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The political battle growing around not-swine just-flu

The political battle growing around not-swine just-fluNot just panicky politiciansPanicky corporate executives and lobbyists are just as dangerous to sound science as are politicians. After all, it wasn't tobacco state politicians that spent all of that money over 40 years trying to debunk allegations that smoking is unhealthy.AgreedPanicky corporate...

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Discussion threads 2009-05-04

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Does social media reward whining?

The worm is turningIt's taken a while, but it's clear the social media world is waking up to the fact that companies using Twitter as a back-door customer service channel staffed by PR personnel isn't a sustainable practice.I think it's great that PR people I am one are using social...

Tags: Public relations, Twitter Inc., social media

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

The political battle growing around not-swine just-flu

What does appear useful is sound science, and panicky politicians are the enemy of sound science, in every system, around the world. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Flu, Mexico, Government, Cyberthreats, Blogging, Vertical Industries, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-05-04

Swine flu and beyond: keeping people informed

Schools, particularly primary and secondary institutions, are seen as important community resources, sources of information, and have easy communication vehicles with many members of the community. While kids' backpacks are a fine way of getting information to a large subset of people in a town or city (and have...

Tags: School, Flu, Channel Management, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Web Site Development, Public Relations, Marketing, Human Resources, Internet, Corporate Communications, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-04-29

Apple: Is the glass half full or half empty?

Apple: Is the glass half full or half empty?What's the net profit?The important question is what their net profits are? Acer may be snagging more buyers, but if they are losing money on each discounted system then they can't keep it up for long. Acer may be trying...

Tags: Sales strategy, Financial accounting, Investment, Operating systems, Adrian, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-01-15

Novell massages the numbers

Is Novell looking to get bought? That's the best excuse I can give for its latest earnings report, where one-time cuts to marketing  made for narrower losses and a good pop to the stock. Despite the "good news" of its win over SCO, and...

Tags: Novell Inc., Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-09-04

XM and Sirius-This Marriage Could Work IF. What do you think?

Ital. could.XM Satellite Radio The two major satellite radio services are merging. But as with any merger where two content aggregators are concerned, what really matters is how the content packages are going to be integrated.The always clued-in Harry McCracken of PC World has a most thoughtful take. Harry...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-02-19

Putting Apple's allegedly soft Mac sales in perspective

One of the big alleged disappointments of Apples otherwise stellar fiscal first quarter results was the companys Mac shipments. The issue: Apple shipped 1.6 million Macs in the quarter and that was short of the 1.75 million analysts were expecting....

Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, Apple, Apple Macintosh, Mac sale

Blog posts 2007-01-18

News: Like Woodstock for marketing execs

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is more than a nearly week-long peek into the future of home electronics. Its also a panicky mob of people from all over the world trying to figure out who will be the winners and losers in a multibillion-dollar global business. Here are...

Tags: marketing

Blog posts 2007-01-05

Apple Airport Extreme Wi-Fi flaw triggers kernel panic

Apple Airport Extreme Wi-Fi flaw triggers kernel panicKernal panics aren't too badAlthough I never get to see them.It looks like the whole DMG exploit was little more than a bug that causes a kernal panic as well. Hardly as serious as first reported:http://alastairs-place.net/2006/11/dmg-vulnerability/Thanks for keeping us up to date though.Denial...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Apple Mac OS X, security, vulnerability, exploit, kernel panic, flaw, Wi-Fi, Apple Inc., security expert, Apple Airport

Discussion threads 2006-12-01

Verizon prepares spinoff of directories business

Verizon prepares spinoff of directories businessEvery beginning comes from some other beginnings' endHmm,...dell changing alliances to amd and vodafone 3G, thinking of buying ati...Intel dumping chip lines and trying to move into the wireless arena (make your own conclusions or assumptions as to why, this "late" in the game)...meanwhile MS...

Tags: WIRELESS, directories business, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-07-07

Dvorak: IE is a dead albatross

Every once in a while, John Dvorak hits one out of the park when he posts a rant that actually gets me thinking seriously. In his latest jab at Microsoft, he declares that the best thing the company could do would be to drop Internet explorer like a hot tuber....

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web browser, John Dvorak

Blog posts 2006-04-26

Sun Scott-free? Microsoft's albatross

A couple of things ripped from today's headlines:Scott McNealy steps down at Sun. He may have stepped down as CEO, but he's still chairman over at Fireball. Remember how Bill Gates "stepped down" as CEO of Microsoft a few years ago? I expect to hear plenty more zingers from...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., John Dvorak

Blog posts 2006-04-25

IE 7 to take a cue from Firefox

IE 7 to take a cue from FirefoxIt would be......criminally negligent NOT to include it at this point. I'll reserve judgement until I see it in action. Just because you're third to the table doesn't mean you have the worst implementation...Too little, too lateI personally like FireFox because...

Tags: Web browsers, CSS, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2005-05-17

Will DVD acquittal mean tougher copyright laws?

Will DVD acquittal mean tougher copyright laws?pffftthis is gettign stupid.. All beware the printing press. Adapt or die, dont change the environment Laws though.. as that will speed your extinction. Adapt or die. Thats how it has to be.. Limiting what users can do only makes them more likely to...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Consumer electronics, Digital media, Broadcast TV, DVD acquittal, DMCA, DVD, copyright law, acquittal, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2003-12-24