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Big Oil greening up--is this a good thing?

"Newsweek" would like you to believe it's a happy sign of the times to see global oil companies putting serious money into alternative fuels. They site investments by major oil companies in ehtanol. The "Newsweek" piece refers to more nations putting taxes or caps on carbon emissions,...

Tags: Oil Company, Newsweek, Oil, Litigation, Personal Finance, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-20

Newsweek: Clinton campaign was a PC, Obama a Mac

Newsweek: Clinton campaign was a PC, Obama a MacWell, Linux just works too. McCains campain was like going to Win3.1NT.RE: Newsweek: Clinton campaign was a PC, Obama a MacHmmm. Linux "just works" if you're a Linux head. thanks for reading,David MorgensternLinuxWell we can call Cynthia Green a Suse, Ralph Nader...

Tags: Desktops, OK Windows, Obama, Apple Macintosh, Clinton Campaign, Newsweek, PC

Discussion threads 2008-11-11

Newsweek: Clinton campaign was a PC, Obama a Mac

In a Newsweek video, reporter Nick Summers says that going from covering the Hillary Clinton campaign to the Obama campaign was like switching from a PC to a Mac. The Web video, called Secrets:'The Dysfunction', is a part of the publication's special coverage of the recent political campaigns. by David...

Tags: Newsweek, Apple Macintosh, PC, Video, Corporate Communications, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-11-11

Newsweek: Obama, McCain campaigns hacked by 'foreign entity'

Newsweek: Obama, McCain campaigns hacked by 'foreign entity'back to microfilm and locked filing cabinetsProblems like this clearly demonstrate why computers are not good tools for groups to use for composing private written materials. Its a lot harder to download a type writer or sneak someone into a room with...

Tags: File servers, PRODUCTIVITY, foreign entity, Obama McCain campaign, Obama McCain, Newsweek

Discussion threads 2008-11-05

Newsweek: Obama, McCain campaigns hacked by 'foreign entity'

Newsweek is reporting that the computer systems of the campaigns of both Barack Obama and John McCain were compromised in a "sophisticated cyberattack" by an unknown "foreign entity." At Obama headquarters, what was originally believed to be a virus planted in a phishing attack turned out to...

Tags: Newsweek, FBI, Federal Government, Government, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-11-05

Should colleges really teach hacking?

Newsweek featured an interesting article Saturday about a professor at Sonoma State University who actively teaches his students to create malware and otherwise do the nasty things online that cost companies billions of dollars every year. According to the Newsweek piece, [Professor George]...

Tags: Newsweek, Student, Ledin, Cyberthreats, Productivity, Security, Viruses And Worms, Hacking, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-05

Levy trashes MacBook Air

Levy trashes MacBook AirOne happy tash collectorMy guess is that there is one happy trash collector: "Look guys, I just found a laptop!"I call bogus on this story.I have to call this story out for being either bogus. You never throw out a cellphone, your paycheck, or a dinner plate...

Tags: Notebooks, Apple MacBook, Newsweek

Discussion threads 2008-03-11

Levy trashes MacBook Air

As in he threw his in trash. Accidentally, that is. Newsweek technology columnist Steven Levy admitted in a recent post that he lost his MacBook Air loaner unit from Apple. He thinks that accidentally got recycled in a pile of newspapers. On Sundays in my apartment,...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Newsweek, Apartment, Pile, Apple MacBook, Notebooks, Productivity, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2008-03-11

Details surface on the MacBook Air

Some lucky stiffs have already received the MacBook Air and details are starting to emerge.Take for example Walt Mossberg's revelation that "it's beautiful and thin, but omits features." Mossberg also reveals that the MBA gets 3 hours and 24 minutes of battery life running full kilter: In...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple MacBook, Battery, MBA, Notebooks, Engineering, Newsweek, Engadget, Air, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2008-01-25

Is Detroit going green? What does the auto show show?

The big auto show in Detroit is now open to reporters so the big announcements and the hoopla have begun. There are moves toward greener cars, and there are moves to just make more money. Sometimes these are in direct conflict. Here are a few of my...

Tags: Newsweek, Detroit, Auto Show, General Motors Corp., Coskata, Mercedes, Tata, Sales Strategy, Food & Beverage, Sales Force Management, Sales, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-01-13

IMHO: Amazon Kindle drum roll another example of digerati clustercluck

You know the real word I wanted to type but my Mom raised a gentleman. I'm in my hotel lobby, forced to this noisy public place kisses between three generations of anonymous families because the WiFi is down and the hotel is clueless about what the problem...

Tags: Newsweek, Amazon.com Inc., E-books, Wireless LANs, Taxes, Blogging, Personal Technology, Wireless, Financial Planning, Finance, Internet, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-11-19

Hands on with the Kindle: This ugly duckling has potential

Hands on with the Kindle: This ugly duckling has potentialVersion 1.0 indeedI have been saying for several years that I will gladly try something like this if they also make it able to check my email and some of my daily web reading. As noted, all this would need is...

Tags: E-books, Wireless LANs, E-mail, Newsweek, Hands-On, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-11-19

Newsweek launches new site with Brightcove tools

On Monday, Newsweek rolled out a brand new site. For years Newsweek had been a part of the MSNBC site but now has its own spot on the web with a very rich media centric site. The new site was built almost entirely using new tools from Brightcove. Brightcove has...

Tags: Newsweek, Site, Tool, Brightcove, Productivity, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-10-17

Telco lobbyists urge suppression of eavesdropping lawsuits: is this OK?

  Image is from the Saturday Evening Post of June 6, 1964. How little has changed. Newsweek's Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball have the scoop on a joint effort by Verizon, AT&T and the Bush administration to pass legislation that would blog all lawsuits against...

Tags: U.S., Lawsuit, Newsweek, Terrorist, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-09-20

Private Label RSS - Newsgator's hosted solutions for Newsweek and Macworld

NewsGator announced today that Newsweek and Macworld have selected NewsGator Hosted Solution NGHS Private Label RSS Aggregators will become increasingly common to integrate RSS aggregation into their online sites. NGHS is a user interface that allows online properties to build an RSS aggregator into their...

Tags: RSS, RSS Aggregator

Blog posts 2005-12-13

Technorati now powering part of Newsweek.com

Each Monday, I make my morning rounds of the weeklies (Businessweek, Newsweek, etc.) and today as I scrolled to the bottom Newsweek.com's homepage, I noticed something I haven't seen before -- a box that's called "Blog Round Up" that, judging by the logo below it, is powered...

Tags: Newsweek

Blog posts 2005-07-25

Newsweek Luddite decries use of cell phones

Columnist Robert Samuelson's anti-progress rant in the upcoming issue of Newsweek is focused on how cell phones have made us too connected. Therefore, he'll continue to resist cell phones, just as I've resisted ATM cards and digital cameras.Cell phones—and, indeed, all wireless devices—constitute another chapter in the ongoing breakdown between work...

Tags: Newsweek, cell phone, telephone

Blog posts 2004-08-19

Additional Resources

Apple declares its environmental credentials

Newsweek ArticleNewsweek recently had a list of the top 100 "green" companies. HP was surprisingly #1, with Dell at #2. Microsoft was in the top half as well. Interestingly enough, Apple wasn't anywhere in the top 100 that I saw.PR BS!What Apple fails to show is the mountains of toxic...

Tags: Public relations, Apple Inc., climate change, aluminum

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

The ultimate guide to scareware protection

Throughout the last two years, scareware fake security software, quickly emerged as the single most profitable monetization strategy for cybercriminals to take advantage of. Due to the aggressive advertising practices applied by the cybercrime gangs, thousands of users fall victim to the scam on a daily...

Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Web, Search Engine, Antivirus, Malware, Social Engineering, Security Software, Search, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-13

Tap News 2.0.1 (Mobile)

With Tap News access ten news sites, all optimized for iPhone. Sites like ABC News, AP, BBC News, CBS News, Chicago Tribune, CNN, Fox News, LA Times, MSNBC, New York Times, Newsweek, NPR, Reuters, Time, USA Today, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Yahoo News on your iPhone.

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Sudobility, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-08-21