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- Microsoft builds $300M cathedral to Bill Gates, hires Jerry Seinfeld as Pope
- I'm just having a little fun.... I don't get the Seinfeld commercial. They are selling Bill, not Windows. What's with that? Bill retired in July. This just in from Adweek's commercials critic, Barbara Lippert: The Future. Delicious" is the sign-off, but I am...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Ass, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Branding, Web Browsers, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Internet, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- The Office (2.0): No paper? No problem.
- I think I may have been the only person at this week's Office 2.0 conference using - gasp! - a pen and paper. There was no program "book" when I registered - the agenda was online only. And none of the exhibitors handed out press releases on paper - though...
- Tags: Document, Microsoft PowerPoint, Appirio, SlideRocket, Digital Signatures, Collaboration, Productivity, Groupware, Fax, Microsoft Office, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- The Importance of Dissent
- Word is going around that Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL, is parting ways with Sun. Matt Asay blogs about it and says it's a good thing Widenius is taking his dissent on the road: At this point, however, Monty has done the right thing with his dissent. He has...
- Tags: MySQL, Arjen, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Video: Google Apps adoption rates up
- At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise, discusses the user acceleration of its Google Apps software. Glotzbach also shows a chart on how the company's Google Docs word processing product has surpassed Sun's OpenOffice in the last year and is slowly...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Video, Cloud Computing, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Nokia announces a new Eseries smartphone, the E51
- Nokia announces a new Eseries smartphone, the E51No Office editing tool on the systemIt should have come with a word processor. This is the minimum any person requires and should have been part of the package. We shouldn't be forced to buy it again after the the expensive purchase of...
- Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, Cellular phones, E51, eSeries, smart phone, Nokia Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?
- First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?Hmmm ....Could be worse ....Homer: [narrating a TV commercial] Are you tired of having your hands cut off by snowblowers? And the inevitable heart attacks that come with shoveling snow?Maybe......they should hire the company that does the Mac commercials....
- Tags: humour, advertisement, Seinfeld, Microsoft Corp., ad air
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Google Apps adoption rates up
- At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise, discusses the user acceleration of its Google Apps software. Glotzbach also shows a chart on how the company's Google Docs word processing product has surpassed Sun’s OpenOffice in the last year and is slowly...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Cloud Computing, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Microsoft Office
- Videos 2008-09-04
- Deploying and managing online communities: Who, how and why?
- There was an interesting discussion at Office 2.0 that dealt with the topic of online communities. There's a lot of noise on the Web today and it's easy for that to noise to get – for lack of a better phrase – out of control. So should a company try...
- Tags: Community, Marketing Research, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- The hits keep coming against plastic bottles with bisphenol-A
- The hits keep coming against plastic bottles with bisphenol-AThis no storyMe have lots BPA and me no see no probelms. Me brain is work just fine.RE: The hits keep coming against plastic bottles with bisphenol-AHere is something many don’t realize. BPA plastics are used extensively in dentistry. ...
- Tags: bisphenol-A, plastic bottle, BPA, bottle
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- How plants grow under the ground
- An intercontinental team of 30 researchers composed of mathematicians, engineers, computer scientists and plant sciences researchers has developed new explanations about how root plants grow and develop. As roots provide the crops we eat with water and nutrients, it is essential to learn how they grow -- laterally. 'Lateral roots,...
- Tags: Root, Soil, Roots, Auxin, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- My first Linux laptop is the Asus EeePC netbook
- My first Linux laptop is the Asus EeePC netbookTotally different machines.A netbook is a full laptop. Yes, the industry is trying to keep the impression that it is only for casual use, etc, but there is little only constrained by ram these netbooks can't do (well, with Linux). ...
- Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, UNIX, Operating systems, laptop computer, keyboard, netbook, Linux, ASUS, Linux laptop
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Chrome's new EULA drops wide-ranging claims to user content
- Chrome's new EULA drops wide-ranging claims to user contentChrome's new EULA drops wide-ranging claims to user contentIt was no mistake. This was very intentional. Does Google really think the public is that stupid? They wanted to retain all rights to YOUR property! And you wouldn't get anything...
- Tags: legalese, Chrome, EULA, wide-ranging claim, Google Inc., new EULA, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Ten key differences between Linux and Windows
- Before debating the relative merits and shortcomings of Linux and Windows, it helps to understand the real distinctions between them. Before debating the relative merits and shortcomings of Linux and Windows, it helps to understand the real distinctions between them. Here are the key differences distilled into one list....
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Jack Wallen. TechRepublic, Jack Wallen. ZDNet.co.uk, Windows, Microsoft, GNU Public License
- News items 2008-09-04
- Dell repair adventure, day 5
- Dell repair adventure, day 5No Backup!I find it hard to believe that a IT consultant, one that finds it necessary to attend conferences does not have a backup options in place. A) Is the writer a independent contractor? I guess that I need more information about the writers...
- Tags: Notebooks, Dell Computer Corp., laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Chrome, IE8, and longer term thinking
- Chrome, IE8, and longer term thinkingI wonder -- would others please weigh inOk, your stats here are out to lunch but I wonder about your basic point.I think it's wrong - that almost any non OS specific programming language can be used to produce a standard code base from...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Programming languages, operating system, Linux, Google Inc., IE8, Chrome, longer-term, COBOL, window
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Free Barcode Fonts (exe)
- A barcode package that offers three robust barcodes for common use. It solves every day barcode requirements from simple items tagging to the creation of mailing labels. The packages includes an encoder that converts raw data into a form suitable for barcodes and contains macros that can be used in...
- Tags: Font, Barcode, ConnectCode, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-09-04
- Forms in Google Docs
- Google has been getting a lot of attention in the last couple of days for its Chrome browser. As a Google devotee, I'm particularly bitter that the Mac port of Chrome hasn't made its way out of development yet. However, I did discover a slick new Google feature...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Docs, Spreadsheet, Productivity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- MobileMe's Rolling 1 Percent Outage
- MobileMe's Rolling 1 Percent OutageYahoo is just as bad.I have a Yahoo account that they cannot seem to fix. Have not been able to access it now for 3 months. Have over 200 unanswered messages in it. They do not seem to care, nor I would believe Apple. Have even...
- Tags: MobileMe
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Microsoft's Google Docs competitor to go final by year-end
- Microsoft's Google Docs competitor to go final by year-endMicrosoft's Google Docs competitor to go final by year-endIf Google wasn't already crapping their pants about IE8 and the web then this should give them more than enough reason to fill their shorts. A final product that is released, not some...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Word, Word processors, Channel management, Microsoft Office, Branding, Microsoft Corp., Google Docs Competitor, Google Inc., Google Docs
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
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