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Drew's lawyer asks for dismissal of conviction

Drew's lawyer asks for dismissal of convictiondrew's did the crimee did the crime let him do the time and dont let him off he dersives to go to prisonRE: Drew's lawyer asks for dismissal of convictionPlain and simple, Drew needs to be held accountable for her actions and...

Tags: conviction, dismissal

Discussion threads 2009-01-09

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Climate scientists saying global warming trend is worsening

Pardon me while I yawn. This is the same bunch (climate change chicken-littles) that brought the hockey stick graph and pimped out statistics. These folks have been exposed as corruptand fraudulent, driven by ideology and not science. By continuing to treat them as anything other than worthy...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Ubuntu Karmic Koala launches to mixed reviews

Not released yetKarmic koala hasn't been officially released yet and the bug that this article was talking about has been fixed for the official releaseMultiple hard drives issue already fixedThe problem only affected the 64-bit version of the release candidate, and it has apparently been fixed for the final release.wowwow,...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Karmic Koala, Dana

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Gunnar Optiks Legend eyeglasses reduce eye fatigue; $79

This is not a review, it's a press releaseNot a single line of your review provides anything beyond basic product statistics and parroting of this company's fakey-sounding terminology, for example the "polymer in a 'neoscopic' geometry." Ooh. That must mean something important. Consider my critique as a proprietary "multi-angular tatterization"....

Tags: Monitors & displays, ToyBox blog, Gunnar Optiks Legend

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

RFI Human Resources 2.01.80 (Windows)

RFI's Human Resources package is a cost effective business solution to the common problems of personnel for both large and small companies. Why? Do your employees have the latest policy manual or employee handbook? How much effort do you need to document employee performance? How about setting goals for employees?...

Tags: MBA, Human Resources Inc., Microsoft Windows, RFI

Software downloads 2009-10-01

The democratization of IT

Get your head out of your paradigm"democratization of IT"... are you serious? Look at any complex multipolar situation in the world and you'll see that when there are diverging forces, democracy is a liability.Iraq... competing religious factions turned the idea of democracy into a joke.The Palestinian territories... Democracy resulted in...

Tags: Quality, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

Partly cloudy: Google's Gmail goes down; outage chronicled on Twitter

Users are complaining on Twitter techmeme that Google's free Gmail e-mail service is down. TheNextWeb reports that Dutch news service NU.nl had to remove ads served by Google-owned Doubleclick because they weren't loading. We could only verify the...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Twitter Inc., Outage, TC, UTC-4, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-01

How bad will swine flu be, really?

The pendulum between panic and dismissal regarding H1N1 "swine" flu has swung back to panic. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: H1N1 Flu, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-08-26

Psystar wants your questions for Apple depositions. Seriously.

I've heard people talk about trying a legal case in the press, but this takes it to a whole new level. It's deposition time in the on-going legal battle between Apple and Mac clone maker Psystar.  And to make things fun, Psystar is soliciting questions that it...

Tags: Deposition, Apple Inc., Psystar, Blogging, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-14

Are Steve Jobs' management skills a corporate risk?

We all know that Apple CEO Steve Jobs is a revered figure in the consumer electronics industry for pushing the envelope and getting filthy rich doing it. But does the magic of Apple product success hide a poor business manager? ...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., CEO, Bill Taylor, O'Grady, Consumer Electronics, Leadership, Personal Technology, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-07

News to know: Google Books, Yahoo's Search Pad; CrunchPad; 99-cent netbook; Psystar; SAP war chest

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Richard Koman: DOJ confirms Google Books investigation Sam Diaz: Can Yahoo steal the search throne from Google with Search...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo Search, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, SAP AG, Apple Inc., Video, Psystar, Sam Diaz, Netbook, Corporate Communications, Projectors, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Open Source, Marketing, Hardware, Components

Blog posts 2009-07-07

Psystar seeks Chapter 11 dismissal, vows to "battle Goliath"

Psystar seeks Chapter 11 dismissal, vows to "battle Goliath"Care for a Pystar?, Oh no, PearCFYI, source story:[b] PearC Mac Cloner Expands to France, The Netherlands, Belgiumposted by Thom Holwerda on Sat 4th Jul 2009 00:40 UTCIconNow this is interesting news that hit my inbox at 2:22 AM (don't ask)....

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Operating systems, PearC, Psystar, Chapter 11, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-07-06

Psystar seeks Chapter 11 dismissal, vows to "battle Goliath"

Just as you thought the story was coming to a close, there's yet another interesting twist. Florida-based-clone Mac-maker Psystar is not only seeking to have the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case dismissed, the company has also vowed to continue to "battle Goliath." by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Psystar, Bankruptcy, Florida-based-clone Mac-maker Psystar, Litigation, Personal Finance, Business Operations, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-07-06

MySpace suicide conviction tentatively overturned

It looks like Lori Drew - the too-involved-in-her-daughter's-social-problems mom whose MySpace fraud led 13-year-old Megan Meier to kill herself - will go free after all. A federal jury convicted Drew last year on three misdemeanor counts of computer fraud. But on Thursday, the judge in the case tentatively threw out...

Tags: Computer Fraud, Computer, MySpace, Productivity, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-02

Apple's secret society

It's well known that Apple is one of the most secretive companies in silicon valley, if not the world but at what point does that secrecy adversly affect products, or worse, become illegal? Like most technology companies Apple requires all employees and contractors to sign strict non-disclosure...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Apple PR, Public Relations, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Human Resources, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-06-23

Gartner: Nine ways to measure SOA success

Why do we do SOA? My pal Steve Swoyer just published a piece over at Visual Studio surfacing a Gartner observation that many companies may have fallen into a "herd mentality" when it comes to SOA. That is, they do SOA because everyone else seems to be...

Tags: Gartner Inc., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-05

With Wave, did Google jump the (Microsoft) shark?

With Wave, did Google jump the Microsoft shark?From what I've seenwave will only be of interest to bloggers and teenage girls. Others will try it, become bored, and leave it, much as many other so-called innovations long left by the wayside.As far as being Microsoft like, I don't see that,...

Tags: E-mail, Strategy, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-29

You Were Never 1.0, but get ready for Enterprise 2.0

Guest editorial by Andrea Baker Let's face it, it's probably true. Your business is deeply married to email. You never read a blog until the past year at least with some regularity. And you probably don't know what a discussion page is on a wiki. ...

Tags: Team, Employee, Collaboration, Blog, Social Media, Business, Enterprise 2.0, Tool, Workforce, Andrea Baker, Productivity, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-04-29

Pirate Bay judge is member of Copyright Association

Pirate Bay judge is member of Copyright Associationthat judge is a joke redo the whole processWith some one impartial and honest.This whole thing is farce is should be seen as is ...... there no legal ground when you judge is before its start already sold to one...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Pirate Bay, Copyright Association, RIAA

Discussion threads 2009-04-23

Digital storm of protests for New York Times defense of AIG bonuses

Andrew Ross Sorkin, a reporter at the New York Times, took a contrarian position on Tuesday, writing an opinion piece that defended the multi-million dollar bonus payments by AIG. . . . If government officials were to break the contracts, they would be “breaking a...

Tags: China, Journalist, Journalism, Yahoo! Inc., American International Group Inc., New York Times Co., Taxes, Free Trade, Wiki, Personal Finance, Recruitment & Selection, Financial Planning, Finance, Online Communications, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-03-18