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- Qualcomm's Kayak "PC alternative" pictured
- Here's a picture of Kayak, the "PC alternative" for emerging markets that Qualcomm announced yesterday. It looks pretty much the way the company described it: sort of a cross between the Apple Mac Mini--bring your own monitor, keyboard and mouse--and the OLPC's XO laptop with its...
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- TekIVR (zip)
- TekIVR is a SIP Interactive Voice Response System for Windows provides call attendant function. TekIVR tested on Microsoft Windows XP, Vista and Windows 2003 server. TekIVR complies with RFC 3261. It supports ITU G.711 A-Mu law codecs. You can select IP address to be listened, default SIP proxy for outgouing...
- Software downloads 2008-11-07
- My favorite Windows Vista gadgets
- My favorite Windows Vista gadgetsMy gadgetsI agree with you Ed. The included gadgets are boring, and I think there is a lot of potential for the sidebar. Unfortunately, that potential isn't close to being met.I use the Weather Underground weather gadget, the MultiMeter CPU gadget, a wireless Network meter from...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
- Schneier slams US border biometrics
- The Department of Homeland Security has disputed Bruce Schneier's claim that the US-Visit program has had no impact on reducing criminal and terrorist threats. Security expert and BT chief security-technology officer Bruce Schneier has attacked the US-Visit border-biometrics program, saying it has had "zero benefit" in terms of security....
- News items 2008-11-04
- SAP, Oracle, SaaS - The changing ERP market
- The times they are a changing This InformationWeek article is a must read for any ERP buyer, seller or market watcher. SAP Global Operations CEO Bill McDermott confirms some details about SAP and the hosting for its Business ByDesign product line. He also has some choice words...
- Blog posts 2008-11-01
- SAP scraps year end guidance: why I'm not worried. Yet.
- When I first heard about SAP's expected Q3 results I was as shocked as anyone. Earlier today, the company's executives added color on the results and explained what it is doing to steady the ship and ride out the storm. The fact it has yanked the year end forecast has...
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Transcript: PDC08 Keynote – Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
- Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet; Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething — and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- How green is your vendor?
- Gartner analyst Simon Mingay on Tuesday unveiled ratings for technology vendors to highlight who's talking green and who's actually delivering. Just don't expect anything too quantitative just yet. Mingay's presentation at the Gartner Symposium ITXpo caught my attention given that every vendor is...
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- BT Watcher Pro (exe)
- Detect when you leave office and automatically lock computer. It determines if you are present by testing connection with your bluetooth enabled mobile phone. Immediately after installation you can assign your mobile with BT Watcher, and you can forget about locking screen, BT Watcher will do it every time you...
- Software downloads 2008-10-14
- 44% of second hand mobile devices still contain sensitive data
- According to a recent research conducted by BT, the Edith Cowan University, and the University of Glamorgan Wales, 44% of the 160 second-hand devices that they tested, still contained sensitive data such as bank accounts, board meetings, business plans, and financial data. Using the data obtained, their analysis indicated a...
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- News to know: Bailout bust and tech fallout; Cloud computing; Netgear; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: AP: Stunning Defeat for Bailout Plan Torpedoes Stocks; Dow Sinks Over 750. White House, lawmakers plan new bailout deal Larry Dignan: Is Apple really recession proof? Wall...
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- BT launches trial of Phorm's deep-packet inspection
- BT launches trial of Phorm's deep-packet inspectionWhy shouldn't you trust them?..."BT Webwise won’t collect any of your personal information, or keep IP addresses, website addresses, keywords or search terms."In other words..."Don't worry, I may have my hand in your pocket, but I'd never take your wallet!"Or how 'bout..."It's all right!...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- BT launches trial of Phorm's deep-packet inspection
- It won't be long before British Internet users see targeted advertising based on their usage patterns. British Telecom is about to test software by Phorm, which collects URLs visited, search terms entered, and other data from visited websites. Phorm then categorizes the content and serves up advertising based on your...
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Lenovo's ThinkPad X200 Tablet racks up awards
- Reviews of the tablet version of Lenovo's X200 ultraportable are in. The big change in this version, which replaces the longstanding ThinkPad X61t, is the switch to a widescreen display. The X200 Tablet is also thinner and lighter, weighing about 3.5 pounds with the standard four-cell battery and a little...
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Comcast submits plan to limit heavy users
- Comcast submits plan to limit heavy users"Second Stream", or Setting Up the "2-Tiering" Stage?"Comcast will do this by creating a second stream of traffic for recent heavy users that will have a lower priority when compared to its other customers..."The new scheme would seem to be a lot fairer than...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- News to know: IE vs Chrome; Microsoft's TV pack; Oracle; Pandora CEO
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Should Microsoft do an IE 8 'Lite'? Larry Dignan: Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before Linux Ed Bott: TV...
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- BT bundles up SaaS for SMBs
- BT bundles up SaaS for SMBsSaaS expansionIt’s good to see the discussion of SaaS being broadened. It is interesting to note that the majority of the movement in SaaS continues to be by companies that are focused on either the front or back office, so it is refreshing to see...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-18
- BT bundles up SaaS for SMBs
- In its longstanding quest to find the right formula to bring SaaS to the SMB masses, UK telecoms giant BT is now creating packages of services that put SaaS into a practical context for its SMB customers. by Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Gauging Your Own Risk, On This Black Monday
- Don't you wish you had the same tools at your disposal to assess the riskiness of securities you hold, now that Wall Street is going through a Monday as black or blacker than the one in 1987. Bear Stearns, gone. Lehman Brothers, bankrupt....
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- VMware (and Citrix) get cloud friendly
- Updated: VMware said Monday that it will launch a cloud computing initiative to bring enterprise class service to customers with more than 100 partners. The effort, called vCloud Initiative, will be launched at VMworld in Las Vegas (statement, Techmeme). In a nutshell, VMware is teaming up with...
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
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