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The trouble with idiots

The trouble with idiotsAre you certain?You indicated that the CEO of Red Hat made $66 million. I followed the link and clicked on the "high salaries" link associated and found this:Matthew J. Szulik,Red HatCEO, $640,000From the heading, the total includes bonus.Is it possible you gave him an extra decimal...

Tags: Games, OPEN SOURCE, Enderle, zombie, Jayson Blair

Discussion threads 2006-09-15

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Dell bets on Salesforce.com's platform as a service

Amid a quarter that Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff called "spectacular," but spooked analysts worried about future growth was an interesting nugget: Dell has jumped on the platform as a service bandwagon. On Salesforce.com's second quarter conference call (earnings recap, InStranet acquisition) Benioff revealed that Dell signed a...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Marc Benioff, Billing, PaaS, Summer Sales Cycle, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-21

The next generation will deal with global warming, we promise

The next generation will deal with global warming, we promiseEmission cuts promised unfeasible without clean coalWithout clean coal, the emission cuts promised by the G8 puny though they are are unfeasible: "The vast majority of new power stations in China and India will be coal-fired; not "may be coal-fired"; will...

Tags: global warming, emission cut

Discussion threads 2008-07-08

Google holds firm against Lieberman's call to take down Islamist videos

Sen. Joe Lieberman wants Google to take down terrorist videos from YouTube. In a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Lieberman wrote: Many of the videos produced by one of the production arms of al-Qaeda show attacks on U.S. forces in which American soldiers are injured and, in some...

Tags: Google Inc., Lieberman Software Corp, YouTube Inc., Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-20

UK Health Program: a Very Sick Patient

UK Health Program: a Very Sick PatientYou wait ages for a failed IT project and then four come along at onceThe failure of an IT project in the National Health Service is one of a number of failures in information technology recently. Other disasters are to be found at the...

Tags: Other Disasters, patient, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-05-05

Google's paid clicks anemic in March; Will it matter?

Google's paid click rate for March grew 2.7 percent in March, a tally that was deemed "anemic" by analysts. Google's paid clicks have been the most overanalyzed metric of the first quarter, but we're about to find out whether they matter since the search giant reports earnings...

Tags: Google Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-16

Heathrow T5 failure: What really happened

Heathrow T5 failure: What really happenedTony BlairThis is typical of modern Britain. All show. All glitz. 100% image and 0% substance. This is the legacy of Tony who turned Britain from a country proud of its merit into one only concerned with the next news story and to hell with...

Tags: Strategy, Heathrow T5

Discussion threads 2008-04-08

comScore suggests Britain is the online home of truth

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk explains why British media sites attract so much attention from non-native readers. comScore, a company that has received permission from more than 2 million people to monitor their online behavior, has released findings that suggest when the world is looking for the truth,...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., British Broadcasting Corp., ComScore Networks Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Public Relations, Performance Management, Government, Gender And Diversity, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2008-02-18

MWC08: Bluetooth SIG creating spec to harness speed of WiFi

I am a big fan of Bluetooth technology and am actually using a Think Outside Bluetooth keyboard to type this article on my new Fujitsu U810 Tablet PC. Blair sent me some big news from the Bluetooth SIG announcing that they are developing a new radio substitution method that will...

Tags: Radio, Architecture, Bluetooth, Ultrawideband (UWB), Wi-Fi, Wireless, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-02-12

Irish Builders Merchant Supports Growth With New Server Suite That Uses Approximately 25% Less Energy

MacNaughton Blair in Ireland has grown rapidly through acquisition, internal investments and sales campaigns. But the company had outgrown its IT system. To continue running its successful business and support further growth, MacNaughton Blair needed a new server and storage suite that increased IT capacity and simplified management processes. MacNaughton...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Sales Strategy, Storage, Servers, Sales, Hardware

Case studies 2008-01-18

Frontline Wireless folds but Martin 'hopeful' public safety network will survive

Whither the next-generation national public safety network? Frontline Wireless, which had been trumpeting a proposal for a public/private partnership for public safety, announced a few days ago that it was "closed for business." The problem? FW couldn't raise the $128 million bond required to bid on spectrum expected to cost...

Tags: FCC, Network, Auction, Wireless, Safety Network, Federal Government, Networking, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-01-10

Will you be having sex with a robot in five years' time?

I will resist suggesting I am starting off the New Year with a bang when I reveal that a new and very important and/or disturbing depending on whether you have laced your cornflakes with a David Copperfield mushroom or two thesis has now been published as a book. ...

Tags: Robot, Mr., Technology, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2008-01-02

Remove tell-tale metadata from Microsoft apps

Remove tell-tale metadata from Microsoft appsA format change is often easier...If you're sending the file to someone who just needs to read it, I would convert the document to PDF. No metadata with no fuss.Word Bytes Man!...[url=http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/blair.htm]FYI[/url]The ultimate metadata embarrassment...Not me, but someone who must not have had a...

Tags: Microsoft Word, Word processors, Microsoft Corp., OOo, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2007-12-17

U.K. government reveals its 'biggest privacy disaster'

U.K. government reveals its 'biggest privacy disaster'Not arrived in the UK yet?Where do you live? The disease has been here for much longer than anywhere else.What is a Government? Even if it is prefaced by Her Majesty's. Can any unelected government be wrong ever? Ask George W not Washington, Bush!...

Tags: Biometrics, Financial services, privacy disaster, U.K. Government

Discussion threads 2007-11-21

EU's Mandelson: U.S. needs to change gambling laws

EU's Mandelson: U.S. needs to change gambling lawsPeter Mandelson needs to shut the hell up.He is a ex. Labour MP who had to resign TWICE because he:1) bought a home in Notting Hill in 1996 with the assistance of an interest-free loan of £373,000 from Geoffrey Robinson, a millionaire Labour...

Tags: Taxes, Internet Gambling, Hes, Peter Mandelson

Discussion threads 2007-11-21

Google: Does it have to be all FUD all the time?

Google: Does it have to be all FUD all the time?UNA: FUDWhat's a FUD? Acronyms are frequently encountered for the first time in an unpredictable way. People who use acronyms and expect to be understood should define them on first use. Or, perhaps ZDNet should keep a...

Tags: FUD, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-11-06

Facebook's Orwellian customer service

It's well known that corporate culture and tone are set by top management. Many of my colleagues enjoy riffing on Oracle as being the embodiment of CEO Larry Ellison's variation of the Art of War. But I think even Larry would be appalled at the way Facebook behaves. ...

Tags: Facebook, Customer Service, Jon Swift, Scoble, Techmeme, E-mail, Public Relations, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Biotechnology, Online Communications, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-11-01

MRSA alarm is now nationwide, but many docs seem unconcerned

Sure, our environment is full of the staph bacteria. But when the CDC recently reported the virulent MRSA form is killing more Americans annually than AIDS, the public noticed. Then cases began being reported from schools around the country. It seemed especially prevalent among high school football players....

Tags: School, Hospital, MRSA, Healthcare, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-26

Queen to appoint Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee to England's Order of Merit

Queen to appoint Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee to England's Order of MeritInventor?[i]"Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web"[/i]I thought that was Al Gore ;-)Congratulations to Sir TimHe is definitely worthy of honor, due both to his invention of the WWW and the way he has handled...

Tags: Channel management, Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Queen, Web

Discussion threads 2007-10-09

Global warning on global warming: U.S. must help out

Monday there was an international conference on global warming. It happened in New York, hosted by the United Nations. The U.S. was represented at the event by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. She said "Put simply, the world needs a technological revolution. Existing energy technologies...

Blog posts 2007-09-25