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A big day for Apple - and Steve Jobs

A big day for Apple - and Steve JobsTwo things...1) Either they intend to have a fit and hale Steve Jobs prancing about the stage to regain investor confidence.2) They're going to announce they have a DRM free deal with the other three big record labels.Maybe both.Otherwise it's a yawnfest.RE:...

Tags: Callahan, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., big day

Discussion threads 2008-09-09

Yahoo's Callahan parses his testimony

Yahoo's Callahan parses his testimonyIt all just depends . . .. . .on what the meaning of "is" is.Our Elect Officials spend half their time seeing how finely a hair can be split . . .why is anyone surprised that other people are learning the same lessons . . ?

Tags: Callahan, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-11-07

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Google's Chrome OS: A threat to Intel and the rise of ARM chips

Google's Chrome OS: A threat to Intel and the rise of ARM chipsBut does it run Flash?I figured I would chime in since people feel that it is the OS writers issue to provide Flash compatibility - witness all the users griping about lack of FLASH in the Iphone, Android...

Tags: Operating systems, gmail, ARM, Google Inc., operating system, Intel Corp., Google Chrome OS, Google Chrome, chip

Discussion threads 2009-07-09

Yahoo's China "police informant" role sparked a $47.5 billion slide in market value

The anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests recalls the courage of the Chinese people and the vicious response of the Chinese government. It also recalls the gutless behavior of Silicon Valley tech companies towards the Chinese government in pursuit of profits rather than morals. Many are guilty...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Shi, Government, Vertical Industries, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Telecommuting nightmare: Workers use mobile devices 2 to 6 hours per week in bed, survey says

More than 1 in 4 employees are so tethered to laptops and smartphones that they can't resist taking them to bed with them before sleeping, according to a small survey released today. According to the survey, 57 percent of people who work in bed do so between...

Tags: Mobile, Telecommuting, Mobile Device, Survey, Worker, Marketing Research, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-05-19

Ubuntu as slick as Win7, Mac OS X

Ubuntu as slick as Win7, Mac OS XFrothy how the heck are you ...Linux still need polish but if this article has any merit it's a much needed in the right direction.Ubuntu will be puting more price pressure on Windows as it gets morepolished, and more people know what Linux...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Linux, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-04-24

Sun to IBM: We're willing to talk again; Big Blue not interested

Sun to IBM: We're willing to talk again; Big Blue not interestedI hope IBM know what they're doingIf they play chicken with Sun to get a bargain on the yummy pieces, they still risk throwing Java into years of uncertainty and customer defection. And that'll hurt part of IBMs business...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Financial accounting, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, stock

Discussion threads 2009-04-16

Bartz announces new management structure at Yahoo but offers no details

update below with details of the new management structure Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz announced a management reorganization this morning in a blog entry titled "Getting our house in order" but offered no specifics on who's in and who's out. What we do know - via an SEC...

Tags: Team, Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Bartz, Team Management, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-26

Guess who

Guess whoThe God MonitorsCan I have 2 plez!!!!!! I want to use them as monitors for my PC!!!!! Yes really Could you imagine TWO!!! 80 inch monitors!!! You could sit 50 foot away an still sell it clearly:)Sigh . . .Went to their website - and with NoScript on, you...

Tags: Monitors & displays, sky box, virtual sky box, organic light-emitting diode, monitor

Discussion threads 2009-02-21

How cut the nation's health care bill 12%

How cut the nation's health care bill 12%wellnessno smoking, no alchol, no beer, no bigmacs no fried foods, slipery slop, ya what else do they wantoh yea removed anyone over the age of 50 perfect world - get a real jobStressStress adds to obesity.Many factors cause stress.Instead of entering the...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Food & Beverage, Dana, health care, insurance, food

Discussion threads 2008-10-31

Microsoft's plan to block Linux on laptops

Microsoft's plan to block Linux on laptopsHow in the heck did you reach that conclusion?Somehow I missed how MS will "block" Linux on laptops from the writeup. I assume you're implying that XP is so desirable over Linux that charging less than $30 is a slam dunk. ...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Notebooks, Microsoft Corp., Linux, laptop computer, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

Yahoo! heroes instead of zeroes in stand against MSFT but not against Chinese repression

Yahoo's rejection of Microsoft's offer smacks of a face saving attempt by its management and board to look heroic following its despicable behaviour in China. MSFT is very likely going to prevail with its acquisition since it seems to have the support of Yahoo's largest shareholders. Yahoo's...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., MSFT, Shi, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-02-17

The Lantos/Yahoo! legacy

Tom Lantos may have made his very last stand for human rights last November when he recalled Yahoo! executives to challenge their earlier testimony surrounding the Shi Tao case. Shi Tao is a Chinese activist serving ten years in prison on trumped up charges and Yahoo! stand accused of handing...

Tags: Coalition, Yahoo! Inc., Shi Tao, Policies And Procedures, Internet, Strategy, Human Resources, Management, James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-02-12

Yahoo settles with dissident families, but it may be responsible for hundreds of arrests

Yahoo has settled with the families of two Chinese dissidents it helped put in a Chinese prison. Terms of the deal with the families of Shin Tao, Wang Xiaoning and Yu Ling weren't announced, according to Reuters. "Plaintiffs and defendants hereby jointly stipulate to...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Litigation, Free Trade, Business Operations, Finance, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-13

Yahoo settles with jailed Chinese journalists

Updated: Yahoo has settled with two Chinese journalists that were jailed after the company turned over their online information. According to the Associated Press, Yahoo settled a lawsuit with two journalists and a family member. They sued Yahoo after its Yahoo HK subsidiary gave Chinese authorities emails...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Internet, Litigation, E-mail, Business Operations, Online Communications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-13

Yahoo! and its looming hiring crisis following despicable acts in China

Can moral "pigmies" and "police informants" attract the best and brightest talent? Just in case you missed it, last week Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang and its chief lawyer Michael Callahan were called to Washington DC to explain to lawmakers why Yahoo! helped the Chinese government arrest...

Tags: Hiring, Yahoo! Inc., Shi, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2007-11-10

Yahoo's Callahan parses his testimony

Business Week has a copy of Yahoo GC Michael Callahan's far right written testimony to Congress, in which he explains his February 2006 testimony and why it was not a lie. In my testimony, I stated: "When Yahoo! China in Beijing was required to...

Tags: Testimony, Yahoo! Inc., Business Week, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-06

Yahoo takes a drubbing in Congress

Jerry Yang offered this promise after an all-morning grilling in Congress, as blogged by Declan McCullagh: "We will take more responsibility both morally and ethically." Yang and Yahoo's top lawyer, Michael Callahan, were summoned to Washington Tuesday by...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., U.S. Congress, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-06

Rep: Yahoo lied to Congress about Chinese journalist

Yahoo lied to Congress last year about its role in the arrest of a Chinese journalist, Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) charged Tuesday. Lantos said Yahoo general counsel Michael Callahan lied when he told a House panel that Yahoo had no information "about the nature of the investigation" by Chinese authorities...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., U.S. Congress, Tom Lantos, Security, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-10-16

China crackdown on media as Congress investigates Yahoo

Every five years China's Communist Party Congress takes place and in celebration the government engages in repression of dissent and dangerous thinking. Wednesday, China crackdown on “false news reports, unauthorized publications and bogus journalists,” the New York Times reports.A journalist was given a one-year prison sentence and a $130...

Tags: China, Yahoo! Inc., Media, U.S. Congress, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-08-16