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- Google Earth to license new satellite imagery
- Google has agreed to license imagery for their mapping products from a satellite due to launch on September 4th. This new satellite can take detailed imagery for an area the size of Delaware in one day. What does that mean? Well, you could get high resolution pan-sharpened...
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- FirePAC (zip)
- Athena FirePAC reduces the amount of manual effort and expense required to manage complex firewall rules. It ensures a correct configuration that allows only essential services in and out of the firewall. It precisely pinpoints the rules that can be cleaned from a firewall, making the configuration easier to understand...
- Software downloads 2008-08-27
- Maxtor Central Axis NAS server
- The Maxtor Central Axis carries a list price of $320, but can be found for as little as $270--a good deal for a network storage device with 1TB of storage. We liked the Central Axis' compact design, fast performance, and that its over-the-Internet access service was easy to set...
- Product reviews 2008-08-22
- Words from the Woz
- Steve Wozniak is many things: electronics enthusiast, author of iWoz, former fifth-grade teacher, plane-crash survivor, ex-reality-TV-boyfriend of D-list comedian Kathy Griffin, and, oh yeah, co-founder of a company called Apple. You might have heard of it. Today, he put on the hat of former engineer as he...
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- The opportunities in search
- The opportunities in searchEr, Murph, we already talked about this.MSR Lincoln is [i]"Lincoln is a Microsoft Research prototype which allows you to search for information about an object by just taking a photo of it.Your photo is matched against a set of images tagged with relevant web pages and comments...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Live from IDF: Entertainment, WiMax and a sense of security.
- When you're talking tech, it never hurts to have a convertible BMW on stage with you. The afternoon keynote speeches at the Intel Developer Forum covered a lot of ground and some eye candy to keep us focused on what a couple of hours of geek speak can morph into,...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Who should lead SOA? Enterprise architects or business analysts?
- Who should lead SOA? Enterprise architects or business analysts?EA should be a good BA?Why do we assume that an EA wouldn't have BA skills? An EA is responsible fo mapping business needs onto technology so an EA best have some BA skills."...qualified people that not only are tech savvy, but...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Delivering the Olympics: Akamai and Limelight respond
- Akamai disputes Limelight Networks' take on its infrastructure and my recent post, Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet. Limelight, however, says its implementation facts are accurate and that it absolutely stands behind its words.Keep in mind that the two companies compete fiercely and have different takes on...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- No Firefox for the iPhone/iPod touch ... D'oh!
- No Firefox for the iPhone/iPod touch ... D'oh!Why LiMo? Interested in your reasons.[i]Roll on LiMo. My next cellphone will, without a doubt, be a LiMo.[/i]Can I ask why? No ulterior motives, I'm just wondering why I should hold off on buying an HTC Touch Diamond, hold off on Android, and...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- Tech to trim your commute
- Does technology that helps you plan your commute more cost-effectively and carbon-effectively count as green tech? If so, I want to bring your attention to a new mapping option on the Traffic.com Web site that is optimized to calculate the quickest drive time between Point A and Point B CONSIDERING...
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Get a complete security toolkit with BackTrack 3
- The BackTrack LiveCD provides over 300 different tools that can be used by security professionals or system administrators. It includes tools for penetration testing, wireless cracking, network mapping, information gathering, vulnerability identification, forensics, and reverse engineering. Vincent Danen tells you how to create a portable version on a USB keychain.
- Download resources 2008-08-11
- PersonalBrain (zip)
- Dynamic mind mapping software that lets you work the way you think. See and do more with PersonalBrain's dynamic user interface and advanced linking software. Organize ideas, projects, contacts, files, and Web pages associatively to capture your thinking and perspective. Use PersonalBrain for business projects or as an "everything in...
- Software downloads 2008-08-11
- Humanitarian Collaboration
- I was recently fascinated by presentations by Bob Iannucci (CTO, Nokia) and Ken Banks of kiwanja.net at the Supernova2008 conference in June around mobile technologies in the developing world. Ken Banks discussed how mobile minutes are a form of currency in Africa, showing...
- Blog posts 2008-08-10
- Is Nokia working with the Zune team to support the Zune library?
- Is Nokia working with the Zune team to support the Zune library?WM7I think the integration will be part of WM7.RE: Is Nokia working with the Zune team to support the Zune library?" I think Windows Mobile devices with the ability to play music from Zune Pass subscriptions would be a...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- Day 2: iPhone Dev Camp 2
- Yesterday I learned a few lessons about live blogging. Not many people are refreshing it as much as I was. I should list my posts with most recent at the top instead of the other way around. ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-03
- A bad day for Garmin; Wall Street hammers stock
- It's been one tough day for Garmin. The stock was hammered, down almost 22 percent to close at $35. 19, a drop of almost $10 in regular trading. Its quarterly earnings missed Wall Street's expectations, the company announced a delay of its smartphone and the outlook for the rest of...
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- Dear Adobe, can we please have a 64-bit Flash player?
- Dear Adobe, can we please have a 64-bit Flash player?nspluginwrapperWorks like a champ. It does the mapping between the 64-bit calls from Firefox and other compatible clients and the library's native 32-bit API.RE: Dear Adobe, can we please have a 64-bit Flash player?That update must have been a typo...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
- ASG Service Dependency Mapping: Making the Link between IT and the Business
- Aligning IT and business perspectives requires the ability to create links between configuration information in the CMDB and the business service as experienced by the user. Service Dependency Mapping SDM products automate the process of creating and maintaining these links. This white paper examines how IT organizations can...
- White papers 2008-07-29
- Microsoft mashes up multiple natural-user-interface inputs
- Publicly and privately, Microsoft officials have been making much of the company's myriad multi-touch input projects (especially with Windows 7 and Windows Mobile 7). But Microsoft's view of what the user interface of the future will look like is more complex than that. Instead of allowing users...
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Family Watch Bar (exe)
- Family Watch Bar provides following features to users, such as: Predator Mapping - Quick access to the nations largest free national predator search, Amber Alert - Sign up for Amber Alerts in your area, stay informed in your community, Google-Powered Search Box - Search the Web, with Google and Yahoo....
- Software downloads 2008-07-18
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