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Apple announces red iPod nano

Apple is collaborating with U2 frontman Bono and Oprah Winfrey on a red iPod nano that will promote an AIDS charity - PRODUCT RED. The new red iPod nano is just like the other second-generation aluminum nanos. It has 4GB of memory and will sell for US$199. The difference is...

Tags: Apple iPod, red iPod nano, Apple iPod Nano, Global Fund

Blog posts 2006-10-13

Gates Foundation gives $500 million to Global Fund

Gates Foundation gives $500 million to Global FundGates Foundation gives $500 million to Global FundBig ups to the Gates Foundation. It's through charities like this and philanthropists like Bill and Melinda Gates that donations for good causes are possible. The people with these diseases will be overjoyed knowing...

Tags: Nothing, Mr Gates, Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, United Way, Global Fund, philanthropy, Seattle Times, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-08-09

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American auto industry low on fuel and popular support

After today's Senate hearings the Detroit Big Three are nowhere nearer getting any federal aid than they were after their last visit. Whatever you may think of the automakers "plan" to change and become viable, there is no plan in the Senate itself that would lead to a bill that...

Tags: Car, Automobile Company, Detroit, Industry, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-04

CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 2 - Sticking My Hands Out To Be Slapped

Last week at this time I was throwing my neck out there forecasting some of CRM's moves in 2009 - and no one chopped it off, thank goodness. So, now, in the same spirit, I'm going to do part 2 of three and stick my hands out to be slapped...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, PaaS, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Emerging Technologies, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Study: Google uses 21X more bandwidth than it pays for

Google is by far the largest user of Internet bandwidth, its share of bandwidth usage is rising rapidly, and its bandwidth use is orders of magnitude greater than its payment for its cost, according to a new study by NETCompetition.org, a site committed to Net Neutrality "pro-competition Internet forum funded...

Tags: Consumer, U.S., Google Inc., Bandwidth, Study, Broadband, Precursor LLC, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-04

588 Kleiner Perkins iFund developers accidentally leaked to Web

A MySQL file containing contact information, founder bios, business plans, demos and financial information for 588 applicants to Kleiner Perkins's iFund – a $100 million fund to invest in startups building applications for the iPhone – was accidentally posted to the Web and indexed by Google. Kleiner...

Tags: Developer, Web, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Fruux, BIOS, Open Source, Databases, Financial Accounting, Hardware, Components, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Finance, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Adobe lays off 600; skips Macworld Expo

Adobe Systems, Inc. announced yesterday in a statement that it will eliminate 600 full-time positions, or roughly 8 percent of its workforce, amid weaker than expected fourth quarter earnings. Fellow ZD blogger Larry Dignan notes that demand for Creative Suite 4 was weaker than expected and the...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Macworld, Workforce Management, Operational Accounting, Human Resources, Finance, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Open source thrives in downturn

Collaboration initiatives are all about streamlining business processes, and the interfaces between legacy closed systems and open source stacks are an increasingly common place to find business collaboration environments. According to research firm Gartner, open source software is present in 85% of enterprises and the...

Tags: Intalio Inc., Collaboration Initiative, Alfresco, Open Source, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-12-03

So just what is a 21st Century Skill?

We hear a lot about 21st Century Skills lately; I'm certainly guilty of using the phrase. There's a whole website devoted to building them (actually, there are thousands, but this one has the domain name www.21stcenturyskills.org). We also know that a lot of our kids don't have them...

Tags: Student, 21CS, Ruby On Rails, Productivity, Domain Names, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Car makers could learn from chip industry and unleash a wave of innovation

The single most important development in the chip industry was not a new technology it was a new business process. In 1987 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company TSMC was formed, it was a chip company with a difference--it would make chips for other chip companies. This was...

Tags: Innovation, Car, Industry, Chip, Tesla Roadster, Semiconductors, Manufacturing, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Adobe lays off 600 workers, CS4 demand weaker than expected

Adobe said Wednesday that it will eliminate 600 full-time positions, or roughly 8 percent of its workforce, amid weaker than expected fourth quarter earnings. The company said in a statement that it will deliver fourth quarter revenue between $912 million to $915 million, down from its previous...

Tags: Revenue, Adobe Systems Inc., Earnings, Worker, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Roadmap: Open source to take over mainstream IT

Roadmap: Open source to take over mainstream ITDelusion DayJust saying it every year for the last decade does not make it any more real.If Linux desktop ever gets to 1% global usage, it will still be irrelevant.Who's deluded?It's already happening and will continue to proliferate.I can understand how some people...

Tags: Desktops, open source, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-12-03

It's getting worse out there

And this has nothing to do with faltering banks or auto makers with begging bowls. This has to do with the air we all must breathe. Right now there's a major international conference on the atmosphere. The 14th session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations...

Tags: Atmosphere, Meltdown, Emission, Carbon Dioxide, World Meteorological Organization, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Roadmap: Open source to take over mainstream IT

Open source-based IT jobs will grow and the cloud will be ubiquitous, as long as the community takes certain steps, according to a roadmap from the Open World Forum. Within the next 12 years, 40 percent of IT jobs will be related to open source, and open-source-based cloud computing...

Tags: Information Technology, Floss, open source, cloud, Floss Roadmap, Open World Forum, predictions, Peter Judge ZDNet.co.uk

News items 2008-12-03

Extranet collaboration platforms - coming soon, but many-to-many problem remains

In our conversations with many information and knowledge management professionals, it's clear that their distributed and multicompany teams need better extranet collaboration tools. And they feel the problem is only getting worse as companies go virtual, global, distributed, outsourced, green, travel-less, and partnered, thus driving the need...

Tags: Extranet, PBwiki, Thomson Reuters Messaging, Networking, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Ted Schadler

Blog posts 2008-12-03

ICANN terminates EstDomains, Directi takes over 280k domains

Following ICANN's notice of termination sent to cybercrime-friendly domain registrar EstDomains in October, on the 24th of November the termination became a reality and EstDomains is no more. Despite the public concerns of who will take the 280,000 domains, and that includes the cybercrime facilitating ones, Directi's ResellerClub is new...

Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Domain, EstDomains, Directi, Security Community, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Should you run your laptop on battery or charger power?

An interesting article in Slate by Jacob Leibenluft the other day asks a simple question: Do you save more energy keeping your laptop plugged in during use, or should you use your charger only after the battery runs out of juice? It's a complicated...

Tags: Battery, AC Power, Laptop Computer, Engineering, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Kudos for a good research approach

The Conference Board publishes an annual report, CEO Challenge, where hundreds of CEOs globally are quizzed as to their firm's most pressing concerns. This summer, the Conference Board sent out its surveys but as they began to tabulate responses for their report, the stock market,...

Tags: Report, Board, Conference, Corporate Governance, Marketing Research, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Marketing, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Server sales slide; IBM, HP nearly tied for market share lead

Global server sales fell 5.2 percent in the third quarter, the largest decline since the fourth quarter of 2002. Meanwhile, Hewlett-Packard maintained a very slight market share lead over IBM, but statistically it's a tie, according to IDC. According to IDC, third quarter global revenue was $12.6...

Tags: Revenue, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Operational Accounting, Sales Strategy, Servers, Finance, Sales, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-03

RIM warns for the third quarter; Blames Bold, Storm slippage, weak Loonie

Research in Motion said its third quarter sales and earnings will be lower than expected primarily due to "shifts in product launch dates" and a weak economy. In a statement late Tuesday, RIM said that revenue for the third quarter will be $2.75 billion to $2.78 billion....

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Quarter, Storm, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-03