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Microsoft's patch day fiesta

Microsoft's patch day fiestaThe Deterioration of American EngineeringThe Deterioration of American Engineering My Objectives in writing this, is not to whine and complain, but rather to complain with a PURPOSE.So that Engineers may read this and Wake the fk up! And provide the people with more Quality and less BS....

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Fuel Pump, Tune-up

Discussion threads 2006-11-15

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ZDNet blogger: working from home

More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, intranet's and extranet's, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier...

Tags: Phone, Tea, Blogger, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-06

MagicScore Maestro 6 (zip)

MagicScore Maestro professional music notation software, offering the most advanced capabilities for working with music. It lets you precisely tune up the notes sounds and their timing features, process the effects and the dynamics. In this program, you may use both general and extended sets of musical symbols and as...

Tags: Symbol, DGSoft, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2008-10-03

2009 Range Rover Sport HSE

Photo gallery:Range Rover Sport HSETerrain crawling tech lets the 2009 Range Rover Sport HSE maintain its rugged reputation, but an upscale price means luxury elements, such as real wood trim and a refrigerator in the console. Off-road enthusiasts may think the lack of a fold-down windshield keeps the Range Rover...

Tags: voice command system, navigation system, Cayenne GTS, Range Rover Sport, suspension

Product reviews 2008-09-30

Hole in Adobe software allows free movie downloads

Hole in Adobe software allows free movie downloadsWho wrote this?!?Because whoever did needs to take a quick look at their article and proofread it.This article makes it sound like this vulnerability will mean certain death to content providers' business model and no one is going to pay for it unless...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Fair Use, Adobe Software, movie download, movie, Adobe Systems Inc., software

Discussion threads 2008-09-29

Was RIM's Wall Street beating unjustified?

Shares of Research In Motion got hammered to the tune of more than 27 percent to close the week - this despite a quarterly earnings report yesterday that included a 72 percent jump in profit from a year ago. That just goes to show that, especially in the quick-growth, suddenly-crowded...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Mobile, Smart Phone, RIM BlackBerry, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-09-26

EXCLUSIVE: C-SPAN launches gadget-fueled 'Debate Hub' as social, political destination

EXCLUSIVE: C-SPAN launches gadget-fueled 'Debate Hub' as social, political destinationReal data, coming soon...Andrew, thanks again for talking with all of us on this project. We will continue to have the "dummy data" you see in there now from the debate that was four years ago until mid-day Friday... then it...

Tags: Debate Hub, C-SPAN

Discussion threads 2008-09-25

Cisco's Stepping Up To Collaboration As Business Transformation

Following on the recent analyses  by my colleague Rob Koplowitz on Cisco's Jabber and PostPath acquisitions, here are some additional things that Information and Knowledge Management Professionals should tune into regarding Cisco as the new collaboration kid on the block: First, Cisco is building a meeting-centric workspace...

Tags: Team, Cisco Systems Inc., B2B, Team Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Ted Schadler

Blog posts 2008-09-25

Comcast details changes for managing Web traffic

Comcast details changes for managing Web trafficJust web traffic?Im wondering when they say "web traffic" - do they mean all traffic put on the pipe from the sub? or just Port 80 http traffic? If they get caught "slowing down" VoIP I could see where regulators could come back down...

Tags: Cable, Network technology, TVs, TV & Home Theater, ATT, Comcast Corp., digital reciever, paid-for, reciever

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

Magnavox TB100MW9

As the digital transition gets closer and media coverage increases, the important thing to remember is that if you get your TV from cable or satellite now, you don't need to do anything. If you do rely on analog over-the-air TV, the next important thing is to not panic--you don't...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Magnavox TB100MW9, EPG, digital television, Magnavox

Product reviews 2008-09-17

Windows 7 hits Milestone 3

Windows 7 hits Milestone 3Careful with the generalizations there, kid, you'll put your eye out - NTNTNowHe is starting to sound like Mike Cox :) More euforic and less incorrect facts.God save us allstability, scalability, reliability, security, and robustness? How can you use any of those words in the...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Milestone 3, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

Mozilla admits that Firefox EULA is flawed

Mozilla admits that Firefox EULA is flawedCompeting with ChromeThis is Mozilla trying to compete with Google for evil ;-pBut really, they have good reason to lock things down - "community builds" that were called "Firefox" and were within the rules, but happened to be loaded with spyware - but have...

Tags: Web browsers, EULA, Firefox EULA, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

Now Debuting: One-Click Payment For Illegal Downloads

Frank Zappa again is a mother of invention.   Since Friday,  songs of the experimental musician, dead now for almost 15 years, have been used to test a one-click system for getting payments from individuals who download works of artists illegally. ...

Tags: Payment, Musician, Antipiracy, Nexicon Inc., Piracy, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-16

Microsoft joins the 'everyone but Apple' digital-media coalition

Microsoft joins the 'everyone but Apple' digital-media coalitionAn elaborate consumer control systemAny consumer who willingly signs on to this is either naive, or a complete idiot. Do not allow companies to monitor your activities, and ultimately control you, then insult you by saying that you are in control. This is...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Yes DRM, digital media, Microsoft Corp., digital-rights management, DECE, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-15

Hollywood preps new copyright bills

Hollywood preps new copyright billsMy favorite part... is the civil forfeiture. This gets completely around the whole business of proving that a user actually committed copyright infringement and goes straight for the router, computer, etc. presumptively involved.Our County Sheriff and Prosecutor have been funding a lot of their operations...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, civil forfeiture, tax, forfeiture, taxpayer

Discussion threads 2008-09-12

Ubuntu details next project: 'Jaunty Jackalope'

Ubuntu details next project: 'Jaunty Jackalope'Ubuntu is GREAT, and it has spurred a ton of innovations.A big thanks to all of the Ubuntu guys.Boot systemsThis should be fun to watch. I've been using Gentoo for more than five years, and their boot system is [i]fast[/i] thanks to dependency-based scheduling....

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Linux Geek, app vendor, Ubuntu, Jaunty Jackalope, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-09-09

TechCrunch50: Day 2

Yesterday's presentations were a lot of fun to cover. I'm getting right back into the grind today. 6:30 a.m. Here is a list of today's presentations: Alfabetic Presented by Oded Broshi and Arik Kopelman DropBox (Presented by Drew Houston...

Tags: Facebook, Phone, Tim O'Reilly, Mark Cuban, Mytopia, Swype, Mixtt Redefining, iMindi World, Popego Cut, exchangeP, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Food & Beverage, Channel Management, Manufacturing, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-09-09

102 Minutes That Changed America: "Mesh" reporting comes of age (UPDATED)

This week, in commemoration of the 7th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the History Channel is releasing an unusual documentary, entitled "102 Minutes That Changed America". If you are a DIRECTV subscriber and have access to their On Demand service, you can actually download the...

Tags: Event, Network, Cell Phone, Camera, Documentary, Corporate Communications, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-07

Philips NP1100/37

Digital audio streamers may seem like old news in 2008, but the reality is that the product type has only reached maturity in the past couple of years, with relatively affordable, stable products like the Squeezebox Classic and the Apple TV. Still, both of those products are upward of $230...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Monitors & displays, power button, Philips NP1100/37, Squeezebox Classic, Philips Electronics N.V.

Product reviews 2008-08-29

Question about Gov. Sarah Palin

Question about Gov. Sarah PalinI searched online and got on the site with this linkhttp://www.state.ak.us/but could not get to anywhere when I clicked on her image to go to that page, eitherBlame ObamaObama's campaign team, probably caught by surprise at this announcement, are probably trying to dig up whatever dirt...

Tags: Branding, GUESS IT, Sarah Palin, Obama, Hillary, GOP

Discussion threads 2008-08-29