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- "I Am Rich" iPhone app - a steal at $999.99!
- Several of you have been pinging me today wondering what I think about the "I Am Rich" iPhone app that made an appearance in the Apple App Store. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: apple iphone, mantra, app, policies and procedures, digital music, digital media, human resources, personal technology, consumer electronics, adrian kingsley-hughes
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Coach's 'Ubuntu' mantra helps lead Boston Celtics to NBA Finals
- Coach's 'Ubuntu' mantra helps lead Boston Celtics to NBA Finals....One more way Open Source is helping the community as a whole! ]:)
- Tags: NBA Finals, Boston Celtics, NBA, Ubuntu
- Discussion threads 2008-05-31
- Coach's 'Ubuntu' mantra helps lead Boston Celtics to NBA Finals
- Doc Rivers' "Ubuntu" mantra helped lead the Boston Celtics to its first NBA Eastern Conference championship in 20 years. So said one ESPN commentator, citing the Beantown coach's use of the African term as a way to drive the team's "collective success." The sportscaster said it following the Celts win...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Team, Mantra, NBA, Team Management, Linux, Open Source, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- At FCC, change must be the mantra
- At FCC, change must be the mantraUniversal service is a worthy goal? In the USA it is a birthrightThe mantra is that the air is a public commons. There is no privatization opportunity here. We can not have trans national big businesses mucking up the greatest public commons of all...
- Tags: Federal government, Universal Service, FCC, mantra, spectrum
- Discussion threads 2008-02-25
- Eight Essential Mantras for BI Outsourcing Success
- Any BI initiative is a multiyear, multifunction business-oriented implementation with changing business scenarios and associated complications and nuances. When the dimension of outsourcing is added, the nuances and complications need more thought and deeper attention. These eight key mantras hold the key to successful BI outsourcing. Develop the Right Mind-Set,...
- Tags: Mantra, Nuance, Complication, Investcorp, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2007-10-11
- Goodbye, Java EE?
- Goodbye, Java EE?vacuous crap ...it's hardly worth commenting on this sort of report other than to denounce itPractically unlikelyDo you think those companies like IBM,Oracle and others who are making huge invenstments in J2EE platform based applications simply throw those away in five years ? Not at all./NuwanBizTechJournal.comWhere's the beef?!Just...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Middleware, Web services, Application servers, Enterprise software, SOA, J2EE, Java, mantra, Microsoft .NET
- Discussion threads 2006-07-11
- Gartner Symposium 05
- To call the annual Gartner conference at Disney World a trade show is not completely fair. It is a mind share event where attendees get to absorb as much as they can hold on IT Architecture, best practices, a whole bunch of stuff I never heard of, and a...
- Tags: security, Gartner Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-10-18
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- A new method to study origin of life
- A new method to study origin of lifeStart from the other endStart with a conclusion, then only accept/invent things that support that conclusion. The kool-aid is so much smoother that way. ;)Phylogenetic algorhythmsAn evaluation of the worth of the methodology should start with examining how the analysis is accomplished.You may...
- Tags: Biotechnology, kool-Aid, Darwin
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Chrome's EULA is a cut 'n' paste showstopper
- When I said that CXO's wouldn't give Google Chrome a nanosecond's thought, I under-estimated. They'll give it about five seconds and then pass straight to the corporate legal department. Why? EULA Clause 11.1: You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that...
- Tags: Google Inc., EULA, Chrome, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Google Chrome: The enterprise playbook
- Google Chrome: The enterprise playbookR&DThey are essentially a R&D company. So it just makes since they will put out loads of products and see what consumers bite on. I don't think it is a shotgun approach, just a product of their structure.Will Live Search work with Chrome?That should...
- Tags: Web browsers, Google Software, Google Inc., Google Chrome
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- Ruminating on Chrome
- On an otherwise non news day, the comic book launch of Chrome by Google has got the digital ether all aglow with excitement. I can only shrug. Despite the thinking this is 'big news' and garnering mainstream media attention at both the WSJ and the UK's Guardian, I can't see...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Chrome, Web Browsers, Open Source, Internet, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- Intuit: software and services. Are you kidding me?
- I must admit to have been befuddled by Larry Dignan's interpretation of Intuit's current go to market strategy as analogous to Microsoft's software plus services mantra. This is the salient quote from Intuit's Q4 earnings call my emphasis added: We've talked about the fact that our growth for the...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Intuit Inc., Payroll, Intuit QuickBooks, Service, SaaS Offering, Software As A Service (SaaS), Operational Accounting, Cloud Computing, Payroll Solutions, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Over my dead body
- Over my dead bodyStick to what you know, Murph!Hmm, last week you were saying you had little experience with SMEs and were offering space on your blog to those who do, today you are making stunningly sweeping generalizations about their employees! Where's your data!?My business focus, since 1993, has been...
- Tags: SMB/SME, PRODUCTIVITY, dead body, villain, small and medium enterprise
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- iTunes Unlimited: music subscription rumor returns
- We've heard the rumors of an iTunes subscription service before, but they've never materialized. It doesn't hurt that Steve Jobs has long been a vociferous opponent of rental music paying one monthly fee for unlimited music downloads. When asked about it he recites his familiar mantra that "people want to...
- Tags: Apple iTunes, Music, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Compromise on the drinking age debate
- Compromise on the drinking age debateThe Land of Misfit toysA brief conpendium of former Rice people would have to include Howard Hughes, Carrie Bradshaw and Matt Wilson, all of whom left after their freshman year.Among our graduates are John Doerr, writers William Broyles and Bill Goyen, game designer Steve Jackson...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, drinking age, beverage
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Apple tops customer satisfaction survey ... again
- Apple tops customer satisfaction survey ... againDellI have always owned Dell machines. Although I have never had to have one of them replaced, I have heard fro mothers that it was a painstaking process. So it makes sense that they are 10 points behind Apple. My friends that have had...
- Tags: Linux, Product marketing, Operating systems, UNIX, customer satisfaction, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Don't downgrade me to XP!
- Don't downgrade me to XP!except thatVista won't with our printers, or our scanners, or our cameras, or much of our vital s/w.It isn't logical to buy all new and then have vista be slower than tar on a winters day on the machines it's put on.Don't downgrade me to XP:...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Nvidia: We underestimated AMD
- Nvidia: We underestimated AMDWait till they get a dose of IntelI'm thinking Nvidia has underestimated the CPU powerhouses. Applying the CPU frenzy to the graphics side of AMD and Intel's business will prove to be whoop-azz they did not anticipate.The fact that their chips fail and drivers stink will give...
- Tags: Processors, Semiconductors, NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Nvidia: We underestimated AMD
- Nvidia had one ugly second quarter. It lost money. It took a charge for defective chips. And it's stuck with low-margin inventory it has to burn off. Amazing how a little price competition from AMD's ATI can magnify poor execution at Nvidia. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Video Cards, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Gmail outage the latest cloud stumble; Where's the offline synching?
- Google's Gmail outage on Monday was the latest stumble for nascent cloud computing services, which are becoming the lifeblood for small businesses and startups. The Gmail outage--along with Amazon's stumbles of late--raises a few key questions: Where's the offline synchronization capability? Can we depend solely on the Web? Is Microsoft's...
- Tags: Software, Google Inc., Google Gmail, Backup, Microsoft Corp., Outage, Service, MobileMe, Ryan, Cloud Computing, E-mail Providers, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
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