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- Realm Defender (zip)
- Welcome to the action-packed online RPG adventure game Realm Defender. Create your Hero - a knight or wizard and fight for fame and glory. Your Hero can join other online adventurers to explore the countryside, go on quests and defeat the monsters lurking everywhere. Hurry, the monsters are terrorizing the...
- Software downloads 2008-11-07
- Software as a service: It should be the best of times, but it isn't
- It's a big week for the software as a service industry: Salesforce.com is establishing itself as a leading cloud computing provider, NetSuite is planning to take on SAP head on and Success Factors is upping its outlook. But underneath the surface there are more than a few questions marks lurking....
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Tech's economy careens into the great unknown
- Trying to figure out where the information technology economy is going? Your guess is as good as mine. Or Steve Ballmer's. Or Steve Job's. Or Paul Otellini's. Or EMC's Joe Tucci's. Or Jeff Bezos'. The one trend that's emerging from a bevy of financial reports is that companies have no...
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- There's something nasty lurking beyond the horizon - notes on life in Silicon Valley
- There's something nasty lurking beyond the horizon - notes on life in Silicon ValleyLurking? Yeah, like a hurricane "lurks".Anyone thinking IT is in anyway immune from what is coming is kidding themselves.What so many don't seem to grasp is......that we have most of the technology we "need", and aren't...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-23
- News to know: Gates' new company, Apple, Android, Microsoft
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary-Jo Foley: Bill Gates founds a new tech company John Morris: Apple: Mac sales still strong, some "interesting ideas" for netbooks Sam Diaz: Steve...
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- There's something nasty lurking beyond the horizon - notes on life in Silicon Valley
- It feels as if our economic version of Hurricane Katrina is building up energy, just off the coast of Silicon Valley. There is a definite feeling of something huge and nasty lurking just over the horizon. It's an ominous feeling highlighted by the fact that we...
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Study: Apple logo stimulates the brain
- Study: Apple logo stimulates the brainPeople Exposed To Windows Logo, HoweverAre still drooling on their keyboards and uttering incoherently.Might stimulate the stomach...but the brain?;-)What was the creativity test?If the test was: create your own watery looking logo, then, it may be true...RE: Study: Apple logo stimulates the brainThis could be...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-22
- ROFLthing 2008
- Have you ever been to an internet culture conference? Earlier this year, Harvard senior Tim Hwang threw one in Cambridge, Mass., and it was a massive success. This time, Hwang wanted to have a smaller get together in San Francisco to chat about memes. Welcome to ROFLthing...
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- (Photos: The ultramobiles of IDF)
- (Photos: The ultramobiles of IDF)Pure UglyOk, so I never post, but this article made me come out of my lurking cave. Those are the most ugly devices I have ever seen in my life. What a poor excuse for a mobile computer.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Office 2.0: an Irregular mashup
- The upcoming Office 2.0 conference is one of the first in the fall calendar that keeps people like me in more airports than I care to think about. It's also one for which I have fond memories. Office 2.0 started out as an idea put out into the Enterprise Irregulars'...
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009
- Despite winning our Editors' Choice award two years in a row, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 did not impress us enough to extend that run another year. Granted, there are significant improvements to the anti-malicious-software engine in KAV 2009; it is faster, although we only saw evidence of that during the file...
- Product reviews 2008-08-01
- Kevin Kelly looks to the next 5,000 days of the Web
- Like most of us at Talis, I'm a big fan of the TED videos. There's always a wow moment lurking in each of these recordings, and many of them do a great job of challenging assumptions. More often than not, they're also powerful examples of how best to convey new...
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- EPIC iFAIL
- EPIC iFAILhmmm 2.0iPhone software 2.0 can import all your contacts from your SIM card. JUST FYI.RE: EPIC iFAILWell since you have a T-Mobile phone and it also has a SIM card you can copy all your contacts to your SIM card and Then all you have to do is have...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- PC MightyMax (exe)
- Our free diagnostic tool PC MightyMax has been designed to seek out potential Windows problems on your PC, with simplicity of use in mind. Once you have downloaded and installed PC MightyMax, it will quickly determine whether or not you have any problematic files lurking in your PC. When the...
- Software downloads 2008-06-19
- News to know: XP meets XO; Yahoo; Facebook; Verdiem; DIY phishing
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO. Christopher Dawson: Sugar-free Windows, as predicted Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack Larry Dignan: Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?...
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- That Florida beach isn't just sand, it could be a lot of crap
- Now that you've read the headline, here's the brutal research result: fecal bacteria are likely lurking in that sunny beach where you've lain in the sun. Seems those micro-organisms can find the damp sand about as comfortable a medium as, say, some human's lower intestine.The research also indicates that...
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Wiretaps up, terrorism prosecutions down
- Wiretaps up, terrorism prosecutions downElephant repellent[i]Extraordinary rendition, anyone?[/i]See? It works!raymarc001The far sweeping powers that GW grabbed after 911 MUST come to an end! The ability of a president to write executive orders will destroy the USA if this isn't stopped. Every executive order GW has created must be repealed....
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- Tangled Web: Undercover Threats, Invisible Enemies
- Whether its spyware hidden amidst a seemingly harmless download or phishing emails in your inbox, Web and email-based security threats are more advanced and more covert than ever before. These attacks are aimed right at your business, threatening your network, your compliance with security regulations, your proprietary information and more....
- White papers 2008-04-21
- Daylight Savings--A Time Whose Time Has Passed?
- Daylight Savings--A Time Whose Time Has Passed?Or just have DST all the timeI would much rather it be dark in the morning when I get up than in the afternoon when I leave work to go home. Though I agree it doesn't make things cheaper, but than it doesn't...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14








