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- Gates stepping down from full-time Microsoft role
- Gates stepping down from full-time Microsoft roleGates is preferable to BallmerGates is ruthless, but he's also intelligent, competant, dignified, and understands something about the importance of serving the customer. I'm not convinced Ballmer is anything but the first.I agree, though, that MS needs a major change in direction, but...
- Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, Operating systems, Linux day, Gate$, Microsoft Corp., Gates IS, Steve Ballmer, stock, Billg, Bill Gates
- Discussion threads 2006-06-15
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- ROFLthing 2008
- Have you ever been to an internet culture conference? Earlier this year, Harvard senior Tim Hwang threw one in Cambridge, Mass., and it was a massive success. This time, Hwang wanted to have a smaller get together in San Francisco to chat about memes. Welcome to ROFLthing...
- Tags: Humor, Rickroll, Chuck Norris, Policies And Procedures, Channel Management, Internet, Human Resources, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy
- No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of "data processing" while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHA's, I'm already starting to see evidence of consolidation between India's major...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Speed up Vista installation via thumb drive
- It's Labor Day weekend. Have you given your computer a fresh Windows install for the holiday? (If you're the kind of guy or gal who's into periodically wiping your hard drive, this tip's for you.) The How-To Geek over at Lifehacker recently posted a...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Microsoft Windows Vista, USB Flash Drive, Microsoft Windows, Flash Memory, Operating Systems, Software, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- iPhone tethering rumored
- When I travel I carry a second phone alongside my iPhone – for one reason. Tethering. I need to be able to get online wherever I am and Wi-Fi isn't exactly ubiquitous and free Wi-Fi seems to be getting scarcer with each passing day. To make matters...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Apple Inc., 3G, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Where the Linux laptops live
- Almost one-third of the 25 top-selling laptops at Amazon.com are sold with Linux. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: ASUS, Linux Laptop, Dell Computer Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Laptop Computer, Linux, Notebooks, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- A (Microsoft) Codename a day: Wringer
- The Microsoft MOICE project isn't new, but the codename and its origins were new to me. MOICE is designed to "wring out" malicious content from Office documents. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Codename, Microsoft Corp., Attack, MOICE, Microsoft Office, Security, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Novell: Quietly developing some momentum
- Novell's fiscal third quarter was notable for reasons beyond Linux sales and its core product line. Novell's most recent quarter was the sixth consecutive one that topped expectations. That consistency may mark the days where Novell becomes something more than an afterthought. Now it's no coincidence that...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Linux, Operational Accounting, Operating Systems, Open Source, UNIX, Software, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Netbooks just want to be free
- At a trade show in Berlin, T-Mobile confirmed that it will sell an Asus Eee PC 901 netbook with built-in 3G. If the prices on these bundles come close to what's been rumored, they could start to catch on. In the UK, Asus already offers a free...
- Tags: ASUS, Bundle, T-Mobile, 3G, Modems, Microsoft Windows, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Microsoft Windows XP, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- News to know: Dell; Comcast's cap; Yahoo Mash RIP; Google Apps
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Dell: Turnaround interuptus as share grab hurts net, margins Google, Mozilla extend search box deal Jason Hiner: Sprint unveils location-based 'geobrowsing' on...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Comcast Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Hydrogen Road Tour, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Say goodbye to Yahoo! Mash
- Say goodbye to Yahoo! MashSocial networking is the problemThe whole "social networking" paradigm has a fundamental problem, and that is that keeping in touch with other people shouldn't be an objective in and of itself.Yet a lot of these "concepts" are just that: get people into a herd mentality so...
- Tags: Social networking, Yahoo! Mash, Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Say goodbye to Yahoo! Mash
- On today's web, so many social sites never get off the ground because users don't easily migrate from their online communities. As much as I want MySpace to die, people will still be using it as long as their friends are using it. Yahoo's mashup social network...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Social Networking, Collaboration, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to follow
- Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to followHmm, I wonder how long it will take the torrent abusers...... to reach that cap and get kicked? Not talking about the ones who get movies and software and games all illegally but the ones who serve this stuff up?...
- Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, Corporate communications, Comcast Corp., broadband cap, broadband, stat
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- What SaaS can teach us about customer service
- What SaaS can teach us about customer serviceGood Advice!As someone actively engaged in the software as a service industry, I can confirm that Archie Black's advice is spot on. I work for PayCycle, an online payroll company that embodies the SaaS model. Our customers don't make distinctions between...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Product marketing, customer service, software-as-a-service, customer satisfaction
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?
- Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?It is an apt comparison>Your Ubunutu/Vista comparison doesn't pass the common sense test. Think about what you can get with Ubuntu-- Compiz Fusion for eye candy, drive encryption, MythTV DVR app, OpenOffice.org, ect. You have to get Ultimate Windows to get all...
- Tags: Construction, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), pricing strategy, window, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Dell: Turnaround interuptus as share grab hurts net, margins
- Dell's second quarter earnings fell short of projections, but revenue was well ahead of targets. Translation: Dell is gaining share at the expense of its bottom line as price competition heats up. Dell reported fiscal second quarter earnings of 31 cents a share on revenue of $16.4...
- Tags: Revenue, Dell Computer Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Windows 7 must avoid the marketing trap that Vista stumbled into
- Windows 7 must avoid the marketing trap that Vista stumbled intoI agree "One OS to unite them all""One price to keep all happy" In the end it's just a marketing ploy different versions each with their own "missing" pieces. In many ways it looks like double dipping...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7, Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, marketing, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Why does Safari stink?
- Why does Safari stink?Safari on iPhone is even worseSafari on a Mac should work at least as well as Firefox. but on the iPhone it crashes regularly or locks up the iPhone. And it appears Apple's licensing is designed to preclude any competition:"Apple's software requirements for the device are too...
- Tags: Web browsers, Web site development, Channel management, Web technology, KHTML, Apple Safari, Safari stink, stink, Web, Web browser, Web site
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Windows 7 must avoid the marketing trap that Vista stumbled into
- I've been following the Engineering Windows 7 blog closely and I've come to the conclusion that while Steven Sinofsky is a man of many words, those words don't say an awful lot. However, the other day Sinofsky did say something quite interesting. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Home Basic, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Marketing Research, Software, Marketing, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Why does Safari stink?
- I started my day with several calls from our Special Ed folks who suddenly couldn't access their student information portal (e-Sped). I could access it without problem, our Special Education administrators could access it, but several teachers and counselors were discovering (since this was the first student day back...
- Tags: Apple Safari, Web Browsers, Portals, Desktops, Internet, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
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