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Influence is productive

Influence is productiveIf I never read Mr. Lanham's book ...... then I will not know what Mr. Lanham thinks. Just as I do not know what Socrates thought because Socrates wrote nothing.And, in fact, were I to read one book by Mr. Lanham, I would not know what...

Tags: misstatement, Marshall McLuhan, Lanham, Kant

Discussion threads 2006-05-22

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Two small countries thinking big, and green

Two small countries thinking big, and green....Rock on! And the US continues to fall behind... ironic, no? ]:)Arizona is doing the same asinine thingThey are building a THREE SQUARE MILE solar power plant using more steel than the golden gate bridge!It will power 70,000 homes.Toshiba makes a nuclear power plant...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, small country, Cyprus

Discussion threads 2008-06-08

Sales-driven IT failures

Sales-driven IT failuresSaving a sales-driven project from failureTop-performing project managers wear three hats: besides the titular PM role, they’re also consultants and salespeople while still being paid like project managers. Often, three hats are the minimum number required to deal with a potential sales-driven project failure. And projects...

Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, sales team, sales

Discussion threads 2008-04-04

Cry wolf on everything?

Patient Access To Durable Medical Equipment May Be Threatened By Competitive Acquisition Program. That's the headline on a recent press release from AdvaMed, the medical device industry lobby. In it, President Stephen Ubl right complains that if Medicare and Medicaid go forward on competitive...

Tags: Patient, Matter, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-25

Does Hilf speak for Microsoft on open source?

Does Hilf speak for Microsoft on open source?Does a Tiger have stripes?An Elephant a trunk? A Leopard spots?You bet he does, and the cows will come home before he changes them, too.Be sure to face the speaker so you can see what comes out of both sides of his mouth....

Tags: Does Hilf, open source, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-11-16

Windows Home Server won't launch on August 27

Windows Home Server won't launch on August 27WHS Not ready for ANY RELEASE DATE.I tested RC1 Windows Home Server and found that it was a sloppy piece of Windows 2003 Server cut and pasting. 0) None of the install screens were anywhere near ready for user installs. Half of them...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Servers, Microsoft Corp., server, Microsoft Windows, Windows Home, Microsoft Windows Home Server, RC1

Discussion threads 2007-08-19

Will Sarbox change ding IT vendors?

The Securities and Exchange Commission tweaked its Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and that could be bad news for the technology companies, consultants and accountants on the Sarbox gravy train. The SEC said Wednesday that it was making changes to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, known in some quarters as the accountant and consultant employment...

Tags: General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-05-24

US puts China, Russia on copyright watch list

The Bush Administration put China, Russia and 10 other countries on a "priority watch list" for copyright infringement, a status that makes it more likely the US could bring trade cases against them in the World Trade Organization, the Washington Post reports. "We must defend ideas, inventions and creativity...

Tags: Government technology, International

Blog posts 2007-04-30

Amazon sues Alexaholic...everyone loses!

Amazon sues Alexaholic...everyone loses!Self-selected sampleYou're correct that only small samles are required to produce results very likely to be true of the much larger population being studied. However, reliable samples are randomly selected. Just as a web poll doesn't apply to more than the participants (and not even...

Tags: Channel management, Alexia, Alexa Internet Inc., Amazon.com Inc., diamond

Discussion threads 2007-04-18

Microsoft targets more software pirates

Microsoft targets more software piratesThis is the correct strategyInstead of treating all Windows users as potential thieves with WGA, simply go after the real thieves.Does this mean nowthat the ridiculous high priced Windows Vista , will be lowered in price . If not , then why is Microsoft stating that...

Tags: Games, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, game, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, software pirate, Microsoft Windows Vista, software

Discussion threads 2007-04-02

OpenDocument versus Microsoft's Open XML: War of words intensifies

Yesterday, the fecal matter started to hit the fan when Sun's director of Web technologies Tim Bray responded to comments made by Microsoft standards and open source general manager Jason Matusow regarding the OpenDocument Format ODF. Today, Andy Updegrove (lawyer for OASIS, the consoritium that published the ODF...

Tags: ISO, OpenDocument Format

Blog posts 2006-05-09

The Beatles in court (again) with Apple

The Beatles in court again with AppleApple Computer made an agreement,they should be forced to live by it.Apple vs. AppleIf Paul McCartney had signed up with Itunes, he could have possibly negotiated a deal where a penny of two from each Beatles down load would have gone to his and...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Apple iTunes, Beatles, Apple Inc., Apple Corps

Discussion threads 2006-03-31

The scandal of SAP's idle CRM seats

The scandal of SAP's idle CRM seatsWhat "secret"?The worst kept secret in IT I would say! Remember HP switching over to SAP? They had problems for months. Lets not mention the 6 figure salaries you have to pay the "experts" to come in and implement your SAP "solution" (if you...

Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Blogging, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise software, SAP AG, CRM, blog

Discussion threads 2006-02-14

Is eBay assimilating Skype Borg-style?

Is eBay assimilating Skype Borg-style?Minor Misstatement of FactIn the above blog post the author presumed I was referring to eBay hires. I was not. There were some hires made in the period just before the acquistion.

Tags: Blogging, Skype Borg-style, eBay Inc., Skype Technologies S.A.

Discussion threads 2005-12-07

Opera's Acid2 challenge to Microsoft

Opera's Acid2 challenge to MicrosoftI might add"To the Web community I want to say: Microsoft has now been challenged. They will respond, if enough people remind them of the challenge. Please remind them. And, when IE 7 is released, make sure this is the first thing you type into it:...

Tags: Web browsers, Quality, W3C, open source, Opera Software, Microsoft Corp., Acid2 Challenge, Web browser

Discussion threads 2005-03-16

There must be some misunderstanding?

There must be some misunderstanding?Lacking enterprise desktop applicationsThe problem with Linux is with lack of serious desktop applications such as productivity s/w and business applications. There are too few. Even they exist they are crappy. The real problem lies with lack of MS MFC-quality-levl graphical interface systems. Currently, it's impossible...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Linux, MSFT, IBM Corp., Commodore, IBM PC

Discussion threads 2005-01-15

Microsoft readies scaled-back Windows

Microsoft readies scaled-back WindowsDumb[i]""This is the first time we are being required to offer to consumers a version of Windows that provides them with less value rather than more," Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith said in an interview Wednesday."[/i]Speak for yourself there, Bradley. Perhaps some (maybe most?) of us think...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., Reduced Media, Microsoft Windows Media Player, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2004-12-22

RIAA targets students in new file-swapping suits

RIAA targets students in new file-swapping suitsThe continual lawsuits may build thefoundations for legitimate net music services, or even brink and mortar, but I'm hoping that it'll put more consumer and govt focus on making sure big music does treat the consumer base fairly, including a true, cold hard look...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), SCO Group Inc., RIAA, music, file-swapping, lawsuit

Discussion threads 2004-10-28

Study: Few corporations use anti-spyware tools

Study: Few corporations use anti-spyware toolsI hate to say itbut this is nothing new. Because corporation in general are slow to implement change, I actually thought the percentage would be lower.Anti-Spyware SoftwareTo go with the anti-virus subscription, the firewall and all the other software you have to pay for...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, PRODUCTIVITY, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Cyberthreats, benefit, MS Apps, Microsoft Internet Explorer, anti-spyware, tool, spyware, software

Discussion threads 2004-10-27

Grading Bush on tech

Grading Bush on techJust Don't Ask His Father About TechnologyHe didn't even know what a scanner was at the supermarket was when he visited....LOL!!!!!Technology schmechnology.here let me break the whoooole election down for you.1 candadate misled lied the public into a preemptive war killing 1000 american troops and over 10000...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, tax, government

Discussion threads 2004-09-13