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Apple to Verizon: 'Can your phone and your network do that?'
The REAL way the commercials should go...caller: Did you get the email I sent you?iPhone user: Well, it was downloading, then the phone dropped to EDGE speed again and I'm still waiting for it to finish.caller: Well, why don't I ju...iPhone user: Hello? Hello? caller calls back: I guess your...
Tags: Smart phones, Telecom & Utilities, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, network, Verizon Communications Inc., phone, Apple iPhone, iPhone User, Apple Inc.
Discussion threads 2009-11-23
Yes, based on Mac history, Windows 7.5 will suck less
Ummmm..."Windows 1: Shipped in 1985 and nobody cared.Windows 2: Shipped in 1987 and few cared.Windows 3: Came out in 1990 and PC users cared, especially with Windows 3.1 in 1992 (And I include here the introduction of Windows NT, which I believe was given a 3.x number.)Windows 4: Windows 95....
Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Windows 7.5, Mac history, Apple Macintosh
Discussion threads 2009-11-01
ComScore: Microsoft's Bing holds steady in its search share
I know I haven't stopped using it! nt:PI've only used it when it was shoved down my throatWhen using XP and EI 7, some how it just pulls up Bing sometimes even though I have google set as default.I use it exclusivelyNo problems here and share will only climb.Don't care,...
Tags: SEARCH, Operating systems, Google Inc., Bing, Microsoft Bing, Microsoft Corp., ComScore Networks Inc.
Discussion threads 2009-10-14
OpenSource World kicks off with sparse crowds, nothing-new keynote
there are 2 reasons1.Most OSS advocates who are conservative real Americans, are exercising their constitutional rights by protesting Obama's crazy health care 'reform'.2.Some M$ agents outside the building are taking pictures and writing down license plate numbers in order to scare people who think that their name might end up...
Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Microsoft Windows
Discussion threads 2009-08-12
Inside Curve: Lane Bryant Scores Plus Plus
Who doesn't love style and fashion?  Well, I suppose I don't love fashion, judging from my incredibly poor clothing selection skills (I rely 100% on my wife, who has mad skills when it comes to picking out good looking clothes) but I am in love with style. I love to...
Tags: Apparel, Exclusion, Community, Brand, Women, Network, American Eagle, Bebe, Curve, Jay, Kate Moss, Gender And Diversity, Social Networking, Branding, Human Resources, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Paul Greenberg
Blog posts 2009-08-03
Amazon gets bullied, pulls purchased e-books from Kindles
Amazon gets bullied, pulls purchased e-books from KindlesDTPALet's hope somebody decides to sue their butts off under a state's Deceptive Trade Practices Act -- claiming that an item sold has qualities, characteristics, source, certification, approval or etc., which in fact it does not have (e.g., claiming non-kosher products are kosher)....
Tags: E-books, Amazon.com Inc., e-book
Discussion threads 2009-07-17
What would you do for a free iPhone 3G S?
What would you do for a free iPhone 3G S?I'd eat a Klondik Bar! nt.RE: What would you do for a free iPhone 3G S?"I?ve given up all hope of publishing anything meaningful on ZDNet"Really? I didn't know you'd started.Easy one.Run Vista unpatched... on a scrap machine.Feel Your PainYou could...
Tags: Smart phones, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G S, iPile, Apple iPhone 3G, Give Up
Discussion threads 2009-06-17
The CIA's Collaboration Growth Curve & IBM's Lotusphere ecosystem
The CIA's Collaboration Growth Curve & IBM's Lotusphere ecosystemCan't stuff the Web back in a box ...Oliver -- I think the three parts of this post fit together very well, particularly the network effects and the collaboration curve theme.The JH, JSB, and LD quotes make the point: People and institutions...
Tags: Groupware, Fax, collaboration, IBM Corp., Web, CIA
Discussion threads 2009-04-17
The CIA's Collaboration Growth Curve & IBM's Lotusphere ecosystem
One of the highlights of last June's Enterprise 2.0 conference was Don Burke and Sean Dennehy of the US Central Intelligence Agency CIA describing how their 'Intellipedia' wikis were transforming the agency into a more collaborative organization: that presentation is embedded above. Ten...
Tags: Fax Machine, CIA, Network, IBM Corp., Intellipedia, Fax, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
Blog posts 2009-04-16
End of tax-free Internet shopping may be near
End of tax-free Internet shopping may be nearYou have provided a prime exampleof why the so called "Fair Tax" is so grossly unfair and only a "Flat Tax" can be made truly progressive, by placing a large (2 times the annualized minimum wage) personal deduction into the code. RE: End...
Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, WTF, tax, Vender, tax-free Internet shopping, Internet shopping, sales tax, Internet
Discussion threads 2009-04-16
Burton Group study reveals enterprise social networking priorities
Burton Group principal analyst Mike Gotta recently published the first of six parts of his Enterprise Social Networks Field Research Study. The study aims to determine whether or not social networking has reached critical mass within the enterprise or if the concept is merely buzz. The first...
Tags: Burton Group, Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio
Blog posts 2009-03-24
Windows Mobile does better than iPhone in 4th quarter 2008
Windows Mobile does better than iPhone in 4th quarter 2008Let's face it, NZ---An awful lot of "the faithful" weren't "the faithful" until AFTER they bought the iPhone!Other important data pointsMy data comes directly from Gartner's release:http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=910112[i]In the fourth quarter of 2008, Microsoft's share of the global smartphone market improved sequentially,...
Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Operating systems, Handhelds, mobile, Microsoft Windows, Apple iPhone, sales, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows Mobile
Discussion threads 2009-03-11
Can IBM sustain its momentum?
It's amazing how after years of clamoring for the top line, financial analysts have woken up to earnings quality as a measure of success. That is best exemplified in IBM's better than expected Q4 results which Larry Dignan dissected a short while ago. At one level you...
Tags: IBM Corp., Web 2.0, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Internet, Software, Dennis Howlett
Blog posts 2009-01-20
How to be less stupid in 2009
The title of this post was going to be 'How to be more smart in 2009' but three things changed my mind. First up several of my Twitter followers 'voted' for the 'less stupid' title, second several posts I saw in catching up on New Year reading had me groaning...
Tags: Information Technology, Geek, Tool, Mike, Production Deployment, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Dennis Howlett
Blog posts 2009-01-06
Public betas of Windows 7 client and server could hit this week
Public betas of Windows 7 client and server could hit this weekPrivate beta guys like me rule...I am a private beta customer and I laugh at people who use public betas. A private beta is like driving a Mercedes whereas a public beta is like driving a US made car....
Tags: Microsoft Windows, public beta, Windows 7 Client, Microsoft Windows 7, product key, beta, rep, server
Discussion threads 2009-01-06
30GB Zunes go on strike for New Year
30GB Zunes go on strike for New YearEven you must admit...that a hardware failure, such as a hard drive, is not the same as a firmware update that contains a time bomb.Did you buy the puck green one?Never heard of a mass failure of iPods, so this certainly is a...
Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Loverock, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Apple iPod
Discussion threads 2008-12-31
Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet;  Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...
Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
Blog posts 2008-10-27
Associative arrays and elections data
Associative arrays and elections dataThis is a very useful data structureand what modern language doesnt provide an implementation of it?Neat as your solution it, I have say though I think you're a little hard on SQL. As this data is probably in a RDMBS anyway, if you can write a...
Tags: Programming languages, Scripting languages, Development tools, Databases, Perl, J Smith, John Smith, Associative Arrays
Discussion threads 2008-10-25
Oracle OpenWorld: a view from the cheap seats
While Sam Diaz and Mike Krigsman are slaving away in the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco at this year's Oracle OpenWorld I get the pleasure of observing from the comfort of my office in downtown Hicksville, Spain some 5,500 miles away. Once more, Oracle dropped...
Tags: Oracle Corp., BEA Beehive, Java Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Dennis Howlett
Blog posts 2008-09-22
Michael Dell's a believer: Makes a $100 million statement
Michael Dell's a believer: Makes a $100 million statementDoes that make him...?Just wondering if that makes him the majority shareholder now? Or could that be his goal, to make sure he retains control over Dell as a rule because he may be considering stepping aside as CEO to pursue something...
Tags: Mortgages, Dell Computer Corp., Michael Dell, believer
Discussion threads 2008-07-03
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