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Online Wine Retailer Rebuilds Architecture to Support Growth

wine.com enhances the drinking and dining experience of customers around the globe by offering door-to-door delivery of wines and gourmet foods. Over the past few years, the company has experienced significant growth and needed to expand its IT infrastructure to support this increase in customers and transactions. wine.com was determined...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Wine, Wine.com

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Have we all become a bunch of anxious, depressed, sleep-deprived irritable stress-heads?

Let's face it, the last month or so has been a challenge for just about anyone's tolerance of stress and has made even the most "stable" of us question our own emotional and mental health. But I've discovered that IT workers in particular, or anyone who...

Tags: Sleep, Job, Beverage, Health Care, Computer, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Food & Beverage, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Consumers might not be ready for netbooks, but we are

Consumers might not be ready for netbooks, but we areand then in 2015...after a generation of high school leavers are very familiar with Linux and other FOSS apps, businesses will be able to start switching to Linux without the need to retrain new starters.Then in 2020 when this generation are...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Free Market, Linux, software

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Microsoft reveals buyer for Greenfield Online's survey business

Microsoft reveals buyer for Greenfield Online's survey businesshmmmThis explains a whole lot. I've been using Greenfield Online for several years, and about a month ago, I started having trouble accessing surveys. I run Linux, and I've been using Iceweasel ("Firefox") to take the surveys. Now suddenly the surveys refuse to...

Tags: Marketing research, Microsoft Corp., survey, Greenfield Online, survey business

Discussion threads 2008-10-06

Businesses focus on Windows 7, XP over Vista

Businesses focus on Windows 7, XP over VistaExploiting???Why used the term "exploiting" to refer to using a validly licenses older M$ OS version? All versions, including the current Vista versions should be exploited for the highest ROI possible. Vista as an upgrade path doesn't really offer ROI for...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 XP

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Startup essentials: Dr. Pepper, coffee and accessories

Startup essentials: Dr. Pepper, coffee and accessoriesWater. Orange Juice. Red Wine.Title says it all :-)RE: Startup essentials: Dr. Pepper, coffee and accessoriesSorry Zoli - I felt you'd strayed too far off topic with that one ;) I even exempted my watercooler :) :)Why, do you prefer white wine? ...

Tags: Startup Essentials, accessory

Discussion threads 2008-09-26

Best Wine Screensaver (exe)

Best Wine Screensaver gives you a unique chance to become a real wine expert. It offers you not only to learn the best world wine brands but also shows the right and original ways to serve wine. From Best Wine Screensaver you can get to know what food, dessert or...

Tags: Wine, 3D ScreenSaver Download

Software downloads 2008-09-25

The kids like Vista

The kids like VistaWhy did you toss that in?You were doing well until you reached:Most kids have largely recognized what only a small number of adults have come to grips with: the OS is irrelevant. It’s all about the web browser, folks. Google Docs, Zoho, and OpenOffice all work quite...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Web browsers, Microsoft Windows Vista, Web browser

Discussion threads 2008-09-24

Google's insightful looking glass

A few weeks ago I got a heads-up from Google's PR about their new search tool. Dubbed Google Insights for Search, it allows you to apply parameters to search for what other people are searching. Sounds a little strange and it did take a while for my...

Tags: Google Inc., Web Site Development, Public Relations, Productivity, Web Technology, Entrepreneurship, Search, Digital Music, Digital Media, Internet, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-19

Hey, Microsoft. About those ads... Yeah, like that.

Hey, Microsoft. About those ads... Yeah, like that.In fairness......no-one likes you at all.re: I WAS a PC[i]I WAS a PC... And I am in my daily life. Got tired of the constant care, feeding, and BS associated with it.Now I'm a Mac and make my living fixing the PC mess.[/i]Ohh,...

Tags: Desktops, Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Microsoft Corp., Apple Macintosh, advertisement, PC, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2008-09-19

Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before Linux

Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before LinuxTestTestRE: Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before LinuxHiRE: Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before Linuxbig deal the browser is useless anyway, im way happier with my ff3 :)RE: Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before LinuxAwww poor...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Web browsers, OPEN SOURCE, Chrome, Google Inc., Linux, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-09-18

CrossOver Chromium (dmg)

CrossOver Chromium is a Mac and Linux port of the open source Chromium web browser that is the basis for Google Chrome. CrossOver Chromium was developed using CodeWeavers' Wine development expertise. CrossOver Chromium is a technology proof-of-concept to demonstrate Wines capabilities for rapidly migrating Windows software to new marketplaces, such...

Tags: CodeWeavers Inc., Wine, CrossOver Chromium, Linux, Desktops, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-09-17

Even Mac users have to patch

Even Mac users have to patchMarket share improves?I don't think so. I think the market for people who want to pay more for standard hardware to get a computer that at best, is just as vulnerable as a Windows computer and at worst, a lot more vulnerable, is saturated.Remember...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Market-Share, Apple Macintosh, Mac-user, operating system, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

Does interoperability violate the GPL?

Does interoperability violate the GPL?Open source, development method or moral philosophy?I'm not certain that efforts to separate the two will always be successful. Many of the people who are supplying the work that allows reduced staff expenses are probably doing so because they believe to some degree in open...

Tags: Operating systems, Proprietary Developers, GPL, Linux, proprietary software, open source, interoperability, software

Discussion threads 2008-09-12

Secret of red wine revealed

Secret of red wine revealedDanish studyDana, I'm not disputing their study, but a lot of the "red wine is helpful" buzz came from what is known as "the Danish Study". Denmark has an extremely immobile population where almost everyone drinks and it is almost exactly equal one-third beer drinkers,...

Tags: wine, red wine

Discussion threads 2008-09-12

Secret of red wine revealed

It's an enzyme called Aldehyde dehydrogenase. Specifically it's a version of this enzyme designated as ALDH-2. Used to burn off alcohol in the liver, it also acts against toxins released when fats break down during a heart attack. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Study, Wine, Team Management, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-09-12

TimeLeft for Wine (exe)

TimeLeft is a clock, countdown, Web countdown, work days and work hours countdown, reminder including Moon phase reminder, alarm clock, stopwatch, timer, desktop sticker, eBay auction watch, and time synchronization utility. TimeLeft uses Winamp skins to show digits and text. Reminder offers virtually endless customization options, it can alert you...

Tags: Event, Wine, NesterSoft, TimeLeft, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-09-12

Inspiration from an Internet entrepreneur

When I hear the name Gary Vaynerchuk, I don't immediately think wine. Yes, his online wine empire is explosive, but he is multi-dimensional. His fame has changed him, but only for the better. Gary gets bombarded with hundreds of emails every day, but still manages to connect...

Tags: Web, Internet, Wine, Gary, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-09-11

Red Hat: Virtualization will be free

Red Hat: Virtualization will be freeI thought it already was. They call it WINE. ntnt = no textDude, ... stop playing WoW before you hurt yourself.Vitualization is a VM virtual machine, in which you can install an OS (Windows, GNU/Linux, BSD, etc). (win4lin, vmware, vitualpc, virgualbox, etc) WINE runs...

Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Utility computing, Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, Vitualization, wine, virtualization, Red Hat Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-11

WorkTime for Wine (exe)

Fully automated PC usage/project tracking software that surveys the time spent on the computer. WorkTime gathers statistics about projects you work on, applications you run, documents you open, Web-sites you visit and time spent for every of these activities. WorkTime tracking is very precise and flexible: it can pause for...

Tags: Screensaver, Wine, NesterSoft, WorkTime, Reports

Software downloads 2008-09-11