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Musicians and their fans join online political fray

Musicians and their fans join online political fray$9.99 song???[The sometimes profane lyrics hammer Democrats, including presidential candidate John Kerry. The site offers the song as a CD single for $9.99.]That must be a great song since it's 10 times more expensive than a regular 99 cents download.The proceeds must be...

Tags: political fray, Ted, fray

Discussion threads 2004-11-01

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On the future of Open Source thought leadership

After over a decade of being in the shadow of the Free Software movement and 30 years of its inflexible dogmatic principles, disruptive new Open Source thought leadership is emerging that is truly able to compromise with the realistic needs of business and end-users without carrying...

Tags: Software, Leadership, Richard Stallman, Open Source, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-08

Microsoft joins HTML 5 standard fray in earnest

Real standards[i]"That's important because Microsoft has of late embraced a standard-centric philosophy when it comes to what technology IE supports, and IE is of course the dominant browser on the market."[/i]Microsoft has never been particularly keen on supporting real standards, they've always preferred their own formats to maintain their monopoly.IE...

Tags: Web browsers, Quality, XHTML, W3C, Microsoft Corp., standards, HTML, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web browser, ISO

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

News to know: Windows 7; RIM; Botnet hijack; Amazon

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: What to expect from Windows 7. Gallery right Mary Jo Foley: So many Microsoft codenames, so little time... The...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Microsoft Windows 7, Antitrust, AT&T Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Microsoft Windows, Corporate Law, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-05

Where

WhereCareful with your wordingGlobal warming is not a fact. I don't know if URL's are acceptable here. If they are, let me know. If not, google something similar to "32,000 scientists petition global warming."Also important is that given new data they are not sure. They are...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-02-13

CRM 2009 Forecast: How'd I Do in 2008? Gimme A High Four!

Usually, when I begin my forecast for the coming year, I like to look at how I did the previous year - which is usually disconcerting to say the least.  So, in honor of my first non-intro post for this ZDNET blog, I'm going to be nakedly transparent and show...

Tags: Social Media, Business, Tool, CRM, Zoho, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-11-18

"IT bungles: appalling and unacceptable"

The UK's Child Support Agency CSA has had a long history of major IT and management problems, as described in Computer Weekly.Now, politician Danny Alexander has jumped into the fray with a few choice words describing the CSA:The massive IT failures that have dogged the CSA are appalling and unacceptable....

Tags: Information Technology, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-08-10

Another IBM patent dump

Another IBM patent dumpIBM is not a computer company, its a political organization thats in compsc"It's clear that the patent system is broken, especially as relates to software. Concessions like this would not be necessary if patents were doing what they were supposed to be doing"So IBM donates 150 patents...

Tags: IBM Corp., patent

Discussion threads 2007-07-12

Republican politico endorses data retention

Republican politico endorses data retentionBut who is watching the watchers?Typical 1984 Big Brother BS. Good of congress to be stripping away the privacy of Americans. Thank you so very much.who's paying for the storage & administrationI bet is the consumers that are going to foot the bill.Since for...

Tags: INTERNET, Vertical industries, government

Discussion threads 2006-05-05

Open source in the political fray

Open source in the political frayPlenty of GOP supporters as well...See: InstaPundit, Gun Owners Assocation of America, Doug Ross @ Journal...Make that supporters of Republican ideals...People are starting to realize that Net Neutrality esconded in law is perhaps the lesser of two evils. Having two industry giants controlling the flow...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, open source

Discussion threads 2006-04-27

Open source in the political fray

I must admit that the net neutrality debate has begun to surprise me.Those seeking guarantees of network neutrality via Savetheinternet.com are right on the facts, and right on the technology. Cisco already sells boxes that would let Bell or cable ISPs throttle service from any server, or guarantee delivery.At the...

Tags: network, neutrality, network neutrality

Blog posts 2006-04-27

Apple makes a stronger proprietary argument

Apple makes a stronger proprietary argumentOpen SystemsApple's OS X is based on an open operating system, namely BSD Unix (Linux-ish). So much so that many developers have been able to re-compile and make some alterations to port their programs. OS X supports X Windows and all of the UNIX underpinnings...

Tags: Operating systems, Apple OS X, God, Apple Inc., public relations, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-04-15

Elections officials fight for Net political ads

Elections officials fight for Net political adsMethinks they protest too muchMakes me wonder if their position has some quiet encouragement from the major parties.Buckle up, its going to get roughIt's the last two weeks, Karl Rove is behind and he has 1 strategy when he's behind. Attack.I guess this case...

Tags: Karl Rove, voter, breakin, advertisement

Discussion threads 2004-10-14

411 hot air--legalized extortion?

411 hot air--legalized extortion?I agree - this was neededI do not want to pay a fee to "keep" my number private, how about charge me to make it public?the local companies need the same ruleAnd I always trust the companies...... to act for the public good.Self-regulation can be fine, but...

Tags: hot air, market-force

Discussion threads 2004-09-27