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Bulls in the corn field, beware! Ethanol from corn? Mooooo.

Those are market bulls of the two-legged sort similar to the ones currently jacking up crude oil futures. The next great investment bubble may focus on the fields of Iowa. Today's Department of Agriculture numbers on the American corn crop (the world's largest) are not encouraging for corn...

Tags: Biofuel, Corn, Corn Production, Current Estimate, Khosla, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-10

Managing Energy Consumption Costs in Desktop PCs and LAN Switches With Proxying, Split TCP Connections, and Scaling of Link Speed

A growing expense and impact of the Internet is its energy use. Current estimates are that 2% of electricity consumption in the USA goes to powering the Internet. In Germany it is estimated that energy consumption by IT equipment will be between 2% and 5% in 2010. The 2% estimate...

Tags: Desktop, LAN, PC, Information Technology, TCP, Energy, Desktop Computer, Current Estimate, Internet, Tcp/Ip, Strategy, Networking, Management

White papers 2005-08-25

1 Click Spam Shield 2.0.3 (Windows)

Current estimates are that three out of every four downloaded emails are spam. 1 Click Spam Shield helps you change that three-out-of-four statistic into one-out-of-one-hundred. 1 Click Spam Shield is a robust and powerful software application that is 99% effective in blocking unwanted email.When talking about spam, the key word...

Tags: Secure PC Solutions, Microsoft Windows, Current Estimate, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2005-03-16

Additional Resources

Deck the halls with LED

Sounds OKSounds like a reasonable idea although the cost of LED lights is quite high ($30?).lehnerus2000$30 for LED lights?We buy sets here for $15... and considering that the power consumption is so much lower that they quite literally pay for themselves in the savings on my electric bill, they're worth...

Tags: Engineering, light-emitting diode

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Headline 2010: e-Reader device failure

The market knows best, right? Markets are bloody paths to progress. At this writing there are approximately 52 e-reader devices coming to market in the next 12 months. Fifty-two different devices coming to market (Here's what I wrote about Steve Jobs' approach to reader devices when there were just 45...

Tags: E-reader, Sales, Hardware, Markets, E-books, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Updating Kindles-sold estimates: 1.072 million

your estimate is based on your old estimate?Did amazon themselves breakout their Kindle sales? If they didn't, that means it's not selling well. If they did sell a million of them they would've announced it, no? A million is the number that companies like to brag about.Even Microsoft couldn't wait...

Tags: Sales strategy, Kindle sale, unit sale

Discussion threads 2009-10-24

Intel's third quarter powered by inventory builds, back-to-school demand; Outlook bright

Updated: Intel's third quarter earnings and revenue handily topped estimates and the company said it was "confident about our business prospects going forward." Intel added that its fourth quarter revenue would come in ahead of projections. Specifically, Intel on Tuesday reported net income of $1.9 billion, or...

Tags: Revenue, Microsoft Outlook, Intel Corp., Operational Accounting, Sales Strategy, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-13

The burnout risks for E2.0 community managers

Dion Hinchcliffe's piece on community management surprised me. There is a sense that Dion is trying to lay down some ground rules in an area that is too new for anyone to draw anything other than tentative and early stage conclusions. That's not to say that conclusions are incorrect. There...

Tags: Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Let's blame addictive oil

The blame game is getting grimmer as the global warming warnings get more strident. Now comes a book pointing to petroleum as "the devil's excrement." Damn, wish I thought of that epithet. This book is Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil. Says Knopf's marketing text,...

Tags: Oil, Iran, Consumption, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-28

Dell Inspiron 14 (Intel Core 2 Duo T6600)

While many laptop buyers will gravitate toward specialty machines--such as a tiny Netbook for travel or a massive desktop replacement for gaming or video editing--there are still plenty of people who need a traditional midsize laptop. We call these 14-, 15- and 16-inch systems members of the "mainstream" category, and...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Intel Corp., interior, laptop computer, Intel Core 2 Duo, Dell Inspiron, Dell Computer Corp.

Product reviews 2009-09-23

Dell Inspiron 14 Laptop Computer (Intel Pentium Dual Core T4200, 250GB HDD, 3GB)

While many laptop buyers will gravitate toward specialty machines--such as a tiny Netbook for travel or a massive desktop replacement for gaming or video editing--there are still plenty of people who need a traditional midsize laptop. We call these 14-, 15- and 16-inch systems members of the "mainstream" category, and...

Tags: Notebooks, Intel Corp., Intel Pentium, computer, interior, laptop computer, Dell Computer Corp., Dell Inspiron

Product reviews 2009-09-23

Money Forecaster 1.4 (Windows)

Whether you're looking at buying a new house, going on holidays, or would like a better idea of your financial position, Money Forecaster can estimate your future cash balance, enabling you to make informed decisions today. Money Forecaster generates a snapshot of your possible financial future using your current account...

Tags: Financial, Income, Microsoft Windows, Clickwise Software, Money Forecaster, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Personal Finance, Finance

Software downloads 2009-08-31

Prepping for an Earning Call â€" CFO/CEO must-do’s

Several of the Enterprise Irregulars were floundering around last week trying to make sense of a SaaS vendor’s recent financial results. Several serious rounds of conversations transpired as to how these earnings numbers could be understood but I think we need to start with the process of how execs get...

Tags: Revenue, Accounting, Booking, CFO, CEO, Accrual, Operational Accounting, Software As A Service (SaaS), Finance, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-08-18

VMware's SpringSource purchase sparks head scratching; Still doesn't solve the Microsoft problem

VMware's purchase of SpringSource for $420 million has sparked a fair amount of head scratching among analysts who argue the virtualization software company paid too much and still failed to solve its Microsoft problem. Global Equities analyst Trip Chowdhry noted that SpringSource had roughly $10 million in...

Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., SpringSource, Virtualization, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Don't rely on industry averages for cost of downtime

On a weekly basis, I get at least one inquiry request from either a vendor or an end-user company seeking industry averages for the cost of downtime. Vendors like to quote these statistics to grab your attention and to create a sense of urgency to buy their products or services. BC/DR planners...

Tags: Risk Assessment, Demographics, Industry, Downtime, BC/DR, Insurance, Financial Planning, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Management, Stephanie Balaouras

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Race Pace 1.2 (Mobile)

Race Pace is a race time predictor for runners. With Race Pace you enter your best time for a race distance, then it will estimate your finish times for up to 20 other distances. Race Pace will also automatically show you training paces for your current fitness level. Training paces...

Tags: Mobile, Training, Maverick Software, Training Pace, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-08-07

Google moves to show YouTube has 'a very credible business model'

Google on its second quarter earnings call went out of its way to say it was pleased with YouTube's "trajectory" and indicated that the company would make money on the video site. The motive: Combat a bevy of worries about YouTube's profit potential. YouTube monetization has become...

Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Video, YouTube Monetization, Munster, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-17

Microsoft announces its Azure cloud computing pricing

Microsoft announces its Azure cloud computing pricingCompared to Amazon...I compared the prices with Amazon's equivalent, the results are in my blog at http://bit.ly/OT7V8. Anyway, they seem to be approximately the same, which is probably the meaning that we should have associated with being "competitive" all along.Is that a lot or...

Tags: Six Sigma, Pricing, TQM/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Microsoft Windows, Process improvement, cloud computing, Azure, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., pricing strategy

Discussion threads 2009-07-14

Botnet awakes in further South Korean attack

Botnet awakes in further South Korean attackLets ban Windows and go hard core Linux.Because we know that the hackers will give up instantly if everything was Linux. They would simply give in and go out and get real jobs.NOT.Whats the difference, Windows today, Linux tomorrow, in the long run...

Tags: SECURITY, Operating systems, Hacking, attack, Linux, hacker, Microsoft Windows, computer

Discussion threads 2009-07-10

Greenpeace Cool IT: But does GP miss the point?

Greenpeace upped the ante on the IT sector by switching focus from reporting on the environmental performance of consumer electronics to looking at how the industry as a whole is performing on climate change. Yesterday they launched their inaugural Cool IT ranking of the top 12 IT firms performing on climate change. The ranking is...

Tags: Greenpeace, Information Technology, James Farrar, Management, Strategy

Blog posts 2009-05-28