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- The human cost of offshoring
- A labor activist tells techies to be waryNatasha Humphreys, a laid-off software developer, says her story of overseas outsourcing and its impact is a "cautionary tale" for tech workers.
- Tags: Outsourcing, labor activist
- Videos 2004-05-03
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- The App Store hits a milestone: 10,000 apps
- The App Store, the aisle of Apple's iTunes Store devoted to selling software, reached a big milestone some time over the Thanksgiving weekend (here is the U.S.) adding its 10,000th application. That's a far cry from the 552 apps that were available when the App Store launched...
- Tags: App, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- Will Detroit run out of road?
- In the next two weeks we'll see what chance there is for any of those on the waiting list to get their plug-in Chevy Volt, or whether there'll be a Chrysler 2010 model. On December 2, the automakers are to deliver their own plans for salvation to the Congress....
- Tags: Automobile Company, Bush Adminisitration, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- Keeping clean for clean energy
- Got solar panels on your home or business? Keeping them clean is necessary if you want to get efficient conversions of solar to electricity or even to heat water. Some roofs are less that congenial palce for a person with a sponge mop. I recently heard a...
- Tags: Solar Panel, Roof, OCS Energy, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- Facebook wins $873 million judgement against spammer
- Major news sources are reporting that Facebook has won a $873 million dollar judgement against a Canadian spammer. What this means for spam on social networks is not clear, however. Adam Guerbuez of Montreal, CA, had a judgement of $873 million dropped on him by a...
- Tags: Facebook, Judgement, Spammer, E-mail World, E-mail, Spam, Social Networking, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Two paths for information management pros in an economic downturn
- There's nothing like an economic downturn to catalyze change in information management IM strategies. Someone asked me recently, "Isn't information management a discretionary spend that will likely get cut in an economic downturn?" He cited the fact that tools for collaboration, content, and business intelligence are traditionally difficult to financially...
- Tags: Information Management, Business Technology Team, Strategy, Management, Matthew Brown
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- News to know: Jerry Yang, MLB.com, Mark Cuban, USB 3.0
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Jerry Yang to step down as CEO, back to Chief Yahoo Larry Dignan: With Yang out as Yahoo CEO, Steve Ballmer licks chops ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Jerry Yang, MLB, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, USB, CEO, One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Collision course for American-owned car makers
- America's auto makers were very handy in protecting themselves against having tougher fuel efficiency standards. Just this past year as fuel prices spiralled ever upward the feds finally increased the fuel efficiency standards after thirty years of stasis. So now those auto makers in America and elsewhere are...
- Tags: U.S., Car, Automobile Company, Detroit, U.S. Congress, General Motors Corp., Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- IT offshoring is exaggerated and the IT labor shortage is real
- IT departments are planning to increase offshore outsourcing in 2009, after two years of declines. Nevertheless, a new survey shows offshoring remains a very small portion of IT budgets, and U.S. IT leaders say they're still grappling with an IT labor shortage. by Jason Hiner
- Tags: Information Technology, Offshoring, IT Offshoring, IT Department, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner, SIM Card, Offshore Outsourcing, Society Of Information Management, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Steve Jobs for President. Of GM?
- The old joke went something like this: If auto manufacturers improved their products as much and as fast as American designers and makers of microelectronics have theirs, a car today would be capable of speeds in excess of 1,000 miles an hour, go 650 miles on a gallon of gas,...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Car, General Motors Corp., Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- SIM's 2008 Survey: Organizations are looking to IT for help, not cuts
- On Monday, the Society for Information Management SIM released the results of its 2008 IT Trends Survey and it contained a generally upbeat forecast for IT in 2009, although the survey was conducted in June, before the global economic meltdown. In Orlando at its annual SIMposium conference,...
- Tags: SIM Card, IT Budget, Information Technology, Survey, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Al Gore electrifies Web 2.0 Summit
- Environmental Activist and former Vice President, Al Gore talks about the internet, electricity, and the past presidential election at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
- Tags: Web, Al Gore, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, News, al gore, climate change, green, internet, barak obama, environmet
- Videos 2008-11-10
- Memo to the President-elect: Environmental responsibility and economic revitalization go hand-in-hand
- Memo to the President-elect: Environmental responsibility and economic revitalization go hand-in-handCleanTech and Economic IncentivesGiven what we now know about how modern electronic manufacturing and scavenging works (see the new 60 Minutes report tracking "E-Waste" from Denver got China), and how our current environmental regulations are set up on manufacturing processes,...
- Tags: Regulations, Obama, environmental regulation, manufacturing, regulation
- Discussion threads 2008-11-08
- Using an iPod in a Prius
- Using an iPod in a PriusMy sweet RigI have a 1995 Mitsubishi Pajero with a broken radio, so I put my iPhone in the cup rest (speaker down to bounce the sound up into the car. For radio, I use a coleman emergency light/flashlight/radio that sits in the passenger seat....
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Toyota Prius, Apple iPod, radio
- Discussion threads 2008-11-07
- Using an iPod in a Prius
- When we bought our Toyota Prius in August we purchase the base model without any options. Although, that's what we wanted, it's not like we had much of a choice in the matter Prius' are still very scarce in the northeastern part of the U.S. and there is little, if...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Toyota Prius, 3G, Digital Music, Digital Media, Cable, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Telecommunications, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- My favorite Windows Vista gadgets
- When I first began using Windows Vista, I dismissed the Sidebar as a gimmick. It didn't help that the default gadgets Microsoft offered were of limited utility and that some early gadgets caused performance problems. Over time, though, I've become a Sidebar convert. I haven't encountered a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Gadget, Sidebar, ShareMaster Gadget, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Blackbox, SWaP, and the z10
- Blackbox, SWaP, and the z10Over a barrelis where IBM has you if you still use mainframes. Not only is the hardware very expensive, but the labor is too. Universities stopped their mainframes ages ago, so no CS student today has any idea what a mainframe is. This means that you...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Processors, Hardware cost, Shaw, mainframe, Z10, hardware, CPU
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
- Obama won the election - not social media
- Obama won the election - not social mediaSocial Media DID WinSocial media certainly did win last night. The part it played in Barack Obama's win may have been overblown by some, but the social media presences both candidates had played a huge part in communicating the issues to a...
- Tags: Obama, social media
- Discussion threads 2008-11-05
- Dell at Dreamforce: Brave the economy or prepare for the rebound?
- Michael Dell, the founder and CEO of Dell Inc., made an interesting observation during a brief appearance on the main stage at the Dreamforce conference. Today's headlines tell us that, around the globe, things are slowing down – the economy, IT spending, investments in new technology and so on. But...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Dreamforce, Sales Force Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Corporate Communications, Sales, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Speculation on Papermaster's "huh?": IBM, Apple, and Freescale
- Speculation on Papermaster's "huh?": IBM, Apple, and FreescalePaul-the-pseudonym is probably rightFor a long time, Apple has been managing its supply chain as a lean, JIT organization with a good deal of outsourcing. Their strategy: We are the best at design, let's increasingly move manufacturing and integration to subcontractors willing to...
- Tags: Processors, Apple Inc., IBM Corp., PPC
- Discussion threads 2008-11-04
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