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- Carrot or stick? It's the same...
- According to Californian researchers, receiving a reward or avoiding a punishment have the same effects... on our brains. As they report in PLoS Biology, avoiding punishment is its own reward. In other words, the same areas of our brains are stimulated when we win a game or when we avoid...
- Tags: punishment, negative outcome
- Blog posts 2006-07-05
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- Entellium's lost millions
- Larry Dignan outlines the main points of the Entellium fraud. Regardless of the final outcome, there are three glaring questions: How did the CFO and CEO overstate revenues across THREE financial years by a factor of four to five times without someone noticing the obvious problem of...
- Tags: Entellium, Board, Compliance, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM
- A Wall Street investor has suggested that the stars may be aligned just right for Microsoft to make another run at Yahoo, this time for $22 per share. Investment fund Mithras Capital, which owns more than 1.9 million shares, or 0.14 percent, of Yahoo, said Microsoft has a window of...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Financial Accounting, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Tempest or Nuclear Winter
- A Hurricane Ike for Tech Start-Ups VentureWire Alert free subscription required today reported that venture capitalists are advising their portfolio firms to prepare for a potential nuclear winter. One venture capitalist featured in today's newsletter was quoted as telling firms "to slow down their burn rate, and...
- Tags: Firm, Venture Capital, Product Development, Investment, Product Marketing, Workforce Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Human Resources, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Poker sites fight to get domain names back from Kentucky
- This is a novel legal strategy. And so far it's working. Last month, in an effort to preserve the state's monopoly on legal gambling, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear sued to have 141 online gambling sites' domains transferred to the state's control. According to the Washington Post, a big...
- Tags: Kentucky, Domain Name, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Renaissance in Portfolio Management & GRC?
- Why Oracle Bought Primavera Now ? (Note: I actually prepared this post 24 hours before the Oracle - Primavera announcement. Now, it seems a bit obvious.) A few months ago, businesses had access to vast amounts of inexpensive capital. With lots of exceptionally low cost...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Initiative, Project Portfolio Management, Primavera, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- No more baby aspirin parties
- No more baby aspirin partiesHelp or Harm?Dana,What you don't seem to be thinking about is the 18 month old running a 103 who is cranky. I would much rather deal with giving a correct dosage of grape Tylenol to my toddler, than give them something they spit out then...
- Tags: Tylenol, emergency room
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Scammers introduce ATM skimmers with built-in SMS notification
- The bust of the notorious ATM scammer going under the handle of Cha0 in early September, once again puts ATM skimming in the spotlight. Among the main insecurities scammers face while embedding an ATM skimmer, is the retrieval process of the device that is now containing the credit card details...
- Tags: Device, Credit Card, built-In, SMS, Scammer, ATM, Network Technology, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Networking, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- eBay doubles down on payments as it buys Bill Me Later; Lays off 1,000
- eBay doubles down on payments as it buys Bill Me Later; Lays off 1,000Is it a hard time now?Of course not,i am always in confident of e-commercial,which leading our life style,I really appreciate ebay's courage in making the changes at the dark before the dawn.RE: eBay doubles down on payments...
- Tags: payment, eBay Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- Sarah Palin debate flowchart [off-topic]
- Sarah Palin debate flowchart [off-topic].....Sounds similar to the other candidates too... ]:)Simplified version/* Sarah's playbook */repeat {__receivequestion; __if (IMayHaveAClueAboutquestion)__{____reciteMyScripts;__}__else __{____winkAtCamera;____ignorequestion;____printf("... but I'd like to focus on my own topics.");____dumpIrrelevantAnswers;__}} until (hostLeavesMeOffHook)RE: Sarah Palin debate flowchart [off-topic]Spot on!BidenIn the case of Biden he just makes stuff up. Facts never...
- Tags: Government, Sarah Palin, flowchart
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- BREAKING: Valleywag, Consumerist sites shuttered?
- BREAKING: Valleywag, Consumerist sites shuttered?Say the lie often enoughRecession is two consecutive quarters of negative growth, and we haven't even had one yet. But, hey, it's an election year and a Republican is incumbent, so we'll use the term any darn way we please, especially if it gives cover for...
- Tags: Consumerist, Valleywag
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Microsoft launches software for cheap Portuguese laptop
- Microsoft launches software for cheap Portuguese laptopMicrosoft launches software for cheap Portuguese laptopThis is a great plan brought to you by Microsoft. This laptop will run the Microsoft Windows XP operating system allowing these school children to be compatible with the rest of the world. They can share...
- Tags: Notebooks, software, laptop computer, cheap Portuguese laptop, Portuguese laptop, Microsoft Launches, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Apple: Perhaps it needs the enterprise after all
- Apple: Perhaps it needs the enterprise after allThe 35% of Fortune 500 companies......testing the iPhone means "35% of IT departments doing their damn jobs by testing a competing product before coming to the realisation that it isn't as good as their current solution".As for Apple getting a foothold in mainstream...
- Tags: SMB/SME, Apple Inc., small and medium business, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Amazon, open the Kindle before Apple eats your lunch!
- Amazon, open the Kindle before Apple eats your lunch!The lack of features is a featureThe Kindle is actually eating Apple's lunch. By offering no features other than the ability to read books, the Kindle is doing what Apple typically does best: offer fewer features at a greater price. The Kindle...
- Tags: E-books, Corporate communications, Games, Monitors & displays, Amazon.com Inc., E-Ink, lunch, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- To: Circuit City and Best Buy, From: You
- To: Circuit City and Best Buy, From: You"We don't pay you to think."As an ex-employee computer technician from the pilot store, this was told to me verbatim several times. To me it sounded curious because if anyone should be thinking, it should be the guy repairing the computers, right?If you...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Best Buy Co. Inc., Circuit City Stores Inc., LET IT, sales
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Job alert: SAP, COBOL, PowerBuilder??
- As enterprise Web 2.0 makes its way into organizations, there is a misconception held among a pocket in the industry that the new technologies will replace the old says Nexaweb's Jeremy Chone. Commentary--Was anybody else not surprised by the recent Foote Partners finding that the...
- Tags: Job, Web, Misconception, Knowledge, SAP AG, COBOL, Enterprise Application, Web 2.0, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Internet, Management, Software, Nexaweb, SAP, Jeremy Chone, CTO, Nexaweb Technologies, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2008-10-01
- Apple to music industry - It's our way, or iTunes gets the bullet!
- Apple to music industry - It's our way, or iTunes gets the bullet!RE: Apple to music industry - It's our way, or iTunes gets the bullet!One can only home apple shuts iTunes downMusic Industry to AppleLOL!disagree strongly"one appeal of the iPod is how easy it is to buy music for...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, music industry, music
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Infamous vendor of "AntiVirus XP" badware sued
- Infamous vendor of "AntiVirus XP" badware suedcombofix, smitfraudfix, etcI used all the usual tools to remove at least one incarnation of this s__tware, and it still kept coming back! Had to run the "uninstaller," then run smitfraudfix, then manually remove the folders and registry keys!All I can say is...Thank goodness...
- Tags: Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, antivirus, Infamous vendor, AntiVirus XP
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Economic meltdown: the insanity of disagreement
- Economic meltdown: the insanity of disagreementI agree with your points and your questions...Way too many "loopholes" and bad decisions have been put into this bailout bill. Not the least of which is absolutely no accountability.To use Mr. Krigman's IT project analogy it would be like seeing that poor decisions...
- Tags: Taxes, Team management, Leadership, Free trade, Financial services, Economic Meltdown, insanity, disagreement
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Thinking about Oracle Fusion applications
- Thinking about Oracle Fusion applicationsKilling Oracle DB in the enterprise......will probably be more difficult that killing off the mainframe...Postgres and/or MySQL may match, or even pass, it in terms of capabilities. But Oracle will still have history.And remember, Oracle pretty much works. This isn't like replacing Windows, where...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Oracle Corp., open source, Sun Microsystems Inc., sales
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
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