Fix a Computer That Won't Stay Asleep
My buddy Doug had a problem with his laptop: After putting it to sleep (i.e. into Standby mode), he'd come back awhile later to find it wide awake.
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BioShock 2 Impressions
You might call BioShock 2 'BioShock with the top down'. You'll discover this early in the game, when its lid, sides, and bottom suddenly disengage and you're thrust beyond the safety of purpose-made geometry. In BioShock, Rapture was a nightmare metropolis beneath the sea, an abyssal macro-terrarium circumscribed by an ocean unwittingly intruded upon, but for all the rifting city's dribbling cracks and spitting leaks, the ocean never came to you.
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Amazon pulls plug on, then bows to publisher in e-book row
After a brief protest, Amazon.com will continue to sell e-book titles from Macmillan despite the publisher's decision to raise prices for e-books.
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Why Apple chose the iPad's screen format
We're all used to wide screens these days: on our computers, TVs and even our iPhones. All Macs today come with 16:10 screens; HD TV screens are 16:9; and iPhones and iPod touches are 15:10. These devices are designed for content that is viewed essentially in a horizontal manner: even though you work on word processing documents and read web pages that flow vertically, Apple wants you to know that you can watch movies on your Mac. In fact, this widescreen format has become so common in recent years that many people seem surprised by the iPad's screen format of 4:3.
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The Gap: BI better in enterprise-wide deployment
When considering BI projects, organizations would be better off setting up an enterprise-wide data warehouse rather than running different data marts for individual projects, said Michael Jones, senior vice president of IT for the Gap clothing retailer.
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BI's Dirty Secret: Better Tools No Match for Bad Strategy
The pressure on CIOs to deliver business intelligence tools and analytic applications--on the cheap and ASAP--has been building steadily for years. In 2010, survey results point out that that demand has reached a fever pitch with which CIOs are very familiar.
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Chrome snatches share from IE, Firefox
Google's Chrome gained browser market share in January at the expense of both Microsoft's Internet Explorer and IE's biggest rival, Mozilla's Firefox, according to data published today.
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SaaS BI will be big in 2010
Mounting evidence suggests that in 2010, the hottest segment in BI (business intelligence) software will revolve around offerings delivered from the cloud, thanks to increased product sophistication, strained IT budgets and other factors.
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Data warehousing vendors squabble over best way forward with flash memory
This year the watchword will be speed, as vendors start introducing flash memory storage to get around the longtime bottleneck of reading and writing to disk.
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Cloud security: Try these techniques now
Some customers are making peace with the notion of security in the cloud. Here's how they're coping.
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