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Is Barry Diller delusional?

Are Barry and Rupert Delusional?The market will decide. They should quit talking about it and put up a product and see if they make money. Money talks and suckers walk.Value is the driving forcePeople will pay for a service if it has any real value. If that...

Tags: Network technology, Barry Diller, Diller, Barry

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Keytar laptop sleeve from Barry

Keytar laptop sleeve from BarryI like the monster!There are so many possibilities with those sleeves, it's a shame they aren't doing more with it.What I'd like to see is a plain sleeve you can have customized with your own artwork/photo...

Tags: Notebooks, Keytar, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2008-03-27

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Green IT strategy has nebulous ROI. So why bother?

I wouldn't bother either, it's embarrassingFinally the smoke screen is beginning to clear:"An internal document from the National Grid, seen by the Sunday Express, says wind turbine energy will at times cost over 3,000 per cent more than conventional power."http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/140456/-250bn-The-real-cost-of-wind-powerIn the real world, not the world inhabited by eco fantasies,...

Tags: ROI/TCO, Green IT, Green IT strategy, ROI

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Public healthcare could spur Silicon Valley innovation and create jobs

California is Bankrupt ... ??????Barry Sorento is bankrupting the USS of A$7,000,000,000,000 TRILLION in debt andit is more than a TRILLION more makingit $8,000,000,000,000 and unemployment is the highest in 25 years!INSANITY!The dollar is ranked 48th in the world nowOboma is a genius at destroying the economy!

Tags: health care, job

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Life insurance may prove difficult to get if you contract H1N1

Insurance company business model:Only sell insurance to those who will not need it and hence not collect.For life insurance, they at least have a case, because it should not be possible to take out a $1M policy the day before you die of cancer.Health CARE however is supposed to be...

Tags: Financial Planning, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Personal finance, payroll solutions, H1N1 flu, insurance, life insurance, health insurance, health care

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Green building boom

Somebody please explain something here.How can these green building--and associated manufacturing--jobs not be the same old "not green" jobs just slid into a new spot? Are these in addition to the "not green" jobs. Are the old "not green" just canned and dropped from the rolls of humanity....

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, McGraw-Hill Construction, job

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Paperless students? Never going to happen

Got an idea...If someone wants to do without paper, toilet-paper,a car/truck, air conditioning, and never passgas. Than more power to them, on the other handstop forcing these lunatic policies on employers,small business and the rest of society.In the meantime, people have to work, to earn moneyto eat and raise their...

Tags: Tablets, Microsoft Office, Notebooks, Taxes, Personal finance, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, tablet

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

Sprint to cut 2,000 to 2,500 jobs

Wow the recovery with Oboma is working great!Yes, Oboma was preaching the other day how great he was and how he 'saved' the economy!Everyday thousands of jobs are history I guesshe is holding out on the 5 MILLION jobs.I wonder if the $7,000,000,000,000 TRILLIONhas some more pay outs for his...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Sprint Communications, job, His-Name

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

Microsoft to drop Office Accounting product, services

DumbWhat a dumb move their Accounting software was one of the best products they had.Anyone notice a trend?Dumping Money, dumping Office Accounting, and all at a time when the Feds are increasingly regulating Financial firms. While MS is clearly not a "Financial" Company it looks alot like they are...

Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Office Accounting, Microsoft Corp., Intuit QuickBooks, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Frugal Friday: Mac refresh, Magic Mouse, Verizon DROID, The Nook, Windows 7, Likewise

Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss the 4th quarter 2009/Q1 2010 Apple hardware refresh, the new Apple Magic Mouse, the quaintness of keyboards, the new Verizon DROID smartphone, the Barnes & Noble "Nook" Android-based ebook reader, the Windows 7 launch and Windows XP migration solutions,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mouse, Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, E-books, Mice, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-23

One second: The time it takes to wipe three years of work

Not all that worriedWith the cost of drives these days, and with Raid cards or raid capable Motherboards at such cheap prices these days, I've setup mine with a RAID 1 mirror.Plus an automated weekly backup.I spend alot of time and money on my music (just sitting there ripping my...

Tags: Backups, backup, Live Mesh, RAID, Acronis, hard drive

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

News to know: Win7, Google Wave, Palm WebOS, Apple Tablet, Google Docs

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. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's message to IT pros: Meet us half way with Windows 7 Larry Dignan: ...

Tags: Tom Foremski, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Google Docs, Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-30

Is Barry Diller delusional?

Here's chapter 120 of Barry Diller's "people will and should pay for online content" tour. But I have a nagging question: Why exactly are we still listening to Diller? First, here's the video of Diller rapping with Katie Couric. The refrain sounds familiar: Pay for online content...

Tags: IAC/InterActive Corp., Channel Management, Corporate Communications, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Facebook, Wrong Again!

As it being widely reported, a Facebook poll has caught the ire of the Secret Service for asking whether President Obama should be killed. The Service is investigating the poll and asked the poll be taken down. "The USSS [Secret Service] sent us an e-mail late this...

Tags: U.S. Secret Service, Facebook, Barack Obama, Service, E-mail, Online Communications, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Does social media reward whining?

The worm is turningIt's taken a while, but it's clear the social media world is waking up to the fact that companies using Twitter as a back-door customer service channel staffed by PR personnel isn't a sustainable practice.I think it's great that PR people I am one are using social...

Tags: Public relations, Twitter Inc., social media

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Spy A Solution 1.0 (Windows)

Spy A Solution is a challenging adventure game for free. Your goal is to help Barry spy a solution to collect target objects in the limited time. Before each round, you will be given a description of mission. You can move with left, right and up arrow keys. Press spacebar...

Tags: Level, NowStat, Microsoft Windows, Games, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-08-31

Not wanting to expose NSFW links, 1 in 4 Firefox 2 users avoid upgrading to FF3

Users have refused to upgrade to the latest version of Firefox because they were afraid the browser would expose their, well, sensitive bookmarks. "Sensitive," as in potentially "not safe for work." In an amusing post on...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 2.0, Web Browsers, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-08-27

Microsoft cries the sky will fall if injunction not stayed

Can the world survive without the latest version of Word? Microsoft thinks not. Facing an injunction of sales of the Office flagship over a patent violation, Microsoft asked to stay the injuction while it appeals a $290 million verdict that found it violated i4i's patents, PC World reports. ...

Tags: Word-processing, Injunction, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-19

News to know: VMWare; Facebook acquires Friendfeed; Facebook Search; MS Office;

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: VMware goes shopping: Buys SpringSource for $420 million; Can it keep the open source mojo? Joe McKendrick: Panel: too...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Mobile, Microsoft Office, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Smart Phones, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Storage

Blog posts 2009-08-11

When Collaboration is Literally Life or Death...

When Collaboration is Literally Life or Death...middles workinig togetherCC is following Barry Oshry's Power and Systems guidelines for middles ( as in tops, middles and bottoms) Those in the middle, i.e. the company commanders, can be much more effective when they recognize that they can and should collaborate with...

Tags: Social networking, E-mail, Groupware, Military.com, Marines, collaboration

Discussion threads 2009-08-04