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- Greenpeace rates tech giants for green IT creds: Sony Ericsson leads, Dell and Lenovo top PC makers
- Greenpeace has issued its latest report rating the giants in the consumer electronics and personal computer business on the green-ness of their products. Things that get considered included mobile phones, TVs, personal computers and game consoles but not servers (which explains why Cisco or IBM aren't on this list, although...
- Tags: Greenpeace, Dell Computer Corp., Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Lenovo Group Ltd., Green IT, News, Leadership, Games, Management, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
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- Student Technology Day: Steve Ballmer Q&A
- There was quite a lot to transcribe out, and many questions asked. Some questions put to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, include: Will we always need programmers? What's Microsoft's input in Facebook and social networking? Does Microsoft have any changes in mind for their...
- Tags: India, Pyramid, Laughter, Network, Microsoft Office, Steve Ballmer, Product, Microsoft Corp., Programmer, Question, Microsoft Windows, Social Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- iPhone sales: 10 million yet?
- When it comes to product inventory, there's a clear distinction between what's been manufactured and what's been sold. And sales figures also need to take into consideration other factors, such as returns, exchanges and retail inventory. That's why I'm raising an eyebrow at headlines today that suggest Apple has sold...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Smart Phones, Sales, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- You get what you pay for: Paid contributors drive open source
- What's the difference between a paid contributor to a FOSS project and a volunteer contributor? According to a paper by Evangelia Berdou, quite a bit. Berdou finds that paid developers take up key positions in projects, while volunteers often work on the periphery. In other words -- much of the...
- Tags: Developer, F/OSS, Contributor, Core Contributor, Open Source, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- MobileTechRoundup show #149, Netbook talk, WiMAX available, new phones in the house
- While we were recording MobileTechRoundup show #149 Kevin was able to swap out internal parts on his MSI Wind and is trying out for the Netbook pit crew. We chatted about the long-awaited release of WiMAX in Baltimore, my Palm Treo Pro, the N96 devices that James and I are...
- Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Freeware, Phone, Memory Card, James, WiMAX, Memory, Flash Memory, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Sony AW series: The best laptop display?
- With expansive 16:9 displays and Blu-ray drives, the new crop of desktop replacements with 18.4-inch displays are geared toward mobile entertainment. Though its design is nothing special, the Sony VAIO AW series stands out from this group, according to reviews at PCMag.com and LaptopMag.com, thanks to its high-quality, LED-backlit 1,920-by-1,080...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Vaio, Desktop Replacement, Laptop Computer, Entertainment, Display, Desktops, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Marketing, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Lenovo ThinkPad SL400
- Take the ThinkPad R series, remove the internal roll cage and the TPM chip, add dedicated GeForce graphics, an HDMI port, and a glossy lid, and you get the ThinkPad SL400. This 14-inch laptop is Lenovo's play for small business buyers, trading in enterprise features such as the aforementioned security...
- Tags: Notebooks, Lenovo ThinkPad, IBM ThinkPad, ThinkPad SL400, lid, Lenovo Group Ltd.
- Product reviews 2008-10-03
- Velocity 103
- We've seen plenty of Windows Mobile devices in our day, and at times they all start to blur together--same story, just different packaging. However, back at CTIA Spring 2008, a new company called Velocity Mobile caught our eye, impressing us with a fresh approach to the user interface. Recognizing that...
- Tags: Smart phones, Keyboards, Cellular phones, Monitors & displays, Handhelds, Velocity, Velocity 103, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch
- Product reviews 2008-10-03
- Enterprise 2.0 and business collaboration
- Update: I hit "publish" before the article was completely finished, so I've added some images and updated some links. I can't pull the post without it leaving a trail behind it, so I may as well just own up now and say, "whoops, sorry". GroupSwim Collaboration, in...
- Tags: Security, Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0, Wiki, Collaboration, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- The quad-core laptops are here . . . sort of
- Back in August Dell, HP and Lenovo all announced mobile workstations that offer Intel's first quad-core chip for laptops. Those systems are now available for order and reviews of at least one model--the Lenovo ThinkPad W700--are giving a glimpse of the performance you can expect from these 17-inch powerhouses. ...
- Tags: Mobile, Mobile Workstation, Lenovo Group Ltd., Quad-core, Laptop Computer, Quad-core Laptop, Core 2 Quad Extreme, Workstations, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Well, I do actually worry (about mobile viruses)
- Well, I do actually worry about mobile virusesIt's all economics...Most crackers hackers gone bad are doing this for monetary gain so like most people want to put the minimal amount effort to get the maximum gain. Mobile devices are such a nice diverse group of devices that crackers haven't found...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Cyberthreats, Operating systems, Viruses and worms, cracker, mobile, mobile virus, virus
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Mac ready for the enterprise?
- Larry Dignan makes a spirited argument as to why Apple should be working much harder on getting Mac kit into the enterprise. I know it's a Friday afternoon for me and we've already had one false alarm earlier today that got everyone a-Twitter. Only the other day I managed to...
- Tags: Lid, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Computer, Productivity, Keyboards, Desktops, Notebooks, Corporate Governance, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Slimming down the bloated iTunes 8 installer
- Slimming down the bloated iTunes 8 installerPerformance?Let alone the installer size, does anyone else out there have kind of mediocre performance with iTunes in Windows Vista? I've had a number of times where it just seems to come up black, or respond slowly, or syncing just slows my PC to...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iTunes, installer
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Salesforce.com: Worries emerge
- Salesforce.com: Worries emergeWhat does this mean for license holders?From the title someone is worried about Salesforce.com. Who should be worried??? If a company uses Salesforce applications and stores data on Salesforce, should they be worried?The questions above are legitimate questions to ask. I group Salesforce.com in with cloud computing companies...
- Tags: Sales force management, Salesforce.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Panel: How to sell SOA governance to a skeptical audience
- Panel: How to sell SOA governance to a skeptical audiencePanel: How to sell SOA governance to a skeptical audienceGood stuff. SOA is like recycling. Get people on board with the general idea and its benefits to the whole, then make it really easy to do, then only start...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud computing, Web services, skeptical audience, SOA governance, SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Apple: Perhaps it needs the enterprise after all
- Apple: Perhaps it needs the enterprise after allThe 35% of Fortune 500 companies......testing the iPhone means "35% of IT departments doing their damn jobs by testing a competing product before coming to the realisation that it isn't as good as their current solution".As for Apple getting a foothold in mainstream...
- Tags: SMB/SME, Apple Inc., small and medium business, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Gadget nostalgia: Five things I had and five things I have now
- I was quite inspired by fellow ZDNet blogger Matthew Miller's post listing every mobile device he's had over the years (86 and counting, my friend!). Though my memory isn't as robust as Matt's, I thought I'd compile a list of my own ghost gadgets of the past, comparing them with...
- Tags: Motorola Razr, Phone, Logitech, Intel Core 2 Duo, Camera, Computer, Motorola Inc., Processors, Telecom & Utilities, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Five unfortunate ways the financial crisis affects your daily grind
- By now, you're probably up to your eyeballs in unsettling economic crisis news. The stock markets, tanked. Mondays $700 billion Hail Mary of a bailout plan, dead on arrival though since resuscitated. Real estate value, sunk. Federal Reserve chairman Bernanke warned last week that the difficulty households and businesses were...
- Tags: Job, Financial, Economist, Worker, Recruitment & Selection, Real Estate, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Nintendo takes a shot at Apple and Sony with the DSi
- Nintendo takes a shot at Apple and Sony with the DSiSomething to think about.Had gaming by some strange chance always been performed by touch screen and games had always been developed in this paradigm, would the same things be said about the interface if suddenly buttons were added to the...
- Tags: Games, Keyboards, Nintendo Co. Ltd., DSi, Apple Inc., game, Apple iPhone, Sony Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- 14 ways IT screws up projects
- 14 ways IT screws up projects128k image?The image is 128k in size with 100dpi resolution. Why is that too big even on a dial-up connection? Thanks for your thoughts.# 15 - Play loose and fast with bandwidthAttach needlessly large images to blog posts. Make sure image's size is inversely...
- Tags: Strategy, Upper Management, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
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