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- Why are so many user guides or manuals you get in the product box already out-of-date?
- At CES, I was talking with a publicist friend I have known for thiscloseto 20 years. In the context of a larger discussion, my friend Jim mentioned the disconnect between product manuals you find when you open the box of the gizmo you just bought, and the...
- Tags: Manual, Jim, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- Is the update burden getting to be too much?
- Are we being bombarded by far too many update? Wrox editor Jim Minatel thinks we are. He has a point. Take a look at this list that he posted on his blog: ITunes and IPod update. I've commented before that these update way too...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Hewlett-Packard Co., Update, Apple iTunes, Jim, Digital Music, Digital Media, Web Browsers, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-11-07
- Soothing words for BEA's nervous customers
- In the event Oracle is eventually successful in buying out BEA Systems, would BEA customers eventually be forced to upgrade away from WebLogic to Oracle Application Server, and so on? Analysts interviewed in Network World don't see this happening -- it's in Oracle's best interest to keep...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Jim, Middleware, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Application Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Web Services, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
- Turn your SOA into a HOA (human oriented architecture)
- In light of all the pushing to bring IT to closer to the business, Dana Gardner is proposing an experiment. That is, take an accountant -- or better yet, CFO -- to lunch, to see how much they understand service-oriented architecture, and use the occasion to sell them on the...
- Tags: General, Business ROI
- Blog posts 2007-07-08
- BlackBerry CEO: here's why there won't be any more major outages
- In an interview with eWeek, Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie thats him says the BlackBerry blackout of last month has been "unambigiously solved" and whats more, wont hapen again.eWeeks Wayne Rash noted "that the improbable combination of events, which included the failure of a minor software upgrade...
- Tags: News, Outages, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- A CFO Speaks: "I Hate IT"
- Every wonder why it takes forever to get capital spend approved? Maybe your CFO doesnt like you. I had lunch last week in New York with an old friend who is now a CFO. Jims employer is a mid-sized enterprise that has expanded rapidly in the last decade. He...
- Tags: Instant messaging, Jim, Jims, information technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
- A CFO Speaks: "I Hate IT"
- Every wonder why it takes forever to get capital spend approved? Maybe your CFO doesnt like you. I had lunch last week in New York with an old friend who is now a CFO. Jims employer is a mid-sized enterprise that has expanded rapidly in the last decade. He...
- Tags: Instant messaging, Jim, Jims, information technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
- Craig's List CEO: Academics want our info, co-los hate our volume
- It must be hard being CEO of Craig's List, the online listings service that by several accounts is one of the ten-most trafficked Web property.You've got to fend off curious academics, pushy Realtors and co-location services that think you're being a bandwidth and power...
- Tags: Craig, List
- Blog posts 2006-07-26
- Supernova: The Future of Search
- Moderator: Chris Shipley Guidewire Group, David Sifry Technorati, Jim Lanzone (Ask.com), Leila Boujnane (Idee - image and video search), Kapenda Thomas (Jookster - a social search engine) This panel covered what's next for search, a perennial topic at conferences like Supernova - but that's because it's such an interesting challenge!...
- Tags: Leila Boujnane
- Blog posts 2006-06-22
- The Allchin Seat
- While I'm editing yesterday's Gillmor Gang session, a few gestures on feed dynamics:John Battelle's inline ads for the New York Times are getting my attention. I carefully examined the offer ($2.40 a week for home delivery) before moving to the next item. I prefer the presentation, especially in return for...
- Tags: Attention, Jim, PVM, Dana
- Blog posts 2006-01-28
- Comcrash tech support to frustrated user: "what's Vonage?"
- Fellow VoIP blogger Ted Wallingford points to an account of Jim Studnicki's problem getting help from Comcast for some Vonage call quality issues.Apparently, when Jim first logged on to Comcast's chat feature to complain about the problem, the first thing the customer service rep said was:"'You cannot use vonager is...
- Tags: Comcast Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-05-26
Additional Resources
- Nokia's open source Symbian is no match or threat to Linux mobile, Linux Foundation claims
- Nokia's open source Symbian is no match or threat to Linux mobile, Linux Foundation claimsJim is missing one essential point.Dana,While I have not heard of any official plan to do this, it's a no-brainer to consider that the Symbian platform in its new role could be hosted on top of...
- Tags: mobile, Symbian Inc., open source, Linux, Nokia Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Care to spend your holiday weekend policing directory listings?
- Care to spend your holiday weekend policing directory listings?waiting for 9 year oldsJust wanted to congratulate you seriously on pulling out of the LA times article on Whyville one of the unfortunately buried positive comments about the kind of learning that goes on in Whyville -- (buried because the editor...
- Tags: Whyville
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Nokia's open source Symbian is no match or threat to Linux mobile, Linux Foundation claims
- Nokia's plan to open source the Symbian mobile OS platform is no threat to mobile Linux, maintains the executive director of the Linux Foundation. Jim Zemlin maintains that mobile Linux will continue to evolve and flourish in spite of Nokia's plans and the formation of the Symbian...
- Tags: Nokia Corp., Mobile, Symbian Inc., Jim Zemlin, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Blockbuster comes to its senses: Pulls Circuit City bid
- Blockbuster said it is withdrawing its proposal to buy Circuit City. In a statement late Tuesday, Blockbuster said its decision to pull its bid was based on "market conditions and the completion of our initial due diligence process." What Blockbuster didn't say is that no one could...
- Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Blockbuster Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Branding, Microsoft Office, Marketing, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Google's culture 'not fit' for enterprise apps
- Google's culture 'not fit' for enterprise appsTruth, Google will never win the entrprise.Sure they make products/services that geeks or light/occasional users can use, but no way will they win the enterprise over."Open Source as Free Software" = FUBARNo Management, No Structure, No DisciplineEveryone gets to do their own thing.This the...
- Tags: Google Servers, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Blade.org makes energy efficiency a rallying cry
- The powers-that-be at Blade.org (now representing close to 200 companies) have made advanced energy efficiency the focus of some of the organization's collaborative working groups. The consortium actually has latched onto what it's calling three megatrends that it highlighted at its recent conference in New York:...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Collaboration, Kell Systems, Data Centers, Groupware, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-29
- Debut of Hyper-V, departure of Gates usher in new era for Microsoft
- Debut of Hyper-V, departure of Gates usher in new era for MicrosoftNot even Bill gates is happy with MicrosoftStrange that you should incessantly spin them as compelling..... or are you being adequately compensated (free money, not software)?Bill Gates Sends Angry Email to Microsoft http://www.lockergnome.com/digged/2008/06/25/bill-gates-sends-angry-email-to-microsoft/Wednesday, June 25th,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Virtualization, cloud computing, Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Microsoft's geeks might miss Gates the most
- Microsoft's geeks might miss Gates the mostBrilliance = Techie + Financial ManagerialI think one of the reasons Microsoft has been so succesful is that Bill Gates was adept not necessarily the best at both spectrums: the techie and the business side. Witness General Motors under the "Smith" bean counter tenure:...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Recruitment & Selection, Mergers & Acquisitions, Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Zero-day flaw haunts Internet Explorer
- Zero-day flaw haunts Internet ExplorerJelloWow, Ryan, that really tells me a lot. What does this vulnerability do? Change my hard drive into Jello?While the information is appreciatedit would have been nice if the headline had included that little number 6. It makes a huge difference.this flaw haunts only OLD Internet...
- Tags: Web browsers, Manuel Caballero, Microsoft Internet Explorer, zero-day bug, Mozilla Firefox, vulnerability
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
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