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John Edwards, NAFTA and protectionism

John Edwards, NAFTA and protectionismTunnel vision...because I work for Microsoft, everything I do MUST be done to justify their existence.It couldn't be that I have argued consistently for the past 10 years in favor of free markets.Read Your US History! Oh Multi-National Corporate EmployeeFirst, thanks for taking on the elephant...

Tags: Free trade, American-made product, Lincoln, black slave, American Party, Microsoft Corp., NAFTA, John Edwards, slave

Discussion threads 2007-08-07

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Judge finds Oracle's Ellison withheld evidence

According to Bloomberg, in a ruling that has important implications for Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO and the company itself, district judge Susan Illston found that Ellison: ...deliberately destroyed or withheld e-mails and failed to preserve tape recordings that should have been turned over to lawyers for shareholders suing him......

Tags: Oracle Corp., Susan Illston, Larry Ellison, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Good news on the Dell netbook front

Just a quick update now that I have a minute to sit down tonight. I heard from my Dell rep this afternoon that, although it's not available on the Dell K-12 education pages, the Inspiron Mini 9 is available to all education customers in quantity. Here's...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Blogging, Notebooks, Internet, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-09-05

LHC scientists get death threats

So it's come to this: Death threats against physicists. About what? The earth-destroying Large Hadron Collider, of course. Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has even had death threats, said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University,...

Tags: Black Hole, Physicist, Scientist, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Adobe unveils 'Project Genesis'

At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Matthias Zeller, product manager at Adobe, demonstrates a prototype of the enterprise desktop client called "Project Genesis." The new software allows business users to create custom workspaces by combining and sharing applications, video, Web sites, and office documents.

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Marketing, Internet, Adobe, Project Genesis

Videos 2008-09-05

2011, A News Odyssey: Digg-ing Meets Up With Digging

The crossover is close. The Internet is poised to overtake the newspaper industry in total size as an advertising medium. And the question is whether it can also overtake it as a news medium. Says here, the year will be 2011. That is likely to be when...

Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Internet Advertising, News, Governor, Internet, Operational Accounting, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-05

The Office (2.0): No paper? No problem.

I think I may have been the only person at this week's Office 2.0 conference using - gasp! - a pen and paper. There was no program "book" when I registered - the agenda was online only. And none of the exhibitors handed out press releases on paper - though...

Tags: Document, Microsoft PowerPoint, Appirio, SlideRocket, Digital Signatures, Collaboration, Productivity, Groupware, Fax, Microsoft Office, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Google Chrome vulnerabilities starting to pile up

[ UPDATE: See below for Google's official response to these issues ] Security vulnerabilities in the new Google Chrome browser are beginning to pile up. Following our coverage of the carpet bombing combo threat and denial-of-service crashes, several readers have sent pointers to...

Tags: Google Inc., Vulnerability, Web Browser, Google Chrome, ModSecurity, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea

Being at a university and working for a government department allows me to understand this concept well. There are shared resources here, there and everywhere, provided by different people and providers, all open to a "certain type" of person - employees or students. By having a single sign-on SSO point...

Tags: Software, Password Management, Mozilla Firefox, Password, Single Sign-on, RoboForm Enterprise, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Demo Facebook app creates DoS botnet

Do you know what that innocent-looking Facebook app is really doing? Researchers at the Institute of Computer Science ICS have created a proof-of-concept Facebook application capable of covertly herding users of the popular social network into a powerful -- and malicious -- botnet. The...

Tags: Denial Of Service, Facebook, Application, Network, DOS, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Find cheap printer ink, toner refills

Ever been to Amazon.com? Sure, everyone has. But how about lately? If you're in the market for a printer, the site's new Ink & Toner Finder makes it easy to save money on ink without investing the time in manually refilling your cartridge. ...

Tags: Printers, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Nokia: Our market share will slip over weak demand

Nokia said Friday that its mobile device market share will slip in the third quarter from the second quarter "due to weaker consumer confidence in multiple markets." The company also said it refused to be lured into a price war. Nokia (all resources, reviews and blogs) said...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Mobile, Mobile Device, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-05

EA's 'Spore' aims to create new worlds, businesses

Electronic Arts's creature-building game "Spore" offers players a chance to develop new worlds--and maybe even new lines of business for the video game maker. RALEIGH, North Carolina--Electronic Arts's creature-building game Spore offers players a chance to develop new worlds--and maybe even new lines of business for the video game...

Tags: Electronic Arts Inc., Spore, Games, Personal Technology, Reuters, Electronic Arts, video games, Nintendo

News items 2008-09-05

Video: Google Apps adoption rates up

At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise, discusses the user acceleration of its Google Apps software. Glotzbach also shows a chart on how the company's Google Docs word processing product has surpassed Sun's OpenOffice in the last year and is slowly...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Video, Cloud Computing, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-05

VMworld is bringing out the vendors

Planning for an announcement is a challenging task. Large suppliers know that just about whatever they do will be picked up by the media and presented to the world. Smaller vendors have a much more difficult time getting heard. So, picking the right place and time for an announcement is...

Tags: Supplier, Announcement, VMworld, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Live Event on Sept. 5th: Dell EqualLogic & VMware Infrastructure 3 Product Demonstration

Join Dell, and Dell Inc. Product Marketing Consultant William Urban, for a one-hour live presentation and product demonstration of a virtualized server and storage infrastructure based on VMware ESX Server 3.0 and the PS Series family of intelligent, iSCSI-based storage solutions. Register now for this event on Friday, September...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell EqualLogic, VMware Inc., Storage, Ip storage, Hardware

Webcasts 2008-09-05

Seinfeld

SeinfeldHow did this make it past focus groups?My theory is that they told the focus group subjects it was for a different company, and the subjects responded favorably. Therefore, we're all wrong and Microsoft is right.Wow, that's just brilliant!Windows' image is no longer tarnished. They are now being associated with...

Tags: Marketing research, Microsoft Corp., Seinfeld, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Google Chrome already beating Opera

Google Chrome already beating OperaWaiting for Windows Mobile 6 version... if they can create a version for Windows Mobile to rival safari on iPhone, they'll have me seriously thinking about it.Otherwise, it's just another browser for the desktop by another large conglomerate.Full screen problemI have my task bar on the...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, work-around, Google Inc., Chrome, Google Chrome, Opera Software

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Google Chrome already beating Opera

Maybe Google really does have something here -- in just two days, they have leapfrogged Opera in market share, and have their eyes set on bigger fish. I would have thought that Google's foray into the browser market would have taken a bit more time to develop, but it...

Tags: Google Inc., Opera Software, Web Browsers, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-09-04

First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?

First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?Hmmm ....Could be worse ....Homer: [narrating a TV commercial] Are you tired of having your hands cut off by snowblowers? And the inevitable heart attacks that come with shoveling snow?Maybe......they should hire the company that does the Mac commercials....

Tags: humour, advertisement, Seinfeld, Microsoft Corp., ad air

Discussion threads 2008-09-04