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Employers, employees at odds over why workers leave

According to ZDNets IT Facts blog (by the way, a great place to get your daily dose of data): "71% of top performers listed pay among the top three reasons they would consider leaving their employer. Only 45% of employers cited pay as a top-three reason workers leave. Instead,...

Tags: performer, worker

Blog posts 2006-11-16

Performance evaluations: Love, hate, need, want

Performance evaluations: Love, hate, need, wantPerformance EvaluationsI too am going through the same thing about performance appraisals. I have made it through my first year of being a supervisor and to say the least it has been a bumpy road.We have a poor performer in our midst and of...

Tags: Performance management, Team management, performance, Performance Appraisal, performance evaluation, performer, supervisor

Discussion threads 2006-11-06

Controls pay for themselves

I had a fascinating conversation Friday with Gene Kim, CTO of Tripwire and lead researcher of the IT Process Institute “IT Controls Benchmark Survey”.   Gene has been working on this survey for years and the report is finally available.  The purpose was to demonstrate the impact of implementing COBIT...

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Blog posts 2006-08-28

Sex sites' reprieve from new federal rules

Sex sites' reprieve from new federal rulesHmmm, what do they do with "cartoons"Date of birth, last friday???Privacy issueshttp://www.boingboing.net/2005/06/22/rottencom_our_gaping.html"In terms of the bookkeeping requirements for Adult film distributors -- each distributor has to keep records on site. That includes social security numbers, driver license scans and other personal information. So lets...

Tags: Harassment, Social Security, Operational accounting, Bart Simpsons, Webcam girl, physical address, performer, Webcam, sex site

Discussion threads 2005-06-24

Additional Resources

Logitech Pure-Fi Mobile

Photo gallery:Logitech Pure-Fi MobileIf there's one thing Logitech does right, it's progress. The accessories company has been churning out iPod speakers for years, and its experience in this area shows in each new product. Rather than resting on its laurels, Logitech chugs forward with tweaks and improvements. Such is the...

Tags: Dead Center, backside, mobile, Logitech, speaker, Pure-Fi Mobile, Logitech Pure-Fi Mobile

Product reviews 2008-07-02

Gateway FX7026

Continuing in their line of desktop computers with quad-core processors, the Gateway FX7026 offers a loaded computer that can go head-to-head with other high end gaming and media heavy machines. The $1,099 price tag is more than fair for the amount of high performance features and comparable to a similar...

Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), DVD, Consumer electronics, Gateway FX7026, Gateway Inc.

Product reviews 2008-06-25

Updated the HTC Touch Diamond and Advantage X7510 with new firmware

As regular readers know, I posted a couple of articles on my experiences with the HTC Touch Diamond here and here are my latest two. For the most part, the device I have had has been a great performer with a fluid TouchFLO 3D experience, as shown in several of...

Tags: ROM, High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Firmware, HTC Touch, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-06-23

Sony Rolly series

Photo gallery:Sony RollyAt this point, the Sony Rolly has been pretty much done to death around here. Murmurings about the music device started surfacing as early as August of last year, and then it finally visited the U.S. during CES 2008. However, it wasn't until last month that the Rolly...

Tags: Robots, Digital music, Media players, Digital media, Engineering, Sony Corp., Sony Rolly

Product reviews 2008-06-05

Review: The sleek black Nokia N82 with Xenon lens lights up the night

I was quite happy to upgrade my Nokia N95-3 with the firmware update that made my device a much better performer. A couple of days before I was able to upgrade my N95-3, I was sent a Nokia N82 to evaluate through the Nseries Blogger Relations program. After opening up...

Tags: SIM Card, Device, Nokia Corp., Camera, Nokia N82, Xenon, N95, Image Gallery:The Nokia N82, Display, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Ipevo PoV Web Camera

Ipevo would have you believe that its pen-shaped PoV Web Camera is the only Webcam you can detach from the top of your laptop or monitor to control its point of view. While it is true that you can point the PoV cam at objects other than a talking head...

Tags: Instant messaging, Ipevo, Webcam, PoV Web Camera, camera, Skype Technologies S.A.

Product reviews 2008-05-30

Linksys WRT310N Wireless-N Gigabit Router

The Linksys WRT310N Wireless-N Gigabit Router is basically the Draft N 2.0 version of the RangePlus WRT110 that we reviewed earlier this month. Bearing the same sleek, antenna-free design as the WRT110, the WRT310N offers two significant upgrades: Gigabit networking and Draft N 2.0 compliance. We are a little disappointed...

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, Home networking, router, Linksys WRT310N, RangePlus WRT110, Draft-N, Draft-N 2.0, Linksys Inc., wireless, network

Product reviews 2008-05-29

Gateway XHD3000 Monitor (30-inch)

A 30-inch LCD from any of the handful of vendors that sell such a monitor--Apple, Dell, HP, Gateway, and Samsung--will set you back some. The Gateway XHD3000 is one of the more expensive models in this class of LCD, with a list price $1,699. It can be found online for...

Tags: Corporate communications, Monitors & displays, bezel, monitor, Gateway XHD3000, Gateway Inc., OSD, display

Product reviews 2008-05-28

Gateway P-6860FX

Always looking for the right mix of power and value, we were big fans of Gateway's 17-inch gaming laptop lineup, ranging from the $3,000 P-171XL FX to the $1,299 P-6831FX, a retail-only model that was the cheapest way to get Nvidia's GeForce 8800 GPU. Gateway's recent refreshes of these systems...

Tags: Games, Network technology, Processors, Gateway P-6860FX, Gateway Inc., P-6831FX, 64-bit

Product reviews 2008-05-19

Eddie Bauer traffic up 63ò0in June 2005

Eddie Bauer traffic up 63ò0in June 2005Un Fair Practices at Eddie Bauer?Hi- Very long time Eddie Bauer customer here. I am glad that the site is being redesigned. But I've recently heard something about the retail stores that has upset me greatly. I cannot find a proper place to write...

Tags: Sales channel, Eddie Bauer

Discussion threads 2008-05-14

Samsung SyncMaster T220

Is it possible to base an LCD purchase strictly on the display's bezel? If so, Samsung has an LCD to sell you. The Samsung SyncMaster T220 features the company's new Touch of Color bezel, which presents a most attractive visage. The black frame features slightly curved edges along the top...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Samsung T220, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Dell SP2208WFP, Samsung 2232GW, bezel, Samsung SyncMaster T220

Product reviews 2008-05-13

DLO TransDock III (with IntelliTune)

FM transmitters aren't the best way to port your MP3 player's audio to your car stereo, but for those who don't have a cassette player or auxiliary line input, they're the only option. Thanks to FCC regulations, it can be a challenge to find one that offers transmission powerful enough...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, IntelliTune, DLO TransDock III, TransDock III, TransDock

Product reviews 2008-05-12

Yahoo's Yang gives his 'don't crush our stock we're ok' address

Yahoo's Yang gives his 'don't crush our stock we're ok' addressLet the pigs have their lunchas they will do anyway (it's only a correction from a rise due to short term greed, so it's kind of their own vomit that they're eating), then everybody who isn't convinced that Steve Ballmer...

Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, knowledge economy, Yahoo! Inc., Yang, stock, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-05

Nokia N82

The Nokia N82 is just the latest Nokia N series model to come across our desk, and like the rest of the bunch, it's quite impressive. It has a feature set similar to the Nokia N95, with a couple of additions and omissions. Like the N95, the N82 has a...

Tags: Symbian Smartphone, number key, Nokia N82, Nokia Corp.

Product reviews 2008-04-25

Gateway P-172X FX

Gateway's current laptop line offers something for gamers with widely varying budgets, without sacrificing too much in terms of components or features. We were previously very impressed with the high-end $3,000 P-171XL-FX and the low-end $1,249 P-6831FX. Both include Nvidia's GeForce 8800 graphics card, making the P-6831FX the best gaming...

Tags: Games, Processors, Gateway Inc., P-6831FX, Intel Core 2 Duo

Product reviews 2008-04-21

HP Pavilion a6400z

The HP Pavilion a6400z desktop is a versatile machine aimed at meeting your basic home, school, or work computing needs. Our review configuration of the a6400z came in at $340, but with a few key upgrades on HP's Web site you can turn this into a much better system for...

Tags: Desktops, DVD, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Consumer electronics, a6400z, eMachines Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Pavilion

Product reviews 2008-04-10