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Yahoo: TV widgets and pondering a Disney takeover: If Yahoo's battle with Google has taught us anything it's that the company isn't run by engineers. Sure, Yahoo is tech savvy. Sure it has an open platform. And sure it'll do things like plan a Widget Channel with Intel and tout it at a developers conference. But Yahoo is...; Tags: Disney Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Widget Channel, Minyanville, Harrison, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-08-20
Beatles reunited online as Harrison goes digital: Beatles reunited online as Harrison goes digitalYawn....NTRE: Beatles reunited online as Harrison goes digitalThe beatles are gay.Go 2PacThe Beatles are gay....So is 50cent !...; Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Beatles, Harrison; Discussion threads 2007-10-11

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Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux: Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...; Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Kernel, Mandrake, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-07-25
My Awesome IT Job: Chief architect, The Hive: Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here's a new Friday feature at The IT Grind showcasing IT professionals that love their work....; Tags: Information Technology, Chief Architect, Hobby, Home Entertainment, Scripting Languages, Productivity, Strategy, Programming Languages, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Management, Software Development, Deb Perelman; Blog posts 2008-07-11
Pigs is pigs and data is data: Pigs is pigs and data is datareal meaning of statisticsThe whole problem of overal testing and of data collection is that eaming lies on statistics and that you must not think in terms of individuals when regarding those. You cannot understand why one individual child failed the test exploiting statistics;...; Tags: Taxes, Free trade, public school; Discussion threads 2008-06-17

Affordable Two-Factor Authentication Made Easy: With the push for stronger security, greater efficiency in user access, and easier compliance, two-factor authentication has rapidly become the most effective approach to achieve these goals. But to get two-factor authentication, you might think your options are limited to expensive, proprietary solutions that are difficult to deploy and use....; Tags: Two-factor Authentication, Quest Software Inc.; Webcasts 2008-06-12
The Cassiterite Crisis - How Tech Boom Fuels Human Rights Risk in Africa: A disturbing article this week in the FT reports how cassiterite sourced through the use of child and slave labour has made it into the supply chains of global electronic goods manufacturers. Cassiterite is a derivative of tin ore necessarily used in circuitry and its use has, ironically, enabled...; Tags: Supply Chain, Industry, Microsoft Corp., Cassiterite, Safety Condition, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, James Farrar; Blog posts 2008-03-07
Retail displays transform transactions and markets: I was invited to a Microsoft forum on advanced retail display technology last week and came away with a strange sense that, although the future is going to look a lot like BladeRunner's stifling advertising environment, it could also be useful and powerful for the customer, not just the advertiser....; Tags: Environment, Window, LevelVision, Construction, Mitch Ratcliffe; Blog posts 2008-02-11
Telecommuting is good for all of us: According to two Penn State researchers in management, telecommuting is good both for workers and their employers. The two psychologists looked at 20 years of research on flexible work arrangements, covering 46 previous studies of telecommuting involving more than 12,000 employees. And they found that 'telecommuting is a win-win for...; Tags: Telecommuting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2007-11-20
Radiohead and the search for content business models: Early results are in on Radiohead's experiment in "name your price" music with their album In Rainbows. Most people chose free. These are early returns. A CD's economic lifespan can be two years. Given the millions still being raked-in by Elvis Presley, John Lennon...; Tags: Game, CD, Business Model, Music, Radiohead, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-11-06
One last tilt at the antitrust windmill: I've been obsessing on antitrust this week, which should come as no surprise as a lot of people much more important than me have been stuck on the subject since the Court of First Instance passed down its Microsoft decision Monday. One thing that bothers me about the decision, however,...; Tags: Antitrust, Microsoft Corp., Antitrust Policy, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, John Carroll; Blog posts 2007-09-21
The unintended consequences of automation: An important study from the University of Pennsylvania evaluates the unintended consequences of automating health care records. The full study is in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, or JAMIA. All that fudging doctors use to get past the bureaucracy suddenly bites. A doctor may...; Tags: Study, Health Care, Evaluation, Automation, E-health, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-09-19
Photos: Happy developers in da house: Some 150 people gather in a Los Gatos, Calif., mansion for SuperHappyDevHouse, a 12-hour marathon of coding, hacking and socializing.Participants of the 19th SuperHappy DevHouse hackathon session descended on Tom Harrison''s family home last weekend in Los Gatos, Calif. Harrison far left opened his house up to some 150 tech...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, SECURITY, photograph, Amit Patel, SuperHappyDevHouse, Los Gatos, Facebook, San Jose State University, hacking, chief technical officer, Ohio State University, University of Washington, online v; Image galleries 2007-08-16
FBI spy powers face new Capitol Hill scrutiny: FBI spy powers face new Capitol Hill scrutinySecrecy is the enemy of freedomSecret police, secret searches, secret evidence, secret courts, secret prisons. Welcome to the new America, land of the not-so-free and home of the really-not-brave. Where the authorities whisper "terrorist" and American citizens run and hide underneath their beds....; Tags: Federal government, liberty, Benjamin Franklin, security, FBI, Secrecy; Discussion threads 2007-07-26
Harrison Instrumental Music Notes Newsreader (widget): Retrieves and displays the latest headlines related to the instrumental music program of William Henry Harrison High School in Evansville, IN. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Indiana, IBM Lotus Notes, Music, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software; Software downloads 2007-06-29
Intel developing exercise-tracking tech: From Intel's labs: device will gauge your fitnessFrom Intel Research Labs' open house on June 20: CNET News.com's Tom Krazit talks with Intel Senior Scientist Beverly Harrison about technology she's helping to develop that will monitor the type of exercise someone is getting. The data could be sent to...; Tags: Intel Corp.; Videos 2007-06-27
Comedy at the British Open Source Consortium: The BBC wants to release a product that would allow users to view BBC programs on their PC. Initially, this will be Windows-only for the same reasons 99% of third-party software OEMs target Windows first before providing support for other operating systems if at all. As expained in an article...; Tags: Television, Open Source, Microsoft, DRM, Antitrust; Blog posts 2007-06-27
Using virtual reality to prevent wildfires: University of Central Florida UCF researchers want to immerse people in a virtual wildfire to encourage them to invest in prevention. The UCF research team has developed an interactive virtual reality simulation of a wildfire spreading through Volusia County. Participants will receive $100 of real money to be immersed in...; Tags: Social Sciences, Science &, Nature, Energy &, Environment, Computers &, Internet; Blog posts 2007-06-09
Enterprise applications: Pay attention to the user interface: Enterprise applications are going to increasingly come with Web 2.0 wrappers. And the early innings of the game are under way. While many observers are talking about mashups, lightweight applications and public APIs in the enterprise the real advantage Web...; Tags: Enterprise 2.0, General, Search, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology; Blog posts 2007-05-14
(Images: U.S. Postal Service reveals 'Star Wars' stamps): (Images: U.S. Postal Service reveals 'Star Wars' stamps)Yeesh!"400 mailboxes...was dressed"? Yikes!InterestingThe post office has always waited until someone was dead before depicting their image on a stamp - given that several of the actors are still alive (last I checked, Mark, Carrie and Harrison are), does this introduce a...; Tags: U.S. Postal Service, Star Wars, post-Office; Discussion threads 2007-03-29