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US Embassy joins in the Green Dam fray

The U.S. government is stepping into the outrage over Green Dam - Youth Escort - China's government-mandated spyware PC makers install on every computer sold in the country. The U.S. Embassy in Beijing released a "concerned" statement: The U.S. Government is...

Tags: China, Industry, Outrage, Computer, Government, Productivity, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-21

Mandatory iPhones at UM worth a bit of outrage?

Mandatory iPhones at UM worth a bit of outrage?More generalized solutions in the futureUM is clearly highlighting a market opportunity for iPhone/iPod Touch type devices and, at the moment, Apple appears to have the best overall solution.Ideally, in the future, more generalized solutions will be available that allow more vendors...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Web browsers, Digital media, Digital music, Mandatory iPhones, UM worth, outrage

Discussion threads 2009-05-12

Google GMail personal data mining: Where is the outrage?

Google GMail personal data mining: Where is the outrage?just don't pull an AOL...It's not like there's a team of Google marketers personally reading our emails. Who cares? All it's doing is making ads more relevant and therefore less annoying. I can't blame them for doing it. If you don't like...

Tags: E-mail providers, Business intelligence, E-mail, Google Gmail, personal data mining, Google Inc., outrage, data mining

Discussion threads 2006-08-11

Where's the outrage on stock options now?

You may recall that Scott NcNealy, at the time two years ago as chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems, used the occasion of the JavaOne developers conference to chat up the crowd on pending action to amend accounting rules to make stock option grants an expense item for public corporations....

Tags: stock, outrage, stock option

Blog posts 2006-07-14

Where is the outrage?

Where is the outrage?Conscience and responsibilityYou noted an important issue when you wrote:"I find it remarkable that there was a 'leak' at the nation's most secret agency — that should have been a clue that something was wrong."Yes.If the leak was not accidental, and it's difficult to hypothesize an accident...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, outrage, leak, Civil Disobedience

Discussion threads 2006-05-18

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Global cyberwar: Installed in your PC at home, the office and government

Personal Accountabilityas long as people can think and act as though their conduct on the internet is shrouded in anonomity.Until each of us takes full responsibility for what we do and operates with the knowledge that our 'unique' verifiable identities can be obtained readily, the carnage will continue and broaden.A...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Vertical industries, government, computer, PC-At Home, Internet, car

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Technology is great, it's us that's flawed!

Can you put the window up after the ignition is turned off?Just a guess - my vehicle has a feature that allows me to raise or lower the windows after the ignition is turned off unless I open a door. It's convenient because I don't have to turn the...

Tags: Construction, window, black box

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

Can a Windows geek learn to love Snow Leopard?

David Alison's BlogEd, have you seen David Alison's blog? He was a long time Windows developer that switched to Mac. His blog has a wealth of information about the trials and tribulations of switching. If you've not already, I suggest you have a look.http://www.davidalison.com/NoWhile I can't comment on Snow...

Tags: Operating systems, Digital music, Digital media, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc., WMA, Apple Mac OS X, Snow Leopard, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Why pre-roll app ads on the Zune HD are a dealbreaker

OptionsAs others have suggested, I guess MS could offer the apps for a fee, as well as free and ad supported. I think it would probably be a good idea if MS is very upfront about a free app being ad supported. I think so long as MS ensures that...

Tags: Microsoft Zune, Zune HD, dealbreaker, Microsoft Corp., app ad, advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

Microsoft trains Best Buy "Linux assassins"

Aimed at the uninformed customers... so it'll probably be successful. Sigh. It's FUD, of course, but I think it's pretty effective when dealing with people who have only a vague notion of Linux.However:First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win. :-)Fighting...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Best Buy Co. Inc., Linux, FUD, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

Six days in and first Snow Leopard update seeded to devs

LIAR!!!!Macs don't have issues/bugs/flaws/etc! This update is a performance/feature update! /sarcasmBad ApplesWith a limited number of hardware and software permutations, it is dissapointing how poorly Apples quality control performs. Did they just find out these bugs except for the Flash fiasco that is unlikely given that they already have fixes...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows 7, Kudo, Snow Leopard, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Is your supply chain gonna kill you?

Jason Busch has an excellent post: Friday Rant: Beyond SarbOx -- Waiting for the Big One to Hit . I'm betting few people want to talk about this particular hot potato. Please don't choke on your early morning coffee. He says: Then as now [when SarbOx was enacted], companies...

Tags: Supply Chain, International Financial Reporting Standards, Audit, Jason Busch, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-04

Stop the Presses!!! AT&T announces iPhone MMS.

Meh.I never understood the outrage over the lack of MMS on the iPhone in the first place, and as we've already learned AT&Ts network is handling the current traffic less than spectacularly.Well it's about damn time.Finally. Why the hell did it take them so long?It's payback time, AT&T...I don't usually...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, Smart phones, AT&T Corp., MMS, Apple iPhone, network

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Bad ethics in the wild: Twitter spamming and site stealing

Interesting......a guy who has no problem violating copyrights complaining about a lack of ethics.Carl RapsonSPAM on Twitter!!! Say it isn't so!!Why is this worthy of a ZDNET blog entry. Is your next entry going to be about how you hate to get those EMail's that say "You've Won $15,000,000" or...

Tags: Spam, E-mail, Twitter Inc., Twitter spamming, BAD ETHICS, spamming

Discussion threads 2009-09-02

Snow Leopard: What's the hurry to upgrade?

Yeah, no ZFS included made snowkitty a yawnI guess I'll keep using my machine as a Vista render mule. At least it's quiet and looks good.I'm installing it for one reason only: Boot CampBoot Camp 2.1 drivers don't allow Windows to control screen brightness dynamically which means I have to...

Tags: Finder, Snow Leopard, Leopard, 64-bit, kernel, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Condemning what the market does worse

Agree, but unfair comparisonI do agree with most of what you are saying, but feel compelled to take issue with the following:You said "Few deny the Obama Administration has mangled the health care debate. On my personal blog I have compared this to how the Bush Administration handled Hurricane Katrina."The...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, government, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

Public relations fail: A lesson and a rant

I try to be supportive of the public relations industry. I spotlight wins. I publicly thank people for their good ideas. I do research reports to help clients, bloggers and agencies better communicate and understand each other. All of that said, I have very little tolerance for basic violations of...

Tags: Social Media, Public Relations, E-mail, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-08-19

HD DVD returns and kicks Blu-ray to the gutter

HD DVD returns and kicks Blu-ray to the gutterWell researchedThe problem with Blu Ray is the royalty aspect of this format.Thousands of dollars just to use their logo on the Jacket Cover and so on.Maybe this chinese will work.So is my HD-DVD player dead or not?In the US that is,...

Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, HD-DVD

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

China's Green Dam and the cyberwar implications

Guest editorial by Oliver Day Chinese military leaders have always been aware of the military advantage the US has over the People's Liberation Army.  Reading through their published assessments of Sino-US war possibilities confirm our belief that we would dominate them in the...

Tags: Software, China, Vulnerability, Computer, Chinese Internet, Green Dam, Government, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Internet, Vertical Industries, Security, Management, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-07-23

Apple lawyers tried to hush up exploding iPod reports

Apple lawyers tried to hush up exploding iPod reportsYou sound surprised, Adrianthrough the years, stories of compalints being removed from Apple's message boards, cease and desist orders to anyone with the tiniest of information, even anyone who dares blog negatively about Apple on their personal web sites; Apple places their...

Tags: Digital music, Blogging, Apple sale, Apple Inc., Apple iPod, iPODS

Discussion threads 2009-07-22