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As Yahoo, Google, etc. cater to elusive small businesses, Microsoft's hand could be forced

As Yahoo, Google, etc. cater to elusive small businesses, Microsoft's hand could be forcedDavid, you still don't "get it".You start off talking about small business' selling product and then get lost in bashing MS Office. Believe it or not, one has little of nothing to do with the other.We...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., small business, outlay, SuSE Linux, SuSE, Linux, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-10-16

Education Funding: It's not a liberal spin

Seadog59 replied to my posting, Save America, save the schools, with this penetrating challenge designed to pop the bubble of ignorance that surrounds "liberals": "Good liberal spin. Show me where more money equals better education." Glad you asked. My point was not that more money alone makes better education,...

Tags: education

Blog posts 2006-04-21

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How Kanye West influences enterprise social business strategy

Entertainment personality Kanye West's outburst over the weekend at the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony has implications for the enterprise business world. Jive Software, whose 'SBS' Social Business Software 'frees people to engage in open, natural business conversations and workflows that typically are...

Tags: Marketing, Collaboration, Analytics, Twitter Inc., Social Media, Entertainment, Business Strategy, MTV, Radian6, Jive Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-14

Windmills stir up opposition

Let's do some mathHarry:How much energy is recoverable, year in, year out, for vertical turbine blades?What percentage of the US' domestic energy usage does that amount to?This is very basic arithmetic.Likewise, when you factor in the energy costs needed to make the lithium ion batteries of the Prius, and assume...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, wind energy

Discussion threads 2009-09-13

HuMo-gen (PHP) 3.2 (Windows)

HuMo-gen PHP is a free and open-source Gedcom-to-Website genealogy program. HuMo-gen PHP converts Gedcom files into PHP files and creates an instant, dynamic and searchable genealogy Web site. The program can be easily installed by anyone with a domain and a webhost with PHP/mySQL support. No knowledge of either PHP...

Tags: PHP, Microsoft Windows, Yossi Beck Free Software Distributions, HuMo-gen, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-09-08

An open letter to the RIAA: Illegal file sharing problem solved?

I think I'll skip......governments collecting and paying royalties. Its called tolling and every business in the world would like to access governments' ability to use force to collect money for them.What would be the outcome of such a scheme? Whenever "artists" (and I use the word loosely given...

Tags: Taxes, Vertical industries, Free trade, Peer to peer (P2P), RIAA, government, file sharing problem, tax, open letter, file-sharing

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Mid-week HDTV news: Plasmas are hot sellers (again); Vizio remains tops in LCDs; Sony delays next OLED set

The economic downturn no doubt helped push some manufacturers like Pioneer out of the plasma market, but the recession may now be saving plasmas from the brink of obsolescence. According to a new report from Quixel Research, plasma HDTVs have zoomed to a huge gain in 2Q of 2009, with...

Tags: Sony Corp., Plasma, Organic Light-emitting Diode, LCD, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-08-19

BlackBerry Curve 8520 marks consumer, business power play for RIM [hands-on review]

The first thought that springs from your mind when you pick up the RIM BlackBerry Curve 8520 is, "You know, I could get the hang of this." That's what Research in Motion, BlackBerry's maker, is hoping. The new Curve...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., BlackBerry Curve, RIM BlackBerry, Curve 8520, Lithium-cell Battery, Multimedia Menu, Handhelds, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-08-06

Silicon Valley's recession rebound: Optimism or Arrogance?

The latest unemployment figures are in for Santa Clara County, California - aka Silicon Valley - and it doesn't look good: 11.8 percent in the county is among the highest in the entire San Francisco Bay Area region. Still, reporting from the front lines here, I can...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Optimism, Wired Inc., Recession, Arrogance, Unemployment Figure, Recruitment & Selection, Productivity, Smart Phones, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-21

SailMaster 2.5 (Mobile)

SailMaster displays key data in a clear and easy to read format and can help sailors of all abilities understand how to maximize speed and efficiency. Originally designed as an economical tool for experienced sailors to optimize racing performance, the simplicity and low-cost of the navigation application means that sailors...

Tags: Mobile, Horn, Structure6, Productivity, Performance Management, Benefits, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-07-20

CIT unraveling could be headache for Dell, Avaya, resellers

The U.S. government has drawn a line in the sand---it won't bail out debt-ridden CIT, a financial services firm that loans money to small and midsized business in part to buy and lease technology equipment. Unlike other financial company implosions CIT's potential demise could have a direct impact on technology...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Financing, Leasing, Avaya Inc., CIT, Capital Structures, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-16

The marketing myth of "free" social media

Marketers and PR people are all over Twitter, FaceBook, etc. They love "social media" because they can get past the "gate keepers" in traditional media. And there have been several instances where they've managed to promote their clients at seemingly little or no cost. ...

Tags: Marketing, Social Media, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-13

Microsoft doesn't win at everything

Microsoft doesn't win at everythingDid not Microsoft attempt to purchaseIntuit years ago, with Intuit's blessing, only to have the DOJ block the sale?Failing occasionally is a good signThe only way not to fail is not take any kind of risk, which is a sure-fire way to eventual irrelevance.RE: Microsoft doesn't...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Games, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Quicken

Discussion threads 2009-06-11

Forget the iPhone: Palm targets RIM, business customers with Pre

Few business customers look to Apple's iPhone as the solution for the enterprise. Perhaps it's the device's popularity with teenagers. Perhaps it's the device's pedigree as a media player. Perhaps it's because RIM exerts such power over the business community with its BlackBerry lineup, and the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Palm Inc., Sprint Communications, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Team Management, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Accounting for success? Darwin meets the green eyeshade world…

Have you really looked at your options for finance & accounting lately? BPO business process outsourcing for Finance and Accounting has been going on for a time. The industry owes some part of its success to the shared services efforts of larger firms. When businesses created shared...

Tags: Software, Accounting, Firm, Darwin, F&A, F&A Executive, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-06-04

AT&T announces Curve 8900 for early Summer

AT&T announces Curve 8900 for early SummerSorry, No Crackberry For MeI don't want to have to rely on a proprietary network that if it goes down, my device is rendered useless..Curve 8310 is wonderful, hope this is really an improvementMy work Curve 8310 is an awesome phone as configured on...

Tags: E-mail, Telecom & Utilities, AT&T Corp., Curve 8900, early summer, phone, Curve 8310

Discussion threads 2009-05-04

Report: Sun and IBM clashed over executive pay

Report: Sun and IBM clashed over executive payGreed is good... right?Figures that talks would break down because some greedy SOB isn't content with millions of dollars alone, but want even more.RE: Report: Sun and IBM clashed over executive payLet them fail. Who cares. None of their products can't...

Tags: Benefits, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

Attackers pounce on Microsoft PowerPoint zero-day

Attackers pounce on Microsoft PowerPoint zero-dayVulnerability patch cycle unacceptableMS would be better spending the $600M advertising (See Mary's blog) waste of money on strengthening the threat response team as several months for an already exploited hole is insane and does not do their reputation any favours.Eg: For Excel 2000...

Tags: SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, MOICE, Microsoft PowerPoint, user right

Discussion threads 2009-04-03

Apple to launch 'variable-pricing' for iTunes

Apple to launch 'variable-pricing' for iTunesThanks for the reminderI am sure a lot of customers forgot Apple announce this in the beginning of January. It was presumably part of the deal for getting the other studios to allow Apple to sell DRM free songs.It is obviouslly the confortable position that...

Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Sales strategy, Apple Inc., record company, Apple iTunes

Discussion threads 2009-03-26

A pending environmental disaster, and how we humans got it right

A pending environmental disaster, and how we humans got it rightWhat [i]would[/i] have happenedOr what [i]could[/i] have happened?It is allways easy to say that "I am so good as I can tell you what would have happened" when that something never did happen.Harry should thank me: If I were to...

Tags: C/C++, Vertical industries, pending environmental disaster, environmental disaster, ozone, C

Discussion threads 2009-03-19