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- Facebook - Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory?
- What on earth are Facebook doing? Imagine going into a stationery store and buying a Filofax personal organizer and then over time filling it with personal contacts info, photos and notes. You come home one night and it's no longer...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- With 3.5 launch, Firefox faces new challengers
- Mozilla's browser broke Microsoft IE's lock on the market. But the new Firefox 3.5 faces other serious alternative-browser ontenders. A funny thing to happened to Firefox on the way to vanquishing Internet Explorer: the Mozilla browser's success opened the door for a host of its...
- News items 2009-06-30
- BeAnywhere Support Express 1.02.00 (Windows)
- Professional remote support solution. Unlimited support sessions. There is no limit to how many customers you provide support service or to how many support sessions you establish. Remote control, File transfer and Chat. No software installation required. Provide immediate support to customers and colleagues without pre-installing software. Generate reports about...
- Software downloads 2009-06-24
- The Cost of the Free Internet
- The outpouring of interest in and passionate argument about IAC chairman Barry Diller’s declaration last week that the delivery of content over the Internet ‘absolutely’ will become a ‘paid system’ was instructive. First, it shows the power of the “free†Internet, as it is currently constructed. A...
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Anyone care to publish some textbooks on Scribd?
- The recent headlines about Simon and Schuster's publication of 5000 ebooks on Scribd grabbed my attention, since I had previously and unfairly put a look at the new service on the back burner. I'm glad I took the time to check it out since, assuming their business model is...
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- WWDC 2009 live
- It's that time again: the annual Apple World Wide Developer's Conference and its highly anticipated keynote address. Phil Schiller ran the show this year, and while he's no Steve Jobs most observers agree that he did a pretty good job. Highlights include a revamping of the MacBook Pro line, the...
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- Report: Microsoft readies new maximum specs for Windows 7 netbooks
- Report: Microsoft readies new maximum specs for Windows 7 netbooksWindows 7 = crippled. Just use LinuxWhy buy an OS with all of these artificial restraints? This is what closed source gets you, a compromised product.Won't Run on ARM Netbook AnywayARM processor based netbooks are about to hit the market...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-22
- Flowplayer 3.1.0 (Windows)
- Flowplayer is an Open Source (GPL 3) video player for the Web. Use it to embed video streams into your web pages. Built for site owners, developers, hobbyists, businesses and serious programmers. Flash technology enables that 98% of all Internet users can see your videos. Highly skinnable. No other software...
- Software downloads 2009-04-23
- JExplorer 2.1 (Windows)
- JExplorer provides a convenient Java API for integrating Microsoft Internet Explorer into Java applications as a Java Swing UI component in headless mode, so you can embed it into the UI to manipulate programmatically without specific knowledge of COM or the Microsoft Internet Explorer API. Version 2.1 adds Java Applets...
- Software downloads 2009-04-16
- New Microsoft TV commercial claims Macs are more about aesthetics
- New Microsoft TV commercial claims Macs are more about aestheticsThe Apple World is missing the point of the commercialsAll this nitpicking is just pathetic because people are INTENTIONALLY trying to miss the point of the commercials and instead are deflecting and saying things like "Why didn't she pay sales tax"...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-04
- Perfect PDF 5 Premium 5.0 (Windows)
- Perfect PDF 5 Premium is a powerful software for all tasks concerning the PDF file format. Conversion of documents into pdf files, changing of properties, content editing, document commenting, designing, protecting and digital signing, creating and filling out forms and much more is possible with Perfect PDF 5 Premium. Integration...
- Software downloads 2009-03-01
- I've Seen the Future of Computing: It's a Screen.
- In the not so far off future, computing for most of us will be reduced to remotely delivered subscriber services, running on cheap, commodity high-definition display units. The last few weeks have been a rush of virtualization and cloud-based announcements. In December, IBM...
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- CIO Sessions: Verisign CTO on building a new Internet
- CIO Sessions: Verisign CTO on building a new InternetRightHas everyone forgot the wildcard redirect in DNS? Verisign can't be trusted to design a new internet because its design would "coincidentally" lock in Verisign's incumbency and enhance Verisign's revenues.Imagine the feeding frenzy at the committee meetings with telcos, cable companies...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-11
- CIO Sessions: Verisign CTO on building a new Internet
- Ken Silva, CTO of Verisign, recently sat down with me to talk security, building a network, domain names and trying to out-innovate hackers. I also give him a proverbial white board to design a new Internet. Here's what Silva would do with a...
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
- The widget conundrum
- There's a pretty good article in Advertising Age about the benefits of widgets and the fact that not a lot of people are using it. AdAge says that "entire segment" will amount to around $100 million. That sounds like a chunk of money, and especially one for an industry that...
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Preparing for a Flickr Apocalypse
- Preparing for a Flickr ApocalypseHmmmm ..."sinking with all its hosted data on it, leaving its users with no recourse other than their own backups."If you rely in a third party as the only repository of your data, how valuable can it be? If you don't have a backup, how valuable...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-14
- Intrexx Xtreme 4.5 (Windows)
- The easy-to-use Portal Builder Intrexx Xtreme comes with many ready-made templates, with the emphasis on clicking rather than coding. Intranets, portals and Web applications can be developed in a drag-and-drop environment, with fully configurable assets such as a knowledge base, holiday application form and FAQ page available out-of-the-box. Even complex...
- Software downloads 2008-10-24
- Microsoft's "Don't Talk Like a Pirate" day
- Microsoft's "Don't Talk Like a Pirate" daySo this is code for"Love and Accept DRM Day"? Yes, please, give us more of the aphrodesiatic DRM we love so much!! MORE MORE MORE!!If they were serious, they could.Seriously, been over this with Ed. You could make the actual install activation...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-21
- Clickjacking: Researchers raise alert for scary new cross-browser exploit
- [ UPDATE: See e-mail from NoScript creator Giorgio Maone on a possible mitigation ] Researchers are beginning to raise an alarm for what looks like a scary new browser exploit/threat affecting all the major desktop platforms -- Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple...
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- If Apple really wanted to revolutionize the iPod, it would embed wireless broadband
- On Tuesday, Apple is expected to unveil the latest updates to its iPod product line in San Francisco at 10:00 AM Pacific. With Apple's recent comments about an important "product transition" that's coming this fall, there are strong expectations that Steve Jobs is going to announce something big. However, the...
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
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