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House begins hearings on HP

House begins hearings on HPThe future looks bleak for Ann Baskins"Earlier on Thursday, HP's general counsel, Ann Baskins, resigned from the company and said she would invoke her Fifth Amendment rights and refuse to answer questions."Seems to me that attorneys are officers of the court, and sworn to uphold the...

Tags: ethics, Hewlett-Packard Co., Ann Baskins

Discussion threads 2006-09-28

PatriciaGate Update: Another head rolls (the GC's)

In advance of a Congressional hearing today, HPs top lawyer has stepped down bringing the total number of executives who have lost their jobs as the result of a recent privacy scandal at the IT company to four. News.coms Margaret Kane: Hewlett-Packard General Counsel Ann Baskins has resigned, the...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Ann Baskins

Blog posts 2006-09-28

Key to HP's credibility in hands of new lawyers

Key to HP's credibility in hands of new lawyersThe one with credibility is DUNNIt's been pretty obvious all along that Dunn did nothing wrong. She was the scapegoat because HP mismanaged the whole affair and the media went ape shit over a lot of nothing. Most in the media couldn't...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Social Security, PRODUCTIVITY, Advertising & Promotion, Operational accounting, Hewlett-Packard Co., Ann Baskins

Discussion threads 2006-09-28

Additional Resources

Ann video converter (exe)

Ann Video Converter is a professional and easy to use video convert tool. One leader in the world of modern video compression. Almost all video formats can be converted. It can convert all video formats to AVI MPEG PSP IPOD WMV RMVB video files etc, and extract audio to MP3...

Tags: Video, AnnVideo, Ann Video Converter, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-06-16

The search engine conundrum

The search engine conundrumlove it!Great article. More please...garyAll search engines lack clarityThe simple truth is all text-based search engines lack clarity and reliability.Whenever I search for something, there are literally thousands of ranked results that have nothing to do with what I am doing, and why? Because there...

Tags: SEARCH, search engine, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-06

Brewster Kahle offers a cookbook for fighting security letters

Just talked to Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive about their successful settlement with the FBI of a lawsuit over a National Security Letter. The FBI had demanded personal information on a user; the Archive replied with a lawsuit challenging the propriety of the NSL. As part of the settlement,...

Tags: Security, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FBI, Library, Brewster Kahle, Cookbook, National Security Letter, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-08

Google's board member targeted by SEC

Google director Ann Mather is facing civil charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection to an options backdating scandal at Pixar, where Mather used to be CFO from 1999 to 2004. In Google's filing, the company disclosed: On April 23, 2008, Ann was advised...

Tags: Google Inc., Board, SEC, Pixar Animation Studios Inc., Corporate Governance, Stock Options, Investment, Benefits, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-29

UFO News (gadget)

Direct links to George Noory of Coast to Coast Am reaching 20 million listeners each night, Jeff Rense his radio show reaches 15 million listeners each night and 78 of the top UFO, Alien abduction, Cattle mutilation and Crop circle researchers on this planet starting with Mar Allin, Colin Andrews,...

Tags: Horn, Sidebar Gadgets, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-04-16

Secure coding: the invisible elephant

The last couple of weeks, I've been trying to vaguely connect the dots between social computing, cloud computing and traditional process based systems. There are multiple legs to the story but one that had pretty much escaped my attention was the security angle. I will not claim any special expertise...

Tags: Software, Google Inc., Database, Cloud Computing, Information Technology, Computer Science, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Ms Davidson, Tools & Techniques, Security, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-08

A new kind of cognitive autonomous robots

European computer scientists have developed a new kind of cognitive robots. In two articles, ICT Results describes how the researchers have combined classical rule-based artificial intelligence and artificial neural networks ANNs (links to part 1 and to part 2). This learning robot 'employs ANNs to manage the low-level functions based...

Tags: Artificial Neural Network, AI, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-27

Printing organs on demand?

Every year, pharmaceutical companies invest many millions of dollars to test drugs that will never reach market while the number of patients waiting for organ transplants continues to increase. Would it be possible to create human tissues to help to solve both problems? A research team from the University of...

Tags: Team, Organ, Cell, Printing, MU, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-23

Checking the clock for DST is a good reminder for tech product expiration dates

Various groups use the twice-yearly daylight savings time shift as a reminder to check product expiration dates. While most are about things we eat, drink and apply to ourselves, there are a few items we might want to check in the technology department, including flash cards. My...

Tags: Card, Solution, Battery, Expiration Date, Camera Battery, Engineering, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-03-09

Yahoo ditches March 13 Microsoft proxy war deadline

Yahoo ditches March 13 Microsoft proxy war deadlineNOW IT'S WAR..You don't do this to Microsoft. Microsoft's cash hoard DEMANDS to be spent to once and for all extinguish these Yahoos. My rep immediately sent me talking points which I forward to all of our internal employees. I obviously struck fear...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, monopolist, Now IT, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Proxy

Discussion threads 2008-03-05

Nanoemulsion vaccines effective against HIV?

Nanoemulsions are non-toxic lipid droplets approved for human consumption and common food substances that are defined as 'Generally Recognized as Safe' GRAS by the FDA. But they also can be used for medical applications. Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed nasal nanoemulsion vaccines for influenza which were successfully...

Tags: Vaccine, Particle, HIV, Nanoemulsions, Healthcare, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-02-28

Tornado destroyed woman's house: then she gets this $2,025.45 bill from Time Warner Cable

From Wisconsin's Kenosha News comes this story that after a January 7 tornado demolished her home, and ensuing rain and snow made it a bear to fix, a woman from the area has received a $2,025.45 bill from her (now former, well duh) cable television service....

Tags: Time Warner Inc., Cable, Insurance, TVs, Network Technology, Tv & Home Theater, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Home Entertainment, Networking, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-01-31

Judge says Patriot Act allows warrantless phone, email taps

Hassan Abu-Jihaad was a sailor who allegedly leaked a Navy document to a suspected terror group in London. He's currently on trial in federal court in Connecticut for disclosing national-defense information and his trial is slated for Feb. 25. His lawyers attempted to argue that the evidence should be suppressed...

Tags: Phone, USA PATRIOT Act, Regulations, E-mail, Government, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-01-24

Arbor Networks abandons security space

I was actually in Ann Arbor last week when news broke that Arbor Networks had acquired Ellacoya a so called "deep packet inspection" technology vendor. I was perplexed. That's not security. First let me clear up some terminology. "Deep Packet Inspection" was...

Tags: Arbor Software, Sales Force, Arbor Networks, Telephony, Mergers & Acquisitions, Telecom & Utilities, Content Management, Security, Telecommunications, Networking, Investment, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2008-01-21

Fergie Screensaver (exe)

This free screensaver contains many pictures of Fergie. Fergie (born Stacy Ann Ferguson on March 27, 1975) is an American pop, hip hop, and R&B singer, songwriter, and actress. She is a former member of the kids television series Kids Incorporated, and the girl group Wild Orchid. Ferguson was also...

Tags: Screensaver, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2007-12-18

Those Gmail ads are a hoot

Does anyone seriously look at the ads in Google's Gmail? In theory, Google scans my email and serves up relevant advertising. The reality is a bit different. To wit: In a Mozilla email update (I'm subscribed to the Mozilla Google Group) I get the following: ...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Advertisement, Mozilla Corp., Reality, E-mail, E-mail Providers, Online Communications, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-17

HP: Blade, enterprise printing and channel happy

Hewlett Packard's head honchos outlined their divisional strategies on Tuesday. Here's a look at the key themes. In a nutshell, HP is big on blades, its printing prospects and defending its retail channel turf. Let's blade everything Ann Livermore, executive vice president and head of...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade, Photograph, Printing, Document Management, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-11