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.
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.
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>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?"
<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."
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>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.
<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."
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If you wonder why you are hearing so much about the chaotic Agile methods lately, this is the article for you. We'll show you how to put the Agile method to work for you.
Obtaining the accelerometer data allows you to build very interesting applications, such as a spirit level, as well as games that depend on motion detection.
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.
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.