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- Microsoft's 'conceptual touch designs'
- I've written from time to time about Apple and their rumoured tablet devices, applications for tablet PC's, multi-touch and Surface, and all those touchy-feely concepts we've been hearing about, but when do we get to actually see them? Microsoft has recently kicked forward their Software+Services, which for...
- Tags: Tablet PC, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Will Bush sign Pro-IP? Biz, labor, schools push for it
- There's no word yet on whether President Bush will sign the PRO-IP bill [ZDN] but big business and labor were united in favor of the bill that creates a copyright czar in the executive branch. The bill originally called for the Justice Dept. to prosecute copyright...
- Tags: Bill, President, IP, Justice Dept, Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Microsoft renames its 'D' language 'M'
- Microsoft is continuing to slowly trickle out details about its Oslo modeling strategy. The latest info with company has gone public are the names of the three Oslo components it will release in Community Technology Preview CTP form at the Professional Developers Conference PDC, by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Oslo, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Models, Research & Development, Microsoft Development Tools, Business Operations, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- The most striking thing about the appliance computing applications market is that most customers have one or two global applications and a range of special purpose stuff accumulated and refined over many years - the opposite of what happens in data processing where thousands of tiny applications get strung...
- Tags: IBM iSeries, Data Center, Contact Management, Data Centers, Sales Strategy, Storage, Servers, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Data Management, Sales, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Nobel Laureate is the father of Kevin Mitnick investigator
- We tend to say that information security is a small world. Conferences quickly become real-life demonstrations of the principle of six-degrees-of-separation. After a few years working in this industry, you either meet all or are within one hop of all the major players in the space; there just...
- Tags: Information Security, Kevin Mitnick, Nobel Laureate, Osamu Shimomura, Productivity, Security, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- The five products Apple must make
- What ought to be Apple's next leap of faith? Here are a few ideas for where Apple should go next. What are your ideas? Apple made its latest big move into new territories last year with the launch of the now ubiquitous iPhone, expanding beyond the desktop and...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Keyboards, Games, Monitors & Displays, Desktops, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Components, Apple, iPhone, video games, tablet, Jo Best, Silicon.com
- News items 2008-10-09
- Start-up looks to extend battery life
- Intel-backed ZPower's silver-zinc battery is set to make its debut with a large laptop manufacturer next year, promising batteries that are 95 percent recyclable and 40 percent longer life. Intel-backed start-up ZPower may be the first to introduce an alternative to the ubiquitous lithium-ion laptop...
- Tags: Battery, Intel-backed ZPower, Mercury, Battery Life, Engineering, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, batteries, laptops, ZPower, silver-zinc battery
- News items 2008-10-09
- Amazon cuts S3 pricing; Dangles carrot in front of enterprises
- Amazon said Thursday that it will cut prices on its Simple Storage Service (S3) and offer more volume discounts. The pricing, which goes into effect on Nov. 1, may reflect that Amazon is looking to grab share as competition from Microsoft and others is about to heat...
- Tags: S3 Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Desktone "Desktops as a Service"
- I had the opportunity to chat with Desktone about their recent announcements. In the last little while they announced a pilot of virtual desktops as a service and partnerships with both Wyse and Microsoft. Here's what Desktone had to say in the desktop as a service announcement: Desktone,...
- Tags: Virtual Desktop, Desktone Inc., Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Rich people can hang $4,000 IntelliTunes digital jukebox on their walls
- This one may be just for the Lehman Brothers and AIG execs of the world, because I'm not sure anyone else can afford Game Cabinets' new $3,995 Intellitunes digital jukebox in this economy. What do you get for all that money? The wall-mountable unit sports two separate...
- Tags: Jukebox, Wall, Intellitunes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Teaching telecommuting
- Teaching telecommutingtelecommuting skills?I'm a fulltime telecommuter, though I do venture out to teach an IRL composition class a couple of days a week. I think the kids already have the skills they need to telecommute, and they value having the connection between the classroom and that new work environment made...
- Tags: telecommuting
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Forget about the name - The real question is how many flavors will Windows 7 come in?
- Forget about the name - The real question is how many flavors will Windows 7 come in?They'll all be bitter.Don't get me wrong. I'm what passes for a happy Microsoft user, but all the "flavors" have and shall continue to leave a bitter taste and confused consumers. Another plus for...
- Tags: Home entertainment, 64-bit, Operating systems, Games, SKU, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft NEEDS, real question, home theater
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate
- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debateSAP MaintenanceSAP is a large company that feels they are bulletproof. They make their money on large accounts, and increasing maintenance is just a money grab in lue of increasing market share in SMB where thay have no clue how to penetrate.RE: Forrester...
- Tags: SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Open source in a time of recession
- Open source in a time of recessionWhen the water hole shrinks,the kangaroo mice flourish.HistoryYes, the end of the dot-com bubble killed a number of illusions. The most prominent lesson was, Don't give away your main product. So at that time pure Linux and other open source plays disappeared.What was...
- Tags: Rewriting History, recession, open source, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Large Hadron Collider gets fresh power supply
- Cern is planning to build a new computing hub in France, because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. The lab cracking data from the Cern Large Hadron Collider experiment needs a new computing hub because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. ...
- Tags: CERN, Power Supply, Grid, Computer, Hadron Collider, Productivity, Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerator, physics, Nick Heath, silicon.com
- News items 2008-10-08
- YieldCurveFitter (for Pocket PC 2002) (CAB)
- YieldCurveFitter is a tool for computing the spot rate and several commonly used intermediate (non-T-bill) term rates. It 'knows' what yield curves act like, fitting with relatively few points. The two shortest term rates must be provided, but only a few of the last ten are needed to compute those...
- Tags: Pocket PC 2002, Rate, PocketNumerix, YieldCurveFitter, Pocket PC, Investment, Financial Accounting, Handhelds, Hardware, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-10-08
- YieldCurveFitter (CAB)
- YieldCurveFitter is a tool for computing the spot rate and several commonly used intermediate (non-T-bill) term rates. It 'knows' what yield curves act like, fitting with relatively few points. The two shortest term rates must be provided, but only a few of the last ten are needed to compute those...
- Tags: Rate, PocketNumerix, YieldCurveFitter, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-10-08
- YieldCurveFitter (for Windows Mobile 5.0) (CAB)
- YieldCurveFitter is a tool for computing the spot rate and several commonly used intermediate (non-T-bill) term rates. It 'knows' what yield curves act like, fitting with relatively few points. The two shortest term rates must be provided, but only a few of the last ten are needed to compute those...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Windows, Rate, PocketNumerix, YieldCurveFitter, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-10-08
- YieldCurveFitter (for Windows Mobile 6.0) (CAB)
- YieldCurveFitter is a tool for computing the spot rate and several commonly used intermediate (non-T-bill) term rates. It 'knows' what yield curves act like, fitting with relatively few points. The two shortest term rates must be provided, but only a few of the last ten are needed to compute those...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Windows, Rate, PocketNumerix, YieldCurveFitter, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-10-08
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