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- Guest blog - A lesson in compassionate capitalism
- Guest blog - A lesson in compassionate capitalismIt's happening everywhere.Nobody wants to be in business or make a transaction unless they make a killing, not just a reasonable profit.I have nothing against making money, but when your greed hurts others, like the Starbucks managers and employees, I think it's time...
- Tags: Retail, Blogging, Investment, Food & Beverage, Starbucks Corp., compassionate capitalism, capitalism, blog
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
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- Might Office be where Microsoft gets socked with Chinese antitrust charges?
- Might Office be where Microsoft gets socked with Chinese antitrust charges?So now removing your own product is anti-competitive???[i]limiting consumer choice by restricting the availability of Windows XP on new PCs[/i]What? Seriously... what? Was Chevrolet being anti-competitive when they stopped making the Camaro?Besides, if you believe all the anti-Vista FUD, I...
- Tags: Corporate law, Microsoft Corp., antitrust, Microsoft Office, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Been to Staples lately?
- Been to Staples lately?Another thing I like about Staples......no restocking fee on computer gear and other electronics.Absolutely the right answer.Not necessarily Staples, just the idea of going shopping for what you need. We waited for a projector bulb for 3 months as our tech dep't waited for the state...
- Tags: Staples Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Jobs: App Store is huge; iPhone has a kill switch
- Jobs: App Store is huge; iPhone has a kill switchWhere are real journalists when you need them?Mr. Jobs also glossed over the fact one of the most useful apps, if not THE most useful, was booted off the AppStore presumably to appease AT&T. Netshare, which allows you to tether your...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Hacking, job, Apple Inc., App Store, Apple iPhone, kill-switch, Steve Jobs
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- DVB-H and government overreach
- DVB-H and government overreachData formats are not part of a business model.They're used by software whose sale generates revenue. Just as the OOXML debate was about market share, so the Microsoft changes in data format were the result of the company's ability to provide unique features the public wanted....
- Tags: Strategy, DVB-H, government, DVB-T, business model
- Discussion threads 2008-08-08
- Do 4 in 5 of us want real health care reform?
- Do 4 in 5 of us want real health care reform?Universal not a good idea . . .Universal health care is not that good of an idea - the taxes can really kill an economy, and there's no guarantee the quality will be any better.We simply need a better idea.Remember...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Universal Health Care, health care, insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-08-08
- Will the $12 computer pwn the $100 laptop?
- Will the $12 computer pwn the $100 laptop?Will it pwn the XO? No, and here's why...the XO and what MIT is cooking up here serve two totally different purposes and audiences. The XO is for teaching children how to collaborate, create content, and learn with a computer. MIT's proposal will...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, laptop computer, CherryPal C100, computer, $100 laptop
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Schoolyard antics take Microhoo drama to new level
- Schoolyard antics take Microhoo drama to new levelMS is doing their dangdest to disrupt and destabilize the number 2competitor. Don't think it is working very well though. The AOL thing is also a stinker. Just leave the guy alone.85 percent of Shareholders back Yang . . . Did I hear...
- Tags: Schoolyard, Microhoo, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-01
- When will textbook publishers get a clue?
- When will textbook publishers get a clue?I buy all my books onlineI mostly use half.com, which is part of eBay. But there's also:http://www.allbookstores.com/This is an aggregator, so it searches a bunch of sites.Here's how much you can save: My "Advanced Suse Linux" book retails for $146.95 at school...
- Tags: Wiki, Linux, Microsoft Office, textbook, Textbook Publishers
- Discussion threads 2008-07-28
- Government, markets and regulation
- Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...
- Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Guest blog - A lesson in compassionate capitalism
- I've mentioned Dean's Beans a few times recently, probably because too many late nights of thesis-writing this summer have me fixated on caffeine. Regardless, Dean Cycon, the company owner and a local guy doing business a couple towns away from me here in central Massachusetts, offered to write a...
- Tags: Blog, Starbucks Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Amazon's S3 outage: Is the cloud too complicated?
- Over the weekend Amazon's S3 storage service was down for an extended period and a bunch of Web 2.0 sites lost avatars, images and other items on their sites. Since enterprises haven't totally jumped on the bandwagon Amazon's outage didn't have broader ramifications. But Amazon's latest outage--the second big one...
- Tags: S3 Inc., Web, Amazon.com Inc., Outage, Om, Cloud Computing, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Confirmed: Apple files suit against Psystar
- Confirmed: Apple files suit against PsystarThis may end the US based Mac clonesBut it is a big, big world and other countries don't honor the US's laws. I would not be feeling to secure about my overseas markets if I was Apple.Adrian, the hater of PsystarHe seems to have a...
- Tags: Psystar, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- Enterprises still not getting full benefits of open source
- Enterprises still not getting full benefits of open sourceQuestionYou say:"The real problem, it seems to me, is they don’t understand the nature of support in an open source world. It’s a mutual process, a matrix, combining your own efforts, those of vendors, and those of communities which may include competitors.The...
- Tags: Blogging, Self-Reliance, open source, communism, benefit
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- Should free broadband be neutral?
- Should free broadband be neutral?It should remain free or it shall be replacedIt should remain free, but most likely greed will prevent this for some time. Smutty content like spam should be penalized but not taxed.Telcos would love to profit by regulating bandwidth. Now this is not what capitalism...
- Tags: Taxes, Government, Network technology, Broadband Internet, Federal government, Socialism, broadband, tax, Internet, FCC
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- Top 10 things Michael Arrington should do to protest Microsoft's bad behavior
- Top 10 things Michael Arrington should do to protest Microsoft's bad behaviorCorrect me if I'm wrongFrom what I understand, MS has [b]zero[/b] power over Yahoo stockholders. MS made an offer, the board rejected it, and some major stockholders believe the board made a mistake. To say MS and Icahn are...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Financial accounting, Now Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., Arrington, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Michael Arrington, board
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- Microsoft's never-ending pursuit of Yahoo: More awkward than an 8th grade dance
- Microsoft's never-ending pursuit of Yahoo: More awkward than an 8th grade danceCorporate Communism!This is an example of what I call Corportate Communism. Microsoft is showing it's anti-capitalist leanings. When companies like Microsoft can't compete in the market, they buy the competitor. Some argue that's capitalism. I...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Government, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Yahoo posts Icahn scoreboard; Touts Google pact to shareholders
- Yahoo posts Icahn scoreboard; Touts Google pact to shareholdersCome on Yahoo!Show the money grabbers that the company is worth more than M$'s dollars!Yahoo should just DIAF... I'm almost sure this will go down as a huge failure of fiduciary duty of the board towards the shareholders . Also, Who would...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Yahoo! Inc., shareholder, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- WALL-E: Steve Jobs meets Al Gore
- WALL-E: Steve Jobs meets Al GoreApple's Jonathan Ive helped with robot designApparently Apple's lead designer Jonathan Ive helped with the design of the futuristic robot Eve.Fortune magazine:" A call from Stanton to Jobs in 2005 resulted in Johnny Ive, Apple's behind-the-scenes design guru, driving across the San Francisco Bay to...
- Tags: Robots, Noah, Wall-E, Stanton, Steve Jobs, Al Gore, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Canucks freaking over Rogers iPhone rates
- Canucks freaking over Rogers iPhone ratesYou should see how much Rogers charges for cableThey do like their high prices. With the Canadian market being only 10% of the size of the US market, the level of competition between sellers is not the same as the US.For that matter, you should...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Rogers, Rogers iPhone, Canucks, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-06-28
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