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- A winning business plan for 'Second Life'
- A winning business plan for 'Second Life'The Reality of Second LifeWhat Linden Labs isn't talking about are the continual problems in Second Life - many of them created by a lack of control in their own source code.Yes - a significant number of residents are building and creating and involved...
- Tags: Second Life, committment
- Discussion threads 2007-02-21
- More on the Google Foundation
- I recieved an email from Steve Langdon, a Google spokesman, that aims to help clear up what was said in the press release, and was later brought to the attention of my readers in the post "Google Foundation no more?". I thought I would share his response so that...
- Tags: committment, Foundation, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-02-02
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- Google makes small change in search box size
- I thought something looked different..I thought it was just the zoom setting on IE. I dislike the change - the original size was best. If a user wants it bigger - they can zoom in or whatever.Time to switch to BingAlso dislike the change.And links open in a new windows...
- Tags: Construction, Web browsers, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- IT service levels: Time to drop your standards?
- IT service levels: Time to drop your standards?Drop Standards?We have done the exact opposite. We are no longer relying on metrics to be the sole sum of our SLAs. Our new CIO is meeting with all management and asking two questions. 1) What are we doing well?...
- Tags: Quality, Copiers, VOIP, standards, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-03-03
- Hands On: The BlackBerry Storm
- First off, a warning: Be very skeptical of any review you read in the next 24 to 48 hours that proclaims to be the definitive word on the Blackberry Storm. While clearly I have my own early impressions, the Storm is so different than any other smartphone...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Phone, Screen, Network, Verizon Communications Inc., Customer, Video, RIM BlackBerry, Plan, Blackberry Storm, E-mail, Handhelds, Keyboards, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- HTC Touch Pro from Sprint available next week
- I've had lots of experiences with the HTC Touch Diamond and think it is a wonderful device for those who like touch screen devices, but I still prefer to have a hardware keyboard. HTC and Sprint just officially announced the launch of the HTC Touch Pro that will be available...
- Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Sprint Communications, HTC Touch, HTC Touch Pro, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Matthew Miller, GPS, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- Adding up Sun's pieces
- Adding up Sun's piecesFocus on the small businessIf Sun wants to monetize their strategy have a separate sales channel focus on the SMB's that don't have deep pockets and entrenched technology and are willing to listen when someone says there is a better cheaper way of doing things.Sun has too...
- Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, Servers, Murph, Sun Microsystems Inc., stock, server
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22
- 10 reasons for IT failure
- 10 reasons for IT failureThe number one reason...I still say the number one reason for failure is the mind set that in some magical way IT project management is different than other diciplines. (Engineering projects as an example.)One of the short comings I see in most curriculum for computer...
- Tags: Strategy, Project management, information technology, IT Failure
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Laptop makers adopt 3G Gobi chipset
- Laptop makers adopt 3G Gobi chipsetI have Gobi Software I use for SCSCI applications.It will be interesting to see just how the product does a lan-connection. Really, I want a laptop and this is silly though it is a year committment not the five more dollars that hit me with...
- Tags: Chipsets, Notebooks, laptop computer, 3G, chipset
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- IT salary survey: Not all technical certs created equal
- IT salary survey: Not all technical certs created equalNo Apple certs?I wish some Apple Certs were in this survey :-)RE: IT salary survey: Not all technical certs created equalCerts aren't needed. A 4 year degree, wide ranging experience, and continuing education are all that are needed. This is...
- Tags: Quality, Strategy, certification, technical cert, IT Salary Survey, information technology, Apple Certs
- Discussion threads 2008-03-06
- Google Sites - spoiled by usability issues
- Google Sites - spoiled by usability issuesAnother exampleJust another example of google rushing out pre-Alpha product onto public.Damn, when i see google do like this, it makes me think - what the F are all the ppl inside google doing!? 90% of the products stay in Alpha and Beta...
- Tags: Wiki, Howlett, Google Inc., Google Sites, usability issue
- Discussion threads 2008-02-28
- HD DVD post-mortem: why did Toshiba fail?
- HD DVD post-mortem: why did Toshiba fail?It's all contentWhichever way the studios went, that would be the future. Toshiba was depending on the lower cost of both production and consumer machines to sway the studios, and from a money standpoint, it seemed logical.But the counter by Sony to put...
- Tags: HD DVD, Consumer electronics, Hindsight, storage, HD-DVD, Toshiba Corp., disc, DVD, Sony Corp., disk
- Discussion threads 2008-02-19
- New 2-year contract required for iPhone upgrade? Some confusion reported at retail
- There seems to be some confusion, and some confliction (hey, if Colbert can invent words, so can I) about whether or not upgrading to a 16 GB iPhone while in the middle of your current AT&T Mobility iPhone contract will require that you sign a new two-year dealie. ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., ATT, Telecom & Utilities, Corporate Governance, Sales Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- A look back at the mobile devices of 2007
- As I mentioned in my previous post containing the 10 most visited and most discussed blog posts, HTC devices and the Apple iPhone were very popular topics in 2007. I wanted to follow that post up by taking a closer look at the mobile device hardware I had a chance...
- Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Mobile, T-Mobile, Mobile Device, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2007-12-28
- AMD lets Spider platform out for holiday season
- AMD lets Spider platform out for holiday seasonWhat a waste of slots for having four video cards...Try fitting 4 dual-slot video cards as you'll need ThermalTake Armor+ for that. It comes with 10 expansion slots.AMD is putting all their eggs on ATISeems like AMD's CPUs aren't making many waves and...
- Tags: Video cards, Corporate communications, Games, radiosity, card, video card, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., GPU, video, game
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- Apple's Leopard delay: Parsing spin
- Apple's Leopard delay: Parsing spintaking one for the team"But if you take Apple at its word–that the Leopard's QA team went to iPhone–then maybe the mobile software will be alright."I see no reason not to take Apple at its word here. The iPhone, for all intents and purposes, is a...
- Tags: Now IT, Apple Mac OS X Leopard, Leopard, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-13
- (Photos: Nigerian students power up their laptops)
- (Photos: Nigerian students power up their laptops)What an excellent programWhen you consider the committment these people make to education, it kind of saddens me because of educational complacency in the US. All of those dedicated to this program deserve kudos.great stuffhopefully just the startWonder how long it will takefor them...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, Food & Beverage, laptop computer, computer, Nigerian student, food, photograph
- Discussion threads 2007-04-11
- Windows vs. Unix: the resolution
- Windows vs. Unix: the resolutionThere is nothing new under the SunHuman nature and behavior is very complex, though not actually a microsoft guy, but you can not actually blame Microsoft for seizing all the oppurtunity available to it. If the writer has similar situation will he not utilize it? if...
- Tags: Operating systems, Linux, Microsoft development tools, Programming languages, Microsoft Corp., Unix, marketing, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-03-22
- Inside the $100 laptop's security spec
- Inside the $100 laptop's security specWow....I am thoroughly impressed by the attention being paid to the security aspects of this project. Not that I believe the security will be bulletproof for the $100 laptop (any more than it is for $1000 laptops), but it shows a committment to success...
- Tags: Notebooks, project concept, laptop computer, $100 laptop, security
- Discussion threads 2007-02-07
- Office 2.0's monopoly networks
- Office 2.0's monopoly networksWhat about the rest of the world?It seems as if most of the US has access to 24/7 internet. Not so in the rest of the world. Most of Africa and Asia still use dailup. MS will lose a massive share of the international market when they...
- Tags: Office 2.0, monopoly network, server
- Discussion threads 2006-10-12
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