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- Advocacy in Education IT
- Advocacy in Education ITI agree, provided......that the emphasis is on doing what's right for the school, not just the IT people. There will never be enough money to do everything that's useful, but it's easier to set priorities if the focus is on how to better educate students.Inovation and...
- Tags: Advocacy, Education IT
- Discussion threads 2007-12-18
- Fake ad: iMacs are "Vista-capable"
- Fake ad: iMacs are "Vista-capable"Un, no."Now, anyone who’s run both Mac OS X and Windows XP knows that there’s a big stability gap between the two platforms. "I use both and neither in more/less reliable than the other.To the Authors...I'm one of those smug Apple users who lobbies for Apple...
- Tags: Operating systems, advertisement, Advocacy, Microsoft Windows, BSOD, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Apple Users, blue screen, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2007-08-31
- Advocacy group cites top 50 pirated films, TV shows
- Advocacy group cites top 50 pirated films, TV showsJust sue YouTube into oblivionand be donew with. You can't shame Google into anything, no one in management even knows what shame is. "Do no evil" was just a gimmick to suck in the fools...
- Tags: Advocacy, TV-shows
- Discussion threads 2007-07-18
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- Apple's iPhone app parade begins; Salesforce
- Apple's iPhone app parade begins; SalesforceSiegeThe iPhone has just been released. The beta test was the release of the hardware. The device itself is defined almost entirely by software, and it's just getting started.In the face of Apple hype, the hype busters will be out in force. We need no...
- Tags: Sales force management, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Apple iPhone app, Salesforce.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- Apple caught neglecting iPhone security
- Apple caught neglecting iPhone securityApple doesn't really care.I believe that Apple puts security of its products at the bottom of the list, with cool design at the top. All this stuff just proves me right, that sure they have a neat casing and a touch screen, but underneath it...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, security, iPhone security
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- How long ago did we begin to disagree about global warming?
- How long ago did we begin to disagree about global warming?It took Mother Nature...millions of years to lock up the carbon into fossil fuels that we have managed to release in a hundred.Nature can not fix it as fast as we are polluting it. That is the issue. Take a...
- Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Apple finally goes RIA
- Apple finally goes RIAPlease convince me.How can RIA and privacy coexist? I mean, the same people who are delusional about the patriot act live on myspace, youtube, and facebook where privacy is valueless.i likeits a great start, I think Apple is going in right direction.RE: Apple finally goes RIAThis...
- Tags: rich Internet application, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Facebook is the new Google as exodus of top xooglers continues
- The latest high-level executive to leave Google for Facebook is Elliott Schrage, who headed the corporate communications team. When the top person responsible for Google's messaging across all products and for its international policy leaves this points to a serious change within the company. Facebook has been...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Public Relations, Business Ethics, Recruitment & Selection, Team Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- The truth about desktops and laptops
- The failure of One Laptop Per Child and it is a failure to mass market its $100 Linux laptops made me realize something important about that market. There is something cheaper than free. It's called subsidized, bundled, marketed and supported. Subsidy comes in many...
- Tags: Desktop, Handheld, Laptop Computer, Handheld Internet Terminal, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Social media and enterprise power relationships
- Â Social media is a magnet for hype because it embodies the specifically Western desire to create democracy everywhere. Blogs, wikis, Twitter, and other "flattening" tools transfer power from IT to users, giving social media practitioners the special fervor of those fighting for their own version of...
- Tags: Social Media, Dennis, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- MokaFive and Desktop Virtualization
- MokaFive and Desktop VirtualizationCarry flash drive?Carrying a flash drive is ok for now, but that's not really "on demand," is it?How demanding are you?I guess that depends upon how demanding a person is on their "on demand" needs. 8^)Dan KThe flash drive is just a cacheThe flash drive acts...
- Tags: USB flash drive, MokaFive, desktop virtualization, software, desktop
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- For Unix: hire a leader; for others: hire a manager
- For Unix: hire a leader; for others: hire a managerbad guys - good point: made the change NT;)Classic MBTIOne recommendation : "So how do you tell the 1-5% of good guys from the 95 -99% of bad guys? Don't use "bad guys" just use "the rest".Your distinctions of Leader and...
- Tags: Leadership, leader, J-type, P-type, Unix
- Discussion threads 2008-03-28
- Eben law can have an open source business model
- Anyone can have an open source business model. Even an open source lawyer. Eben Moglen, whose Software Freedom Law Center provides free legal help to open source projects, has just announced Moglen Ravicher LLC, a for-profit law firm covering the same ground. Their first...
- Tags: Lawyer, OpenNMS, Ravicher, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- I'm not against Windows; Unix just works better
- I'm not against Windows; Unix just works betterIt is one thing to lie ....... to the people here but don't lie to yourself. You are most definitely against Windows and Intel. You have made enough anti-Microsoft and anti-Intel statements to prove that point beyond doubt.All niceBut you almost...
- Tags: Operating systems, Unix, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- Who benefits from data center centralization?
- Who benefits from data center centralization?The difference is in control/managementCentralized processing with decentralized control works - centralizing both does not.But notice that Wintel/data processing essentially force the centralization of both, and Unix does not. You can centralize control with Unix, but you don't have to. Instead you put everything...
- Tags: Data centers, Strategic planning, Regulations, benefit, data center, centralization, money organization, data center centralization, server
- Discussion threads 2008-03-19
- The iPhone impact on open source
- The iPhone impact on open sourceDo you know why truth about iPhone is not welcomed?Do you know why truth about iPhone is not welcomed?"Apparently, 12 percent or so of iPhone users just can’t get the hang of the device, calling it “tricky”, and soon after returning it."http://www.iphoneworld.ca/news/2008/02/06/one-in-eight-iphone-users-befuddled-by-their-iphone/"And surprisingly Apple has...
- Tags: open source, Apple iPhone, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-03-11
- Smart badges? We don't need no stinkin' smart badges. Or do we?
- MIT's Human Dynamics Lab is working on a form of social networking as old as humanity itself: Face-to-face introductions and subsequent chit-chat. Users wear badges that calculate how far apart people are standing (a good indicator of their reactions to one another, perhaps); record their conversation; and track their movements....
- Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Norm, Internet, Ed Gottsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- Judge reconsiders injunction in Wikileaks case
- If you're a lawyer, you gotta love this. At the end of the day Thursday, Federal Judge Jeffrey White -- the judge who issued the shut-down notice against Wikileaks -- released his questions for argument PDF for Friday morning's hearing regarding that order. White also...
- Tags: Plaintiff, Wikileaks, Web Site Development, Productivity, Government, Web Technology, Domain Names, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- Comcast's "seat-warming" execs can't be trusted
- Comcast hired dozens of "seat-warmers" that kept others from attending a Monday FCC hearing held at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society meeting room for an FCC hearing. God forbid that the public be seen at a hearing intended to solicit public comment. Then they lied...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., Internet, Federal Government, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Government, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- Sun's OpenSolaris community problem
- Earlier this week I got a little jokey about Sun's open source efforts. Turns out they have a serious problem. They have moved to licenses at  the bottom of the open source incline, but their corporate attitude puts them at the top of the open source development incline....
- Tags: OpenSolaris, Open Source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Action, Fielding, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
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