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With Windows Vista, I can now plan and manage my own activities, and I can coordinate the rest of my family’s activities, in a single calendar. Windows Calendar is built right into Windows Vista and offers automated integration features that make it the easiest calendar I’ve seen for groups of […]
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Every Sunday, my 20-month-old daughter and I call Grandma and Grandpa to video chat. We live in Colorado; they live in Las Vegas. But my daughter knows them by sight and voice—because, with instant messaging (IM) and a webcam, we all can see and hear one another. It feels as […]
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Microsoft’s Windows 8 likely won’t be available until next year, but based on what’s known so far, the operating system could very well be better than Windows 7. Microsoft Windows 8: 10 Reasons It Will Shatter Windows 7 When it comes to operating systems, there’s no more important company than […]
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GAO report outlines key federal green IT initiatives How does the federal government go about implementing green IT? According to a report out today from the Government Accountability Office, the feds have adopted a number of practices that are useful not just for government IT but all manner of private […]
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How to use a keyboard might seem academic, but there’s more to typing than just tapping the keys. For most people, the keyboard is the primary computer input and control device—that’s why it’s important to leverage the features and shortcuts that keyboards offer. Read on for tips to maximize ease […]
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A recent issue of Forbes ranks the most innovative companies in the world, but overlooks IBM. In this opinion piece, eWEEK’s Darryl K. Taft argues that Big Blue belongs atop that list. Why IBM Is the Most Innovative Company in IT Best Microsoft MCTS Training – Microsoft MCITP […]
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A week of scary network threats from Black Hat, McAfee’s Rat Report and more on RSA data breach The report adds: “The definition of successful defense has to change from ‘keeping attacks out’ to ‘sometimes attackers are going to get in; detect them as early as possible and minimize the […]
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A week of scary network threats from Black Hat, McAfee’s Rat Report and more on RSA data breach If you’d never heard the phrase ‘advanced persistent threat’ before, you may have gotten an ear full of it the past week in a collection of news stories that used the APT […]
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The issue of innovation in Java has been a topic of discussion and debate for some time now. Many observers say the incumbents—Oracle/Sun, IBM and Red Hat/JBoss—are no longer running the show in terms of Java innovation and that others, including several newer, smaller companies, are pushing innovation. In fact, […]
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The idea for the original title of this article came from the 1985 Swedish foreign film “My Life As a Dog” which I highly reccommend. Few Hollywood movies ever achieve the sensitivity, simple beauty and depth of some of the foreign films I’ve come to love. The “Redux” part is […]