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- Microsoft PDC: Live blogging the Day One keynotes
- It's that time again: Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2009 Day One kicks off today. Join in our live blog with a bunch of us Microsoft bloggers will be live blogging this morning's keynote, which will feature Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie and Server and Tools President Bob Muglia, among other...
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- PDC 2009: Tune in for our live blogging frenzy next week
- Live Blogging for PDC Wonderful Mary Jo! I loved it last year when you all did this, It really made me feel as if I was right there with you all. Looking forward to it. WowIs it really time for PDC again? It feels as if PDC 08 was yesterday......
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- PDC 2009: Tune in for our live blogging frenzy next week
- Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference PDC 2009 kicks off the week of November 16. Like we did last year, a handful of us Microsoft watchers will be live blogging the keynotes as a group. by Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-12
- Email Overload Syndrome: Too much in too many places
- Dump it all into Gmail sarcasmDump it all into Gmail.Then their magical search engine will not only index the words in the email, but every word you are thinking currently so you can search for that too, even if it doesn't appear in the email.In addition, it will conveniently via...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- Windows 7 killer deals commence; 7 days of PC specials, $30 OS upgrade
- That Best Buy deal ain't bad at all......stop Geek Squad at the door take the merchandise pop in the Ubuntu CD's and I'm ready to go. Thanks Win 7 for the cheap hardware.Apple should be offering deals now, tooJust to steal some thunder from the Win 7 (vista 2.0) over-hype.Fanboi...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Fare thee well, lovely ToyBox readers: My Top 10 favorite posts
- The dreary weather couldn't be better for writing a sad goodbye to my faithful ToyBox readers. The time has come for me to pack up and move on out of the ZDNet family. The last nine months spent as your Gadget Gal have been wonderful, but I have to pass...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- News to know: Intel; Microsoft; Cisco; Google Voice; Postini; Nokia
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Intel: Solid third quarter; Sees brighter prospects ahead Sam Diaz: Analysts interested in Intel's 2010, not just...
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- News to know: FTC, Psystar, Vonage, Apple-Palm, Oracle
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: FTC targets bloggers for disclosure about perks, freebies Richard Koman: FTC publishes final rules on blogger...
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- WSJ challenges NFL's ridiculous policy by live-blogging game
- NFL is Not AloneThe SEC sent out a similar message banning twitter, blogging, cellphone videos etc from football games. Good luck enforcing that in a stadium filled with 90,000 mostly drunk Florida and Georgia fans. Won't be a problem in Arkansas though. :)link http://mashable.com/2009/08/17/sec-new-media-policy/Sorry but you've got...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- WSJ challenges NFL's ridiculous policy by live-blogging game
- I have to admit that I don't normally click on the pages of the Wall Street Journal for my sports news so I'm certainly not logging into the Journal's site for play-by-play commentary during a live NFL game on Sunday. But a recent live-blog entry on the Journal's Daily Fix...
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- Let the smart grid vendor consolidation begin!
- Award winning journalist?You speak of Smart grid vendors as if they peddle some cheap USB devices that can be had on ebay for a $1 each. Does the enlightened award winning journalist realize that smart grids aren't selected by bidding on ebay. A smart grid deployment is expected to last...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- Live blog from Apple's "It's only Rock n Roll" event
- No "We're Dumping AT&T"??I'm disappointed.No way they'd mention AT&T at allit would be embarrassing for the hall to fill with the boo's.Whoopty doo...An iPod Nano with a video camera. That's all they could come up with? :-(So......? Isn't the whole point of an MP3 player to choose the songs YOU...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- Apple preview: A non-event for Wall Street? Are camera iPods ready?
- Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster is known for being bullish on Apple. But, in a report issued today, he sees tomorrow's event - where announcements about upgrades to the iPod line are expected - as really more of a non-event. And he predicts that shares will dip slightly, as they...
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- Wikipedia: What's good for the goose?
- It's extremely useful--to a pointVery useful to the extent that it gives a surprisingly deep and thorough investigation of a topic, based on the opinions of one person or a very small group of people.For many topics, that good enough. Most people will agree that the moon is made...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-31
- TextMate 1.5.9 (Mac)
- TextMate is a versatile plain text editor with a unique and innovative feature set which caused it to win an Apple Design Award for Best Mac OS X Developer Tool in August 2006. A rapidly growing community have created bundles for more than a hundred different "modes," including support...
- Software downloads 2009-08-29
- Snow Leopard might crash your apps
- This just has to be a Microsoft plot.LOL...LOL. :DRE: Snow Leopard might crash your appsNonsense, the latest mac hunter ad said we didn't have to worry about that and that a mac just works. Are you calling them liars?How did Apple phrase it in their commercials?That sure sounds like [i]a...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-26
- Public relations fail: A lesson and a rant
- This is not a PR thingThis is a email etiquette thing. Whenever somebody emails in bulk, BCC should be used. This ranges from sending a link to those puppies on YouTube you know who you are to professional ads.Not entirely, but kind of isHarry,I don't disagree with you that this...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-19
- SAP's Schwarz & Sikka: The Road to More Agile Business Performance
- Last week I had the opportunity to spend time with SAP CTO Vishal Sikka and separately SAP executive board member John Schwarz, and I've been ruminating on our conversations a lot since those meetings. Fortunately I was part of a group of bloggers who have been following SAP closely, and...
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- The Movers & Shakers Conference...
- I tend to think of Fortune Brainstorm Tech, which happened last week in Pasadena, as a conference for industry titans. Last year's event was held amid tight security and featured the likes of Rupert Murdoch News International , Philippe Daulman Viacom and Jeff Bezos Amazon in...
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Live@edu and Moodle: A shameless publicity stunt?
- Live@edu and Moodle: A shameless publicity stunt?LicensingAssuming that Microsoft is the copyright holder of this code, they can do what ever they wish with it. They are NOT restricted to the GPL.Any later additions/changes by others is another story however.Okay, what is the problem?I'm not sure that I follow your...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-22
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