Windows 1.0: Still playing Reversi after all these years

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	Windows 1.0: Still playing Reversi after all these years From the NWW archives: Remember your first time firing up Windows 1.0 and playing some Reversi? I don't, since I was six years old and cruising through Montezuma's Revenge and Oregon Trail on an Apple II at the time. Chances are good you don't remember Windows 1.0, either. It took a few versions for Bill Gates' favorite software to really take off. I recently used Windows 1.0 for the first time, after downloading an old copy and installing it in a virtual machine on my Windows 7 PC. Here are the results. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Research In Motion Introducing BlackBerry® Mobile Fusion Easily manage and secure mobile device deployments with BlackBerry® Mobile Fusion. From a single interface, manage BlackBerry® smartphones, BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablets and devices that use the iOS® and Android™ operating systems. Put an end to mobile chaos. Learn more at blackberry.com/mobilefusion In this Issue Kickstarter lapse leaves 70,000 project ideas exposed What enterprise mobile apps can learn from mobile games IBM brings Intel's Ivy Bridge architecture to M4 server line Five Things CIOs Should Know About Big Data Faking IT: 5 Executives Who Lied in Their Resumes IPv6 bumper sticker: 1 way to make your car stand apart from the crowd Public vs. private cyberattack responsibility debate heats up Is November Win 8 tablet release too late? Finally, Study Links IT Spending to Profits Check It: One in Ten Adults Check-In on Foursquare, LBS? RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Verizon Wireless Verizon M2M technology helps transform businesses. Verizon offers customizable, scalable, machine-to-machine solutions. Verizon has the expertise, industry-specific knowledge and high-performance 4G LTE network to develop and deploy integrated business solutions. And the Verizon Machine to Machine Management Center helps you monitor and control deployments from a single, easy-to-use portal. Learn more about Verizon M2M Solutions Kickstarter lapse leaves 70,000 project ideas exposed Crowd-funding website Kickstarter is taking a kick in the public-relations pants today after a revelation by the Wall Street Journal that roughly 70,000 yet-to-be-launched project ideas had been left exposed for more than two weeks. Read More What enterprise mobile apps can learn from mobile games Enterprise mobile apps are shifting from small, narrowly task-oriented programs to larger, more complex ones. To design them well, enterprise developers can learn a lot from a surprising source: mobile games. Read More IBM brings Intel's Ivy Bridge architecture to M4 server line IBM today announced that it will begin rolling out a family of Intel Ivy Bridge-equipped versions of its M4 server expected to reduce data center power costs and offer entry level virtualization servers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks IDC Worldwide Enterprise WLAN 2011-2012 Vendor Analysis Covering a variety of vendors in the enterprise WLAN market, this evaluation is based on various deployment architectures and set of parameters that assess vendors relative to one another and to those factors expected to be most conducive to success in the short and the long term. Read now. Five Things CIOs Should Know About Big Data No. 1: You will need to think about big data Read More Faking IT: 5 Executives Who Lied in Their Resumes Poor Scott Thompson. Just when his plan of revamping Yahoo was gaining steam, the falsified resume (or "Resume-Gate" as it shall forever be known) cut short his stint as CEO. In spite of the "lie" being of an inconsequential nature -- Thompson's resume claimed he had a degree in Computer Science when he didn't - Thompson will now have to add "ex-CEO, Yahoo" on his resume. Read More IPv6 bumper sticker: 1 way to make your car stand apart from the crowd Here's one way to get yourself a few honks on the highway: An official IPv6 oval bumper sticker, from Interop in Las Vegas last week. MORE ON IPv6: Sorry state of federal IPv6 support Apple's IPv6 misstep a sign of the times Read More WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. Understanding WAN Challenges What is the secret sauce of WAN Optimization (WAN Op)? First time users are always amazed at the performance results. Long time users know they risk the wrath of their colleagues if they take it out. Read now. Public vs. private cyberattack responsibility debate heats up Should the federal government combine legislative muscle with fear to pressure private enterprise leaders into funding defenses for a cyberwar? Or should it be up to the government to fund and create a "cyber army" to protect private industry, just as it protects factories and infrastructure in the physical world? Read More Is November Win 8 tablet release too late? If Intel-based Windows 8 tablets launch in November, as one informed source expects, Microsoft would face a narrow window to play a role in the important holiday sales period. Read More Finally, Study Links IT Spending to Profits New research finds a link between IT spending and corporate profitability, but only for IT projects that are focused on revenue growth. Read More Check It: One in Ten Adults Check-In on Foursquare, LBS? Roughly one in five smartphones users "check-in" on location-bases services (LBS), including the popular foursquare location-sharing site, and one in ten adults use LBS, according to a new report. CIO.com's Al Sacco thinks those numbers are dubious. Here's why. Read More
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