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What+about+the+trust+issues+in+the+Microsoft%2FYahoo+bid%3F

What+about+the+trust+issues+in+the+Microsoft%2FYahoo+bid%3FSuarez, Morris, Wood, Walsh, Yourdon, James... never heard of any of them!Luis Suarez, Tom Morris, Al Wood, Paul Walsh, Ed Yourdon, Nigel James... I've never heard of any of these people before. Am I the only one?!Gotta love the "social web", where anyone with a blog or a facebook...

Tags: Tom, Al Wood, Tom Morris, Luis Suarez

Discussion threads 2008-02-01

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How long can Apple dodge the antitrust bullet?

huh?I do not believe that your equivalence chart actually puts apples to apples. Third party software does not need to be approved before it is sold. OEMs dont need to have their software approved by microsoft before they install it. Way to attempt to make an argument...

Tags: Sales strategy, Desktops, Operating systems, antitrust, PC, Apple Inc., single source, Microsoft Corp., dominant personal computer, WinPC, operating system, sales

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

Reading the Oracle tea leaves

Reading the Oracle tea leavesFree DatabasesThere are many free databases to choose from: Firebird, Ingres, Postgres, and MySQL to name most of them. Most of the "best" developers and the largest community are behind Postgres. MySQL came out of nowhere - and it seems destined to return there, after the...

Tags: Databases, OPEN SOURCE, Sun Microsystems Inc., Postgres, tea leave, database, Oracle Corp., BLOC, NDP

Discussion threads 2009-03-10

Social networking, IBM, Microsoft etc: the Twitterverse debates

Charles Cooper's article noting the rise of Twitter as part of the media fabric is a cue for surfacing a long conversation I had yesterday with some of my 800 Twitter followers. The pretext was my post about the end of software and the number of thanks folk posted on...

Tags: Social Networking, Consultant, Network, Information Technology, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, IBM Corp., E-mail, Knowledge Management, Groupware, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Data Management, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-03-21

MacBook Air Diaryâ€Â"Day 5: The packaging

MacBook Air Diaryâ€Â"Day 5: The packagingNicely done sire! nt.MacBook Air Diary–Day 30: The buyers remorse[i]"Bored of the MBA now. Fed up with having to put my DVD's into another machine just to burn / read them. Wireless is a bit shoddy. Oh I wish I had an Ethernet port. The...

Tags: Blogging, Notebooks, wireless, blog entry, MacBook Air, MacBook Air Diaryâ€, Day 5, MBA, Apple MacBook, blog

Discussion threads 2008-02-04

What about the trust issues in the Microsoft/Yahoo bid?

Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo! raises many questions. High in the list will be discovering Microsoft plans for the merged development organizations. On the press call, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO was careful to point out the extent to which Microsoft 'respects' Yahoo!'s development efforts. The fact is that Yahoo! is...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Del.icio.us, Yahoo! Inc., Fact, Flickr, Microsoft Corp., Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-02-01

Does GM now mean 'green motors'?

Does GM now mean 'green motors'?It's a startand that's good. Looks like Detroit is getting the message to green up and increase economy or their going to get the snot kicked out of them by the Japanese and Germans. ]:)If it can break up the OPEC hold on usand tip...

Tags: Sales strategy, Engineering, Spare Parts, General Motors Corp., electric car, Roadster

Discussion threads 2007-12-14

Gasoline is so yesterday, what's on tomorrow's menu?

Gasoline is so yesterday, what's on tomorrow's menu?So how is diesel different.Diesel, Bio, its all the same. If biofuels are just a way to stretch our, not "limited gasoline supply" but out limited petroleum supply then diesel is not any kind of answer.Further what does biofuel get us? How much...

Tags: Ethanol, biodiesel, corn, gasoline

Discussion threads 2007-12-03

NY police commissioner: 'Internet is the new Afghanistan'

NY police commissioner: 'Internet is the new Afghanistan'I agreeMan this guy is on top of things! Free expression and individual rights are defiantly problems. When people have the ability to share ideas and express them selfs they sometimes come up with ideas that go against the mainstream. What we really...

Tags: Homeland security, censorship, terrorism, Internet, INTERNET IS, tower, 9/11 commission

Discussion threads 2007-08-15

Game consoles are evil

Game consoles are evilAnd did that cell phone have Linux embedded? ntntStallman also says"Live cheaply," he said, offering some free advice. "Don't buy a house, a car or have children. The problem is they're expensive and you have to spend all your time making money to pay for them."GenericMan -...

Tags: Games, OPEN SOURCE, Game players, game console, console, Stallman, Linux, game, Nintendo Wii

Discussion threads 2007-04-06

Most in industry letting Gates go quietly

Most in industry letting Gates go quietlyHow does it make you feel?Bill how does it feel to have so little respect and admiration in the IT industry?A sad legacy, but you do have your money.Liar LiarWell, from a steadily accumulated knowledge on the workings of Gates over his years since...

Tags: Bill Gates, ethics, IBM Corp., Like McNeally, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-06-15

A new antipiracy flub for Microsoft

A new antipiracy flub for MicrosoftA new antipiracy flub for MicrosoftSo sites like BoingBoing like to help piracy? Then they wonder why prices go up so much. I did the check with my legalized copy of Windows XP, and anyone who is running Windows really shouldn't have a...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., piracy, new antipiracy, antipiracy, Microsoft Windows, operating system

Discussion threads 2005-07-29

Microsoft takes a patch breather

Microsoft takes a patch breatherYeah, but the HACKERS ain't taking no breather!BAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!:-)Sucks to be Microsoft, as usual..There's Already A Universal Patch For WindowsIt's called FDISK...OMGYou have got to be kidding me. A "patch breather"??? What is the use of having an OS that is not consistantly updated once vulnerabilities are...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., security

Discussion threads 2005-03-04