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Xerox and Adobe Technologies Empower Towers Perrin Document Management System: Towers Perrin is one of the largest human resource HR consulting and administration firms, with a client list that includes three quarters of the world's 500 largest companies. Towers Perrin's administration business grew rapidly from its inception in the early 1990s. One of its challenges was creating a production environment...; Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Xerox Corp., Towers Perrin, Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Outsourcing, Productivity, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting; Case studies

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Services capability. Check. Financing arm. Check.: National Wind, the wind development company focused on encouraging local investment and ownership for its wind projects, has completed its purchase of investment banker Delphi Financial. Given how quickly National Wind is signing new projects, the company figured it made sense to acquire its own renewable energy...; Tags: Turbine, Renewable Energy, Borland Delphi, Financing, Programming Languages, Financial Accounting, Development Tools, Telecom & Utilities, Investment, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Finance, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-09-06
Jane's Realty (exe): Jane is coming back again. Now you are able to build your own city with the help of this successful young woman. However, this time you need not only build some houses, but begin from constructing all the city's infrastructure first, such as electric power stations, water towers etc. Hire...; Tags: City, SpinTop Games, Jane; Software downloads 2008-09-02
Peek: Here's the Peek pitch: there are those of us who are dependent on e-mail, but don't want to get a smartphone--maybe because of pricing, or because smartphones can be pretty complicated for first-time users. So forget the BlackBerry, the Treo, and the iPhone; the people behind Peek wanted to introduce...; Tags: Handhelds, e-mail; Product reviews 2008-08-28
Inventor sues Google, Verizon, others on voicemail: Inventor sues Google, Verizon, others on voicemailNot sure his patents pass the litmus test.Wouldnt star trek and most other sci-fi shows pre-date some of his patents.Just because you come up with an idea doesnt mean you have a patent... you have to establish a process and provide code that does...; Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, E-mail, Klausner, voicemail, patent, Inventor Sues Google, Verizon Communications Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-08-27

Gears' new GeoLocation API is very slick: Dion Almaer blogged this morning about the new GeoLocation API in Gears. As a Geo-nut, I'm pretty impressed with how well it's implemented. The API is clean, and as Dion notes, with the community working on the W3C Geolocation spec, we could see a lot more geolocation on the web...; Tags: Mobile, API, AJAX, GPS, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-08-22
The Magic Toy Chest Demo (exe): The Magic Toy Chest is a physics based puzzle game for the whole family. It is inspired by classic retro 2D games such as The Incredible Machine. Use 16 wacky and zany toys to create crazy sequences of events that get the desired toy into the Magic Toy Chest. Build...; Tags: Graduate Games, Magic Toy Chest, Games, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2008-08-21
10 common security mistakes that should never be made: There's no shortage of difficult security challenges -- so why take chances and overlook the easy stuff? Chad Perrin describes some of the worst and all too common security oversights he sees on a regular basis.This download is also available as an entry in our IT Security blog.; Tags: Chad Perrin, Security; Download resources 2008-08-20
Test case: what happens when a government requires renewable energy?: Test case: what happens when a government requires renewable energy?....It's pioneers like Colorado that will finally propel us into the 21st century. Great news! Love it when the old ways are trounced by new tech AND soundly at that!"[B]Despite a continuing boom, oil and gas companies here are on the...; Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Telecom & Utilities, Westinghouse, mW, tax, Xcel Energy Inc., renewable energy; Discussion threads 2008-08-18
Apple acknowldges reception problem in iPhone 3G: Apple acknowldges reception problem in iPhone 3GWhy only 2%If there is a problem with the phone, why would it only affect 2%. It seems that if it were a hardware, software, or service problem, it would affect all iphones or all iphones in specific areas and not sporadically in certain...; Tags: Cellular phones, hummm, Apple iPhone, reception problem, Apple iPhone 3G, 3G, Apple Inc., phone; Discussion threads 2008-08-18
Time for Google to take out Sprint: Time for Google to take out SprintWhy change the name?The Sprint name stands for poor quality. Google has a reputation for high quality.I assume that, along with the name change, Google might institute policy changes which would decrease dissatisfaction with the brand, in order to protect its own good name.Sprint...; Tags: WiMAX, Product marketing, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, Branding, Telecom & Utilities, Google Inc., Sprint Communications; Discussion threads 2008-08-06
Towers Trap for Pocket PC (zip): Have you ever considered yourself as a good or maybe the best strategist of all? Now you can prove it and compete with many opponents, and even with us - the team of Zone Projects we are strong fans of Towers Trap and will stand with dignity against everybody. Publish...; Tags: PC, Strategist, Intruder, Zone Projects, Pocket PC, Construction, Team Management, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Hardware, Management, Software; Software downloads 2008-08-01
Are solar-energy materials in short supply?: Are solar-energy materials in short supply?Need Ink ContractsImprovements in solar photovoltaic sources of materials brings to my mind the need of inks that will allow painting your own photovoltaics in colorful designs and patterns stressing advertising as much as is possible to enliven the circles of users. Inks of N-type...; Tags: Manufacturing, photovoltaics; Discussion threads 2008-07-23
The App Store's buggy update process: The App Store's buggy update processI got mine to updateBasically when it gave me that "find all the updates" screen, I would just look for version numbers that had changed (this is easy to do now that everything is 1.0 generally, it will only get harder as time goes on,...; Tags: Desktops, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., App Store, cryptic error message, Apple Macintosh; Discussion threads 2008-07-22
AT: ATyes, it's disappointing...first tmobile...now at&twould be nice for someone to 'get it right'. Tmobile's service really sucked and it looked hopeful when AT&T let the cat out of the sack about free wifi. I left my house with iphone in hand and dashed over to Starbucks, got my drink, sat...; Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, AT&T Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Wi-Fi, TMobile; Discussion threads 2008-07-21
Master of Defence (exe): Hordes of evil monsters are intruding upon your ancient kingdom. You, as the protector of the land, must build a strong defense to protect the people taking refuge in your castle. But are you up to the challenge? 5 locations to explore, Survival mode - 120 raids of evil monsters...; Tags: Voodoo, Monster, Raid; Software downloads 2008-07-21
Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.: My mother and I chat a lot about different alternative energy options, mainly because she is lucky enough to live in Hawaii where solar hot water has been mandated for future construction. But one thing that has been ultra controversial on the Big Island has been wind power for the...; Tags: Alternative Energy, Wind Energy, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-19
News to know: Intel; Oracle; Microhoo; iPhone; Online video: Notable headlines: Dancho Danchev: Remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs Nate McFeters: Symantec says Microsoft Access ActiveX attacks to increase Robin Harris: FTP: untrustworthy file transfer Dennis Howlett: Enterprise 2.0 looking more like 1.0? Dana Blankenhorn:...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Oracle Corp., Online Video, Video, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., 3G, Corporate Communications, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-15
NY Times and USA Today weigh in on iPhone 3G: NY Times and USA Today weigh in on iPhone 3GNo GPS mention? What review did you read?"Curiously both Mossberg and Pogue completely ignore the iPhone 3G’s new GPS feature with nary a mention of it in their reviews? What gives guys?"From [i]For iPhone, the ‘New’ Is Relative[/i]"The new iPhone...; Tags: GPS, Cellular phones, WIRELESS, G.P.S., Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G, 3G, USA Today, New York Times Co.; Discussion threads 2008-07-09
Linux for housewives. XP for geeks.: The computer proletariat is rising up - and computing will never be the same. Tiny, sub-$500 "netbooks" like the Asus Eee are the hottest thing going in notebooks today. And some surprising things are happening. Like housewives on Linux. Asus is forecasting worldwide shipments of 10 million...; Tags: ASUS, Computing, Microsoft Research, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Microsoft Windows, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-07-06