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- Blog posts 2008-08-28
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- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Who's Dumber: Bad Guys … Or Good Guys?
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- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- The enterprise: All fun and 'serious games'?
- Will video games becoming to an enterprise near you? Forrester Research seems to think so as companies cook up new ways to train employees--especially those so-called millennial. I can hear the laughter now. Video games? We're about serious business, you'll say. What's the ROI you'll ask? Video...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Tech giants may face dollar daze
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- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Tech giants may face dollar daze
- Technology bellwethers with a big chunk of their businesses overseas have benefited from a weak dollar compared to other currencies, but the gravy train may be coming to a stop. A weak dollar has helped technology giants such as Google, Amazon, eBay, IBM, HP and others even...
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Intuit: software and services. Are you kidding me?
- Intuit: software and services. Are you kidding me?Paytrust, tooPaytrust customers have been clamoring for connection between Paytrust and Quickbooks/Quicken for years too. It's pathetic that there's no connection between the two and the free online service "mint" is more useful!RE: Intuit: software and services. Are you kidding me?Yes, the release...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Mandatory email
- Mandatory emailWe need better emailFrankly, email is currently broken - spam and scams and phishing make it a mess to wade through, even with the best spam blocking stuff.Problem is, we decided to use "adaptive filtering" statistical junk rather than solid encryption and digital signatures. What do the spammers do?...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- I'm a Wii Fit believer
- I'm a Wii Fit believerthis is sadI might be old school sporter, but I find this sad. It is like going to a gym to run like a lab rat or a cage hamster. I promise you this: in 3 months they will not do it anymore, and the whole...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- 2012 Olympics: Give Us Webcams On the Wall
- The organizers of the Olympics really blew it this time. Not showing the unbelievable comeback of Michael Phelps in the 100-meter butterfly race, which he won by one-hundredth of a second, is evidence of cowardice. And a total lack of commercial savvy, in the digital age. Can...
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- Brain Spa (zip)
- Train your brain by helping the colorful townsfolk of Brainville in a variety of mind-building challenges. A truly fun way to maximize your memory, improve your perception abilities, power up your language aptitude, and fine-tune your logical thinking skills! Eight separate mini-games plus bonus quizzes, trivia challenges and more. Daily...
- Software downloads 2008-08-22
- Building Windows, not walls
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- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
- Apple faces suit over iPhone. Is it still worth the switch?
- Apple faces suit over iPhone. Is it still worth the switch?If you gauge the usefulness of mobile devices by legislation...If you gauge the usefulness of a device and balance that with how much legislation is against it, why bother getting anything?Apple products are about useability . . .not functions and...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
- The Magic Toy Chest Demo (exe)
- The Magic Toy Chest is a physics based puzzle game for the whole family. It is inspired by classic retro 2D games such as The Incredible Machine. Use 16 wacky and zany toys to create crazy sequences of events that get the desired toy into the Magic Toy Chest. Build...
- Software downloads 2008-08-21
- The Waltham Pact: Where are the tangibles?
- The Waltham Pact: Where are the tangibles?I don't see it.I don't see where this is helping anyone. It seems like any help MS is giving to Novell is being tied up at Novell. For instance Novell's version of Open Office. I don't really see any of that coming down or...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality
- Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality....Look, our resident troll is back! ]:)OK everybody!Shut everything down. Open Source doesn't work. Go back to proprietary because they never have any security breaches. How many repositories are we talking about? You site one breach and declare the Open...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Oh, really? Report says techies don't care much about salary.
- Oh, really? Report says techies don't care much about salary.Location mattersIt really depends on who you ask and where these techies are. I bet techies working in NYC are either after high pressure environment or $$$, whereas techies working in Hawaii would be more interested in *surfing*...There's a good deal...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- 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
- 10 Tech Skills You Should Develop Over the Next Five Years
- If you want a job where you can train in a particular skill set and then never have to learn anything new, IT isn't the field for you. But if you like to be constantly learning new things and developing new skills, you're in the right business. In the late...
- White papers 2008-08-20
- Why there's a software support and maintenance revolution underway
- There's a brewing backlash among software customers as big vendors raise their support and maintenance prices. Dennis Howlett has captured an emerging backlash among SAP customers over an enhanced support and its costs. Oracle is doing the same drill. And Mary Jo Foley detailed a "proactive" support...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
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