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- Silicon Valley is full of bad competitors...
- [Here is part 1 on Bad Competitors]I've realized that Silicon Valley is full to the brim with bad competitors. By bad competitors I mean other companies trying to commoditize your business while defending their core business; thus everyone is vulnerable to a bad competitor, someone that can provide a product...
- Tags: bad competitor
- Blog posts 2006-05-09
- Bad competitors are ruining markets everywhere...
- Bad competitors are ruining markets everywhere...I'll make my own definition for 'bad competitor'The article seems to be a nice piece of indirection. Not being an economist, I don't feel compelled to use their definitions... assuming that you got the definition right. From my perspective, I don't see a problem with...
- Tags: Web browsers, Digital media, Bad Competitors, bad competitor, industry
- Discussion threads 2006-05-08
- Bad competitors are ruining markets everywhere...
- I've been thinking about "bad competitors" after coming across this excellent speech on the future of newspapers by Phil Meyer, Knight Chair in Journalism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at a conference in August 2005. [Craig Newmark is founder of Craigslist, the classified advertising company.] ...
- Tags: bad competitor, Craigslist, Craig Newmark, Jim Buckmaster
- Blog posts 2006-05-08
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- Apple agrees to repair MacBook Pros with bad NVIDIA GPUs
- Months after Dell and other notebook manufacturers came clean, Apple has admitted some culpability for failing Nvidia GPUs. The GeForce 8600M GT has been failing recently in MacBook Pros and Apple has agrred t0 will pay for the repairs.Read more about it at setteb.it english translation. by...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook Pro, GPU, GeForce 8600M GT, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- 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
- Tempest or Nuclear Winter
- A Hurricane Ike for Tech Start-Ups VentureWire Alert free subscription required today reported that venture capitalists are advising their portfolio firms to prepare for a potential nuclear winter. One venture capitalist featured in today's newsletter was quoted as telling firms "to slow down their burn rate, and...
- Tags: Firm, Venture Capital, Product Development, Investment, Product Marketing, Workforce Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Human Resources, Brian Sommer
- 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
- Windows Strata = Microsoft's layered cloud OS
- Windows Strata = Microsoft's layered cloud OSThe cloud providers fully support the platform the provide. On the otherhand, try to get help from MS for problems with your application hosted on Rackspace. It will be a LONG wait.And, end users have to pick their poison. No matter which platform they...
- Tags: Operating systems, Windows Strata, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, operating system
- 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
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