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EPIC iFAIL

EPIC iFAILhmmm 2.0iPhone software 2.0 can import all your contacts from your SIM card. JUST FYI.RE: EPIC iFAILWell since you have a T-Mobile phone and it also has a SIM card you can copy all your contacts to your SIM card and Then all you have to do is have...

Tags: Flash memory, OK IT, EPIC iFAIL, EPIC, Apple iPhone, lunatic, SIM card, reasonable people

Discussion threads 2008-07-11

InFact Reduces Sales Cycle Time by 15 Percent Using Siebel CRM OnDemand

The InFact Group is a global technology consulting organization with a world-class portfolio of customers in Europe, the United States, and the Indian subcontinent. The challenge was to replace the multitude of legacy systems it relied on to manage a growing number of increasingly complex customer relationships. InFact deployed Siebel...

Tags: Siebel CRM OnDemand, On-demand, Sales Opportunity, Siebel Systems Inc., Sales Cycle, Infact, InFact Group, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Sales, Software

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NVIDIA: Let's spread the blame far and wide

NVIDIA: Let's spread the blame far and widePublically?"Well, since then the company’s stock has taken a serious battering, and the company doesn’t seem to be willing to talk about the problems with its GPUs publically."Publically is not a word. Publicly is.That aside, Nvidea is playing the blame game and not...

Tags: NVidia Corp., GPU, blame, supplier

Discussion threads 2008-07-08

Linux - Still chasing that elusive 1ò0market share

Linux - Still chasing that elusive 1ò0market share.....Not buying less than 1%. 3% yes, 1% no. The problem is there is really no reliable way to count ALL the Linux machines out there, then determine which are server, super computer or desktop or embedded.Linux's strength in diversity creates a near...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-07-07

Nikon announces D700: Full-frame dSLR for $2,000 less than flagship D3

Nikon announces D700: Full-frame dSLR for $2,000 less than flagship D3I wonder how much Ms. Chen was paid by Nikon......to conveniently overlook the existance of the Canon [i]5D[/i]?The Canon is a full-frame 12Mp camera that costs several hundred dollars less than the [i]D700[/i]. It's used by a lot of professional...

Tags: Nikon Corp., Canon Inc., D700, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Full-frame dSLR, camera

Discussion threads 2008-07-04

IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPC

IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPCSupercomputer Uses.I don't want to sound dumb, but unless the NNSA does nuclear simulations couldn't they keep track of their nuclear stockpile with a Windows, Linux or Mac machine? :-)Update: I read another article related to the supercomputer that states they...

Tags: Game players, Sony Playstation, supercomputing, IBM Corp., HPC, Intel Corp., chip, Crysis

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

Google calls for hike in H-1B visas

Google calls for hike in H-1B visasThey immigrate because their country sucksThere's plenty of ways to make money in their own country.The Internet is computers talking to computers.very wellHow about lobbying for changing the H1-B process this way:1.increase the application fee since they displace Americans that paid taxes and loans...

Tags: Benefits, Google Inc., H-1B, information technology, Microsoft Windows, salary, hike, application fee

Discussion threads 2008-06-05

Adobe's Acrobat.com could be an Office killer; Will interface matter?

Adobe's Acrobat.com could be an Office killer; Will interface matter?Good Luck to AdobeI can't see switching to this from another office suite, if you can even call this an "office suite". It takes enough time and effort to learn and keep up with what you have. There really...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Buzzword, Office-killer, Adobe Systems Inc., Acrobat.com

Discussion threads 2008-06-02

N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel Scalability

N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel ScalabilityStore procedures and serializationHow did stored procedures solve the serialization problem?If they did, it sounds like an accident due to programmers not understanding transactions and unknowingly switching from a very pessimistic locking strategy to an overly optimistic locking strategy.RE: N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel ScalabilitySo,...

Tags: Databases, N-Tier, tier, Wintel Scalability, Rube Goldberg, Wintel

Discussion threads 2008-05-05

How good is the DASH diet?

How good is the DASH diet?Good Calories, Bad Calories[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/books/review/Kolata-t.html]FYI[/url]A lot of fruit and vegetables, Kretchmer's Wheat Germ, no sugar, no dairy, an occasional red meat item, but mostly chicken and fish for my wife and myself and whole grain products.I am partial to Kiwis when I can get them--anything high...

Tags: DASH Diet, diet

Discussion threads 2008-04-15

Techcentric anti-Scientology "raids" were nothing but religious bigotry

Techcentric anti-Scientology "raids" were nothing but religious bigotrybigotrySeveral protesters wore demonic masks and held signs with phrases such as "Hubbard is the Devil" and "Honk if you hate Scientology." It had a striking resemblance to the disinformation beginnings of the German persecution of Jews or the kkk persecution of...

Tags: Scientologists, religion, anti-Scientology, Scientology

Discussion threads 2008-02-12

KDE 4 for Windows

KDE 4 for WindowsKonquerorThe best file manager ever invented. It does native FTP, SSH, has integrated MIME managers, mouse over preview of songs and movies, split left/right/top/bottom, fully customizable view and is a fully integrated web browser. Now, I hope, a feature that has LONG been a malware...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, KDE, Microsoft Windows, KDE 4, KDE4, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-01-25

FCC starts Comcast cover-up on net neutrality

FCC starts Comcast cover-up on net neutralityHow about waiting for the decision ....... before condeming it? Shouldn't you be posting for the Huffington Post or Moveon.Org instead of a tech site? That is where I expect to find the Liberal spin. Not here!Explain to me......How it's "neutral"...

Tags: FCC, BitTorrent, Net Neutrality, Comcast Corp., bandwidth

Discussion threads 2008-01-16

Steve Jobs Macworld keynote leaked on Wikipedia?

Steve Jobs Macworld keynote leaked on Wikipedia?HoaxThe Mac Pro Penryn was introduced last week. So the statement that the Mac Pro and Mini are being refreshed today is inaccurate.Looks legitProblem being... Where is the sub-notebook that everyone was hoping for. Not that much wow execept for developers.Infact, the only...

Tags: Apple iPhone, MAC Pro, Apple Macintosh, Steve Jobs, Wikipedia

Discussion threads 2008-01-14

AMD acknowledges quad-core woes; Promises rebound; Highlights roadmap

AMD acknowledges quad-core woes; Promises rebound; Highlights roadmapWell at least they are admitting...it instead of blowing smoke.I still use AMD64 X2's and like the price/performance point. Pair an X2 with the 690 chipset on an all-in-one ASUS mobo and a better business platform would be hard to find.RE: AMD acknowledges...

Tags: Processors, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., quad-core woe, quad-core, Highlights roadmap

Discussion threads 2007-12-13

What iPhone can learn from Verizon's Voyager

What iPhone can learn from Verizon's VoyagerIts an “iPhone killer” after it kills iPhone in the market place - NTNTStill Waiting On That Zune Phone.....Cmon Microsoft, give us a laugh.NokiaI've installed this year more than 3 updates on my Nokia [url=http://www.forum.nokia.com/devices/N800]N800[/url] and [url=http://www.forum.nokia.com/devices/N95?cp=1107A&entry=N95Article3]N95[/url].My Nokia N800 (same processor as N810) is...

Tags: 3G, Engineering, Keyboards, WIRELESS, Cellular phones, Verizon Communications Inc., Kiplinger, Apple Inc., MMS, Apple iPhone, Voyager, battery

Discussion threads 2007-12-12

In search of...AMD quad-core Opterons

In search of...AMD quad-core OpteronsSomeone should investigate AMDIs it really possible that at the 11th hour they ended up discovering a problem which they should have caught in their labs during validation testing? Or is there something else going on here?What is it that they have communicated under NDA to...

Tags: Semiconductors, Tom, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., chip, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-12-03

Leopard compatibility ups and downs

Leopard compatibility ups and downsYou can excuse Apple for OS9 -> OS X...or Microsoft for 98 -> XP -> Vista which were all fairly major OS upgrades with fairly major changes to underlying parts of the OS (or, in the case of OS9 -> OS X and 98 -> XP,...

Tags: Printers, printer, Leopard, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-12-03

QuickTime zero-day attacks intercepted

QuickTime zero-day attacks interceptedThis anti-Apple bias must stopThis story is false. It must be false because the Apple zealots have always told us that Apple is better than Microsoft because Apple patches [b]before[/b] there are exploits in the wild and here we have yet another case where ZDNet is reporting...

Tags: Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, rootkit, Norton Co., Apple Inc., Symantec Corp., exploit, Apple QuickTime, virus, Microsoft Windows, zero-day bug

Discussion threads 2007-12-03

Windows error messages - written by robots, for robots

Windows error messages - written by robots, for robotsYesMany, many hapless users believe Windows is crammed full.Look on the bright side...it gives you something to blog about.Incidently, I think you misunderstood the real meaning of "Get Help".Anyway: http://taurarian.mvps.org/WindowsXP/0x8024402f.htmSuch error messages are deeply frustrating, but aren't you overstating it a bit...

Tags: Robots, robot, error code, Windows Error Message, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-11-15