Monitoring Your Thirst

Apparent wackjob Randall Flann has been making fluid-holding headgear for years. Gridiron fans can dispense beverages from a football, and hockey addicts can wear a big beer-filled puck on their heads. Computer aficionados aren't being left out. For $30, you can get a big plastic thing that looks like a monitor, fill it full of Jolt and drink your brains out! More

Posted by Doug Barney on January 17, 20070 comments


Lucid8 a Triple Exchange Threat

Lucid8 is well-known for GOexchange, an e-mail maintenance and performance tool. The company also has backup for Exchange in the form of DigiVault.

Now, the company is getting into the e-mail discovery market with DigiScope. Lost a critical message? Need to recover a message thread to defend against a lawsuit or get a new employee up to speed? DigiScope can search, copy and move around Exchange e-mail that may be stored in any number of places.

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Posted by Doug Barney on January 17, 20070 comments


Jobs Not Off the Hook Yet

When I suggested that Steve Jobs be let off the hook for possible financial improprieties, a bunch of you just about ripped my fool head off. You might get your wish to see Jobs in jeopardy. After being cleared by Apple (did they put Leslie Nielsen on this case?) the feds decided to check up on the charges themselves More

Posted by Doug Barney on January 16, 20070 comments


HP CEO Feelin' Fine, Low-Level Gumshoe Feeling Low

According to reports, Mark Hurd, the head of HP, was copied on a key memo discussing an investigation into reporters, employees and directors looking for leaks (Hurd neglected to read the memo and missed part of a key meeting on the subject, he says). Hurd is still running meetings, making the covers of business magazines and doin' fine.

Meanwhile a 29-year-old peon (let's call him Scooter Libby Jr.) from the PI firm with all the sneaky tactics, More

Posted by Doug Barney on January 16, 20070 comments


Dotster Found its Dots

As beer companies know, sex sells. Domain registrar Dotster agrees, and recently held a contest to find female spokesmodels. These women are no slouches. One is a former Miss Arizona (yes, this century!), another appeared on a Dunkin' Donuts commercial and a third actually speaks Spanish.

I've gotten numerous press releases about this and they all tell me to check out the Dots at More

Posted by Doug Barney on January 16, 20070 comments


Laplink Eases End User Vista Moves

While Wise is aimed at IT, Laplink's new PCmover for Windows is designed to help end users migrate files, settings and applications to Vista. The new rev should be out Jan. 18.

Posted by Doug Barney on January 15, 20070 comments


New Mac Office Due

Macphiles, rejoice. You don't have to be stuck with Office 2003 or NeoOffice/J forever. Unfortunately, the new Mac suite will not use the ribbon interface. However, the new Mac Office will run on new Intel Macs and older PowerPC machines. Now, if we can just get a Linux port!

Posted by Doug Barney on January 15, 20070 comments


Microsoft Has a New Grid Friend

High-end computer maker SGI will offer Microsoft's Computer Cluster Server 2003 as part of its Grid computing line. Until now, SGI only offered Linux-based grid solutions. Despite years in the business, Microsoft is still fairly new to the high-performance computing space -- which means it's starting to get good at it. Find out how Microsoft plans to use More

Posted by Doug Barney on January 15, 20070 comments


A Wise Way To Upgrade

Altiris just updated its Wise Installation Studio to help IT easily move users to Vista. Besides supporting Vista, the new rev works with Altiris' application virtualization technology. Similar in concept to Softricity, recently acquired by Microsoft, the Altiris Software Virtualization Solution packages applications in virtual wrappers so they don't affect the registry, dramatically reducing conflicts. Instead of just blindly going with the Redmond solution, you might want to give Altiris a look.

Posted by Doug Barney on January 15, 20070 comments


Macworld: Big on Consumer, Light on Enterprise

At Macworld, Steve Jobs announced a cool (but expensive) cell phone and a device that lets you play your computer video on your TV (this is not an original idea, but my guess is that Apple will just do it better).

Unfortunately, Apple is missing out on a huge opportunity to start pushing Mac back into corporations. Anyone in Cupertino listening?

Posted by Doug Barney on January 10, 20070 comments


Gates Foundation Cheap Shot or Deserved Blow?

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation had gotten a free ride from the press: How can you knock a guy who's giving away some 90 percent of his money? Now, investigative journalists are looking at the harm some of the foundation's projects are doing .

Besides fighting disease, the foundation is funding power plants, which can pollute and cause respiratory disease.

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Posted by Doug Barney on January 10, 20070 comments


Time To Patch, You're Already a Day Late!

Yesterday was Patch Tuesday, and my apologies for not giving you a head's up. If you haven't already, take a look at the fixes Redmond was kind enough to provide. Excel, Outlook and Windows all got critical flaws fixed. Get the deets here .

Posted by Doug Barney on January 10, 20070 comments