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AMD tries to round up Pacifica support

AMD tries to round up Pacifica supportOh great ANOTHER languageAMD succumbs to the "me too" and comes out with a proprietary project for virtualization. The could have supported Xen, but NOOooo they HAD to come out with their OWN stuff. Shame on you AMD for putting another fork at the...

Tags: Processors, Mainframes, Utility computing, AMD Pacifica, CPU, processor box, processor, virtualization, mainframe, PR/SM, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-03-30

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Blogger ethics, public relations... and you

Two different conversations that are connected at the core by the way the news media continues to grow and change. Bloggers have a significant responsibility in wielding their keystrokes, whether they have 10 readers or 10,000. Public relations professionals are still grappling with how to best work with this new...

Tags: Ethics, Blogger, Public Relations Professional, Public Relations, Blogging, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Microsoft Hyper-V Server

Microsoft was kind enough to let me know that the Hyper-V Server, that is a dedicated, minimal Windows 2008 Server platform dedicated to being a bare metal, type-1 hypervisor, is now available. It joins products of this type available from VMware, Citrix and several Linux distributions. ...

Tags: Industry Standard, Supplier, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Server Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Channel Management, Desktop Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-03

The 'Social Media' Conundrum

I'm fascinated by '30's depression era attempts to foster business innovation, not least because of the financial challenges that seem likely to dominate our coming years. Surprisingly I've found The Rotary International Club is in many ways a precursor to the looser social media movement which has been a feature...

Tags: Marketing, Social Media, Brian, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Student Technology Day: what it's all about

It's not often I can say this but already, I'm surrounded in  a room of 300 odd fashion unconscious, sweaty, unattractive idiots. Nevertheless, it's quite fun listening to some of the banter going around and about the place; some people work as interns at Microsoft, some at IBM and a...

Tags: Student, Microsoft Live Search, Microsoft Corp., Public Relations, Productivity, Entrepreneurship, Virtualization, Game Players, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Mea culpa. HP has pledged mercury-free notebooks, too

Something tells me that I MUST have blogged about this before, but it deserves a reminder, since I just mentioned Dell's intentions, which technically came later than Hewlett-Packard's. In any event, the goodly PR folks at HP remind me they, too, have pledged mercury-free notebooks. Their company's...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Public Relations, Notebooks, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Studio, Real trade lawsuits over RealDVD

U.S. movie studios sued Real Networks in federal court today, alleging that Real's RealDVD product violates the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and breaches Real's contract with the DVD Copy Control Association. Read the MPAA's complaint. The move follows Real's release of the software today,...

Tags: MPAA, Lawsuit, Movie, RealDVD, DVD, CSS, Public Relations, Consumer Electronics, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-30

PR blunders or "mystery meetings"

PR blunders or "mystery meetings"It sounds like the new SOP for PRPublic relations and "press releases" seem to be in need of some sort of help. Perhaps a consultation with Jennifer Leggio? I read more and more about companies and websites being inundated with press releases that they have specifically...

Tags: public relations

Discussion threads 2008-09-27

Apple won't face lawsuit over iPhone battery life

Bloomberg is reporting that Apple won't face a lawsuit claiming that the company didn't immediately tell customers about the limited life of batteries for its iPhone or their $86 replacement cost including delivery. A U.S. District Judge in Chicago granted Apple's request that he dismiss the lawsuit on the evidence...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Lawsuit, Battery, Apple Inc., Engineering, 3G, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-09-26

PR blunders or "mystery meetings"

From time to time, I receive a note from a public relations person who represents one company or another that is clearly a disaster in the making. These notes appear to designed to pique my interest without giving me any information about the product or service to be discussed. As...

Tags: Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-26

Lessons learned from five years of Fedora

The Fedora Project is celebrating its fifth birthday today. Congrats, Fedora! It seems like just yesterday I was covering the first release to see how or if Fedora would distinguish itself from Red Hat Linux. It's been really interesting to see how the project has grown over...

Tags: Fedora Project, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Public Relations, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-09-24

Fast, tough pocket storage

I've owned a couple of dozen flash drives starting back when they were a dollar a megabyte. Several of them have broken - usually when most needed. But I've found a flash drive that not only handles the rigors of my car-keys-and-change pocket, but has also...

Tags: Storage, USB Flash Drive, CVGT, Flash Memory, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-09-23

Google's insightful looking glass

A few weeks ago I got a heads-up from Google's PR about their new search tool. Dubbed Google Insights for Search, it allows you to apply parameters to search for what other people are searching. Sounds a little strange and it did take a while for my...

Tags: Google Inc., Web Site Development, Public Relations, Productivity, Web Technology, Entrepreneurship, Search, Digital Music, Digital Media, Internet, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-19

Microsoft: I'm a PC and I've been made into a stereotype

Microsoft: I'm a PC and I've been made into a stereotypeOf course you don't get itYou're not the target audience.Carl RapsonI wouldn't expect you to get itYou're a Mac user... You have to have an IQ at least this high GEDDIT!It's actually quite nice to see MS taking the high...

Tags: Desktops, PRODUCTIVITY, advertisement, Microsoft Corp., PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, computer

Discussion threads 2008-09-19

Technology could have averted fatal LA train crash

Technology could have averted fatal LA train crashWhy is everyone so hell bent on blaming the cell phone?Yes it may have been the engineer was utilizing a cellular phone (texting/phone or otherwise). The cell phone is an inanimate object and not capable of making choices - it does as its...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, phone, cell phone

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

Horse8 (exe)

Unlimited racing, race those horse as much as you want. Borrow up to 50,000 from the bookie so you can carry on racing (subject to 17.5% PR interest charge (PR = Per Race). You can only borrow up to 3,000 per race). Purchase a horse and if it wins you...

Tags: Horse, GiraFFe Networks, Public Relations, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Human Resources

Software downloads 2008-09-16

Facebook introducing new security warning feature

With Facebook persistently under attacks from phishers and malware authors, looking for creative ways to efficiently exploit its users base, Facebook's security team has silently introduced a new "security warning feature" alerting its users on the potential maliciousness of the third-party site they are about to visit. Is the newly...

Tags: Facebook, Security Warning, MySpace, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-09-15

Microsoft's rough start to a new beginning

Microsoft's rough start to a new beginningRough start? Maybe, but ...... what makes the Apple commercials so attractive is that they are endearing to the viewer. Not necessarily accurate but certainly clever.Bill Gates has never been 'endearing'. Instead, Gates has always come across as kind of "goofy"....

Tags: Goofy, His-Name, Bill Gates, rough start, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-09-15

Foiled by Facebook? Mangled by mailing lists? Employers do take note

Foiled by Facebook? Mangled by mailing lists? Employers do take noteEven Bad PR is Good PRUnless the person reading your posts is Sister Mary Elephant, he will be well aware that flames, craziness and just over all anarchy are part of Usenet, S.N. and other textual novelties.I would rather a...

Tags: mailing list, Facebook

Discussion threads 2008-09-14

Does interoperability violate the GPL?

Does interoperability violate the GPL?Open source, development method or moral philosophy?I'm not certain that efforts to separate the two will always be successful. Many of the people who are supplying the work that allows reduced staff expenses are probably doing so because they believe to some degree in open...

Tags: Operating systems, Proprietary Developers, GPL, Linux, proprietary software, open source, interoperability, software

Discussion threads 2008-09-12