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- Outsourcing backlash targets India
- Outsourcing backlash targets IndiaThere is a difference.Toyota and Honda came and built auto plants in America. And this was befor American car companines were setting up plants in foriegn countries. Indian companies will never set up shop in America and hire Americans. Why would they? Ya...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, cluelessness, job, outsourcing, fool
- Discussion threads 2004-05-06
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- Microsoft to target Windows XP Pro users with Genuine 'nagware' notifications
- Microsoft to target Windows XP Pro users with Genuine 'nagware' notificationsI don't know what difference it will makePeople who love Windows will still love Windows. People who hate Windows will still hate Windows. People who pirate Windows will still pirate Windows.RE: Microsoft to target Windows XP Pro users with Genuine...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Pro user, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- My 15 minutes with Bill Gates, and how the Web was born
- Once upon a time, when Bill Gates still flew commercial and I was a budding journalist in need of a haircut, I had a number of opportunities to interview and otherwise interact with Bill Gates. It was often contentious, always intriguing, and more often than not frustrating as well. Part...
- Tags: Web, Multimedia, PC, Bill Gates, Bill, Desktops, Hardware, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- From BIT Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- From BIT Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeContextThe reason COBOL still does most of the work today is because it has handled, is handling, and will handle simple tasks effectively on software that already exists and has been creepingly adapted to current circumstances.(You wouldn't want to quote that...
- Tags: Mainframes, Strategy, Leadership, Programming languages, Servers, IBM Corp., COBOL, innovation, information technology, Web service, business side, mainframe, Web, IBM mainframe
- Discussion threads 2008-05-23
- Apple and Business — Is it 25 Years Too Late?
- Hey, Apple's releasing the Insanely Great iPhone SDK so we can all write enterprise iPhone applications! They're going to make the iPhone compete with the BlackBerry and hook it up to corporate Exchange email servers! Whoopee! Apple has a Business strategy! Oy vey. Look,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- Office 2003 update blocks older file formats
- Office 2003 update blocks older file formatsIt's not the formats that are a security riskAs was pointed out by someone on another talkback board, file formats do not present a security risk. It's the programs that process the file contents that contain the risks. So when Microsoft says:...
- Tags: SECURITY, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., Office 2003 Update, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2003
- Discussion threads 2008-01-03
- US Government leadership in cyber security lacking
- I see that the US assistant secretary of the national cyber-security division of the Homeland Security Department addressed the New York City Metro InfraGard. His remarks are disturbing to me because the reflect a growing (continuing?) cluelessness within the US government on cyber security matters. ...
- Tags: Crime, Leadership, Cyber Security, U.S. Government, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
- How Universal Music lost touch with their customers
- There's a good read in this month's issue (15.12) of Wired Magazine about chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group, Doug Morris. Universal's CEO Once Called iPod Users Thieves. Now He's Giving Songs Away pretty much paints Morris as a technology luddite who's lost grip of what...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Universal Music Group, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Digital Music, Apple Inc., Consumer Electronics, Doug Morris, Personal Technology, Security
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Yahoo Messenger spam becomes insufferable
- Yahoo Messenger spam becomes insufferableI hate to say this, but...... this is no surprise. In past years AOL was ridiculed for the cluelessness of their users, but Yahoo! takes cluelessness to a new level. I suspect their targeted for IM spam because a) they can be, as Yahoo! make it...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Instant messaging, Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo Messenger Spam, Yahoo IM, spam
- Discussion threads 2007-11-01
- IMHO: many if not most retail salespeople are clueless about VoIP
- I regularly visit lots of consumer electronics retailers, computer-centric and office supply monoliths. Toy stores for adults of course me being an adult is debatable Although I am already set up with many VoIP accounts and gear, I like to walk up to the salespeople in the...
- Tags: Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- Guerrilla SOA leader: inch by inch, it's a cinch
- There's been quite a bit of discussion across the blogosphere around the "Guerrilla SOA" tactics proposed by Jim "World Wide" Webber, as recently articulated in a video podcast. Check out Rich Seeley's article, which presents both sides of the matter. (Yours truly had jumped in on the discussion here and...
- Tags: Leader, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-09-22
- Five new Microsoft downloads available this week
- Five new Microsoft downloads available this weekWindows Photo GalleryMary Jo, I've heard mention that Microsoft is working on an application for download that would replace Windows Photo Gallery, with a more feature rich version. What's the status of that?Searched Update Catalog for "Windows XP"And got the following:"Your search resulted...
- Tags: Windows Photo, Windows Photo Gallery, Microsoft Downloads, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-17
- Silverlight Release Candidate due before end of July
- Silverlight Release Candidate due before end of JulyRight, MS buys Novel with hundreds of millions to create a crippled Linuxversion. The talk about Silverlight on Linux is just smoke and mirrors.nobody carres about silverlightWho would want to use this plug in when it has no support on Linux?It's just an...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Nothing, Linux, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2007-07-16
- Ballmer to Wall Street: Temper your Windows Vista projections
- Ballmer to Wall Street: Temper your Windows Vista projectionsWal-street to Balmer: "We saw your Windows advert on YouTube and think youare an ape on prozac."Of course, that was from 22 years ago but what has changed? :evilgrin:Chromium Turd...as one pundit put itXP SP1.75"You can fool all of the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital rights management (DRM), Marketing research, Operating systems, Steve Ballmer, Tipping Point, Ballmers statement, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-02-15
- Reading the Times - about Intel
- As regular readers know, Im both fascinated and frustrated by the extent to which the main stream press misinforms our bosses -the non technical people who ultimately make most of the strategic technology decisions in the organizations we work for. The media reaction to last weeks announcements from...
- Tags: Intel Corp., transistor
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- AMD Quad FX slaughtered by a single Intel CPU
- AMD Quad FX slaughtered by a single Intel CPUThe future...I used to buy almost the fastest new computer. For instance my third computer was a 486 DX33 when the DX66 was the fastest made.Now I have a different attitude.Computer CPU's are not the performance bottleneck that RAM or hard drives...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Processors, Computer CPU, TCO, real estate, business system, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., CPU
- Discussion threads 2006-11-30
- Skype buttons for eBay sellers: why the message isn't getting out
- If you go to the Skype for eBay sellers page on Skype-owner eBays site, you get a basic rundown on how easy it is to add Skype buttons to your eBay auctions. Youre even told what a cool idea this is.But one thing you wont read is case histories.For...
- Tags: General, Skype
- Blog posts 2006-11-21
- Virtual insanity in Redmond
- Last week I offered my interpretation of the new licensing terms affecting the use of Windows Vista in virtual hardware.Microsoft says thats not what they meant at all. Theyve issued yet another "clarification," telling Gregg Keizer at TechWeb that "Vista Home Basic and Home Premium are not licensed for use...
- Tags: Microsofts, Microsoft Windows Vista, virtual machine
- Blog posts 2006-10-18
- Microsoft hands out 37 million shares in bonuses
- Microsoft hands out 37 million shares in bonusesmeasurable criteria?[quote]James Cash, a Microsoft director who sits on the board's compensation committee, said in a statement that the awards were set using "measurable criteria" to evaluate job performance and that their size was in line with industry practices.[/quote]Clearly not their ability to...
- Tags: Investment, KARMA, Microsoft Corp., stock, bonuse, measurable criteria
- Discussion threads 2006-08-31
- VA laptop breach victims to get free ID monitoring
- VA laptop breach victims to get free ID monitoringWhew!Boy this is great! The VA is going to hand over, after a cursory glance at the company, personal data so the company can use it for a "Public Relations Stunt".I feel better already.First I started to laughand then I started...
- Tags: Government, Social Security, Notebooks, Operational accounting, monitoring, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2006-08-10
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