of this article is misleading. Vulnerable how? When discussing computing vulnerability usually refers to the security of the...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Corporate open source, Linux, open source

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Justice Dept. devastates Google Books settlement, as the parties rush to the back rooms

As long as it doesn't "belong" to GoogleHow about, let Google spend the time and money and then turn everything over to the Library of Congress or possibly the Smithsonian, etc. so that anyone can access it freely.Bet Google would not care for that idea much. After all, they...

Tags: Vertical industries, Google Inc., government

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Apple afterthoughts: The real news is what wasn't announced

800 lb GorillaThe Gorilla not being mentioned is why the Beatles aren't in iTunes. This was the alignment of the planets, the day of days to bring Apple Corps library into the digital age of distribution.Sam "Sour Grapes" DiazApple puts a camera in the iPod nano and you write "No...

Tags: TVs, Digital music, Digital media, TV & Home Theater, Apple Inc., TV, Apple iTunes, Joe Consumer, camera, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

While I'm away..."Good riddance, Encarta!"

While I'm away..."Good riddance, Encarta!"Did not many people sayincluding the creator of wikipedia (?) that much of the material and sublect matter retained within wikipedia is not to be regarded as 100 percent factual?RE: While I'm away...I kind of liked that Encarta was at least somewhat verified as factual. ...

Tags: Wiki, Keyword Searches, Encarta.com, Wikipedia, encyclopedia, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

XP to Windows 7 handoff expected to boost PC sales

XP to Windows 7 handoff expected to boost PC salesAnother clueless analyst.[i]Security patches for Windows XP SP2 end in July 2010, says Egbert.[/i]Security patches for Windows XP will end in 2014.The word analyst is almost synonymous with clueless.Average corp PC 6 years old? So what?My office phone is going on...

Tags: Sales strategy, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 handoff, Microsoft Windows XP, handoff, PC sale, Microsoft Windows, sales, Microsoft Corp., PC

Discussion threads 2009-06-16

Forget Kindle DX. How about the ZuneBook?

Forget Kindle DX. How about the ZuneBook?Isn't it a tad too prematurefor there to be Kindle fanboi-ism?No "fanboi-ism" sicI just paraphrased some of the nonsense you usually propose and added a couple of thingsHowever, isn't it premature to deride the Kindle DX?Apparently not.This one has his/her shorts in a wad...

Tags: E-books, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, e-book, ZuneBook, Forget Kindle DX, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-06

Transition Time: The Digital TV That Cable TV Has Overlooked

Let’s say you’re the owner of one of the 20 million or so television households still taking in over-the-air signals on at least one set to get NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox and independent TV stations, for local broadcasts. Conventional wisdom has it that...

Tags: Cable Television, Digital Television, Cable, Computer, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-12-22

Is OpenOffice good enough?

Is OpenOffice good enough?For the vast majority of users, it works fine.For the vast majority of users, it works fine. There are occasional features that it doesn't do so well at, but it has all of the standard word processing features that most people need.If you need to use some...

Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, OPEN SOURCE, object-oriented, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

Yahoo: TV widgets and pondering a Disney takeover

If Yahoo's battle with Google has taught us anything it's that the company isn't run by engineers. Sure, Yahoo is tech savvy. Sure it has an open platform. And sure it'll do things like plan a Widget Channel with Intel and tout it at a developers conference. But Yahoo is...

Tags: Disney Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Widget Channel, Minyanville, Harrison, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-20

And score 1 more for Google in Ed Tech

While Google has committed to continuing its partnership with Harvard University, the New York Public Library, various publishers, and a variety of groups to scan and digitize their books, Microsoft has bowed out of this market. The Los Angeles Times reported that Microsoft Corp. is ending...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Blogging, Business Structures, Channel Management, Internet, Search, Finance, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-26

Ingres brings OpenROAD tool for rapid DB apps development to GPL

Ingres Corp. is hoping for strong community involvement with its Open ROAD rapid application development RAD tool by taking it to GPL v2 release. The Redwood City, Calif., open source database management company has made the new release available on its Web site and said it...

Tags: GPL, Tool, Ingres, 4GL OpenROAD, OpenROAD Application, Databases, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-19

Expert praises, criticizes Atlantic v. Howell decision

It's becoming clear that the Atlantic v. Howell decision is a major big deal in the RIAA lawsuit landscape, as the heavy hitters are starting to comment. William Patry just published a seven-volume treatise on copyright law, Patry on Copyright (yours for just over $1,500). He's also...

Tags: Copyright Law, Judge, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-04-30

News to know: Microhoo; Adobe patch; Windows bloat; AMD

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Yahoo goes nuclear vs. Microsoft: Inks limited Google ad deal; Microsoft fires back Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft-Yahoo-Google: The vicious antitrust circle Yahoo's strategy: Torpedo the Microsoft deal or up the offer? Garett Rogers: Google gets business from Yahoo...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows, Robots, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-10

Coming soon: iTunes movie rentals

A report in the Financial Times says that Apple and Twentieth Century Fox have reached a deal to provide movie rentals on the iTunes Store: Apple has signed News Corp’s 20th Century Fox studio to a new online video-on-demand service in a deal that could change the way people...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iTunes, Studio, Apple Inc., Movie, Digital Music, Digital Media, Video On Demand (VoD), Consumer Electronics, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2007-12-27

Why don't kids use email?

Why don't kids use email?An Interesting PerspectiveI was working at AT&T Wireless when they started really pushing text-messaging for our customers, and at the time I didn't get it: I never thought it would catch on. Typing a text-message into your cellphone instead of just placing a call is like...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, e-mail, e-mail application, cell phone, computer, text messaging

Discussion threads 2007-12-03

Macs that hate Adobe fonts, love Microsoft ones

Macs that hate Adobe fonts, love Microsoft onesJust another case of Apple innovating ...... by copying from someone else. Enough said!RE: Macs that hate Adobe fonts, love Microsoft onesSo many errors I don’t know where to begin. Helvetica has never shipped in Windows “New” or otherwise, and it’s “Helvetica...

Tags: Desktops, Helvetica, Postcript, font, Adobe font, TrueType, Apple Macintosh, Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-11-27

Yes, a 200 mile, dedicated and direct broadband line!

The Asheville Citizen-Times reports- and Broadband Reports.com picks up on- the fact that: Web hosting, remote storage and anti-spam technology solutions provider Netriplex Corp., is working with AT&T on what the companies claim is "the largest broadband line ever" out of Asheville. ...

Tags: Downtown, Broadband, Network Technology, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Networking, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-09-23