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Are Steve Jobs' management skills a corporate risk?

Are Steve Jobs' management skills a corporate risk?Claim the successes, pass the losesIt appears to work well for Apple at the moment, and if employess wish to take the abuse with the benefits, it is their choice.If the problems Apple is seeing as of late with their hardware continues, and...

Tags: Strategy, BLINDERS, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-07

Apple monster update fixes 41 Mac OS X, Safari vulnerabilities

Apple monster update fixes 41 Mac OS X, Safari vulnerabilitiesThen you haven't read much.[i]From anything I've read on these forums, which you appear to avoid reading, what they keep claiming is that there are no (well, apparently there is one now) nasty wee evil softbeasties out there doing what they...

Tags: Operating systems, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Apple Safari

Discussion threads 2007-11-14

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A British look at global warming denial

Need to use facts and make them real, not tenuous 'proofs'A lot of the debate seems to be centred around personalities and their need for acknowledgement of 'their' ideas.'I know because I am a scientist' means nothing, because to most, 'science' is just opinion, like history. It is often shrouded...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

More Apple teardowns: Fall 2009 iMac & Magic Mouse

You can watch BluRay movies via the Display Port IN. [nt][nt]Windows to the rescue!![i]Of course, until Apple releases software support, you?ll still have to boot into Windows to play movies.[/i]LOL, OS X sucks. :)LOLWhat's sad is that OS X is the best that Apple could steal!Is that the best you...

Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, mouse, Apple Inc., Pagan, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

New Apple ads target Windows viruses and headaches

Who caresIts just advertising. Its no better or worse than a laundry detergent add telling me that their soap will get my clothes cleaner than their competitor. Apple has its ax to grind just as Microsoft does and buying based on either one of their adds is pure...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Sure Windows, Apple Inc., virus, advertisement, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

News to know: SOA, Google Voice app; Twitter bots; Google Wave; Clunkers

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. Joe McKendrick: More SOA tools emerge in the cloud Jason Hiner: Forget the iPhone app, Google Voice coming as...

Tags: Google Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Jason Perlow, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Bot, Twitter, Attack, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), XML, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Virtual Machine Software Blinders

Is it me, or is it true that suppliers and organizations have become infatuated with the concept that virtualization is solely and only equal to the use of virtual machine software to create virtual servers or virtual desktops/clients/users? It seems that almost every time I speak with...

Tags: Virtual Machine, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-07

Microsoft decides not to push Windows 7E on Europe, after all

Microsoft decides not to push Windows 7E on Europe, after allI have doubts"Is there anyone who still doubts that Microsoft?s 7E plan was a stroke of diabolical genius, and designed to force the Commission?s hand ? and had nothing to do with Microsoft wanting to do the ?right? thing?" ...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows, Opera Software ASA, Web browser, Web Standard, Web Standards, Windows 7E

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

Bartz to Yahoo shareholders: Change is coming; We're not Google

Bartz to Yahoo shareholders: Change is coming; We're not GoogleBuy Buy Buy"The short answer is no. It?s not necessary to buy newspapers. Newspapers, like many other industries, need to rethink their business models. For now, Yahoo is happy to partner with them on advertising and content-sharing."I'd be looking to go...

Tags: Financial accounting, Strategy, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Bartz, Yahoo shareholder, shareholder

Discussion threads 2009-06-26

Nehalem-EX - 8 cores, 16 threads, 2.3 billion transistors, very cool!

Nehalem-EX - 8 cores, 16 threads, 2.3 billion transistors, very cool!Um, that should be good enough I guessntIntel needs to spec a backplaneIt would be nice if Intel would speck out an 8x backplane that processor modules could plug into. That way multiple manufactures could build compatible modules and backplanes.With...

Tags: Semiconductors, Processors, Servers, Network technology, Nehalem-EX, transistor, processor, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-27

The new Linux.com is open for business

The new Linux.com is open for businesslooks a little like ZDNet???"The Linux Foundation has opened the doors on its new Linux.com, a new news, discussion and blogging site which looks a little like ZDNet.Not that there?s anything wrong with that. Personally I?m flattered."Well, if that's what you think. You can...

Tags: Linux, Linux.com, Open_Source

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

Did Vietnam take open source too far?

Did Vietnam take open source too far?Communist or not......it's up to governments to determine what sort of computer software they want to use on their own systems, like any other institution does. It's not like they're forcing private individuals and businesses (I'm told that there are such things in...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, UNIX, software, open source, Communist, Linux, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-01-08

Election Day '08: Where to get live results

Election Day '08: Where to get live resultsthose are all biased toward obamawatch the real news atwww.johnmccain.comor www.foxnews.comThe rest are unreliable or in bed with the liberals.RE: Election Day '08: Where to get live resultsKudos to the first person who responded, obviously an intelligent and well informed voter. To the...

Tags: Well Let, Election Day, John McCain

Discussion threads 2008-11-04

Verizon, AT&T delivered free cell tower to McCain ranch

Verizon, AT&T delivered free cell tower to McCain ranchbecause it is a matter of national security...to provide a senior senator and the next president of the U.S. with reliable service.Just imagine the commander in chief not being able to order a strike against the terrorists in Iraq for instance.HypocriteThis all...

Tags: WIRELESS, McCains, Cell Tower, Verizon Communications Inc., U.S. Secret Service, AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-16

Microsoft should walk away from Yahoo

Microsoft should walk away from YahooMS is blinded by the thought of ad revenues.They are letting everything else suffer due to the blinders Balmer is wearing.MS has some bad times coming their way because they simply forgot what brought them to where they are.RE: Microsoft should walk away from YahooMS...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate governance, Corporate law, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-25

Vista fiasco continues with retreat to XP

Vista fiasco continues with retreat to XPVista is what squeezed me outof the MS flock. I was an avid supporter and advocate for MS right up to XP. I reluctantly went to XP Pro. Then along came WGA and false positives and Redmond telling me I needed to replace an...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Vista fiasco, ULCPC, fiasco, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Discussion threads 2008-04-04

Does open source need a Micro-cop?

Does open source need a Micro-cop?Microsoft have too much historyto be taken at face value when they say they want to play nice.The only people that believe in Microsoft are the ones who don't know very much. They've got their army of lemmings, but the enemy is a growing army...

Tags: Micro-cop, Microsoft Corp., Does Open Source

Discussion threads 2008-03-25

(Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron - Features)

(Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron - Features)No ImprovementI see its still the ugliest OS on the planet...why the screen shots it's the same GUI as every version the plain Jane ofwhy the screen shots it's the same GUI as every version. it's one of the most ugly OS's made today. i'm...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, Ubuntu 8.04

Discussion threads 2008-03-24

Measuring TCO: Wintel vs Lintel

Measuring TCO: Wintel vs LintelWhoever chooses the scenario...... can determine the results. I read some Windows comparisons on Microsoft's site in which the assumptions and requirements were obviously slanted and a report on open source in English schools that could not have produced results favoring Windows if the consultant...

Tags: ROI/TCO, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Wintel, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., TCO, Lintel

Discussion threads 2008-03-12

The Google backlash at HIMSS

The Google backlash at HIMSSNaw, its not abotu "standads"Its abotu who has the best produt and highest reliability which of course leaves Google out in the cold.RE: The Google backlash at HIMSSWhy the disdain for Cerner? I've just started reading your blog, but it doesn't seem you care too...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Strategy, HeathCare, Cerner Corp., HIMSS, EMR, Google Backlash, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-02-29