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- Survey: Some iPod users dumping PCs for Macs
- Survey: Some iPod users dumping PCs for MacsAuthor a Microsoft Shill?From the article: "Among the factors influencing the PC-dumping crowd are ease of use, a focus on entertainment and the perception of better security."Perception of better security? How many more security holes and viruses does Windows need before we...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Digital music, Digital media, exodus, survey, Apple Macintosh, Steve Jobs, Apple Mac OS X, Intel Platform, Apple iPod, Bill Gates, Intel Corp., Apple Inc., PC
- Discussion threads 2004-11-24
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- Is That Non-Compete Too Broad?
- Is That Non-Compete Too Broad?Noncompetes are BadI spend a great deal of my time representing employees in disputes over the enforceability of noncompete contracts. Almost to a fault, these provisions are overly broad and puntitive for the employee. I also believe they stiffle innovation. We blog about noncompete...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Workforce management, Noncompete, Medicare
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- Dell tests music player to renew iPod battle: report
- Dell tests music player to renew iPod battle: reportAs much as I HATE to admit it....It sounds like Dell just might get it! Not just a device but the whole package. Now we shall see...Pagan jimNOTHING is perfectThe iPod is one elegant piece of technology. But to...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Apple iPod, Dell Computer Corp., Apple Inc., iPod battle, music player
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
- Campaign to abolish crapware
- We can soon expect a sudden influx, a mass exodus of students seeking refuge at some of the world's best universities. With this, the amount of prospective students heading to the local computer store to get a new laptop will be immense, just as years before. crapware - noun...
- Tags: Software, Laptop Computer, Computer, Norton AntiVirus 2008, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Notebooks, Management, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- AOL's ousted CEO being considered for Yahoo seat
- Can Jonathan Miller do for Yahoo what he tried to do for AOL? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Investor Carl Icahn, who reached a compromise with Yahoo this morning to avoid a nasty proxy battle for seats on the company's board of directors,...
- Tags: America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Miller, Corporate Governance, Venture Capital, Team Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Icahn, Ballmer pair up, talk Microhoo; Push to boot Yang and Yahoo's board
- Updated: Activist investor Carl Icahn and Microsoft are now in cahoots to toss Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and the company's board of directors. Icahn says in a letter that he has been chatting up Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer along with other key executives about how the two...
- Tags: Transaction, Steve Ballmer, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Icahn, Steve, Search, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Microsoft's never-ending pursuit of Yahoo: More awkward than an 8th grade dance
- Microsoft's never-ending pursuit of Yahoo: More awkward than an 8th grade danceCorporate Communism!This is an example of what I call Corportate Communism. Microsoft is showing it's anti-capitalist leanings. When companies like Microsoft can't compete in the market, they buy the competitor. Some argue that's capitalism. I...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Government, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Gov't failures: Engineering brain drain and bad leadership
- Many large-scale government technology initiatives are failing due to an exodus of qualified systems engineers away from the public sector to private industry. An in-depth analysis of the problem conducted by the National Research Council reveals the considerable impact of this problem. The...
- Tags: Leadership, Systems Engineering, Computer, CAD, Productivity, Software, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Cheat High Tech Cheaters
- Cheat High Tech CheatersOld-fashioned wayOh, heck, consider the old-fashioned way. Years ago a Japanese father got caught dressing up as a girl to take his daughter's exams that are used to determine which high school the child can enter. Of course, the best universities basically only take students...
- Tags: Laziness, Bill Gates
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Yang's recovery runway: Months to days (and board should go too)
- Yang's recovery runway: Months to days and board should go tooCould not agree more, but, that won't save Yang. He will be out soon.The MS offer and Icahn basically destroyed what was left of Yahoo.That is not what those leaving....are saying. They are making it very clear they are disappointed...
- Tags: Corporate governance, board, Yahoo! Inc., Yang, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- Pondering Apple in a post-Jobs world
- Before all of you start sending nastygrams my way about how tasteless and premature this blog post is, let me just say upfront I agonized about whether or not it should even be written in the first place, and my industry colleagues I consulted about it told me that the...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Strategy, Corporate Governance, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- News to know: Firefox 3.0; iPhone apps; Yahoo; LinkedIn; Millennials
- Notable headlines: Jason O'Grady: My most anticipated announced iPhone applications Nate McFeters: Fresh off the press: iPhoneDbg toolkit hotness Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Firefox 3.0 final - First thoughts. Gallery right Ed Burnette: Fake Firefox 3 download links may be hazardous to your...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Hewlett-Packard Co., Yahoo! Inc., LinkedIn, Web Browsers, Data Centers, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- XP era ends: Will Vista step up?
- XP era ends: Will Vista step up?All software eventually expires and is upgraded.The operating system is no different.Personally, I think that this entire conversation has been missing the point.Most people, by which I mean consumers not IT staff, don't care what operating system is on their computer. They will use...
- Tags: Service Pack 1, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- XP era ends: Will Vista step up?
- The Windows XP era ends June 30 and soon hardware vendors will be shipping you all Vista all the time in most cases. The save XP effort failed. The whining should cease. And now it's time for Vista to sink or swim. Ina Fried has a good...
- Tags: Developer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- See your potential future salaries
- See your potential future salariesHere @ MexicoInteresting post!Here at Mexico an average employed software developer earns between 12K-23K USD.And there is a lot developers out there working in US companies.Become an astronaut ...I haven't checked the website mentioned, but the basic logic shown in the blog article is flawed. ...
- Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, Web site development, future salary, salary
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- Sprint's inferno: Churn baby churn
- Sprint Nextel said Monday that it has lost more than 1 million customers in the last year. Sprint, which has been busy of late with a WiMax joint venture with Clearwire and alleged takeover overtures from Deutsche Telekom, provided a healthy dose of its financial reality with...
- Tags: Financial, Sprint Communications, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- News to know: AMD; Oil and telecommuting; Verizon's EV-DO modem; Linux
- Notable headlines: Jason O'Grady: Review: Verizon UM150 USB EV-DO modem Gallery right. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun News.com: AMD revises server road map Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How long can AMD...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Oil, Telecommuting, Sun Microsystems Inc., EVDO, Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Modems, WiMAX, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Federal Government, 64-Bit, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Components, Wireless, Government, Processors, Semiconductors
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Facebook is the new Google as exodus of top xooglers continues
- The latest high-level executive to leave Google for Facebook is Elliott Schrage, who headed the corporate communications team. When the top person responsible for Google's messaging across all products and for its international policy leaves this points to a serious change within the company. Facebook has been...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Public Relations, Business Ethics, Recruitment & Selection, Team Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Noble goals and politics at the OLPC
- The "One Laptop Per Child" project OLPC, the brainchild of Nicholas Negroponte, was envisioned as a way to bring the cost of computing down to a level where more in the developing world could afford it, either directly, or more likely, through purchases by governments and NGOs aiming to encourage...
- Tags: Software, Open Source, One Laptop Per Child Project, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- MSN Music to ex-customers: So you thought you bought that song for life, eh?
- MSN Music to ex-customers: So you thought you bought that song for life, eh?Grammar policeyou’re content -> your content unless you are content.I think that's called a call for class actiondidn't I hear attorney laughing and evluating future fees ?Come on Adrian, I'm sure you really know why."To be honest,...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Media players, MSN Music, MSN, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-23
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