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Buddi (exe): Buddi is a personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background. In making this software, I have attempted to make things as simple as possible, while still retaining enough functions to satisfy most home users. Buddi includes the ability to create a budget,...; Tags: Budget, Financial, Wyatt Olson, Buddi, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance; Software downloads 2007-12-19
Buddi (OS X) (dmg): Buddi is a personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background. In making this software, I have attempted to make things as simple as possible, while still retaining enough functions to satisfy most home users. Buddi includes the ability to create a budget,...; Tags: Budget, Financial, Wyatt Olson, Buddi, Apple Mac OS X, Financial Accounting, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Finance; Software downloads 2007-03-19

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Motorola: The evolving mobile Internet: At the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco Thursday, Motorola executive Christy Wyatt explains the various stages of the mobile Internet and the importance of giving users the ability to download and use many different applications to create a unique experience.; Tags: Mobile, Motorola Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, JavaOne, Motorola, mobile internet; Videos 2008-05-09
With doughnut policies who fills the hole?: The big trend in health insurance this year is the Consumer Directed Health Plan CDHP. It is, in essence, a doughnut policy. (Picture from Scooter's Doughnut.Net.) You're given so-called catastrophic coverage, in fact a ginormous deductible. Then you create a Health Savings Account HSA,...; Tags: Health Care, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-03-13
A plethora of PaaS options: A plethora of PaaS optionsApple and Oranges Compliment One AnotherGreat piece that gets beneath the oversimplification that often 'clouds' the discussion. ISV needs are definitely different than the enterprise. We are big fans of several platforms including Force.com (http://www.appirio.com/blog/2008/02/may-force.php) and Amazon Web Services. In fact Appirio has...; Tags: IT System, PaaS, PaaS option, plethora, Phil; Discussion threads 2008-03-06

Can medical inflation be controlled?: Everyone talks about medical inflation. But no one does anything about it. (Picture from Majorconflict.com, a liberal blog.) A quick look at the figures gathered by Watson Wyatt today make that point clearly. Medical inflation is a global phenomenon. Whether you run it privately...; Tags: Health Care, Inflation, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-02-06
Why don't kids use email?: Why don't kids use email?An Interesting PerspectiveI was working at AT&T Wireless when they started really pushing text-messaging for our customers, and at the time I didn't get it: I never thought it would catch on. Typing a text-message into your cellphone instead of just placing a call is like...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, e-mail, e-mail application, cell phone, computer, text messaging; Discussion threads 2007-12-03
Guilt by association: it's called reputation: Guilt by association: it's called reputationMessage has been deleted.RE: Guilt by association: it's called reputationHi Phil,At iovation we do feel that online reputation is a crucial element of preventing fraud, much as it is in the physical world. One clarification about our services though is that we provide fraud...; Tags: Litigation, guilt, fraud; Discussion threads 2007-11-02
Today's Debate: Can Little Brother policies cut health care costs?: Spurred in part by a report from consultants Watson Wyatt, many employers this fall plan to take a far more active role in managing their employees' lifestyles and thus, they hope, their own health care costs. While perks like corporate health clinics will draw the headlines, most...; Tags: Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-10-10
Why bicycles are so stable?: Why bicycles are so stable?RE: Why bicycles are so stable?About a year ago there was a program on one of the Science or History channels that covered this topic. A team of researchers experimented on a bicycle and determined that while the human rider did offer some...; Tags: bike, bicycle, rider; Discussion threads 2007-09-22
Microsoft preps customers early in hopes of avoiding DST fallout: Microsoft preps customers early in hopes of avoiding DST falloutToo little, too late.Microsoft systems can not be relied on. Manual updates are common for any client that uses this OS.Quite amazingWhy does this require a patch at all? Why isn't it a simple update of a timezone database? ...; Tags: Storage, Databases, Patches, database, DST, fallout, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-09-16
Motorola, Qumranet Closer To Shipping Mobile, Virtual Linux Products: Motorola is close to releasing its much anticipated, first Linux-based Razr2 V8 handset in the U.S, " said Christy M Wyatt, vice president of ecosystem and market development for Motorola during a LinuxWorld press conference. Showing off her own Linux Razr2, Wyatt was prevented by the company's communications...; Tags: Mobile, Motorola Inc., Qumranet, KVM, Virtualization, Storage Management, Linux, Utility Computing, Open Source, Hardware, Storage, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2007-08-08
Former McAfee exec found guilty of securities fraud: Former McAfee exec found guilty of securities fraudSo, What Else Is NewAnother corporate crook; obviously Enron was only the tip of the iceberg. While this is no Enron, it reflects what appears to be a sharp rise in dishonesty in corporate America since the 1990's. All these corporate crooks...; Tags: Corporate America, corporate crook, crook, McAfee Inc., Goyal; Discussion threads 2007-05-14
Options update: Former Apple CFO throws Steve Jobs under the bus: According to the Wall Street Journal subscription reqd former CFO and Apple board member Fred Anderson said that he "warned Chief Executive Steve Jobs about accounting implications associated with the backdating of stock-options grants."Anderson made the remarks about Jobs in a statement filed by his attorney today after agreeing to...; Tags: Legal; Blog posts 2007-04-24
SD sex scandal leads to tighter rules on senate laptops: South Dakota Sen. Dan Sutton was a bad boy. Not only did he sleep with a former legislative page, he made his Senate-issued laptop available to a variety of teenage pages. According to the Associated Press: When questioned about how search terms leading to pornographic sites wound up...; Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, computer, laptop computer, Sutton; Blog posts 2007-02-05
Demo 07: A 6th Sense for developers: 6th Sense Analytics demoed an on-demand tool for gathering performance metrics in software development projects. 6th Sense measures active time (time spent coding, testing, debugging) and flow time (uninterrupted periods of active time of at least 20 minutes). A data collector integrates with the leading development tools and sensors...; Tags: Development tools, tool, developer; Blog posts 2007-01-31
College limits use of Wikipedia; good idea, site says: The history professors at Middlebury College in Vermont voted this month to ban the use of Wikipedia as a source for student citations in academic work, reports Inside Higher Ed The professors justified the ban by saying that that although Wikipedia is a very convenient source of information, it...; Tags: Education Technology, Higher Ed, Wikipedia; Blog posts 2007-01-29
Wikipedia: Should students trust it?: Jimmy Wales, co-founder Wikipedia, admonished Microsoft for its efforts in seeking to correct what it deems to be inaccuracies in a Wikipedia entry, as I discuss and analyze in “Can Wikipedia handle the truth?”Conventional media “wisdom” is in accord with Wikipedia’s Wales. Google News headlines today include: "Microsoft tried...; Tags: Web 2.0, Media, Citizen Journalism, Culture, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Internet Data, Amateur Content, Self-Promotion, Wikipedia, Content, Social Media; Blog posts 2007-01-27
As winter looms, Iowa uses snowplow simulator to increase safety: How would you like to drive one of those monster snowplows in a driving blizzard, on a four-lane highway with no idea if a car will careen wildly in front of you or whether a ditched car is already covered in snowfall? If you live in a heavy weather state...; Tags: Iowa; Blog posts 2006-11-01
RFID passports take off: RFID passports take off[b]Get a bunch of tags...[/b]Instead of worrying about having 1 identifiable tag on your person, carry 50 or more. I can see that there will be an market for decoy RFID cards or pens that contain 50 or more RFIDs. Carry it your shirt pocket,...; Tags: RFID, RFID Passport, passport; Discussion threads 2006-10-26