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- Maldives taking their final dive?
- Will the island nation of Maldives disappear? Even Rupert Murdoch's Sky TV has reported on the uncertain future of the low-lying islands. And now the Maldives' president is asking the world to take action to save his tiny nation. Of course, Maldivians see their homeland threatened not...
- Tags: Sea Level, Global Warming, Maldives, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- U.N.'s Ban Ki-moon warns of 'abyss" and 'widespread disaster'
- Those are some of the words from the U.N. Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, speaking in Geneva this morning. He was at a World Climate Conference, having just paid a personal visit to to the Arctic where melt is happenin'. Ban says the Arctuic is warming faster than anywhere else...
- Tags: Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- Sitting "Shiva" For My Dead Laptop
- My laptop's screen died during 4th of July weekend. I sent it back to HP for warranty repair, but then they wanted either $89.00 to send it back without repair, or $440.00 to replace a $99.00 OEM part due to "Accidental Damage". I...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Shiva Corp., Laptop Computer, Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- My Experience with Dell's Namastechnical Support
- My Experience with Dell's Namastechnical SupportMy experience has always been positiveI've always had a great experience with Dell technical support. I've had to use them on several occasions to support my Latitude XT. I've never actually had an indian support rep though.1) The digitizer on my tablet stopped working. I...
- Tags: Notebooks, OK Here, Dell Computer Corp., Namastechnical Support
- Discussion threads 2009-06-24
- My Experience with Dell's Namastechnical Support
- Despite my dislike for all things outsourced, my first experience with DELL's call center in India was a largely positive one. So this week, during a particularly intense session of software testing, the 500GB hard drive on my DELL Precision 530 decided to...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, CD, Call-center, Indian, Minesh, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Desktops, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- H-1B legislation to watch - What it's really about
- Both L-1 and H-1B visa law changes could impact SIs, outsourcers and more Dick Durbin is one-half of the Durbin-Grassley senatorial duo that is proposing new legislation re: H-1B and L-1 visas. Lately, a number of publications have opined about the latest proposed legislation and its impact...
- Tags: Legislation, Worker, Dick Durbin, DOL, Enforcement Issue, H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Google's CAPTCHA experiment and the human factor
- Any research is prone to irrelevance if it starts with the wrong research questions, takes the wrong perspective, or in this case, attempts to fight the wrong enemy - automated bots attempting to recognize CAPTCHAs. Researchers at Google recently released a paper detailing a new CAPTCHA system...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Inc., Koobface Gang Mixing Social Engineering Vectors, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-04-21
- A solar-powered sailboat: Counter-intuitive or just good design?
- A solar-powered sailboat: Counter-intuitive or just good design?consider sailor's state of mind One sails for the experience and the freedom from fossil fuels. A $40,000 sailboat is capable of sailing around the world and even some as shorter than 10 meters have done so. A multi-million dollar motor cruiser will...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Counter-intuitive, good design, solar energy, PlanetSolar
- Discussion threads 2009-03-19
- Class war and open source
- One of India's main political parties, the BJP, has decided to make open source a focus of its new election manifesto. (BJP logo from Brandsoftheworld.com.) Why? Class. While India has a large, educated middle class, it has a much larger number of poor, and...
- Tags: India, Party, BJP, IT Vision Document, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- News to know: Jobs' medical leave; Windows 7; BlackBerry PDF vulnerabilities; Tech economy
- 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. Larry Dignan: Jobs to take medical leave; Back in summer at WWDC? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Steve Jobs takes "medical...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, Larry Dignan, Patent, Microsoft Windows 7, Adobe PDF, Leave, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Photograph, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-01-15
- FetchFromMCX 1.0 (Windows)
- FetchFromMCX FFM which downloads data from MCX Web site Indian Commodity in realtime and updates to AmiBroker. Live RealTime quotes from MCX Web site. No need to have online account with Commodity broker.
- Tags: Broker, DataFetchers, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-10-07
- Student Technology Day: Steve Ballmer Q&A
- There was quite a lot to transcribe out, and many questions asked. Some questions put to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, include: Will we always need programmers? What's Microsoft's input in Facebook and social networking? Does Microsoft have any changes in mind for their...
- Tags: India, Pyramid, Laughter, Network, Microsoft Office, Steve Ballmer, Product, Microsoft Corp., Programmer, Question, Microsoft Windows, Social Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy
- No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of "data processing" while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHA's, I'm already starting to see evidence of consolidation between India's major...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Perfect People Icons 2008.3 (Windows)
- A collection of icons depicting people in a characteristic avatar-like style, Perfect People Icons will enhance any chat or instant messenger, or will make a perfect skin to a blog or forum. Perfect People Icons depict people of different backgrounds, social and racial origins. Software developers and bloggers, as well...
- Tags: Avatar, Aha-soft, Icon, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Management
- Software downloads 2008-07-19
- Bang Howdy 1 (Mac)
- Bang Howdy is a fast-paced online multiplayer strategy game set in the wacky Wild West. Compete in a variety of gameplay scenarios, such as Frontier Town or Indian Trading Post, using a team of mechanical or conventional units. Choose from a robot with large wagon wheels for movement and wearing...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Three Rings Design, Games, Robots, Strategy, Personal Technology, Emerging Technologies, Management
- Software downloads 2008-04-17
- News to know: Zune VideoX; Intel; AMD; Dell; Apple
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Zune VideoX: Microsoft's iTunes killer? Vista SP1 available in more languages There's more than one way to mesh Larry Dignan: Intel's quarter on target: The tech sector exhales Dell rolls out AMD quad-core servers;...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Zune, Apple Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Telephony, Channel Management, Digital Music, Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Networking, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Standards competition and globalization
- I've been thinking a lot more about globalization and the important role standards have played in "version 3.0" of that process due to my reading of Friedman's book "The World is Flat." In a globalized world, standards are critical, as they are what keeps the digital highways...
- Tags: Desktop, Web, HTML, Microsoft Silverlight, HTTP, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Corp., Technology, Standards, AJAX Application, AJAX, Quality, Tcp/Ip, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Globalization, Internet, CSS, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Business Operations, Networking, Emerging Technologies, Strategy, Management, Scripting Languages, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Skyfire: a true liberator for the mobile Web
- Â While I am not at the DEMO conference in Indian Wells, Calif., I am present virtually. Among the many interesting new product announcements I have received concerns a new mobile browser from a company called Skyfire. Skyfire's announcement at DEMO is not an...
- Tags: Web, Mobile, Web Browser, Skyfire, Mobile Browser, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- Nanopictures on your diamonds? Really?
- If this press release is not a hoax, you should soon be able to inscribe your favorite photos on the diamonds and other precious gems you already own. A Silicon Valley firm, Gemory LLC, says it has developed 'a new nanotechnology process that permanently inscribes high-resolution photos on any diamond...
- Tags: Diamond, Photograph, Gemory LLC Website, Thornton, Web Site Development, Internet, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
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