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- IT warning: Turbulence ahead
- IT warning: Turbulence aheadI think virtualization is going to have a much more major impact...than people think.We are getting ready to move over to a virtualized environment for our new EHR system. After a few months of running that, i am planning on moving as many running servers to...
- Tags: Strategy, Turbulence, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- TechCrunch50: Day 3
- Photo by Steve Maller I've been covering TC50 for the past few days, and believe it or not, I'm still hungry for more startup pitches. 6:30 a.m. The final sessions of the conference are posted on BusinessWire: s Akoha...
- Tags: Hollywood, YouTube Inc., Video, Photograph, Bojam, Truecar, Playce, Panelist, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- Apple+doesn%27t+do+loss+leaders
- Apple+doesn%27t+do+loss+leadersEven after the initial cut, Apple makes moneyTo Apple, this is never going to be a losing scenario. How ever, production cost of the iPhone was calculated at $283 and some change. Even so, Apple is making some massive bank on the Cellphone subscriptions even though they have...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple Inc., hardware
- Discussion threads 2008-01-31
- Will you be having sex with a robot in five years' time?
- Will you be having sex with a robot in five years' time?Very disturbing but legitimate topicI think we're far from "marriage" with robots since robots with true AI and not intelligence imitation are far from reality. All too often is a clever algorithm mislabeled as "AI". Having robots...
- Tags: Robots, robot, blow-up doll, doll
- Discussion threads 2008-01-02
- XP on OLPC: Microsoft's gambit to stay in the emerging market conversation
- Windows XP may come to the One Laptop Per Child project as Microsoft ports its operating system to flash-based devices such as Intel's Classmate PC, ASUS Eee PC and the XO laptop. But Microsoft's big motive is to stay relevant in emerging markets where officials are increasingly mulling over Linux-based...
- Tags: Emerging Market, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-06
- SAP ERP Integrates Key Business Processes Across the Adhunik Group of Industries
- The top management at Adhunik Group felt the need for an ERP solution to enable them to optimize production cost and generate more revenue, improve quality and enhance customer satisfaction, while increasing competitiveness as well as meet market demand and sustain organic growth. To fulfill this ambition, Adhunik Group realized...
- Tags: Business Process, Industry, SAP AG, ERP, SAP ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations
- Case studies 2007-12-04
- Beware fake memory cards
- Beware fake memory cardsWho would've ever thought ....Thanks for the heads up. These being counterfeit never evencrossed my mind.RE: Beware fake memory cardsyea it is way too easy to do this. Just sell a 1.5 GB as a 2 GB. People wouldnt really ell because all memory has a...
- Tags: Branding, brand name, brand, card, memory card
- Discussion threads 2007-10-25
- The world's biodiesel potential
- Two researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M) have ranked 226 countries according to their potential to make large volumes of biodiesel at low cost. Their evaluation of the world's potential to produce biodiesel shows that Malaysia, Thailand, Colombia, Uruguay and Ghana are the developing nations most likely to attract...
- Tags: Researcher, Biodiesel, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- ASUS and Intel slaughters OLPC with Eee-ase
- ASUS and Intel have actually created an alternative for Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC One Laptop Per Child called the "Eee PC". The difference here is that the ASUS Eee PC is actually something that looks usable and perhaps even desirable for everyday use as a super cheap UMPC Ultra Mobile PC. The...
- Tags: News, Mobile/Wireless, Intel, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Energy efficiency, Desktop, Consumer electronics
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Selling stuff online? Here comes the IRS
- Selling stuff online? Here comes the IRSInevitibleI think this was inevitable. The USA charges income tax, and if you sell alot on Ebay, clearly that is income.However, if the IRS is going to base your income tax strictly on your totals Ebay supplies them, then its already a farce.Sales...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Operational accounting, tax, income, income tax, Internal Revenue Service
- Discussion threads 2007-04-13
- XBOX 360 and HD-DVD
- In a recent discussion, a friend wondered why Microsoft had opted not to include an HD-DVD drive in the recent update to the XBOX 360 console (the XBOX 360 Elite). The logic would seem obvious. In the US, 94% of Blu-Ray players sold are included as part of the PS3...
- Tags: PlayStation, HD DVD, HD, XBOX 360, XBOX, Wii, Sony, PS3, Nintendo, Microsoft, General, Games
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- Can wild grass produce clean fuel?
- Can wild grass produce clean fuel?Missing data.How much energy is used in the fermentation process? In other words and this applies to any biofuel discussion is there a net loss in energy using bio instead of oil?What about yard grass? It may not be as efficient but it's already...
- Tags: Biotechnology, corn crop, fossil fuel, grass, crop
- Discussion threads 2007-02-20
- Who owns Solaris?
- Who owns Solaris?Even before OpenSolarisSun only charged for x86 Solaris and not that much. If you had a SPARC-based computer, you could get the OS and upgrades for free. I never had any problem downloading patches from Sun with a non-"privileged" account.Razors and RazorbladesSun has a product with zero unit...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-12
- A (nano)jacket for riding your bicycle
- If you want to try a luminescent jacket to improve your safety when you ride your bicycle at night, you'll have to be next week in Melbourne, Australia. This prototype jacket, embedded with nano polymers, will be on display at the Melbourne Design Festival's Fabric of the Future exhibit, as...
- Tags: NanoVic
- Blog posts 2006-07-08
- iPod sweatshops alleged
- iPod sweatshops allegedApple should triple the cost and build in the US.And not one person should say boo about the cost...China IpodsI am a bit surprised Apple uses Taiwan companies for manufacturing on the mainland and I would guess this bad publicity may cause Apple to start going direct.Chinese sweatshopsPicture...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Apple Inc., electronics
- Discussion threads 2006-06-15
- Ethanol maker pops in public offering
- Ethanol maker pops in public offeringSuperweedssounds interesting . . . ;)Americans take it up the backside again...Let's ask why this company is profitable. The fact is, it is not profitable, it is being shored up via "welfare" from both the state and federal government, as well as the CORN...
- Tags: alcohol, Ethanol, biodiesel, corn, polymer, ethanol, crop
- Discussion threads 2006-06-14
- Microsoft dallies with open source
- Microsoft dallies with open source"Won't you come into my parlor."Said the spider to the fly.Embrace, Extend ... Extinguish is the "help" MS has for the OSS community. I'll believe MS is out to "help" ANYBODY when a single call to tech support doesn't result in a tab that is...
- Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, TQM/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Microsoft Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2006-05-16
- A zero energy home in Oklahoma
- A zero energy home in OklahomaTankless microwave water heaterhttp://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051122.gthotwater1122/BNStory/TechnologyWrong tankless water heater diagramThe diagram shown for the tankless water heater system is for a gas fired unit even shows a gas line in the diagram. This is exactly how my Bosch 125HX unit works. The caption directly above...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, zero energy home, energy home, investment
- Discussion threads 2006-05-15
- Hollywood's melting bipolar icecap
- Hollywood's bipolar icecap is starting to melt. This week brings a flurry of announcements about Hollywood establishment content heading online, even in league with former file sharing enemy, BitTorrent. Warner Brothers has finally figured out that meeting illegal downloaders halfway is more progressive than trying to erase piracy by trying...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), media, Pokemon
- Blog posts 2006-05-09
- U.S. could complain to WTO over China piracy
- U.S. could complain to WTO over China piracyThat's a lot of DVDs250 Billion lost at $1 per DVD. Even if every person in China bought DVDs that would about 150 DVDs per person. Some houw I doubt everyone in china is buying 150 DVDs per year. More like a small...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, piracy, World Trade Organization, Chinese People
- Discussion threads 2006-04-25
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