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- CES 2009: No 'touchy feely' in Palm VIP lounge [day 4]
- After yesterday's press conference, attendees were given passes to Palm's VIP lounge to see their new Pre and webOS in the flesh. Logically speaking, I got excited to give you, readers, a hands-on impression of the device and OS. Well, guess what: Palm says no "touchy feely"...
- Tags: Palm Inc., Smart Phones, Instant Messaging, Managed Hosting, Operating Systems, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Online Communications, Software, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-01-09
- The Gupta choice
- The Gupta choiceWe are doomed.Why stop at an obesity tax? Why not a risky sex tax? You know, all those questions they ask you when you give blood? (Have you ever, even once, had sex with another man?)We could have a risky behavior tax. Do you...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, thought police, tax, cigarette, obesity tax, fatty, risk
- Discussion threads 2009-01-07
- Seagate crams 329 gigabits of data per square inch
- Seagate crams 329 gigabits of data per square inchNo longer buy Seagate.After failures of about 1 out of every 10 drives within the first year I have had it with Seagate SATA drives. I still run their SCSI's and haven't had a single failure.I have a friend that works for...
- Tags: Seagate Technology LLC
- Discussion threads 2009-01-05
- FOXNews apparent victim of Twitter phishing attack
- FOXNews apparent victim of Twitter phishing attackReally?I never knew that Bill O'Reilly was gay? Wow you learn new things on the internet everyday. Stupid attacker couldn't even get the damn name right. Probably some fool that heard from someone else that they hated O'Reilly so they hate...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, SECURITY, Twitter phishing attack, apparent victim, Twitter phishing, FoxNews, phishing, attack, Twitter
- Discussion threads 2009-01-05
- FOXNews apparent victim of Twitter phishing attack
- By now everyone knows about the phishing scam that started attacking Twitter over the weekend. And most everyone else knows that a majority of those accounts have been harvested and are using DMs to push people to potential drive-by-malware sites. It appears that the attackers, however, had...
- Tags: Twitter, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-01-05
- 30GB Zunes go on strike for New Year
- 30GB Zunes go on strike for New YearEven you must admit...that a hardware failure, such as a hard drive, is not the same as a firmware update that contains a time bomb.Did you buy the puck green one?Never heard of a mass failure of iPods, so this certainly is a...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Loverock, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2008-12-31
- Key Economic Indicator: Homeless in San Francisco Feeling the Strain This Holiday Season
- The economic displacement from the current downturn has been severe on the professional classes of Silicon Valley. Many of the majors are ramping up redundancy programmes and trimming pay and benefits. This can come at a heavy toll on the financial & emotional well being of real people and their families. Sometimes the results are even...
- Tags: Family, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-12-22
- iGeneration 2008 in review
- I started on this blog, a nervous and precarious young man, and remain somewhat a young man. To be honest, I'm surprised I've been here this long, let alone seconded onto another blog. Still, it's been an interesting year and I'll run through some of them in a minute. So...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Blog, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Post, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Blogging, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- Is Palm's upcoming New-ness CES event related to the Nova OS?
- Is Palm's upcoming New-ness CES event related to the Nova OS?should have gone with AndroidThey're late in the game and will need to catch up. Better yet, they would need developers, and there aren't many left after Android. If this is their PALM style running linux, than they...
- Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Palm Inc., New-ness CES event, New-ness CES, upcoming New-ness CES event, Nova OS
- Discussion threads 2008-12-15
- Climate vagaries and the zdnet time machine
- Climate vagaries and the zdnet time machineInformation sources and observational dataThought I would give some information sources for the "other side" on the debate with the IPCC:The Heartland Institute's environment page: http://www.heartland.org/suites/environment/index.htmlIcecap: http://icecap.us/ BTW they have an article saying some Democrats want to delay implementation of Obama's cap...
- Tags: Relative Humidity, Gore, climate model
- Discussion threads 2008-12-13
- Detroit reaches dead end unless White House intervenes
- Detroit reaches dead end unless White House intervenesYes.They lost on the smaller cars mandated by CAFE standards to get their fleet mileage up, and made up for it on the higher end SUVs, etc. Given the wages and benefits, it is impossible to make a small car here in...
- Tags: car market, Well HERE, car, dead end, White House
- Discussion threads 2008-12-12
- Yang: Layoffs 'very hard,' 'very necessary'
- Yang: Layoffs 'very hard,' 'very necessary'The hard pounding of Yahoo continuesYang would have to prove to me that he is legally Yahoo.Well gee, Jerry, how much have you sacrificed???Have you given up any of your bennies to show the rank and file that you share their pain?No? Hmm. I didn't...
- Tags: Workforce management, layoff, Yang
- Discussion threads 2008-12-10
- IBM Linux-OpenOffice Desktop offering - history repeating
- IBM Linux-OpenOffice Desktop offering - history repeatingOS/2 was the best OS...ever written at the time. It would still compete with anything MS has ever written. It was fast and you couldn't crash it. Even if you tried.You mention XP has its limitations. What are they?If anybody is planning on encroaching...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, desktop, IBM Corp., Linux, distro
- Discussion threads 2008-12-09
- News to know: Microsoft; Linux failure; Mac clones; Chip shortfalls
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Does the Windows 7 team have too much Apple envy? Readers weigh in Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Argentinian Mac clone makes an appearance ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Chip, Linux, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Wiki, UNIX, Desktops, Open Source, Network Technology, Software, Apple Mac OS, Online Communications, Hardware, Networking
- Blog posts 2008-12-09
- The Pride of Fargo
- The Pride of FargoGem is owned by Chryslerhere's their site: www.gemcar.com
- Tags: Fargo
- Discussion threads 2008-12-08
- The Pride of Fargo
- Today I spoke with an executive at GEM, the maker of NEVsneighbrohood electric vehicles. The firm is in its eleventh year and has put about 40,000 little electric vehicles onto the streets and low-speed roads of the U.S. and Canada. They're made in Fargo though most sales have...
- Tags: Vehicle, GEM, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-08
- Pepsico Saved from Suicide Campaign by Twitter?
- It's not easy to push consumer products these days as discretionary spend dries up and advertising channels become ever fragmented. Understandable then when corporations are seduced into more edgier terrain by their creative agencies. And yet where trust and sustainability is at a premium, its hard to figure how BBDO convinced Pepsico to cross the line...
- Tags: Advertisement, PepsiCo, Suicide, Twitter, BBDO, Christine Lu, TBWA, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Apple: You're a fool if you believe our ads
- Apple: You're a fool if you believe our adsfine line probably crossed . . ..between puffery and lies but maybe they get off technically with their legal $$$ but the more interesting question . .why is Apple 'puffing' so heavily at all? Shouldn't something 'so cool' just sell itself...
- Tags: Apple Inc., advertisement, fool
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- Has technology evolved our language beyond recognition?
- You pick up your Blackberry in the morning because your notebook has a virus. You connect to your cloud storage and retrieve a few documents to store on your drive, and grab yourself a cup of Java. I get emails every day, mostly ordinary commentary from like-minded...
- Tags: Legend, RIM BlackBerry, Virus, Computer, Internet, E-mail, Productivity, Cyberthreats, Notebooks, Handhelds, Online Communications, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
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