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Gartner: IT hiring on the rise again

Gartner: IT hiring on the rise againI genuinely hope so.Except I know government agencies are cutting costs left and right... I'll wait and see on this one, but I hope you're right. Having a job and therefore means to live is kinda nice, I've discovered.And in order to...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, IT Hiring, information technology, Oct 1, USCIS, Gartner Inc., job, quota, H-1B visa, IT job, Oct

Discussion threads 2005-07-25

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Lessig: Five proposals for ending copyright wars

The Wall Street Journal is running an excerpt from Larry Lessig's upcoming book, Remix (book party in SF, Oct. 29.) In this excerpt, Lessig tells the story of Stephanie Lenz, who taped her infant child with some Prince song playing in the background and uploaded the...

Tags: Larry Lessig, Copyright Law, Regulation, Lenz, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Sun StarOffice 9 to launch Nov 19, OpenOffice 3 launch on Oct 13

Sun is expected to launch a major upgrade of StarOffice based on the new OpenOffice 3.0 on November 19, sources said. OpenOffice 3.0 is set to be officially launched in Paris on October 13.  Sun's StarOffice 9 will be available in late November. More to...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., OpenOffice 3.0, StarOffice, OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Apple invites press to 14 October notebook event

Apple invites press to 14 October notebook eventMy Bitterness May Finally EndI had the biggest sigh of relief today when I read the news of Oct 14. For months (years?) we've been wading through rumors and disappointment so to know that Apple will FINALLY give the non-iPhone/iPod community some attention...

Tags: Notebooks, notebook, notebook event, Yay, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

IBM: Beats earnings target but...

IBM said that it will beat Wall Street's earnings estimates for the third quarter, but there were enough nuggets disclosed to raise a few eyebrows. First, the headlines. IBM statement said it would report earnings of $2.05 a share, a good 3 cents better than estimates. Revenue,...

Tags: Revenue, Earnings, IBM Corp., Thomas Weisel, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-09

IBM reports early. Profits up 20 percent, full year estimates reaffirmed.

IBM, surprising Wall Street today with an early release of its quarterly earnings, reported a 20 percent in net income and EPS of $2.05. The company also reaffirmed its forecast of at least $8.75 for the year, a 22 percent increase from a year ago. Samuel J. Palmisano, IBM chairman,...

Tags: IBM Corp., Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Digital Web Business News: Weekly Report - Oct. 8, 2008

There are an incredible amount of startups and established companies who are releasing tools and practices for digital Web strategies for businesses on a weekly basis. Since I cannot cover them all I have set out to prepare a weekly snapshot of digital Web news that impacts businesses of all...

Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Web, News, Brainshark, LotusJump, Search, Marketing Research, Ruby On Rails, Open Source, Marketing, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Student indicted for Palin e-mail hack

The U.S. Justice Department today announced that a federal grand jury in Knoxville, Tennessee has indicted the 20-year-old son of a state lawmaker in connection with the compromise of Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account. David Kernell left, who was identified for a while as the alleged hacker,...

Tags: E-mail, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Oracle catches another minnow; Buys Primavera

Oracle said Wednesday that it is acquiring Primavera Software, which makes project portfolio management software. The purchase of Primavera--terms weren't disclosed statement--highlights how Oracle is content to acquire smaller firms instead of big bang purchases like BEA at the moment. On Oct. 1, Oracle...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Project Portfolio Management, PPM, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Blogger ethics, public relations... and you

Two different conversations that are connected at the core by the way the news media continues to grow and change. Bloggers have a significant responsibility in wielding their keystrokes, whether they have 10 readers or 10,000. Public relations professionals are still grappling with how to best work with this new...

Tags: Ethics, Blogger, Public Relations Professional, Public Relations, Blogging, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-10-07

T-Mobile clarifies G1 Android pre-order availability and text messaging question

T-Mobile clarifies G1 Android pre-order availability and text messaging questionPre-order or not T-mob delivery method is greatThe articles/videos showing Apple's brick-and-mortar store lines, the iTunes wacky operation is comic relief to some. Not T-mobile. All I was told by wife was to sign for package. Wow, that is consumer friendly...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, T-Mobile, G1 Android, text messaging

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Yahoo: Shares dip to 5-year low; AOL deal this month?

Things just keep getting worse for Yahoo. The company's stock reached a five-year low today, closing at $15.31 - or less than half of the $31 per share that Microsoft had offered to pay for Yahoo in February. On top of that, the...

Tags: Google Inc., America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Business Structures, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Yahoo: What happens if Google deal doesn't go through?

Yahoo's search advertising deal with Google, which is expected to increase the company's ability to monetize its Web pages, has been delayed to give the Department of Justice more time to evaluate it. This Google-Yahoo partnership has raised hackles from Microsoft as well as others, but the larger question is...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Interest in switching to broadband among Americans in 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2008

  Oct 2002 Feb 2004 Dec 2005 May 2008 Yes, interested in broadband 38% 40% 39% 36% No, not interested 57 58 60 62 % of all Americans with dial-up at home 38 30 25 10 Source: Pew Internet Project ...

Tags: Broadband, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, NB

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Watch Out: Digital TV Transition Starts ... Now

You thought you or your Mom didn't have to worry about whether your household was prepared for the transition to digital TV broadcasting until February of next year. Wrong. If, for instance, that household is in Austin, Green Bay, Indianapolis and eight other markets where LIN TV...

Tags: Signal, Cable Company, Digital Television, Broadcaster, LIN TV, Cable, Network Technology, TVs, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-29

New Nero software turns PC into TiVo TV recorder

TiVo and Nero have announced today that they will be launching a package that turns a Windows PC into a TV recorder, much like the TiVo sitting on top of your living room television, called Nero LiquidTV/TiVo PC. Like TiVo's existing TiVo Desktop software, LiquidTV will allow...

Tags: Software, Recorder, PC, Nero, TiVo Inc., TVs, Desktops, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-09-29

Amazon feeling first pinch of holiday economic slump

Amazon feeling first pinch of holiday economic slumpOnline spending.Thank you for covering the index, our next release will be late Oct and will be released in time for Cyber Monday and the holiday seasonInteresting times for sure, while it is true that access to credit is shrinking and the desire...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-26

Nokia to unveil touchscreen phone next week

Reuters is reporting that Nokia will unveil its first touchscreen phone at a media event next week in London. The phone, whose leaked pictures were posted on this blog earlier this week, is the result of plenty of market pressure since the iPhone's debut more than a...

Tags: Touch Screen, Phone, Nokia Corp., Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-09-26

Toshiba launches 256GB SSD with MLC

Toshiba announced today an addition to its line-up of NAND-flash-based solid state drives, a new 256GB SSD, and the launch of a series of small-sized Flash Modules for Netbooks, UMPCs and other mobile applications. The new drives will be showcased at the CEATEC in Makuhari, Japan, from...

Tags: Ultramobile PC, Speed, Toshiba Corp., Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Serial ATA, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Storage, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-09-26

LEAKED: Touchscreen Nokia 5800 XpressMusic pics

Details are emerging for Nokia's rumored Oct. 2 announcement of the "Tube," or the 5800 XpressMusic, and intrepid site Mobile.cz stumbled on the first official image. Rumored specs for the device are as follows: A-GPS and Wi-Fi, a 640x360 touchscreen, Symbian S60 and an 8GB SD...

Tags: Touch Screen, Nokia Corp., Details, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-09-24