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Dan Lyons: Rotten reporting on Apple

Newsweek's Dan Lyons writes that the media's coverage of Apple bites. His rationale? For the past six months Steve Jobs has been looking terribly ill. But only this week did Apple finally acknowledge that Jobs isn't doing well, when the company announced that Jobs would take a leave for...

Tags: Steve Jobs, CNBC, Apple Inc., Lyon, Public Relations, Blogging, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-01-16

Lyons: CNBC "played and punked" by Apple spin machine

Lyons: CNBC "played and punked" by Apple spin machineIt is good to see...It is good to see that there are at least some people in the media that are not blinded by Apple's PR. I am so sick of all the sucking up to Apple from the media. I...

Tags: Public relations, Advertising & Promotion, Apple Inc., media, SCO Group Inc., CNBC

Discussion threads 2009-01-15

Lyon Highways + HP: Improving France's Road Safety

Lyon's traffic management system relies on HP Integrity servers for high reliability and fast response time to analyze, predict and control traffic in real time.

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Lyon, Servers, Hardware

Webcasts 2007-01-01

The physics of a good store location

In "Atomic Physics Predicts Successful Store Location, LiveScience reports that a French physicist has applied methods used to study atomic interactions for another task: "help business owners find the best places to locate their stores." Pablo Jensen has used his method for the city of Lyon and is now developing...

Tags: Pablo Jensen

Blog posts 2006-09-30

Webinars for adjunct profs

Adjunct faculty who are just getting their first jobs or need some additional training will be happy to know that there is a new online resource called AdjunctSuccess, reports Inside Higher Ed. AdjunctSuccess, is the brainchild of Richard E. Lyons, author of “The Adjunct Professor’s Guide to Success” and...

Tags: Lyons, webinar, Lyon

Blog posts 2006-08-22

Additional Resources

Metro Lyon Subway 1.2 (Mobile)

Metro Lyon Subway is a comprehensive guide to traveling through Lyon in France. It features detailed map of Lyon subway, landscape and portrait modes are available, detailed map of almost all lines in Lyon, precise location of each station on the map, bookmark manager allows you to save your stations...

Tags: Station, Mobile, Presselite, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-04

GIMI Server 9.2.402 (Windows)

GIMI offers visibility and control of your IT assets during the entire life cycle of equipment from its arrival to its departure from the group of fixed assets. GIMI optimizes the use of goods, reduces costs, improves service quality and guarantees to your company a positive return on investment of...

Tags: Asset, Database, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows, GIMI Server 9.2.402, PCI, Asset Management, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management

Software downloads 2009-07-31

Where are the French code warriors when it's "Le Weekend?"

A startup based in Silicon Valley and Lyon, France contacted me on Friday about a new service it had just launched and asked me to check it out. I looked at the service and saw there was a problem with some of the Javascript and told...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Team, Service, Team Management, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-06

MetrO (PPC) (Mobile)

Metro helps you find your way in the public transport systems (subway, bus, trams, ...) in more than 4000 cities around the world. FREE, FAST & ACCURATE. Simply enter you start and end stops, hit the "Go" button and the program finds the fastest route.Many more features to discover:Operating time...

Tags: City, Mobile, P.Bernard & F.Van Caenegem, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-06-03

Our fancy Internet infrastructure operates on a wire and a prayer

The fiber-optic outage---actually sabotage---in the Bay Area on Thursday reveals a dirty little secret: Our infrastructure is ridiculously vulnerable and it only takes a few vandals or terrorists to bring communication to its knees.  While it's unclear what exactly happened, AT&T is offering a $100,000 now $250,000 reward...

Tags: Fiber-optics, Internet-infrastructure, Barrett Lyon, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Network Technology, Transportation, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-10

Lyons: CNBC "played and punked" by Apple spin machine

This interview of Newsweek's Dan Lyons on CNBC is definitely worth a watch. In in Lyon's claims that CNBC's Silicon Valley Bureau Chief Jim Goldman was "played and punked" by the Apple spin machine on the issue of Steve Jobs' health. Speaking about Apple's transparency (or lack...

Tags: CNBC, Apple Inc., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-01-15

Business School Enhances Student Learning With Collaboration Software

At Ecole de Management de Lyon EM Lyon Business School, students learn about real-world uses of information technology in business. Just as today's business workplace has become increasingly decentralized, with employees using technology to stay connected while working remotely, EM Lyon students need to remain in contact with peers and...

Tags: Software, Student, Business School, Collaboration

Case studies 2009-01-09

I'm a PC and, yes, I love Vista

* Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest editorial by Todd Hooper  It's true - I'm a PC. Searching through my 2006 emails recently reminded me it was two years ago this month when I loaded a beta of Windows Vista on...

Tags: Security, PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Laptop Computer, NAP Agent, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-11-26

A live, more interactive Rev3

Television and the Internet are on a collision course that will revolutionize entertainment, but Revision3 is always one step ahead of the game. Today, they launched a new live video player that allows the user to be the director. That's right, you...

Tags: Episode, Media Players, Internet, Corporate Communications, Instant Messaging, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Online Communications, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-11-21

What paper trail?

I’ve been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I’ve blogged before, I am still one of those people who can’t help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....

Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Obama resisters claim campaign to silence blogs

On the battlefield that is Blogger, a fight is raging, apparently, between pro- and anti-Obama bloggers. Some pro-Clinton, anti-Obama bloggers are reporting that, all of a sudden, their blogs are being flagged as spam â€" and Google bots have dutifully blocked the bloggers from updating their sites. Simon Owens reported...

Tags: Google Inc., Blog, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Two green tech confabs coming up in early June

For those of you green tech types who have occasion to be on the west coast in mid-June, there are two conferences you might want to drop by. The earlier meeting, in San Francisco, is focused on the development of universal power supplies for all ...

Tags: Green Technology, Cell Phone, Conference, Transportation, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-05-20

A robotic chef for your kitchen?

The European Commission has founded a project named 'Co-operative Human Robot Interaction Systems' CHRIS for a cost of €3.65 million. The project, which started in March 2008, will last 4 years. It is based at Bristol Robotics Lab BRL which will work with the University of the West of England...

Tags: Project, CHRIS, Service Robot, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-15

University Improves Security and Access to Information for Campus Community

The University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 in France wanted to improve access to applications for students and employees while strengthening security. To meet these goals, the university is implementing a solution based on Windows Server 2008. Users will be able to more easily connect to multiple applications while on campus...

Tags: Security, Microsoft Access, University, Server Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Terminal Services, Virtualization, Microsoft Office, Databases, Servers, Hardware, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Office Suites, Enterprise Software, Data Management

Case studies 2008-05-01

Fixing the unfairness of TCP congestion control

Fixing the unfairness of TCP congestion controlWowThis puts a whole new perspective on the debate about internet bandwidth throttling by ISPs... I doubt the average user who wants unrestricted internet access is aware of the impact of P2P using multiple streamsRE: Fixing the unfairness of TCP congestion controlWhy wouldn't using...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), TCP/IP, Network technology, NETWORKING, Overall IT, ALTQ, P2P, QoS, TCP Congestion Control, unfairness, IP, TCP, internal IP, bandwidth hog, router

Discussion threads 2008-03-24