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iPhone 3G announced for July 11th availability, but lots of questions remain

iPhone 3G announced for July 11th availability, but lots of questions remainUSA...ATT...no mas, jack.sighRE: iPhone 3G announced for July 11th availability, but lots of questions rAs long as the iphone stays on AT&T it will stay out of my pocketJobs again sells the old while pretending it is new[i]Wow, the...

Tags: Cellular phones, WIRELESS, Harry Bardal, Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G, 3G

Discussion threads 2008-06-09

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Video: Green tech: The disconnect

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to me about whether IT managers will continue putting capital behind green tech if the economy continues to slow down. I add that there is currently too much "green" marketing in the tech industry, and question the effectiveness of those campaigns. The other big question:...

Tags: Green Technology, Video, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-03

News to know: HP's Smartphone; Obama's iPhone app; Skype in China; Data breach bill

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: WSJ: H-P plans to unveil smartphone Jason D. O'Grady: Obama campaign unleashes iPhone app Track the Presidential election polls with...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., Skype Technologies S.A., Apple Inc., Smartphone, Obama, Smart Phones, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, RSS, Financial Accounting, Open Source, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Lawson Q109: 'sloppy execution'

Harry Debes, CEO at Lawson Software doesn't mince his words. So when the company announced its missed Q1 fiscal 2009 results PDF yesterday it came as no surprise that during the earnings call he had this to say about the way the company performed: ...some of this was sloppy...

Tags: Revenue, Lawson Software Inc., Earnings, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Greentech Investing: Not So Fast

There's an inevitable slowdown in venture capital investing and that's not good news for Silicon Valley nor the Cleantech start-ups. Last quarter VC activity was about one-third of the same quarter last year. While economists claim there's plenty of capital around, the investments being made are more cautious....

Tags: Bank, Alternative Energy, American Media, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Should engineers fix climate change?

Should engineers fix climate change?Democracy and the Long ViewThey are, of course, famously incompatible.That said, there is an argument in favor of self-interested First World countries moving as rapidly as possible towards a lower carbon footprint. On the one hand, they're the ones with the most to lose from...

Tags: global warming, ice, climate change, Joe

Discussion threads 2008-09-25

Drill, baby, drill: cheap gasoline, oil a-plenty! Whoopee!

While the banking community chews its nails, and worries about golfing fees, there are some corporations licking their chops. And sharpening those drill bits. The American offshore oil drilling moratorium expires at the end of this month. There'll be no attempt to revive any part of it....

Tags: Offshore, Gasoline, Outsourcing, Banking, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Financial Services, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-24

News to know: Google and T-Mobile on G1; OpenWorld; SOA; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Andrew Nusca: T-Mobile G1: Specs, pricing breakdown UPDATED: T-Mobile, Google, HTC unveil G1 (with hands-on pics) Ed Burnette: Google releases Android 1.0 SDK Hands-On with...

Tags: Google Inc., T-Mobile, Apple Inc., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Semantic Web, Web Services, Research & Development, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-24

Chilling data from the Arctic

Less ice, more water. More swimming, fewer polar bears. That seems to be the conclusion from some recent Arctic data. Oh, and the ARctic is belching methane, a greenhouse gas far worse at warming the atmosphere than mere CO2. The loss of...

Tags: Polar Bear, Ice, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-23

You cannot beat open source

You cannot beat open sourceBig Money MattI call Matt Asay "Big Money Matt" because he works for an open source company and makes a good income from it. He's just here for giggles.Next course at the Harvard Music School...How to Stamp Out Amateur Music. Learn the threat that community...

Tags: open source

Discussion threads 2008-09-23

State employee pleads guilty to passport snooping

State employee pleads guilty to passport snoopingOuch!Did he do anything besides look?To elaborateIf all he did was look, I think the maxima are excessive. Dismissal and a fine of a few thousand dollars or so would be more than enough of a deterrent (it's not like the passport holders...

Tags: Social Security, Operational accounting, passport, confidential information, State Employee

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

If you ordered a GM Volt, you may be disappointed...

The Detroit auto makers have a problem. Like BearStearns, MerrillLynch, Lehman Brothers, etc. etc. etc. They need to borrow cash from U.S. government, meaning taxpayers like you and me. And suddenly the U.S. Congress is balking on the 25-billion dollar loans. Course, maybe the Federal Reserve...

Tags: General Motors Corp., Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-18

News to know: Palin's email hacked; Seinfeld-Microsoft; Tech meltdown; Visual Studio

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Sarah Palin's Yahoo account hijacked, e-mails posted online Adam O'Donnell: Don't be the next Sarah Palin (security victim, not VP candidate) Wikileaks: Sarah Palin...

Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Yahoo! Inc., Blog, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Brondell, Microsoft Windows, Virtualization, E-mail, Remote Access, Cloud Computing, Blogging, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Online Communications, Internet, Storage, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-18

Arctic Class of '08: less ice, but not the least

Above phjoto taken last week by NASA satellite. The Arctic ice cap is relatively small this year, but it ranks as only second smallest. The Ice Class of '07 still reigns. That's the latest word from the National Snow and Ice Data Center which...

Tags: Greenland, Glacier, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-17

Apple, not Gear, deserves the blame for iTunes crashes

Apple, not Gear, deserves the blame for iTunes crashesFUD modeEd I am unsure why this issue deserves your third story. Not sure why you feel terms like "tidal wave" are appropriate.You recently accused security software vendors of over egging the problem to help sell their products. So given that this...

Tags: Digital music, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple iTunes

Discussion threads 2008-09-17

Drill, baby, drill--revisited

Despite the House having approved a new bill on ofshore oil drilling, it now appears unlikely there will be a change in the law. That means the current offshore moratorium on driling expires at the end of this month. Then it is presumed the government will...

Tags: Offshore, Oil, Petroleum, Telecom & Utilities, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-17

News to know: Windows 7; Tech economy; Samsung eyes SanDisk; NetSuite

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 hits Milestone 3 Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer VMware's Datacenter OS: Windows isn't the competition ...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., NetSuite Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-17

One, long unbroken string of weather records--what do they tell us?

For over 41,000 days running, daily weather stats and observations of the natural cycles have been made at exactly the same place in New Paltz, New York. And this remarkable record is giving hints of how climate has changed in this one spot since 1896. These records are...

Tags: Record, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-16

The real life cost of trying to ignore nature

Down along the Texas Gulf Coast this week, man's arrogance has been hard hit by Ike. Even the Texas land commissioner is now muttering about things like zoning and building restrictions. I hope that guy has secret service level protection. Them's fightin' words down in the Lone...

Tags: Texas, Beach, State Legislature, Land Guy, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-16

Drill, baby, drill...but will the sun shine as well?

I'm betting the offshore oil drilling moratorium in the United States is toast. It expires on September 30th. And the rush among Congressional Democrats to pass a new moratorium bill is not likely to find much support in the White House. Today the Democrats will...

Tags: Offshore, Republican, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-16