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Is Google trading access for positive media coverage?

Is Google trading access for positive media coverage?We don't expect integrity any moreI don't trust any 'journalists' anymore, I just try to read everything I can and make my own conclusions. No one admits to their biases, nor do they admit to special considerations or past affiliations, except the...

Tags: Blogging, Google Inc., news organization

Discussion threads 2008-09-24

Major news sources for political information: TV (78%), newspapers (38%), radio (16%), Internet (15%), magazines (4%)

Pew Internet surveyed Americans on their primary sources of getting political news and information.Television is the primary news source for political information, but broadband users increasingly get their information online. Three-quarters of all Americans (78%) say television is a main source of campaign news. Some 38% of Americans say newspapers...

Tags: broadband user

Blog posts 2004-10-28

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East Anglia investigation begins

Great.Obvioulsy the science isn't settled and this gives everyone a chance to bring up interesting points about climate change No longer global warming.I don't think anyone can honestly say we don't harm the planet, but I'm not willing to believe we are so horrible that we're causing climate change. We...

Tags: East Anglia investigation, climate change, hacking

Discussion threads 2009-12-03

Report: Apple, Psystar reach partial settlement

Ah, gotta love Apple the underdogSuch a cute and cuddly multi-national, multi-billion $$$/year mega corporation! It just makes me feel like apologizing for everything they do. :)Or maybeThey're the big, bad wolf for a change. Why so threatened by Pystar's model? It's still Mac OSX, not Pystar OSX....

Tags: Operating systems, Apple Inc., Psystar, Apple-hardware, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, operating system, OSX, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-12-01

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

Numbers of new Core i7 iMacs are turning up DOA

I guess it goes to show that......even the almighty apple is not immune to issues. We have some iMacs (about 100 - 120) in my organization compared to about 2500 Windows Desktops and out of the 90 we ordered a few years ago (17" iMacs) we had one come...

Tags: Desktops, DOA, Core i7 iMac, Core i7, Apple Inc., Apple iMac

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Microsoft tries toppling Google with a bribe

Big CatchMySpace, Fox News, couple dozen newspapers, couple dozen magazines, other Fox channels, Sky.The major News Corp viewers will see that if they want to search, they'll Bing it.Even if people link News Corp content in Twitter or Blogs, Google can't go to those links and crawl the content on...

Tags: Blogging, SEARCH, Bing, Google Inc., News Corp., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Ballmer: Windows 7 sales on a roll

Oh boy... this should be a fun Talkback... ntntyeap...for sure we'll be hearing what everyone has already said "ad nauseum".BallSack is a MoronPlain and Simple.I'm sure Win7 sales are decent. After all, it's hard to get an OS-less computer.....It is easy enough to get linuxpre-installed.Or buy a MacHowever,...

Tags: Sales strategy, Operating systems, Mac sale, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Linux, sales, Steve Ballmer, Windows 7 sale, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Amazon slashes price of Palm Pre to $79.99, Pixi to $24.99

I don't want ......ANY misleading bargain with a two or three year contract. Sell me the HW at a fair price and let me select the carrier and package of my choice.I am not an idiot. RE: Amazon slashes price of Palm Pre to $79.99, Pixi to $24.99When you limit...

Tags: Smart phones, Price-cutting, Palm Inc., Pixi, Palm Pre, Amazon.com Inc., phone

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Greenland becomes green land; Brazil gets good news

Yes we know it is all lies...http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/globalwarming.htmlhttp://www.climatechangefraud.com/Did the dinosaurs pass some gas and causethe ice age? I guess they should have beentaxed for passing gas!;)Do you do any actual research?Or do you just try to scare people into thinking the way you do?Greenland is one of the worst examples you...

Tags: BE TRUE, information technology, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

The role of data governance in the enterprise

According to analyst reports, the volume of enterprise data doubles every 18 months - and a lot information is inaccurate, duplicated or out-of-date and needs to be managed. Commentary - Every corporate decision and operation relies on the quality of the organization?s underlying data. ...

Tags: Data Quality, Data Governance, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, data management, Navin Sharma Pitney Bowes Business Insight, Special to ZDNet News, Navin Sharma Pitney Bowes Business Insight, Special to ZDNet News

News items 2009-11-12

Is Mozilla's contributions program working?

It's been just under four months since Mozilla launched its pilot program for contributions, a way for users to donate to add-on developers for their time and effort. It's been just under four months since Mozilla launched its pilot program for contributions, a way for users to donate to...

Tags: Developer, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla, contributions, Josh Lowenstein CNET News

News items 2009-11-11

Hundreds of Facebook groups hijacked

Facebook groups are under attack. But the attackers say they come in peace and insist they want only to highlight a flaw in the way Facebook handles group administration. Facebook groups are under attack. But the attackers say they come in peace and insist they want only to highlight...

Tags: Facebook, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Facbook, attack, security, Don Reisinger CNET News

News items 2009-11-10

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

News to know: AT&T, Verizon; T-Mobile; Microsoft CRM; Win7; datacenters; Sony-Ericcson

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: AT&T sues Verizon Wireless, calls map ad "misleading" but doesn't dispute accuracy Matthew Miller: T-Mobile experiences...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Data Center, Dana Gardner, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, T-Mobile, AT&T Corp., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Microsoft CRM, Sam Diaz, CRM, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows 7, Smart Phones, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Worldwide News Provider Creates New Content Channels With Hosted Computing

The Associated Press AP is the world's largest news organization, with bureaus in 97 countries. On average, more than half the world's population sees news from AP on a given day. AP wanted to broaden its reach by encouraging developers to incorporate AP content into their applications. Using the Microsoft-hosted...

Tags: Associated Press, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Case studies 2009-11-01

Android 2.0 (Eclair) FAQ

Android 2.0 GPSWill the GPS be functional if I don't buy the expensive Verizon data plan or pay by the Mb.You would need access to the internetto download the maps as needed there would not be enough room on the phone to store the whole country locally. So unless you...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Android 2.0, phone, ECLAIR

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Can you teach programmers to be journalists?

Megan Taylor over at PBS' MediaShift writes about the challenges of getting programmers and journalists to work together.MediaShift . Can Programmers, Journalists Get Along in One Newsroom? | PBS It's an interesting subject because newsrooms are increasingly digital and they need to add programming skills to help...

Tags: Software, Software Engineering, Journalist, Programmer, Ms Taylor, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Demand this from software vendors

I was getting a briefing last week from a software executive. We got to a point in the conversation where the discussion was focusing on existing products. I moved the conversation to a different space, though. If you're getting a pitch from a vendor, you should move the conversation, too!...

Tags: Software, Vendor, Customer, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques, Sales, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-20

With Apple, there's a fine line between paying a premium and being a sucker

Interesting view...I am not an Apple user, and I do think most of Apple's products are too expensive for me, but I didn't think $70 was that outlandish. Don't top end mice from Logitech or MS run around $50-100?Anyway, I guess I'd have to try it before saying it was...

Tags: Mice, mouse, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-20