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- What's a Little Money Between Friends?
- Gaming Incentive Systems Joel Spolsky (www.inc.com/keyword/spolsky) wrote a nice piece in the October 2008 issue of Inc. magazine. The article, Sins of Commissions, provides a cautionary tale to executives who are contemplating the addition of or changes to sales incentives in their workforce. ...
- Tags: Incentive, Commission, Joe, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Mail Goggles: an idea that goes well beyond drunk emails
- There's a new GMail Labs app: Mail Goggles, by GMail engineer Jon Perlow: When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check...
- Tags: Google Gmail, Jon, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Internet, Online Communications, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- My ICE Plan Home Inventory (exe)
- My ICE Plan Home Inventory is an home inventory and family emergency planning software that is easy to use and makes creating a home inventory fun. Additionally you can create a what to do in case of emergency plan for your family and pets when a diaster does strike. Print...
- Tags: Pet, Item, Trier Software, Insurance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance
- Software downloads 2008-10-08
- Google is your friend
- Google is your friendThe underlying principles should determinewho is a freind, or who is not.There is nothing wrong with being a [b]for profit[/b] company, which is what Google is. It would be an entirely different issue should they hide their EULA agreements, or who they deal with, or what they...
- Tags: Channel management, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Techies choose Obama - by a landslide
- If techies could choose the next President, Obama would win in a landslide. Checking donors from 10 large tech companies, including Apple, Dell, Google and Microsoft, over 90% of the donations support the senator from Illinois. Why does high-tech love Obama? First the numbers The...
- Tags: Landslide, Broadband, Obama, McCain, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- The cost of doing business in China: Privacy
- The cost of doing business in China: PrivacySo does the US !The only difference is, in china's case, you know and in US, you don't (or atleast most people don't). They even hijack all the data that flows through pipes of ISPs and make a copy and put analyzers on...
- Tags: SECURITY, Skype Technologies S.A., fundamental human right, big deal, human right, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Apple lifts iPhone NDA to dull Android's edge
- Responding to a crescendo of criticism from the developer community, which saw books canceled, long time fans lose enthusiasm, and some calls for defections to Android, Apple finally relented Wednesday: We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement NDA for released iPhone software. ... The NDA has created too...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Android, Tools & Techniques, Management, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- The cost of doing business in China: Privacy
- There's a good amount of scuttlebutt today on a report that highlights how the Chinese government is monitoring Skype traffic for keywords that may offend the Communist party. The report in question Techmeme, Breaching Trust: An analysis of surveillance and security practices on China's Tom-Skype platform, details...
- Tags: China, Monitoring, Privacy, Skype Technologies S.A., Tom-Skype, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Accellion Secure File Transfer
- Accellion Secure File Transfernot convincing...In order for this to work as designed, the person who "drops the file at the post office" repository, would have to go thru some process to identify who they want to be able to access it. OTOH, if they just mail it, it goes to...
- Tags: SECURITY, Accellion Secure File Transfer
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- How green is your IT leasing company?
- One might be tempted, perhaps, to consider leasing as an option when considering how to manage your company's IT portfolio with an eye to green issues. In the sense that you'll keep a better lid on the age of your assets or maybe spend a little...
- Tags: Information Technology, Leasing, Redemtech, Capital Structures, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Microsoft says crisis will impact tech
- Microsoft says crisis will impact techGround Control to L.E.M. Apollo13 Gemini has returned to Canada:Tom Hanks Impersonator,"Aren't we glad Houston didn't say San Fransico. That fire would wipe-out the SSA and put fourteen million Americans out of their homes."" I wonder how my trailer park is doing?"Wrong!!What's needed is NOT...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft says crisis, MICROSOFT SAYS
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Should engineers fix climate change?
- Should engineers fix climate change?Democracy and the Long ViewThey are, of course, famously incompatible.That said, there is an argument in favor of self-interested First World countries moving as rapidly as possible towards a lower carbon footprint. On the one hand, they're the ones with the most to lose from...
- Tags: global warming, ice, climate change, Joe
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- Seeing the light: Dell makes major commitment to LED displays
- Seeing the light: Dell makes major commitment to LED displaysWhat's the life-expectancy of an LED display?Is it expected to be better or worse than an LCD display? After all, the two are unlikely to be exactly the same, and if it's worse then surely the energy cost of manufacturing extra...
- Tags: Engineering, tree-hugger, light-emitting diode, LED DISPLAY, DELL Makes, global warming, Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- Neocleus secure access
- I'm doing my best to go through my VMworld notes and post on a few of the more interesting demonstrations seen there. While walking the trade show floor at VMworld, I saw an interesting presentation of how a type 1 hypervisor combined with isolated Windows virtual machine could add up...
- Tags: Information Technology, Environment, Neocleus, Remote Access, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Telecommunications, Security, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girl
- McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girlEnough already!We get it! Anybody that is supporting John McCain is bad and anybody supporting Barrack Obama is good. You have sufficiently established your liberal credentials.RE: McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girlMcCain wants something acutally ONLINE?...
- Tags: John McCain, Obama
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- Standards-obsessed politicians partly to blame for math/sci problems
- From the Atlantic to the Pacific, educators are coming up with the same conclusion – obvious enough to the kids and probably their parents – standardized tests and policies that require kids to learn difficult topics before they're ready actually hurt math and science education. From the...
- Tags: Kid, Kids, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- Microsoft refers to its anti-Linux playbook to attack VMware
- Microsoft refers to its anti-Linux playbook to attack VMwareAs if...As if Apple, Apple fanboys, Linux fanboys and every other MS competitor don't refer to their anti-MS playbook every single day.What exactly is your point with this article, Mary Jo Foley?RE: Microsoft refers to its anti-Linux playbook to attack VMwareBeside the...
- Tags: Operating systems, Virtualization, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., VMware Inc., Linux, anti-Linux, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- Financial cesspits and compliance
- Governance risk and compliance are not the most popular of topics. Until there is a monumental screw up that is. Then everyone with a GRC solution emails to remind me they have the solution that could have avoided last week's mayhem in the financial markets,which will fix the ongoing situation...
- Tags: Trader, Financial, Compliance, Investment Banking, GRC, Government, Financial Accounting, Litigation, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- The lessons in Sarah Palin's email adventure
- The lessons in Sarah Palin's email adventureThis is just the price paid ...for using a third party cloud provider.Networks the size of Yahoo or Google manage technology with technology instead of hands on. Any business that uses the cloud provided by a network like this can expect a loss of...
- Tags: Sarah Palin, email adventure, security, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-09-20
- DHS still doesn't quite get this cybersecurity thing
- The Department of Homeland Security is still lacking in the cybersecurity department, according to a bevy of critics. What's galling is that the DHS' inadequacies are barely news anymore. Here's what would be a real news flash: "DHS locks down cybersecurity. Hackers locked out!" Perhaps I'm cynical...
- Tags: U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity, Intelligence Community, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
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