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- Nokia: Please start again with your not-so-smartphones
- With the exception of my first mobile phone at the age of 12, my heart was set on Nokia. Back then, growing up and living in a rural part of the English countryside, we had very little to occupy our minds. Anything new and shiny would be idolised as it momentarily...
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Absolute Software downplays BIOS rootkit claims
- Following a flood of calls from customers, the company behind the LoJack anti-theft service which researchers from Core Security Technologies recently portrait as a security threat, issued a statement downplaying the researchers' claims. According to the statement, LoJack is neither a rootkit, nor does it behave in...
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- Are we too impatient with SOA?
- Jack Vaughan recently pondered the fate of major technology initiatives, and wondered if SOA is going down the same path as Grid and object-oriented computing. That is, it took some time for these initiatives to come to fruition, and benefits to be delivered. In the meantime, many grew too impatient...
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Mandatory vehicle efficiency in US?
- In a dramatic, unprecedented proposal, the current White House is looking at an absolute fuel efficiency minimum for all new cars and light trucks in America. Shocked, I tell you, shocked. If Detroit weren't already numbed by bankruptcy, it would be shocked. But ocwed by their...
- Blog posts 2009-05-18
- Why Apple's new ad campaign is genius, and why Microsoft can't win as 'PC'
- I just got off the air with KCBS San Francisco, speaking about Apple's new ad campaign against the PCs of the world which I wrote about yesterday on the morning show. I made a few points about Cupertino's strategy in the short segment, but I thought...
- Blog posts 2009-04-21
- Crying Wolff? News As We Knew It Dies -- In 8 Years.
- Leave it to YouTube to defend "the idea of news" and a Vanity Fair media columnist and online news aggregator to put a deadline of eight years on its demise. Two newspapers in two different two-newspaper towns Seattle and Denver have died in the last month. Journalists...
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- exe4j 4.2 (Windows)
- exe4j is a Java exe maker that helps to integrate your the applications into Windows operating environment, whether they are service, GUI or command line applications. If the user want his own process name instead of java.exe in the task manager and a user friendly task-bar grouping in Windows XP,...
- Software downloads 2009-01-19
- Five strategies for 2009 IT gold
- Five strategies for 2009 IT goldInfightingQuoting a sentence from each of your 5 points to show that you've assumed a conflict to be resolved for IT's benefit, if not in its favor:If the business side routinely criticizes your IT team, get together and ask them for guidance. Although listening carefully...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-05
- Goodbye Boundaries Hello Disruption: Towards Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband
- To meet the market demand for new broadband services, mobile operators are building out their networks along various evolutionary paths. The 3GPP path holds promise for many cellular providers committed to the GSM family of wireless technology platforms, with a choice of upgrade roadmaps that allow carriers to add ever-faster...
- White papers 2008-12-19
- Revival for Smartphone 1.1 (Mobile)
- Revival is a turn-based military strategy game in the tradition of the world-famous game title, Civilization. The player will have to explore continents, direct battles on land and sea, build towns, develop science and uphold the economy of his empire. Great events take place in the world of Revival: grand...
- Software downloads 2008-11-07
- Revival for Palm 1.0 (Mobile)
- Revival is a turn-based military strategy game in the tradition of the world-famous game title, Civilization. The player will have to explore continents, direct battles on land and sea, build towns, develop science and uphold the economy of his empire. Great events take place in the world of Revival: grand...
- Software downloads 2008-11-07
- Revival for Symbian UIQ v.3 1.0 (Mobile)
- Revival is a turn-based military strategy game in the tradition of the world-famous game title, Civilization. The player will have to explore continents, direct battles on land and sea, build towns, develop science and uphold the economy of his empire. Great events take place in the world of Revival: grand...
- Software downloads 2008-11-06
- Revival for Symbian UIQ 1.0 (Mobile)
- Revival is a turn-based military strategy game in the tradition of the world-famous game title, Civilization. The player will have to explore continents, direct battles on land and sea, build towns, develop science and uphold the economy of his empire. Great events take place in the world of Revival: grand...
- Software downloads 2008-11-06
- Revival for symbian S60 v.3 1.0 (Mobile)
- Revival is a turn-based military strategy game in the tradition of the world-famous game title, Civilization. The player will have to explore continents, direct battles on land and sea, build towns, develop science and uphold the economy of his empire. Great events take place in the world of Revival: grand...
- Software downloads 2008-11-06
- Revival for Symbian S60 1.0 (Mobile)
- Revival is a turn-based military strategy game in the tradition of the world-famous game title, Civilization. The player will have to explore continents, direct battles on land and sea, build towns, develop science and uphold the economy of his empire. Great events take place in the world of Revival: grand...
- Software downloads 2008-11-06
- Heads up: Patch your Adobe Reader now
- Heads up: Patch your Adobe Reader nowPCs Need Protection from their SoftwareMicrosoft just reported that roughly 90% of reported vulnerabilities were in applications. The familiar signature-based tools that live on nearly every PC are missing today's malware designed to elude them. More on that here:http://www.securitynowblog.com/endpoint_security/secunia_report_signature-based_antivirus_misses_most_unknown_malwareand here:http://www.securitynowblog.com/endpoint_security/signature-based-antivirus-and-hips-technologies-poor-endpoint-protectionBefore buying a...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-04
- John Galt is dead or Linus shrugs
- John Galt is dead or Linus shrugsLinux isn't a good example.It's expense reduction vs Unix for servers, funded by lower staffing costs.A better example is a product like OpenOffice.org, proprietary software given to a project as a desperation play because the former owner4 couldn't make a profit. And hopes...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-27
- Is Microsoft's fatal flaw the computer?
- Is Microsoft's fatal flaw the computer?Not realy, their flaw isThey honestly believe they know vastly more than everyone else, refuse to listen, and miss major oportunities.Not a fatal flaw, but MS recognizes the need to change.MS became dominant, the big dog with selling it's and only it's OS on PCs...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- In remembrance of scoundrels past
- In remembrance of scoundrels pastSame mess - different scum.I agree. I did some consultancy work for a large brand name in sportswear and was horrified by their IT systems. It had been held in thrall by one man who started his IT career in the 70s and was still going...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-15
- Virtual Machine Software Announcements - Why Now?
- There is a great deal of activity in the virtual machine software market part of the virtual processing layer of the Kusnetzky Group model of virtualization technology. My colleague, Paula Rooney, published Next XenServer â€" code named Orlando â€" now in beta* testing. A while back...
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
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