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- Washington Times amongst newspapers putting semantic technologies to work with help from Inform Technologies
- New York-based Inform Technologies issued a press release earlier this week, reporting the success of their recent partnership with the Washington Times on a major website redesign. Having spoken to both Inform's CEO Jim Satloff and the Washington Times' Executive Editor John Solomon, there's an interesting story to tell of...
- Tags: Story, Editorial Staff, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Corporate Communications, Operational Accounting, Channel Management, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Finance, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- The Dark Side Of Web 2.0 And Technology Populism
- So before my flight West today, I picked up the recent Jeff Howe book Crowdsourcing. I was looking for a little inspiration for a speech I'm giving at Forrester's Business & Technology Leadership Forum on a trend we call "Technology Populism." Like other edgy, Web 2.0-ey books of our era...
- Tags: Web, Crowdsourcing, Story, United Airlines, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Marketing, Internet, Matthew Brown
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- 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 consequence to this? how about a business cost? by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Information Technology, Story, Carrier, Insurance, Financial Planning, Data Centers, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- I'm dying to blog on the NYT story, but it's nothing to lose sleep over
- The blogosphere is having a field day with The New York Times page one Sunday story on killer blogs. (They came from Africa via South America, and are moving north from Texas right now!) ZDNet's Larry Dignan has a drop-dead interesting take on the lack of balance...
- Tags: Blog, Story, Blogging, Internet, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-06
- True Remembrance (exe)
- This is a story about memory. It is not technically a game, but a digital story book. As you read the story, you will occasionally be prompted to click to advance pages. This is the official English localization of a highly-acclaimed Japanese freeware digital novel that won multiple awards for...
- Tags: Story, Insani, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-03-19
- Elan Online (zip)
- The legends of Sword, Magic, Fairy, and Dragon are all here, the fantasy world of Elan. The shadow of darkness is spreading over the peaceful continent Elan, the place where the stories of love, courage and friendship, legends of God and Evil races, and well-known stories of Prince and Princesses...
- Tags: Legend, Story, M2B Game World
- Software downloads 2008-03-19
- TIA 2.0: NSA conducts data sweeps and mining without oversight
- In a front-page piece on Monday, Siobhan Gorman of the Wall Street Journal argued that the NSA has been building, over the past several years, the same capability that was planned for Total Information Awareness. TIA was an "experimental Pentagon antiterrorism program meant to vacuum up electronic...
- Tags: U.S., Phone, Story, NSA, E-mail, Government, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- Wintel Vista conspiracy screws customers: Another win for Apple
- The latest PC market scandal - that Microsoft, Intel and some PC makers knew that the "Vista Capable" logo certification program was a lie and that some chipsets for popular machines couldn't support the new Aero interface stuff - must be music in the executive suites down in Cupertino. The...
- Tags: Wintel, Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Story, Intel Corp., Chipsets, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Yahoo launches "Buzz" - phew! not quite a Digg clone
- Ignoring the question of whether Buzz, Yahoo's newly launched social news site and "meme tracker", will go any way towards turning around the company's fortunes (it won't), I'm already a fan. It's too easy to call the site a Digg-clone, but, like AOL's attempts before it, Yahoo Buzz does borrow...
- Tags: Digg, Yahoo! Inc., Story, Yahoo Launch, Yahoo Buzz, E-mail, Business Structures, Engineering, Online Communications, Finance, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Tower of the Sorcerer (3DVersion) (exe)
- The story is saving the princess who was locked in the magic tower, it is the such Story as you have heard the other day. But the fact is that this story isn't related to this game at all. Why? You will know the reason when you play this game....
- Tags: Story, Oz & Kenichi, Games, Workforce Management, Personal Technology, Human Resources
- Software downloads 2008-02-15
- Microsoft's bid for Yahoo--it's a Tom Cruise story
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk puts Microsoft's bid to acquire Yahoo in layperson terms. I once went to dinner with a very well-known TV actress. When she flew to New York to do Regis and Kelly, she stayed at the Ritz-Carlton in New York. The...
- Tags: Google Inc., Brand, Tom Cruise, Yahoo! Inc., Legend, Story, Microsoft Corp., Branding, Gender And Diversity, Marketing, Human Resources, Chris Matyszczyk
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- Data theft, the armed variety
- Computerworld chronicles the tale of Web hosting firm C I Host Inc. and details how its data center was robbed. Meanwhile, the technology manager working the graveyard shift was held hostage as the robbers stole computer equipment. The story's point can't be more clear: Data centers aren't...
- Tags: Information Security, Data Center, Story, Computerworld, Data Centers, Storage, Security, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Sprint customer: Dad on our calling plan just died. Sprint: prove it
- Just when you thought that Sprint- they of the $14,062.27 phone bill-couldn't get any dumber, now comes news that this same booboo-plagued "organization" initially had refused to humanely cancel the account of a subscriber who had just passed away. Story goes back to December 21, when a...
- Tags: Phone, Story, Sprint Communications, Telecom & Utilities, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-05
- Using Internet phone to communicate with loved ones in Iraq this Christmas? Send me your stories
- (photo by Jack Gruber, USA Today) A story in Wednesday's USA Today about soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan using Internet-based phones to see and speak with loved ones this Christmas got me thinking about fashioning this post. Are you, or...
- Tags: Phone, USA Today, Iraq, Skype Technologies S.A., Story, Internet Phone, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-21
- Intense interest in Microsoft Office standard
- Microsoft's spin of its Open XML loss before the ISO as a win remains of intense interest. The original story, from September, was the 7th most popular post here for 2007. In the story I used Microsoft's technical name for its format, OOXML. I...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Story, Microsoft Corp., Iso standards, Process Improvement, Government, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- Bali highs and lows
- The big climate change enviro-bash continues in Bali. Here's the conference's official website. Tomorrow BaliTalk enters the final phase with ministerial level participants arriving (that's Cabinet-level to us Yanks). It's not likely there'll be a big international agreement out of this conference even though it's aimed at finding the...
- Tags: U.S., China, Associated Press, Story, Headline, Conference, Standards, Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Facebook Beacon update: No activities published without users proactively consenting
- Updated: On November 6, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg proudly launched the new services Techmeme that he expected to redefine the advertising business. "People influence people. Nothing influences people more than are recommendation from a trusted friend. A trusted referral influences people more than the best...
- Tags: Facebook, Notification, Problem, Story, User, Referral, Beacon, Public Relations, Business Structures, Web Site Development, Web Technology, E-mail, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Finance, Internet, Online Communications, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- News Sifter (exe)
- Is an application that was developed by AJN Software as an intelligent RSS news reader. News Sifter uses advanced Artificial Intelligence technology to automatically; classify and filter news stories based on your personal preferences. News Sifter learns, the more you use it the better it gets at classifying stories for...
- Tags: Story, RSS, Internet
- Software downloads 2007-11-21
- The Best American Humorous Short Stories (exe)
- eBook - The Best American Humorous Short Stories - as the name describes, this is a collection of short humorous stories. Read part of it free, pay to read the rest. Leithauser Research eBook reader included. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Story, E-books, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-11-19
- The WPF component market is hot
- In the past week I've gotten a couple of emails about companies that are releasing components for the .NET Framework/Windows Presentation Foundation. Infragistics, the big component vendor, was the first announcing a series of components for WPF and ASP.NET AJAX. One of the more interesting components for WPF is XamChart....
- Tags: Component, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Story, XamChart, Blendables, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
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