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Is open source anti-American?

Is open source anti-American?Who thinks up this stuff???NTJust because there's a profound, global, anti-American sentiment,doesn't mean Open Source is anti-American--unless you consider it anti-American for other countries to look for ways to avoid paying for, and using, American IP. There are lots of people who use Open Source alternatives...

Tags: anti-American, American Business, Is open source anti-American, open source, IS open source

Discussion threads 2008-03-26

India lobbies Asia to fight outsource backlash

India lobbies Asia to fight outsource backlashM$ pitches in to support USAYou gave us 40 billion dollars...suckers!http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=20216627&AVSDM=2003%2D12%2D15+14%3A55%3A29&Logo=1&col=dltci&cy=&brd=1%2C1862%2C1863&lid=&fn=&q=Message has been deleted.Offshoring is only one side of the coinThe other side is the so-called new "guest program" , that is just an uncapped H1-B in disguise.Not only low paying jobs will be...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Outsourcing, Benefits, American Business, job, outsource, offshoring

Discussion threads 2004-01-13

The Mac at 20: What's in store for the future?

The Mac at 20: What's in store for the future?Pundit predicts death of Mac: film at 11How many decades now have people been on a Macintosh deathwatch? However what also has to be noted is where that some of the earlier pundits have shuffled off this mortal coil, there is...

Tags: Desktops, Pundit, American Business, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., computer

Discussion threads 2004-01-07

IT doesn't really matter--or does it?

IT doesn't really matter--or does it?Amen, brother!While you are at it, try and run your F500 without the IT staff. Better yet, take a look at the model set in motion by the monkey-assed MBAs where business decisions are based on quarterly earnings. Never mind that if we...

Tags: Strategy, Outsourcing, American Business, information technology, CenterBeam

Discussion threads 2003-10-29

Additional Resources

Rural energy grant deadline approaches: Aids renewable energy technology investments

I'm not sure how many farmers and ranchers read these posts, but certainly I can claim some rural business owners among my readers. So, if you are in a rural area of the United States AND you are a small business with fewer than 15 employees, you have until July...

Tags: Turbine, Renewable Energy, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-03

Judge's idea to outlaw links won't save newspapers

Judge's idea to outlaw links won't save newspapersPerhaps a kindle like device?Get rid of paper, and sell a yearly subscription with a Kindle like reader. The yearly subscription would help offset the hardware costs.Get rid of the paper, or charge extra for it like cellular companies do for optionsTo...

Tags: news industry

Discussion threads 2009-07-02

HTC Touch Pro2

In the summer of the Palm Pre, Apple iPhone 3GS, Nokia N97, and T-Mobile MyTouch 3G, the Windows Mobile camp has been pretty quite on the touch-screen smartphone front. However, there's been one WinMo device that keeps popping up in comment threads, forums, and e-mails when this group is mentioned...

Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, Cellular phones, accelerometer, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch, HTC Touch Pro2, Touch Pro2, smart phone

Product reviews 2009-06-30

Good enough to pay for, part 2: Microsoft Office

Good enough to pay for, part 2: Microsoft OfficeBecause it was the right tool for the job?Why, because you wrote seven paragraphs of unformatted text and then copy/pasted it to your content manager?Well, then by all means MS Office it is.That was convincing. notWishes versus needsOn the whole, Microsoft Office...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-30

PwC: rotten to the core or just plain stupid?

PwC: rotten to the core or just plain stupid?audit no auditFrom a technical direction I have almost 30 years experience with computers and software and over the past 8 years or so I have often seen auditors such as KPMG/PWC and alike audit a bank, insurance, payment type companies and...

Tags: Financial accounting, Taxes, Personal finance, Operational accounting, Financial services, audit, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, tax shelter, tax, accounting company

Discussion threads 2009-06-30

Confirmed: Developer of software stolen for Green Dam is under attack

Confirmed: Developer of software stolen for Green Dam is under attackGreen dam removal.It seems that if Green Dam is a stolen program then the programs owner should be able to disable it. Why not Bomb all of the Chinese Green dam programs and solve the problem once and for...

Tags: SECURITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Communist, NOW IT, Green Dam, attack, USSR, software

Discussion threads 2009-06-29

Roping in Round-up?

Battle of titans: Monsanto v. EPA. Round 1 on Round-up. The EPA says the eight-year-old Monsanto mine in southern Idaho is producing illegal pollution, and has since it began operation. Of course, during the Bush Administration there was slim chance that any anti-pollution laws would be enforced...

Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Round-up, Monsanto, Storage, Hardware, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Bartz to Yahoo shareholders: Change is coming; We're not Google

Bartz to Yahoo shareholders: Change is coming; We're not GoogleBuy Buy Buy"The short answer is no. It?s not necessary to buy newspapers. Newspapers, like many other industries, need to rethink their business models. For now, Yahoo is happy to partner with them on advertising and content-sharing."I'd be looking to go...

Tags: Financial accounting, Strategy, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Bartz, Yahoo shareholder, shareholder

Discussion threads 2009-06-26

Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. House

Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. HouseCap & Trade is corrupted from the get-goWithin a dozen years we'll revisit the whole concept and maybe do it right.Or...Try to work the unworkable until the die-off kicks in.RE: Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. HouseI'm sure the White House support...

Tags: Waxman-Markey, U.S. House, carbon dioxide, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

Coal: more on the fall-out

There are vastly different ways to look at coal in the U.S. Coal's plentiful, it's American, it's relatively cheap to obtain and burn. And it will produce electricity for the rest of your children's lifetime. Coal burning is destroying our atmosphere, our climate and turning an already...

Tags: China, Coal, Construction, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Microsoft to Europe: No Windows 7 upgrades for you!

Microsoft to Europe: No Windows 7 upgrades for you!Here in the US it IS a problem.The US Government convicted MS of the same misdeeds as the EU - only Bush came into power and the punishments were back-heeled - remember the 95% share of the browser market Netscape had?Because they...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Windows 7 Upgrade, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

My Experience with Dell's Namastechnical Support

Despite my dislike for all things outsourced, my first experience with DELL's call center in India was a largely positive one. So this week, during a particularly intense session of software testing, the 500GB hard drive on my DELL Precision 530 decided to...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, CD, Call-center, Indian, Minesh, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Desktops, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Buffett: Steve Jobs' surgery was a "material fact"; should have been disclosed

Buffett: Steve Jobs' surgery was a "material fact"; should have been disclosedFlawed logic"They?re gonna find out about it anyway so I don?t see a big privacy issue"The fact if something is found out, does not define if something is private in the first place or not.But hey, this is an...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Investment, Steve Jobs, surgery, health care, material fact, Apple Inc., absence

Discussion threads 2009-06-24

Taxpayers are NOT bailing out Ford Motor, or are we?

We all know the sorry saga of two-thirds of the former Detroit Big Three. GM in bankruptcy, shedding brands and trying to become competitive once again. Chrylser is now essentially a distribution arm for Fiat, a second tier car company that had no American market share a year...

Tags: Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-23

CLEAR Airport Verified Identity Pass calls it Quits (UPDATED)

In a brief email sent to customers at 10:45PM EST, Verified Identity Pass notified its 250,000 customers that the CLEAR service was no more click on photo to enlarge Well I can't say that it was unexpected, but it's definitely a...

Tags: Clear, Identity, Steven Brill, Security, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-22

One example of "smarter planet"

The smart grid for electricity has become so mainstream Congress wrote it into the stimulus law enacted earlier this year. IBM's marketing of "smarter planet" goes way beyond electricity and networked grid. I recently spoke with Drew Clark, director of strategy of IBM Venture Capital Group. And...

Tags: Sensor, Grid, IBM Corp., Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-21