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- 10 ways to evaluate your IT management software
- Does your helpdesk work for you or do you work for your helpdesk? Saar Bitner of SysAid Technologies tells how to manage you IT management software. Commentary - Choosing the right IT management software solution is a strategic decision that requires the careful planning and consideration of every IT...
- News items 2009-11-05
- Firefox 3.5 (Gallery: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala)
- Re: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic KoalaSome nice and welcomed touches but not enough on their own to get people to switch. - Especially me!I left the Ubuntu Family when upgrading to the next version failed on ALL levels! The biggest disaster was changing the repositories to point at the new version....
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- IronKey reveals new, ultra-secure D200 USB flash drives
- Another bad designIf I can lose the cap and damage the connector, it's not secure. Why would anybody make a flash drive with a separate cap any more? I'll continue to wait for a secure drive with a good physical design that operates reliably with NO software installation on host...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Q3 09 Canalys smartphone data shows RIM increasing 40% over 2008
- Canalys posted their 3rd quarter 2009 figures and as you can RIM had an amazing year going from 15.2% to 20.6% of the global market share (an increase of 40.8%). A bit surprisingly to me, Nokia actually saw a 6% increase in its market share too while Apple predictibly increased...
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- Skype open source? Ain't gonna happen
- EncryptionEven if Skype could legally release source code, it would not do so. Skype encryption is so good that no one, except perhaps some governments working in secret, have broken it. The company is not about to give that asset away for free.If Skype were to release source code, the...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- New Marvell e-book reader platform promises faster product, lower price tag
- Everyone wants in on the e-book reader market now. Chip manufacturer Marvell announced plans this morning to team up with E Ink, a major supplier of electronic paper display EPD technologies. With the new Marvell ARMADA 166E chip, the companies are aiming to release a model...
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- Chrome 4.0 gets beta release
- Just an observation -Google now joins those other browsers that seem to "borrow" some would say nick features of Opera, yet Opera remains, with a small seemingly never growing following. The addition of speed will end soon, as gains like this always meet their limits. When all of the...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- Chrome 4.0 gets beta release
- Google introduced the bookmark sync feature for the developer-preview version in August, and now it is also in the better-tested beta version, Chrome 4.0.223.16. More people will get a chance to try out bookmark synchronization with Monday's release of a beta version of Google Chrome for Windows. ...
- News items 2009-11-03
- Mozilla Firefox 3.6 beta 1 (Mac)
- Firefox 3.6 beta 1 Namoroka is the first developer milestone of the next release of Firefox. Namoroka is built on pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.2 platform, which forms the core of rich internet applications such as Firefox. Please note that this release is intended for developers and testers only....
- Software downloads 2009-11-02
- Mozilla Firefox 3.6 beta 1 (Windows)
- Firefox 3.6 beta 1 Namoroka is the first developer milestone of the next release of Firefox. Namoroka is built on pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.2 platform, which forms the core of rich internet applications such as Firefox. Please note that this release is intended for developers and testers only....
- Software downloads 2009-11-02
- Apple Xcode 3.2.1 (Mac)
- Xcode 3.2.1 is an update release of the developer tools for Mac OS X. This release provides bug fixes in gdb, Interface Builder, Instruments, llvm-gcc and Clang optimizer, Shark, and Xcode and must be installed on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and higher. Xcode defaults to upgrading an existing...
- Software downloads 2009-11-01
- Ubuntu 9.10 = easiest, cheapest upgrade ever
- Worst OS ever! You should read what Dana Blankhorn had to say about your beloved linux! I'll give you a hint, its not good. I can't believe they would release a distro with known harddrive bugs. I'm going to laugh at you when you lose all your data due...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- Ubuntu Karmic Koala launches to mixed reviews
- Not released yetKarmic koala hasn't been officially released yet and the bug that this article was talking about has been fixed for the official releaseMultiple hard drives issue already fixedThe problem only affected the 64-bit version of the release candidate, and it has apparently been fixed for the final release.wowwow,...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- Trillian Astra 4.1 beta (Windows)
- Trillian for Windows 4.1 Build 15 is now available for public beta testing. Trillian for Windows 4.1 features the following new improvements: Mail improvements, Windows 7 integration, better status control, powerful new Twitter and Facebook features. We've also worked on improving overall stability, fixing bugs, and reducing resource requirements whenever...
- Software downloads 2009-10-29
- Exchange Manipulator 2.0.0.14 (Windows)
- Exchange Manipulator plug-in offers complete access to Microsoft Exchange mailboxes via Microsoft Outlook. The release of this product coincides with the release of the Outlook Manipulator plug-in. The Exchange Manipulator plug-in is an advanced version of the Outlook Manipulator plug-in. The Exchange Manipulator Plug-in contains all of the functionality of...
- Software downloads 2009-10-29
- Audio-Technica ATH-ANC7b QuietPoint
- Last year, we reviewed the Audio-Technica QuietPoint ATH-ANC7 noise-canceling headphones, and editor Jasmine France thought they were a good value, offering decent but not great sound for the money. Well, when we heard that Audio-Technica was releasing a new, improved version of these headphones with a "b" tacked on to...
- Product reviews 2009-10-28
- Microsoft partners to allow Eclipse interop on Win7, WinServer 2008 R2, Azure
- Microsoft has made another play at interoperability with a key open source software offering. At Eclipse Summit Europe on Wednesday, the Redmond, Wash. software giant announced that it is working on four open source projects with two open source companies -- Tasktop Technologies and Soyatec -- to...
- Blog posts 2009-10-28
- E-book reader news and releases round-up
- The last two weeks have been especially busy for the e-book reader industry and probably pretty frightening for Amazon. Here's a quick round-up of what's been released and what we have to look forward to this holiday season: 1. Barnes & Noble Nook:...
- Blog posts 2009-10-28
- What the DoD now says about open source
- I could just see a commander in the field ....having to wait for procurement to get a simple map through bids while his troops are getting shot up even though it is publicly available (oh wait, isn't that how the Chinese embassy got accidentally bombed?)Always use the best tool for...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-28
- ZFS on Snow Leopard? Forget about it!
- Isn't it funny how the Apple crowd ........ attacked Microsoft when WinFS was pulled from Vista but appear to be totally absent on this story? I can't wait to see how they alibi Apple for this move.They'll defend it based upon licensingbut all that will prove is Apple was...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
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