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Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 5:54 am Year:October 10th, 2007 Source Site:zdnet
October 10th, 2007
Excel 2007 calculation bug fixed
Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 5:54 am
Categories: Microsoft, In the news
Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Excel 2007, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Microsoft has issued a fix for the calculation bug that was discovered in Excel 2007:
Two weeks ago, we posted about an issue involving the calculation of numbers around 65,535 and 65,536. As of today, fixes for this issue in Excel 2007 and Excel Services 2007 are available for download from the following locations:
Excel 2007: http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/1/3/61343075-aa12-4152-a761-fccc16d6cef4/office-kb943075-fullfile-x86-glb.exe
64-bit Excel Services 2007: http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/...
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Posted by Steve OHear @ 5:17 am Year:October 10th, 2007 Source Site:zdnet
October 10th, 2007
Ebay adds social networking features
Posted by Steve OHear @ 5:17 am
Categories: Social Networks
Tags: Network, Blog, eBay Inc., Social Networking, Blogging, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Steve OHear
If you werent convinced that social networking was as much a feature as a product, look no further than eBay neighborhoods. The e-commerce giant has rolled out over 600 niche social networks around different product categories, where members can upload photos, contribute to discussion forums, read blog entries, as well as access and write product guides and reviews.
Current neighborhoods include ones based around the iPhone, StarWars, and coffee.
Naturally, I checked out the latter.
Creating long tail communitie...
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Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 5:10 am Year:October 10th, 2007 Source Site:zdnet
October 10th, 2007
Microsoft fixes Excel calculation bug
Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 5:10 am
Categories: Office, Office 2007, Service Pack
Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Excel 2007, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
Microsoft has made available for download patches to an Excel 2007 bug discovered late last month and is working on pushing the fix out over Microsoft Update.
The Excel team acknowledged the obscure bug on September 24 which affected Excel 2007 and Excel Services 2007 users attempting to perform calculations of numbers around 65,535 and 65,536. Officials said Excel was calculating the values correctly, but the function in it that takes the value and formats it to be displayed on the screen was faulty
On October 9, the Exc...
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Posted by George Ou @ 4:12 am Year:October 10th, 2007 Source Site:zdnet
October 10th, 2007
The all-in-one dual-core VESA Stand PC mod
Posted by George Ou @ 4:12 am
Categories: Fun Stuff, Hardware, Desktop, Linux, Apple, Energy efficiency - green, Microsoft, Consumer electronics, Build it yourself
Tags: Dual-core, PC, LCD, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, George Ou
Can you spot the PC in this picture? Its behind the 22 LCD display and its actually holding up the LCD. [See my image gallery for more and larger photos.] Theres plenty of room under the display for all your important stuff. Now you can actually put your CENTER speakers in the center rather than off to the side because the LCD monitor stand is taking up center. The Polycom Communicator also found a home underneath the LCD taking center stage. Theres also a convenient powe...
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Posted by Matthew Miller @ 3:54 am Year:October 10th, 2007 Source Site:zdnet
October 10th, 2007
myvu Universal edition brings a big screen experience to your portable media player
Posted by Matthew Miller @ 3:54 am
Categories: Nokia, Review, MP3 players, Gadgets, Zune, Nseries
Tags: Box, Apple iPod, Portable Media Player, Video, Media Player, Cable, Corporate Communications, Digital Music, Digital Media, Network Technology
Late last year I had a chance to check out the myvu Made for iPod Fully Loaded package and thought it was an excellent way to view video content on the iPod. Unfortunately, I didnt own an iPod and had to just borrow one for the review so I didnt move forward with a purchase of the myvu personal media viewer. Thankfully, myvu contacted me a few weeks ago to let me know about their latest product, the myvu Universal Edition personal ...
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Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 3:18 am Year:October 10th, 2007 Source Site:zdnet
October 10th, 2007
Why Windows users dont switch to Mac
Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 3:18 am
Categories: Thoughts, Apple, Industry
Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Truth, User, Ignorance, Leigh, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems
Over on Apple Matters I came across an interesting post by Steven Leigh which considers 8 reasons why Windows users dont switch to Mac. Leigh is a recent Mac switcher and he has an interesting insight into the issues surrounding making a switch, but I think that there are several areas where he misses the mark.
The first reason he give is ignorance.
Ignorance is merely a lack of knowledge, and when it comes to Macs, most Windows users, myself included, are extremely uninformed.
There are more Windo...
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Posted by Larry Dignan @ 3:13 am Year:October 10th, 2007 Source Site:zdnet
October 10th, 2007
News to know: Digital media ethics; Adobe flaw; ATT; Gamemaster interview
Posted by Larry Dignan @ 3:13 am
Categories: General, News to know
Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Digital Media, Gartner Inc., AT&T Corp., TiVo Inc., Microsoft Corp., Ethics, Flaw, Business Ethics, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
In Focus ? See more posts on: News to know
Notable headlines:
Ed Bott: Where do you stand on digital media ethics?
Ed Burnette: Interview with a Game Master. IBM, Second Life open borders for virtual worlds.
Ryan Naraine: Adobe warns of critical PageMaker, Illustrator flaws
Russell Shaw: AT&T tells me it will revise damage our name language in TOS.
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Oxygen security-management platform in the works. Microsofts Ballmer call...
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Posted by Dan Kusnetzky @ 3:00 am Year:October 10th, 2007 Source Site:zdnet
October 10th, 2007
Altiris ManageFusion Day 1
Posted by Dan Kusnetzky @ 3:00 am
Categories: Managing virtualized environments
Tags: Environment, Backup, Altiris Inc., Backups, Productivity, Dan Kusnetzky
After my first partial day at Altiris/Symantecs ManageFusion, its struck me how important a good set of backup tools are for virtualized environments. Since there are many hidden events in such an environment, comprehensive and automated tools are critical.
It appears that the folks in the world of backup software are on a collision course with some of the folks in the virtual processing software market . Both communities appear to be moving towards a central point where they can automate and orchestrate virtualized environments. I really have to learn more about this movem...
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Posted by Ed Burnette @ 12:01 am Year:October 10th, 2007 Source Site:zdnet
October 10th, 2007
Interview with a Game Master
Posted by Ed Burnette @ 12:01 am
Categories: General, Games
Tags: Game, Player, General Motors Corp., Flyff, Games, Personal Technology, Ed Burnette
In the world of Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs), Game Masters are mysterious and powerful entities with the power of life and death over mere mortal players. Like the mythical deities of old, their appearance can mean disaster or delight for those around them. In an exclusive interview with ZDNet, we managed to summon one of these denizens of virtual adventure to get an inside look at their unique position. As Dorothy discovered behind the curtain at the Emerald City, however, the reality isn’t quite as glamorous as you might have imagined.
In ancient t...
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Posted by Christopher Dawson @ 8:51 pm Year:October 9th, 2007 Source Site:zdnet
October 9th, 2007
Is OLPC really immune to criticism?
Posted by Christopher Dawson @ 8:51 pm
Categories: Education Technology, DigitalDivide
Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Christopher Dawson
Reading George Ous post today, OLPC is the PC you cant ever criticize, reminded me of a conversation I had with my kids doctor the other day. It went something like this:
Doctor: I heard on the radio this morning about a great little laptop that you can get for $300. You get one and then they send another one to some developing country. Have you heard about it?
Me: Actually, I have. Its closer to $400, but thats about the idea. Its called the XO from a group called One Laptop Per Child. Im supposed to be receiving a competitor to the XO this week for a hands-on review.
Doctor: Re...
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Posted by Richard Koman @ October 9, 2007 @ 7:55 PM Year:October 9th, 2007 Source Site:zdnet
October 9th, 2007
House Dems ready bill for umbrella surveillance of foreign targets
Posted by Richard Koman @ October 9, 2007 @ 7:55 PM
Categories: Justice, Intelligence
Tags: Democrat, Immunity, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, ZDNet Government
Does this sound like a Democratic plan? A secret court would be able to issue one-year umbrella warrants allowing the government to intercept e-mails and phone calls of foreign targets without independent approval of each target. No? That is the plan that House Democrats are preparing to pass, however, The Washington Post reports.
These would be the same Democrats that passed the Protect America Act this summer that expanded the governments ability to spy on foreign target on U.S. soil without a warra...
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Ed Champion is investigating whether certain bloggers included in Amazons Kindle launch were made Kindle Blogs without authorization or licensing. He cites two examples (Daniel McGowan and Cork Gaines) of bloggers who apparently are included in the Kindle Store without their permission. This surprises me. My personal blog Bag and Baggage is there
in the Kindle Store too (Im also quoted in Eds post), but under an express agreement. It could be the Kindle team had some misunderstanding about the ramifications of the noncommercial use restriction in certain Creative Commons licenses; the initial email I received about participating did reference my Creative Commons license, but neither McGowan nor Gaines seem to use Creative Commons so Im at a loss as to whats going on. In my case, Amazon had lots of communication with me about including Bag and Baggage, and crossed its Ts and dotted its Is on the legal front.