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Keeping in touch with students

Our AP teachers, as well as teachers of core courses related to our state testing, are scrambling right now to find ways for students to stay caught up in the face of 6 days of missed school due to the ice storm that hit a good chunk of New England....

Tags: Student, Teacher, Kids, Discussion Thread, Social Networking, E-mail, Productivity, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-12-18

Interesting OLPC discussion thread from Amazon

Interesting OLPC discussion thread from AmazonI don't care if they are a charity or a non-profit or whateverYou don't leave a person who gives you money pissed off. Ever. Without them you are nothing. It's far better to lose that one donation than to lose that person's goodwill. I say...

Tags: Interesting OLPC, discussion thread, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

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What open source can teach medical practice

Great article, Dana.You did in such a short piece what CNN, MSNBC, FOX and other media journalists failed to do: tell the story as it really is. You didn't take what was news worthy and sensationalized it, nor played up a negative reading of it to frighten those possibly affected,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, open source, medical practice, CNN

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

What if the search-index was run by a non-profit? GOOG founders once supported that idea

Soloution looking for a problemReread the tragedy of the commons. This is a bad idea. If different search companies have different businesses listed that will give rise to meta search engines that search the search engines and produce combined results in a single context.There is already a Firefox plugin...

Tags: SEARCH, search engine, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

What Intel wants in health care

Video for Intel ReaderI enjoyed your story. I work at Intel and thought it might benefit from a link to view a video I shot in San Francisco showing how the Intel Reader works http://bit.ly/2s0CYy.Copyright violation possibilitesI foresee publishers complaining that this device can be used to read books...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Personal finance, Intel Corp., health care

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

Netbooks worth the upgrade to Windows 7? Heck yes!

my thoughts"As I wrote the day that 7 launched, 'Windows 7 is just another OS.'"An article sitting at a -1 rating (out of 33 people) as I type this, and with quite a bit of Talkback discussion. Not exactly a shining pillar of truth."Most netbooks ship with Windows XP Home...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Boot-time, Waking Up, netbook, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks worth, Heck Yes

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Apple Q4 '09 earnings result - Most profitable quarter ever

moron servicemoron service, where are you?Ghost of PsystarSee? ... it just goes to show ya! If Apple doesn't get their act together and start licensing their operating system for Mac clones, there's no hope for them. How long can they expect to keep a drowning company afloat selling...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows NT, Desktops, Apple Inc., big word

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Google Wave: The Microsoft Bob of the New Millennium

Google Wave, the new and highly anticipated workflow/group collaboration mashup web application which is in limited alpha test has left me underwhelmed. Over the weekend I became one of the lucky few to receive a Google Wave invite. I was excited, overjoyed, and...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Microsoft Corp., Mashup, Google Wave, Collaboration, Wiki, Groupware, E-mail, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Dell sells discounted Zune HD before it hits stores

waitfirst thing im going to do tomorrow is head out to best buy and try this thing out. the one thing i care about a lot is the browser, if the browser is as good as safari in the iphone then I might just on this. I browse...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Microsoft Zune, Zune HD, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Apple plugs code execution, phishing holes in Safari browser

not patch tuesdayBut patch weekly is the theme for anything Apple.LOL! Because all of these were discovered and fixed......at exactly the same time. You're fooling yourself if you think Apple releases a patch as soon as it's fixed. It's no different than Microsoft except Microsoft let's you know when to...

Tags: Patches, Web browsers, SECURITY, Safari 4.0.2, Web browser, MAC security, phishing, Apple Safari, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

Microsoft: Exploits likely for 'critical' Windows vulnerabilities

Who cares if exploit code will be released in the futureAs long as it is patched before the exploits are out, the exploits no longer count. Or something like that.Cue the double standards...PS I wonder which one of these was labeled "Bulletin 3" in the pre-patch announcement? According to some...

Tags: Patches, SECURITY, Microsoft Windows, exploit, patch, Microsoft Corp., LUA

Discussion threads 2009-08-11

SOA and security: Are services the problem or the solution?

Security is often seen as a major problem for SOA but â€" and this was the thread we pursued in today’s discussion â€" perhaps this is looking at the problem the wrong way round. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Security, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-07-21

Yahoo and Microsoft: If at first you don't succeed...

Yahoo and Microsoft: If at first you don't succeed...As long as they don't ...... f up yahoo mail. I really don't care what else they do.^o^Maybe somebody can answer this for meWhy would Microsoft give some of their advertising to Yahoo? I was under the impression that search is...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 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

Will we see a Nokia Aseries (Android series) or Android Tablet device in September?

Will we see a Nokia Aseries Android series or Android Tablet device in September?I think it would be a good moveNokia really should consider migrating to Android as a platform. The reasons:1. Android is open source, so Nokia could recreate their own "user experience" on top of it (much like...

Tags: Tablets, OPEN SOURCE, tablet, thread title, Nokia Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-06

Tailoring Web technology to a bespoke dress shirt business

It's not easy to mix up the monotony of putting on a shirt and a tie every day for work, but what if the shirt was made-to-order, with details of your own choosing? Fashion startup ShirtsMyWay allows you to spruce up your tired work uniform and customize...

Tags: Web Technology, Web, Women, Denmark, Gender And Diversity, AJAX, Human Resources, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-02

A fix for Mail unexpectedly quitting in 10.5.7

A fix for Mail unexpectedly quitting in 10.5.7You had to reinstall OS X to get mail working?Unreal that any of you still joyfully claim that Macs "Just Work" while apologizing for garbage like this.RE: A fix for Mail unexpectedly quitting in 10.5.7I think the issue is Growl. Growl is crashing...

Tags: Jason, NonZealot

Discussion threads 2009-06-16

Microsoft fumbles the digital TV transition

Microsoft fumbles the digital TV transitionHas the ATSC glitch affected you?If you?re a Media Center user, has this issue affected you? Leave a comment as a reply here. (If you have another coment to make, please start a new thread) I?ll be following up with Microsoft to see if I...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Media Center PCs, digital television, digital TV transition, TV, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

Microsoft to show off new search: Will it matter?

Microsoft to show off new search: Will it matter?yeah....we're just talking about search engines, not about having a frenzied commitment against a single company taking over your life.Just a search discussion. Deep breaths. Not a Vista thread. There you go. Clueless kid!Do you even know what...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, SEARCH, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-05-20

Our brilliant kids are bored

Our brilliant kids are boredSmart kids are bored, but is this really the explanation?Smart kids have always been bored because American schools do not recognize the difference in the learning paces of children. Fast learners are not challenged by a school curriculum designed for the lowest common denominator. They...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Smart Kid, OKC, brilliant kid

Discussion threads 2009-04-15