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- Boingo - a traveler's lifesaver
- I've been road testing Boingo on both my laptop and N95 the last few months. It's great. In short, Boingo provides subscribers with an easy way to avoid all those ludicrous $X per day charges that hotels and airport operators try to gouge out of you when on the road...
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Accor Cuts Period-End Closure Times by 30% in Its Hotel Business
- Present in nearly 140 countries, Accor is Europe's leading hotelier and service provider with over 4,000 hotels representing such brands as Sofitel, Pullman, Novotel, Mercure, Suitehotel, All Seasons, Ibis, Etap Hotel, Formule 1 and Motel 6. Accor wanted to provide the group with the technological momentum to get ahead of...
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- The Big Switch: The network becomes the data center
- Nick Carr, the Paul Revere of utility computing, blogged about HP reducing its data centers from over 80 to 6 and Sun's effort to shut down all its internal data centers by 2013. To achieve even greater efficiency will require a higher level of consolidation - across companies...
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- Dell adds support for Ubuntu 7.10 and build-in DVD playback
- Dell adds support for Ubuntu 7.10 and build-in DVD playbackDVD playback and Flash are steps in the right direction.Now if only Dell would get IT's installtion to playback ALL commonfile formats "out of the box" without the "we don't support that"BS that I encountered when I tried Ubuntu on my...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-19
- Accor Employees Significantly Improve Productivity With Unified Messaging
- As one of the largest hotel and hospitality organizations in the world, Accor is always looking to help its employees and worldwide teams to communicate and collaborate more effectively. The company - which includes the Sofitel, Novotel, Mercure, Suitehotel, Ibis, Etap, Formule 1, Motel6, Studio 6 hotel chains, Lenotre, and...
- Case studies 2007-10-06
- ZDNet reader: Don't let OOXML vs. ODF shenanigans tarnish other standards setters
- I've been a watcher of the great many standards setting processes for a great many years and there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes that most people don't know about. In 2003, I even won an award for my coverage of standards from the American National Standards Institute:...
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- The Vista question is about want, not need
- The Vista question is about want, not needBut it all depends.....I agree with you in principle but if you want to make an informed purchase and get to really know what is under the hood of Vista and if it has the compelling something that makes the upgrade worthwhile how...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-26
- A TIGER to track pathogens
- TIGER, short for "Triangulation Identification for Genetic Evaluation of Risks," is a tool used by several U.S. labs which need to quickly identify pathogens, such as bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms that cause disease. In TIGER Technique Targets Plant Pathogens, the USDA/Agricultural Research Service ARS says that this detection tool...
- Blog posts 2007-01-09
- SOA Revolutionizes Popular Swiss Banking Platform
- RTC is a bank outsourcing company with a successful track record over 30 years. The comprehensive banking solution IBIS manages almost the entire value and process chain in the financial sector. The mission now is to make this solution fit for the future by gradually upgrading to a commercial and...
- Case studies 2006-03-01
- Ibis 3.02 (Mac)
- Ibis (pronounced eye-biss) is an AppleScript that will auto-post files to newsgroups using Thoth for OS X. Just drop a folder onto the Ibis icon to start posting the contents of that folder to your favorite newsgroup. You can also specify a folder by double-clicking on the Ibis icon. Panther...
- Software downloads 2006-01-26
- Adware Detections
- Spyware and anti-spyware expert Eric L. Howes just updated his work on the State of Adware Detections. Twelve well major players in the anti-spyware business were tested with eight advertising software vendors. The vendors included 180solutions, AskJeeves, Claria formerly gator, Hotbar, Ibis, New.net, Weatherbug and WhenU. You...
- Blog posts 2005-10-07
- Thorndike Vol 1 Dictionary Illustrations (Mobile)
- The Thorndike collection is a set of illustrations for the Nexus English Super Dictionary by PocketSensei. Nexus version 1.2.5 or better is required.Thorndike Volume I contains: abdomen, African elephant, alligator, anchovy, anther, aqueous humor, asp, badger, barberry, bay window, beret, bison, boar, cabbage, canon, chaffinch, Corinthian order, cruet, dachshund, davit,...
- Software downloads 2004-12-20
- Adware maker challenges Utah anti-spyware law
- Adware maker challenges Utah anti-spyware lawPoor WhenU (couldn't happen to a sleezier outfit!)Oh, boo hoo for WhenU. Poor sleezebags are having their monumentally abysmal business practices questioned in the Courts.I hope they are lynched. I regularly get hijacked by my not-so-computer-literate-friends to remove the latest 15 or 20 pieces of...
- Discussion threads 2004-04-13
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