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BearingPoint earnings call - part 2

A Winter of Discontent? There were some other nuggets in this call. BearingPoint BE has retained the restructuring firm AlixPartners. Moreover, BE is replacing its CFO with an AlixPartners person. Again, we quote from the earnings announcement: “The Company has also appointed AlixPartners managing...

Tags: Earnings, BearingPoint Inc., CFO, BE, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-11-14

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Will Chrome netbooks really be competitive?

Too crippledBoth Windows and Linux netbooks offer much more functionality and flexibility than the Google Dumb Terminal.No thanks...Google is going to have to start heavily marketing thisfor this to even have a chance. And that marketing strategy had better convince a distrusting public why they should trust both the cloud...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Linux, Operating systems, Chrome OS, netbook, Chrome, operating system, Google Inc., Win 7

Discussion threads 2009-12-03

Will Chrome netbooks really be competitive?

Acer, which last quarter overtook Dell to become the world's second-largest PC manufacturer, is known as an aggressive company. So it's little surprise that the company's chairman, J.T. Wang, vowed this week that Acer would be first to release a netbook using Google's Chrome OS sometime in the middle of...

Tags: Google Inc., Acer Inc., Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-12-03

Supernova: Can Social Media be the "savior" of privacy?

Social Networking=Privacy DisasterA fool puts their life history on a public domain that does NOT belong tothem after it is posted.Privacy Stop using social networkingperiod.It can and will be used against you.Breaking it down....Many online services are not making much money or are losing money. Online ad revenue has dropped,...

Tags: Social networking, Financial accounting, willing to pay, Online-ad revenue, social media

Discussion threads 2009-12-02

Supernova: Can Social Media be the "savior" of privacy?

A conversation about privacy and the social Web hints that the rise of social networking might be a "savior" of privacy. by Sam Diaz

Tags: Social Media, Privacy, Security, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-12-02

Fake H1N1 (Swine Flu) alerts lead to malware

How stupid are People?Very much so, I guess.Is there a Mac version?This is useless for me1. No link to fake CDC site.2. No Mac version.Very, and no.[b] [/b]If you're that bummed out.. try Boot Camp.Or WINE...

Tags: SECURITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Operating systems, malware, vulnerability, H1N1 flu, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-12-02

Chris Anderson goes analog; We all can be manufacturers

Interesting idea, but I'd rather not.Interesting idea - but the truth is, I'd rather have somebody else manufacture my stuff. I wouldn't know the first thing about designing my own product, and it would probably turn out being pretty crappy stuff. I think I'll leave that stuff to more knowledgeable...

Tags: Manufacturing, Intellectual property, manufacturer, Interesting Idea

Discussion threads 2009-12-01

Can hackers have a disease and be absolved from a crime? Maybe...

Aserger's has shades of grayMore than likely if he was compelled to try breaking into US systems, it was the technical challenge and machinations in his mind of what it would take. Asperger's is a form of mild autism and if you're more on the impacted side, I can readily...

Tags: INTERNET, NETWORKING, McKinnon, Asperger, defence

Discussion threads 2009-12-01

Comcast keeps promise, launches data usage meter

THERE SHOULD BE NOOOO CAP.PERIOD. If less than 1% are using that much bandwidth... WHO CARES?They are just trying to impose a limit on "UNLIMITED" service. They should be forced to stop calling it "UNLIMITED" if there is a 250GB cap and they should have had this in place...

Tags: Backups, Cable, Comcast Corp., bandwidth user, data usage

Discussion threads 2009-12-01

"Black Screen of Death" problems seem to be little more than scattered cases

As is typical with most Windows "issues".[i]It seems we can all stop panicking now. In fact, there was little to panic about in the first place.[/i]They're completely blown out of proportion.RE: Black Screen of Death" problems seem to be little more than scatteredThe only reason it was blown out of...

Tags: black screen, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-12-01

If the Crunchpad is dead, what's next for ultracheap Ed tech?

Tablets never really became popular.I dunno why, but tablet PCs simply can't seem to take off as popular devices. They're [b]great[/b] for education, but not much else.It may also be that Crunchpad was a Linux device, and as much as Linux has a very loyal following - it never really...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, PDAs, Microsoft Office, tablet, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, CrunchPad, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-12-01

UPDATED - "Black Screen of Death" problems seem to be little more than scattered cases

The "Black Screen of Death" problem which was widely reported in the tech media yesterday doesn't seem to be the huge "HELP! The sky is falling in on us!!!" problem that is was made out to be yesterday. In fact, at best I can only find a small handful of...

Tags: Black Screen, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-12-01

Don't bother finding Tuvalu on a map. It may be gone soon.

Tuvalu vanishing under water - again?I'd first heard this prediction about Tuvalu nearly 20 years ago ...and I expect to hear it again in 20 years, unless 'global climate change' morphs back into 'global coolings' from the 1970's.It would be funny, if it weren't so sad.So what?What has Tuvalu given...

Tags: Climategate, Tuvalu

Discussion threads 2009-11-30

Could the latest LaCie LaCinema Classic HD streaming media device be The One?

DVD menus?Sean, I've ripped my DVD collection to my computer via the video_ts VOB format. Will this product play them back WITH the dvd menus?RE: Could the latest LaCie LaCinema Classic HD streaming media device be ThNoWhy is the STB ignored?I keep wondering why no one seems willing to...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Consumer electronics, Fios, LaCie LaCinema Classic HD, streaming media device, STB, DVD, LaCie, streaming media

Discussion threads 2009-11-30

Could the latest LaCie LaCinema Classic HD streaming media device be The One?

Unless Apple decides to make Apple TV as irresistible as it's made the iPod and iPhone, it's still anybody's game when it comes to the streaming media device that could capture the living rooms and the HDTVs installed within of the masses. There are cheap streamers, slightly less cheap streamers...

Tags: LaCie, Streaming Media, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Media, DVR, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-29

What am I bid for reduced greenhouse gas emissions?

Canada has a conservative PMWhich means that he has not lost his mind yet.If poor countries want money then they should work for it, not steal it via gaia-bs.Get off ur lazy ass I'd say.Lots of words, but irrelevant.C02 doesn't cause global warming. And global warming doesn't exist.You've listened to...

Tags: C02, Harper, greenhouse gas emission, greenhouse gas

Discussion threads 2009-11-28

Does Chrome OS mean anything for schools?

Benefits of the ChromeOS approachOne of the features of HTML5, that commentors on other posts seem to forget, is that HTML5 web apps can be "installed" in app cache, for offline use (Google "HTML5 manifest").If web apps can be used offline AND made to perform like desktop apps, with web...

Tags: Operating systems, cloud computing, Desktops, NOW IT, HTML5, operating system, Chrome OS, Does Chrome OS, Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-28

The cloud computing battleground takes shape. Will it be winner-take-all?

You can't be a good consultant if you can't even mention MSIf you really think MS is irrelevant in cloud computing then you have some serious bias issues to work out.The fact that throughout your entire blog you can't even get yourself to mention MS or Azure even once is...

Tags: Virtualization, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, cloud computing battleground, Microsoft Corp., cloud computing, Azure, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Law firm interested in hearing from banned Xbox Live gamers

Maybe "law" can become a GDP driverNow that America has seen virtually every domestic industry go down the toilet, maybe it can provide law services to the rest of the world.If this self-righteous lawsuit is any indication, the is no need to fear the loss of American innovation and savvy;...

Tags: Microsoft Xbox Live, EULA, Microsoft Corp., cheater, contractual obligation, terms of service, law firm, Microsoft Xbox

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Microsoft isn't the only one developing a hardware-accelerated browser

It is a dumb idea.WAIT! Firefox and Chrome teams are looking to do the same?What a brilliant idea!I smell a large scale patent war brewingThis will be one that catches everybody's attention, not just the people who work in the industry.I'd bet that Office goes hardware-rendered, tooI'd bet that Office...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, IE9, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, hardware, Web browser

Discussion threads 2009-11-24