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- Is your culture getting in the way of your IT success?
- Many enterprise IT investments lead to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches - but often forgotten is the culture of an organization itself. Commentary - While any planned enterprise IT investment leads to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches, too often left out...
- News items 2009-11-23
- AOL: Will Armstrong get any honeymoon?
- Time to send out some free AOL signup disks ntntGood Bye AOLThe sooner AOL is just a shadow in the rear-view-mirror of technological history, the better.Since day one they were a success because of aggressive marketing not due to providing anything of any value to their customers.When they bought Time...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Adding a Wizard to your Magic Mouse
- you're nuts.Multi touch on a laptop trackpad is IMO the single best thing about apple hardware. It is not illogical that this tech should show up in a mouse as well. Clearly, you haven't tried it. It works quite well and there is no "contortion" needed.Dumbest... mouse... everJust because something...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Jabra Stone
- Not many Bluetooth headsets combine style and performance, and when they do, they stand out. Examples include the Aliph Jawbone Prime, the BlueAnt Q1, and the Plantronics Discovery 975. Jabra, a company that has been in the Bluetooth business a long time, attempts to come up with yet another headset...
- Product reviews 2009-11-17
- Toshiba Satellite E105-S1802
- Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores.Toshiba's latest Blue Label laptop from Best Buy, the Satellite E105-S1802, is an exact replica of the company's earlier Satellite E105-S1602 model with one...
- Product reviews 2009-11-16
- Resistance to change: The real Enterprise 2.0 barrier
- Vive Le Resistance!Michael - Resistance to Change, Immunity to Change - there is a lot of activity on the "real work" beyond tech and into enacting and leveraging change agents of Enterprise 2.0 lately... great that we're all surfacing these issues in increasingly large forums.For a bit more flavor on...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- GOOG could lose more than Murdoch
- Thanks, this was insightfulWhat if Murdoch and minions stroke a deal with a more desperate Google competitor - and blocked Google. That would be a very real threat. If users suddenly finds that Google returns fewer quality results than competitors, Google could lose search share, fast. That would strike directly...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- GNOME delays 3.0 release
- normal people use kde anywaygnome should never have existed at all, it's just a waste of developers time.they should have join XFCE and KDE projects.KDE 4.3 ....Just plain stinks ... not ready for prime time.Me, I prefer 3.5.10 ...kde 4.3. doesn't stinkyou are just spoiled by the extremly high standards...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- Prime Number Spiral 8.24 (Windows)
- The Prime Number Spiral (a.k.a. the Ulam Spiral) is constructed as follows: Consider a rectangular grid. We start with the central point and arrange the positive integers in a spiral fashion anticlockwise. The prime numbers are then marked. There is a tendency for the prime numbers to occur on diagonal...
- Software downloads 2009-11-09
- Factorizer 10.34 (Windows)
- Factorizer is a Windows program to find factors of numbers up to 2,147,483,646 and to find primes, pairs of primes and Palmen colors of numbers. Or in more detail, Factorizer may be used: (1) to get the prime decomposition of all numbers in a range of numbers, (2) to get...
- Software downloads 2009-11-09
- Revisiting the Motorola Droid on Verizon (Revisiting the Motorola Droid on Verizon)
- I Want It More than Everrrrr! Awesome! Verizon is Best Service! :DI was going to wait, but this phone looks totally ready for prime time!Moto has put out some of the toughest phones out there and no other single phone has even approached the numbers of Razr out there! Still...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-07
- Math Ref Free for iPhone 2.1.2 (Mobile)
- Math Ref Free for iPhone gives you about 350 of the many helpful formulas, figures, tips, and examples. The current categories in the free version are algebra, geometry, trigonometry, series and sequences, derivatives, integration, prime numbers, and Greek alphabet.
- Software downloads 2009-11-04
- Math Ref for iPhone 2.1 (Mobile)
- Math Ref for iPhone is a math reference application that includes over 1,000 helpful formulas, figures, tips, and examples of the equations, and concepts. Current main categories include algebra, geometry, trigonometry, linear algebra, series and sequences, derivatives, integration , table of integrals, vector calculus, differential equations, discrete, physics, prime numbers,...
- Software downloads 2009-11-04
- Stainless 0.75 (Mac)
- Stainless is a multi-process browser for OS X Leopard. Although Stainless started out as a technology demo to showcase our own multi-processing architecture in response to Google Chrome, we've been inspired by our growing fanbase to forge ahead and craft Stainless into a full-fledged browser. In fact, Stainless now has...
- Software downloads 2009-11-04
- Wave disk engines to make hybrid vehicles cheaper, more efficient
- RE: Wave disk engines to make hybrid vehicles cheaper, more efficientIt would require an encyclopedia simply to list all the turbine applications developed over the past century. What turbines continue to dislike, however, is speed alterations. Change their speed and you lose much of their efficiency. That's...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Diablo II Update Patch 1.12a (Mac)
- In Diablo II, players return to a dark world plagued by evil forces. After possessing the body of the hero who defeated him, Diablo resumes his nefarious scheme to shackle humanity into unholy slavery by joining forces with the other Prime Evils, Mephisto and Baal. Players face a new series...
- Software downloads 2009-10-30
- Diabetes can be kept at bay
- move your ass, lazy americanswalk, run, practice sports and you won't get diabetes.except type I that is geneticThey don't have the incentives ...when they keep getting free handouts that progressives love so much from the big fat@ss government. Free health care, free lunch, free everything and then of course they...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- With Motorola Droid, Verizon puts doubts about Google Android platform to rest [review]
- Motorola's Droid made a big splash when it debuted in a Verizon teaser ad during prime-time across the country and slammed America's favorite smartphone, Apple's iPhone. Now that it's finally been fully revealed, it's clear that the Droid has become the yardstick by which all Android smartphones are to be...
- Blog posts 2009-10-28
- Firefox hit by multiple drive-by download flaws
- Thank god I am still using 3.0.xxxI still don't understand why the need to make all things software larger and more featured. Also I will never understand why people rush to use the latest larger, bloated package...Bigger is always better......that's why we're fat! =DIE still more secure than FF...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-28
- SAP regaining its mojo?
- Earlier today at SAP TechEd Vienna, Jim Hageman Snabe, SAP senior vice president in charge of products said: "Business ByDesign will be multi-tenant." It was almost a throw away line in a broad conversation discussing SAP's slow conversion to all things SaaS and cloud computing. I...
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
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