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Autonomy threatens legal action over vulnerability alert

Autonomy threatens legal action over vulnerability alertThats only to be expectedThat's the proprietary model of doing things, hide, hide, hide away. And then some will claim that they have lesser bugs than the competition! The final sufferers: The consumers.In one way, I side with AutonomyLet's face it, the cracker community...

Tags: Patches, SECURITY, Bad News, Autonomy Corp. plc, proprietary model, patch management

Discussion threads 2007-12-07

My analysis: what will the AT

My analysis: what will the ATTwo dinosaurs matingjust before the asteroid hits. That's MY analysis.Big Bang Theoryand the closed universe concept. 1984 saw the "Big Bang", the breakup of the Bell operating system. Seems the universe created back then has reached it's maximum expansion point, and is contracting back in...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, environment, stupidity, government, Bad News, AT&T Corp., BellSouth Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., analysis

Discussion threads 2006-03-06

Taking bets on the Windows Vista launch date

Taking bets on the Windows Vista launch dateForfeited BonusBad news for Chris Jones then, considering how much they've already cut out of Vista.Gee...Christmas in August? ;-)Smile, your on candid camera!for youBad news for you...you suck.I may indeed suck......but at least I'm on time, and all of my parts are intact.

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Windows Vista Launch, Microsoft Windows Vista, Bad News, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-03-01

Oracle to buy Siebel in deal worth $5.8 billion

Oracle to buy Siebel in deal worth $5.8 billionNo doubt!Hey spend some, make some huh? Larry spends a lot of cash and Oracle stock stays flat - and he makes off with $75 million and a new yacht! Gee, lets repeat that with Siebel. I bet I can get...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Customer relationship management (CRM), Enterprise software, Databases, ROI/TCO, Bad News, Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., CRM, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, database

Discussion threads 2005-09-12

Dual cores to rule by 2007

Dual cores to rule by 2007You pay more and get lessMulticore processors does not add speed to most desktop applications. Rather they decrese speed to most desktop applications. I will not be buying multicore systems for may desktop systems. Pay more and you get less speed.They only work better with...

Tags: Processors, Desktops, Bad News, dual-core, processor, multi-core, desktop, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-05-06

IBM tries to lure gear makers into Cell

IBM tries to lure gear makers into CellGood news, bad news:Good news: Rumors are that Apple is already planning to incorporate the chip into a future Mac G5. Bad news: The wife won't be happy when I tell her I'm upgrading.Yes, Dac...but you forgot that ...."We believe a 10-times...

Tags: Performance management, IBM Corp., gear company, Bad News, Cell

Discussion threads 2005-03-30

Additional Resources

Swoopo: a lottery disguised as an auction?

Here's a good business: sell products for 3x retail - and have people pay for the privilege. Cool! The bad news: someone already thought of it. How do they get people - including me - to sign up for such a bad deal? by Robin Harris

Tags: Lottery, Auction, Privilege, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-11-29

East Anglia chronology, so far

RE: East Anglia chronology, so far Obfuscate the information,often condemming, in the documents and concentrate on the trivial how they got on line. The denialists are mirroring the tobacco industry?s defense decades agoAttack is always the best defense.Deny the data, the melting glaciers, and concentrate on politics...to stop us...

Tags: payroll solutions, payroll

Discussion threads 2009-11-26

What open source can teach medical practice

Great article, Dana.You did in such a short piece what CNN, MSNBC, FOX and other media journalists failed to do: tell the story as it really is. You didn't take what was news worthy and sensationalized it, nor played up a negative reading of it to frighten those possibly affected,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, open source, medical practice, CNN

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Numbers of new Core i7 iMacs are turning up DOA

I guess it goes to show that......even the almighty apple is not immune to issues. We have some iMacs (about 100 - 120) in my organization compared to about 2500 Windows Desktops and out of the 90 we ordered a few years ago (17" iMacs) we had one come...

Tags: Desktops, DOA, Core i7 iMac, Core i7, Apple Inc., Apple iMac

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Fawning over Chatter and how SAP missed its chance

What Salesforce did was pricing, not features...What I was talking about that most people missed wasn't the feature set. Of course that isn't new. Even Benioff pretty much admits he stole the idea from Facebook and Twitter.But at the Techcrunch Real Time Crunchup on Friday Benioff said Salesforce was working...

Tags: Pricing, Sales force management, Marketing research, Strategy, Chatter, SAP AG

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Falling behind in science? No kidding!

ScienceHow many people really know that you don?t throw up with the flu...Actually, according to Merck, nausea and vomiting are flu symptoms, particularly in children. http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec17/ch198/ch198d.html How many people realize that H1N1 vaccines are prepared in the same way as we always prepare flu vaccine?Actually this vaccine was...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, vaccine, evolutionary theory, theory

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I

(NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog.  Let's see how that...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-23

A Chrome OS Video Tour

Microsoft: Watch Out, We're Coming to Getcha!Open Source is like water, you can't stop it.Bwahahahahahhhhhhhhhh................Man this OS is a POS.There is nothing this OS can do that I can't do already with Windows 7. It looks like a piece of crap and I really wanted to give Google the...

Tags: Operating systems, INTERNET, NaCl, Chrome, Chrome OS, Chrome OS Video Tour, operating system, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

A Microsoft and News Corp. search pact? It adds up

Goodbye RupertI am not going to use Bing.Google will find stuff I am interested in.Too lazy to use Bing.Bing is dead.Something will dethrone Google, but it ain't Bing.Goodbye Google...You can't earn money without paying for content made byothers...Google has milked the industry for years without giving anything back...There's no such...

Tags: SEARCH, Digital music, Digital media, News Corp., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Bing

Discussion threads 2009-11-22

Who's afraid of the big bad cloud?

Tech news has been dominated this week by Google's announcements regarding their upcoming Chrome OS. Plenty of geeks are excited; so are plenty of industry insiders and business analysts. You know who aren't excited? Those who say we aren't ready for an OS dependent upon "The Cloud." by...

Tags: Tech New, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-20

Internet: A threat to government or the other way around?

The Kleptocrats that feel entitled to your money...worry that us mushrooms now have other uncontrollable sources for the "truth" and won't eat the horse compost fed to them by the monopolistic crony Main-stream Media.RE: Internet: A threat to government or the other way around?There are two things tyrants and bureaucrats...

Tags: Vertical industries, government, retraction, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Chrome OS - The good, the bad and the ugly, and how it fits in with Windows, Mac and Linux

Chrome OS - The good, the bad and the ugly, and how it fits in with WindowsI gave it some thought too and realized that Chrome OS only has the bad and the ugly. There is nothing good about it. All data stored in the cloud, and on Google's...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Chrome, Google Inc., Chrome OS, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Asus K60IJ-RBLX05

Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores. Buying a budget laptop often means cutting corners, so let's take a look at the Asus K60IJ-RBLX05. With a 16-inch screen and a...

Tags: Processors, Notebooks, ASUS, processor, laptop computer

Product reviews 2009-11-19

Intuit misses for Q1, continues push into "connected services"

Bad newsIn Canada, there are basically two favoured accounting packages for small businesses: Quickbooks by Intuit and Simply Accounting by Sage. There is no online version of Quickbooks in Canada. They don't even offer Canadian trials. Sage has no interest in offering cloud services either. ...

Tags: Intuit QuickBooks, Sage, Intuit Inc., accounting

Discussion threads 2009-11-19