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- The open source way to truth
- The open source way to truthJournalism vs Blogging...A call for us to write more. I think there is a lot of writing (I BLOG primarily at http://digital-copyright.ca ), so volume of information isn't the issue. The job of the journalist becomes more like the job of a librarian...
- Tags: Blogging, downsizing, non-FLOSS, open-source way, FLOSS, Google Inc., open source
- Discussion threads 2007-07-10
- A Fast downsizing Video Transcoder for H.264/AVC With Rate-Distortion Optimal Mode Decision
- This paper focuses on the mode decision and motion selection problem when H.264/AVC video streams are transcoded in spatial resolution. A fast downsizing transcoding scheme is developed in which a new Rate-Distortion (R-D) optimal mode decision mechanism presented for high speed transcoding as well as high coding efficiency. A model...
- Tags: Downsizing, IEEE, Mode Decision, Workforce Management, Human Resources
- White papers 2006-06-05
- Full Application of Business Application Assets and Know-How, for a Smooth downsizing
- Tomita Pharmaceutical, Ltd. herein referred to as Tomita Pharmaceutical undertook setup of a new mission-critical system that can support both Web and mobile environments, while making the most of the business application assets they have used over the years. For the rapid migration of their mission-critical system to the Web,...
- Tags: Downsizing, Business Application, Hitachi Ltd., Pharmaceutical Company, Migration, Mission-critical System, Storage, Hardware
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- How good is the VA?
- The Best Care Anywhere. That's the headline the Washington Monthly gave its 2005 feature on the Veterans Administration, in a story written by Phillip Longman. Much of the controversy generated by my first posts on this subject involved that question. Just...
- Tags: Veteran, Health Care, Tommy Bass, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Yahoo employee Twitters his layoff
- Being laid off stinks. Amid all the announcements and clinical discussion about downsizing at Yahoo it's easy to forget there are real people losing jobs. Here's a Twitter account of one Yahoo employee's walk of shame to the layoff zone, the laptop confiscation and other D-day happenings....
- Tags: Layoff, Yahoo! Inc., Laptop Computer, Workforce Management, Notebooks, Human Resources, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Yahoo lowers its outlook for 2008; Sees 'headwinds'; Restructuring in Feb.
- Yahoo's fourth quarter results Tuesday were better than expected, but the company's outlook for 2008 disappointed. Meanwhile, Yahoo didn't deliver layoffs as many prognosticators were expecting, but CEO Jerry Yang said a workforce review and a targeted "jobs realignment" will begin in February. First the good news...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Agreement, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- Yahoo going on a diet?
- The blogosphere is busy with rumors of Yahoo laying off up to 20 percent of its workforce Techmeme, which numbers about 12,000. Silicon Alley Insider reported from a source that the potential layoffs are tied in part to Yahoo's stock performance: The "list" is reportedly the...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Layoff, Stock, Yahoo! Inc., Blogosphere, Workforce Management, Investment, Strategy, Human Resources, Finance, Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-20
- The Microsoft fact in Illinois
- The Microsoft fact in IllinoisIt all fits.Software from a single vendor known to work together well. Or, All Microsoft, all the time. No bits and pieces, and software "known" to be comfortable to users supplied without great difficulty to central IT.That's making the "problem" of IT go away.As...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Strategy, Novell Inc., IT IS, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-26
- SOA, seen through the lens of the economy
- I just finished my keynote speech to this week's SOA Congress being held in Mainz, Germany, in which I which covered the top 11 trends that will shape SOA during 2008. Bad economy -- SOA saves. Good economy -- SOA adds revenues One trend...
- Tags: SOA, Economy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- Sony PlayStation 3 (40GB)
- There's general agreement that Sony stumbled out of the gate with the PlayStation 3. Months of intense hype were followed by a late launch (fully a year after the Xbox 360) and a staggering $600 price tag for the deluxe model. Even worse, the PS3 didn't have any real must-have...
- Tags: Game players, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony Playstation, Sony Corp.
- Product reviews 2007-11-09
- DHS mailing list melts down due to config error
- DHS mailing list melts down due to config error. . .and those are the "professionals"Yet another argument for downsizing of government!
- Tags: DHS mailing list, mailing list, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Discussion threads 2007-10-08
- Is SOA a code word for 'downsize'?
- Is SOA a code word for 'downsize'?Downsize.... I don't think soI don't concur at all. A re-architecture like this SOA is going to take at least 10 years even assuming major commitment and to be done properly, will require great investments in training and quality.I take the argument, if you...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, code word
- Discussion threads 2007-09-07
- Simplifying the enterprise: the next big thing
- One of the key messages to come out of the recent Workday financials launch is the notion of modeling the business from the business reality perspective rather than the accounting oriented approach that typified many so-called ERP implementations of the 1990s and early 2000s. In the ensuing discussion among my...
- Tags: Financials, ERP, Workday, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-08-22
- Scientists claim to break light-speed barrier
- Scientists claim to break light-speed barrierSeems unlikelyMy physics background is very distant memory but I have to wonder if they are just assuming that the photons took the scenic route. If the photons aren't reflected as expected, why would you assume that they are refracted as expected?Only one thingWe...
- Tags: barrier, metric system
- Discussion threads 2007-08-16
- iWeb: Apple's stillborn application
- iWeb: Apple's stillborn applicationTranslationIt really sucks that iWeb isn't a commercial quality web publishing package. After all, I paid $15.80 for it.iLife '08 gets very mixed reviewsiLife '08 seems to gather a lot of negative press because of odd changes, strange omissions, radical shifts (iTube,I mean iMovie) and bugs iWeb....
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Channel management, Workforce management, Apple iWeb, Apple iLife, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-15
- The 'isms' of the Desktop/Browser war and why the web community should engage the desktop more
- Simon Morris puts an interesting spin on the evolving world of Rich Internet Applications by giving us all some 'isms' to subscribe to as we try to find the path of light in a world that is constantly changing and being influenced by many, many different parties that all have...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Pearl "2"; lighter but better camera
- Gizmodo reports the BlackBerry Pearl 2 will be even smaller, than the existing Pearl lines.How much smaller? 8mm in depth and 30% less than the current Pearls.The goal is to compete with the Motorola RAZRs.The downsizing of the form factor won't have any effect on the Pearl 2 camera....
- Tags: BlackBerry Rumors, BlackBerry Pearl
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- China's new weapon: Low executive pay
- China's new weapon: Low executive payMaybe We Will Be Competative Once AgainOn the one hand, if these foreign CEOs succumb to the greed that US executives have, the US will once again be able to compete on cost as the foreign companies will be saddled with the huge overhead costs...
- Tags: Benefits, Workforce management, Home Depot Inc., salary
- Discussion threads 2007-06-04
- Massive IBM U.S. Global Services layoff on the horizon?
- Robert Cringley writes that has friends as IBM, and they are telling that IBM is going to drastically reduce Global Services headcount in the U.S., cutting more than 100,000 this year. Currently, IBM has about 350,000 employees across 170 countries. Cringley referred to this gradual downsizing as project LEAN: ...
- Tags: Outsourcing, IT Management, IBM, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Data center cooling: The bright side comes in 2011
- Data center cooling: The bright side comes in 2011We are extremely inefficientThe tons of software companies pitch their new software package.. but.. it must run on a standalone server.... jeesh... We have a TON of servers here running one, two or three apps and use 5% of the processing power...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, Servers, Mainframes, Blade servers, Utility computing, Main Frame, data center, server, mainframe
- Discussion threads 2007-04-27
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