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- Windows Vista Woes or helping my Grandson with homework
- Considering my background, it's not at all hard to understand how I've become the tech support helpdesk for family, friends and the neighborhood as a whole. I've done my best to accept my lot in life with grace and courage. This time, my Grandson, Steven, was trying to complete a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft PowerPoint, Laptop Computer, Steven, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Office, Software, Office Suites, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- What's really ailing Big Blue shares? Hint: IBM is part bank
- Concerns about IBM's third quarter are popping up almost daily. The standard set of concerns revolves around technology spending and the willingness to pay IBM's army of consultants fees for big bang projects as well as a stronger dollar. But underneath the surface there's a bigger worry that isn't being...
- Tags: Asset, Bank, Financial, Financing, IBM Corp., Finance Unit, Financing Unit, Global Financing, Commercial Financing, Participation Rate, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Walmart to pull plug on DRM servers
- Walmart to pull plug on DRM serversThe lie in their emailBeginning October 9, we will no longer be able [b] [i] refuse [/b] [/i] to assist with digital rights management issues for protected WMA files purchased from Walmart.com.Edit: Whoops! How do you do a strikethrough in Talkback?Edit edit:...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, server, digital-rights management, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-28
- Inner-city Wi-Fi rollout
- Dozens of countries participated in this year's "One Web Day," an international holiday for the Internet. In San Francisco, teams of volunteers fanned out across a low-income neighborhood with the goal of providing free, wireless Internet access to 1,000 residents. CNET's Kara Tsuboi tagged along and has the story.
- Tags: Internet, Team Management, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Management
- Videos 2008-09-25
- Is Comcast plan suspect or 'reasonable'?
- Is Comcast plan suspect or 'reasonable'?UPGRADE YOUR NETWORK!You are certainly paid enough money to provide the services you are SUPPOSED to provide.If you can't, leave the business and let someone else step in. Please...RE: Is Comcast plan suspect or 'reasonable'?Nope. Its still unreasonable. They are still taking an antiquated...
- Tags: INTERNET, Comcast Corp., Robb, QoS, Internet Engineering Task Force
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Microsoft, this is how you can deal with Google
- Google has again gained a whole percentage point this month, at the expense of Microsoft (losing 0.9%). It seems that Microsoft is consistently losing ground -- the ship is sinking, and it doesn't appear they can do anything about it. So much for that $1 billion per year...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Search, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-09-20
- Microsoft: I'm a PC and I've been made into a stereotype
- Microsoft: I'm a PC and I've been made into a stereotypeOf course you don't get itYou're not the target audience.Carl RapsonI wouldn't expect you to get itYou're a Mac user... You have to have an IQ at least this high GEDDIT!It's actually quite nice to see MS taking the high...
- Tags: Desktops, PRODUCTIVITY, advertisement, Microsoft Corp., PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- 2008 Porsche Cayenne GTS
- Photo gallery:2008 Porsche Cayenne GTSThe first clue that the 2008 Porsche Cayenne GTS isn't like other SUVs is the shifter, which works the six gears in a manual transmission. Another clue comes when you get it in the twisties, and feel its utter lack of roll in hard cornering. The...
- Tags: cabin tech, Cayenne GTS, Porsche AG, suspension, Porsche Cayenne GTS, Porsche Cayenne
- Product reviews 2008-09-17
- Google takes Street View mobile; no creepier than desktop version
- For some people, Google's Street View is already creepy. Yes, someone actually drove through your neighborhood, snapped some pictures, and put them next to your address on the Internet. I can see where that would bother some people. Now, Google has taken Street View and wrapped it...
- Tags: Desktop, Google Inc., Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- What's happening in Mobile: a peek at new products, services
- Last night, I had the chance to meet with some companies who are exhibiting at this week's CTIA Wireless conference in San Francisco at a press-only event called Mobile Focus. It was a good show - food and drink alongside some new devices and technologies in the mobile space -...
- Tags: Mobile, Lightpole, Streamezzo, Zoomback, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- Social design advice for Starbucks
- Social design advice for StarbucksDaily Discussion StartersIt's interesting how easy it is for huge organizations to start new activities. I tried to start a current events newsletter to promote discussion in classrooms, for more than a year, and finally I gave up because it didn't get any traction. ...
- Tags: Social networking, Starbucks Corp., Social design advice, Social Design
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
- Social design advice for Starbucks
- Starbucks announced today it will begin a daily "Good Sheet" of news about politics, health care and other issues that it will distribute in its stores as a way to start conversations. According to a Starbucks executive quoted by The Motley Fool, the company is looking for "conversation starters." It...
- Tags: Starbucks Corp., Store, Good Sheet Experiment, Corporate Communications, Social Networking, Digital Music, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- DEMO: Today's Web becomes a two-way street
- The opening sessions at the DEMOfall conference in San Diego were kicked off with an interesting take on the evolution of the Web by executive producer Chris Shipley. Since the beginning of the Web, it's grown from a mostly-text online inventory of information to a transactional Web, a place buying...
- Tags: Web, Video, Photograph, DVD, BeeTV, Channel Management, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Wireless Access: What Price Speed
- Is Verizon missing a trick in its trench warfare with Cablevision? Or has the maverick cable operator found an Achilles heel in the telephone operator's methods of providing TV, phone and particularly Internet access to customers in the New York area – and possibly nationwide? One...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Broadband, Wireless Access, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Broadband Internet, Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Guns n Roses leaker faces prison time
- How he got ahold of them, he's not saying but LA blogger Kevin Cogill did get ahold and posted unreleased songs from a new Guns n Roses album, Chinese Democracy. Cogill awoke Wednesday to find five FBI agents hauling his ass into a federal district court, charged for...
- Tags: Bail, Agent, Judge, Skwerl, Real Estate, Public Relations, Blogging, Federal Government, Business Operations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- A 'Social Silicon Valley'
- Brazilian Journalist Gilberto Dilmenstein has transformed Sao Paulo's Villa Madelena neighborhood from one filled with crime to one filled with learning.
- Tags: Sao Paulo, News, ina fried, microsoft, pc, south america, brazil, ibm, software, google, internet
- Videos 2008-08-27
- Photos: Empowering youth with computers
- One project has transformed a once crime-ridden area into a neighborhood-wide learning center. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Youth, Photograph, Computer, Productivity, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-08-27
- Linux under attack: Compromised SSH keys lead to rootkit
- Linux under attack: Compromised SSH keys lead to rootkitLinux under attack: Compromised SSH keys lead to rootkitLOL! And the hits to linux just keep coming! So thats 4 different incidents within a week's time of how badly linux sucks. Poor linus must be hiding under his bed trying...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Rootkits, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, SSH, attack, Compromised SSH, Compromised, Microsoft Windows, rootkit, security
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- One Router to Connect Them All
- One Router to Connect Them AllWives and out of townI have the same problem. I usually get infuriating phone calls where I have to talk her through the whole device reboot process each time, and she forgets how to do it.God awful from where I liveRead my "Harsh reality of...
- Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, Broadband Internet, router, cable, Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Qwest CTO on FTTP, bandwidth caps and integrated services
- Qwest plans to roll out integrated home services where it ties its services in with those from its partners such as MSN and DirecTV in a move enabled by a thin layer of software, according to Qwest CTO Pieter Poll. Poll right talked about Qwest's broadband strategy...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Qwest Communications Inc., Service, West, Cable, Network Technology, Fiber Optics, Broadband Internet, Optical Networking, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
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