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Techies choose Obama - by a landslide: Techies choose Obama - by a landslideGee...Robin posts a full-page Obama AD.And after Obama is done raping us with all of his tax increases, exactly how will any of these things be paid for?Aside from a few good policy positions meaningless talk Obama would be a disaster for our nation...; Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Robin, Obama; Discussion threads 2008-10-05
Techies choose Obama - by a landslide: If techies could choose the next President, Obama would win in a landslide. Checking donors from 10 large tech companies, including Apple, Dell, Google and Microsoft, over 90% of the donations support the senator from Illinois. Why does high-tech love Obama? First the numbers The...; Tags: Landslide, Broadband, Obama, McCain, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-10-05

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Student indicted for Palin e-mail hack: Student indicted for Palin e-mail hackno luck for youseems your daddy wont be able bail you out of this one. Just remember to bring plenty of vaseline with you in prisonoh boy, is this kid in the crapperThis little jerky-boy is headed for a really miserable experience. Having a...; Tags: Palin, Palin e-mail, e-mail; Discussion threads 2008-10-08
News to know: Green PCs, IT; IBM; Nokia; Apple: Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebEx Matthew Miller: First impressions of the Nokia N96. Gallery right. Mary Jo...; Tags: Steve Jobs, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., PC, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, IBM Corp., Podcasts, Linux, Internet, Operating Systems, Software; Blog posts 2008-10-06
Economic meltdown: the insanity of disagreement: Economic meltdown: the insanity of disagreementI agree with your points and your questions...Way too many "loopholes" and bad decisions have been put into this bailout bill. Not the least of which is absolutely no accountability.To use Mr. Krigman's IT project analogy it would be like seeing that poor decisions...; Tags: Taxes, Team management, Leadership, Free trade, Financial services, Economic Meltdown, insanity, disagreement; Discussion threads 2008-09-30

The insurers bid to fix health care: The insurers bid to fix health carethe problem isthat no one wants to lay the blame where it belongs. Government. Because that would mean killing socialized medicine.Bingo!!Blanky doesn't want to admit that tort reform *is* needed. My sister is a doc...the cost to her for malpractice insurance is shocking....; Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Socialized Medicine, insurance company, tort, health care, insurance; Discussion threads 2008-05-30
Counting the roots of growth: BSD vs Linux vs Solaris: I think we all know which of the three major Unix variants has the largest number of paid up licenses for non embedded use: it's the one we usually hear least about, the Darwin BSD variant used by Apple to host the MacOS X shell.There's equally little doubt about...; Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Paul Murphy, BSD, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Linux, server; Blog posts 2007-08-16
Friday rants: RealPlayer is annoying; iPhone-AT&T whining; Watching someone read your blog: A few odds and ends to mull over as the weekend nears...Why is RealPlayer so #@!$#@ annoying?I've avoided RealPlayer like the plague, but regrettably forgot why until this week. I wanted to view a Webcast that was only available in RealPlayer. Firefox informs me I need a plug-in so I...; Tags: Web Technology, Personal Technology, iPhone, Hollywood on Demand, General, Apple; Blog posts 2007-07-13
eBay's new APIs: Harbingers of the Net's commerce operating system to come?: Yesterday, as can be seen from the video we captured a part of eBay's senior director of Disruptive Innovation Max Mancini's keynote address at the eBay's Developer Conference in Boston, eBay made a series of announcements. Among them, the release of two new APIs that developers can use as they...; Tags: Yahoo, Software Infrastructure, Salesforce.com, Innovation, Google, General, Enterprise 2.0, eBay, E-commerce, Berlind, Amazon; Blog posts 2007-06-12
Do data breaches really hurt retailers?: Do data breaches really hurt retailers?3 in 4 people saythey never masturbate too. Pfffttt....The simple answer is:If nothing happens to someone, they tend to forget easily, but if something does happen, they never forget.There are very few people in this world who remember things like this that didnt directly...; Tags: Retail, Food & Beverage, Marketing research, Branding, data breach, Joe Blow, retail company; Discussion threads 2007-04-11
Hillary Clinton, Democrats lead Republicans in Web race to the White House: Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Hillary Clinton began her online presidential “User Generated Politics” presidential campaign 2008 “conversation” early and it is paying off. “Hillary for President” is leading in national opinion polls and on the Web. “If the...; Tags: Social Software, John McCain, John Edwards, President Clinton, Social Capital, Political Campaign, Presidential Race, Hillary Clinton, User Generated Politics, Politics, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Social Networking, Marketing, Social Web, Video, User-Generated Content, Culture, Government, Local, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-03-14
Obama trouncing Clinton in MySpace race: Edition number 28 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”MySpace is a hotly contested virtual battleground in “User Generated Politics” presidential campaign 2008. Barack Obama is en route to a landslide victory over Hillary Clinton in the MySpace friends...; Tags: User Generated Politics, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Social Web, Amateur Content, MySpace, Culture, Government, Web 2.0, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Political Campaign, Presidential Race, Social Software, Barack Obama; Blog posts 2007-03-05
SaaS in 2007: It's about services, doh!: In my trio of predictions for SaaS in 2007, Ive saved the biggest trend till last. The coming year will see a growing acknowledgement that SaaS is just part of a wider move towards Internet-based automated services. This is such an all-embracing trend that it will drive several other sub-trends,...; Tags: basics, Ecosystems, Business applications, Saas; Blog posts 2007-01-02
Can 'cubicle envy' help the Vista upgrade cycle?: Can 'cubicle envy' help the Vista upgrade cycle?Will there be an SP 1?When Mary Jo Foley looked into the issue, she obtained a statement from Microsoft saying that the company is not intending an SP 1 because fixes and possibly features can be distributed more easily and quickly by Windows...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Vista Graphics, Microsoft Windows Vista, graphics, Intel Itanium; Discussion threads 2006-12-04
CEO landslide: Google's Eric Schmidt winner: Election day results are in! The "Best CEO" competition at this Digital Micro-Markets Blog between heavyweights Eric Schmidt, Terry Semel and Steve Ballmer crowns Googles Schmidt "Best CEO" over Microsofts Ballmer 3 to1, with Yahoos Semel barely in the running.While ZDNet readers were giving the thumbs up to the Google...; Tags: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo; Blog posts 2006-11-08
Schwarzenegger exploiting microtargeting of voters: The new catch phrase in politics is pithily stated by Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's deputy political director Josh Ginsburg: ``It's not where they live, it's how they live.'' He's referring to the political version of database marketing. It's well-known that George W. Bush's 2004 campaign used consumer data...; Tags: voter, Arnold Schwarzenegger; Blog posts 2006-10-26
Another music titan (Sony) bites the Apple dust: News.com's Greg Sandoval: The behemoth Japanese conglomerate [Sony], which once controlled the portable music market, announced Tuesday that the company's data compression technology would be compatible with a number of rival formats, including Apple's format of choice, AAC....In the past, Sony has fiercely held to...; Tags: AAC, Apple Computer Inc., Sony Corp.; Blog posts 2006-05-11
Red Hat-JBoss points up seismic shift to an open source stack model: Red Hat-JBoss points up seismic shift to an open source stack modelDana, a pebble does not make a landslide.Dana, I read your blogs we all need a laugh now and then and they are all the same. One guy in podunk nowhere adopts something open source and the next...; Tags: IBM Corp., open source, Dana, pebble, Tom Sawyer, seismic shift, Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Corp., Borland Software Corp.; Discussion threads 2006-04-10
Construction of Flexible Sensing Node Network for Monitoring Landslide Disaster: Monitoring landslide disaster, sensor should transmit measuring data to host system urgently at the same time with the disaster. In some cases, the sensor disappears easily by the disaster. Additionally, it is necessary to observe broadly by distributed arrangement of many sensors because of difficult forecast of the disaster place....; Tags: Network, Monitoring, Sensor, Disaster, System Operation, Networking; White papers 2006-02-14
Elections officials fight for Net political ads: Elections officials fight for Net political adsMethinks they protest too muchMakes me wonder if their position has some quiet encouragement from the major parties.Buckle up, its going to get roughIt's the last two weeks, Karl Rove is behind and he has 1 strategy when he's behind. Attack.I guess this case...; Tags: Karl Rove, voter, breakin, advertisement; Discussion threads 2004-10-14