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• SIMORE dual SIM card -- FrankenBerry is ALIVE!

  Two weeks ago, I kvetched about my wretched existence of having to carry two separate mobile devices for Voice and Data use -- a regular 3G cellphone and my inseparable ...

  Tags: SIMORE, Personal Technology, Flash Memory, Cellular Phones, Jason Perlow, SIM Card, RIM BlackBerry, Consumer Electronics

  Jul 07, 2008 8:00 AM PDT

• How to replace an iPhone 2G with an iPhone 3G

  With only four days until the iPhone 3G launch here in the U.S. (and 21 other countries) people are putting together their strategies for obtaining Apple's latest handset. In preparation ...

  Tags: 3G, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Apple iPhone, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, 2G, Jason D. O\'Grady

  Jul 07, 2008 7:59 AM PDT

• Vista is "OK", says Ubuntu-converted teenager

  Having finally gotten my oldest son a nicely-working install of Ubuntu on his laptop, I couldn't resist but wipe out his hard drive (saving his music, of course) and install ...

  Tags: Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Christopher Dawson, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Zune, Software, Compiz, Microsoft Windows

  Jul 07, 2008 7:42 AM PDT

• Apple drops Solid State Drive price by US$400

  Apple dropped the price of the Solid State Drive SSD option in its MacBook Air subnotebook computer over the weekend by US$400. Previously available as a US$999 upcharge, the 64GB ...

  Tags: Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, Solid State Disk, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

  Jul 07, 2008 7:41 AM PDT

• The nightmare of buying enterprise software

  Enterprise software is an easy target for criticism: it's expensive to buy, hard to implement, and often performs decidedly un-sexy functions like back office accounting. This complexity can make enterprise ...

  Tags: Sales, Sales Strategy, Michael Krigsman, Consultant, Software, Enterprise Software, Alan

  Jul 07, 2008 7:31 AM PDT

• Pediatric market opened to statins

  Yes, if you have to give your kid a statin at 8 to prevent a future heart attack I think there is something wrong with your parenting. But should the ...

  Tags: Servers, Utility Computing, Human Resources, Vertical Industries, Recommendation, Dana Blankenhorn, Hardware, Software, Security, Benefits

  Jul 07, 2008 7:20 AM PDT

• Hardcore math at the speed of the Net

  From its inception, the Internet has been about connecting researchers and research institutions to each other (and, of course, about national defense). As the Web continues to explode, though, it's ...

  Tags: Li, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Wiki, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson, Marketing, Internet, Blogging, Proof

  Jul 07, 2008 7:09 AM PDT

• Identi.ca fires pure open source against Twitter

  Micro-blogging is best at conventions, meetings and other gatherings. It's shared IM, instant texting, with channels created on-the-fly. With better mobile Internet devices -- iPhones and their competitors -- any ...

  Tags: Management, Micro-blogging, Twitter, Tools & Techniques, Dave Rosenberg, Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source

  Jul 07, 2008 6:54 AM PDT

• Linux - Still chasing that elusive 1% market share

  While I was trawling through Net Applications operating system share trend data for the past 24 months, something struck me. June 08 market a big month for Linux because the ...

  Tags: Linux, Operating System, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, UNIX

  Jul 07, 2008 6:52 AM PDT

• Icahn, Ballmer pair up, talk Microhoo; Push to boot Yang and Yahoo's board

  Updated: Activist investor Carl Icahn and Microsoft are now in cahoots to toss Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and the company's board of directors. Icahn says in a letter that he ...

  Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Corporate Law, Microsoft Corp., Corporate Governance, Larry Dignan, Icahn, Steve, Steve Ballmer, Transaction, Board

  Jul 07, 2008 6:28 AM PDT

• A Twitter About Twitter

  The outages are over maybe. Spark Capital and Jeff Bezos ae putting $15 million into Twitter. "Twitter will become a sustainable business supported by a revenue model,'' promised the company's ...

  Tags: Twitter, Finance, Manufacturing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, Operational Accounting

  Jul 07, 2008 6:22 AM PDT

• How to make sweet lemonade out of sour Vista lemons

  In a previous article I talked about some of the ways Microsoft might be able to learn from its mistakes with Windows Vista and deliver a winner with Windows 7. ...

  Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Jason Perlow, Microsoft Windows Vista, Software, Microsoft Windows

  Jul 07, 2008 5:00 AM PDT

• Might Microsoft's Midori be 'Cairo' revisited?

  My post a week ago about Microsoft's post-Windows operating system, code-named "Midori," elicited some interesting responses -- and a few potential new clues. by Mary Jo Foley

  Tags: Operating System, Cairo, Microsoft Corp., Operating Systems, Mary Jo Foley, Midori, Software, Microsoft Windows

  Jul 07, 2008 4:00 AM PDT

• Why you'll have a long wait for Microsoft's next OS

  The recent buzz over Microsoft's efforts to build a completely new OS from scratch has led to some wild speculation. As my colleague Mary Jo Foley has reported, Microsoft already ...

  Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Operating Systems, Ed Bott, Midori, Software, Microsoft Windows

  Jul 07, 2008 4:00 AM PDT

• Microsoft's Hyper-V and Spin Marketing - the Parallels view

  Here's another take on Microsoft's announcement of Hyper-V. This time, the comments are coming from Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels. Surguei appears to be taking a rather pragmatic view of ...

  Tags: Hyper-V, Cloud Computing, Dan Kusnetzky, Storage Management, Hardware, Marketing, Storage, Utility Computing, Parallels, Serguei

  Jul 07, 2008 3:00 AM PDT

• News to know: Open Office; Google; Security metrics; IT jobs

  Notable headlines: Dana Blankenhorn: What could Open Office do with a business model? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First look at Ubuntu 8.10 - Intrepid Ibex. Gallery right Paul Murphy: Internet abuse and ...

  Tags: OpenOffice, Information Technology, Larry Dignan, Power Management, Photograph, Software, Security, Office Suites, Job, Google Inc.

  Jul 07, 2008 2:10 AM PDT

• An IT productivity horror story

  This is a story based on extrapolation from hear say where all the questions are unanswered: is a user rebellion against excessive automation coming? is there an economic national accounts ...

  Tags: Story, Information Technology, Hardware, Data Management, Corporate Insurance, Business Operations, Storage, Finance, Financial Planning, Paul Murphy

  Jul 07, 2008 12:15 AM PDT

• Linux for housewives. XP for geeks.

  The computer proletariat is rising up - and computing will never be the same. Tiny, sub-$500 "netbooks" like the Asus Eee are the hottest thing going in notebooks today. And ...

  Tags: Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Open Source, Software, Robin Harris, Microsoft Research, Computing, ASUS, UNIX

  Jul 06, 2008 10:52 PM PDT

• Far out! Another power management option for my Mac

  The marketing and communications types over at developer Faronics of San Ramon, Calif., very gently informed me a few weeks ago that they have a very well established power management ...

  Tags: Management, Power Save Mac 2.0 Software, Tools & Techniques, Report Generator, Power Management, Hardware, Heather Clancy, Software, Desktops, Apple Macintosh

  Jul 06, 2008 7:13 PM PDT

• Students and the browser war

  Note: I just want to quickly apologise for the lack of posts recently; moved into a new house and broadband won't be set up for a while, so had to ...

  Tags: Web Browsers, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Zack Whittaker, Web, Web Browser, Firefox Library, Internet, Mozilla Firefox

  Jul 06, 2008 5:14 PM PDT

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