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Machines for disabled won't be ready for primaries

Massachusetts disabled voters won't have appropriate voting machines for primary elections in September, the state's election official said, although he expects them to be in place for the November general election, AP reports. The problem: It's a hard task to find a universal machine that accomodates all kinds of...

Tags: William Galvin

Blog posts 2006-08-15

Massachusetts open source fight becomes partisan

Is the battle over the OpenDocument format in Massachusetts becoming a partisan battle? If it is, Microsoft is allied to the Democrats. As all open source aficionados know Massachusetts has become the epicenter in the battle for open document formats. If the state mandates use of OpenDocument, starting in January,...

Tags: William Galvin, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2005-11-27

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Live Event on Sept. 5th: Dell EqualLogic & VMware Infrastructure 3 Product Demonstration

Join Dell, and Dell Inc. Product Marketing Consultant William Urban, for a one-hour live presentation and product demonstration of a virtualized server and storage infrastructure based on VMware ESX Server 3.0 and the PS Series family of intelligent, iSCSI-based storage solutions. Register now for this event on Friday, September...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell EqualLogic, VMware Inc., Storage, Ip storage, Hardware

Webcasts 2008-09-05

Class action bait on iPhone problems

Classic class-action bait over the iPhone 3G's crappy performance: A San Diego-based lawsuit filed late last week alleges that Apple and its carrier partner AT&T have knowingly oversold iPhone 3G, promising fast speeds only to see a glut of customers bog down the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Performance, Apple iPhone 3G, Class Action, 3G, Performance Management, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-03

William Bouguereau Screensaver - 155 Paintings (exe)

William-Adolphe Bouguereau Screensaver - 155 images of the original paintings spanning his career. Bouguereau was completely in tune with the Academic style of his time, and is considered to be of the highest standard in expert painting technique. He was heavily inspired by the ancients but using modern interpretations. When...

Tags: Image, Images, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2008-08-22

Microsoft launches 3-D photo viewer Photosynth

Microsoft Live Labs' latest project is actually an old one with a new twist. Photosynth lets you stitch together an entire roll of photos into dazzling 3-D environments. CNET.com's Ina Fried sits down with Microsoft's Gary William Flake to chat about what you can do with this new technology.

Tags: 3D, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Microsoft Live Labs, News, ina fried, microsoft, photosynth, gary william, pictures, albums

Videos 2008-08-21

Dell bets on Salesforce.com's platform as a service

Amid a quarter that Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff called "spectacular," but spooked analysts worried about future growth was an interesting nugget: Dell has jumped on the platform as a service bandwagon. On Salesforce.com's second quarter conference call (earnings recap, InStranet acquisition) Benioff revealed that Dell signed a...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Marc Benioff, Billing, PaaS, Summer Sales Cycle, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Compromise on the drinking age debate

Compromise on the drinking age debateThe Land of Misfit toysA brief conpendium of former Rice people would have to include Howard Hughes, Carrie Bradshaw and Matt Wilson, all of whom left after their freshman year.Among our graduates are John Doerr, writers William Broyles and Bill Goyen, game designer Steve Jackson...

Tags: Food & Beverage, drinking age, beverage

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

RIAA settles for $6K in Elektra v. Barker

The RIAA has settled PDF for a mere $6,000 in the case of Elektra v Barker. The RIAA had sought maximum statutory penalities for each of a long list of files found in the defendant's "shared" folder. So this is a come-down from many tens of thousands of dollars (recall...

Tags: RIAA, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-18

William Shatner signs off on video autographs

William Shatner signs off on video autographsBeam my up Scotty"Beam me up Scotty...there's no intelligent life down here! Another P.T Barnum is born.What a complete waste. What ever "respect" I had for Shatner before reading this article, has completely vanished.Any fool who pays for this "service", who actually believes that...

Tags: Corporate communications, William Shatner, video autograph, video

Discussion threads 2008-08-15

William Shatner signs off on video autographs

Customers of Live Autographs get not just a signed photograph, book or napkin; they receive a customized video clip with a short personal message from the star. LOS ANGELES--William Shatner sat in a drab office staring at a TV monitor displaying a message he was supposed to read to...

Tags: Autograph, TV, Star Trek, William Shatner, Julien, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Reuters, video, personalized greetings, Live Autographs

News items 2008-08-15

Got any old iMacs laying around?

Got any old iMacs laying around?interestingI'm going to download that torrent when I get home since our firewall blocks all torrent access at work. This might be an option for us to use to possibly sell the equipment we previously thought was so out of date no staff members would...

Tags: Linux, Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, IMACS, Ubuntu

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

Sourcing offshore: Cultural hurdles abound

Update below: Do IT need managers need a crash course in India and China culture? My hunch is that they will as companies increasingly source to India and China. And the consensus appears to be that culture is a major hang-up. With that in mind here are...

Tags: Offshore, China, Sourcing, India, Jason, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Channel Management, Business Operations, Management, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-13

Do you know where your computers are being recycled?

Do you know where your computers are being recycled?Good storyIf this were a story about Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux there'd be a hundred posters yelling at each other by now. It isn't, it's just a really significant issue that affects people here rather directly... we're all using computers, that...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, One-Man, computer, Basel

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

True Knowledge attracts new funds

I commented on UK-based True Knowledge and their search for finance at the start of this month, and tonight Venture Beat breaks the news that they've concluded a $4 million funding round led by existing investor Octopus Ventures. This funding, which brings the total raised by the...

Tags: Knowledge, U.K., Team Management, Wiki, Financial Accounting, Management, Online Communications, Finance, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-07-29

Katie Moussouris on HOPE 2008: HOPE Springs Eternal

Guest Editorial by Katie Moussouris of Microsoft If cyberspace is a mass, consensual hallucination, as William Gibson characterized it, then HOPE was a dream manifested in meatspace that would not die. While Hackers On Planet Earth has been running every other year since 1994, it was...

Tags: Symantec Corp., IP, Tool, Con, Katie Moussouris, Last HOPE, Wiki, Internet, Productivity, Security, Network Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-28

Government, markets and regulation

Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...

Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Rhode Island's novel approach to addressing budget gaps

Rhode Island's novel approach to addressing budget gapsRhode Island's novel approach to addressing budget gapsHooray for RI! I haven't heard of any energy crisis in RI. You can bet the naval base there would probably want to get on this.You knowif we actually built power plants this wouldn't...

Tags: Blackstone, mill, river, Blackstone River

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

Online Poker Bot (exe)

Online Poker Bot is a Texas Holdem playing program, a project that has been under way for 2 years. The software Online Poker Bot v2 support NL, Pot, Fixed Limit games, tournaments and sit and go's. A unique Feature of this poker bot is the 'Stealth Mode' which totally hide...

Tags: Bot, Poker, OPB

Software downloads 2008-07-13

(Gallery: Bill Gates says good bye)

(Gallery: Bill Gates says good bye)Hon Sir William Gates III Final Remarksheres link to fairly Long Personel interview. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#25408564 Signed:PHYSICIAN THOMAS STEWART VON DRASHEK M.D.RE: (Gallery: Bill Gates says good bye)The Microsoft name will stand...

Tags: Bill Gates, goodbye, Gallery

Discussion threads 2008-06-27