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- The 8GB/64-bit advantage - More RAM doesn't always mean better performance
- The 8GB/64-bit advantage - More RAM doesn't always mean better performanceI'll give you one thing ...... you're fast!RE: ProofreaderYou missed, "As expected, the difference in score between a system running [b]8GB[/b] of RAM and one running with only [b]8GB[/b] was small when measured with PassMark PerformanceTest 6.1."I offer ZDNet the...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Social media and 'green': two fashion trends to avoid
- I love the ideas behind social media and the move towards all things green but if you want evidence our industry is fashion driven then look no further than John Furrier's 'so what?' thumbs down to Delicious2. Even so, sooner or later, technology has to deliver and it is a...
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- McAfee debunks recent vulnerabilities in AV software research, n.runs restates its position
- Several days after blogging about a research conduced by n.runs AG that managed to discover approximately 800 vulnerabilities in antivirus products, McAfee issued a statement basically debunking the number of vulnerabilities found, and providing its own account into the number of vulnerabilities affecting its own products : "A recent...
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Does Google need a standards office pronto?
- Google is increasingly in the middle of multiple efforts like Android and standards development. The problem: Google doesn't have a centralized standards office to manage its efforts. According to open source consultant Stephen Walli, Google needs a standards office as its reach grows. Walli writes in a...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Understanding SOA and Business Mashups: Automate. Coordinate. Collaborate. No coding required!
- Featured Speaker: Tim Zonca, Master Masher and Director of Product Marketing at Serena Software Service Oriented Architecture SOA has been the talk of business process management, IT and enterprise architecture for the last decade, but the promise of SOA remains largely unfulfilled. Learn how Serena Business...
- Webcasts 2008-06-26
- Hey, kids! IT isn't boring!
- Hey, kids! IT isn't boring!There is no future in ITThe IT bubble bust around 2000 was only the tip of the ice burg. Today, IT is a mediocre industry that has an ecosystem of incompetent and insufficiently educated people from the "IT Recruiters/HR", the people doing the hiring to the...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Texas Instruments strives to make power management more intuitive, deep within its processors
- Before I get into the guts of this post, a special thank-you to the team at Texas Instruments (Bill Krenik, CTO of the wireless business unit, and Dave Freeman, Texas Instruments Fellow, Analog & Digital Power Control Products) who were patient enough to brief me weeks and weeks and weeks...
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- GrooveIT pour Mes Calendriers (msi)
- Everyone within a team has its own deadlines, appointments, meetings, conferences. It can be very difficult and time consuming to coordinate personal, team, customers, business partners schedules. GrooveIT! for My Calendars is a highly effective and simple to use tool that facilitates and improves time management for Office Groove and...
- Software downloads 2008-06-20
- Facing the Software Quality Challenge: The Results of a New IDC Survey
- Development organizations today are faced with a number of significant challenges. They must coordinate disparate code sources, overcome code complexity, keep pace with rapid change, enforce compliance with mandatory processes, and work within budgetary constraints to name just a few. So, how are these organizations faring? Are developers successfully dealing...
- Webcasts 2008-06-19
- Mashing it up with Support: Automate, Coordinate and Collaborate with the Incident Escalation Mashup
- Keep your internal customers, support and development teams informed--from first call to final fix--with insight at every step along the way. View this Serena webinar to see how Business Mashups drive productivity throughout IT, starting with the main internal customer entry point--the IT help desk. Serena Software...
- Webcasts 2008-06-19
- Rumpus (dmg)
- If you need to allow people from within your office or across the Internet to send, receive, and manage files on a central Mac, Rumpus FTP is what you are looking for. Whether you need to accept graphics files from remote locations, manage content on a Web server, or coordinate...
- Software downloads 2008-06-17
- Closed spectrum means closed source
- Closed spectrum means closed sourceYawn... where's the anti-MS rant that zealots loved to feast on.Oh, well.Do you want to.......get on a plane when air traffic control doesn't have exclusive use of its frequencies (voice, radar, Nav aids)?...watch television when you have a crummy picture or no picture because the TV...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
- Robofish teams of underwater robots
- Many of today's underwater robots need to periodically come up to the surface to communicate with their human supervisors. But researchers at the University of Washington UW have developed a new kind of underwater vehicle. The Robofish can work cooperatively with each other. 'The Robofish, which are roughly the size...
- Blog posts 2008-06-07
- Sanyo Pro-700 (Sprint)
- When Sprint merged with Nextel almost three years ago, there were concerns with how Sprint would integrate its CDMA network with Nextel's iDEN network, and how the two companies would coordinate their respective push-to-talk services. A new push-to-talk technology was developed by Qualcomm, called QChat, to help that process along....
- Product reviews 2008-06-06
- Sanyo Pro-200 (Sprint)
- When Sprint merged with Nextel almost three years ago, there were concerns with how Sprint would integrate its CDMA network with Nextel's iDEN network, and how the two companies would coordinate their respective push-to-talk services. A new tush-to-talk technology was developed by Qualcomm, called QChat, to help that process along....
- Product reviews 2008-06-06
- Asus M70
- The Asus M70 is the most fully loaded laptop we've seen in a long while. Aside from its massive terabyte of hard-drive space (enough to hold a few hundred movies or a few hundred thousand MP3s), the multimedia system incorporates a Blu-ray drive and a full-HD display, plus an HDMI...
- Product reviews 2008-06-06
- The Business Case for Business Mashups: Help Your Organization Automate, Coordinate & Collaborate
- Business Mashups drive business productivity by automating and coordinating collaboration across people and systems. But how do you justify the investment? How do you explain the power of Business Mashups to others in your organization? Watch this on-demand Webcast to hear Serena Software master masher Tim Zonca...
- Webcasts 2008-05-29
- Panda Security delivers cloud-based security management service for SMBs
- IT security provider Panda Security has unveiled its Managed Office Protection solution, a security-as-a-service offering aimed at small and medium businesses SMBs as well as large companies with a significant number of geographically dispersed offices. The service from the Panda keeps the total cost of ownership TCO...
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Greetings from Lesotho
- It's amazing how dependent we become on technology. Internet access and a working mobile phone are something that most westerners now take for granted. When they are gone, however, you feel oddly disconnected. You can't pop online to check news. You can't check email. Without a working mobile phone, you...
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- CopanMobile for Palm OS (txt)
- CopanMobile for Palm OS is a very efficient and easy-to-use geomatics engineering tool for computing and managing plane survey coordinates. It does numerous coordinate geometry COGO calculations, processes and adjusts raw field survey data, computes and adjusts map traverse data, performs map checks, calculates curves, areas and perimeters, performs coordinate...
- Software downloads 2008-05-13
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- Intel IT Data Center Efficiency Initiative - Going Green
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