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Motorola: We're freezing pensions, 401k matches

Motorola will halt 401k matches and freeze pensions as it aims to save an additional $800 million. The company said it will freeze its U.S. pension plans effective March 1. That's no surprise there given many companies with pensions have already made such a move. Motorola will...

Tags: 401(k) Plan, Handset, Pension, Motorola Inc., Cost Cut, Handset Business, Jha, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Cellular Phones, Investment, Human Resources, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-17

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Samsung partners with NYT for Go netbook and digital subscription deal

Me - NoAssuming I were interested in paying for news (the article does not state the length of the subscription - kind of a key piece on info) I would look for the best device for me AND the best news source for me. I just don't get the bundling...

Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., netbook, NYT, advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

LinkOptimizer 4.1.8 (Mac)

Dubbed "the greatest plug-in of all time" (Glen Drake, Pindar publishing group), LinkOptimizer is a workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign. LinkOptimizer works automatically with Adobe Photoshop to: reduce the size of images linked to InDesign document by eliminating excess image data: LinkOptimizer will automatically reduce the image resolution,...

Tags: Job, Apple Macintosh, Zevrix Solutions, LinkOptimizer 4.1.8, Recruitment & Selection, Business Services, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2009-11-25

The medical home is reform without objections, so far

Medical HomeThis path is already being broken. At my company, the $56/paycheck credit for not taking a company medical insurance plan has been replaced with a $20 credit IF you participate in a company-sponsored "wellness" program. You have to have a screening on company time - weight, BP,...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Financial Planning, United HealthCare, DUI, public entity, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Research paints ugly IT employment picture: Almost 2 million jobs gone in 14 years

Depressing...So much innovation happened in America in the 90's. Alot of what we have now was accomplished by American engineers, and now we are not being included anymore because of what? Arbitrage. Sad, Sad, Sad....Of courseBecause all these CEOs and wannabe businesspeople think quality doesn't matter so...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, information technology, comeback, profit margin, job, worker

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

iTablet goes OLED,??bumped until late 2010

$2000? I doubt it.Apple puts themselves in a "premium" price range, but $2000 for a 10" tablet? Even they're not THAT crazy.No ThanksDon't need or want either, waste of space...If I want real gaming, I'd rather play real games on my PS3 or Wii on my flat screen; or on...

Tags: SunSHINE, iTablet, organic light-emitting diode, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

GIMP dropped from default Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx installation

I use the GIMPThe user interface stinks, but the GIMP is a powerful application. I use it regularly for editing pictures. F-spot on the other hand, I don't like much. I use gThumb for organizing my photos (gThumb was F-spot's predecessor in early Ubuntu versions). gThumb also allows some simple...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, GIMP, Ubuntu

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio Community Edition 6.0 (Windows)

WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio is an easy-to-use WYSIWYG builder that enables the drag & drop assembly of scalable, web and cloud applications using Ajax widgets, web services and databases. WaveMaker Studio will look and feel especially familiar to client/server developers who are used to working with visual tools. WaveMaker's Studio...

Tags: Web, Client-server, Microsoft Windows, WaveMaker, WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio, WaveMakers Studio, AJAX, LDAP, Channel Management, Portals, Servers, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-19

Disks: why size means performance

OK, Smarty pants...How do I use only the outer-most sectors of my 500GB disk?Performance != reliabilitySeagate has progressively gotten worse with reliability - that's why they cut the 5-year warranty back down to 3 years. Western Digital has made great strides with reliability though. WD isn't focussing on...

Tags: Serial ATA, SSD, SAS Institute, SAS Drives, performance, disk

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Google to demo Chrome OS; Detail launch plans

the windoze killer has arrivedChrome OS will put the final nail in M$ coffin!You really can't be seriousyou have to be a fake or something.Your posts are allways way off the mark.By like a continent or two.Windoze? Grow up, manI hope Chrome is good - because it will make...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Google Inc., operating system, Chrome OS, Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Netbooks dead? Not when sales are up 264% percent

My prediction:Intel and MS and the major brands are trying to drag the market upwards in size and cost to maintain their margins. They will shortly face a barrage of products based on ARM class processors and Linux (Chrome?), which will cost much less and have much better battery lives....

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, sales, netbook

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Life insurance may prove difficult to get if you contract H1N1

Insurance company business model:Only sell insurance to those who will not need it and hence not collect.For life insurance, they at least have a case, because it should not be possible to take out a $1M policy the day before you die of cancer.Health CARE however is supposed to be...

Tags: Financial Planning, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Personal finance, payroll solutions, H1N1 flu, insurance, life insurance, health insurance, health care

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Friday Challenge: What's your take on OS/browser market share trends?

Firefox is taking over...With Firefox the days of vendor lock-in withIE required are over, like banking sites theyare cross-platform as they should be.I use CentOS/Fedora/RHEL and use I am able todo all of my job functions and use any applicationI want without the fear of security holes andthreats from a...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, COMPANIES, Other Countries, Web browser, Friday Challenge, operating system, Mozilla Firefox, browser market share, security hole, security, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Why not pay for what works?

Lawsuits not a costly issueThat's a typical republican, politcal response. Studies have been done to show that's it's a very small percentage of overall costs in healthcare. Not that tort reform wouldn't help, it's just a small issue in the big picture.Most unnecessarly procedures are generally performed...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Betsy McCaughey

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of them

And, as servers move to the cloud, fewer and fewer will be Windows servers.When you deploy thousands, you can pay millions in licensing for Windows, and, then Windows is less stable and less secure.RE: No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of themI wonder how well those outsourced...

Tags: Servers, server, information technology, Rackspace

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Gallery: Droid vs. iPhone - battle of the screens

when people do photos like that it's kind of useless.....aren't they? you don't see it at a one to one size and you don't get a good sense of if the more pixels actually makes sense at that small size or if the iPhone resolution is enough or if...

Tags: Smart phones, iPhone Screen, Apple iPhone, Droid, pixel

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

LinkOptimizer Light 4.1.7 (Mac)

LinkOptimizer is a workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign.LinkOptimizer works automatically with Adobe Photoshop to: reduce the size of images linked to InDesign document by eliminating excessive image data.It will automatically reduce the image resolution, scale and crop the images in Photoshop according to their dimensions in the InDesign document...

Tags: Job, Adobe PhotoShop, Apple Macintosh, Zevrix Solutions, LinkOptimizer, Recruitment & Selection, Business Services, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2009-11-07

Microsoft cuts BPOS price to squeeze Lotus

Not for Smaller businessesA nice new angle to look at Microsoft's price cut. Microsoft is undoubtedly targeting the enterprise segment with BPOS, since in spite of the price cut, BPOS is complex and needs implementation support, and costs more from a total cost point of view. (Varguy reported a reseller...

Tags: Enterprise software, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., BPOS price

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Motorola and Palm; will 2009 be designated as a comeback year?

wrongwell matthew, because you have been wrong consistently about the smartphone market the last few years i would argue they are both doomed, when you like them. the pre doesn't help palm as it should regardless of critical acclaim and motorola will participate in the race to the bottom (margin...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Mobile operating systems, RIM OS, Palm Inc., Pre, GSM, Motorola Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Internet performance management makes data center consolidation possible

There are many more advantages to consolidation... Virtual switch technology... Virtual switch technology, is far faster than anything Ciscoor other hardware router vendors can push through your INTRAnet.... In the era of mashups... and multi database applications, you want internet connections that are at memory transfer speeds, not...

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, data center consolidation, data center, hub/Switch, IP, hardware, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-02