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• Nokia N97 announced; QWERTY keyboard and touch on a Nseries device

  Nokia World 2008 is taking place this week in Barcelona, Spain and the event kicked off with the keynote announcing the Nokia N97 multimedia computer. The Nokia N97 brings a ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Peripherals, Handhelds, Matthew Miller, Marketing, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Social Networking, Home Screen, Nokia Corp.

  Dec 02, 2008 12:15 AM PST

• Gulf of execution

  When someone mentions the "gulf of execution" I tend to think Tonkin or bay of pigs, but in IT the term has another meaning entirely - more akin. I think, ...

  Tags: Gulf, Wireless LANs, Paul Murphy, Security, Identity Theft, Wireless, Wi-Fi

  Dec 02, 2008 12:15 AM PST

• Talking is a good thing

  I had a great meeting with one of the elementary schools in my district today. The principal turned over most of a staff meeting to me today in part for ...

  Tags: Financial Services, Principal, Christopher Dawson, District, Budgeting, Teacher

  Dec 01, 2008 10:12 PM PST

• Compare prices with the iPhone

  Here's a cool iPhone trick: Download the free Snappr application for the iPhone and iPod touch iTunes. Scan the 2D Codes and (the first of it's kind) 1D Barcodes found ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Digital Media, Apple iPhone, Digital Music, Consumer Electronics, 2D Codes, Jason D. O\'Grady

  Dec 01, 2008 9:36 PM PST

• Telltale signs of SOA governance deficit

  Are there any "telltale signs" that an organization is missing the governance boat when it comes to efforts to effectively deploy SOA methodologies? Todd Biske, enterprise architect extraordinaire and author ...

  Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Joe McKendrick, Software, SOA, Enterprise Software, SOA Governance

  Dec 01, 2008 8:59 PM PST

• Apple adds DMCA charge to Psystar suit

  It appears that Apple is trying to put the final nail in Psystar's coffin, asking the court to accept an amended complaint against the Mac clone maker to add a ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Apple Mac OS X, Digital Media, Productivity, Consumer Electronics, Apple Mac OS, Psystar, Complaint, Operating Systems, Apple Inc.

  Dec 01, 2008 8:44 PM PST

• Joost arrives for iPhone

  Back in April 2007 when I first wrote about Joost it was an invitation-only video streaming service from the wunderkind responsible for Skype and Kazaa. Back then it required you ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Joost, Web Site Development, Digital Video, Marketing, Web Technology, Corporate Communications, Internet, Apple iPhone, Jason D. O\'Grady

  Dec 01, 2008 8:31 PM PST

• SOA eased the way for recent shotgun financial mergers

  These are times that try banks' souls.  Over the past few months, some financial services companies have been vaporized, and others have been absorbed or merged to save their skins. ...

  Tags: Financial, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Bank, Middleware, Joe McKendrick, Software, SOA, Enterprise Software, Merger

  Dec 01, 2008 8:31 PM PST

• Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)?

  At well over 300 talkbacks and counting, plenty of folks took my challenge (and my reader's challenge) to sort out just what it would take to switch from Windows to ...

  Tags: Desktop, Christopher Dawson, Gender And Diversity, Desktop Linux, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Human Resources, Operating Systems, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)

  Dec 01, 2008 8:13 PM PST

• Apple iPhone customers gain free VPN service

  AnchorFree, the maker of the Hotspot Shield virtual private network VPN service for Mac and Windows laptops, recently released a service for the iPhone. by David Morgenstern

  Tags: Telecommunications, VPNs, David Morgenstern, Apple Inc., Networking, Network Security, Security, Apple iPhone, Wireless, HotSpot

  Dec 01, 2008 7:42 PM PST

• Apple hits Psystar with DMCA charges

  Court papers reveal that the day before Thanksgiving Apple added new charges to the five-month old federal lawsuit against mac-clone maker Psystar. The new charges claim that Psystar, along with ...

  Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Hardware, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Psystar, Operating Systems, Apple Inc., Software, Defendant, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Dec 01, 2008 5:57 PM PST

• Cyber Monday traffic better than last year

  If Web traffic translates into online sales, this year's holiday season is gearing up to much better than last year's - contrary to the doom-and-gloom forecasts for the holiday season. ...

  Tags: Sales, Sales Strategy, Sam Diaz, Sales Force Management

  Dec 01, 2008 5:46 PM PST

• With Vista SP2, Microsoft is back on track

  Reliable reports suggest that Microsoft plans to release Windows Vista Service Pack 2 to manufacturing in April 2009, roughly a year after it delivered SP1. Some observers are inferring from ...

  Tags: Service Pack, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Ed Bott, Software, Service Pack 2

  Dec 01, 2008 5:05 PM PST

• Has technology evolved our language beyond recognition?

  You pick up your Blackberry in the morning because your notebook has a virus. You connect to your cloud storage and retrieve a few documents to store on your drive, ...

  Tags: Zack Whittaker, Handhelds, Virus, Hardware, Notebooks, Notebooks & Tablets, Productivity, Computer, Legend, Online Communications

  Dec 01, 2008 4:34 PM PST

• Google outlines plan for extensions in Chrome

  One of the features that is noticeably missing from the current version of Google Chrome is what Firefox calls "Add-ons". These programs are written by developers looking to add functionality ...

  Tags: Web Browsers, Google Chrome, Garett Rogers, Web Browser, Internet, Mozilla Firefox, Extension, Google Inc.

  Dec 01, 2008 4:14 PM PST

• Hi Def Voice: Cool Sounding, But Do You Care?

  Who doesn't hate a bad phone connection, but just how bad does a connection have to be before you're willing to pay for a really good one? That's the question ...

  Tags: Voice Channel, Phone, Voice, Codec, Telecom & Utilities, Dave Greenfield

  Dec 01, 2008 4:05 PM PST

• What a difference one atom makes

  A new study by researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science shows exactly how important a single atom can be in a complex molecule. Reporting ...

  Tags: Polymer, University Of California At Los Angeles, Solarmer Energy Inc., Harry Fuller, Solar Cell

  Dec 01, 2008 3:34 PM PST

• IT expert executed in Iran

  Following Pakistan's recently introduced "Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2008" according to which potential cyberterrorists would face the death penalty, a neighboring country, Iran, has recently executed an IT expert ...

  Tags: Information Technology, Dancho Danchev, Government, Online Communications, Equipment, E-mail, Real Estate, Iran, Productivity, Business Operations

  Dec 01, 2008 3:23 PM PST

• Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virus

  One of Apple's better Mac vs PC ads features a strong message that Windows computers are a magnet for viruses malware but Macs are automatically protected.  As PC "ah-choos" his ...

  Tags: Ryan Naraine, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Antivirus, Virus, Apple Inc., Hardware, Viruses And Worms, Malware, Security, Desktops

  Dec 01, 2008 3:09 PM PST

• Palm: On track to become a historical footnote

  Remember when Palm - maker of the Pilot and Tungsten PDAs and later the Treo smartphone - was the dominant player in the handheld device business? Today, it's a completely ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Palm Inc., Smart Phone, Hardware, Sam Diaz, Consumer Electronics, Smart Phones

  Dec 01, 2008 2:38 PM PST

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