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Bugs and boredom

No matter where you were, you'd have to assume you were being watched by invisible insects (there's a paranoid fantasy) and that videos of anything interesting would wind up on the Web. by Ed Gottsman

Tags: Fantasy, Corporate Communications, Channel Management, Marketing, Ed Gottsman, DARPA, Technology, Asia Times, Government, Advertising & Promotion, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-20

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40 years ago the Internet was born - now it devalues everything it touches

you are devaluing your proffesionshame on you.internet is one of the greatest invention in human history.Establishing walled islands on the InternetThe Internet is like a huge river, or better yet, sea, that allows users to move from small island to small island web application, to find the things they care...

Tags: Web site development, e-reader software, e-reader, Internet, Web site

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

News to know: L.A. goes Google; AMD-Galleon; Cisco-ScanSafe; Ubuntu; Amazon RDS

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Larry Dignan: WSJ: AMD's former CEO was a Galleon tipster Sam Diaz: Cisco continues its buying spree with...

Tags: Tom Foremski, Ubuntu, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, ScanSafe, Mary Jo Foley, Amazon.com Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Internet, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-28

Piracy and the Apple App Store

PiracyI'm curious as to how they discovered that 80%. I'm assuming (I know, bad idea) that they post the app on the app store (well, Apple does after reviewing it) and someone has to buy it in order to pirate it or is the App store itself broken into? If...

Tags: Games, piracy, game, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Intel's third quarter powered by inventory builds, back-to-school demand; Outlook bright

Updated: Intel's third quarter earnings and revenue handily topped estimates and the company said it was "confident about our business prospects going forward." Intel added that its fourth quarter revenue would come in ahead of projections. Specifically, Intel on Tuesday reported net income of $1.9 billion, or...

Tags: Revenue, Microsoft Outlook, Intel Corp., Operational Accounting, Sales Strategy, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-13

Why you should be glad about Gmail failures

A future that will never happen."But the way I look at it, every Gmail outage is a small investment I?m willing to make towards a future when I?ll be able to take its reliability utterly for granted."Keep dreaming.They are machines created by humans, maintained by humans, running software created by...

Tags: Manufacturing, E-mail providers, Perfection, outage, Google Inc., Google Gmail

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Works of Rudyard Kipling. Huge collection. FREE Author's biography & stories in the trial. 10.2 (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Story, MobileReference

Software downloads 2009-09-01

Works of Rudyard Kipling. Huge collection. FREE Author's biography and stories in the trial. (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any novel from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Authors biography and free stories in the trial version.Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights...

Tags: Mobile, Story, MobileReference

Software downloads 2009-09-01

Chartered Cuts Time to Report a Bill of Materials From One Hour to Less Than One Minute

The ability to respond quickly to customer requests is a significant competitive advantage and more important than ever in challenging economic times. However, the use of suboptimal systems to track and manage critical Intellectual Property IP and process attributes was hampering Chartered's ability to react quickly to design opportunities. Staff...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Semiconductors, Intellectual Property, Hardware, Research & Development, Business Operations

Case studies 2009-09-01

HP extends support for long-life battery

Attention to those of you outside the United States, or businesses with locations in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Hewlett-Packard has introduced the HP Long Life Battery for commercial notebooks in those theaters. The batteries, which are based on Sonata Lithium-ion battery cell technology from Boston-Power,...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Battery, HP Long Life Battery, Engineering, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-08-27

HD DVD returns and kicks Blu-ray to the gutter

Just when Blu-ray thought it had clear sailing, a tempest has risen in the East: China Blue Hi-definition Disk CBHD. Toshiba has licensed its HD DVD to them and it will be the unit world leader in HD optical technology in just 12 months. Why? The Times...

Tags: HD-DVD, Blu-ray, China Blue Hi-definition Disk, Government, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Vertical Industries, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-08-03

News to know: AOL; Microsoft; Apple; SAP; Google

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Time Warner preps for AOL spin-off; Google's 5% stake worth $283 million Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: European...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, America Online Inc., SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Palm Pre, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Amazon gets bullied, pulls purchased e-books from Kindles

Amazon gets bullied, pulls purchased e-books from KindlesDTPALet's hope somebody decides to sue their butts off under a state's Deceptive Trade Practices Act -- claiming that an item sold has qualities, characteristics, source, certification, approval or etc., which in fact it does not have (e.g., claiming non-kosher products are kosher)....

Tags: E-books, Amazon.com Inc., e-book

Discussion threads 2009-07-17

Rumor: Apple 9.7-in. tablet coming October; $800

Rumor: Apple 9.7-in. tablet coming October; $800Bold move?[i]a tablet PC would represent a big undertaking and bold move by Apple[/i]Can you explain why releasing a PC with the same form factor as others have been doing for years is a "bold" move?[i]The Times claims that touchscreen supplier Wintek and battery...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Apple Inc., tablet, PC

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

El Nino evidence that global warming is real?

El Nino evidence that global warming is real?El Nino is not Global WarmingHow dumb are you? Meteorologists and oceanographers have been successfully predicting El Nino developments for decades. This is not the same as the relatively "young" science of atmospheric climatology.RE: El Nino evidence that global warming is real?Harry, ...

Tags: NOW IT, El Nino, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-07-09

Windows 7 RC ready for public download

Windows 7 RC ready for public downloadIt's the most highly anticipated OSIt's the most highly anticipated OS so it had to happen. However downloads aren't being interrupted :)RE: Windows 7 RC ready for public downloadI'm downloading now and I seem to be getting near my max speeds on a 7megs...

Tags: Operating systems, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Microsoft Windows 7, public download, Windows 7 RC, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

500 billion tons, and counting

500 billion tons, and countingAs always, great reporting. But, given the numbers in your polls, theproblem will ONLY be fixed AFTER major calamities caused by global warming. It will be about a million times worse than the swine flu.Obama can only do so much without the support of the American...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-04-30

News to know: AOL; Palm; SAP; Facebook; Oprah

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Time Warner: AOL's revenue slide continues; We plan to buy Google's 5% AOL stake Andrew Nusca: Would...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, America Online Inc., Palm Inc., Oprah Winfrey, SAP AG, Matthew Miller, Flu, Sam Diaz, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-04-30

Confusion and controversy continue at Satyam

Satyam, the Indian outsourcing company at the center of a massive fraud investigation continues to be mired in confusion and controversy. Earlier in the week, the company's former CFO appeared to give two PricewaterhouseCoopers audit partners a pass, saying: ...that auditors S Gopalakrishnan and Talluri Srinivas...

Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Satyam, Litigation, Financial Accounting, Outsourcing, Business Operations, Finance, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-04-08

Is it too late to turn around math/science ed in the US?

I'm reading The World is Flat for a class I'm taking and finding it remarkably doom and gloom. While the book has been updated with a couple of editions, its context largely remains the 2000-2005 timeframe. Four years, of course, is forever in the digital age,...

Tags: Education, Standards, Quality, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-03-26