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, a monitoring and surveillance software package for the Mac. It costs $99.95 for a one-user license.
Based on the Windows software of the same name, Spector Pro Mac is aimed at parents who want to make sure their kids don’t find trouble online, employers who need to keep tabs on employee computer activity or minimize liability, and others who might need to keep watch of computer activity in their home or office.
The software takes “screen Read the rest of this entry »
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BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture
Shared services are delivered through applications, known as servers, that run on dedicated and repackaged PCs, also known as servers;
PC servers are stacked using rackmounts containing multiple independent machines and usually run one application per machine.
This example [Note: diagrams and photos are omitted Read the rest of this entry »
We're going to look back at this era and wonder how we did without this other kind of computer in the cloud."
That's Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie, in an interview with
, just after Microsoft laid out how its most important products--Windows and Office--will change to stay relevant in "the cloud," where a lot of business computing is done outside a company's own data center.
Microsoft is creating Windows Azure, an operating system Read the rest of this entry »
In a continuing series of articles highlighting
that GNU/Linux is a viable replacement operating system, today we're
exploring CrossoverOffice (or installing Windows applications on Linux systems).
CodeWeavers is a US based commercial company
which sells software which enables users of Mac OSX and Linux to run
Microsoft and other third-party Windows compatible applications.
Just
think about that for a second or two! This enables you to run Read the rest of this entry »
Swarms of people are at polling places in Atlanta, Wait times as long as eight to 10 hours. Long lines reported in Virginia. Up to four hour wait-times down in Florida, and both Florida and North Carolina extended their hours to try to accommodate the crowds. And this is just for early voting. Sort of makes you want to say, wow... do I really need this headache come Tuesday? Yes. Yes, you do.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Having learned from its mistakes with Windows Vista, Microsoft has unveiled test versions of its next operating system, writes
MICROSOFT THIS week announced major overhauls of its Windows and Office cash cows, as well as an increased focus on how its software interacts with the web, at a conference for 6,500 developers in Los Angeles.
The successor to Windows Vista is still in development, but stable test versions of Read the rest of this entry »
RALEIGH, N.C.
— Billy Marshall, co-founder of fast-growing rPath, has stepped aside as chief executive officer at the firm.
Marshall told Local Tech Wire that the move was a “collaborative decision.”
Replacing Marshall on an interim basis is Andrew Nash, a board member and veteran technology executive. Nash is a former CEO of strategy and advisory services firm Novaroo. He also has held executive roles at BroadVision, a software Read the rest of this entry »
Nokia-owned Qt Software (formerly Trolltech) today released a tech preview of its cross-platform environment for creating embedded applications on Mac, Windows, and Linux machines.
"Project Greenhouse," now dubbed Qt Creator, is designed to be a lightweight and consistent IDE for the Qt application framework. The pre-release is available under QT's technology preview license, but the final code is expected to hit early 2009 under General Public Read the rest of this entry »
October 31, 2008 1:16 PM PDT
If you haven't yet upgraded to the latest Microsoft Office, don't do anything without test-driving
. With a familiar-feeling interface, the Microsoft-replacement application is easy to pick up and matches Office's major functions application for application.
For instance, OpenOffice.org makes and edits text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, and drawings. It also has templates, collaboration tools, Read the rest of this entry »
So you think Windows is the master of the PC? The man in the penguin suit would like to formally disagree with that statement.
Linux will ship on more PCs next year than Microsoft Windows, but not as the core operating system. Instead, it will be used to boot computers, particularly notebooks, faster.
That's the prediction of Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux foundation,
In making his forecast, Zemlin
that chronicles how Hewlett-Packard, Read the rest of this entry »