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- News to know: Windows 7; Google Dashboard; Driving while texting; Steve Jobs; Droid
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic" Dana Blankenhorn: What the Google Privacy Dashboard can...
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- Congratulations to Steve Jobs, Fortune's CEO of the Decade
- congratzunlike you, im not a mac fan. even so, i recognize how important jobs is to the tech industry. without apple's OS (and linux, bsd, blah blah blah), windows wouldnt be any more different tha, oh say, windows 98 since there would be no reason for microsoft to add better...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Congratulations to Steve Jobs, Fortune's CEO of the Decade
- Fortune Magazine names Apple CEO Steve Jobs CEO of the Decade. by Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Steve Jobs: Silicon Valley's Babe Ruth (and Fortune's CEO of the decade)
- What no comment by NonZ? I hope he/she is not ill or something:PPagan jimThe P.T.Barnum of the Tech Industry......when is he going to cut the Chinamen that work for him in on the big cash flow?NZ will show up at some pointUnless he is on vacation.Or getting over the...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic"
- RE: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are One report has at 4% market share the weekend of launch so im sure its past that already.Has Windows 7 marketshare eclipsed total OS X marketshare yet?Just wondering. :)MSFT: 1/2000 = $56. Today, $28.40Win 7 may not be the catastrophe the last...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Steve Jobs: Silicon Valley's Babe Ruth (and Fortune's CEO of the decade)
- Love or hate Apple but you have to give Steve Jobs his due -- he has an amazing track record of success, and he's not done yet... by Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Wal-mart preempts Black Friday with HDTV specials this Saturday
- China made productsYES all we need is more 'Made In China' to get the economy churning....Bring it home to 'China' no longer USA because we are like Rome we manufacture nothing, we import everything and borrowing TRILLIONS from China.How long will this last I would say as long as they...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Super Flexible File Synchronizer 4.78 (Mac)
- Back up your data and synchronize Macs, PCs, servers, notebooks, and online storage space. You can set up as many different jobs as you need and run them manually or using the scheduler. The software comes with support for Zipping, FTP, SSH/SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3 and data encryption. There are...
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- RapidShare Downloader 4.16 (Windows)
- RapidShare Downloader is a download manager that downloads files from RapidShare.com automatically. RapidShare Downloader, downloads files one by one and waits RapidShare.com's Wait-Time period for next file. MajorShare - RapidShare Downloader; developed for downloading files from RapidShare easily. The best thing for Free Users. You can create your download list...
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- vTask Studio (formerly VistaTask) 7.70 (Windows)
- vTask Studio gives you the opportunity to control every aspect of your computer, such as the keyboard, mouse and Web actions, without needing to write any programming code. vTask Studio is useful in many different scenarios, such as software quality assurance testing, IT administration jobs, repetitive data entry, program installations,...
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- Peering inside Microsoft's giant data center
- New Type of TheftI can just see the headlines.Hard drive stolen, just drove away.But realistically mobile servers will be helpful but this will affect an industry that builds these data centers.Again MS is trying to create unemployment.Nothing wrong with automating jobsEspecially jobs that can be automated easily.However, I doubt this...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- EU showdown over Oracle-Sun; Objections seem imminent
- Oracle is reportedly gearing up for a formal rejection by European regulators of its bid to acquire Sun Microsystems, according to a report in the Financial Times. An official statement of objection, the first step in blocking the $7.4 billion deal, could come as early as this week - but...
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- New York AG files antitrust charges against Intel; alleges bribery, coercion
- Normally I'd say this is just another NY AG trying to run for higher officebut this seems to have legs. I hope Intel didn't do it - but if they did, they need to be repremanded.Great to see some justice against InhellI can hardly wait to see the M$...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Are the Microsoft layoffs over now?
- I hope soI hate seeing "SoandSo killing X amount of jobs" in the news =/Ballmer should be the first to get laid offHis reklessness to ignore the FOSS and cling to the proprietary model drove M$ into the ground.Q1 revenues of $13Bn generating $3.5Bn in net profit ...... would tend...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Are the Microsoft layoffs over now?
- When Microsoft announced in January that the company was cutting 5,000 jobs, it wasn't clear how many waves it would take to realize that count. It looks like the cuts aren't done yet, based on an initial report of November 4 layoffs by TechFlash and a follow-up, claiming 800 jobs...
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- Oracle giving EU a hard time over Sun buy
- Oh my, must not up set the crazy EU.Pfttt....A small question why EU can stop or affect a deal inside usa ..... or is the deal is global ....Also we EU dont fork MYSQL into something purely EU ... and tell Oracle to go to hell. If the...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- PdfEdit995 9.5 (Windows)
- Create PDF files from any application by simply selecting the print command. Preview documents, combine files, change page orientation, add "Confidential" stamps, create PDF stationery, adjust image resolution, summarize documents, convert PDFs to several image file formats, create batch print jobs from Microsoft Office applications, and choose from several file-naming...
- Software downloads 2009-11-04
- WinAutomation 3.0 (Windows)
- With WinAutomation you can easily automate any repetitive task. You can create jobs to automate all kinds of operations such as file operations, FTP transfers, import/export data to Excel, send emails, connect to and query databases and much more, without having to write a single line of code. For the...
- Software downloads 2009-11-03
- Headline 2010: e-Reader device failure
- The market knows best, right? Markets are bloody paths to progress. At this writing there are approximately 52 e-reader devices coming to market in the next 12 months. Fifty-two different devices coming to market (Here's what I wrote about Steve Jobs' approach to reader devices when there were just 45...
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- Psystar: From Hell's Heart, I Stab at Thee!
- No matter who they have to sueApple will never allow competition.agreedthey want as much profits as they can make.too bad their computers aren't very good for anything other than the basics and some visual/audio work ;)with that said, i believe that apple will have its future in their i-products (ipod,...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
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