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Get smart about skills today for tomorrow's jobs

Get smart about skills today for tomorrow's jobsnice thoughts, but...The jobs you describe will go to Asia, mainly to India.The only jobs that makes sense for ordinary people are some form of hospice nurse to wip the arse of some older Americans who still have the money to pay for...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, Get Smart

Discussion threads 2009-01-08

Fixing Windows Vista, Part 4: Get smart about services

Fixing Windows Vista, Part 4: Get smart about servicesHave you benchmarked the performance differences ...... that you see when you disable Superfetch, Windows Defender and Windows Search? Last time I benchmarked a system with and without Windows Defender I saw no difference (outside of statistical 'noise').I'm not saying that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Printers, Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows Defender, Fixing Windows Vista, Get Smart, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-05-19

Get Smart: Researchers call results of GridWise energy demand-response project encouraging

Get Smart: Researchers call results of GridWise energy demand-response project encouragingOne of these days......we'll finally talk about actually creating energy.RE: Get Smart: Researchers call results of GridWise energy demand-responseI'm not familiar with the technology behind this experiment. The blog mentions it cost about $1,000 per household to set a...

Tags: Cable, GridWise, GridWise energy, Get Smart

Discussion threads 2008-01-09

Additional Resources

News to know: Windows 7; Google Dashboard; Driving while texting; Steve Jobs; Droid

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.: Sam Diaz: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic" Dana Blankenhorn: What the Google Privacy Dashboard can...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Google Inc., Web, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Dashboard, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-11-06

Open source needs successful champions

Open Source powers the Internet period!Open_Source powers the ENTIRE Internet withrouters/switches/servers you name it like Microsoft sitting behind caching Linux distroname servers.Now you tell me what does it need now???It is the FUTURE of smart devices, appliancedriven infrastructure, just like VMware using a Linux derived kernel and it is #1...

Tags: Linux, software cost, Linux Distro, open source, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Wal-mart preempts Black Friday with HDTV specials this Saturday

China made productsYES all we need is more 'Made In China' to get the economy churning....Bring it home to 'China' no longer USA because we are like Rome we manufacture nothing, we import everything and borrowing TRILLIONS from China.How long will this last I would say as long as they...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, HDTV, manufacturing, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

HP: How about your own personal smart grid for your data center?

No thanks HPI am ripping out all HP gear and implementingDell hardware and VMware.Sounds like more smoke and mirrors to sell more HP gearHP is not interested in you reducing your energy costs as much as they are in selling you more HP gear, which of course integrates more tightly...

Tags: data center, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Smart System Informer 2.1 (Windows)

How do you get the PC features quickly? You may surely use special tab or panel, but the data will be located in different places. Smart System Informer will make it for you swiftly. Specific information includes computer ID, processor, BIOS, memory, disks, video, motherboard, monitor and other. This information...

Tags: Performance, Memory, Microsoft Windows, Computer, Smart PC Solutions, BIOS, Performance Management, Productivity, Flash Memory, Hardware, Components, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2009-11-05

WVU Map for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

WVU Map for iPhone is a navigation app for college students, faculties or anyone who is visiting the TWest Virginia University. It is built with simplicity in mind, aiming to help you get to your campus destination with ease. Our emphasis is on precision of the coordinates. It features effectively...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Location, Logical Dimension, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-05

TTU Map for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

TTU Map for iPhone is a navigation app for college students, faculties or anyone who is visiting the Texas Tech University. It is built with simplicity in mind, aiming to help you get to your campus destination with ease. Our emphasis is on precision of the coordinates. It features effectively...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Location, Logical Dimension, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-05

ASU Map for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

ASU Map for iPhone is a navigation app for college students, faculties or anyone who is visiting the Arizona State University campus. It is built with simplicity in mind, aiming to help you get to your campus destination with ease. Our emphasis is on precision of the coordinates. It features...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Location, Logical Dimension, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-05

UCLA Map for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

UCLA Map for iPhone is a navigation app for college students, faculties or anyone who is visiting the University of California, Los Angeles campus. It is built with simplicity in mind, aiming to help you get to your campus destination with ease. Our emphasis is on precision of the coordinates....

Tags: University Of California At Los Angeles, Apple iPhone, Mobile, Location, Logical Dimension, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-05

USC Map for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

USC Map for iPhone is a navigation app for college students, faculties or anyone who is visiting the campus. It is built with simplicity in mind, aiming to help you get to your campus destination with ease. Our emphasis is on precision of the coordinates. It features effectively locate current...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Location, Logical Dimension, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-05

How fast can remote monitoring move?

Ler's use mu computer and my iPhoneMay sound nuts, but my notebook mine happens to be a Mac and my iPhone have the ability to work with a lot of medical devices - IF the makers build the connectors and write the software.I can enter my blood sugars on an...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Smart phones, Doc, monitoring, patient, computer, EKG, phone, Apple iPhone, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Dell finalizes $3.9 billion offer for Perot

Dell buys PerotH.Ross and T.Boone should get together and build the NG fueling infrastructure needed to convert semi-tractors off diesel, then build and rent out a parallel power grid so there would be a way to distribute power from wind/tide farms and the excess from micro solar installations. The utilities...

Tags: Perot, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac prices

RE: Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac pricesIf they wanted marketshare at a lower entry price they could have pulled that off years ago with cloner acquisitions and more mfg on their own part with rigid standards and practices to ensure quality and lower production costs. ...

Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Mac proponent, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Audi AG, Mac Share

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Do you really want to carry another device just for Twitter?

A Twitter Device? Hmmm... it will probably be a hit for christmas and then die a painful sudden death!never really liked their stuffNever really liked their stuff - limited devices for prices that are still too high? No thanks.Frankly, I'm [b]much[/b] more interested in devices with Wi-Fi than with cell...

Tags: E-mail, Cellular phones, Peek Classic, Twitter Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

News to know: Microsoft store; Domain names; Blackberry Storm2; VoIP; Android

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.: Robin Harris: A visit to Microsoft's first store Zack Whittaker: Web addresses to extend to non-English languages...

Tags: Data Center, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Domain Name, Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Sales Strategy, Telephony, VOIP, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Data Management, Sales, Networking

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Microsoft to drop Office Accounting product, services

DumbWhat a dumb move their Accounting software was one of the best products they had.Anyone notice a trend?Dumping Money, dumping Office Accounting, and all at a time when the Feds are increasingly regulating Financial firms. While MS is clearly not a "Financial" Company it looks alot like they are...

Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Office Accounting, Microsoft Corp., Intuit QuickBooks, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Android 2.0 (Eclair) FAQ

Android 2.0 GPSWill the GPS be functional if I don't buy the expensive Verizon data plan or pay by the Mb.You would need access to the internetto download the maps as needed there would not be enough room on the phone to store the whole country locally. So unless you...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Android 2.0, phone, ECLAIR

Discussion threads 2009-10-30