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Is it time for universal time?

Is it time for universal time?sense?1. my working hours could end up becoming 2000 to 0400. i'd be spending half my saturday at work! :-S. and my boss would have to say "i need this report by thursday. before you leave work, not after you come back!". on the bright...

Tags: Microsoft Outlook, universal time, world time, RFC

Discussion threads 2006-01-20

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Text messages save elephants' lives, villagers' crops

As elephants' habitat is destroyed, the great beasts frequently leave their protected reserves, barging into villages and eventually are killed by rangers. But in Kenya, there is a better way: text messaging. A group called Save the Elephants has outfitted a huge bull elephant named Kimani with...

Tags: Elephant, GPS, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Hardware, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-12

Tim Bray on surviving the tough times

Image via WikipediaTim Bray, director of web technologies at Sun Microsystems gave what I believe to be the most practical advice I've heard so far for those in startups looking forward. Speaking at FOWA, Tim's blunt view is that we are headed for tough times but that should not blind...

Tags: Personal Technology, Tim Bray, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-11

Seesmic fires a third of staff as recession bites

Loic LeMeur, CEO of Seesmic has announced the company is reducing its headcount by seven people. That may not sound like a huge number but as LeMeur says in the video announcement: ...the longevity of the company is obviously of significant importance - and thus we must reduce costs...

Tags: Recession, Video, Seesmic, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-10-10

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

NSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversations

Military linguists have come forward to say that the intelligence services routinely listened in on Americans overseas calling home and on the communications of non-suspect groups like the Red Cross. And, they say, they listened in and even transcribed couples' phone sex, The New York Times reports. ...

Tags: Phone, Phone Sex, Telecom & Utilities, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-10

America's airways ready for NextGen

It's time – long past time – to upgrade the U.S. air traffic control system. The current system, designed during World War II, contributes mightily to flight delays, customer dissatisfaction and a massive energy wastefulness. But a GPS satellite-based system, on the drawing board for more than a decade, has...

Tags: FAA, Air Traffic Control, Greenhouse Gas, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Is Google working on the synchronization problem?

ReadWriteWeb has a post up about the fact that Zoho has added offline access to Zoho Mail using Gears. Zoho continues to do a really good job of innovating when it comes to Ajax-based RIAs. They were very early to the game in creating offline support for Zoho Docs before...

Tags: Google Inc., Rich Internet Application, Microsoft Corp., ReadWriteWeb, Zoho Mail, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM

A Wall Street investor has suggested that the stars may be aligned just right for Microsoft to make another run at Yahoo, this time for $22 per share. Investment fund Mithras Capital, which owns more than 1.9 million shares, or 0.14 percent, of Yahoo, said Microsoft has a window of...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Financial Accounting, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-10

My Awesome IT Job: Director of Rich Media Group at Microsoft

Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Rich Media, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'

Higher return rates for Linux-based netbooks don't necessarily reflect badly on the open-source operating system, according to Ubuntu backer Canonical. The return rate on Linux-powered netbooks may be higher than that for Windows netbooks, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing for Linux, according to Canonical. ...

Tags: Ubuntu, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Software, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, netbook, Windows XP, MSI Wind, Asus Eeee

News items 2008-10-10

Consumers score a partial win against Walmart

Walmart has done a 180 on its earlier decision to pull the plug on its DRM servers (thereby locking customers' music collection to whatever PC it happened to be on at the time) and decided to keep the DRM servers running - for now. Important Information About Your Digital Music Purchases ...

Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Digital-rights Management, Server, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Forrester: Credit crunch may freeze tech services projects

Forrester Research in a report is confirming that the credit crunch is beginning to hit technology services firms. The extent of the damage is unclear, but IBM's lower-than-expected third quarter revenue its earnings are stronger than expected may indicate something worse is afoot. Forrester's...

Tags: Service Provider, IBM Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Business Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Real Time Audio Analyzer (zip)

Real Time Audio Analyzer is an audio analyzer with FFT and n-th octave frequency analyzers and oscilloscope. The octave analyzer can show the frequency spectrum at 12th, 6th, 3rd and full octave resolution. A standard license supports all resolutions. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Resolution, Timo Esser

Software downloads 2008-10-10

Mulver (exe)

Mulver is a 3D jump and run game similar to Mario 64 but for the PC. It is a family friendly game that concentrates on the pure platform fun of the good old days. Guide Mulver through different parts of the kingdom in search for gold and the Yre crystals....

Tags: 3D, Jump, Spelagon, Mulver, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-10-10

Happy Runner 2 ("Happy)

A continuation of one-button platformer with added Time counter, 23 brand new levels, switcher an item which turns the movement direction 180 degrees, which adds a lot of new possible level designs. Everything is packed into high difficulty to challenge ambitious players. This version is the first release on CNET...

Tags: Maurice Zarzycki

Software downloads 2008-10-10

easyStock Game (exe)

easyStockGame is a stock trading simulator. Use it to compete against real time data. Use it to check indicators and or you skills with indicators. Try various included end of day data to trade for swing and trend trading. The user can specify and save commission costs, slippage, profit stop,...

Tags: Indicator, Commission, easyStockDater, easyStock Game, easyStockGame, Sales Force Management, Sales

Software downloads 2008-10-10

easyStock Logger (exe)

With easyStockLogger from easyStockDater the user can generate automated keyboard profiles, which can be used to automated many repetitive task, such as login to a Web based email account, login to bank accounts, trading accounts. The profiles are displayed in simple to select list. Once a profile is generated, the...

Tags: Profile, easyStockDater, easyStock Logger, Keyboards, E-mail, Hardware, Peripherals, Online Communications

Software downloads 2008-10-10

Pheedstorm (zip)

An open-source Delphi program that monitors web sites and RSS or Atom feeds for keywords and pops up alerts when match is found. It also learns over time about the kind of content that interests you and will alert you when it sees an article you may find interesting. This...

Tags: Web Site, Wuul, Web Site Development, Web Technology, RSS, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-10-10