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Currency events--budgetary black hole

Currency events--budgetary black holeJebbing the ballotDid you Americans even vote for Bush? I read this:http://www.gregpalast.com/bestdemocracymoneycanbuychapter1.pdfIts a pretty damning indictment of vote fixing in 2000, focussing on Jeb Bush & crews antics.Do the world a favour, vote against Bush in 2004 and do it by enough of a margin to overcome...

Tags: Financial Planning, Operational accounting, low savings rate, low dollar, savings rate, interest rate, Jeb Bush, Candle Corp., investment

Discussion threads 2004-02-02

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Scary study on how lack of IPOs is harming US economy

The cart before the horse?With low skilled/educated labor and low negative savings rate, I don't think the ingredients for a fundamental rebound exist in the US. I guess Wall Street would like to continue to be able to fleece us, but hopefully, being taken once is enough for most investors....

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, economic destruction, same policy, IPO, carbon tax, USSR, socialist

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Deck the halls with LED

Sounds OKSounds like a reasonable idea although the cost of LED lights is quite high ($30?).lehnerus2000$30 for LED lights?We buy sets here for $15... and considering that the power consumption is so much lower that they quite literally pay for themselves in the savings on my electric bill, they're worth...

Tags: Engineering, light-emitting diode

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Out-Innovated by Management Practice Blowback - a Video Conversation with John Hagel

I had the opportunity to sit down for a discussion with John Hagel of Deloitte's Center for the Edge last week. My previous post about the 'Shift Index 2009' report is augmented by this video, and fellow ZDNet blogger Dennis Howlett attended the...

Tags: Innovation, Management Practice, Video, Motorcycle, Destination Point, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-29

Managing IT in desperate times

Managing IT in desperate timesSome good ideasBut your treatise on the economy is not. I have read much on the US economy, and the "experts" seem to agree that there is a danger of DEflation - as all those newly printed dollars tend not to circulate - banks don't lend...

Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, Free trade, information technology, Murph, problem-I

Discussion threads 2009-07-18

Global Collaboration Competitive Success: Old Dogs, New Tricks & The Shift Index

The above CNBC video of John Hagel Deloitte Center for the Edge discusses the huge problem of applying old business thinking when adopting new technology, and the scary new realities around global business competitiveness. 'Measuring the forces of long term change - the...

Tags: Collaboration, Knowledge, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-10

Toshiba announces its first LED-backlit LCD HDTVs

Toshiba announces its first LED-backlit LCD HDTVsIt costs $800 more...and is probably worth itFluorescent backlights suck energy and burn out, while LED's sip power and last virtually forever. If one LED fails you probably wouldn't even notice the faintly dimmer onscreen spot. Figure a service call and bulbs plus power...

Tags: Engineering, Monitors & displays, TVs, Toshiba Corp., LED-backlit LCD HDTV, first LED-backlit LCD HDTV, light-emitting diode, LCD, TV

Discussion threads 2009-06-12

Screw Kindle...just give me a decent app for textbooks

Screw Kindle...just give me a decent app for textbooksI agreeI have to agree with you there. The Kindle is a nice gadget, but completely superfluous. Heck between MobiReader Pocket and the Gutenberg Project, I can read the classics on my BlackBerry (one of my personal projects. I...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), E-books, Tablets, Notebooks, textbook

Discussion threads 2009-05-04

Western Digital announces 'world's highest capacity drive' at 2TB

Western Digital today announced "the world's highest capacity drive" at 2 terabytes. The WD Caviar Green WD20EADS, a 3.5-inch hard drive with 500 GB/platter technology (with 400 Gb/in2 areal density) and 32 MB cache, can be had for $299.00 USD. Already some 10 percent...

Tags: Database Administrator, Hard Drive, Western Digital Corp., Vibration, Sales Strategy, Sales, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-27

HP's Hurd brings in $42.5 million; 4 other top execs top $20 million

HP's Hurd brings in $42.5 million; 4 other top execs top $20 millionBetter not lay anyone off for "economic reasons"!!!Dirty skunks -- *noone* is actually earning money at that rate.Not a bad reward for laying people offOr, as company reports like to gloat, executing ... people.RE: HP's Hurd brings in...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, SmartBUY, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2009-01-21

PPM & IT Management â€" is now finally the time?

Best Practice in IT Management - Has PPM's time come? PPM Project Portfolio Management software products have been around several years now. They are used by IT departments, project teams, program managers and others to both manage projects but also to constantly monitor and adjust one’s project...

Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, PPM, Strategy, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-01-20

Yahoo shareholder pushes for Microsoft search deal; Assumptions too optimistic

Updated: Ivory Investment Management, a hedge fund that owns about 1.5 percent of Yahoo, is pushing the company to do a search deal with Microsoft, but the sticking point is valuation. Analysts say that Ivory's assumptions sound optimistic. In a letter reported earlier by CNBC, Ivory urges...

Tags: Revenue, Shareholder, EBITDA, Search Business, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Ivory Investment Management, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Search, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-10

Analyst: 'Worst economic environment in our collective lifetimes'

Analyst: 'Worst economic environment in our collective lifetimes'A few scratches?Anyone who escapes this exercise in a futile disaster with less than the full effects of a major machete attack will have to be not only skillful, but very very lucky, as well as blessed from On High.Glad i am in...

Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, economic environment, collective lifetime, unemployment, inflation, environment

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

Obama: good news for Sun

Obama: good news for SunThey'll switch to laptopsMy feeling is, given the mentality in most IT environments, customers will merely swap out desktop PCs for low-power-consumption laptops rather than use Sun Rays. I know from a security perspective this doesn't make sense, but when have "security measures" made sense in...

Tags: RSS, Desktops, Sun Microsystems Inc., Obama

Discussion threads 2008-11-12

Who owns the Internet?

Who owns the Internet?The internet isn't free of costsIt's necessary to pay for building, maintaining, and operating the internet. Users pay part of the cost, but, appropriately, not all. Those providing content and often making money for what they supply also are responsible for some of the expenses.So...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), UK Government, Internet, market-force, Internet Service Provider

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

When will textbook publishers get a clue?

When will textbook publishers get a clue?I buy all my books onlineI mostly use half.com, which is part of eBay. But there's also:http://www.allbookstores.com/This is an aggregator, so it searches a bunch of sites.Here's how much you can save: My "Advanced Suse Linux" book retails for $146.95 at school...

Tags: Wiki, Linux, Microsoft Office, textbook, Textbook Publishers

Discussion threads 2008-07-28

Investors give Apple the cold shoulder

Investors give Apple the cold shoulderProfit taking...Record quarters are hard to follow-up.RE: Investors give Apple the cold shoulderApple's stock price is dependent on the belief that it will deliver exponential growth. Unfortunately the reality is that Apple appears to be close to or hitting a ceiling in terms of sales...

Tags: Sales strategy, Investment, Financial accounting, Apple Inc., cold shoulder, shoulder, stock

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

Technology and the costs of change

Technology and the costs of changeMissing linkOne link which might solidify your thinking is to consider not the cost or the size of the change ... but its impact on customers. It is surely this link which one tries to firm up in writing a business case. It is the...

Tags: Mainframes, Operating systems, Microsoft Office, Unix, mainframe

Discussion threads 2008-05-19

Verizon: Want our Triple Play? Sorry, can't have it

As I wrote about last week, I just made the decision to switch our phone from Verizon to Time Warner Cable and TV services from Time Warner Cable to DIRECTV. My ideal solution would have been to sign up for Verizon's FIOS service for everything, but alas, FIOS TV service...

Tags: Phone, Verizon Communications Inc., DirecTV, Service, Telecom & Utilities, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Josh Taylor

Blog posts 2008-02-05

Realistically deploying Edubuntu

Realistically deploying EdubuntuVideo on thin-clients is never a good thingI used Windows Terminal Services in a library and the biggest complaint was always poor video performance on the workstations (i.e. web-based video streaming). Unless the video can be rendered on the client, performance is always going to suffer. I'm a...

Tags: Corporate communications, Digital video, video, Edubuntu, LTSP, fibre, performance

Discussion threads 2008-01-11