An organization that sells something. In this publication, vendor refers to both manufacturers and distributors as long as they sell products to the general public.
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- Patch Tuesday heads-up: Critical MS Office patches coming
- Office for Mac also affected...So where are the rants from Windows zealots who scream blue murder every time there's a patch for possible exploits of iTunes on Windows?Oh, that's right, faulty Microsoft software on OS X must be Apple's fault. Forgot that.Critical bulletins for Vista and Windows 7Vista/Server2008: 1 bulletinWindows...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Twitter and web forgery
- Last evening as I was winding down after a long journey imagine my surprise when I started to receive a tsunami of @ replies on my Twitter account. Apparently I was direct messaging a stack of people I don't know with a link to something that...
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Beauty Salon Software 10.9 (Windows)
- Daily, monthly, and annual tracking of sales. Returns, purchases, credits, refunds, gifts, certificates, layaways, complete employee, customer, vendor management. Inventory tracking by department, item, and category. Flexible taxing system which allows you to tax items differently. Create user roles, and easily associate permissions with each role you create; this way,...
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- Sprite Browser 1.0.2 (Windows)
- Sprite Browser is an easy-to-use software that help you access the Internet and lets you record and replay repetitious work. Record & replay all Web surfing activities. Sprite Browser is a template driven Web browser. It record/edit/run template to drive inside Web browser to access Web page. Send messages on...
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- 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
- Adobe Shockwave haunted by critical security holes
- > Adobe Shockwave haunted by critical security holesShould Adobe rename parts of their software suite not only this one as Shockware? ;-) The simple justification is that it was shocking to the vendor.On one of my machines with all security software up to date and running in the background, visiting...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- You'll be far better off in a future without enterprise software
- As per usual...you give no concrete examples only ethereal ideas that go nowhere. You talk about services as though it is something other than software. Everything you propose goes back to the fact that you still have to have infrastructure and software before you can even get started. You use...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- Five definitions toward the maturing of Enterprise 2.0
- point of saturationMikoExcellent post. I agree with just about everything that you wrote, particularly the following: [i]There comes a tipping point in any large commercial sector Enterprise where the market for the flagship product or service becomes saturated. At this juncture, the revenue growth challenge becomes less about attracting and...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- Yes, based on Mac history, Windows 7.5 will suck less
- Ummmm..."Windows 1: Shipped in 1985 and nobody cared.Windows 2: Shipped in 1987 and few cared.Windows 3: Came out in 1990 and PC users cared, especially with Windows 3.1 in 1992 (And I include here the introduction of Windows NT, which I believe was given a 3.x number.)Windows 4: Windows 95....
- Discussion threads 2009-11-01
- Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Best iPhone & iPod touch apps
- It's that time of the year again! It's hard to believe, but this time last year, we only had 5,000 apps to choose from in the App Store â€" this year there's more than 85,000 apps to choose from. What a difference a year makes. Whether you're looking...
- Blog posts 2009-11-01
- Friday Challenge: What can your OS do that mine can't?
- My OS can break 5% global desktop market share!Sorry Mac and Linux! :PBetter/Larger Hardware/Software SelectionMy operating system Windows has a better and larger library of available applications, and a larger ecosystem of supported hardware.Why do you insist in behaving as an idiot?Hope what they're paying you is enough to compensate...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Apple TV update looks good but doesn't offer much more
- I second your thoughts, Sam.The updates were nice, but hardly worth it from the functional standpoint. Yes, Netflix would be nice, although iTunes provides most, if not all, of what Netflix would, doesn't it?One thing Tim Cook mentioned during the most recent earnings call was that Apple was going to...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 - Strengths and weaknesses
- Nice articleIts nice to see a balanced article like this. I consider myself an OS agnostic user as I used Windows for years and tried a Linux Desktop OS like Ubuntu a few times and only recently (last 2 years) has Ubuntu taken over as my primary OS.One of the...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Android 2.0 (Eclair) FAQ
- Android 2.0 GPSWill the GPS be functional if I don't buy the expensive Verizon data plan or pay by the Mb.You would need access to the internetto download the maps as needed there would not be enough room on the phone to store the whole country locally. So unless you...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Remember when FrontPage seemed pretty slick?
- My school teaches...... web design in the conventional way. Intro classes cover HTML, CSS, using JQuery modules or writing basic js. Advances classes teach PHP and such. None of the classes I know of cover CMS.I had a summer internship where I used Drupal. I didn't do any of the...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- Cloud cuts everyone's cost of ownership
- Just because you say it, doesn't make it so"This is what the cloud delivers: hardened, high-performance, reliable infrastructure far superior to that of any single enterprise ? at an aggregate cost of ownership and operation far lower than those enterprises would collectively spend across hundreds or thousands of separate private...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- Phishing experiment sneaks through all anti-spam filters
- A recently conducted ethical phishing New study details the dynamics of successful phishing experiment impersonating LinkedIn by mailing invitations coming from Bill Gates, has achieved a 100% success rate in bypassing the anti-spam filters it was tested against. The experiment emphasizes on how small-scale spear phishing campaigns...
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- Jive hits SBS 4: SharePoint in Rear View Mirror
- Hate to say it, but they to willbe crushed by MS. That is the fate of small developers building on the Windows/Office platform.Is this a blog, or an advertisement? seriously....Re: Hate to say it, but they to willAgree, very possible. I wish there were more ground up development...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- Qualcomm joins open source movement at head of parade
- Combining open source and proprietary technology in the way Qualcomm wants to do, while legitimate, does threaten to maintain the vendor lock-in that open source is meant to fight. Just because you draw a picture does not mean the pig is really flying. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- APS Accounting & Stock Control 4.0.0.4 (Windows)
- APS combines multi currency client/server multilingual accounting software and stock control with Point of Sale features and deferent types of transactions such as Cost Centers, Journal Entries, Receipt & Payment Vouchers, Printing customized cheques and wide range of reports and a complete Stock Control features such as item production, Item...
- Software downloads 2009-10-29
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