04 Sep 2010
Sorting out the overload of e-mail is one of the mostly unsolved problems of computing. The first step is analyzing your in-box, which is what Google developer Mihai Parparita has done with Mail Trends, a program that lets users analyze and visualize their inbox.
Via Googlified
Via Googlified
Mail Trends, which is similar to Google Reader [...]
29 Aug 2010
The Olympic Games in Beijing is proving to be a hit in the workplace.
Mobile usage also saw a significant boost, increasing from 210,000 on Friday to 476,062 on Monday. NBC, which said it polled users, said it was “stunned” at the number of users who were using mobile video download for the first time.
Traffic to [...]
24 Aug 2010
This isn’t the first time that Microsoft has tried something like this. As CNET News.com’s Ina Fried noted Wednesday:
Arnold Zafra over at Search Engine Journal wrote that he “cringed” when he heard about the news. Ouch.
It has run a number of programs including its Live Search Club that offer rewards for those that use [...]
23 Aug 2010
The event will be Webcast live starting at 11 a.m. EDT/8 a.m. PDT. And anyone interested in tuning in can register at the Cisco Web site to sign up in advance.
Chambers and Gore will use Cisco’s telepresence system to communicate with a live audience at the VoiceCon trade show in in Orlando, Fla. They [...]
23 Aug 2010
“Windows 7 is penciled for release in Q1 2010. And who knows, by then, Apple may have even gotten its enterprise act together,” Mendel writes.
Microsoft has been touting the fact that Vista adoption is actually on par with past releases, pointing to some new customers, such as the U.S. Air Force. Microsoft Senior Vice President [...]
23 Aug 2010
Blinkx will be presenting at a New Tech Meetup I’m moderating tomorrow, along with Seero, Seesmic, Mesmo, and Your Truman Show. The event is sold out but I’ll report on the highlights afterwards.
All the news that fits in your screensaver.
Now Blinkx is popping that idea out of the browser and putting it in [...]
23 Aug 2010
Haute Secure is a free 32-bit or 64-bit download when used for home use; businesses will be charged to have their Web pages checked for malicious code. At the moment there is little technical support offered beyond a few FAQs and a users’ forum.
New Web threats today come not necessarily from sites built to host [...]
23 Aug 2010
Now, though, barely anyone remembers what Zatso is, and I’d be surprised if many of the WIAT folks do either. Since it was Sunday evening when I rolled through town, I decided to just stop and take a picture of their building and then live-blog this, but not to stop in and say hi.
And the [...]
23 Aug 2010
My two theories are that if you bump the machine it somehow triggers the hard drive to spin up or that there is a software glitch that needs to get fixed.
This has become an incredible annoyance as my main purpose for this laptop was to be able to use it on the fly. Lately [...]
23 Aug 2010
Until someone can build a full-feature online-productivity suite, this is certainly a viable option.
Regular readers of this blog know that I don’t believe that Google Apps is a viable alternative to Microsoft’s Office.
For users who have Office installed on their PC, this is not as bad as you would think. It may be a [...]