@WKash: Yes thanks for mentioning the interesting White House report. I wrote a story on those findings last year. See http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1319116 An interesting thing to note in the report is that...
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@ UberGoober, there is hardly any doubt that Windows 7 was the zenith of Windows experience. It was so stable and smooth that it made users forget about the failed Windows Vista. But I think there is no point in sticking...
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Only five more days to enter out caption contest. Is this your lucky day to win a prize?
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@ Gregory H020, thank you for the link. I have just checked your blog and found it really useful. Anything that could provide mouse and keyboard users the ease of use will be welcomed by the users. Although I am already...
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There is hardly any doubt that it is a mega thing. It has a pretty dashing design with all the latest hardware that is available till now and battery is massive as well. I wonder if Samsung had kept productivity more under...
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"Facebook thinks it knows your interests better than you do." That seems to be the case exactly. Instead of trying their own creativity or designing sense, programmers at Facebook should try to understand what users want....
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@ Kristin Burnham, it is a very simple question for me at least. If I am using one service and satisfied with the terms of usage as well, then suddenly someone else purchases that service and brings in totally different...
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The main security concerns on all Windows versions are those of users being duped into installing rogue software such as fake patches, browser plugins or antivirus programs, and of browser plugins such as Flash or Acrobat...
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Mak, I like that positive thinking. :) I would love to believe there would finally be an era of peace and prosperity. However, as history tells of centuries of human primitive behaviour that don't seem to come...
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If so many important systems still running XP, (ATMs, healthcare, electric/gas utilities, etc) will be at risk after April, can Microsoft offer an almost free upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium, and show that they care what...
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During the St. Paddy's Day celebration, there's a ban on cell phone use while getting drunk unless you have a hands-free device.
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It's interested to point out that the US is 4th in the overall Web Index (measure of the Web's growth, utility and impact). Nevertheless, it's 12th in Universal Access, 10th in Relevant Content. 1st in Impact & Empowerment...
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The governments and the corporations of the world have found and built their place on the internet. People like Eric Snowden, Julian Assange, and even organizations like Anonymous have the individual's rights in mind....
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Right -- the end users are not brought into the design and implementation loop until the major elements of implementation have been "frozen." To often, decision-makers don't understand the daily work that must be done. ...
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The scinario does not work. "The tomb had to meet two requirements: - it had to be finished before the pharaoh died - and it had to be big." Where you are building the second tomb you actually build a defective...
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@Somedude8
If you click on the link below the paragraph/description (it says something like image credit), it'll open a new page where the images are. I hope it helps
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I commend Berners-Lee for raising the need for a digital bill of rights. But it's hard to imagine how it could ever be enforced -- especially when the balance of digital power increasingly centers around those, like...
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Thanks for noting, Charlie. NARA's IT leaders insist the contextual scanning tools available today, that help attorneys scan and catalog 10s and 100s of 1000s of documents have gotten good enough lately to tackle the...
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Daniel, I think the part that is the largest shift in all of this is the lack of understanding, by many, many users, that the world does not actually revolve around them (personally). The ME-centre has infantilised...
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@Lorna that makes sense. For some companies the fines are a relative drop in the bucket.
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Great point... we have found that incremental improvement can often yield the best results - especially when businesses focus on the highest value features/functionality rather than tackling too much at one time. This requires...
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