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- Why China can't compete in IT services, yet
- Why China can't compete in IT services, yetChinese IT Tech SupportWhy not get the chinese to do your IT support since cost is the only consideration not service or customer satisfation. Dell, Microsoft, IBM and many other industry giants proved that cheap Indian help desks provided less than adequate...
- Tags: Help desk, Call centers, Chinese IT, worker, IT services, Cooling Fan, information technology, American Corporation
- Discussion threads 2005-02-03
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- Forget the damn Linux netbooks. Can Windows replace Windows?
- My esteemed ZDNet colleague Ed Bott, God bless him, wrote a very insightful piece in which he discusses Taiwanese PC mainboard and component manufacturer MSI's challenges of selling Linux-based versions of their netbook, the Wind U90. Apparently, according to MSI, Linux-based versions of their netbook are...
- Tags: MSI, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments
- I realize Advanced Micro Devices has some news in the offing this week that likely will supersede the urgency of this blog's content, but I wanted to recount some high points from a conversation I had about two weeks ago with Larry Vertal, the company's senior strategist when it comes...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Larry Vertal, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Forrester: There's really no such thing as "green IT"
- News flash. In a recent report called "Is Green IT Your Emperor With No Clothes?," market research house Forrester is advising IT managers to forget about the notion that there's any such thing as TRULY green technology. Yes, folks, it's part of that green tech backlash that we've all been...
- Tags: Asset, Green Technology, Information Technology, Green IT, Forrester Research Inc., Energy Consumption, Asset Management, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- Enterprise 2.0 and business collaboration
- Update: I hit "publish" before the article was completely finished, so I've added some images and updated some links. I can't pull the post without it leaving a trail behind it, so I may as well just own up now and say, "whoops, sorry". GroupSwim Collaboration, in...
- Tags: Security, Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0, Wiki, Collaboration, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- My growing hatred for calculators
- Is it just me, or are graphing calculators overly complicated? I've never been a big fan of calculators; I think they're a crutch on which most kids in the States rely far too heavily. However, when used correctly, they can certainly be a fine tool for automating tedious...
- Tags: Student, Interface, Spreadsheet, Productivity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Amazon, open the Kindle before Apple eats your lunch!
- Amazon, open the Kindle before Apple eats your lunch!The lack of features is a featureThe Kindle is actually eating Apple's lunch. By offering no features other than the ability to read books, the Kindle is doing what Apple typically does best: offer fewer features at a greater price. The Kindle...
- Tags: E-books, Corporate communications, Games, Monitors & displays, Amazon.com Inc., E-Ink, lunch, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Toshiba: Feel free to trade in more gadgets. Lots more.
- Toshiba: Feel free to trade in more gadgets. Lots more.Dealtree partnerHave past experience with Dealtree. Be very careful, as they have a bad habit of lowering the value of your trade on everything. Traded in 3 desktop systems plus a LCD monitor and they devalued every one of them by...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, Desktops, Feel Free, Toshiba Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Is Apple out of ideas?
- Is Apple out of ideas?At this point they might not need muchApples' greatest growth prospect lies in computers, due to its smaller market share. There's a lot of room for growth there. Within that market, Apple has been able to cement a reputation, especially with consumers, of very good...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Obama releases iPhone campaign tool
- CNET colleague Stephen Shankland discovered a neat way that Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign is using technology: political recruiting, direct to your iPhone. Styled much like his iPolitics-looking website, the tool has several features: one feature "organizes and prioritizes your contacts by key battleground states, making it...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Tool, E-mail, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, GPS, Online Communications, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- SAS invests big in green tech for Cary campus
- If you've ever been for a visit to software developer SAS in North Carolina, you already know that they have one of the most unique corporate campuses of any high-tech company with daycare, multiple fitness centers and a dry-cleaning facility all right on site. (They've also got their own television...
- Tags: Green Technology, Farm, SAS Institute, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Denon AH-NC732
- Bose has managed to persuade thousands of people to spend large sums of money on the company's QuietComfort 3 and QuietComfort 2 noise-canceling headphones. That has emboldened companies such as Denon--which can leverage its own highly respected brand--to come up with its own pair of $300 noise-canceling headphones. Alas, Denon...
- Tags: AH-NC732s, headphone, Bose, Denon
- Product reviews 2008-10-01
- Google talks efficient data centers
- Google is known as a search titan, but its real business is running data centers. On Wednesday, Google handed out a few key tips as it touted its data center efficiency and sustainability efforts. In a blog post, Google's senior vice president of operations Urs Hölzle outlined...
- Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- The 'Social Media' Conundrum
- I'm fascinated by '30's depression era attempts to foster business innovation, not least because of the financial challenges that seem likely to dominate our coming years. Surprisingly I've found The Rotary International Club is in many ways a precursor to the looser social media movement which has been a feature...
- Tags: Marketing, Social Media, Brian, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Samsung Omnia
- Photo gallery:Samsung OmniaAlong with the RIM BlackBerry Bold and Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, the Samsung Omnia is one of the most requested and sought after smartphones of 2008. Why all the buzz? It's not so much the Omnia's touch screen that's drawing attention (after all, we've seen it in the...
- Tags: Smart phones, Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung OMNIA, OMNIA, touch screen
- Product reviews 2008-09-30
- (Photos: The Ford Model T turns 100)
- (Photos: The Ford Model T turns 100)one correctionThe model T first ran on alcohol. John Rockefeller was making kerosene for heating and lighting, and gasoline was a useless byproduct. He was literally dumping it into a river at night.Then he realized there could be a huge market for this stuff....
- Tags: Ford Model T, alcohol, Ford Motor Co., photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- India's outsourcing bubble is bursting
- The collapse of top US financial firms is causing a dramatic slowdown in lucrative contracts among outsourcing companies in India--turning cities like Bangladore inside out. Bangalore, India--Once a high-flying tech hub, Bangalore is seeing more sober days in the wake of the credit crisis. It looks like...
- Tags: India, Bangalore, Indian Institute Of Management, Outsourcing Company, Wage Increase, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, outsourcing, jobs, skills, Saritha Rai, silicon.com
- News items 2008-09-30
- Busy week for Microsoft: Silverlight and jQuery
- I'm traveling so I wasn't able to chime in on the availability of a Silverlight release candidate. One of the most important thing for developers is that it sounds like this will be the last round of API tweaks so there will be no more updating your applications. Silverlight.net has...
- Tags: Developer, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Silverlight.net, Silverlight 2 RC, AJAX, Strategy, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Management, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Gauging the ThinkPad: Before (IBM) and after (Lenovo)
- Gauging the ThinkPad: Before IBM and after LenovoI'm deeply dissapointedI've bought a business Thinkpad T61 for a premium price one year ago, hoping for the best of their product line. A few weeks ago their update tool pushed a BIOS and graphics card update to fix the famous overheating issue...
- Tags: Notebooks, System Spec, Lenovo Group Ltd., IBM ThinkPad, laptop computer, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Gauging the ThinkPad: Before (IBM) and after (Lenovo)
- Has Lenovo lost whatever mojo the ThinkPad had? That simple question raised a lot of discussion at TechRepublic and it's worth pondering. The problem: Gauging Lenovo's performance depends on a lot of anecdotes with few concrete answers. As background, John Sheesley asked a simple question: Has Lenovo...
- Tags: Consumer Reports, IBM ThinkPad, Lenovo Group Ltd., IBM Corp., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
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