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Max Baucus opens his kimono

PelosiObamaReidCare PORC is a Fascist Pig In a constitutional republic like ours, the government's powers are limited by a constitution that protects our unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. PelosiObamaReidCare PORC would violate the unalienable rights of patients, doctors, and business owners by forcing 1)...

Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Insurance, health care, Max Baucus, office visit, health insurance, kimono

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

Opening the kimono on Salesforce.com's green crystals

Opening the kimono on Salesforce.com's green crystalsGreat ArticleGreat article Phil, but it's just another layer of green crystals, LOL.The real cost to deliver the service is people, not hardware. Hardware savings through patented query optimizers or any other means is great, but saving incremental ops people through automation is...

Tags: Sales force management, green crystal, crystal, Salesforce.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-10

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Facebook app dev posts scathing indictment of App Store

The developer of the Facebook app for iPhone has quit the project in a protest of Apple's review process. Apple needs to lift the App Store kimono a little or risk losing other top talent. by Jason D. O'Grady

Tags: Facebook, Apple Inc., App, Workforce Management, Smart Phones, Human Resources, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-11-12

Retail distribution may tip e-reader race; Barnes & Noble rolls out Nook

Barnes & Noble unveiled its Nook e-reader, the latest in a line of alleged Kindle killers, and much of the chatter revolves around open standards, touch features, a little color and competition. The reality: Retail distribution may be much more important to winning the e-reader race. Barnes...

Tags: E-reader, Barnes & Noble Inc., Nook, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-21

Max Baucus opens his kimono

Democrats will need at least 2 Republican votes to get the Baucus plan past a filibuster. That's the math that counts. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Filibuster, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-09-10

Backblaze reveals how to build petabyte storage arrays for a 10th of the cost

Online storage provider BackBlaze has opened up its kimono and offered detailed specs on how it builds high-density 67TB storage arrays for less than $8000 each. IT departments can use this blueprint to save a ton of money on storage arrays. by Jason Hiner

Tags: Storage Array, Backblaze, Ip storage, Storage, Hardware, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-09-02

News to know: Snow Leopard; Salesforce; Sony; Apple ads; Search

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. Ryan Naraine: Apple adds malware blocker in Snow Leopard Jason D. O'Grady: Apple removed blood stains from Snow...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sony Corp., Larry Dignan, Advertisement, Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Portals, E-books, RSS, Desktops, Sales Force Management, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Personal Technology, Hardware, Sales

Blog posts 2009-08-26

SONY goes "Open Kimono" with sexy new e-Readers

Sound like checkmate, they have everything the Kindle does for less $$ $They even have better quality. I want to buy one right now although it has to have the books that I want.At the risk of sounding fanboy-ishI must ask. How does the 6" $299 Sony touch (but...

Tags: E-books, e-book, Sony Corp., e-reader, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

SONY goes "Open Kimono" with sexy new e-Readers

SONY's new Touch and Pocket e-book readers have great industrial design and functionality, but the big take away is the open standards the company is now embracing. by Jason Perlow

Tags: E-reader, Sony Corp., Engineering, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-08-25

CTO: Time for govt innovation has arrived

U.S. chief technology office Aneesh Chopra says he's working hard to enable the federal government to embrace innovation, user-friendliness and best practices, but doing so means modernizing purchasing rules and procedures. Speaking at the Churchill Club in San Francisco, Chopra said: If it's this easy to...

Tags: Innovation, Health Care, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-06

Apple versus Apple: How Many iPhones Does It Take To Add $5 To A Stock Price?

How many iPhones will Apple have to sell next year, to justify a $5 bump upward in its stock price? 22.9 million, says a small number-crunching shop, operating mostly out of Mumbai. That sounds like a lot. Last year, Apple...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Stock Price, Stock, Apple Inc., Transparent Value, Investment, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-05-13

Enterprise vendors: in pursuit of reality

Michael Hickins at BNet cracks open the customer/vendor relationship kimono, using Ray Wang's most recent post as the backdrop. As we enter the conference season, the timing could not be better: Indeed, most customers have a love-hate relationship with their vendors that is heavily weighted towards hate....

Tags: Beverage, Customer, SAP AG, IBM Corp., MISO PR, Carr, Food & Beverage, Software As A Service (SaaS), Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Managed Hosting, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-04-16

News to know: Conficker; Patch Tuesday; Fiber optic sabotage; App Easter eggs

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.  Ryan Naraine: Patch Tuesday heads-up: 8 bulletins, 5 critical Conficker botnet stirs, with a scareware business model Dancho Danchev: Fake "Conficker Infection...

Tags: Facebook, Fiber-optics, Microsoft Corp., Easter Egg, Microsoft Office, Fiber Optics, Network Technology, Office Suites, Software, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-10

Opening the kimono on Salesforce.com's green crystals

Salesforce.com's chief technology guru Parker Harris, speaking at Cloudforce London this week, mapped out the secret sauce that makes the company's multi-tenancy so special. Why suddenly expose details of something it has always previously kept schtum about? by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-04-09

How Amazon builds the world's most scalable storage

The cloud storage market is accelerating fast - despite naysayers and alarmists - and Amazon's S3 is leading the charge. Storing over 40 billion files for 400,000 customers Amazon is the one to beat. How do they it for pennies per GB a month? Read on. I...

Tags: Data Center, Amazon.com Inc., Cloud Storage Market, Humans, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-03-09

Ballmer praises openness, attacks iPhone

Ballmer praises openness, attacks iPhoneWow... some attack....notntOpen to Ballmer means open to taking your money oropen to taking your ideas oropen to spreading FUD oropen to being too big to fail or justopen to like a trap ready to close at anytime.Tell Ballmer he can talk about open when MS...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Steve Ballmer, openness, Microsoft Corp., Apple iPhone, attack

Discussion threads 2009-02-17

Financial realities of the App Store â€" in real numbers

Two days ago I blogged about the proliferation of crapware on the App Store after Craig Hockenberry IconFactory wrote a scathing open letter to Steve Jobs. This time App Cubby developer David Barnard writes about the financial realities of the App Store â€" posting actual numbers from...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Marketing, Financial, Blog, Apple Inc., Barnard, Blogging, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-12-12

Would you 'Kumo' it?

Would you 'Kumo' it?RE: Would you 'Kumo' it?Kumo would definitely take some getting used to. First thought, it reminds me of Cujo (Stephen King's rabid dog)...not necessarily a great association. Kimono, closer to home for Japanese language, is a close second. But several million dollars in brand awareness could have...

Tags: Branding, SEARCH, Kumo, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-23

Sneak Peek: BlackBerry Storm

Apple ignited a firestorm of competition when it announced the iPhone in January of 2007. Since then the touchscreen smartphone segment has been ablaze with competition from all the major OEMs and carriers, including Nokia Tube, RIM (Thunder/Storm), LG Voyager, Samsung Instinct, Sony Ericsson (X1), HTC (G1) and yes, even...

Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Handhelds, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-18

My Sunday Afternoon: Fun with VMWare ESX 3i

As soon as I heard the announcement from  bright and bushy-tailed VMWare CEO Paul Maritz that the company was shortly going to be releasing their ESX 3i enterprise-class embedded hypervisor for free, I was absolutely thrilled. Given the pace of technology reporting, I knew that I had to get it...

Tags: VMware Inc., VMWare ESX, Ip storage, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-27