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Cracking open a Toshiba HD-A30 HD DVD player: Updated 3:00AM - By now the news is out that the end of HD DVD might be near since Toshiba is considering its options that may include the possibility of stopped production on HD DVD products is confirmed dead. There are more than a million HD DVD owners, two exclusive HD...; Tags: HD-DVD Player, HD-DVD, Consensus, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba HD-A30, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, George Ou; Blog posts 2008-02-19
Google's FCC deadline approaches: Will it bid for 700 Mhz wireless spectrum?: Google's filing deadline with the Federal Communications Commission's auction of 700 megahertz wireless spectrum is rapidly approaching, but we won't know the search giant's real intentions until 2008. The FCC's filing deadline is Dec. 3 for the upcoming 700 Mhz spectrum auction. This auction is a big deal for...; Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Consensus, Verizon Wireless, Spectrum, Auction, Bidders, Federal Government, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Government, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-11-28
Open source values: Consensus: Last week I wrote about transparency as an open source value. Today, in the second of this informal series, I want to discuss the value called consensus. Consensus is an essential open source value, and a value which distinguishes open source from the proprietary models which came...; Tags: Consensus, Internet, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-11-15
Singularity Summit 2007: It's about the money: AIs will compete with human for jobs, and more often get the job, according to Barney Pell, CEO of natural language search startup Powerset who was speaking at the Singularity Summit 2007. Unlike previous generations of AIs, which has more specialized functions covering a constrained domain, these...; Tags: Consensus, Advanced General Intelligence, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-09-08

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All USB ports aren't created equal: Remember my theory about 10.5.2 causing poor audio quality in Skype? I pretty much convinced that 10.5.2 is the culprit, but there's another theory floating around out there – that it's related to USB ports. The problem manifested itself most recently in the...; Tags: USB Port, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-05-09

Oil's superspike may make telecommuting the norm: Can the price of crude--currently above $125 a barrel and the high gas prices that go with it--make telecommuting the norm? These questions come up typically with crises and natural disasters. For instance, if there was an avian flu outbreak workers across the U.S. would have to...; Tags: Information Technology, Worker, Telecommuting, Help Desk, Call Centers, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations, Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Extracting the structure of networks: Networks are used to represent the structure of complex systems, including the Internet or social networks, but often these descriptions are biased or incomplete. Now, researchers at the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) have shown that it's possible to extract automatically the hierarchical structure of networks. The researchers say their results...; Tags: Network, Structure, Networking, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-03
Stanford pushing for new parallel computing model: Stanford University, in conjunction with Sun, AMD, NVIDIA, IBM, Intel, and HP, is working to create a new computing model that fully exploits modern, multicore processing. As a feature in Ars Technica points out, parallel computing has always posed significant challenges to programmers. However, since most of us...; Tags: Computing, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-01
Deja vu all over again on health insurance: A New England Journal of Medicine editorial on health insurance out today warns we could be heading back to another Harry and Louise moment, alluding to the failure of health care reform in 1994. The proposals offered by John McCain on the one hand and Barack Obama...; Tags: Health Insurance, Health Care, Benefits Expert, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-01
Spigit mashes up social software to reveal innovation: Take the idea of community, sprinkle liberally with process, add a dash of prediction market thinking and a soupcon of reputation analysis, stir gently without too much mashing and you have InnovationSpigit. I really like this idea because it solves one of the...; Tags: Innovation, Idea, Spigit, InnovationSpigit, Research & Development, LDAP, Leadership, Games, Strategy, Business Operations, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Personal Technology, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-01
'WOA: the SOA that works': "WOA: the SOA that works." That's how fellow ZDNet blogger and analyst Phil Wainewright described the Web Oriented Architecture phenomenon that has been a topic of hot discussion as of late, at the latest Analyst BriefingsDirect podcast we just wrapped yesterday. The podcast (audio...; Tags: SOA, WOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-04-25
Microsoft earnings post-mortem: The cash cows quiver: The headlines on Microsoft's fiscal 2008 third quarter earnings were all over the map this week -- with claims that Microsoft beat expectations, to Microsoft fell far short of the mark. The one consensus, however, was that Windows client and Office, Microsoft's two biggest cash cows, weren't the robust bottom-line...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Earnings, Ppt, Microsoft Windows, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-04-25
Apple blows through estimates; Ships 2.29 million Macs; Outlook light by design?: Apple in its fiscal second quarter shipped 2.29 million Macs to top even the most optimistic Wall Street projections. Apple had been expected to ship 2.1 million Macs, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, one of Apple's biggest supporters on Wall Street. Since...; Tags: Revenue, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Outlook, Quarter, Apple Inc., Operational Accounting, Construction, Sales Strategy, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-23
Ballmer: We don't need Yahoo and we aren't raising our bid: As expected, Microsoft launched its Yahoo counterattack on Wednesday as CEO Steve Ballmer said the company isn't raising its bid for the portal and would be just fine without a merger. Whether Ballmer is bluffing or not remains to be seen. Yahoo reported solid first quarter earnings...; Tags: Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Portals, Mergers & Acquisitions, Web Technology, Internet, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-23
Reminder: Apple to announce Q2 2008 financials today: Just a reminder that Apple will announce their Q2 2008 financial results in a conference call today (23 April 2008) at 2:00 p.m. PT/5:00 p.m. ET.Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog has a little preview: So there are two things to watch for on Wednesday: 1) Apple's sales figures...; Tags: Apple Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-04-23
Apple earnings cheat sheet: It's all about the Mac units: Apple reports its fiscal second quarter results Wednesday and the most important item driving the quarter will be Mac sales. All eyes will be on Mac units. Apple's Mac--despite a lot of focus on the iPhone--will make or break the quarter. Chances are pretty good that the...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Unit, Quarter, Apple Inc., Earnings, Chances, Wall Street, Sales Strategy, Desktops, Sales Force Management, Sales, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-23
bCisive (exe): bCisive is Austhink Software's tool for making workplace decisions more easily. Using decision mapping, it helps you save time and effort, collaborate more effectively, be more confident about your decisions and get more consensus around them. It also helps improve institutional memory by creating a record of the reasoning behind...; Tags: Decision, Austhink Software, bCisive, Recruitment & Selection, Microsoft Office, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Office Suites, Software; Software downloads 2008-04-23
Enterprise 2.0 industry matures as businesses grapple with its potential: Some of the big IT news over the weekend was the announcement that Forrester predicts that the Enterprise 2.0 space will be a $4.6 billion industry within 5 years. ZDNet's Larry Dignan had the full breakdown yesterday on Forresters bullish outlook while Dennis Howlett immediately took umbrage with...; Tags: Software, Application, Information Technology, Industry, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 Industry, Enterprise 2.0 Tool, Self-service, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2008-04-22
Science and conspiracies, why some Americans say scientists lie: There's an online debate about the current, widespread American denial of science. From intelligent design to the belief that global warming is an eco-fascist or eco-socialist (depending on where the boogeyman hides) conspiracy. From fear of vaccines to disdain for anti-pollution regulations, American policy debate on matters of...; Tags: Science, Public Relations, Blogging, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-04-18
Feedback C (Images: Testing Microsoft's Experimental Platform): Feedback C (Images: Testing Microsoft's Experimental Platform)MSFT product design!!I know this is not related to the subject but MSFT's seriously needs to hire product designers and good ones at that.Product design or product consensus?Imagine Rodin giving questionaires to his friends: "A- Should The Thinker lean to the left?" B- "Should...; Tags: C/C++, Experimental Platform, Feedback C, Testing, Microsoft Corp., C; Discussion threads 2008-04-17