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Upcoming Badge 1.21 (Mac)

This widget will let you view your Upcoming.org events watch list using Dashboard. Simply enter your username on the flip side of the widget. This widget is Universal.

Tags: Upcoming.org, Apple Macintosh, Matt Sephton, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-10-04

YahooLocal adopts microformats

Upcoming.org's Andy Baio discusses a better way of browsingCNET News.com's Neha Tiwari sits down with Andy Baio, founder of Upcoming.org. The events-based Web community was recently acquired byYahoo and is one of many new browser options utilizing microformats, a new standard in Web content.

Tags: Andy Baio

Videos 2006-06-22

Additional Resources

Internet: A threat to government or the other way around? (Part 4)

internet and governmentI'm glad I read this, it was interesting. Not as informative as it might have been - I would have liked to see some actual cases and decisions cited - but it raised interesting issues. However, what really struck me is that this article needs a good copy...

Tags: Vertical industries, government, Part 4, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Chrome OS: More questions than answers?

And exactly why....would students be part of the target market or any other particular group for that matter?This is a silly post. Chrome will be lean, cloud based, local caching of data, some and growing off-line capabilities and probably grow in features/capabilities over time. It will NOT be everything to...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Outlook, Wi-Fi, operating system, Google Inc., Chrome, HTML5, Chrome OS

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

B&N's Nook e-reader: Weirdly unrevolutionary

An ebook reader is a pretty good idea for limited useI honestly don't see myself buying an e-reader for books, simply because the cost. $25 for a good hardback is something you want to keep. Even paperbacks are worth keeping if the story is there. You cannot keep...

Tags: Wireless LANs, E-books, Wireless and Mobility, ebook reader, nook, Wi-Fi, e-book, B&N, e-reader

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Video: Wisdom of crowds basics

Crowds are not always wiseMichael, you should also consider cases in which crowds are not only unwise but make wildly deluded judgments. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_CrowdsShort link: http://is.gd/3H2yE--Frank ScavoStupidity of crowdsFrank,Totally agree with you. The key is creating conditions where one can harness the wisdom of crowds rather than fall prey to...

Tags: video, Frank Scavo

Discussion threads 2009-09-26

D-Link Xtreme N Storage Router DIR-685

First announced at CES 2009, D-Link's Xtreme N Storage "all-in-one" Router DIR-685 is the first wireless router that can also work as a network storage device and as a digital photo frame. However, we wish it were a $150 cheaper stand-alone router, as its $300 asking price is too high....

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, Web-Interface, D-Link Systems, router, Router DIR-685

Product reviews 2009-07-17

What do Green IT, the economic crisis, and best selling author, Thomas Friedman, have in common? Poor accounting

Consider the following questions posed by Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist and author of The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, and more recently, Hot, Flat And Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - And How it Can Renew America: “Was it an...

Tags: Accounting, Friedman's Inc., Financial, PC, Information Technology, Environment, Green IT, Economic Crisis, Printing, Strategy, Management, Doug Washburn

Blog posts 2009-06-25

It's official: Acer to offer Aspire One netbook with Google Android, Q3 2009

It's official: Acer to offer Aspire One netbook with Google Android, Q3 2009Good news! I'm eager to give Android a try....on my current Acer Aspire One, which is running on UNR 9.04 right now.If we can still download all of the normal Linux applications, it will be great!Yet more evidence...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Google Inc., Google Android, netbook, Acer Inc., OEM

Discussion threads 2009-06-03

Red Hat's Fedora 11 to offer interop with Microsoft Exchange

Red Hat is not going to let the Microsoft-Novell partnership dim its own prospects for interoperability. That seems to be the case with the Red Hat-sponsored open source Fedora project, which plans to release on June 9 a major upgrade of its free Linux that offers robust...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Exchange Server, Fedora Project, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Instant Messaging, Groupware, Open Source, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Greenpeace Cool IT: But does GP miss the point?

Greenpeace Cool IT: But does GP miss the point?Re: But does GP miss the point?I for one believe we have a responsibility to be 'good stewards' of the planet, but the amount of suspect science and unbridled emotionalism that has surfaced regarding the supposed 'green house' effect tells me that...

Tags: Greenpeace, Greenpeace Cool-IT

Discussion threads 2009-05-28

Greenpeace Cool IT: But does GP miss the point?

Greenpeace upped the ante on the IT sector by switching focus from reporting on the environmental performance of consumer electronics to looking at how the industry as a whole is performing on climate change. Yesterday they launched their inaugural Cool IT ranking of the top 12 IT firms performing on climate change. The ranking is...

Tags: Greenpeace, Information Technology, James Farrar, Management, Strategy

Blog posts 2009-05-28

Even large institutions not immune to Conficker

Even large institutions not immune to ConfickerWindows Software Update Service and NAPWSUS is what larger corporations, enterprises and larger institutions use to ensure stability of their platform.It basically lets the administrator decide which patches to apply when. He can also set up policies so that different patches are applied to...

Tags: Patches, Operating systems, Network Access Protection, ONE-Way, patch management, large institution, network, administrator

Discussion threads 2009-04-13

Is there an open source alternative to Microsoft Outlook?

Is there an open source alternative to Microsoft Outlook?Do you mean in Windows?Because in KDE you have Kontact, and in Gnome you have Evolution. You could try googling to see if either of those have decent Windows ports. You'd probably have better luck finding one for Evolution.RE: Is there an...

Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Kontact, open source alternative, Mozilla Thunderbird, open source, GNOME, KDE, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

Interview with Andrea Vaccari, research associate at MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory

Now that machine and sensor data is joining social data traffic on the Internet, the ability to interpret and create meaning out of the information to improve life could be the post-Web 2.0 manifesto. MIT's Senseable City Lab has been on the task for years with various...

Tags: City, Mobile, Network, Data, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Cell Phone, Analysis, SENSEable City Laboratory, Cellular Phones, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-06

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11: Lots of Tech but Short on Polish

At first glance, Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (SLED 11) is virtually indistinguishable from the company's Free/Open Source and community supported Linux distribution, openSUSE 11.1. But does SLED 11 have the extra polish and the value add to justify its position as Novell's premier enterprise...

Tags: Novell Inc., SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, SuSE Linux, SuSE, Linux, Open Source, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, UNIX, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-03-23

Conficker worm to DDoS legitimate sites in March

Among the key innovations of the Conficker worm (W32.Downadup) was the pseudo-random domain generation algorithm used for the generation of dynamic command and control locations in order to make it nearly impossible for researchers and the industry to take them down.  However, once the domain registration algorithm was successfully reverse...

Tags: Domain, Worm, Distributed Denial Of Service, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-03-03

Are open source developers too dominant? Ubuntu, Firefox prove yes

ZDNet readers are excited about Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope. And who wouldn't be? With each incarnation, the Linux-based operating system steps further from the shadow of its geekiness. But as more is revealed of "Jaunty Jackalope," officially the upcoming Ubuntu 9.04 release, experts seem to be less and...

Tags: Ubuntu, Mozilla Firefox, Open Source, Web Browsers, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-03-02

Has Ubuntu hit a plateau?

The other day I downloaded the alpha 5 release of the upcoming Ubuntu 9.04 which is curiously codenamed Jaunty Jackalope just to see how things were progressing in the Ubuntu world. What surprised me was that there was very little to get excited about (OpenOffice.org 3.0 ... woohoo ... yawn)....

Tags: Ubuntu, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Linux, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-03-02

Global warming effects? Ask a birder

Global warming effects? Ask a birderFor those interested in assisting the collection of birding dataThe annual 'Great Backyard Bird Count' (a project sponsored by Cornell's Ornithology dept.) is this upcoming weekend (Feb 12-15). Instructions on counting and submitting your data are available athttp://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/A simple count takes only fifteen...

Tags: Food & Beverage, habitat, food, smart-arse, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-02-11