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Hand Reading Pro (zip): It's all in your hands. This hand reading software will guide you to self-understanding with many simple and entertaining image tests. Learn hand analysis/reading with your PDA. Surprise and impress your friends. Discover more about yourself. Entertain your family or even read other people's hands and know more about them.; Tags: family, friend, pdas, handhelds, tools & techniques, hardware, management; Software downloads 2006-02-21
Our Family Cookbook (zip): Every family has treasured recipes that have been handed down through generations just hand written on index cards or scraps of paper. With this intuitive and easy to use software you'll be able to create your very own Family Cookbook in no time. You'll be able to preserve all the...; Tags: family, tools & techniques, management; Software downloads 2005-09-02
Family Budget (exe): Family Budget is a powerful and easy-to-use program for analyzing your family budget. All expenses are separated into categories and items, and the program can show you many types of statistics. You'll be able to understand where your family spends most of its money and who absorbs most of your...; Tags: family, family budget, tools & techniques, management; Software downloads 2004-02-24

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'Conversation Prism' helps corporations visualize social media strategies: Contrary to what many social media pundits say, social media is not a silver bullet nor is it ideal for every company. But the Conversation Prism may help companies determine what tools are right for the ones that need them. by Jennifer Leggio; Tags: social networking, strategy, conversation, network, social media, jennifer leggio; Blog posts 2008-08-07
Will the Olympics melt the Internet?: Okay, sky-is-falling fans and network neutrality proponents: We're about to find out whether the Internet can – or will – break down under the strain of mass consumption of streaming video. At least that's the opinion of Brick Eksten, the president and CEO...; Tags: nbc, network, video, stream, internet, corporate communications, web site development, marketing, tom steinert-threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-08-07

UPDATE: MIT team working on $12 NES, not Apple II: Looks like the Boston Herald got it wrong. The MIT group that was researching how to make a $12 computer for developing nations was actually working on a machine that's more Super Mario than Steve Jobs. Computerworld's Eric Lai discovers the truth: ...; Tags: team, apple ii, massachusetts institute of technology, apple inc., productivity, wiki, team management, online communications, management, andrew nusca; Blog posts 2008-08-07
Teaching language to robots: For a project scheduled to end in 2011, Plymouth University researchers will build two robots using software allowing them to interact with each other to exchange learned information like humans. The team will use language-learning techniques designed for children. According to The Engineer, the goal of the project is to...; Tags: project, concept, neck, belpaeme, robots, emerging technologies, roland piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-08-07
CIOs: We love video conferencing and online training; Enterprise 2.0 on the ropes: Chief information officers have the hots for online training, video conferencing and collaboration software such as Microsoft's SharePoint. Just don't ask these execs to blog, use a wiki or enter a virtual world. That's the recap from a survey of 1,400 CIOs by staffing firm Robert Half...; Tags: cio, online training, enterprise 2.0, wiki, online communications, larry dignan; Blog posts 2008-08-07
Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open Source: In a previous discussion of OpenOffice versus Microsoft Office most respondents addressing the development issue seemed to prefer the Microsoft development tools over the comparable open source ones. I believe this is probably correct from the individual developer perspective, but wrong from the corporate perspective. by Paul Murphy; Tags: wintel, environment, microsoft office, apache software foundation, microsoft corp., technology, development environment, open source, paul murphy; Blog posts 2008-08-07
The social media corporate identity crisis: The recent "hijacking" of the ExxonMobil brand for Twitter use made a whoosh as the news traveled around the socialsphere. It also brought into view a lot of questions around brand validity and responsibility in terms of social networking. Joel Postman, principal of Socialized, authored this guest piece on the...; Tags: brand, social media, twitter, joel postman, popeyes chicken, q., branding, social networking, marketing, online communications, advertising & promotion, jennifer leggio; Blog posts 2008-08-06
Video: Oracle's CIO on 'Project Sequoia': At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, Oracle CIO Mark Sunday explains the techniques behind Project Sequoia, the company's new data center in Utah. By utilizing outside air, hot aisle containment, and independently controlled supercells, he says this will be its most efficient center yet. by Larry Dignan; Tags: cio, oracle corp., video, data centers, productivity, corporate communications, storage, hardware, data management, marketing, larry dignan; Blog posts 2008-08-06
LinuxWorld: Oracle announces Project Sequoia: At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, Oracle CIO Mark Sunday explains the techniques behind Project Sequoia, the company's new data center in Utah. By utilizing outside air, hot aisle containment, and independently controlled supercells, he says this will be its most efficient center yet.; Tags: linuxworld, oracle corp., data centers, productivity, storage, hardware, data management, linux, oracle; Videos 2008-08-06
VMware launches new system builder, certification programs, joins Linux Foundation: VMware is investing more resources in the channel and IT community -- and getting more involved in the Linux community -- to preserve its lead in the virtualization software market. At LinuxWorld and Next Generation Data Center Conference this week, the Palo Alto, Calif. virtualization software leader...; Tags: vmware inc., system builder program, virtualization, linux, cloud computing, utility computing, storage management, open source, servers, hardware, operating systems, software, storage, paula rooney; Blog posts 2008-08-06
Vivaty rolls out 'student friendly' development platform: I've written about Vivaty before, the new add-on to your existing social network, modelling your entire network in three dimensions. Before, they gave you your own blank scene and avatar, allowing you to mix and match your own virtual 3D "profile page" which interacts just...; Tags: 3d, vivaty studio, party creator, zack whittaker; Blog posts 2008-08-06
The fast track to mobile Linux: The fast track to mobile LinuxThe fast track to mobile LinuxThis doesn't make much sense. Replace the RTOS with linux, then run a RTOS on top of a virtualization layer which will slow things down negating the purpose of a RTOS.How it worksYou keep the part of the RTOS...; Tags: rtos, fast track, mobile linux, linux, mobile; Discussion threads 2008-08-06
When Google disowns you: When Google disowns youThis is a real danger in general with the "Cloud"PaaS, SaaS,Cloud, or call it what you want, this is only one of the major problems that can creep up when you pass your data and applications on to a third party service provider. You put your business...; Tags: productivity, open source, databases, storage encryption, long-term data usability, namesecure, google inc.; Discussion threads 2008-08-06
It's not good for everything, therefore it's not good for anything: It's not good for everything, therefore it's not good for anythingScientific vs. Data Processing: Did you just switch sides?Even in a research institute, most of the people will use boring finance and word processing applications that are well supported on all the major computing platforms. On the other hand, niches...; Tags: internet, desktops, operating systems, nich, sun ray, mission critical, institute, pc, sun microsystems inc., research institute; Discussion threads 2008-08-06
What are you using for a helpdesk application?: What are you using for a helpdesk application?What are you using for a helpdesk application?We use an application called Wonderdesk. It is web based, its not too bad, but the search feature for old helpdesk tickets kind of sucks in that it won't display all the search queries or you...; Tags: call centers, help desk, helpdesk application; Discussion threads 2008-08-05
What are you using for a helpdesk application?: One of my first jobs as tech director is to create a helpdesk for users across the district to submit support tickets, check the status of the tickets, and for me to aggregate data on support needs (i.e., what's going wrong generally and what do we need to do to...; Tags: help desk, call centers, it operations, christopher dawson; Blog posts 2008-08-05
IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on Vista: IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on VistaHoo that could be painful very painfulibm ,red hat, ubuntu working together..... ough Microshot may feel this a bitRE: IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on VistaUnless they make programs and hardware as easy to install &...; Tags: unix, open source, operating systems, driver installation, linux, ibm corp., ubuntu, novell inc., microsoft windows vista, red hat inc.; Discussion threads 2008-08-05