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- Questioning IT
- Questioning ITConsistencyIn a prior entry, didn't you make the unassailable point that in a disaster Murphy's Law (a tribute to haplessness?) will assure that the best laid plans...So all that practice is like the mouse's "mony a weary nibble" creating a home that was destroyed in the Robert Burns poem...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, UNIX, data center, traditional systems environment, systems environment, dual data center, disaster recovery, insurance company
- Discussion threads 2008-04-25
- Beckman Coulter Empowers Sales Force While Maintaining Control of Sensitive Information
- Beckman Coulter, Inc., a leading manufacturer of biomedical testing instrument systems, tests, and supplies, is in the business of simplifying and automating laboratory processes. Beckman Coulter wanted to create an electronic SRM for its team, but needed to ensure that its information was secure. It also had to be certain...
- Tags: Information Security, Oracle Corp., Sales Force, Sales, Information Rights Management, Beckman Coulter
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- In the mind's eye, it's now Marissa versus Monkeyboy
- In the mind's eye, it's now Marissa versus MonkeyboyFunny thing that.I watched some of the MSDN Channel 9 videos recently. People like Erik Meijer, Brian Beckman, Scott Guthrie and others. Likeably, intelligent people you respect. You see them, and you think there is hope for Microsoft.Then you see Steve Ballmer,...
- Tags: Public relations, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-29
- FCC sure we're headed to Hell, ass first
- FCC sure we're headed to Hell, ass firstAhem...Yet another piece of idiotic political journalism. Where's the tech news? If you wanna be a political blogger, go elsewhere!!And by the way, public decency *is* the job of the government to uphold.Monitoring content IS in the public interestIf you want...
- Tags: Federal government, Government, FCC, decency, ass
- Discussion threads 2008-02-22
- Can nerves really regenerate?
- People suffering of injury to the brain or spinal cord cannot currently be treated because central nervous system neurons have a very limited capability of self-repair and regeneration. But now, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a potentially promising strategy for encouraging the regeneration of damaged neurons....
- Tags: Polymer, Neuron, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-01-02
- Those Gmail ads are a hoot
- Does anyone seriously look at the ads in Google's Gmail? In theory, Google scans my email and serves up relevant advertising. The reality is a bit different. To wit: In a Mozilla email update (I'm subscribed to the Mozilla Google Group) I get the following: ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Advertisement, Mozilla Corp., Reality, E-mail, E-mail Providers, Online Communications, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Increasing Field Service Productivity for Beckman Coulter
- Beckman Coulter, a large multi-national medical instrumentation systems provider, improved the security and productivity of its field service engineers with Mobility XE Mobile VPN software. Now their engineers can access critical customer information securely and remotely from hospital labs, biotech facilities, university research centers or wherever their work takes them....
- Tags: NetMotion Wireless, Mobility, Biotechnology
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Self-powered nanowires
- Many research teams around the world are building nanodevices of some kind. But these very small devices need very small sources of power to be fully functional. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC have shown that a single nanowire can produce power by harvesting mechanical energy...
- Tags: Researcher, Voltage, Yu, Voltage Generation, Team Management, Nanotechnology, Management, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-09-29
- Trippi returns as Edwards adopts a massively Internet campaign
- Joe Trippi -- the preeminent name in Internet electioneering -- is back from the desert he occupied when Howard Dean fired him as campaign manager. The New York Times reports that Trippi has slowly moved into center circle of John Edwards' campaign, displacing traditional advisors Edwards relied on in 2004...
- Tags: Elections
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- License mess Burns me up
- License mess Burns me upCommunity understandingYes, going to Court would antagonize contributors to an open source company. The penalties could be ostracism, even shunning. That's reminiscent of religious groups, but the comparison seems accurate here.In addition to enforcing conformity, though, such groups can develop attitudes strong enough to...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Red Hat Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-11-29
- Journalism of all kinds and the process of growing
- Nicholas Lemann of The New Yorker has contributed a thoughtful piece to the debate over what a citizen journalism might look like, Amateur Hour: Journalism without journalists. My guess is that the blogosphere will take it badly, minimizing the argument as another "journalism vs. bloggers" rant. It's not....
- Tags: blogger, journalism
- Blog posts 2006-07-31
- Is NSA eavesdropping legal? Judge may decide
- Is NSA eavesdropping legal? Judge may decideThe ACLU at it againThe Al Qaeda Compromised Legal Union is at it again. They will anything necessary to make sure Al Qaeda has the easiest time possible when it comes to planning and executing actions against the United States.Of course some the...
- Tags: NSA, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, phone, government
- Discussion threads 2006-06-12
- Web sites warned over photo of Jolie-Pitt offspring
- Web sites warned over photo of Jolie-Pitt offspringDisgustingOh My God! Who f'ing cares?Celebrities need to be tossed into a meat grinderI love how these underwhelming untalented self-involved twits can harp all over everybody when they don't like exposure, and then turn right around and smile, wave, and sign autographs...
- Tags: Web site development, Advertising & Promotion, Web site, Web, photograph
- Discussion threads 2006-06-07
- Police blotter: Cell phone tracking rejected
- Police blotter: Cell phone tracking rejectedFinally, Judges who know what they're doing?They reinforced the basic premise of privacy in the United States. I have no problem with the various agencies investigating a person who they have some evidence of wrong doing, but wholesale tracking is not what the...
- Tags: phone, cell phone, On-Star
- Discussion threads 2006-03-03
- More coverage from Demo 2006
- I've been sitting next to Leslie Walker of the Washington Post the last two days. She's blogging lots of the consumer demos, as is the team from News.com, Rafe Needleman and Daniel Terdiman. Shel Israel, co-author of Naked Conversations, is also busy blogging Demo, as are Mike Arrington TechCrunch and...
- Tags: blogging
- Blog posts 2006-02-08
- CoverFlow (dmg)
- Don't know about you, but I find browsing a list of album names somewhat uninspiring, to say the least. One of the big attractions of a physical album is the beautiful packaging and aesthetic appeal, something that s sorely missed with the digital equivalent. CoverFlow aims to bring that aesthetic...
- Tags: Album, Steel Skies, CoverFlow, Apple Mac OS X, Digital Music, Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2006-01-18
- Attention isn't simple and it should be
- Attention isn't simple and it should beYet another reason why I distrust online contentMost people on the Internet who do not get paid to generate content are doing it to stroke their egos. As such, much of what appears on the Internet is fanboyism, plain and simple. Jakob Neilsen...
- Tags: Internet
- Discussion threads 2006-01-09
- 'Bush' spam does not stop
- 'Bush' spam does not stopA clever ploy...To make more friends for the Democratic party. Counterproductive, no?Spam is spam is spamHopefully the senders get what's coming to them(although not likely a 9 year sentence.. http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/Prosecutor-Explains-Why-Spammer-Sent-to-Slammer-38005.html)Big spammers - RepublicansDuring the campaigning, I received tons of spam from the Republican party trying...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, spam, Kerry
- Discussion threads 2004-11-10
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