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- Are the Microsoft layoffs over now?
- I hope soI hate seeing "SoandSo killing X amount of jobs" in the news =/Ballmer should be the first to get laid offHis reklessness to ignore the FOSS and cling to the proprietary model drove M$ into the ground.Q1 revenues of $13Bn generating $3.5Bn in net profit ...... would tend...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Creative accounting, Microsoft Corp., layoff
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- LHC cooled to operational temperatures
- these experiments should be abolishedthese arrogant Eurocrats are putting the world at risk and are performing acts against nature and God.Where are the greenies when you need them???The amount of power this thing is using, where are the "global warming" theorists? Why aren't the greenies upset?Hoping someone shuts this...
- Tags: LHC, collider
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- 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
- Apple's September quarter: Expect Mac unit upside
- Recent signs of PC market strength are likely to translate into a happy September quarter for Apple courtesy of Mac sales. Gartner and IDC reported that the third quarter was better-than-expected for PC sales and that bodes well for Apple. Meanwhile, NPD data is also looking good...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Analyst, Apple Inc., Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- VA now loves its VistA software
- In a VA hospital recently and watched VistA at workThe VA hospital in Omaha Nebraska handles about ten times the load of a normal hospital and every single bit of the load is possible because of their software. My sister had a big glitch show up in her medical...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), HEALTHCARE, Vista Software, Yes Vista, VA Hospital, MUMPS, hospital, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- In the aftermath of the T-Mobile Chernobyl
- T-Mobile's Sidekick/Danger Inc. meltdown has far-reaching implications for wireless carrier data integrity responsibilities way beyond any immediate remediation the company may need to offer its customers. Yesterday, T-Mobile notified all of its Sidekick device customers that a failure which occurred on Microsoft's Danger,...
- Tags: T-Mobile, Customer, Storage, Workforce Management, Disaster Recovery, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Human Resources, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- The T-Mobile-Microsoft Sidekick data disaster: Poor IT management going mainstream
- If you're a T-Mobile Sidekick user who put data, contacts and other items in the cloud we have some bad news for you: Your data is gone...probably forever. With cloud computing increasingly reaching the masses the average consumer will soon be enmeshed in the world of poor IT management. Welcome...
- Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, T-Mobile, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-11
- The Open College Textbook Act of 2009
- ProfsWhat will the profs who force everyone to buy the latest edition of their own $125 textbook do now?Probably still the same thing.RE: The Open College Textbook Act of 2009You do know that this act will severely curtail the research that could lead to new curricula and textbooks?Why? It's because...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, textbook, Open College Textbook Act
- Discussion threads 2009-10-02
- If open source were a monopoly
- As always thoughtful, Dana. But there's a related problem..Open Source projects are notoriously bad a promoting the unpopular decisions. As such you can see open source as a form of populism.If someone wants to do a clean break - the sort of break which move technology forward - you will...
- Tags: Open Source Project, open source, fork, Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- Interesting things I've been briefed on lately...
- NetSuite, CA, iTrade Network, Meridian Project Systems, UC4, Project Open,.... NetSuite has some new financial consolidation/planning functionality in their SaaS solution. It permits global firms to handle currency conversion. Adaptive Planning’s software is at the core of this solution. This technology does not currently use...
- Tags: Food, Open Source, Information Technology, NetSuite Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., iTrade Network, Meridian Project Systems, UC4, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-09-15
- The ultimate guide to scareware protection
- Throughout the last two years, scareware fake security software, quickly emerged as the single most profitable monetization strategy for cybercriminals to take advantage of. Due to the aggressive advertising practices applied by the cybercrime gangs, thousands of users fall victim to the scam on a daily...
- Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Web, Search Engine, Antivirus, Malware, Social Engineering, Security Software, Search, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-13
- Microsoft granted stay of Word injunction
- RE: Microsoft granted stay of Word injunction Still thieves not "innovators".failed to live up to his role as "gatekeeper"...In English, that translates to "We lost, therefore somebody must have cheated." Microsoft as a company clearly believes that it simply can do no wrong. They must have attended the...
- Tags: Word processors, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, I4i, Word injunction
- Discussion threads 2009-09-04
- Is your supply chain gonna kill you?
- Jason Busch has an excellent post: Friday Rant: Beyond SarbOx -- Waiting for the Big One to Hit . I'm betting few people want to talk about this particular hot potato. Please don't choke on your early morning coffee. He says: Then as now [when SarbOx was enacted], companies...
- Tags: Supply Chain, International Financial Reporting Standards, Audit, Jason Busch, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- Should the anonymity shroud be lifted online?
- Social Network Sites = FOOLS!ONLY fools put private information on a Public_Domain that is anybodies data once it is there...All of these people will regret spewing all of this data all over the Internet where it will reside forever in cache on servers.....Plus the google search that keeps searches FOREVER!!!enjoy...
- Tags: INTERNET, Vertical industries, industry organization, government
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- Financial Services Firm Boosts Productivity and Customer Satisfaction With New System
- ValMark Securities' insurance business was handicapped by an inflexible third-party Agency Management System AMS. Managers were forced to use a report database populated with day-old data to run the business. When customers contacted the company expecting the reps to have the most up-to-date information, the data lag sometimes frustrated customers....
- Tags: Financial Service, Customer Satisfaction, Microsoft Corp., ValMark Securities, Insurance, Financial Planning, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Marketing, Software
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- SCO Group wins Unix copyright appeal
- I see M$ dirty fingerprintsThis BS decision is the result of M$ FUD and dirty money paid to SCO to continue annoying the FOSS and Linux in particular.Prove itI bet you cant!Was that before... or after you adjusted your tinfoil hat? Take your meds dude, it's for your own good.A...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Unix, SCO Group Inc., Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-08-25
- Health insurance is an oxymoron
- Meaningful reformOne. Allow insurance companies to offer any kind of plan they want ranging from catastrophic to "we'll pay for pimples," and price them accordingly. Eliminate the requirement that insurance companies have to cover pre-existing conditions without being able to charge higher rates.Two. Lower the costs of being in the...
- Tags: Financial Planning, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health insurance, insurance, health care, insurance company, personal responsibility
- Discussion threads 2009-08-25
- What really happened to Wikipedia
- Well, not quite.:-) Nice piece.I'd question that the influx of money (which is still trivial - a few million dollars is NOTHING to run a top 10 website) has anything much to do with the processes such as the living people's bio policy. One is the Foundation, the other is...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, Wikimedia
- Discussion threads 2009-08-25
- Google Books sued by a pig, cat and dog
- LosersThis just underlines how pathetic these lawsuit-hungry companies are in hoping to cash in on what Google has created. They couldn't come up with a business model to monetize these works so they sue someone who has figured it out.Anti-capitalism at its best.4 legs good; 2 legs betterRight, Amazon?Bunch of...
- Tags: Strategy, Litigation, KARMA, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Archive.org, Google Book
- Discussion threads 2009-08-21
- When Consultancies Feel the Pain of Recession
- Phil Fersht, an AMR analyst and blogger, wrote yesterday about the bad year that major outsourcing consultancy TPI is having. He went further and checked with other consultancies about how they are doing. In short, he found that some firms were doing more outsourcing consulting and some less. But, he...
- Tags: Recession, Consultancy, Phil Fersht, Managed Hosting, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
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