Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
Additional Resources
- A fresh model for software maintenance
- It is clear that the homogeneous application of round sum percentages applied to software maintenance pricing is a dead business model. Nowhere is that more clearly illustrated in the recent kerfuffle over SAP's forced price rise for its maintenance services. SAP has put up a spirited defense but on the...
- Tags: Software, Vendor, Customer, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Get kids to touch type!
- Get kids to touch type!Two finger typing works.After years of it, one can attain a good speed. So long as the lights are not turned out. We are now in the interim before speech software is ready to replace the keyboard for many purposes. Though transcribing the...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, rtf, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- NYT: Yahoo, Microsoft in talks; Media pawns abound
- NYT: Yahoo, Microsoft in talks; Media pawns aboundGluteus maximus I suspect you mean ;-)Unless America has its own stupid version of that too.RE: NYT: Yahoo, Microsoft in talks; Media pawns aboundEmjoyed the English (and correct spelling ;)) of the glutus maximus area.Boo WhooI should feel bad the media is being...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Yahoo! Inc., media, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Are trolls missing a couple of things?
- Are trolls missing a couple of things?Are you expecting a large number of talkbacks here?I fear you will be disappointed, because AFAICT almost [b]everyone[/b] here uses a fake name. Not that I can confirm that those [i]very[/i] few people who post under credible-sounding names are using their [u]real[/u] names, either.And...
- Tags: Linux, troll, real name
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- How an information system helped nail Eliot Spitzer and a prostitution ring
- How an information system helped nail Eliot Spitzer and a prostitution ringbig brother is watching usIf a governor was watched for suspicious terrorist activities just imagine those with weird names and no fame being checked every day, or worse, detained at undisclosed facilities.The REALLY interesting IT angle on thisI found...
- Tags: Strategy, prostitution, hooker, Eliot Spitzer, information system
- Discussion threads 2008-03-11
- No+more+digital+product+keys+for+Windows+Anytime+Upgrade+users
- No+more+digital+product+keys+for+Windows+Anytime+Upgrade+usersblah!"blah blah blah Linux rocks yada yada yada Microsoft sucks blah"did I fully paraphrase your comment? If you're going to to evangelize Linux, don't do it here. Most people here won't use Linux specifically because no one likes being cajoled into anything (which you're trying to do). And be more...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista, No+more+digital+product+keys+for+Windows+Anytime+Upgrade+users, Microsoft Windows XP, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-02-07
- Build a 10 Gbit home network for $1100
- Build a 10 Gbit home network for $1100Necessary?I'm not sure even the "hardcore gamer" needs a 10Gbit home network. Heck, I stream HD content and I don't even have a need for a gigabit network... yet.Unless you're hammering the bejesus out of your network, it's not necessary. Neat though it...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Games, GigE, latency, network, Gbit home network, GBit, home network
- Discussion threads 2008-01-31
- Amazon 'Kindled' thoughts: Should Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 be renamed to Fahrenheit 1981?
- Amazon 'Kindled' thoughts: Should Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 be renamed to Fahrenheit 1981?DRM the real problemDRM and endless copyright are the real problem. The books at Project Gutenberg will never go out of print. They have already bee dublicated on hundreds of web sites and thousands, if not millions of devices.Only...
- Tags: Digital media, environmentalism, Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-12-03
- 23andme to launch Monday
- 23andme to launch MondayFreakyI'm not sure how many people will want to know all this information about themselves much less want to put down $999- John MusbachGovernment Gold MineHow nice would it be to have access to this type of data...talk about understanding if someone had a higher tendency to...
- Tags: Biotechnology, DNA
- Discussion threads 2007-11-17
- Leopard suffers the post release blues
- A few weeks ago I wondered out loud about how Leopard would be received by the masses. Like Vista it's long awaited, like Vista the launch was delayed, and like Vista, I got the impression that Apple rushed a bit to get it out of the door because the Mac...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Bug, Leopard, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Can OpenSolaris become an alternative to enterprise Linux?
- Sun's "open source road map" is to make OpenSolaris a viable alternative to enterprise Linux through a simpler install package and alliances in the enterprise open source space. The featured speaker for yesterday's open source summit at the Santa Clara headquarters was Debian founder Ian Murdock, who joined...
- Tags: OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Idea, PostgreSQL, Murdock, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- Use of Virtual Machine Software Requires Expertise
- This post is part of a series of myths I've heard mentioned during discussion with Kusnetzky Group clients. This time, the topic is expertise requirements. Often suppliers of virtualization technology in general and virtual machine software in specific leave the impression that their technology can be just dropped into the...
- Tags: Expertise, Virtual Machine, Data Management, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- Sir Richard Branson: VoIP "might be possible" on Virgin flights
- On the inaugural flight of Virgin America airlines, Engadget's Paul Miller sat down with Virgin Group chair Sir Richard Branson.After some pleasantries and various visioneering yada yada, Paul asked Sir Richard about the possibility of VoIP on Virgin Atlantic and Virgin America:"So you think technologies like VoIP that would...
- Tags: VoIP, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-12
- Safari for Windows: it syncs
- When Steve Jobs made his WWDC announcement regarding Safari for Windows, there was much discussion about how this would broaden the iPhone developer community, yada yada.Well, sure. But one important thing about Safari for Windows went largely uncommented-upon: When you're using a phone browser, you really need bookmarks...
- Tags: Software, Gadgets
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- Windows Vista - Proceed with Confidence (or tread carefully?)
- Windows Vista - Proceed with Confidence (or tread carefully?)The problem.MS gets it's ubiquity from its corporate presence.Vista is a consumer oriented OS for all intents and purposes.MS is getting its lunch eaten by Apple in the consumer space.MS is trying to convince corporations they really do need Vista.No wonder...A Secunia...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Piracy, Operating systems, AutoPatcher, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2007-06-21
- Windows Vista - Proceed with Confidence (or tread carefully?)
- It seems that Microsoft doesn't want customers to wait any longer to upgrade to Windows Vista. The message coming in from Redmond is "Do it! Do it NOW!"Try to integrate a Vista box into an existing hardware/software ecosystem and it's a throw of the dice as to whether it's all...
- Tags: Vista, Trends, Thoughts, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- Viacom and YouTube lawyers and others are in violent agreement: intellectual property won't kill social media
- There has been a good deal of violent agreement thus far here at Supernova, but I was pretty surprised at the degree of it we had on the panel I moderated this morning, captioned Will Intellectual Property Kill Social Media? The answer was resoundingly "no," and the converse also...
- Tags: Video, User generated content, Social news, Social networking, MGM v. Grokster, Mashups, Live Web, Licenses, Lawsuits, DMCA, Copyright, Conferences
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Ubuntu - Direct from Dell
- Ubuntu - Direct from DellWell, I was wrongDell isn't charging a $100 premium for Ubuntu.It's only $60In a few months they'll be able to cancel the program with the "there's no demand for Linux" excuse again.FYIThe PCs will be available in the U.S. after 4 p.m. Central Time from Dell's...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Notebooks, XPS 410, Inspiron E1505, Dell Computer Corp., Ubuntu, Dimension E520, Linux, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-05-24
- More BlackBerry 8300 pics, specs here
- Flickr Member Mr. M graciously shares specs and pix of the forthcoming BlackBerry 8300 with Pinstack.Mr. Ms specific offering is the Vodafone BlackBerry 8300. Heres a link to what Pinstack has posted.I already am showing you one pic.Another one below, but first let us clean the marketing yada yada...
- Tags: Uncategorized, BlackBerry Rumors
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
White Papers and Webcasts
