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- When virtual legal chickens come home to roost
- When virtual legal chickens come home to roostJudge orders payment of $5000 virtual dollarsgood at any virtual McDonalds.Pfttt..RE: When virtual legal chickens come home to roostWhat court would actually have jurisdiction? The court where the Second Life servers are? How about where the plantiff is? What if the defendant resides...
- Tags: legal chicken, virtual dollar, chicken, Second Life
- Discussion threads 2007-11-07
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- Second Life 1.23.5.136262 (Windows)
- Second Life is a 3D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. From the moment you enter the World you'll discover a vast digital continent, teeming with people, entertainment, experiences and opportunity. Once you've explored a bit, perhaps you'll find a perfect parcel of land to build your...
- Tags: Second Life, Resident, Linden Lab, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-10-29
- Teradata's launches virtual storage software; Seeks hot and cold data
- A dollar short and a few years too lateVirtual storage, let alone tiered storage is not new and have been around for years. It's built into many SAN arrays today... Compellent and 3Par come to mind immediately. Symantec has their Scalable File Server built upon Storage Foundation...
- Tags: storage software, Teradata, storage
- Discussion threads 2009-08-24
- Comparing infrastructure as a service providers: Amazon, Rackspace emerge
- Amazon Web Services has the best pricing based on dollar per virtual machine, but Rackspace fills in a few gaps---especially with persistent instance data, according to a report from JMP Securities. In the report, JMP analyst Patrick Walravens surveys the infrastructure as a service providers. The report,...
- Tags: Rackspace, Amazon Web Services, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Pricing Strategy, Walravens, Cloud Computing, Pricing, Virtualization, Web Services, Marketing Research, Marketing, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Why Windows 7 should be free
- Why Windows 7 should be freeAm I the only one who had zero problems with Vista?This issue has been debated thoroughly across zdnet, so I have no desire to rehash it. But I am still not convinced that Vista's problems are systemic...and I think they are more a PR issue....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-07-01
- Are economic conditions changing how you manage server turnover?
- Guest post: TechRepublic's Scott Lowe,Ă‚Â Chief Information Officer for Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, examines some of the reasons server sales have dropped and handicaps the recession's impact. For more posts like this see TechRepublic's data center blog. Between cloud computing, virtualization and economic...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Data Center, Virtualization, Sales, Server Sale, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- The Real Case in Social Media: Zappos CEO Not All Atwitter About Twitter
- When reporting first began on ZDNet’s look at Zappos’ use of social media to build its online retailing business, its CEO, Tony Hsieh, had just crossed 600,000 followers on Twitter. This past week, he passed 800,000. No, the reporting didn’t take that long....
- Tags: Phone, Social Media, Twitter, Zappos, Sales Strategy, Sales, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- Palm reviewers: The Pre has a puncher's chance
- Palm reviewers: The Pre has a puncher's chanceLook at the negatives listed...... and you will see only one of them is permanent. It is a bit chunky, compared to other smartphones. All of the others are quite temporary. There will be more apps, the app site will...
- Tags: Engineering, Cellular phones, Palm Inc., Pre, Apple HyperCard, puncher, reviewer, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2009-06-04
- News to know: Bing, Twitter, Kindle, E3, Red Hat, Istanbul
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Bing is live: Nice first impression; Will Bing boost Cashback? Bing's real return: A catalyst to a...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Red Hat Inc., Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Sam Diaz, Engineering, Game Players, Sales Strategy, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Hardware, Networking
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- Touch Karma 1.0 (Mobile)
- Karma for Kids helps parents track their children's good and not-so-good deeds by accumulating positive or negative karma points. A simple and easy-to-use interface allows parents to record pre-set points awarded based on good behavior. When the qualifying amount of points is reached, kids win a prize pre-chosen by parents....
- Tags: Parent, Mobile, Deed, Karma World, Financial Services, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-05-18
- Will Windows Vista live to die another day?
- After spending most of the morning on the phone to a number of UK universities (due to the time difference, many US universities were still sleeping), the general consensus is that Windows 7, when released, will not be the first upgrade they roll out to their networks. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Operating System, University, Microsoft Windows Vista, University Of Kent, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- CRIKEY! He can swallow whole companies! But not communities.
- Boy, what a big beautiful snake he is, mates. He eats multi-billion dollar companies with all their assets, WHOLE. But even big old Ă‚Â Constrictus Siliconvallis cannot squeeze the Open Source community. So, suffice to say, the Sun Microsystems story didn't end the way...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., JCP, Programming Languages, Java, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Uptime Institute (re)urges data center managers to rethink TCO equations
- What, exactly, do you and your procurement department use to calculate the cost of running a server? Chances are you've gone beyond the hardware pricetag to figure in all the service, software and maintenance costs. But does your math include the facilities capital and operational expenditures that surround that box?...
- Tags: Data Center, Server, Uptime, TCO, Chances, Uptime Institute, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-04-17
- Is adopting the cloud a money-losing mistake?
- Is adopting the cloud a money-losing mistake?The cloud is many steps backward...The loss of control over your applications, data, security, accessibility, accountability, and much more is seriously many many steps backward from where we are now. The cloud has very limited usefulness for very specific applications and the hype over...
- Tags: Service level management, Intellectual property, SECURITY, cloud system, money-losing mistake
- Discussion threads 2009-04-15
- Cisco launches bid to capture the data center
- Cisco Systems has just launched what it considers a "critical step" in its Data Center 3.0 strategy, promising an ecosystem of partners which include chipmaker Intel, tech consultancy Accenture, virtualization software provider VMWare, Microsoft, the labs unit of enterprise software firm SAP, storage maker EMC and...
- Tags: Data Center, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- News to know: Google Voice; Dumbphones; Rigged podcasts; Boxee
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Rigged podcasts can leak your iTunes username/password Sam Diaz: Google upgrades Grand Central, launches Google Voice Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft given...
- Tags: Google Inc., Podcast, Apple iPod, Mobile, Voice, Apple iPod Shuffle, Apple Inc., Twitter, Sam Diaz, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Digital Music, Digital Media, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- City of Hartford Relies on the Ergonomic Group, VMware, and NetApp to Help Stretch Its IT Dollar
- The City of Hartford's nickname, "New England's Rising Star," affirms its rich history as an early Dutch trading settlement as well as its later being the home of authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain as well as many of America's emerging insurance giants. City of Hartford wanted...
- Tags: NetApp Inc., Information Technology, VMware Inc., Storage, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-03-01
- Microsoft: Vision to 'fundamentally re-imagine productivity'
- Imagine drawing on floor-to-ceiling office windows with your finger, using them like a whiteboard, aided by contextual information right at your fingertips, translated as necessary. You haven't lost your marbles -- you're participating in a global corporate meeting, and your colleagues are doing the same thing on four other continents....
- Tags: Software, Vision, Microsoft Corp., Technology, Consumer Quality, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-27
- The Kindle 2 debate: If a robot reads a book is it an audio book?
- Roy Blount Jr., president of the Author's Guild, argues that the Kindle 2's ability to read text aloud like one of those automated customer service robots is a substitute for audio books. Blount also adds that Amazon should be paying audio rights for the Kindle 2's text-to-audio feature. ...
- Tags: Customer Service, Amazon.com Inc., Audio Book, Audio Right, Robots, E-books, Emerging Technologies, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- Lucky Wheel (Mobile)
- Category: PuzzlePlayers: 1Languages: EnglishLucky Wheel!Lucky Wheel is a game where you must solve word puzzles in various categories by revealing hidden consonants and vowels.By spinning the slot machine, landing on reels with dollar values and correctly picking consonants appearing in the puzzle, the player makes virtual money. The object is...
- Tags: Category, Mobile, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-02-16
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