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- Apple's iPhone 3.0 event - beyond the live blog
- Apple's iPhone 3.0 event - beyond the live blogNo Background apps...? Now they get to release the iPhone 4.0 service pack...with a new innovation... Multitasking! WOW. You mean like Windows Mobile and Blackberry have had forever? Just like the cut and paste nonsense.... Nice Service Pack...
- Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Blogging, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3.0, live blog, Apple iPhone 3.0 event, MMS, blog
- Discussion threads 2009-03-17
- Apple to announce entirely new iPod family today
- Apple to announce entirely new iPod family todayAh...The Bauble Factory has been fired up again and is ready to blind the clueless into buying yet another brand new bauble to replace the not-so-shiny-anymore bauble.Who knows, maybe this time around they will have Invented the Subscription Service. Then we should...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., new iPod family, iPod family
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- Say goodbye to Yahoo! Mash
- On today's web, so many social sites never get off the ground because users don't easily migrate from their online communities. As much as I want MySpace to die, people will still be using it as long as their friends are using it. Yahoo's mashup social network...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Social Networking, Collaboration, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Day 1: iPhone Dev Camp 2
- iPhone development has been strong for over a year now. Ever since the device debuted in June of 2007, people have been hacking away at the platform. Now, in the summer of 2008, we have an SDK. We are now allowed to build and submit apps that...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., App, iPhone Development, iPhone App, Device, Tapulous, August Joki, 3G, Corporate Communications, XML, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-02
- Watch out, RIAA's set a precedent
- Watch out, RIAA's set a precedentDownloading?You're doing the same thing the RIAA is doing when you say that "the downloading and sharing of copyrighted material is illegal." Actually, the sharing of copyrighted material is illegal, the downloading is not. Obviously the RIAA would like to blur this distinction...
- Tags: Digital media, court case, RIAA, copyrighted data, Copyright-Infringement
- Discussion threads 2007-10-09
- What's coming with Windows? Even the insiders aren't sure...
- Sometimes you find fascinating little tidbits of Microsoft news buried in obscure places, tossed in as throwaway remarks. Today’s case in point comes from a post at the Windows Installer team blog, which tries to explain why some references to Windows Installer 4.1 appeared on an MSDN and then were...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Explanation, News, Reality, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- Keeping SAP and Oracle Honest?
- From an interview in Computerworld with Harry Debes, CEO of Lawson Software: Some SAP and Oracle accounts acquired Lawson for some of their divisions simply because they don’t want the incumbent vendor to dictate the future terms of business to them and for them to have all their apples in...
- Tags: Vendor relationships
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Samsung adds 3D technology to its High Definition DLP TV
- Samsung adds 3D technology to its High Definition DLP TVWhat about programmingLooks great, but where are you going to find 3D programming? The PC can't create a 3D signal from a 2D program. Video games, their video being created in the PC, can be created in either 2D or 3D....
- Tags: image quality, DLP, 3D, 2D, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-17
- "Every Problem Imaginable"
- Twenty years ago, the Tennessee state government built a 70,000 square-foot data center in a location that now appears to have a few problems. What kind of problems, you ask? Well, heres what Computerworld has to say on the matter:The state located its data center on top of unstable, jiggly...
- Tags: Project failures, Government projects
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- INTERVIEW: Paul Dandurand (CEO, PIEmatrix) on Project Failure and IT Governance
- At the recent Enterprise 2.0 Conference, I was quietly eating essential nutrients cookies and coffee, when Paul Dandurand, founder and CEO of PIEmatrix, introduced himself. Paul’s company is developing a process management and governance solution for IT projects, and he’s no stranger to this field. Before starting PIEmatrix, Paul co-founded...
- Tags: Risk, Project strategy, Interview, Enterprise2conf
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- "Anyone Can Ship Garbage"
- The Journyx project management blog offers the following advice when managing software development projects: Don’t reward for shipping on schedule. Anyone can ship garbage. Base rewards on quality metrics. We all know the popular image of tireless programmers working 80 hours a week to ship a product, reaching their goal...
- Tags: Project management
- Blog posts 2007-06-15
- Chinese boy kills mother over Net cafe money
- Chinese boy kills mother over Net cafe money"It seems"?If you're going to claim that as much as 80% of juvenile crime might be perpetrated by 'internet addicts', you'd better back it up with more than just "it seems"...parental murderApparently, China doesn't understand that the epidemic they are now seeing has...
- Tags: INTERNET, media, heaven, addiction, devil
- Discussion threads 2007-06-14
- Is Jobs planning a hostile takeover of the Windows desktop?
- Let’s just get this out of the way right at the start: Steve Jobs is a genius and rarely makes stupid decisions. If you accept that statement as gospel, then you have to assume that Jobs has a brilliant master plan behind yesterday’s announcement that Apple’s Safari browser would be...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- Microsoft's licensing mess
- If you've been selling a product for more than 10 years and you've shipped hundreds of millions of units, you'd think your customers would know what they're buying. For Microsoft, that's not the case.The culprit is the hopelessly confusing, practically Byzantine Windows licensing structure, which consists of a maze of...
- Tags: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Microsoft, Licensing
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- Nibbles, Not Bites
- Frank Hayes makes a strong case for smaller, more transparent IT projects. He says that smaller projects nibbles are more manageable and controllable than the larger big-bang projects bites that weve all come to know and love and also hate. From his article: Call that the “little nibble” approach...
- Tags: Project strategy
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Hackers use evasive manuevering to escape detection
- Hackers use evasive manuevering to escape detectionThreatsThreats that have emerged over the years have followed a similar pattern: Attackers find a way to breach a system to gain access to valuable informational assets; in response, systems administrators and security professionals develop detection and prevention methods; attackers then find new ways...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Financial accounting, Viruses and worms, manuevering, evasive manuevering, hacker
- Discussion threads 2007-06-06
- Can RIAA really make a case against students/schools?
- Can RIAA really make a case against students/schools?A questionAre educational institutions responsible for ensuring that public facilities are not used for illegal purposes? In other words, if a student uses campus email to send threats to others, does the university have any responsibility to stop such actions? If not, then...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, RIAA, P2P, music
- Discussion threads 2007-06-01
- Failed Aspirations at Project Aspire
- According to the Tampa Bay Business Journal, Floridas Project Aspire has been stopped in mid-track. From the article:A top Florida official has suspended work on Project Aspire, a proposed financial management system for state government. Alex Sink, the states chief financial officer, said in a release that the project was...
- Tags: Project failures, Implementation, Government projects
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- It's official - Microsoft has closed the door to modded Xbox consoles
- I've not received any official word from Microsoft on the banning of modded Xbox consoles from Xbox Live yesterday but this on Major Nelson blog makes it clear that the ban was deliberate:As you can imagine, we have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to modded consoles connecting to LIVE....
- Tags: Microsoft, Gaming
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- Google flexes political muscle in presidential campaign 2008
- Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Google is determined to control all the world’s information, and to make sure “the presidential campaign trail winds though the Googleplex.” Not only is the Google top brass, led by Googler in Chief Eric...
- Tags: Google, John McCain, Political Campaign, Politics, President Clinton, Presidential Race, User Generated Politics
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
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