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Ad watchdog warns Microsoft to 'Get the Facts'

Ad watchdog warns Microsoft to 'Get the Facts'MS should turn the advertising over to the watchdogsthey seem to know how they want to frame the testing and ads.The UK must be clueless.Take a look at any advertizing where they "compare" two products. Guess what? The one making the...

Tags: advertisement, Microsoft Corp., watchdog, Ad watchdog, Linux, SUV

Discussion threads 2004-08-25

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No Device Will Save The New York Times. Only The Times Can.

A large-screen Kindle won't save The New York Times. Neither will a mid-sized iPad from Apple. In fact, no electronic "platform" will save a print publication of any type. Just because a news publication first existed on a large sheet of paper does not mean that some...

Tags: Web, New York Times Co., Times, Channel Management, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-05-05

Microsoft kills its 'Get the Facts' anti-Linux site

Microsoft kills its 'Get the Facts' anti-Linux siteI had visted the siteIt had some intresting facts. most facts were only relative to business descision makers not IT descision makers.I did read their case study of london stock exchange or go daddy one. they had good business analysis.Yet as a techinical...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, LIKE IT, Microsoft Corp., Linux, advertisement

Discussion threads 2007-08-23

Close all Google accounts: Google doesn't care about privacy

Close all Google accounts: Google doesn't care about privacygoogle privacyi do have to say i have had nothing but issues since i joined "myspace" which is generated by google. i don't know much if anything about computer stuff, but i have so much spam coming through on my email...

Tags: SECURITY, Cyberthreats, Authentication/Encryption, Google Inc., privacy, Privacy International

Discussion threads 2007-06-09

Microsoft tried to muck with anti-Linux 'facts'

Microsoft tried to muck with anti-Linux 'facts'Get the FactsThat program has never played any decision in our purchasing.We are mostly a Microsoft shop here with a few Linux boxes performing specific roles.The Linux boxes the few we have need rebooting far less often and require less daily attention than our...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Microsoft Corp., Linux, advertisement, server, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-02-02

Introducing the iPod "Death Star" - You can have it in any color, except green

Spoof Apple ads aren't all that uncommon, but Greenpeace has launched one that contains a serious message - warning consumers that Apple isn't really all that green.Apple isn't the worst company when it comes to trashing the planet for profits (Lenovo, Motorola and Acer are busy developing their own planet-busting...

Tags: Apple Computer Inc.

Blog posts 2006-10-02

Publicly selected and funded investigative reporting: Can it work?

Meet Jay Rosen. If you've frequented the inner circles of journalism, joined a public conversation about the media, or paid any attention to the so-called "a-listers" of the blogosphere, then chances are you've encountered the New York University-based professor of journalism, or at least his media/journalism watchdog blog at PressThink.org....

Tags: Meet Jay Rosen

Blog posts 2006-07-25

Sony settles 'rootkit' class action lawsuit

Sony settles 'rootkit' class action lawsuitWill this settle all suitsincluding those filed by the state of Texas?InterestingSony is not recalling MediaMax CDs, but has agreed to compensate buyers of these albums by allowing them to download one free album, as well as offering them MP3 versions of the music on...

Tags: Rootkits, Digital media, class action, Sony Corp., rootkit

Discussion threads 2005-12-29

Microsoft's Scoble questions ZDNet's agenda

Microsoft's Scoble questions ZDNet's agendaCalling FUD?Raising the specter of FUD is the techno equivalent of calling your opponent a Nazi -- as soon as you do it you've ceded the highground.And someone who works for CNET -- a company with its head so far up the behind of industry machers...

Tags: Blogging, blog, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-07-18