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Magic bullet fix for your iPhone ills

Magic bullet fix for your iPhone illsNot even Windows users reinstall this often!At least bitrot in Windows takes 6 months. OS X only lasts a week before it needs to be wiped out and reinstalled! :)

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Magic Bullet, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-07-27

Today's Debate: Is computing the magic bullet for health care costs?

Today's Debate: Is computing the magic bullet for health care costs?Qui bono?Let's see:* Nothing in it for the patient* Nothing in it for the practitioner* Nothing in it for the hospital* Nothing in it for the ultimate payee Government or employer mostly* Huge cost savings for insurersContrary to the approach...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, electronic record system, health care, patient, magic bullet, Nothing

Discussion threads 2007-08-28

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GoPro Motorsports HD Hero

GoPro had a hit on its hands with the first-generation GoPro Hero. The small camera combined decent video quality and rugged reliability in a small package that was easy to use in action-based scenarios. However, the Hero wasn't without its flaws. Finicky battery choices that often cut recording sessions short...

Tags: Corporate communications, Engineering, battery, video, camera

Product reviews 2009-11-24

Geoengineering warning to Congress

A British scientist recently warned some American Congressmen: geoengineering schemes are not a magic bullet. Furthermore, there's no guarantee any human effort can reverse global warming. by Harry Fuller

Tags: U.S. Congress, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-11-15

The troubling thoughts re: outsourcing

Some facts and inferences should be updatedAccenture's Consulting revenue dropped 12% and Outsourcing grew by 1%http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2009/Accentures-Future-Remains-Bright-ACN-IBM-HPQ1005.aspxSome of the issues you highlighted around process innovation, dated technology, etc will continue to remain. However, the nimbler players will also adopt the benefits of innovations like SaaS and Cloud platform.Underlying platform is an...

Tags: Managed hosting, Business process outsourcing (BPO), Programming languages, outsourcing, BPO, COBOL, outsourcing company

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Climate change driven IT spend: are we being hoodwinked?

One of the great things about being an Irregular is that every now and again, one of our motley band will toss a pebble into a pond which sends ripples. Last weekend Jeff Nolan, one of our founders and a great personal friend said this: ...

Tags: Information Technology, Carbon Dioxide, Climate, Argument, Tom, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Weekend stuff: learning with Suw via Twitter

I often hear how Twitter is the magic bullet to so many things and as a hardcore enterprisey type and despite my personal Twitt-addiction, I'd usually say: 'Pft.' Today taught me a couple of things that may yet change my mind. Suw Charman-Anderson, a UK colleague randomly...

Tags: Twitter, Suw Charman-Anderson, Vinnie, Social Networking, Branding, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-05-22

AT&T's iPhone vs. Pre comparison chart

AT&T's iPhone vs. Pre comparison chartIt's more about the service than the phone.Obviously not everyone agrees, but for me then it's more about the service than the phone. I want an iPhone pretty badly but since ATT sucks then I'm all for the Pre. Not because the Pre is some...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, AT&T Corp., Sprint Communications, Pre, Apple iPhone, phone

Discussion threads 2009-04-23

The Microsoft defense brief

The Microsoft defense briefDoes fit the known factsBut it doesn't sound much like a defense. RE: The Microsoft defense briefI don't think your description of Matt Asay's response is accurate; it was not an incendiary as you indicate. Asay has been exploring two themes the past few...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., patent, Phelp

Discussion threads 2009-04-11

From Windows to Unix: a mental journey

From Windows to Unix: a mental journeyAn idealogically unnecessary journey......that will waste time and energy for those who use what works, not what is politically preferred by people who have tunnel vision.Arrogance"With Windows and zOS you care mostly about applications, with Unix you care mostly about users."I call BS. If...

Tags: Operating systems, Unix, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-01-24

Six new annoyances introduced in Windows 7

Six new annoyances introduced in Windows 7I knew there had to be bad news somewhereI was encouraged by what Ed had to say, but...Thanks for the article.That was the problem with search all alongYeah note on that search: Search is not a magical cure for poor organization, and yeah stuff...

Tags: new annoyance, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-01-08

IT offshoring is exaggerated and the IT labor shortage is real

IT offshoring is exaggerated and the IT labor shortage is realAs of September...... a sudden decrease in interest in hiring people is understandable. That's when many people decided to believe what they heard and the economy tanked.There's a question to what degree the banking crisis had to spread to...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Problem 4, Problem 2, Problem 1, STEM worker, job, information technology, IT Labor Shortage, IT Offshoring

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

4 signs that it's time to restore your iPhone

Does your iPhone exhibit any of the following symptoms?: Laggy access to the Text/SMS application Longer that five second delay to get a live image in the Camera application Long pause before being able to scroll in Contacts Delay when clicking on the letter...

Tags: Apple iPhone, E-mail, Notebooks, Online Communications, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-11

Resurrecting E-voting

Resurrecting E-votingDifficulty of subverting voting machinesIt seems to me that any system can be tampered with to render the vote dishonest. However, some configurations make such tampering very hard while others are much easier to subvert. You should talk about the relative difficulty and not whether or not...

Tags: SECURITY, Resurrecting E-voting, risk, e-voting

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

News to know: Geek sheets; Cuil; Apple; DNS patch

Notable headlines: Jason Perlow: Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives SSDs and Linux Gallery: Crucial Micron Solid State Drives My Sunday Afternoon: Fun with VMWare ESX 3i Dana Blankenhorn: The Microsoft way with Apache ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Data Center, DNS, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Domain Names, Video Cards, Linux, Storage, Semiconductors, Networking, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Components, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-07-28

Magic bullet fix for your iPhone ills

I've been having a lot of iPhone 3G trouble over the past two weeks, most notably: Forced backup of the entire phone on every sync Contact lag The horrible app update process I'm happy to report on what appears to be the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Backups, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Digital Media, Digital Music, jason D. O'Grady, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-07-27

Thinking about multicore and software

Informit.com recently ran a fascinating Andrew Binstock interview with Donald Knuth touching on some of the same topics we discuss here - programming methods, the value of open source, and the links between programming and hardware change. I want to get...

Tags: Software, Job, T2, Multi-core, Hardware, Multi-threading, Tim Bray, Open Source, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-09

Moore's Law and health care

Roland Piquepaille's latest take on nanobots in the bloodstream has me reflecting on the greatest force we have available for surviving health care inflation. Moore's Law. Moore's Law, the idea that technology gets faster-and-faster faster-and-faster, is not applied often enough to health care. Regulation...

Tags: Health Care, Moore, Law, Nanoscience, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-20

McAfee isn't "McAfee Secure" or "Hacker Safe"

In my most recent discussion on McAfee, I posted a talkback to Russ McRee stating, tongue in cheek mind you, that it'd be interesting to see an XSS or SQL Injection on McAfee's site, see if they are indeed "McAfee Secure". Well, I guess you get what you ask for......

Tags: McAfee Inc., XSS, Hacker, Tool, Productivity, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Fixing Windows Vista, Part 3: Top Troubleshooting Tools

Do you think Windows Vista is slow, crash-prone, or unreliable? Join the crowd. Over the past year, reviews of Windows Vista by mainstream media outlets, the technical press, bloggers, and ordinary users have been, for the most part, scathing. And many of those bad reviews were absolutely accurate. My...

Tags: Performance, PC, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, CPU, Tool, Dialog Box, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Performance Management, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-05-06