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Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry Ford

Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry FordDeservedly so. He is a modern day Henry FordLike HF, Bill Gates has truly made a historic impact on the high tech industry and his philanthropy work is already making an incredible difference.Good for him.Having said that, Microsoft has missed the internet boat...

Tags: INTERNET, Microsoft Windows, Leadership, Strategy, Bill G, personal computer revolution, Bill Gates, Billg, Henry Ford, modern day, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

Software industrialization: not so fast, Henry Ford

Software industrialization: not so fast, Henry Fordthink toyota, not fordFord was all about efficiency through economy of scale: decomposing tasks to commodity levels. He took control away from the workers with resultant problems in motivation. However Ford was so much more efficient than the competition that his employees'...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, software

Discussion threads 2008-05-26

(Photos: Pocket-size solar power)

(Photos: Pocket-size solar power)Right on!Nice to see that someone is finally getting it! Solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric and wave generators are the way to go. We need to start dumping our reliance on fossil fuels now!The 26 watt solar sheet is cool! ]:)This is a bit annoying. I wish they...

Tags: energy company, Henry Ford, photograph, Pocket-size solar power

Discussion threads 2007-01-12

Intel's Viiv-talking pitch for PCs

Intel's Viiv-talking pitch for PCsUm, I can already do all that....[i]Intel's main promise for Viiv-branded products is that they will allow home entertainment buffs to stream downloaded video files from a PC's hard drive to a television in another room of the house, or move those files to a handheld...

Tags: Media Center PCs, Consumer electronics, Microsoft Windows XP, PC, Intel Viiv, Media Center PC, Intel Corp., DVD, Henry Ford, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-04-06

Balancing privacy and personal data

Balancing privacy and personal dataHenry FordAsking the person who developed the architecture if it does what is stated is like asking Henry Ford if his car is the best. Of course he going to say yes.Where is the protection? He says data is encrypted on the database end,...

Tags: personal data, Henry Ford, database

Discussion threads 2005-11-30

Additional Resources

Adobe cuts 680 jobs

If cutting jobs is the only way a company can report a problem, it's not difficult to think ahead and think what happens if nothing changes.kaboomEven the rich lose out because the global economy becomes nothingoops, "report a profit"...but it's not difficult to fathom what the problem is. Real...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, Adobe Systems Inc., Illustrator

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Court reverses Microsoft patent-infringement ruling

Maybe there is hope for the patent system yet.Just hope is all.But....We ALL know they were bribed.... Lol.Since when was MS's activation technology taken to court? They're sued for anything nowadays it seems like. Milking the cash cow I presume?The patent system is fineOn the whole, the patent system...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., patent, patent system, patent infringement, Unix, software

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

Works of Andrew Lang. FREE Author's biography, essay & poems in the trial 11.1 (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, Ford Motor Co., MobileReference

Software downloads 2009-09-11

Works of Andrew Lang. FREE Author's biography, essay & poems in the trial (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, Ford Motor Co., MobileReference

Software downloads 2009-09-11

Can velocity revolutionize the data center business?

Digital Realty Trust is trying to do to the data center business what Dell did to computer manufacturing and Wal-Mart continues to do to the retail market â€" make delivery efficiency the killer app. It claims it can build out a complete enterprise-class, energy-efficient data center in as little as...

Tags: Data Center, DRT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, James Staten

Blog posts 2009-08-05

BizQuotes 1.0 (Mobile)

BizQuotes provides you business quotes from the world's most successful business leaders. With the touch of a button you can have business wisdom and principles from many great minds including Benjamin Franklin, Warren Buffett, Mark Twain, Ted Turner, Colin Powell, Henry Ford, Dale Carnegie, Stephen Covey, and Andrew Carnegie.

Tags: Mobile, Internet Inferno, BizQuotes, Internet, Leadership, Management

Software downloads 2009-07-24

What really new in Windows 7? The answer, not much!

What really new in Windows 7? The answer, not much!Y'know, I disagreeI understand Adrian's need to attract eyeballs and taking a deflationist view of Win7 in a world of gushing praise will no doubt help attract a lot of hits. HOWEVER, I think the wrong questions were asked.Instead of judging...

Tags: Operating systems, Well XP, Microsoft Windows 7, operating system, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-06-16

Open letter to Microsoft: It's time for a single version of Windows

Open letter to Microsoft: It's time for a single version of WindowsOne Windows to rule them all........Jason, your suggestion is, in my opinion, an excellent and eminently sensible idea. It won't happen because of three things: profit, greed and Microsoft's concentration on what suits it best rather than the...

Tags: Operating systems, Tablets, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, single version, Microsoft Corp., Open Letter

Discussion threads 2009-06-12

Sustainability: More Capitalist Than Jack Welch?

Sustainability: More Capitalist Than Jack Welch?SickThese corporate types are all sick. There is so such more to life than corporate growth, power, and big paycheck,Listening to corporate types scheme can make you sick to the stomach too.RE: Sustainability: More Capitalist Than Jack Welch?Isn't Jack Welch the guy who started...

Tags: Jack Welch, sustainability, capitalist

Discussion threads 2009-06-07

GOOG beats MSFT and all other tech firms in profit per employee

GOOG beats MSFT and all other tech firms in profit per employeeProfit is easy.When all you have to do is print more money.Google and MicrosoftMaybe it just takes more people to do what Microsoft does then Google? Microsoft actually make things, Google just sell ads and fool around with some...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Google Inc., tech firm, MSFT

Discussion threads 2009-05-16

Is green living just for the rich?

When a clebrity celebrates green living, one standard reply: I can't afford it. Is the slow food movement only for latte-sipping Prius drivers? Here in my semi-rural part of Oregon the locally-produced, organic cheeses cost at least double what the mass produced cheeses cost at the big chain...

Tags: Food, Cheese, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-12

Outsourcing in this recession: will it increase?

Outsourcing in this recession: will it increase?Given that the bleeding of local jobs has helped lead TO this recession,and if people are sincere about ending this recession, then we need to look at the larger scheme and not diddle around with huff'n'puff pieces like this. I mean, doing...

Tags: Free trade, Taxes, Personal finance, recession, Obama, regulation, tax, outsourcing

Discussion threads 2009-04-26

Innovation and competition

Innovation and competitionInvention first - then innovationThomas Edison invented hundreds if not thousands of things. Many of them were the start of major industries as evidenced by utility companies that still bear his name. Henry Ford was a close friend of Edison and other inventors, and he went on "camping"...

Tags: Leadership, Strategy, innovation, inventor

Discussion threads 2009-03-02

Why Schiller's Macworld keynote is a big deal in the big picture

Why Schiller's Macworld keynote is a big deal in the big pictureSteve in a bottleLarry Dignan's brief analysis of the Apple situation is clear, concise, commonsensical and certainly correct. It's a welcome change from all the noise that has been bombarding us over the last few weeks... culminating in a...

Tags: Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-01-07

Lean software is so 2008

Lean software is so 2008Lean started 100 years ago reallyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturingThe principles of Lean manufacturing are inherent in Agile development but its roots are much older.The term was coined in 1988Developed by Toyota from 1930s to 1990sBased on some of Henry Ford's ideas from 1910James

Tags: TQM/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, software-I

Discussion threads 2008-12-23