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Just TRY to return a malfunctioning, hacked iPhone

Just TRY to return a malfunctioning, hacked iPhone+1+1You don't understand the Magnuson ActThe Magnuson act was passed specifically for cases like you mention, car radios and engines. However, that doesn't mean it magically extends to things like modified cell phones. For example, the hard drive in my Tivo...

Tags: Manufacturing, SECURITY, Apple iPhone, car analogy, Magnuson-Moss Act, Magnuson Act

Discussion threads 2007-09-21

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VMworld is bringing out the vendors

Planning for an announcement is a challenging task. Large suppliers know that just about whatever they do will be picked up by the media and presented to the world. Smaller vendors have a much more difficult time getting heard. So, picking the right place and time for an announcement is...

Tags: Supplier, Announcement, VMworld, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Martin jabs back at Comcast over suit

FCC chairman Kevin J. Martin responded to Comcast's lawsuit challenging the agency's authority to sanction the company. "Given Comcast's past failure to disclose its network management practices to its customers, it is important Comcast respond to the many still-unanswered questions about its new management techniques," Martin...

Tags: Comcast Corp., Federal Government, Advertising & Promotion, Productivity, Networking, Government, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Comcast challenges FCC authority

I don't have time to review this right now, but I wanted to get it up ASAP. Comcast is appealing the FCC decision on network management, even though it plans to comply. Here's the message I received: In connection with its filing today in the...

Tags: FCC, Commission, Network, Comcast Corp., Network Management, Sales Force Management, Federal Government, Internet, Networking, Sales, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Family entertainment act

There was an assertionin the comments on the story Guns 'n' Roses that the prosecution would have to prove some economic damages. How do they plan on proving financial impact in court? Piracy rates are calculated by comparing ESTIMATED demand for a product...

Tags: Entertainment, Title, Piracy Rate, Sales Strategy, Performance Management, Advertising & Promotion, Sales, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Hybrids v. Pickensplan? You do the pickin'

Hybrids v. Pickensplan? You do the pickin'How about a plug in hybrid that uses CNG and electric?How about a plug in hybrid that uses CNG and electric instead of gasoline/electric? The other thing to consider is that trucks, construction equipment, and farm equipment could be converted to CNG....

Tags: CNG, car

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Slash to album poster: 'Rot in jail'

You might question why illegally posting an unreleased album on your website should put you in federal penitentiary for three years, but Guns 'n' Roses guitarist Slash doesn't. "I hope he rots in jail," said Slash, the former Guns N' Roses...

Tags: Resource, Attorney, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-03

Acer Aspire X1200-U1520A

The Acer Aspire X1200 line of minidesktops fits budget PC components inside a compact case and offers some features that let it act as a light home theater companion. Our $450 review model came with a dual-core AMD processor, 4GB of memory, and 64-bit Windows Vista, which make it...

Tags: Corporate communications, Semiconductors, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, Consumer electronics, Aspire X1200, Acer Inc., video, chip

Product reviews 2008-09-02

VMware's R&D chief quits after 9 months

VMware said Tuesday that its executive vice president of research and development has resigned after nine months on the job. In a terse statement, VMware said that Richard Sarwal quit to go back to Oracle. Sarwal joined VMware in December 2007. VMware CEO Paul...

Tags: Stock Option, Security, Amount, R&D, Stock, Employment, Agreement, VMware Inc., Company, RSU, Control, Change, Cause, Person, Stock Options, Investment, Benefits, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-02

Follow that robot!

Three years after the development of robots that act like rats, UC Davis engineers have designed a control system for robots allowing them to pick up on cues that the leader is about to turn, predict where it is going and follow it. This system mimics the human ability to...

Tags: Cue, Leader, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-09-01

Windows Live Messenger 9: my new best friend

Windows Live Messenger 9: my new best friendCryptic?Whats with the secret message in the article?RE: Windows Live Messenger 9: my new best friendLiveSide...I see its still stuffed with adverts......thats one reason not to consider it..RE: Windows Live Messenger 9: my new best friendIt's the only way they keep the software...

Tags: Instant messaging, Web site development, Windows Live Messenger 9, new best friend, Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-09-01

Partnoy's Complaint

Partnoy's ComplaintI don't think Wall Street will take that bet....Wall Street bets on financial performance, not processor performance. A bet on pure processor performance, assuming we can agree on a measure for that, would ignore all kinds of financial issues with the companies involved.Why is performance significant?Are sales determined by...

Tags: Performance management, Financial accounting, financial, performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Partnoy

Discussion threads 2008-08-30

Actions speak louder than words and the message is disheartening

Here's a rhetorical question: If you're holding a seminar about the benefits of green technology strategy, should you really be giving away a gas card as one of the incentives to sign up? I thought not. For shame! But, as Forrester Research points out in a new...

Tags: Global Warming, Forrester Research Inc., Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-30

JavaScript 2.0: Why Give Programmers Crutches?

[Guest Comment from Shane Steinert-Threlkeld] A new spec on which JavaScript 2.0 will be based , should be finalized by the end of the fall. Yet most of the proposed changes do close to nothing to actually improve the language. A lot of...

Tags: JavaScript, Programmer, JavaScript 2.0, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-29

Where the Linux laptops live

Where the Linux laptops liveMore to the point, what % of Amazon's laptop sales are linux machines?NTShould be titled: 1/3 of amazon.com laptops are available with linuxThe Asus eee (EeE, eEE, Eee, whatever) machines have a choice of windows xp or linux so simply citing a sale of an eee...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux laptop, Dana, Linux-version, Linux, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2008-08-29

Opera grasps at straws with latest IE criticism

Opera grasps at straws with latest IE criticismWell, everything MS does is carefully calculated to make you think they aresupporting standards, at the same time creating a lot of confusion and dragging their feet. But, maybe Opera is being a little picky here, they should just talk about the overall...

Tags: Web browsers, Channel management, Opera Software, Microsoft Internet Explorer, latest IE criticism, IE criticism, Microsoft Corp., Web, standards, straw, compatibility mode

Discussion threads 2008-08-29

Guns n Roses leaker faces prison time

How he got ahold of them, he's not saying but LA blogger Kevin Cogill did get ahold and posted unreleased songs from a new Guns n Roses album, Chinese Democracy. Cogill awoke Wednesday to find five FBI agents hauling his ass into a federal district court, charged for...

Tags: Bail, Agent, Judge, Skwerl, Real Estate, Public Relations, Blogging, Federal Government, Business Operations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Now that the HP-EDS deal has been consummated

The Irregulars draws its 'crew' from a wide and varied group of technology interests. One is Charlie Bess, an EDS Fellow. These are the brightest of the brightest among EDS thinkers and we are honored to have Charlie's insights. Now that the HP-EDS deal has been consummated, Charlie felt free...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Outsourcing, Investment, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers

Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, has offered a thoughtful but misguided palliative at CNN to the shortcomings of the age of networked democracy. ... if you know how Americans use the Net to talk, you can easily stay in touch with real people. ...

Tags: Politics, Democracy, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-08-27

(Photos: Inside Brazil's slums)

(Photos: Inside Brazil's slums)ProximityWhile North America tends to have affluent and poor areas of town, many countries don't work that way. You can walk along a canal of slums in S.E.Asia and hit the entrance to one of the wealthiest neighborhoods. They're not ten meters apart.Inclusão Digitalpost duplicadoInclusão DigitalParabéns pela...

Tags: Vertical industries, city name, slum, Paulo Perantunes, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-08-27