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Optimism (dmg)

Optimism gives you a platform for actively learning about your depression. As you monitor the patterns in your life you can begin to see the various factors, internal and external, that impact your health. Simple charts highlight cause and effect relationships that would often be missed. This knowledge equips you...

Tags: Optimism, Health Care, Crackatonic Projects, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

Software downloads 2008-02-21

Webcomic: An IT pro's idea of optimism

Oscar Wilde once said that the basis of optimism is sheer terror. That would explain the difference between the average guy's idea of hope, and the IT pro's idea of the best-case scenario--as illustrated by the always indispensable User Friendly....

Tags: Optimism, Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2007-10-29

Additional Resources

If You Believe You Can (exe)

Are you being defeated by your problems, facing frustrations that are discouraging you, and financial position that is depressing you then this book is for you. This guide is a faith builder, hope booster, confidence creator, enthusiasm generator and optimism spreader. This is a lifetime opportunity, download this e-book and...

Tags: Financial, Financial Position, E-books, Financial Accounting, Personal Technology, Finance

Software downloads 2005-07-12

Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) bridges cellular networks and WLANs

Convergence!Will it be cost effective?1st of, these dual phones are top-end with big price tags, and then the cost of network devices will only add overheads! Telecom equipment are still the most solid and reliable. . .these voip boxes are not so convincing. Is there any real optimism?

Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, NETWORKING, yiabdulkadir@..., WLAN

Discussion threads 2007-08-23

Digital Physiognomy (exe)

Digital Physiognomy is an entertaining psychological profiling software application that determines person's character and traits based on facial features. The program works like a police sketch (a.k.a. photo robot). The software reveals person's temper, intellect, self-esteem, sense of humor, level of optimism, will power, and even luck. The new version...

Tags: Software, Digital Physiognomy, Tools & Techniques, Robots, Management, Emerging Technologies

Software downloads 2007-11-15

Facilitate a meeting to define what success looks like for your project

Although most projects start enthusiastically, optimism fades quickly unless an analysis and design team gets traction and learns where it is going. Working from a project charter, the team's next step is defining typically, "what does success look like". These high-level requirements help clarify the project's vision and give the...

Tags: Team, Team Management, Management

Download resources 2007-09-25

RFID: How Far, How Fast - A View From the Rest of the World

There are two sides to the retail RFID story. Everyone knows about the highly publicized efforts and mandates of Wal-Mart, Target, Tesco, and Metro. The four early retailers traditionally lead the way in retail IT innovation, so it is hardly surprising that they also hold a commanding lead in RFID...

Tags: Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, RFID, Retail, Wireless, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2004-09-30

The Ubiquitous Camera: An In-Depth Study of Camera Phone Use

The worldwide boom in mobile phone penetration has forever changed the global technology landscape, and mobile phone operators are looking to further capitalize on this huge market. They have high hopes that, following text messaging success especially in Europe and Asia, "Picture messaging" using camera phones will establish photos as...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, Camera Phone, Cell Phone, Camera, Camera Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing

White papers 2005-04-01

Weighted Metric Value-Added Methodology for Better Project Management

This paper proposes a Weighted Metric Value-added WMV methodology that deploys quantitative project data and performance measures from day-to-day project activities for successful software project management. This method is based on task metrics covering all aspects of project activities, and assigning a score for every activity. The scores are used...

Tags: Activity, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management

White papers 2004-05-01

Frame Relay Over MPLS (FRoMPLS): Today, Tomorrow and the Future

Today's telecom marketplace is perhaps more interesting than ever. The fast and wild days of unbridled optimism in the 1990's have passed, but the job of providing for growing data communication needs remains. It is at this critical moment in time that one find himself/herself increasingly considering the relationship of...

Tags: Frame Relay Forum, MPLS, Frame Relay, Network Technology, Networking

White papers 2002-09-04

Hamid Swaps Cleaning for Technology

Hamid Hajar looks forward to the future with optimism, thanks to the Cisco Networking Academy Program. After he was forced by political and economic turmoil to leave his native Sudan for Lebanon, his refugee status meant he was reduced to working as a cleaner, despite a talent for technology. Fortunately,...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc.

Case studies

Understanding and Communicating the Financial Impact of XML & DITA

In the technology age, bottom-line impact is the Holy Grail: savings in costs, time and resources. Any new investment or process improvement starts with infectious optimism, but ROI-focused executive teams need more proof than potential to give the green light - once the deal is signed and the work begins,...

Tags: Financial, Justsystems, XML, Roi/Tco, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Finance, Managerial Accounting

White papers 2007-03-01

The Future's in Sight: IBM Leaps Forward With Enhancements and Partnerships for Lotus Sametime

IBM's Lotus Sametime, the stalwart crossover player in both the Enterprise Instant Messaging EIM and Web conferencing markets, seemed to stall over the last two to three years as an IBM branding effort took the popular application through a name change nobody recognized; a seeming de-emphasis in favor of IBM's...

Tags: Partnership, IBM Lotus SameTime, IBM Corp., International Data Group, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-02-01

3G Becomes Reality in Cannes

Renewed industry optimism in Cannes during the 3GSM World Congress 2004 was underlined by a live UMTS network deployment by Orange and Nortel Networks. The deployment of this network was a result of close collaboration between Orange and Nortel Networks. A combined team brought the network online in less than...

Tags: Orange PCS, Network, Nortel Networks Corp., 3G, Networking, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Case studies

Tech remains strong as Apple, AT&T, Yahoo, and Microsoft report earnings

Last week, IBM, Intel, and Google reported surprisingly strong earnings to Wall Street and created some cautious optimism that the U.S. tech sector is weathering the This week, it was time for another round of tech giants to share their financials -- Apple, Amazon, AT&T, Motorola, Yahoo, and Microsoft....

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Earnings, Podcasts, Internet, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2008-04-25

CIOs express surprising optimism about 2008 IT spending -- Poll: What do you think?

A survey of CIOs by financial services giant UBS in February showed that the 2008 outlook for IT spending is surprisingly upbeat. This contradicts the dour outlook issued by Dell and Cisco recently and supports more upbeat reports from IBM, HP, and Sun. Of the 100 CIOs...

Tags: Desktop, CIO, IT-spending, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2008-03-07

IDC: Linux has proved itself in the enterprise and its rise will continue

In addition to Gartner's more measured optimism regarding Linux, IDC analyst's are predicting that enterprise spending in the "Linux ecosystem" will more than double over the next four years, hitting $49 billion by 2011. The growth is attributed to enterprises finding more uses for Linux than the traditional, basic infrastructure...

Tags: International Data Corp., Inquirer, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Selena Frye

Blog posts 2008-04-11

You go, grrrrrlz!!!

I finally get to blog about one of my favorite subjects... GIRL POWER!!  This News.com story talks about the Women's Game Conference in Austin, Texas: "Getting girls in the game." Sadly enough, 88.5 percent of video game makers are male, and so this conference presents an opportunity for people to talk about...

Tags: Women, Video Game, Video, Conference, Games, Gender And Diversity, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Marketing, Sonja Thompson

Blog posts 2005-10-27

Optimism for the iZ3D monitor deteriorates into misery over the final product

Clearly an uneducated review.This review is about as far off as I can imagine. The reviewer couldn't be any more wrong. I purchased this iz3d monitor myself and I've had great success with it. I have had my share of issues also, but nothing that the iz3d support didn't take...

Tags: Monitors & displays, cptwaldo@..., iz3D, monitor, 3D, IZ3D

Discussion threads 2007-10-04

In-demand skills in 2005 require strategic business acumen

Project managers, network administrators, and business analystswill be in growing demand during the first part of 2005, but they'll need a newset of skills to land the jobs, particularly in the areas of finance,compliance, research and planning. That's the opinion of Terry Phillips, branchmanager for Robert Half Technology's Columbus, OH...

Tags: David Southgate, job, Phillips

Technical articles 2005-05-13