A communications network that provides a path from one location to multiple locations (from one to many).
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- Cyber Monday approaches -- should companies clamp down on employee online shopping?
- Some experts worry that Cyber Monday puts corporate networks at risk and kills employee productivity. Are they just being Scrooges, or do they have a point? by Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- No shocker: IBM tops list of the greenest biggest computers
- 723 MFLOPS????My 5 year old desktop does that without breaking a sweat and with careful coding pulls out 5,000 million floating point operations per second.Gore wrote the codent
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- 2010 Honda Fit Sport photos
- Honda's least expensive car includes a navigation system, rarely found at this price point, but no Bluetooth. by CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-11-17
- VDownloader 1.12 (Windows)
- Search for videos in sites like YouTube, DailyMotion, Yahoo, Megaupload, or Google at the same time. You can watch, download, or save videos with just one click. Its embedded meta search engine makes VDownloader different from other download managers. It searches at the same time in the most popular video...
- Software downloads 2009-11-16
- BPM Studio Pro 4.9.9 (Windows)
- BPM Studio Pro is an MP3 DJ system for professional DJs, discos, bar and restaurant owners, dancing schools, radio stations, and other entertainment centers. The program has basic functions such as editing, pitching, mixing, cue-point setting, and looping, along with numerous special functions for live mixing and flexible background music....
- Software downloads 2009-11-14
- Dell launches 5130cdn, world's fastest laser color printer
- Cheap!That's about what a Laserjet II cost when it was out. What did that get, 8 pages per minute of 10 and 12 point black and white? Just amazing, looks like a winner.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- (Photos: Video guitars, crafted by hand)
- What is the point of this thing?Solidity and mass is what gives a guitar sustain.This is basically a semi acustic without sound holes...How does having a screen in the front improve the sound?...The article mentions the peformance being centered around the screen???You can get amp modelers with MIDI controls built...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- A 4 SSD array: Apricorn pt 2
- Would love one!Use this as the OS drive, have the traditional drives for mass storage and backups.If the price point were a bit lower it would be great, but I guess the SSD drives alone make up most of the cost.Empty it costs $200You can add drives as you can...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- Easy MySQL 1.0 (Windows)
- MySQL ManagerDevelpment Studio with modern user interface. Utilizes MySQL native ODBC driver, database formulation is easy with point-n-click IDE featuring Win7 JumpLists and Win7 Ribbon. Automatic background processing of Entity Relationship Diagram. Freindly data entry, free script templates, history logging of all SQL, and config tool for MySQL Service. ...
- Software downloads 2009-10-30
- RightNow Right Now is Right On
- The RightNow User Conference was a significant transformation point for the company - for the better for the most part. I'm looking at the products which indicate smart short term value and the culture change, which indicates serious long term value. by Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- fp 3.5 (Mac)
- fp is an Xcode C++ project which implements unlimited length integers and multi-precision floating point numbers. It can calculate the usual transcendental functions, including the Gamma function and the Bessel functions. I am releasing it without a restrictive license.
- Software downloads 2009-10-28
- Wordz Lite for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)
- Wordz Lite for iPhone contains five Puzzles. The goal simple, make as many words as possible with letters from the nine letter grid before the timer reaches zero. The rules of the game are simple, the words you find must be at least four letters long, they must include the...
- Software downloads 2009-10-26
- Snake Game for iPhone 1.8 (Mobile)
- In Snake Game for iPhone if snake swallows a mouse, the point is increasing and simultaneously the tail of the snake is extending. In the cases that snake is colliding with walls or with its own body, the game is over. Meantime, snake swallows an item, the length of tail...
- Software downloads 2009-10-26
- Touch Snake for iPhone 1.8 (Mobile)
- In Touch Snake for iPhone if snake swallows a mouse, the point is increasing and simultaneously the tail of the snake is extending. In the cases that snake is colliding with walls or with its own body, the game is over. Meantime, snake swallows an item, the length of tail...
- Software downloads 2009-10-26
- Demand for Windows 7, Xbox lifts Microsoft earnings; more losses online
- revenue still downif you include the deferred amount revenue is down 5% yoy.but better than expected i suppose.profit also down yoyand including the deferred revenue profit is also down 5% yoy. but of course 5% less profit and revenue is much much better than the 29% less last qaurter.Across the...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- ComScore: Microsoft's Bing holds steady in its search share
- While some other reports have claimed that Microsoft lost a point -- or in some cases, substantially more -- of the U.S. search it has been slowly but steadily gaining, comScore is claiming Bing actually grew a bit. by Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- UnicodeChecker 1.14 (Mac)
- UnicodeChecker displays detailed information for every code point from the Unicode Standard. The information includes Unicode name, UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings, XHTML entities, mapping info and a lot more.You can browse characters by code point or find them by their Unicode name.Several string conversion functions (IDN, XHTML, CSS, Java,...
- Software downloads 2009-10-11
- Getting your teachers started with 1:1
- Tech geeks believe the answer is always more tech.Sort of like when the only tool you own is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Here is my point, tech has been increasing in the schools for a couple decades, during that same time SAT and ACT scores have...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-09
- Be Happy Now for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)
- Be Happy Now for iPhone contains guided meditations written and spoken by Stephan Bodian, author of the bestselling guidebook Meditation for Dummies. It includes time-honored techniques for producing and enhancing feelings of happiness, contentment, and joy, lift your mood, raise your self-esteem, and deepen your sense of meaning and connectedness...
- Software downloads 2009-10-05
- Cellulosic ethanol, corn, etc.
- The good, the bad, and the unreal. Read all about it on this blog. Meanwhile Murphy Oil spends over $90-million for a corn ethanol plant in North Dakota. Canada's largest oil company, Suncor, will resume expansion of its ethanol plant in Ontario. It had been postponed...
- Blog posts 2009-10-04
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