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We need to calm down over the SAFE act

We need to calm down over the SAFE actRE: We need to calm down over the SAFE actLet's hope it doesn't become law. American culture is now so fixated on child porn that pictures of your own children might get you arrested. This kind of legislation is of the "rat...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Telecom & Utilities, American Culture, SAFE Act

Discussion threads 2007-12-06

American Culture 1 (Windows)

American Culture allows you to view issues and topics that immigrants and Americans need answers to. American Culture shows the available links which you can click to go to that article on the Web site. By default American Culture will reload every ten minutes. Setting interval preference to zero turns...

Tags: Kelvin McKisic, American Culture, Microsoft Windows, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-06-27

Microsoft and the virtualization storm

Microsoft and the virtualization stormWhat's good for Microsoft is good for the USA. If you don't................like Microsoft's world, create your own............That's exactly what the rest of the world is not only planning, but executing quite nicely in Linux.......... either M$ learns from their mistakes or within a decade they'll be...

Tags: Storage management, Utility computing, American Culture, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., virtualization, American Education

Discussion threads 2006-04-21

Blogosphere should pay its respects to rap culture

Blogosphere should pay its respects to rap cultureI think you mean cojonesProbably you meant "cojones" rather than "cajones", which are "drawers". Maybe they have cajones as well.Just Another ExcuseThis appears to be just another excuse by some foreigner for the degraduation of our great American Culture by those who can't...

Tags: Blogging, Hip-Hop/Rap, american culture, blogosphere

Discussion threads 2006-01-17

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Smartphone wars; one platform will never rule them all

UbuntuThere are enough potential customers out there, and enough open source software available for potential OS builders that you don't really need that much market share to remain vital.Mac OS has only a fraction of the entire computer market and Ubuntu only has a fraction of Mac OS's market share....

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Smart phones, Cellular phones, Operating systems, Smartphone, phone, smart phone, Apple Inc., operating system

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Could diabetes fight the obesity epidemic?

Nice one, Dana.When are you going to write something relevant - like IT - on this site?There is no IT in this blog. Just pointing out the obvious.When will you learn to use google?This is among the worst medically releated post you have written. And please stop quoting the...

Tags: Exenatide, diabetes, GLP-1, secretion

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Kayne West Influences Enterprise Social Business Strategy

Business ToolsI recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.Patriciahttp://dataentryjob-s.comdude, you can't even spell his name rightits KANYE...

Tags: Kanye West, Kayne West Influences Enterprise Social Business Strategy

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

The taboo of failure

Google plans for failureI read sometime back about google's strategy to handle hardware failure. Instead of focussing on building expensive unbreakable hardware, they assume it a given and build it into the software to handle hardware failures. So the concept is gaining ground.http://andrewchenblog.com/2009/07/13/built-to-fail-how-companies-like-google-ideo-and-37signals-build-failure-tolerant-systems-for-anything/Great managers understand it.I once worked for a...

Tags: Strategy, great manager, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-09-07

India outsourcing workers stressed to the limit

This applies to America as well"Workers are suffering from obesity, sleep disorders, depression and broken relationships - problems which can lead to more serious conditions such as diabetes or heart disease. In a country where a public healthcare system is virtually non-existent, overworked outsourcing employees could present a health crisis...

Tags: Managed hosting, Benefits, outsourcing, outsource, health care, job, information technology, worker

Discussion threads 2009-08-26

Open source can save your life

don't mix OSS with socialized medicineOSS is for the all the people, socialized medicine is demanded only by a small minority of craizy liberals.VA health careSince 2001, the VA has had remarkable bipartisan support for just about all the funding they needed or could handle. When the gravy train...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Walter Reed, Walter Reed hospital, open source, health care

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

Deconstructing United Airlines: Where Customers are Transactions

United Airlines: Customers are Merely Transactions If you're a loyalty marketer and look at my United profile, you find something that would make you 4.5 on a scale of 5.0 when it comes to warm and fuzzy.   You'd see hundreds of thousands of United Airlines frequent flier FF miles;...

Tags: Customers Ltd., Mile, Customer, United Corp., United Airlines, Corporate Communications, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Marketing, Human Resources, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Culture of cheap: How discount computers cost the consumer

The American obsession with low-priced products -- especially electronics -- is actually bad for the individual consumer. According to one expert, the race to the bottom cramps innovation, speeds the decline of successful industries and alters our expectations of product quality. Are thinning margins and the economics of cheap ruining...

Tags: Consumer, Computer, Leadership, Strategy, Productivity, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Rupert Murdoch's grand subscription plan: Much ado over minimal revenue?

Rupert Murdoch's grand subscription plan: Much ado over minimal revenue?Won't workThe only way News will get their revenue offset is if 'the pipe' is charged; in other words ISPs get charged and pass along the cost to you in the form of an increase surcharge on your broadband account.When a...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Operational accounting, grand subscription plan, minimal revenue, News Corp., Much Ado, subscription plan, Rupert Murdoch, revenue

Discussion threads 2009-08-06

Inside Curve: Lane Bryant Scores Plus Plus

Who doesn't love style and fashion?  Well, I suppose I don't love fashion, judging from my incredibly poor clothing selection skills (I rely 100% on my wife, who has mad skills when it comes to picking out good looking clothes) but I am in love with style. I love to...

Tags: Apparel, Exclusion, Community, Brand, Women, Network, American Eagle, Bebe, Curve, Jay, Kate Moss, Gender And Diversity, Social Networking, Branding, Human Resources, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-08-03

The Definitive Guide to Starting Your Online Empire 1.0 (Windows)

The book describes about the advent of the modern internet in the 1990s which saw an explosion in the number of business that existed purely in the electronic ether and about the "dotcoms" (so named because of the ".com" designation following their web domain names) which became the new driving...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, E-business, Research Signpost, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Domain Names

Software downloads 2009-08-03

Kindle draws fire at Arizona State

According to a brief article in USA Today, students in the honors history of human culture and thought course at Arizona State University will be receiving Kindle ebook readers with the 30 required books for the course pre-loaded. The 30 required books for Humphrey's year-long course usually...

Tags: Student, Kindle, E-books, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-27

Are Enterprise Content Management failures destroying the American system of justice?

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="160" caption="photo: plu.edu"][/caption] As if dying trees and disgruntled employees aren’t bad enough consequences of poor enterprise content management systems, according to Michael Hickins, lousy Enterprise Content Management ECM could be chipping away at the very heart of American justice. This talk of justice...

Tags: Enterprise Content Management, Michael Hickins, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Doc

Sponsored content 2009-07-27

Amazon ate my homework, or why DRM stinks for education

Amazon ate my homework, or why DRM stinks for educationHave the kindles linked to the grade not the student.The way to get around this (not the Amazon eating homework, but the reuse DRM issue) is to have the Kindles for a specific grade. All ninth graders have the same Kindles...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Internet Connectivity, digital-rights management, Amazon.com Inc., homework, education

Discussion threads 2009-07-21

Larousse English Spanish Dictionary 3.0.2 (Mobile)

Sharpen your Spanish language skill with HNHSoft Larousse Dictionary: English-Spanish/Spanish-English, the ideal mobile companion for those who wish to learn and become fluent in contemporary Spanish. With 90,000 references and 120,000 translations, it has most all of the words its users are looking for. This new edition offers extensive, up-to-date...

Tags: Mobile, HNHSoft, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Is Twitter making us all self-centered?

Is Twitter making us all self-centered?What changed?I think things changed to this broadcast model when Twitter changed user streams to no longer display replies to users that you're not following. It made it difficult to see and participate in conversations unless you're already following everyone involved.RE: Is Twitter making...

Tags: Twitter

Discussion threads 2009-07-07