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- Patch Tuesday heads-up: Critical MS Office patches coming
- Office for Mac also affected...So where are the rants from Windows zealots who scream blue murder every time there's a patch for possible exploits of iTunes on Windows?Oh, that's right, faulty Microsoft software on OS X must be Apple's fault. Forgot that.Critical bulletins for Vista and Windows 7Vista/Server2008: 1 bulletinWindows...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, patch management, Microsoft Office, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, marketing, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Google Wave: Has potential, but let loose too soon
- Open sourceKeep in mind that the code to developers is completely open source. If someone wants to make their own wave software or use the real time HTML 5 support for something else.Besides this is just a preview of the basics. Open to only 100,000 people, you can't expect much....
- Tags: Google Inc., developer
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- Stunningly poor quality predictions about the future Internet from Google's CEO
- Sounds nitpickyI don't think Mr. Schmidt had time to include all types of disclaimers or footnotes to his predictions, it wasn't a research paper as far as I know. I can apply the same type of nitpicking to your writing.For example, citing "teenagers" is simply a easy way to describe...
- Tags: INTERNET, poor quality prediction, quality prediction, future internet, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- Print and online ad revenues plunge at New York Times Co.
- Their losses will continue, and it's not because of a bad economyThe company said that there was some sign of an improving economy and that fourth quarter losses should be lower than in the most recent quarter.That's some good spin. However, their losses and that of the MSM started...
- Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Sales force management, online advertising, New York Times Co., advertisement
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- KFC UNThinking at the UN
- Honestly, the professional PR brigade never cease to amaze me with some of the nuttiest ideas for brand enhancement that all too often turn out to be just the opposite. My ZDNet colleague Jason Perlow was spammed today by a top PR agency with...
- Tags: Brand, KFC Corp., UN General Assembly, Yum, Branding, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Apple iMac 27-inch
- If we could, we'd take points away from this iMac simply because by giving it a 27-inch display Apple threatens our livelihood. You don't need our input to simply walk past the 27-inch iMac on a store shelf and recognize that it's the largest all-in-one currently available, and that it...
- Tags: Desktops, Apple Inc., screen size, Apple iMac
- Product reviews 2009-10-21
- Brickbats over bricks
- Some more input from CalStar on their pending entry into the building materials market. I had asked about who set the standards for what is a "brick." The answer from CalStar: "ASTM is not the gatekeeper for new products - national and local building codes are....
- Tags: Brick, Standards, CalStar, ASTM, Ash Brick, Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Tweets on Bing: Watch out for more noise, more clutter in search results
- They are that desperate huh?Never suspected things were that bad at bing.the last thing i need...The last thing I need when I,m trying to look something up is a bunch of meaningless tweets by twits. Hopefully there will be an opt-out so one does not get flooded with garbage....
- Tags: search result
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- How to jailbreak the iPhone 3GS
- Why does Apple persistI am amazed the game of cat and mouse Apple users must play to get a phone that they can do with as they please. The same people who openly criticize Microsoft for all and sundry, but the beloved Steve Jobs whom it appears must own their...
- Tags: Smart phones, Pwnage, Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., jailbreak
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- VA now loves its VistA software
- In a VA hospital recently and watched VistA at workThe VA hospital in Omaha Nebraska handles about ten times the load of a normal hospital and every single bit of the load is possible because of their software. My sister had a big glitch show up in her medical...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), HEALTHCARE, Vista Software, Yes Vista, VA Hospital, MUMPS, hospital, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- 2010 BMW 650i Convertible
- Every year we look forward to an updated BMW 6-series, and every year BMW tweaks a few things, but neglects the exterior design. We reviewed a 2009 BMW 650i Convertible earlier this year, and found the 2010 model to be much the same car. The new BMW 650i Convertible uses...
- Tags: BMW AG, car
- Product reviews 2009-10-09
- Salesforce.com Plays In the Enterprise - Again
- Back in 1999, I was a salesforce.com user and at that time, it was a rather kludgy sales force automation application that didn't do much right - for example if I tried to export a .CSV file it gave me an .XLS file and vice versa.  I read something by Marc...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Accounting, Financial, Sales Force Management, Sales Force Automation (SFA), Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Apple leaves Chamber of Commerce in green dispute
- The Washington Post reports that Apple Monday pulled out of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because of its criticism of plans to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in the U.S. Apple Vice President Catherine Novelli notified the Chamber of the company's displeasure in a letter, writing "Apple supports regulating...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Senate climate bill must lure more support to pass
- That's not my conclusion, BTW, but the main sponsor of the newly proposed Senate bill on energy and climate change, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) admits she does not have the needed votes to pass her bill. But she's working on it. That could mean weeks or months of...
- Tags: Bill, U.S. Senate, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-02
- Saying goodbye to OpenOffice.Org
- RE: Saying goodbye to OpenOffice.OrgMS Office appears to be a really expensive trap. Your solution: Softmakerhttp://www.softmaker.comSuperior compatibility with all MS versions. No bloatware. Simply solid German engineering.If this came from a credible author I would be confused too butMr Kusnetzky has an habit of interspersing his zdnet stream with...
- Tags: goodbye, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice.org
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- More schools using SocMed: are we asking for trouble?
- I noticed an article this morning out of The Oregonion, not for any particular nostalgia for my days growing up in the Pacific Northwest, but because the headline in my RSS feed caught my eye: "Schools use Facebook, Twitter to get out their message." Well sure they...
- Tags: School, Twitter Inc., School District, Social Media, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms 1.2.1 (Mobile)
- The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms provides succinct and often witty explanations of almost twelve hundred terms, covering everything from the ancient dithyramb to the contemporary dub poetry, from the popular bodice-ripper to the aristocratic masque, and from the social realism of Stalin's era to the magic realism of Gabriel...
- Tags: Mobile, Term, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-09-28
- Pay to play: The vendor / analyst mating dance
- Analyst Liability?Could you imagine if a customer held an analyst liable if their review/recommendation was markedly different than the customer's experience? I know your Devil's Triangle theory would make it near impossible to "pin" it on the analyst review, but it is an intriguing idea given the "mating dance" you...
- Tags: Pay-to-play
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- Genachowski unveils 5th and 6th principles: net neutrality and beyond
- FCC adding 5th element to net neutralityI pray this will stop Yahoo from telling the do not support LINUX. I do use windows on another CPU--grandson, but primary is UBUNTU. Thanks. An astonishing show of good senseFCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is displaying an astonishing -- I am tempted to say...
- Tags: Federal government, FCC, Net Neutrality, Genachowski
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- Could Internet filtering cause more harm than good?
- A rational blog from ZackA welcome surprise, but perhaps for once, in your area of expertise ;-)You've made some good points. Pedophilia is nothing new and before the Internet pictures, magazines, videos and films were used instead. Just as criminal, just as prosecuted, as are a number of...
- Tags: Internet, Internet Filtering, government
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
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