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Tim's Tourney Timer Lite 1.0.0.1 (Mobile)

This is a robust basic tournament manager. This has the core functionality of the full version of Tim's Tourney Timer. This manager is suitable for for Texas Hold'em style poker tournaments. Features: Clean main timer that displays time remaining, small and big blinds, next blinds, and antes. Create as many...

Tags: Tournament, Mobile, Blind, T3, Payout, Tim Martin, Tim, Network Technology, Semiconductors, Networking, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-11-12

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10 data center paradoxes -- out of complexity comes simplicity

For every action there is an equally potent reaction, and that is certainly the case in IT developments we've been seeing as of late. Call them paradoxes if you will, and I just published some of them in an article for Database Trends & Applications on the...

Tags: Data Center, Paradox, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-18

Time Warner: AOL's revenue slide continues; We plan to buy Google's 5% AOL stake

Updated: Time Warner's first quarter was weighed down by its AOL unit, which saw revenue fall 23 percent. Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes reiterated that the company is looking for "the right ownership structure for AOL" and the company plans to buy back a 5 percent stake owned by Google. ...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Time Warner Inc., America Online Inc., Company, IPO, Investment, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-29

PPoPP 2009 Day 1: Parallel Thinking

The 14th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2009) and the 15th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-15) opened Monday in Raleigh, NC. Reflecting the growing interdependence of software and hardware the two conferences are being held at the same time in the same...

Tags: Server, Programming, Computer, Development Tools, Productivity, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-02-17

ROFLthing 2008

Have you ever been to an internet culture conference? Earlier this year, Harvard senior Tim Hwang threw one in Cambridge, Mass., and it was a massive success. This time, Hwang wanted to have a smaller get together in San Francisco to chat about memes. Welcome to ROFLthing...

Tags: Humor, Rickroll, Chuck Norris, Internet, Strategy, Management, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-29

FCC set to slap Comcast's wrist

It's almost official. In the latest step forward, a majority of FCC commissioners voted Friday to "affirm" a complaint against Comcast for blocking BitTorrent traffic, the Washington Post reports, although the punishment is likely to be a "slap on the wrist," according to one analyst. The final...

Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Republican, Wrist, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-30

Hacking SCADA for terrorism and destruction

SCADA scares me, and I've seen enough things on the Internet to be desensitized to many things, but attacks against SCADA threaten our national security in a very real and topical way by attacking power grids, water treatment plants, nuclear plants, etc.  Hacking networks that SCADA devices reside on and...

Tags: Device, Hacking, Internet, Network, SCADA, Terrorism, Attack, Enterprise Software, Software, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-12

The panelist's nightmare

The panelist's nightmareTuxedo and brown shoesThat pretty much sucks. What was that old "Lonesome George" Gobel quip to Johnny Carson from years back, after following Bob Hope and Dean Martin on the Tonight Show: "Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a...

Tags: Federal government, Larry Lessig, FCC, panelist

Discussion threads 2008-05-22

The great man isn't any more

The great man isn't any moreYou have noticed...... that Microsoft is attempting to buy Yahoo!, and not the reverse. Somehow the company Mr. Ballmer leads so enthusiastically is more successful than the company once led by two enablers.And you have also noticed, I expect, that Google continues to profit...

Tags: Leadership, Contribution, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates, leader, great man, Google Inc., open source

Discussion threads 2008-02-22

Encyclopedia of American Cinema. FREE first chapter in the trial version (Mobile)

This illustrated Encyclopedia includes biographies of the best American directors and actors, reviews of the best American movies, and lists of awards. FREE first chapter in the trial version.Features Fully illustrated. Search for words or phrases. Navigate from Table of Contents or read page by page Add Bookmarks Text annotation...

Tags: Cinema, Mobile, Biology, Director, MobileReference, American

Software downloads 2007-09-27

Resisting the Urge (MTV's Urge, that is)

Resisting the Urge (MTV's Urge, that is)f**k DRM and rootkitsI don't understand why anyone puts up with this cr*p - I can only assume that Microsoft, Sony and the rest of the music business are relying on people being too dumb to know about how to use P2P/torrents or too...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Rootkits, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, digital-rights management, Microsoft Corp., music, spyware, rootkit, MTV

Discussion threads 2006-05-23

The growing primacy of data over software

I've been studying the transcript of this week's public conversation between Bill Gates and Tim O'Reilly at MIX 06. I was at the conversation and yet even at the time I couldn't help thinking that O'Reilly and Gates were talking past each other on several key points. In...

Tags: software, Bill Gates, Web, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-03-24

SCO anagram wants a piece of XML action

As posted by ZDNet's Martin LaMonica, a small company called Scientigo is trying to lay claim to XML, of all things. That's sort of like someone trying to claim royalities from HTML or ASCII usage. Thus, the SOA and Web services world now has its own "SCO." SCO; Scientigo. ...

Tags: IBM Corp., Scientigo, SCO Group Inc., XML

Blog posts 2005-10-22

Can we, should we, rein in XML ?

CNET's Martin LaMonica just published this very insightful overview of how some industry players want to address XML's increasingly sluggish performance. Some would even call it an impending performance crisis.Many see binary XML as the solution, since its text-based format is bloating XML files.Tim Bray, who helped create XML, doesn't...

Tags: XML

Blog posts 2005-01-13

Romulans demand intergalactic Web access

While at the World Wide Web Consortium's Tenth Anniversary Conference, I asked several attendees what the top Web-related headline would be 10 years from now and then I presented the list at the end of a session I moderated on the Web for Everyone.  Here were the answers:In the "Tangentially connected tech headlines"...

Tags: Web

Blog posts 2004-12-02

WordBook - Speaking English Dictionary and Thesaurus (Mobile)

.h3p { color: #006699; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px}.h4p { color: #006699; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px}WordBook is a comprehensive English dictionary plus much more of a Thesaurus. It provides great features and contents to discover English.OverviewIt has newly updated 150,000 entries with total 1.8 million words. The content is equivalent to...

Tags: Mobile, PC, TranCreative, WordBook, Pocket PC, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software

Software downloads 2002-03-18