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September 2011 Archives

Thursday, 29th September 2011

PhoneGap Applies to Apache Software Foundation

Popular open source mobile development framework "wrapper" PhoneGap has applied for consideration to the Apache Software Foundation and contemplating a name change. In a message in PhoneGap's Google Groups development page, Nitobi software developer Brian Leroux said that the project has "initialized the process to contribute PhoneGap to the Apache…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

Spiceworks Automates Printer Resupply

Tired of tracking down when you need to refill your printer supplies? Then check out the latest innovation that IT management vendor Spiceworks has implemented today: an automated printer ink and toner reminder and restocking program. The company claims its users are responsible for maintaining more than 10 million printers, and that adds up to a…

Enterprise David Strom comments

Wednesday, 28th September 2011

The Return of Phone Tag

Many of us remember when the new fangled fax machine was first called a telecopier and was going to revolutionize office communications. How far we have come since then. But with all the various waves of tech to revolutionize our offices, I think we have almost come full circle back to the lonely telephone. (You can still buy one at Amazon, of…

Enterprise David Strom comments

The Pros & Cons of Frictionless Sharing

One of the most controversial aspects of Facebook's re-design announcements last week was the introduction of "frictionless sharing." That's Facebook's term for when something you are reading, listening to or watching is automatically shared to your Facebook Timeline. Up till now, sharing on the social Web has largely been a manual…

Social Richard MacManus comments

CloudFlare's Free IPv6 Gateway

Baby trashes bar in Las Palmas One year ago a distributed DNS and content delivery network startup called CloudFlare launched at a TechCrunch event. It didn't win. ReadWriteWeb's Frederic Lardinois wrote about its promise to "speed up your website by an average of 30% and dramatically decrease your bandwidth usage and server load by preventing…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

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