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No child technologically left behind?

No child technologically left behind?How about thinking as a workplace skill?Fortunes are being spent on this in networking, software, and hardware, but it really is just a vocational skill, not a curriculum element. 5th graders need to be learning how to think. Its possible to use a computer to do...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, ROI/TCO, PRODUCTIVITY, workplace, workplace skill, vocation, computer

Discussion threads 2006-03-17

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Cars vs Trucks (exe)

Grab tools, bonuses and powerups without getting hit by trucks pacman style. Drive and navigate your fast car through 50 level mazes of pure excitement. A variety of features included like Nitro Boost that puts the pedal to the medal to give you power acceleration, Maze Warp that lets you...

Tags: Window, Truck, JokerCade, Construction, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2008-07-16

What your boss hates about telecommuting

What your boss hates about telecommutingsince 1994....since 1994 I've been a full time telecommuter. It works very well for me and my family. I can see it NOT working for many people and many careers. Lower auto insurance rates, no commuting costs.. but your home electric bill may creep up....

Tags: telecommuting

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

Cal Ripken's Real Baseball (exe)

Cal Ripken's Real Baseball is the first video game to ever put 18 people on the same virtual field at the same time to compete for baseball bragging rights. Customize your own character traits and take the field with people from all around the world. Build up to 3 characters...

Tags: Baseball, Video Game, Cal Ripken, Games, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-07-15

Absolute Acey Deucey (zip)

Ready for a fun game of acey deucey or backgammon. Try this excellent, feature packed and easy to use acey deucey and backgammon game. With superb graphics and up to 5 skill levels, you won't be disappointed. For all levels of player, from beginner to expert. Gives advice on moves,...

Tags: Move, Level, Gammonsoft, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-07-15

Absolute Backgammon (zip)

Ready for a fun game of backgammon? Try this excellent, feature packed and easy to use backgammon game. With superb graphics and 5 skill levels, you won't be disappointed. For all levels of player, from beginner to expert. Can play using your voice. Gives advice on moves and the doubling...

Tags: Level, Gammonsoft, Games, Corporate Governance, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Software downloads 2008-07-15

Moving house: diary of a dial-up user (part 3)

Moving house: diary of a dial-up user (part 3)Moving house: diary of a dial-up user (part 3)I don't know about the UK but refusing to give someone their mail in the US is actually a fairly serious offense. I think you had some good reasons to do what you did...

Tags: diary, mailbox

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

Recovery Pole (exe)

Recovery Pole can recover deleted files and formatted or corrupt drives. It works with hard drives, digital cameras, USB drives, ZIP disks, CompactFlash cards, SmartMedia, and Memory Sticks. Recovery Pole is simple; no technical skill is required. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Deepali Softwares, Memory, Flash Memory, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-07-14

Most employees are frustrated with IT

Most employees are frustrated with ITIT NazisLike the feeling of unlimited power that comes from having the workers bow and scrape. That's the real problem.RE: Most employees are frustrated with ITNOTE: I think the system ate my first attempt at a reply, if not apologies for the duplication...Although I'm...

Tags: Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, IDC survey, information technology, IT Nazis

Discussion threads 2008-07-11

iPhone 3G poses barriers to business adoption

UK enterprise adoption of the iPhone 3G may be hampered by security issues and Apple's exclusive partnership with O2, among other factors. For years, Apple has paid little attention to products for enterprise users. Now it's pitching its new iPhone 3G as: "The best phone for business. Ever". But...

Tags: Barrier, Apple iPhone, Phone, O2 Plc., John Romeis, Gordon Barnes, Paul Jarvis, Phil Jackson, Ignacio Toro Lyng, 3G, Cellular Phones, GPS, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Natasha Lomas silicon.com, iPhone 3G, smart phones, Apple, IT

News items 2008-07-11

Music in the park

As I've mentioned earlier this week, I'm in San Francisco working on a project for a Kusnetzky Group subscriber. This has kept me rather busy from 7 AM or earlier until late in the evening. For some reason, a promoter must think that the folks in and around Union Square...

Tags: Concert, Musician, Music, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-11

A new look at technology visualization

A new look at technology visualizationStating the obviousIt's amazing how stating the obvious gets the headlines. It's even more amazing that, by and large, CIOs seem so oblivious. IT is not a young industry any more, neither is it an industry specifically for young people. However, the...

Tags: Strategy, technology visualization

Discussion threads 2008-07-11

I'll have the #3 Value Meal, Super Size, with an order of Linux

With the news that Best Buy will now be selling boxed, commercially supported versions of Ubuntu, the Desktop Linux onslaught begins. Our ultimate goal of Total World Domination will soon be within our grasp, now that yet another mondo-huge retailer has jumped on the Linux bandwagon. Or...

Tags: Ubuntu, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-10

Total Battleship (exe)

The classic naval strategy turn-based game of Battleship combined with modern warfare. Take part in epic battles with aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, frigates, submarines and even seaborn aviation, using the state of art missile technology while deciphering morse code communications. Apply your best strategy in order to be the first...

Tags: Radar, Luis De Sousa Reis, Aerospace & Defense, Strategy, Manufacturing, Management

Software downloads 2008-07-09

U.S. Justice Department to be sued

U.S. Justice Department to be suedWell now,we certainly don't need to track the ACLU now do we? We already know they're everywhere, all the time.RE: U.S. Justice Department to be suedI feel there is a need for finding someone when there lost or hurt. I am writing that they...

Tags: U.S. Department of Justice

Discussion threads 2008-07-08

Web 3.0 - the future of social networking

Note: re-posted after withdrawing post a few days ago; no changes made since then. I would put this very much on par with a past Scoble moment, as I've been lucky enough to see something which actually impresses me. I've seen a lot over my life, the...

Tags: 3D, Web, Facebook, Network, Web 3.0, Scene, Vivaty Scenes, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Might Microsoft's Midori be 'Cairo' revisited?

Might Microsoft's Midori be 'Cairo' revisited?If it is object oriented -it would work like OS/2, the versions after Microsoft and IBM stopped working together.The Workplace Shell was the best environment I've ever worked on.Baseless speculation is fun but uselessToward that end I would recommend you look up the meaning of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Midori, Microsoft Corp., operating system, SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-07-07

Amid ugly job picture, tech related employment holds up

The U.S. economy lost 62,000 jobs in June for the sixth straight month of employment losses with an unemployment rate of 5.5 percent, but underneath the technology sector is holding up well, according to Labor Department statistics. What a difference a downturn makes. Last...

Tags: Job, Technology Sector, Industry, U.S. Department Of Labor, Recruitment & Selection, Data Centers, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-03

News to know: Searching Silverlight; IE 8; Dell; Google vs. YouTube

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: Silverlight content searchable, too Ryan Stewart: Brian Goldfarb talks about Silverlight 2 and Deep Zoom with Michael Cot LineRider releases a Silverlight 2 version Microsoft steps up self-policing of its OSI-approved source licenses ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Mobile, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Linux, UNIX, Keyboards, Operating Systems, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Can your insurance force you out of the country?

Can your insurance force you out of the country?Will they include airfare and a guarantee?Most people have found good doctors they have a rapport with. If computer systems can't be dealt with by words printed on a cue card, human medicine is going to be a thousandfold more complex...

Tags: Government, Financial Planning, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, insurance, Socialized Medicine

Discussion threads 2008-07-02