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Amazon's Kindle: Much needed revolution or book industry power play?

Amazon's Kindle: Much needed revolution or book industry power play?Good article. Kindle is a good idea, but too restrictiveI really like the Kindle idea. I do lots of reading on my large screen but want to take this with me. The Kindle, I thought, was the way to go.However, your...

Tags: E-books, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Inc., e-book, Much needed revolution, Much Needed, book industry, Books

Discussion threads 2007-12-06

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Royal Navy gets creative in attracting engineers - develop online game

Engineering is not what it used to be.  There used to be only 10 or so basic engineering degrees one could graduate with. Now there are hundreds (some even argue it's triple that) of specialties. Most are in demand all over the world. The technology revolution is moving at a...

Tags: Talent, Facebook, Online Game, Tool, Technology Revolution, Navy, Professional Development, Games, Workforce Management, Productivity, Career, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Net Neutrality vs. "do no evil"

6 of onehalf dozen of another. Like all extremists you paint a nice picture from one perspective. All these internet companies are so innocent and all they want is a fair shake . . . yeah right. In order to maximize profits, they purposely underbuilt their networks. They advertize high...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Regulations, regulation, Videotron, network, Internet Service Provider, Net Neutrality, Bush

Discussion threads 2009-10-03

Social Business in Action - Establishing Excellence

Human interaction is as old as humanity, and nothing beats personal contact. We can learn more from a few seconds of personal contact and get a 'gut feel' about someone or a situation experientially in person than we can from hours of research and remote contact....

Tags: Web, Team, Information Technology, Human Interaction, Cohen, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Team Management, Strategy, Internet, Marketing, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Intuit's reported purchase of Mint: A fine defensive move

NervousIntuit never merged their online product and their excellent Paytrust product, and now they are likely to screw up mint, which I liked as well. This does not bode well.I dislike having my financial info on the web.Must just be me, since all those Mint users don't seem concerned. ...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Intuit Inc., reported purchase, defensive move

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Colbert heats up global warming

Too funnySo, 350ppm means certain environmental disaster? And we're already above that? Hmmm...Back to the drawing board...I really REALLY resent the Chicken Littles running around screaming their heads off, and I'm gradually getting the feeling that, even if originally well-intentioned, they can't see the forest for the trees.What...

Tags: disclamer, Colbert, global warming, scientific community, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

Social CRM: Shifting power and rapid burn

Something is beginning to concern me...Michael,Good writing and great article. However, you are bringing a point that has began to bother met about this whole SCRM thing.We are beginning to talk about how it works when you complain online, show case studies of how companies are handling complaints faster...

Tags: Marketing research, Strategy, Look Here

Discussion threads 2009-08-19

Making the tablet computer "classroom-ready"

With all the recent conjecture about the rumored Apple tablet (nee "iPad") I found this email particularly interesting. Confessions of a teacher, parent and wanna-be tech geek by John H. Julian I've taught since 1980 and the people to get involved...

Tags: Teacher, Computer, Tablet Computer, Personal Information, Tablets, Notebooks, Productivity, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-08-16

Sony's Reader: The road ahead

Sony's Reader: The road aheadDRMDRM and more DRM. Paper books are so much better. Sony's record on DRM is worst than terrible. How will I trade e books with my sister? How many e books will ever be sold in flea markets or secondhand book...

Tags: E-books, Digital rights management (DRM), Sony Corp., Sony Reader, e-book, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

Next generation technology to 'smarten' the workplace

With the "Google revolution" of flexible working, dynamic hours and a relaxed way of office life to ensure maximum comfort and productivity, this has opened up the way that offices work. Only a decade ago, you would find offices to be cramped, smokey environments with police chiefs and boardroom executives smoking fat...

Tags: Workplace, Office, OfficePOD, POD, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-07-06

What really new in Windows 7? The answer, not much!

What really new in Windows 7? The answer, not much!Y'know, I disagreeI understand Adrian's need to attract eyeballs and taking a deflationist view of Win7 in a world of gushing praise will no doubt help attract a lot of hits. HOWEVER, I think the wrong questions were asked.Instead of judging...

Tags: Operating systems, Well XP, Microsoft Windows 7, operating system, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-06-16

Can a startup challenge Google on the re-invention of e-mail?

Can a startup challenge Google on the re-invention of e-mail?Of course!"Can a small startup - made up the two co-founders and one employee working in a studio apartment in Silicon Valley..." Isn't this how Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo!, eBay, Google, etc., all started in their respective David-and-Goliath enviroments?RE: Can a...

Tags: Google Inc., e-mail, re-invention

Discussion threads 2009-06-04

Have we arrived in the post-Windows era?

Have we arrived in the post-Windows era?YepThe law of diminishing returns applies and the world moves on. Now to see some really innovative technology, who knows where it might come from but I seriously doubt it will be MS. Just like Sony ruled the world with the walkman (now the...

Tags: Word processors, Operating systems, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., post-Windows era, post-Windows

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

GPL's cloudy future

GPL's cloudy futureIn the Cloud: ANYBODY can do ITANYBODY. I believe that is the essence of the Cloud revolution.Users old enough remember the IBM PC. It was a revolution. A maneuver around traditional IT which gave rise to a new generation of software and hardware development without...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Configuration Files, GPL, AGPL, Google Inc., information technology

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

(Tesla S electric sedan unveiled--photos)

(Tesla S electric sedan unveiled--photos)Agreed!!I work with Real Estate people and some of the bankers that 'made it all possible.' Most of these people are just straight retarded. Bailout implies that someone fucked up and needs help. Stop giving them private coporate jets and $150,000 lunch buffets and start...

Tags: Tesla S, car, electric sedan, Tesla, sedan, photograph

Discussion threads 2009-03-27

The XO-2 is going Embedded RISC? So will everyone else!

Yesterday,  OLPC project founder Nicholas Negroponte indicated that their next generation XO-2 will almost certainly eschew it's current x86-based design and move towards one that is based on the ARM, the most common embedded RISC architecture in the world. It's used in over a billion cell...

Tags: RISC, Mobile, Intel X86, Mobile Computing, CPU, One Laptop Per Child Project, Chip, XO-2, Diamondville, Chipsets, Advertising & Promotion, Processors, Semiconductors, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Components, Marketing, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-03-13

Cloud: More important than the PC?

Cloud: More important than the PC? Without the PC there is no cloudI'm not denying the fact that the cloud has gained importance, and I'm not denying that you can gain access to the cloud through non-PC devices. But the PC is still where the content is...

Tags: Desktops, PC

Discussion threads 2009-02-24

Happy birthday to me: a $20 laptop?

Happy birthday to me: a $20 laptop?Yes! India can do it.I think, India can do it, because of it size and manpower. They have done it for Mobile phone.India has the second largest cell phone users in the world and call charges are cheapest in the world and main thing...

Tags: Notebooks, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-02-02

Has Apple gotten lazy?

Has Apple gotten lazy?Evolution vs. RevolutionIn IT I believe a steady flow of evolutions is preferable to revolution. Vista was supposed to a revolution. The desired changes were so profound MS couldn't deliver they couldn't even deliver after reducing the specs. With apple at least software, older drivers, older Macs...

Tags: Investment, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-01-12

Storage networks

Storage networksBack me upThe main selling point of SANs was the promised ability to do "offline backups". IOW since you have moved all of your data into one place, you should be able to back that stuff up to tape - in the background. Every sysadmin would welcome giving up...

Tags: Storage area networks (SAN), Storage management, Backups, IP storage, network, storage, SAN, Sun Microsystems Inc., Network File System, backup

Discussion threads 2009-01-06