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- GM, BMW, Daimler to invest in hybrid project
- GM, BMW, Daimler to invest in hybrid projectWe don't need that.Tell them to sell cars with smaller engines. And make that diesel.A 2.0 L diesel engine develops more torque and HP than a gasoline engine almost twice that size and will give at least 50% more gas mileage.Then FORCE the...
- Tags: General Motors Corp., Daimler, BMW AG
- Discussion threads 2006-08-11
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- Car crash on Wall Street: many injuries and heavy losses
- Not since the financial industry did a header off the high board into a mortgage pool filled with bad paper. It's been literally weeks since an American-based business sector looked this sick. I've been trying to keep up with the bloody saga of the Detroit auto makers and...
- Tags: Car, Stock, Chrysler LLC, General Motors Corp., Wall, Sales Strategy, Mortgages, Sales Force Management, Construction, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Sales, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Auto MPG in the US, per the EPA rankings: Lamborghini #1 gas hawg
- Auto MPG in the US, per the EPA rankings: Lamborghini #1 gas hawgcomparing apples and ....When you state "the least efficient car in every category is european" you fail to see that the cars listed as the least efficient connot be compared to the most efficient cars. I dont see...
- Tags: Smart Cars, Lamborghini, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Discussion threads 2008-06-22
- Chrysler outsources parts of IT to Tata
- Chrysler, which recently became an independent company after separating from Daimler, has outsourced its IT to Tata Consultancy Services TCS in "a multi-year contract" worth about $120 million. The automaker is in the process of being remade by CEO Robert Nardelli, who was technology savvy as leader of Home...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Daimler AG, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Home Depot Inc., Information Technology, Outsource, Outsourcing, Strategy, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Trying to predict 2008
- Trying to predict 2008More specificity pleaseYou say that IBM needs to get its collective head together re the SCO case. Do you have more specific recommendations on how they should proceed? After all, they appear to be winning.delay the move to PPC? what?The comment about SCO is baffling...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Free trade, Apple iPhone, PPC, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-12-31
- Support for XBAP in Mozilla Firefox is coming
- Support for XBAP in Mozilla Firefox is comingdeploy, deploy, deploy!This is exactly the right stuff from MS. Every time XBAP deployment improves in new directions be it: getting it to run in some other browser; getting the runtime size down; coming up with novel ways to reduce sandbox restrictions; reining...
- Tags: .NET, Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, XBAP, rich Internet application, Mozilla Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-03-26
- Just how bad is the first Vista security flaw?
- Just how bad is the first Vista security flaw?What a cop-out!"while the message box bug can crash Windows XP, its roots in the Win32 API dating back to Windows 3.1"So, Vista is just a bunch of re-compiled old code? Why does it cost four times more than Win95 did? Oh,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, security, Microsoft Windows, Win32, operating system, 32-bit, flaw
- Discussion threads 2006-12-27
- Novell clarifies $40M payment to Microsoft as "peace of mind"
- In a series of e-mail exchanges that started a couple of evenings ago with a notification from Novells press relations department about an open letter to the open source community from the companys CEO Ron Hovsepian, I asked Novell spokesperson Kevan Barney why, if as Novell has so vociferously claimed,...
- Tags: Novells $40, peace, Microsoft Corp., Linux, General, Open Source, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Legal, Berlind
- Blog posts 2006-11-22
- One fantasy that Bill Gates thankfully knows how to fulfill
- Against the backdrop of all the vendors whove been indemnifying their customers against this, that, or the other lawsuit, I keep telling people that its highly unlikely that vendors are going to sue you if the software you got from someone else (eg: Red Hat) infringes on a patent that...
- Tags: spyware, FTC, ERG, Security, Legal, General
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
- One fantasy that Bill Gates thankfully knows how to fulfill
- Against the backdrop of all the vendors whove been indemnifying their customers against this, that, or the other lawsuit, I keep telling people that its highly unlikely that vendors are going to sue you if the software you got from someone else (eg: Red Hat) infringes on a patent that...
- Tags: General, Security, Legal, Berlind, ERG, FTC, spyware
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
- Red Hat lawyer is right about indemnification not mattering. But for the wrong reasons
- According to a new FAQ on Red Hats Web site -- one thats primarily designed to spin the bilateral legal protection that Microsoft and Novell have assured to each other as a net positive for Red Hat -- the North Carolina-based distributor of open source software will now offer indemnification...
- Tags: General, Open Source, Software Infrastructure, Legal, indemnification
- Blog posts 2006-11-06
- Big investments, salaries to crimp Google's finances?
- Big investments, salaries to crimp Google's finances?Big investments, salaries to crimp Google's finances?Hello Google,Glad to see the dot-com bust is finally catching up to you. Soon you will see all those great benefits you once had disappear. No more catered meals, no more pool tables in the hallways. ...
- Tags: Benefits, SEARCH, Google Inc., finance
- Discussion threads 2006-08-10
- Years into case, SCO asserts copyright infringement
- Years into case, SCO asserts copyright infringementMs Funded?Is Microsoft still funding SCO? Has SCO won anything? Why are they still around?What is really odd about thisis that the the 1995 Asset Purchase Agreement is specifically excludes the copyrights while the 1996 ammendment says that Novell will only turn...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Novell Inc., SCO Group Inc., IBM Corp., CalderaSCO, Linux
- Discussion threads 2006-01-06
- Top US advertisers: GM, Procter and Gamble, Time Warner, Ford, SBC
- TNS Media Intelligence published a list of top advertisers across all media in the United States in the first half of 2005. Top advertising buyers in the United States Company 1st half 2005 1st half 2004 Change GM $1,514.70 $1,263.10 19.90% P&G $1,265.30 $1,327.20 -4.70% Time Warner $958.10 $896.50 6.90% Ford $812.10 $714.00 13.70% SBC $793.60 $856.40 -7.30% Johnson & Johnson $784.90 $642.60 22.10% Verizon $755.60 $704.40 7.30% Daimler Chrysler $743.90...
- Tags: 1St, TNS, SBC
- Blog posts 2005-10-19
- Microsoft 'enemies' make for strange bedfellows
- Microsoft 'enemies' make for strange bedfellowsImplied pejorativesMust a "common denominator" be "lowest?" Couldn't it simply imply efficiency, ease of manipulation, and freedom unnecessary encumbrances? Couldn't "without many bells and whistles" imply the same thing. Must a standard be insanely complex to earn your approval? Or...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, common denominator, denominator, Microsoft Corp., SCO Group Inc., OpenDocument Format
- Discussion threads 2005-09-26
- Mazda throws away key for USB
- Mazda throws away key for USBExactly theft by scanning and copying methods!It was so popular in eastern Europe that BMW had to come up with dynamic code change and syncing between key and car. Today it is so popular.Scanning was as easy as sitting in a car with a scanner...
- Tags: Network technology, Authentication/Encryption, Mazda Motor Corp., ATM, USB
- Discussion threads 2005-09-01
- AOL ready to reinvent itself
- AOL ready to reinvent itselfAOLNo matter what AOL does, unless they DRASTICALLY improve their technical support and customer service, they will go down the tubes.I have had problems throughout the years and at one time their tech support people simply read what they believed was the remedy from a 'problems'...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, Web browsers, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Roadrunner, America Online Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-08-02
- SCO e-mail: No 'smoking gun' in Linux code
- SCO e-mail: No 'smoking gun' in Linux codeWas there ever any question?Of course not!Be ready for SCO to go belly up here soon. IBM's gonna layeth the smacketh down now!Thanks for playing!And the MS funded SCO FUD descends into a jokeOf course it won't stop the MS fanboys and their...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, e-mail, IBM Corp., JFS, SCO Group Inc., Linux
- Discussion threads 2005-07-14
- The biggest mystery in the history of Linux
- I think it's safe to predict that future historians looking at the history of Linux will spend a lot of time muttering about the events preceeding, surrounding, and flowing from, Novell's purchase of SuSe in late 2003. Personally I'd very much like to understand what happened, but I don't have...
- Tags: SuSE
- Blog posts 2005-06-08
- The biggest mystery in the history of Linux
- I think it's safe to predict that future historians looking at the history of Linux will spend a lot of time muttering about the events preceeding, surrounding, and flowing from, Novell's purchase of SuSe in late 2003. Personally I'd very much like to understand what happened, but I don't have...
- Tags: SuSE
- Blog posts 2005-06-08
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