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- Tech execs: Wake up and smell the spam
- Spam is an awareness problem, not a product or technology problem, Symantec CEO John Thompson said during a panel discussion hosted by Esther Dyson on the "Accountable Net." Esther defines the Accountable Net as strengthening the current Internet initiatives toward “authentication of servers so that users know whom to trust,...
- Tags: Accountable, Thompson
- Blog posts 2004-12-01
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- Blogger ethics, public relations... and you
- Two different conversations that are connected at the core by the way the news media continues to grow and change. Bloggers have a significant responsibility in wielding their keystrokes, whether they have 10 readers or 10,000. Public relations professionals are still grappling with how to best work with this new...
- Tags: Ethics, Blogger, Public Relations Professional, Public Relations, Blogging, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- End the spectre of science for sale
- End the spectre of science for saleOr Not[i]He will graduate from high school next spring, an honor student, and cost me a fortune at some elite college.[/i]Depends on what he really wants to study. There are some world-class universities that are also shockingly inexpensive, even for out-of-state students. ...
- Tags: NIH, democracy
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Why yes, I can do longitudinal data analysis
- Because I'm not really all that busy sarcasm drips here, it's fallen to me to figure out what is happening to our MCAS scores. For those of you outside the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the MCAS is our battery of standardized tests in English, Math, science, history (the list goes...
- Tags: Data Analysis, School, Clinical Trial, Healthcare, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Ballmer needn't fear the Mac...just yet
- Boutique analyst firm Freeform Dynamics took a run at standardizing on Macs but the switch was not worthwhile. They're now back in the Windows fold. Their report starts by posing a series of questions about business benefit. They found that when pressed, business users were hard put to come up...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Dell: Netbooks won't change shape of PC market
- Company founder Michael Dell expresses doubts about the netbook form factor and discusses the company's push into services, as well as growing customer interest in green IT. Netbooks are unlikely to change the shape of the PC market, according to Michael Dell. A number of hardware...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, Netbooks, Desktops, Productivity, Hardware, Steve Ranger silicon.com, Dell, Michael Dell, netbook, PCs
- News items 2008-09-25
- Outside school doesn't equal online carte blanche
- Outside school doesn't equal online carte blancheTime to teach the little buggers, and the idiot parents, a lesson.If I were the principal, I'd file a defamation of character & libel suit against the kids involved, AND their parents...two of whom are obviously low-grade morons at best. Then see what they...
- Tags: principal
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- "Papa Bear"'s take on the Palin Hack
- "Papa Bear"'s take on the Palin HackDon't go calling him a "Republican"...The true Republican Party was shot between the eyes in the aftermath of FDR's New Deal; the carcass staggered on for another three-plus decades, when it was put out of its misery by Nixon's "Southern Strategy" that whipped up...
- Tags: MSM, O'Reilly, Taft, Bill O'Reilly, Bush Administration
- Discussion threads 2008-09-20
- Apple, not Gear, deserves the blame for iTunes crashes
- Apple, not Gear, deserves the blame for iTunes crashesFUD modeEd I am unsure why this issue deserves your third story. Not sure why you feel terms like "tidal wave" are appropriate.You recently accused security software vendors of over egging the problem to help sell their products. So given that this...
- Tags: Digital music, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple iTunes
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- The real life cost of trying to ignore nature
- The real life cost of trying to ignore natureLet people decide what to do with their property... and then, when Mother Nature disagrees, give them the choice of letting Uncle Sugar have the title in return for emergency aid, or else toughing it out like the rugged individualists that they...
- Tags: Policies and procedures, accident, bill people, real life cost, life cost, tax payer, insurance, rescue
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- About that London Stock Exchange IT failure
- The obvious lesson from the correlation between Microsoft's eagerness to brag about the performance and reliability of the system installed at the London Stock Exchange and it's actual performance and unreliability is that pride goeth before a fall - but the deeper lesson is that top management didn't do its...
- Tags: Incentive, Hewlett-Packard Co., London Stock Exchange Plc., Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., LSE, Infolect, Linux, Sales Force Management, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Sales, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-09-13
- Sen. to carriers: Why do text messages cost $1,300 per meg?
- Sen. to carriers: Why do text messages cost $1,300 per meg?I don't get it[i]If cell phone users don't like it, call the person, it doesn't cost anything extra. [/i]How does this save me from having to pay for the SMS that some marketer sent me, or the one that was...
- Tags: Cellular phones, carrier
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- News to know: DEMO, Google, Live Mesh apps, Microsoft PCs
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: Should Microsoft get into the PC hardware business? OEM licensing confusion starts at Microsoft.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: What could Microsoft bring to the PC hardware...
- Tags: Google Inc., PC, Microsoft Corp., Engineering, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- Microsoft Hitting Google Where it Hurts: Making Ad Words Accountable
- Microsoft Hitting Google Where it Hurts: Making Ad Words AccountableI quit using Ad Words!!!!My tracking software showed NO real improvement in click to sales from Ad Words.What it did show was the vast bulk of the clicks came from FAKE sites posting my Ad Words ads and Google refused to...
- Tags: Google Inc., Ad Words, advertisement, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
- Microsoft Hitting Google Where it Hurts: Making Ad Words Accountable
- The Genghis Kahn school of marketing, made famous in the 1980s by Larry Ellison, has as its principle maxim the notion that it's not enough that one succeeds, one's opponents must also fail. A look under the covers at one of Microsoft's latest additions to its CRM Online product has...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Microsoft Word, Search Engine, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Search, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Novell-Microsoft interop pact may look sweeter to IT shops these days
- Novell took a lot of heat from open source backers for executing an interoperability pact with Microsoft in late 2006 but the partnership -- strengthened with a new $100 million investment from Microsoft today -- is probably looking sweeter to mixed IT shops these days. Why? Because of recent...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Interoperability, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, ISO, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Virtualization, OpenOffice, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Office Suites, Software, Storage, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Countering an Apple-favoring .NET critic
- Countering an Apple-favoring .NET criticFantastic post JohnI'd give you two thumbs up if I could. :)[i]This is what one might consider a thesis statement, to be followed by details as to why .NET is "bad" and / or "simplistic and inflexible." At least, that is what one would expect if...
- Tags: .NET, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., environment
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Police Surveillance: Go Snoop, Yourself
- Police Surveillance: Go Snoop, YourselfI think there is a balance to be struckI'm not happy with the proliferation of cameras you describe, and am opposed to fishing expeditions on principle. I'd much rather see more police on the street particularly in high crime areas, and more police officers who...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Big Brother, Police Surveillance, camera
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Followup with Greenpeace - "recycling" your computers
- Yesterday I posted an article on the environmental and human rights disaster that computer "recycling" is creating in countries like Ghana and Nigeria. Today, I contacted Greenpeace's Casey Harrell from their Toxics Division to follow up and determine if we can do anything within Ed Tech to dispose of...
- Tags: Greenpeace, Recycling, Product, E-waste, Computer, Individual Producer Responsibility, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Internet brand-jacking: What can be learned from Exxon Mobil?
- Exxon Mobil got "brand-jacked." About two weeks ago, someone named "Janet," believed to be a spokesperson for the oil company, started posting one-liner comments about the company on Twitter. There was no reason to doubt the legitimacy of the Twitter account. There are a lot of big-named...
- Tags: brand, internet, exxon mobil corp., twitter, janet, branding, marketing, sam diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
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