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Photos: You call that hi-def?: "High definition" has become a catchphrase for everything from mascara to fireplace logs. Here are some of the wacky things you can get in HD.; Tags: catchphrase, photograph; Image galleries 2007-03-03

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Use and abuse your Tablet PC for notetaking: There are two kinds of people out there who get Tablet PC's: 1. The kind of person who likes walking through a busy St. James Park with a Tablet PC on a sunny day, probably with a Bluetooth headset attached, talking to someone about "being very busy...; Tags: PC, Tablet PC, Microsoft Office OneNote, Tablets, Notebooks, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Office Suites, Software, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-06-22
Views from VMware's Analyst Day: Yesterday I attended a VMware analyst briefing in good ol' Beantown, a.k.a. Boston, Massachusetts. Having had the opportunity to speak with the executives of well over 120 companies offering something in the realm of virtualization technology, I came to the event with a fairly neutral viewpoint. Although I was ready...; Tags: VMware Inc., Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-06-19
Pigs is pigs and data is data: My former mentor, Curtis Meinert, was fond of telling his fellow clinical trialists that "pigs is pigs and data is data" as we wrangled over drug testing results. When I first heard the phrase at the ripe old age of 19 from this midwestern guy turned white-haired biostatistician and...; Tags: Data, RTI, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-06-17
How an Apple store was transformed into a Best Buy in 10 minutes: How an Apple store was transformed into a Best Buy in 10 minutesThat is true[i]We pay a lot for our hardware / software so we have a right to be annoyed more than people buying $400 laptops, right?[/i]I agree. When you are not dealing with the higher volumes of people...; Tags: Apple Inc., Apple Store, Best Buy Co. Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-05-22

Cloud computing: A look at the myths: Cloud computing: A look at the mythsThe clould will more expand, than disrupt computingI expect many companies will move their customer facing operations to the cloud. However, most companies will keep their internal IT, internal – for privacy, reliability, accountability, and other reasons. E.g. I don't expect you will see...; Tags: cloud computing; Discussion threads 2008-04-07
Wired: Apple is Evil/Genius: Wired Magazine's Leander Kahney has a cover story on Apple ("How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong" Issue 16.04 ) that's worth a read. Overall it's pretty well balanced and fair and has just enough edgy snarkiness to keep you reading. Kahney takes Apple to...; Tags: Wired Inc., Apple Inc., Wired Magazine, Kahney, Recruitment & Selection, Apple Mac OS X, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-03-25
Google playing politics with open source: For open source, a choice between Google and Microsoft is a false choice. Yet that's what Google CEO Eric Schmidt is offering, as when he claims a Microsoft-Yahoo combination might "break the Internet" or that the two might act against the openness of the Internet. ...; Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Business Competition, Internet, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-03-18
WSO2 expands ESB market with Apache Synapse-based, open source SOA offering: Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: WSO2WSO2, Inc. has entered the open source SOA field with a slate of veterans from Web services specifications, application server design and lightweight framework development. The company's latest offering to the market came June 11 with the arrival of WSO2 ESB 1.0,...; Tags: Enterprise Java, management, Open Source, Podcasts, SOA, SOA architect, SOA Governance, Software Development, Software Infrastructure, Web Services; Blog posts 2007-06-15
A new charge on your phone bill: A new charge on your phone billWho wants to bet it'll flop...Either A) people won't buy the phones or B) turn it off when they get in their cars.Butt ...What if you are a passenger in a speeding taxi or train? Amtrak gets the ticket? Or...?That wouldn't work for catching...; Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Amtrak, government, phone, camera; Discussion threads 2006-12-20
Can Accenture learn to love SaaS?: Accenture and its competitors — both those based in US/Europe and the up-and-coming Indian IT services and outsourcing firms — are starting to take an interest in on-demand services. Even though they must be worried about the potential impact on their established business models, they can see on-demand revenues growing...; Tags: Accenture Ltd., Saas, on-demand; Blog posts 2006-10-20
HP memo: We will take the necessary action: HP memo: We will take the necessary actionFair enough, but let's take a closer look at some talking points:* We are passionate about customers Yes. They will passionately screw us out of every possible penny they can get their hands on. Just ask anyone who owns one...; Tags: Printers, Hewlett-Packard Co., printer; Discussion threads 2006-09-09
Microsoft warns game developers of security risk: Microsoft warns game developers of security riskWorld of WarcraftThis has been happening for a long time now.Accounts been hacked into and all their gold and equipment being transferred to another character to be sold off.There are viruses/trojans that look for WoW on your computer to steal your account details.You even...; Tags: Games, Microsoft Corp., game, software, security; Discussion threads 2006-08-15
Salesforce.com releases Summer '06 - 20th generation of their CRM service: Salesforce.com is releasing the latest version Salesforce is trumpeting the SAP Connector as a key part of Summer '06 of their market-leading CRM suite tomorrow morning Monday. Nicknamed "Summer '06", the updated service adds new tools to their CRM arsenal and builds on their increasingly important AppExchange platform (essentially a...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc.; Blog posts 2006-07-16
SOA Made Simple With EGL: Service-Oriented Architecture SOA has become the catchphrase of many vendors and consultants throughout the IT industry. What is SOA? In a nutshell, SOA is the creation of small reusable components of application systems that isolate logical functionality. In addition to improving the maintainability of internally developed systems via modularization, SOA...; Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2006-07-01
U.S. to repeal long-distance phone tax: U.S. to repeal long-distance phone taxno more tax ..... yeah rightthey gonna add new ones with bigger %in the end we will pay more :(MisinformationAs usual, the press gets it wrong. The long distance tax was FIRST instituted in 1898. Then it was rescinded after that war. It was reinstituted...; Tags: Taxes, Free trade, phone, tax, Lincoln; Discussion threads 2006-05-26
Small is beautiful for Web 2.0 start-ups: Small is beautiful for Web 2.0 start-upsYou can quit the web 2.0 thing nowUgh, web "2.0"? Is ZDNet still believing that stuff?It looks likeIt looks like the web 2.0 companies will not end up as pets.com and othersThere is no big vc money wasted, for example Digg only got a...; Tags: Channel management, catch-phrase, Web, Web 2.0, Amazon.com Inc.; Discussion threads 2006-02-06
Stopping Malware: Google's catchphrase is "don't be evil," but the companies that make spyware, spamware, viruses and other malware better include Sony in that grouping basically take the opposite philosophy - "be evil - it pays." So Google is getting together with Harvard and Oxford to launch a website - stopbadware.com -...; Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, malware; Blog posts 2006-01-25
IBM Lotus bulks up Mac support: IBM Lotus bulks up Mac supportMmmmm 5.5Only rate a 5.5 today Mikey ... got try harder.Why even bother posting here..This article has 3 things that very few people care about. 1 IBM2 Lotus Notes3 MacintoshI will give you, the fact that you might hook a stray, but for the most...; Tags: Desktops, Web browsers, Groupware, E-mail servers, IBM Corp., Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer; Discussion threads 2006-01-23
Disaster Response and the Web in 2005: The Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina: The most emotionally affecting memories of 2005 were the two huge natural disasters that struck the world - and how people responded to them. In this post I will review how the Web was utilized by thousands of people to help and to deal with those...; Tags: blog; Blog posts 2005-12-20