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No Suggestions?Reading from a screen just ain't the same. Then again, 20 million bloggers can't all be right (or, in many cases, even worth the energy needed to store and transmit their opinions)."...most would have dismissed it as a fad or as an otherwise waste of time."Who knows whether they're...
Tags: blog, bloggers, fad, friendship, media, monopoly, networking, news, reporter, sole, Tarquin_Finknottle
Discussion threads 2005-11-15

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AutoRun Design III (exe)
Autorun Design III is a tool that creates impressive autorun multimedia interfaces for CD and DVD. You can execute installation programs, launch applications, show documents, play movies, show graphics, send email, show message, print document, explore the Internet.... Page support shadow, fad in, fad out, transparent and does not turn...
Tags: Project, Page, Alleysoft, Autorun Design III, Internet, E-mail, Productivity, Online Communications
Software downloads 2008-04-30
Are netbooks a growing trend or a passing fad?
Small form-factor laptops have popped up from nearly nowhere. Some people call the netbook the wave of the future. Others dismiss them as toys. Which is it? by John Sheesley
Tags: Laptop Computer, MIDs, Keyboards, Notebooks, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, John Sheesley
Blog posts 2008-10-02
Transitioning into OOP: Use message-driven beans to listen to the Java Message Service
Is OOP an overblown fad?Object oriented programming was all the rage at one time, but has that promise really become a reality?[b]Are you using OOP in your application development? Why not? What’s wrong with OOP?[/b]Not a Fad but a Methodology.I am using OOP on a daily basis.It may have been...
Tags: Java, JMS, Mark W. Kaelin, object-oriented programming, UML
Discussion threads 2004-11-18
Will Yelp achieve verb status like Google has?
Can Yelp achieve verb status?Yelp has exploded a niche that seems ripe for the picking, but those kinds of niches are fleeting and sometimes end up as a fad instead of a movement. Do you think that Yelp has what it takes for longevity or will they be yet...
Tags: INTERNET, Andy Moon, Yelp, verb statu
Discussion threads 2007-07-26
Skype underperforms; EBay admits to mistakes.
Not Sure how Skype is deemed such a failure?I am not really sure about how Skype has turned out be such a fad.Back in 2005, it was a revolutinary idea but I couldn't understand the relevancy of Skype to Ebay's business. I have been an EBay powersller and used Skype...
Tags: blog2hersh@..., Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc.
Discussion threads 2007-10-03
Knowing in Community: 10 Critical Success Factors in Building Communities of Practice
As knowledge management evolves from fad to business imperative, many organizations are discovering the limited ability of information technology to capture and share ideas, insights, and know-how. This paper presents communities of practice as a better vehicle for knowledge sharing and discusses ten critical success factors in building vibrant, effective...
Tags: Community, Knowledge Management, Strategy, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Data Management
White papers 2000-03-01
FaxCenter (zip)
Formerly known as Cocoa eFax, FaxCenter allows you to send faxes from your computer using your internal or external modem. You can also receive faxes using FaxCenter, and it saves the fax as a PDF document for easy reading and printing in Mac OS X.Release 1.4.1 features various bug features...
Tags: Fax
Software downloads 2004-07-22
Making ABC/M Stick Within Your Organization
Activity-Based Cost Management (ABC/M) has proven itself to be more than just a passing fad. Over the past decade, it's become a convincing and lasting methodology not only for cost improvement, but also for improved profitability, revenue enhancement, better customer relationships and more accurate forecasting and planning, as well as...
Tags: Activity Based Costing, Managerial Accounting, Finance
White papers
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GearheadHydrogen fuel cell technology is the way to go, gasoline/electric hybrid cars are a temporary fad with a limited practical market, like DC or Manhattan. When the $5K battery pack bites the dust you better be ready to apply for another second mortgage.diesel is the way to go right nowthe...
Tags: hwk754d@..., diesel, Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology
Discussion threads 2007-03-16
Bruce Sterling: All blogs will die by 2018
Security expert and tech curmudgeon Bruce Sterling famously quipped at this year's South-by-Southwest conference that "I don't think there will be that many [blogs] around in 10 years. I think they are a passing thing." This got the blogosphere all a-twitter ahem, but I think enough time has passed that...
Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Open Source, Blog, Vision, Apple Inc., Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2007-06-05
Quick Sudoku (exe)
Sudoku is the latest fad in the world puzzle scenario and Quick Sudoku brings the fun and logical exercise offered by Sudoku right to your PC. Sudoku provides excellent exercise to one's brain and logic, yet it is one of the simplest games to learn. The puzzle is solved by...
Tags: Puzzle, Exercise, Sudoku, Games, Desktops, Personal Technology, Hardware
Software downloads 2006-01-13
VoIP: Are you ready to throw the switch?
During this 16-minute podcast, TechRepublic technical director George Ou and section editor Bill Detwiler explore business cases for and against VoIP. VoIP can no longer be dismissed as a passing fad. But it still has a long way to go before people see it as a true...
Tags: TechRepublic Inc., George, Telephony, Podcasts, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Internet
Download resources 2006-05-17
micro notebooks-- good bad or just a fad
I just got an Asus eee 701: 4 GB SSD a 7" screen and a Linux OS. Weighs less than 2 lbs and fits in a large coat pocket. Supposed to be droppable. Runs right out of the box It was $400 list price but it is new at...
Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, notebook, cavlosnap@...
Discussion threads 2007-11-11
Software as a Service: The road ahead
Once dismissed as a passing fad, Software as a Service SaaS is a growing force in the industry. Organizations are embracing it as a way of gaining access to next-generation software without incurring high up-front costs. But despite its increasing popularity, many decision-makers are unsure about its long-term viability and...
Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Management
Webcasts 2007-06-26
Sanity check: Is perimeter security dead and is protecting the data all that matters?
Is perimeter security dead?Link to my original post:http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=542How much of an emphasis do you put on data security versus perimeter security? What does your company do to secure its data?RE: Sanity check: Is perimeter security dead and is protecting the data allOf course it's not dead. People outside of security...
Tags: Jason Hiner, perimeter security, security
Discussion threads 2007-08-24
I have a bone to pick with the open source community
Barring mfgr's not giving access to HW I agree with youthat on the point of usability a lot needs to be done. I don't think and disagree strongly that they should immitate M$; they should solve a problem which presents itself in the most efficient and elegant way possible....
Tags: badiane_ka@..., Linux, open source, open-source community
Discussion threads 2006-12-19
A cure for paraskavedekatriaphobia (or, Happy Friday the 13th)
Today's vocabulary word is paraskavedekatriaphobia, the official term for the fear of Friday the 13th (the date, not the slasher-movie franchise -- that would be crappifilmaphobia). It is an especially particular form of triskaidekaphobia, which is simply fear of the number 13. The origins of the latter phobia are tied...
Tags: Knowledge, Greece, Strategy, Management, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2007-07-13
64-Bit Wireless Broadband
I live in Australia and recently purchased a HP Laptop DV9000 series with Windows Vista Ultimate 64-Bit pre-installed in March '07. At that time, I was not concerned about broadband as I had dialup at home. I now find myself wanting to get wireless broadband on it and I'm having...
Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, Internet service providers (ISPs), Wi-Fi, wildbean1@..., 64-bit, broadband, wireless, wireless broadband
Discussion threads 2007-10-21
Boredom to boom for India's software-testing market
Testing gets no respect in the USThose who have worked in R&D know that the job of testing is not highly regarded by management. It is true that developers generally want to be in the part of the business where new things are invented; new technologies, new algorithms, etc.But many...
Tags: job, software, R&D, pcmenten, career
Discussion threads 2005-03-31
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