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GoldenFolders (zip)

A Collection of 113 golden icons, to transform you favorite's folders to nice little nuggets.

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Software downloads 2006-05-17

Text Mining With Oracle Text

Text mining is loosely defined as ?data mining for text? In Oracle?s view, text mining involves using natural language processing NLP and statistical/probabilistic techniques for finding nuggets and patterns in text collections. A nugget is a new, unknown item where a pattern is the occurrence of a known item. Some...

Tags: Nugget, Oracle Corp., Text Mining

White papers 2004-01-01

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Netflix: Outage, economy ding subscriber growth

Netflix on Monday detailed its outlook for the third and fourth quarters, projected fewer subscribers than before and said its August outage cost it $6.5 million. The company said in a statement that its third quarter earnings will be "comfortably" within its targets, but said a one-time...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Outage, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-06

President Obama will take away kids cold medicine

President Obama will take away kids cold medicineWhy regulate something that is only a problem due to irresponsible parentsALL over-the-counter OTC medications have information about who can use it and how much medicine it should get. Every bottle of OTC medication has very visible warning and most specify that...

Tags: blog author, gov, cold medicine, Obama, prescription, medication

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

The iPhone Dev Team vs. Apple arms race

Apple keeps trying to foil the efforts of the iPhone Dev Team with intentional roadblocks built into each successive build of the iPhone/iPod touch firmware - and the newly-minted firmware 2.1 is no exception. Each time Apple releases an update firmware it breaks the installed jailbreak and...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Team, Apple Inc., Firmware, Apple iTunes, Team Management, Digital Music, Digital Media, Management, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-12

Dell bets on Salesforce.com's platform as a service

Amid a quarter that Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff called "spectacular," but spooked analysts worried about future growth was an interesting nugget: Dell has jumped on the platform as a service bandwagon. On Salesforce.com's second quarter conference call (earnings recap, InStranet acquisition) Benioff revealed that Dell signed a...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Marc Benioff, Billing, PaaS, Summer Sales Cycle, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Expensive Oil, Stupid Trade Groups, and Pending Enterprise Software Growth

USA Today had an interesting article today that calls into question a few of the doomsday scenarios that have dominated US policy-makers and those for whom policy has been made over the last decade or so. And in the process America's newspaper debunks some stupid policy issues on the subject...

Tags: Oil, Enterprise Software, NAM, Manufacturing, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-08-12

Jobs: App Store is huge; iPhone has a kill switch

Apple CEO Steve Jobs says App Store users have downloaded more than 60 million software programs and confirmed that the iPhone has a kill switch so the company can nuke brand breaking software. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Jobs noted that: ...

Tags: apple iphone, job, steve jobs, apple inc., sales strategy, tools & techniques, sales force management, sales, management, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-11

Verizon's wireless business shines; 'Comfortable' with FiOS adds

Verizon topped its second quarter targets Monday courtesy of a strong wireless business and executives said demand is holding up despite economic concerns. The telecom giant reported second quarter earnings of 66 cents a share and 67 cents a share excluding integration costs. Wall Street was expecting...

Tags: Revenue, Verizon Communications Inc., Operational Accounting, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-28

Reaction to Yahoo's Microsoft-inspired poison pill: 'That's nuts'

Yahoo's poison pill--adopted by the company to thwart a Microsoft takeover--was deemed "nuts" by outside consulting firm Compensia. That nugget was the big takeaway from an unsealed complaint Techmeme and PDF of suit by Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann, a Michigan lawfirm suing Yahoo on behalf of...

Tags: Poison Pill, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tale, Corporate Governance, Benefits, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-02

What's in a name? For LimeLeap, apparently, a whole lot

What's in a name? For LimeLeap, apparently, a whole lotHolding local discussionsIt's important for a company to pass on their knowledge in an area they're passionate in. It inspires, even if they take a small nugget of information away, it's worth it.We held an interactive talk to promote the use...

Tags: LimeLeap

Discussion threads 2008-06-02

Amazon preps pay-per-view movie service

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says that the company will launch a pay-per-view movie service shortly. According to reports out of D6--Barron's Eric Savitz has the most complete account along with Silicon Alley Insider--Bezos said he's serious about music and video downloads. He should be considering the distribution...

Tags: Movie, Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Video, Internet, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-28

D6: Snippets of Microsoft's morphing business model emerge

As expected, Microsoft's brief multi-touch demonstration of Windows 7 garnered most of the headlines, but when the crowd goes one way sometimes it makes sense to go the other way. And if you go away from the crowd you'll notice more than a few subtle hints were dropped about how...

Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Windows 7, Multi-touch, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Google's annual report by the charts

Google recently filed its 10-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission and dished out the usual batch of figures, but the charting the growth tells the tale. Here's a look at Google's annual report by the charts and some of the more interesting items. ...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Operational Accounting, Roi/Tco, Research & Development, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-19

As Microhoo turns: In today's episode Google goes gunshy; News Corp plays ball

These incremental Microsoft-Yahoo updates can get tiring. At least we're not killing trees with them. As a public service, here's a roundup of the latest chatter about Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo. Google gets cold feet. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that has lost enthusiasm...

Tags: Google Inc., TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! Inc., Asset Management, Outsourcing, Operational Planning, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-13

Zero-day flaw haunts HP laptop models

Zero-day flaw haunts HP laptop modelsHP Pavilion Notebook zv6130us and HP Info CenterEven if I have an HP Pavilion Notebook zv6130us, I don't have HP Info Center installed in my laptop. Is it only for newer laptops?RE: Zero-day flaw haunts HP laptop modelsAnyone who doesn't disable - and then uninstall...

Tags: Notebooks, zero-day bug, Hewlett-Packard Co., laptop computer, HP Laptop

Discussion threads 2007-12-12

More reflection on the Kindle: Did Amazon just answer an unnerved media industry's prayers?

This is a replay of a conversation with my father who spent most of his life as a media executive (though not with any company that I've ever worked for). Dad: Oh, you have the Kindle? Me: Yes. It's pretty neat. Raises a lot...

Tags: Media Company, Advertisement, Screen, RSS, Industry, New York Times Co., Amazon.com Inc., Content, Kindle, Times, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-12-06

IE team shares ... a version number

The Internet Explorer team has posted a new nugget of info about the next version of Microsoft's browser. The next release of IE will be called -- wait for it -- "Internet Explorer 8." That's it. More info to come -- at least...

Tags: Team, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Internet Explorer Team, Microsoft Platforms Team, Web Browsers, Team Management, Internet, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-12-05

Apple can even spin troubleshooting

Apple can even spin troubleshooting"Troubleshooting"?Yeah, wouldn't it be great if companies like Apple could be HONEST about stuff like that, and call it TROUBLESHOOTING, like the rest of us, instead of SPINNING everything just to avoid the word TROUBLESHOOTING? Yeah, that would be great.Oh, wait. :phttp://www.apple.com/support/iphone/troubleshooting/RE: Apple can even...

Tags: Operating systems, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-11-28

On the road to SC07

Last night I arrived in Reno Nevada for the SC07 conference, the international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis. I've signed up for a number of tutorials and papers so I'll have a lot more to say about it over the next week. Meanwhile after I settled...

Tags: Supercomputer, Computer, Productivity, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2007-11-11