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Sizing, configuration, and the Unix reseller hurdle

Sizing, configuration, and the Unix reseller hurdleIncompetent is as incompentent doesI saw an interesting job ad: http://detroit.craigslist.org/tch/982155526.htmlI contacted the guy to find out how someone with 3 years of experience could possibly be able to consult on infrastructure. Not to mention the whopping 55k salary (with 50% travel). No wonder...

Tags: Content management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise software, Unix, Microsoft SharePoint, Bob Anderson, reseller, brass ring, noose, shingle, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-01-14

Apple, hackenomics, and the waning anonymity (and obsolescense) of cash

The noose is slowly tightening. A hundred years ago -- heck, even ten years ago -- for the most part, we didn't have to sacrifice our privacy just to participate in some transaction. Lots of merchants tried some still do to shake us down for our personal information...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Credit Card, Policy, Apple Inc., Noose, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-30

SBC, HP form alliance

SBC, HP form allianceSlow death marchSBC (and all telephone companies - including cell) is finally starting to notice that the world is passing them by. By SBC going into services such as VoIP, they are cutting their own throats - and throwing away all of their billions of dollars in...

Tags: Strategy, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, noose, SBC, Hewlett-Packard Co., alliance

Discussion threads 2005-01-12

Witness says Kazaa activity can be monitored

Witness says Kazaa activity can be monitoredGee, professor...Q. Was the bank robbed? A. I don't know, but I can say that it was possible for someone skilled in the art of bank robbery to rob it.Proof positive! LOL!The noose gets tighter everyday.Someone is gonna swing...The witness admitted[i]he hasn't...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, noose, RIAA, Kazaa

Discussion threads 2004-12-07

Ohio legislation would send spammers to jail

Ohio legislation would send spammers to jailThe noose is beginning to tighten..The government sure does move slowly.. but finally, they're starting to wake up and recognize the threat to Internet infrastructure that spam provides. The noose is beginning to tighten on spammers, and it won't be long until we...

Tags: Spam, wtf, Ken Lay, spammer, noose

Discussion threads 2004-12-01

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Verizon changes tune on handset exclusivity. Will AT&T follow? Will it even matter?

updated: Verizon is planning to loosen the noose on exclusivity deals with phone manufacturers, reducing the time of those deals to just a few months - a gesture to the lawmakers in Washington who are scrutinizing these exclusivity deals and what appears to be a public calling out of AT&T...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Verizon Communications Inc., Handset, AT&T Corp., Agreement, Verizon Wireless, Exclusivity, Carrier, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-17

News to know: Chrome OS, Sinofsky, Kindle price drop, SEC and Steve Jobs, EMC-Data Domain

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. Google Chrome OS coverage: Garett Rogers: Google to create operating system called Chrome OS Dave Greenfield: Google Officially...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Operating System, SEC, Domain, Google Chrome, Sam Diaz, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows 7, Corporate Communications, Operating Systems, Hardware, Marketing, Software

Blog posts 2009-07-09

Pandora saved from the hangman's noose

Pandora saved from the hangman's noosePandora for iPhoneNational day of mourning for all Pedophiles.huh?! ntnt

Tags: Smart phones, Pandora, hangman

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

Pandora saved from the hangman's noose

Back in May I suggested that Apple acquire Pandora with some of its $29 billion warchest in order to save it from certain death. Well, it appears that Pandora and all other Internet music streaming services for that matter got the call from the governor that...

Tags: Agreement, Pandora, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-07-08

Regicide and some possible greentech solutions

Regicide and some possible greentech solutionseh hmNesting birds have been using equally "dangerous" materials for nest building even prior to the introduction of man-made materials.While I understand the plight of the seal or sea-bird who has accidentally choked or strangled by getting their head caught in a 6 pack ring,...

Tags: Wood, moss, Regicide

Discussion threads 2009-05-14

Remembering whose money it is

Remembering whose money it isIBM in talks to buy Sun Microsystems RudyWhat if the rumour is true........ http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE52H1GS20090318Comon Man!Murph! You there man?!? Stop tying the Ethernet cable as a noose and talk to us.Its not so bad! Really! I welcome you with open arms my brother! The fact that...

Tags: Blogging, UNIX, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-03-18

News to know: Jobs' medical leave; Windows 7; BlackBerry PDF vulnerabilities; Tech economy

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. Larry Dignan: Jobs to take medical leave; Back in summer at WWDC? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:  Steve Jobs takes "medical...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, Larry Dignan, Patent, Microsoft Windows 7, Adobe PDF, Leave, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Photograph, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-01-15

Since when did our cloud data become a noose?

Or, as TechCrunch's Jason Kincaid asks more specifically, why do we let webmail services delete our data? Or, as he most aptly put it, since when did our data become a bartering tool for services rendered? In the post, Kincaid laments the policies of...

Tags: Data, Argument, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-14

Lessig, Colbert in Copyright Smackdown

Lessig, Colbert in Copyright SmackdownLessig is a moronWhat a moron.RE: Lessig, Colbert in Copyright SmackdownHa! (I've loved Stephen Colbert since STRANGERS) I do agree that the current commercial/copyright system is dated and must adapt somehow to the new "authoring capabilities" provided by digital technologies today. But not in the...

Tags: Sales strategy, Digital media, Strategy, SmackDown, Colbert

Discussion threads 2009-01-10

The verdict: Lori Drew is guilty.

The verdict: Lori Drew is guilty.Yes, she is guilty.... BUTNot of the most serious things that they were trying to convict her of. Really, once ALL the facts came out, you realized that these comments were NOT the cause of Megan's suicide.What was? Her parents lack of support to her...

Tags: Litigation, ECONOMIC HARM, Lori Drew, verdict

Discussion threads 2008-11-26

Witnesses set for MySpace suicide trial

Witnesses set for MySpace suicide trialnot criminal?Why would this not be criminal? Any lawyers on here who can explain the limits of such abuse under state and federal statutes? Surely I can't stalk somebody by phone or snail mail in that manner without violating some criminal law? ...

Tags: INTERNET, suicide trial, MySpace

Discussion threads 2008-11-20

Circuit City Black Friday ad finally leaks. More yawns.

Circuit City Black Friday ad finally leaks. More yawns.UnderstandableTraditional Black Friday strategy calls for very low prices and very high consumer traffic to compensate for it. For electronics, add old models that need to be cleared out.With Black Friday consumer traffic most likely to be low this year, there...

Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Circuit City Black Friday, Black Friday, yawn, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-11-16

Psystar countersues Apple, alleges anticompetitive business practices

Psystar countersues Apple, alleges anticompetitive business practicesCan Apple mention the original IBM PC/Compaq cloning incident?Whoops, I mean Psystar. Apple would be hanging a noose around its own neck if they brought up that ye olde lawsuit into court...Never mind "Apple hardware" is off-the-shelf PC hardware too, even their OS...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Desktops, Psystar, Apple Inc., Compaq Computer Corp., Phoenix Technologies, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

Fed slashes interest rates by half point

Fed slashes interest rates by half pointAfter some 20 increases in the last few years...They are gonna have to do more than that.One day they will learn to leave it the hell alone instead of upping them to stop inflation. That does NOT work and only sends us into...

Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, Financial services, housing market, Federal Reserve Board, inflation, interest rate

Discussion threads 2008-01-30

Whistleblower calls on Congress

Whistleblower calls on CongressOpinionsRemember Congress is just that a small narrow minded entity focused on what abuse they can inflict on our society. They want to be remembered in history for some minute fact or legislarion.More and more they take away from us and suening is a part of the...

Tags: Government, U.S. Congress, lead based paint

Discussion threads 2007-11-12