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Humbledove widget (widget)

The Humbledove widget is for use with the Yahoo Widget Engine.Click 'Play' to hear your computer speak the entered text. You can save typed text to function keys and play up to 12 saved messages at random intervals.

Tags: Interval, Todd Johnson, Productivity

Software downloads 2006-05-10

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Microsoft's Powerset hosts Lunch 2.0

San Francisco's summer starts when the rest of the country's summer ends: Labor Day. The weather here in The City finally becomes pleasant, and techy companies like to have lunches outdoors. Today, Powerset was in charge of Lunch 2.0, a "social phenomenon referring to a migration of...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Powerset, Web 2.0, Food & Beverage, Internet, Manufacturing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Hawaiian Explorer - Lost Island (exe)

Hawaiian Explorer: Lost Island is an exciting treasure hunt that will lead you through temples, caves, airplane hangars, and beach shacks while making your way from Manhattan to the lost Hawaiian Islands. Join the rescue team searching for Charlie Johnson, a 63 year old professional adventurer who was last heard...

Tags: Island, SpinTop Games, Team Management, Management

Software downloads 2008-08-28

The enterprise: All fun and 'serious games'?

Will video games becoming to an enterprise near you? Forrester Research seems to think so as companies cook up new ways to train employees--especially those so-called millennial. I can hear the laughter now. Video games? We're about serious business, you'll say. What's the ROI you'll ask? Video...

Tags: Forrester Research Inc., Games, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Video: Five ethical dilemmas IT leaders must confront

Video: Five ethical dilemmas IT leaders must confrontGuys- the real pain the Industry is facing is Digital Evidence readinessGuys – years ago as in two the CEO's and CFO's of the world were reeling about SOX's costs and the like, but what they missed was that it wasn’t the SOX...

Tags: Strategy, video, information technology, ethical dilemma, digital evidence, IT leader

Discussion threads 2008-08-22

Fifteen most buzzed-about athletes

Athlete Sport Country 1.Michael Phelps Swimming United States 2.Yao Ming Basketball China 3.Kobe Bryant Basketball United States 4.LeBron James Basketball United States 5.Dara Torres Swimming United States 6.Shawn Johnson Gymnastics United States 7.Laure Manaudou Swimming France...

Tags: Athlete, NB

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Gymnasts ranked by online buzz

Athlete Country Index 1.Shawn Johnson United States 100 2.Nastia Liukin United States 43 3.Jiang Yuyuan China 16 4.Anna Pavlova Russia 11 5.Yang Yilin China 11 6.Steliana Nistor Romania 8 7.Ksenia Semenova Russia 3 Source:...

Tags: Buzz, NB

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Gymnasts ranked by online buzz

Athlete Country Index 1.Shawn Johnson United States 100 2.Nastia Liukin United States 43 3.Jiang Yuyuan China 16 4.Anna Pavlova Russia 11 5.Yang Yilin China 11 6.Steliana Nistor Romania 8 7.Ksenia Semenova Russia 3 Source:...

Tags: Buzz, NB

Blog posts 2008-08-20

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

Where on earth are these Microsoft patches?

Lost in the shuffle of this month's Patch Tuesday barrage is the fact that a critical vulnerability in the ever-present Windows Media Player WMP was not fixed "because of a last minute quality issue." Microsoft originally listed the WMP update in the advance notice for August but,...

Tags: Vulnerability, Patch Management, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-14

Lijit secures $7.1 million series C round

Lijit Networks, which provides search and analytics engines that benefit both bloggers and their readers, announced today that it has closed a $7.1 million series C funding round. Foundry Group, which was a late investor after Lijit closed its $3.3 million series B round last year, led this round. Existing...

Tags: Network, Analytics, Blog, C, Lijit, Blogging, Internet, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-08-12

Chinese censorship: to protect 'healthy growth of our youth'

Chinese censorship: to protect 'healthy growth of our youth'Chinese CensorshipThe Chinese government wants open wallets but not open minds.Unfortunatelywhat also went out of fashion in the 60s was an understanding of Communists, such that you actually think that American censorship in the 50s to reflect community values and Chinese Communist...

Tags: INTERNET, Chinese Government, censorship, Chinese Censorship, youth

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

Internet brand-jacking: What can be learned from Exxon Mobil?

Internet brand-jacking: What can be learned from Exxon Mobil?Is this blackmail?My guess is that this ia actually blackmail.Br, Hessu"Identity is a serious issue on the web"No it's not! And I'm glad it isn't. Only a dumb fool would trust anything he sees on a "social" site, and only a bigger...

Tags: Branding, Service-now.com, brand, Exxon Mobil Corp., Twitter, Web, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-08-08

An apology to the Vietnam vets out there

An apology to the Vietnam vets out thereWhat?*roflhao trying not to wet himself* oh jesus!... i mean... oh my goodness (no offense intended to all those right side of the fence, sandle wearing, western, monotheists out there!).i mean for the love of mary!! political correctness is far far far far...

Tags: Vietnam VET, Vietnam War

Discussion threads 2008-08-06

Eight pitfalls of predictive markets

Predictive markets sound like such a great idea for determining what will work in the market and what won't. But misplaced trust in these markets can spell gloom and doom for many an organization. Here then are eight problems you'll want to avoid as...

Tags: Google Inc., Market, Investment, Finance, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-07-30

McAfee SiteAdvisor blocks SANS

Showing you just how much they understand about security, McAfee blocked the SANS website, sans.org, as well as giac.org and sans.edu, with their SiteAdvisor application, listing it as a "bad" site. Interestingly enough, SANS sites are some of the best sites to go to for security related...

Tags: McAfee Inc., McAfee SiteAdvisor, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-30

BreakingPoint adds real-time Twitter traffic protocol to network equipment testing tools

BreakingPoint adds real-time Twitter traffic protocol to network equipment testing toolsFun With TwitterJennifer, thanks again for talking with Todd, we had a lot of fun here at BreakingPoint working on this protocol and of course all the conversation surrounding it today :)It will be interesting to see how the NEMs...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, NETWORKING, tool, network, BreakingPoint, Twitter, network equipment

Discussion threads 2008-07-30

Magic bullet fix for your iPhone ills

I've been having a lot of iPhone 3G trouble over the past two weeks, most notably: Forced backup of the entire phone on every sync Contact lag The horrible app update process I'm happy to report on what appears to be the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Backups, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Digital Media, Digital Music, jason D. O'Grady, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-07-27

EIC podcast: Microsoft's analyst meeting; Icahn's deal; Facebook

On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan is back and we talk about Microsoft's analyst meeting, Kevin Johnson's departure from the software giant, Carl Icahn's deal with Yahoo and Facebook. The big news this week was Microsoft's financial meeting (see Mary Jo Foley and Ina Fried's coverage)...

Tags: Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Dan, Podcasts, Portals, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25