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A New Year and layoff rumors start flying for IBM and Microsoft

A New Year and layoff rumors start flying for IBM and Microsoftgrab the popcorn and enjoyhow M$ is going down in flames.If it wasn't for Obama to bail M$ out, they will not live to see the next year.RE: A New Year and layoff rumors start flying for IBM and...

Tags: Workforce management, Obama, layoff rumor, Microsoft Corp., layoff, New Year, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

New Year's resolution: de-crap your desk of (most) technology

New Year's resolution: de-crap your desk of most technologyMy desk at work is so bad that...Somebody visiting wanted to take a picture of it and post it in some messy desk contest. I told him to go bugger off.

Tags: New Year

Discussion threads 2009-01-05

iPhone as a New Year's Eve party favor

iPhone as a New Year's Eve party favorRe: iPhone as a New Year's Eve party favorMore iPhone shillery(is that even a word?)?

Tags: Eve party favor, Eve Party, iPhone-a, New Year

Discussion threads 2008-12-30

iPhone as a New Year's Eve party favor

I'm taking a couple of days off pre-Macworld Expo and while chilling down in Florida with my family my wife suggested looking for an iPhone app that played Auld Lang Syne and/or had a New Year's Eve countdown timer. I find them all rolled into one â€" for free. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, New Year, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-12-29

Fastest-growing sites in Japan in December 2007

In December 2007, news sites attracted increased visitation, with both the government’s anticipated pension plan and Prime Minister Fukuda’s official visit to China creating increased interest in national affairs. Mainichi.jp gained 50% to 5.8 mln visitors, making it the top-gaining property for the month, while Jiji.com increased 29% to 2.7...

Tags: Disney Online, Visitor, New Year, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Government, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, NB

Blog posts 2008-02-13

MSN to webcast New Year's Eve: '5 cities, 1 party'

MSN to webcast New Year's Eve: '5 cities, 1 party'http://www.analogstereo.com/kia_amanti_owners_manual.htmhttp://www.analogstereo.com/kia_amanti_owners_manual.htm

Tags: Digital media, New Year, MSN, Webcast

Discussion threads 2007-12-02

Yahoo vs. Google: Happy Chinese New Year 2007!

Today is the official start of the Lunar New Year: The Year of the Pig!Across China, revelers brought in the New Year late Saturday and early Sunday with the boom of firecrackers and fireworks, an ancient New Year tradition meant to drive away bad luck and scare off evil spirits....

Tags: Google, Yahoo

Blog posts 2007-02-18

New Year - New Blogger

New Year - New BloggerWelcome...to the blogs of death! ;)Seriously, look forward to see what you have to say in the future. ]:)New Year - New Bloggerwelcome Alan Graham, Im looking forward to read your posts. best of luck!Kind rgrdsSaranRohit MalikGreat to see you here. Looking forward to make things...

Tags: Blogging, New Blogger, New Year

Discussion threads 2007-01-08

Long-term Fedora Linux support ending

Long-term Fedora Linux support endingEnd of support a stunning enigmaI am simply stunned by these events. Imagine, an unsupported, unfunded, obsolete Fedora Linux version can find no outside money or developers to help it limp along, so that both remaining users can avoid upgrading or having to pay anything...

Tags: UNIX, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Servers, New Year, Fedora Project, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-01-02

Rough times for Gmail in the new year

It seems the bug I referred to in my last post is only partially fixed -- but I am confident it will be closed up soon. In the mean time, I recommend you log out of Gmail when you are not using it until the problems are solved.Even though...

Tags: Gmail, Privacy, Google Gmail, new year

Blog posts 2007-01-01

New Year's resolution: Hire more people

New Year's resolution: Hire more peopleWell, at least one part of this article is incontrovertibly correct..."more overseas hiring, particularly in China and India."As for the rest, including the "job sharing" gimmick (and that rhymes with "time sharing" too...), I hope will become a reality too.

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, New Year

Discussion threads 2006-12-27

An open source New Year resolution

Reading all the great posts we got on my last note about Apple, I would like to offer the open source community a New Year's Resolution.Simplicity.By that I mean a Linux distro that includes all the common office applications you could want, which loads simply and boots immediately, along with...

Tags: New Year, Linux

Blog posts 2004-12-24

New Year's resolution for Firefox: Grow

New Year's resolution for Firefox: GrowHorrible ArticleWhat a terrible FUD article. Windows update doesn't work? LOL, who cares.1. Windows update relies on the terribly insecure ActiveX to fuinction.2. You don't need it to get updates, you can just use the automatic update feature in Windows.How much did Microsoft...

Tags: Web browsers, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, New Year, Microsoft Windows Update, IE Security, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, ActiveX

Discussion threads 2004-12-24

New year's resolutions for Microsoft

New year's resolutions for MicrosoftMS New Year ResolutionIn 2005 we plan to release something, er anything;-)I really wish......we could drop the 'playing well with others' and 'playing fair' phrases. Those imply that this is all just a big game, and we are all children on a playground. Quick, Billy's not...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows XP, Games, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., software, New Year

Discussion threads 2004-12-23

Tech mergers kick off New Year

Tech mergers kick off New Year..

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Tech merger, New Year, merger

Discussion threads 2004-01-05

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Microsoft CFO Liddell to leave by year-end

dump MSFT shares next yearafter the last bump in stock price you'll get from Win7. It's all downhill from there.Why are the shareholders so greedy?Currently MSFT has around 18-19 PE which is very reasonable. It's pretty high seeing that we are in the great global recession. I know that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Investment, Financial accounting, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., stock

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Climate scientists saying global warming trend is worsening

Pardon me while I yawn. This is the same bunch (climate change chicken-littles) that brought the hockey stick graph and pimped out statistics. These folks have been exposed as corruptand fraudulent, driven by ideology and not science. By continuing to treat them as anything other than worthy...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Microsoft CFO Liddell to leave; Klein named new finance chief

Microsoft said that CFO Chris Liddell will leave the company at the end of the year. Peter Klein will take over as CFO. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Microsoft Corp., CFO, Personal Finance, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-11-24

Is Google the Center of the Universe?

It's not even a year since the triumphalism of Jeff Jarvis's Google 'reverse engineering' book 'What Would Google Do?' hit the book shelves, but it seems an age ago now. Jarvis's publisher Harper Collins claims this book is 'all about you' in their promo blurb - how you...

Tags: Google Inc., Rupert Murdoch, Jarvis, Wiki, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-24

Best Buy adds $197 HP laptop to Black Friday lineup

I hate agreeing with linuxbut alas I must do it this time :( He's right, this is some cheap hardware. Intel celeron? Who uses that anymore? I guess its good for kids, but any power user will not want this laptop. I'm holding out for a...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Black Friday lineup, laptop computer, Intel Celeron, Best Buy Co. Inc., Black Friday, HP Laptop, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2009-11-24