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DreamForce clouds deluge San Francisco

Rock legend Neil Young surprised and delighted the audience at SalesForce's DreamForce conference today by having his electric and natural gas powered 1959 Lincoln Continental Mk IV convertible driven onto the stage silent and beautiful as the clouds above San Francisco unleashed intermittent torrential rain. ...

Tags: Facebook, Sales Force, Neil Young, Sales Force Management, Sales, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-03

JavaOne '08: Neil Young chronicles music career

Legendary musician Neil Young shows off a new multimedia project spanning his music career. Joining Young onstage at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco to demo the project--which uses Java and Blu-ray technology--is Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green, Sun executive vice president of software.

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., JavaOne, Professional Development, Programming Languages, Career, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Neil Young, JavaFX, Sun Microsystems, Shakey Pictures, Java

Videos 2008-05-06

Additional Resources

Summer reading: Hugo Award-winning The Graveyard Book

Summer is almost over. We have two weeks to go and I've utterly entered panic mode, given that the to-do lists on the whiteboards in my office just keep growing and I only seem to be marking items off occasionally. Two of my kids are also cranking into panic...

Tags: Fantasy, Neil Gaiman, Hugo Award, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Churchill Club: The Free Economy: How Companies Make Money From Giving Things Away

The concept of loss leader products has been around since the 20th century, but today, free has become a business strategy that could be essential to a company's survival. In the latest episode of the Churchill Club podcast series, a top-flight panel moderated by Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, Wired Magazine, and...

Tags: Leader, CEO, Podcasts, Leadership, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-27

Live coverage of Apple's iPhone 3.0 preview event

Welcome to live coverage of Apple's iPhone 3.0 preview event. The event is over now but you can read about it here as it unfolded. [ See also: Apple announces copy and paste, MMS, Spotlight, more for iPhone ] 08:47am: While we're waiting, what...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Gameloft, Developer Beta, Games, Personal Technology, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-03-17

Will Obama have a laptop? (Answer: No. Here's why.)

Will Obama have a laptop? (Answer: No. Here's why.)Then I guess we will seejust how secure/insecure these Google-ified email programs will be.Would people be a bit nervous if they realized that staffers might use unsecured, off-site servers (hotmail, gmail, ect) to conduct secure level business?RE: Will Obama have a laptop?...

Tags: Now Let, Obama, No., U.S. Senate, e-mail, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-01-23

Video: Spectrum ZX game montage

From Neil Young's keynote at iPhoneDevCamp. Young says that anyone can make a game these days, but it was a very complex feat in the 1980s, back when he was just starting out. by Andrew Mager

Tags: Video, Spectrum, Games, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-03

Day 2: iPhone Dev Camp 2

Yesterday I learned a few lessons about live blogging. Not many people are refreshing it as much as I was. I should list my posts with most recent at the top instead of the other way around. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, App, Melodies, Medialets, Games, Personal Technology, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-03

Neil Young gives his name to a spider

Canadian rocker Neil Young made headlines this week for appearing at the JavaOne conference and for releasing his musical archive on Blu-ray discs. But he was also honored by a East Carolina University ECU professor of biology, who named a newly discovered trapdoor spider Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi after the legendary rock...

Tags: East Carolina University, Species, Myrmekiaphila, M., Neotype, Blu-Ray, Investment, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Finance, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-09

EIC podcast: SAP; JavaOne; AMD, Microhoo

In this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan and I talk SAP Sapphire, JavaOne; AMD and Microsoft and whether it'll come back around to its Yahoo bid. As for Sapphire this week, the big question was what was happening with Business ByDesign, SAP's software as a service rollout....

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-08

Profits-strapped Sun continues decade-long pitch to developers on Java dominance

Leading up to the JavaOne developers conference, Sun Microsystems posted an embarrassing quarterly profit loss, is making OpenSolaris more open than ever, bringing the OpenSolaris platform value to the Amazon Web Services cloud, and is still using variations on the projectile theme to send T-shirts into the international crowd of...

Tags: Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., NetBeans Ecosystem, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-06

NOC-NOC%2C+who%27s+there%3F+Or%2C+%22I%27ve+seen+the+thumbwheel+and+the+damage+done%22

NOC-NOC%2C+who%27s+there%3F+Or%2C+%22I%27ve+seen+the+thumbwheel+and+the+damage+done%22AbsolutelyI am still a BlackBerry fan but there is definitely a need for better redundancy at the NOC levelRE: NOC-NOC, who's there? Or,What if RIM send an army of PI's to dig your dirt and send them anonymous to everybody you know? What if RIM send an army of...

Tags: NOC-NOC, What-If

Discussion threads 2008-02-14

NOC-NOC, who's there? Or, "I've seen the thumbwheel and the damage done"

NOC= (Blackberry-maker Research In Motion's Network Operations Center in Waterloo, Ont.) As to the latter portion of this post's title, NOT an original. Readers of a certain vintage may recognize that saying as an adaptation from an old Neil Young song entitled "I've...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, Outage, Tom, Manufacturing, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-13

Panasonic SC-HT640W

The Panasonic SC-HT640W boasts a singular "gotta have" feature unequalled by most home-theater-in-a-box systems HTIBs selling for a lot more than the Panasonic's $300 list price: wireless surround speakers. Or to be more precise, its wireless surround speaker--the two rear surround channels emanate from a single wedge-shaped box that you...

Tags: speaker, Panasonic SC-HT640W, Panasonic, wireless

Product reviews 2006-06-26

Sennheiser HD 650

We approached Sennheiser's top headphones, the HD 650, with high expectations, as word of mouth for the product has been overwhelmingly positive. The headphones certainly look the part; the HD 650s' luxurious feel, the thickly padded headband and ear cushions, and the titanium-silver finish leave no doubt--even before you hear...

Tags: headphone, RS-2s

Product reviews 2006-04-06

Classic Intro's Vol 1 CD Quality Ringtones - 32 Digital Ringtones Volume One (Mobile)

32 - CD Quality Ringtones for the Blackberry 71XX / 8700 Series You won't believe your ears! The Millennium Studios Classic Intro's Collection Vol 1 includes 32 ringtones created from some of the most recognized hit songs around. Each ringtone is 15 seconds long, and is created from the original...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, Millennium Studios Classic Intro, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2005-11-10

Bin Laden tape hits the Web

Bin Laden tape hits the WebHe's lying!Seems really convincing, isn't it. Well, this is nothing but a SHAM, a SCAM, a FRAUD! As we all know, the Bush administration, not Osama, ordered the 9/11 attacks. Hey, just ask Michael Moore!Now, you might argue that I haven't the slightest scrap of...

Tags: Web, Osama bin Laden, attack, Bush Administration, American official, Osama

Discussion threads 2004-10-29

Will historic flight launch space tourism?

Will historic flight launch space tourism?The coolest thing in space travel since 1969...... and no-one has anything to say about it? Not even any guesses at to whether the on-board computers are running Linux or Windows. (Probably Windows -- a badly timed BSOD probably caused the rolls...)I'm saving...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Strategy, NASA, JUST LOOK

Discussion threads 2004-09-30