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Amazon S3 web services down. Bad, bad news for customers.

Amazon S3 web services down. Bad, bad news for customers.And this is whyWeb 2.0 will die. Only a fool trusts sensitive data to a third party they have no control over.Service interruptions inevitableI don't care who it is. Amazon, Google, Salesforce.com, MSFT...everyone is going to have an outage. ...

Tags: Manufacturing, Corporate governance, RAID, outage, Amazon.com Inc., BAD BAD new, Amazon S3 web service, Amazon S3 web services down, BAD BAD, AWS, white board, board, backup, Web service

Discussion threads 2008-02-15

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Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'

Higher return rates for Linux-based netbooks don't necessarily reflect badly on the open-source operating system, according to Ubuntu backer Canonical. The return rate on Linux-powered netbooks may be higher than that for Windows netbooks, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing for Linux, according to Canonical. ...

Tags: Ubuntu, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Software, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, netbook, Windows XP, MSI Wind, Asus Eeee

News items 2008-10-10

Churchill Club podcast: Irrational decisions and the rational people who make them

Renowned organizational thinker Ori Brafman and his brother, psychologist Rom Brafman, say that anyone--under the right set of circumstances--is capable of irrational action. But irrational behavior is not random. In conversation with Guy Kawasaki--one of the Club's most popular moderators--the authors of, Sway: The Irresistible Pull of...

Tags: Decision, Podcasts, Strategy, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-09

News to know: IBM earnings, Blackberry Storm, WiMax arrives, Oracle+ Primavera

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: IBM reports early. Profits up 20 percent, full year estimates reaffirmed. Larry Dignan: IBM: Beats earnings target but... Times are officially...

Tags: Touch Screen, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, RIM BlackBerry, Earnings, IBM Corp., E-mail, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, WiMAX, Monitors & Displays, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Wireless, Components, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Turning US News college rankings into 7-dimensional analytic geometry

No really, I'm not kidding. Two researchers from UC Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon thought that the methods employed by US News and World Report to rank the nation's top universities was just a bit too arbitrary. As Science News reports in a great article to share with high...

Tags: Vector, Corporate Governance, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Have we all become a bunch of anxious, depressed, sleep-deprived irritable stress-heads?

Have we all become a bunch of anxious, depressed, sleep-deprived irritable stress-heads?To answer your question, yes.I'd write more, but I'm too busy.ChrisBusy IT LifestyleIt's true - the IT world is very hectic and requires lots of work as well as time to research and respond to messages in many forms....

Tags: Food & Beverage, Sleep Apnea, Eating Well

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

What happens when the "cloud" starts to precipitate? A hard rain's agonna fall . . .

i use a lot of online services and I try to push as many applications as I can into the cloud. This means that I can work from anywhere on virtually any computer device. I don't need a personal computer (but I do need a personal cellphone - the new...

Tags: Web, Web Service, Web Services Company, Web Services, Cloud Computing, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-10-08

New book details how to break iPhone passcodes and recover data

New book details how to break iPhone passcodes and recover dataWhat a bunch of Hooey![i]While the books is intended for “lawful forensic examination” by corporate security officers, law enforcement personnel, and private forensic examiners, it will undoubtedly be popular with the hacker set.[/i]Anyone who buys this is either a thief...

Tags: SECURITY, book detail, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

$236m judgment against spammer couple

$236m judgment against spammer coupleSadly, it's pointlessSadly, in reality such a judgment is pointless.Let them pay it in jail time$236m is a fair bill to run up. I say let them paying it back in jail time.Let's even be generous and say 1 day in jail will reduce the bill...

Tags: Spam, Email Ads, e-mail, spammer, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo email

Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo emailI bet he is praing for an Obama winin November, as that way he has a great change at receiving a pardon from him.If McCain wins, well five years in Guantanamo is not really [i]all[/i] that bad... ;)RE: Kernell indicted in break-in to...

Tags: Palin, Yahoo Email, Kernell, e-mail, break-in, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Changing open source terms bad move in a recession

Changing open source terms bad move in a recessionOpen Source flawed modelIf a car manufacture engineers a car, it does not release its blue-prints for free. If an architect designs a house he or she does not release his plans for free. The equivalent of an engineering blue...

Tags: open source, car, recession

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Google tries to stop you from sending mail you will regret

It appears that Google has added a new feature to Gmail Labs that tries to make sure you are in the right state of mind before sending messages -- particularly helpful when you have maybe had a few too many drinks, and are about to send an email that would...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, E-mail, Internet, Online Communications, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Changing open source terms bad move in a recession

A lot of open source companies will merge or combine or sink in the next several months, and this was no time to stick a fork in the liferaft. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Recession, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-10-08

C'mon, Vista really isn't that bad

C'mon, Vista really isn't that badRE: C'mon, Vista really isn't that badI agree, it eases the transition from the digital to the physical world for computer users and seems especially geared towards newer computer users and explaining steps and giving more information about the system itself and any software installed....

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, C'MON, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

C'mon, Vista really isn't that bad

Picture the scene. A small country pub in Canterbury, a warm, autumn evening, surrounded by friends drinking and smoking in the beer garden; relaxing after a difficult, hard day at work. The birds are singing, the breeze is light and feathering our very souls. This is heaven....

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows Meeting Space, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-08

The IT role in the mortgage meltdown

The IT role in the mortgage meltdownNobody likes a WhisleblowerYou got blacklisted for publicly Whistle-blowing at a company meeting. For your trouble you lost a job, faced economic hardship, and had to explain at interviews why this employer would not give you a reference. You did not follow...

Tags: Leadership, information technology, mortgage meltdown, IT role, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

I'm well aware what I pay for Google's services

My post on Google earlier Tuesday was met with mixed reactions. A few folks agreed that, in fact, Google's suite of services is quite slick, long live GOOG, etc. Others, like fellow ZDNet blogger, Michael Krigsman, disagreed pretty strongly. In his response, Michael didn't leave much doubt...

Tags: Google Inc., OpenOffice, Productivity, E-mail Providers, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levels

After years of operation, California based ISP Atrivo/Intercage, a well known Russian Business Network darling, faced the music and was disconnected from the Internet by its upstream provider at the end of September. What happened according to MessageLabs's latest intelligence report, was a brief decline of spam due to the...

Tags: Internet Service Provider, Atrivo/Intercage, Intercage, Atrivo, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Cyberthreats, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Will Windows 7 get a new name for its release?

Will Windows 7 get a new name for its release?Following Steve's PhilosophyAs you so accurately noted, Steve has a knack for whole numbers as we know from his Microsoft Office reign. Office 12 (2007), Office 11 (2003), Office 10 (XP or version 2002), Office 9 (2000) and these were the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Vista R2, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, new name

Discussion threads 2008-10-07