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Gore's Nobel speech: harsh but optimistic: Al Gore collected his Nobel Peace Prizre today in Norway. He won for his efforts to publicize the dangers he sees from global warming. Sharing the Prize was the I.P.C.C., the United Nations' international organization to study climate change and make recommendations to the world's governments. ...; Tags: Norway, Al Gore, Global Warming, Gore, Government, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-12-10
Rating Al Gore's tech cred: Rating Al Gore's tech credAgendasFirst of all there are many scientists who link global temperature fluctuations to a documented cyclical increase in solar activity.The theory of 'human-caused catastrophic climate change' is first and foremost a tool for implementing global socialism. Lot's of people including you through your implications like to...; Tags: Al Gore, global warming, climate change; Discussion threads 2007-11-02
Judge: Gore's documentary inaccurate, but good enough for schools: A British judge found nine areas of significant inaccuracy in Al Gore's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." But he also ruled it could be shown in British schools as part of a curriculum on climate change. "The Telegraph headlined, "Al Gore's Nine inconvenient untruths." Wired cleverly snarked, "An...; Tags: Al Gore, Climate, Global Warming, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-10-11
Gore, Branson: $25M will go to the best greenhouse gas sucker: Gore, Branson: $25M will go to the best greenhouse gas suckerMaybe that breakthroughWill go to making up for all the CO2 Al is burning flying around "warning" people about global warming. Really, if he's so darned concerned about things then he should be lobbying Hollywood to give up private...; Tags: greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, Branson, Al Gore, global warming; Discussion threads 2007-02-11
D: Al Gore on Current.tv and global warming: D: Al Gore on Current.tv and global warmingGore can't make up his mind if it's global warming or "climate change"Gore has mostly been using "climate change" lately instead of "global warming". That's because we've been in a cooling period for the last 8 years and it's predicted to get...; Tags: nuclear energy, Al Gore, global warming, climate change; Discussion threads 2006-05-31

D: Al Gore on Current.tv and global warming: Former Vice President and almost President Al Gore discussed his new venture Current TV and global warming with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg at D this evening. Asked about why he chose cable TV over a more pure Internet content play for his content venture, Gore said that television is...; Tags: TV & Home Theater, TVs, Al Gore, global warming; Blog posts 2006-05-31

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Group calls on Washington to establish national Broadband strategy: It's time for the U.S. to step up to the broadband plate. A coalition of companies that includes Google, Cisco, AT&T and Verizon, among others, has sent an open letter PDF, asking President-elect Obama and Congress to make broadband deployment a high priority for 2009, according to a CNET report....; Tags: Strategy, Washington, Network, Broadband, American, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-12-02
Google analyst sees falling revenue and board conflict: Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry predicts Google's revenue will fall in the next two years and the company is about to hit its adolescent stage with board conflicts and layoffs. In a research note, Chowdhry lays out the case. The gist: The economy is putting pressure...; Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Board, Trip Chowdhry, Contacts, VC, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-12-02
Where to next for ERP et al? (part 1, SAP): With a Gartner probability of 0.9, I guarantee that what follows is not how things will turn out. At least not exactly. Paul Greenberg's post casting the enterprise CRM runes for 2009 provides the perfect springboard for something I've been thinking about since the middle of the year. Where the...; Tags: SAP AG, ERP, Leo Apotheker, Paul Greenberg, Paul, Claus Heinrich, Wookey, Sales Strategy, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Force Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Sales, Marketing, Software, Management, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-12-02
Tech CEOs: Will they step up in a downturn?: Technology CEOs worth their paychecks are going to use this economic downturn to revamp business models and position for the so-called post recession era. It sounds rather obvious, but why don't all CEOs follow this playbook? We've heard the mantra repeatedly: Reload in a downturn. And a...; Tags: Technology Company, Information Technology, CEO, Forrester Research Inc., Strategy, Social Networking, Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-12-02
Cyber Monday traffic better than last year: If Web traffic translates into online sales, this year's holiday season is gearing up to much better than last year's - contrary to the doom-and-gloom forecasts for the holiday season. Traffic to online retail sites today - Cyber Monday - far exceeded last year's Cyber Monday traffic....; Tags: Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-12-01
Palm: On track to become a historical footnote: Remember when Palm - maker of the Pilot and Tungsten PDAs and later the Treo smartphone - was the dominant player in the handheld device business? Today, it's a completely different landscape. Apple's iPhone has recently dominated the smartphone space. RIM is making a big push with the launch of...; Tags: Palm Inc., Smart Phone, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-12-01
Will Detroit run out of road?: In the next two weeks we'll see what chance there is for any of those on the waiting list to get their plug-in Chevy Volt, or whether there'll be a Chrysler 2010 model. On December 2, the automakers are to deliver their own plans for salvation to the Congress....; Tags: Automobile Company, Bush Adminisitration, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-11-30
Security Lessons and Your Personal Firewall: There's an interesting dynamic I've been noticing and discussing a lot recently - people and companies are grappling with how to project some facets of their lives and information online while keeping other areas secret. As i suggested in my previous post, it...; Tags: Facebook, Firewall, Personal Firewall, Security, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-11-30
Chill-Off project tests various recipes for real-world data center cooling: It seems appropriate as I hunker down in my rather chilly office that I pen this post about the ongoing data center "Chill-Off" projects being run by the Association For Computer Operations Management AFCOM in Northern California. The intention of the Chill-Off demonstrations/tests is to monitor the effect of modular...; Tags: Data Center, Blog, Data Centers, Blogging, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-11-27
From private jets to car pool? Detroit may be getting the message.: Nothing definite will happen concerning the Detroit Big Three automakers before December 2nd. But the saga of the sagging auto sales and the wilting industrial giants in Michigan is rich with plot points and maneuvering. Here are just a few of the things happening or being said: ...; Tags: Car, Automobile Company, Detroit, Airline Flight, Sales Strategy, Manufacturing, Sales, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-11-24
HP sees Q4 gains from EDS acquisition: Hewlett Packard reported a net profit of $2.11 billion, or 84 cents per share, on revenue of $33.6 billion for its fourth quarter. Statement The results and an outlook for 2009 matched the preliminary figures the company release on Nov. 18. The preliminary report had topped Wall Street expectations...; Tags: Revenue, Acquisition, Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-11-24
Apple's new Macbooks: flop or fiasco?: The news that Apple has cut Macbook production by 20-30% may not be surprising given the world economy. But when HP reports that their Q3 notebook revenue grew 26% and Mac resellers are offering rebates on the new 'books things have gone very wrong in Cupertino. Looking,...; Tags: Revenue, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., NeXTCube, iMac G4, Steve, Netbooks, Notebooks, Desktops, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-11-24
Is Command & Control Management Inefficient?: When most people think of how businesses are organized, they visualize command and control management: the pine tree visual with the leaders at the top. Since we are entering the Western festive season here are some appropriate images to illustrate this. The traditional 'Christmas Tree'...; Tags: Fractal, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-11-24
Shipping news: Globalization halted by credit crisis: DK Matai, chairman of the ATCA Open has written a very interesting article about global shipping of bulk cargo and how it has come to a halt because of the lack of letters of credit. Just five months ago it cost about $234,000 to rent a 170,000 tonne Capesize...; Tags: Cargo, Financial, Raw Material, Vessel, Globalization, Great Unwind, Reports, Financial Accounting, Finance, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-11-22