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Tools That Teach Mustn’t Overreach

This week's sold-out Eclipse Summit Europe, in Esslingen, Germany, will include a presentation on the Topcased project, an effort driven by the French

Oct 9, 2006
Brand Identity Is Precious

When Intel debuted the "Intel Inside" branding in 1991, the MBA side of my brain sounded alarms for all the PC makers whose short-sighted greed for

Oct 2, 2006
Google Faces a Tall Order in MS Office Challenge

Looking at the prospect of a Google office suite, and at how that package might fare in competition with Microsoft's Office, requires at least a

Aug 28, 2006
No Lazy Summer for Enterprise Tech

As I walked into the lobby of the San Francisco Hilton last Wednesday, it certainly didn't feel like the dog days of IT's summer. The hotel was hosting

Aug 21, 2006
Developers Tools Are Never Good Enough

It's often said, and I agree, that "'Better' is the enemy of 'good enough'"--but I'm not prepared to declare myself the loyal ally of one or the other.

Aug 1, 2005
Eclipse, NetBeans Not Always at Odds

To exploit emerging java-based technologies, developers enjoy an expanding arsenal of tools that increasingly rest on one of two open-source foundations:

Jul 25, 2005
High-Level System Models Reduce Errors

At the apogee of software challenges are the rigorous demands of robotic deep-space missions. NASA's July 4 success in hitting a bullet with a

Jul 18, 2005
Agile Tools Help Teams Hit SOA Targets

If it's not what you do for a living, it's something you should think about paying someone else to do. Configuring, maintaining and updating a development

Jul 11, 2005
Customers Doubt Immediate Benefit of 64-bit

During a Ziff Davis Media Inc. eSeminar on desktop prospects for 64-bit computing March 9, attendees wondered what they'd get from the advent of Advanced

Mar 21, 2005
Mobile Robots Take on New Chores

Wireless links and cheap processing power make mobile robots increasingly practical for industry and public-safety applications. Originally inspired by

Feb 23, 2004
A Developer Looks at Panther

When application developers open the stark black box containing the four CDs of Apple Computer Inc.'s "Panther" OS, they'll get more than the newly

Oct 24, 2003
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