Acer's new business notebook is not too big, not too small (14.1 inches), not too heavy (just 4.4 pounds), and not too short on battery life (six hours plus). It's a machine not to miss.
Your notebook computer's newest companion: a $249 ultraportable scanner that takes next to no briefcase space to turn double-sided documents, images, and business cards into PDFs, e-mails, and Outlook entries. We put the peripatetic peripheral to the test.
Acer's new business notebook is not too big, not too small (14.1 inches), not too heavy (just 4.4 pounds), and not too short on battery life (six hours plus). It's a machine not to miss.
<b>Wired:</b> "Windows Mobile may lack the elegance of more modern operating systems, but some phones based on Microsoft's mobile OS are finding new life as Android handsets."
Your notebook computer's newest companion: a $249 ultraportable scanner that takes next to no briefcase space to turn double-sided documents, images, and business cards into PDFs, e-mails, and Outlook entries. We put the peripatetic peripheral to the test.
Tom Casey's keynote revealed Microsoft's plans to provide BI tools that help the power user and IT professional by adding additional functionality to a familiar tool like Excel. A PowerPivot demo showed how you can create Excel workbooks with billions of rows.
<b>CrunchGear:</b> "As Linux gets more “productized” in the mainstream, where is the sense of community that was such a fundamental part of early Linux success?"
OS Roundup: As Apple fades from relevance, Canonical's Linux OS, Ubunutu, seems to be stepping into its shoes. Is Lucid Lynx everything Mac OS X could have been but isn't, and does it have what it takes to trounce Snow Leopard?
OS Roundup: As Apple fades from relevance, Canonical's Linux OS, Ubunutu, seems to be stepping into its shoes. Is Lucid Lynx everything Mac OS X could have been but isn't, and does it have what it takes to trounce Snow Leopard?
<b>Standards Blog:</b> "With Frank on the run, Carl had just two responsibilities: protecting Frank's daughter Marla without her knowledge, which was a pretty ho-hum job, and protecting Frank, which at the moment was impossible."
Despite the lousy macroeconomic climate and tighter IT budgets, most information technology workers charged with protecting data networks got a raise last year and will likely get another this year.
Sponsored by Intel Join the experts who created The Intel Guide for Developing Multithreaded Applications for a slow chat about multithreaded application development. Bring your questions about application threading, memory management, synchronization, programming tools and more and get answers from the parallel programming experts. Post your questions here
<b>NZOSS:</b> "Law firms that supported continued software patents have published critiques of the arguments put forward by those who opposed software patents and asked for an exclusion to be added to the Patent Bill. In this article Peter Harrison, vice President of the NZOSS responds."
<b>Datamation:</b> "IT salary levels clearly face challenges created by the economic downturn. Unfortunately, IT salary raises have been minimal or none at all."
Learn how to create websites with similar functionality yet different UIs and maintain them across one shared code base using Multi-Tenant Website Architecture.
Cisco dominates the networking hardware market, and with its Adaptive Security Appliance it is extending its reach into network security. The ASA, however, can introduce a security issue. Learn how to resolve it so you can get the most out of this powerful tool.
<b>Bloomberg:</b> "If you're put off by Steve Jobs's control-freakdom and Microsoft's long history of buggy bloatware, you might want to spend some time with Dell's line of laptops running Ubuntu, the free, consumer-oriented version of the open-source Linux operating system."