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- I'm well aware what I pay for Google's services
- I'm well aware what I pay for Google's servicesI agreeOther than search, I don't use a lot of Google's offerings. But I do use Google Earth. 33 years ago a buddy & I travelled from Montreal to Prince George, BC. where we ended up working in an isolated sawmill for...
- Tags: Google Inc., Prince George, mill
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
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- Teaming Up to Crack Innovation and Enterprise Integration
- There is a thought provoking piece in the November issue of the Harvard Business Review written by James I. Cash, Jr., Michael J. Earl, and Robert Morison. Morison is an executive vice president and director of research at nGenera Corporation, while Earl and Cash are...
- Tags: Innovation, Enterprise Integration, Morison, Distributed Innovation Group, Leadership, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Witnesses set for MySpace suicide trial
- Well, it's shaping up to be a juicy time at the trial of psycho-mom Lori Drew, the woman whose weirdo obsession with a neighbor girl led to the teen's MySpace-driven suicide. A long list of witnesses are poised to testify, Wired reports, including the parents of...
- Tags: Juror, Suicide, MySpace, Internet, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- 'Fish' = 'Sex'? iPhone can't understand British accent
- The new voice-recognition search tool for the iPhone has problems understanding British accents, leading to some bizarre answers to spoken queries, according to a report by Agence France Presse. The free application, which allows iPhone owners to use the Google search engine with their voice, mistook the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Web Site, Accent, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Telecommunications, Internet, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Obama faces BlackBerry withdrawal
- Despite being a class-A CrackBerry addict, Barack Obama will likely be forced to go cold turkey from email when he takes office, The Times' Jeff Zeleney reports. In addition to concerns about e-mail security, he faces the Presidential Records Act, which puts his correspondence in the official...
- Tags: President, RIM BlackBerry, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-15
- End the open source obsession with Microsoft
- End the open source obsession with MicrosoftM$ must GPL its codeand that will open communication with OSS.So Microsoft doesn't engage in this?[i]That scene did not happen. More likely some mid-level bureaucrat dealing with this particular show decided to show off his or her power.[/i]Most likely it did happen at the...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., open source obsession, open source, Dana
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- Kicking Internet pirates off the web
- Kicking Internet pirates off the webPiracy'They'still haven't figured it out!! Make the product a fair price and people will happily pay for it. With a blank CD at 50 cents, who will pay $20 from a shop for an 'Imported'music CD? PERCEIVED VALUE is the key. At $5 nobody would...
- Tags: Perceived Value, Web, piracy, Kicking Internet, Kicking Internet pirate
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- America loses its moral technologist: Michael Crichton
- America loses its moral technologist: Michael CrichtonThank YouSeven years ago I was applying to colleges. A common essay prompt was "Write about a particular work of literature or author who has had an influence on your life and describe that influence."I wrote about Michael Crichton. I argued many...
- Tags: Michael Crichton
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
- WPA Wi-Fi encryption (partially) cracked
- WPA Wi-Fi encryption partially crackedWhat about CCMP?WPA2 is unaffected, right?TKIP Bad, AES goodCredit to George Ou for explaining this to me:"They significantly weakened TKIP encryption further, so this is different from the previous story which was a brute force dictionary attack on the Pre-Shared Key. This however does not...
- Tags: Network security, WPA2, AES, WPA, TKIP, encryption
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
- Gartner: Office politics kills IT projects
- Gartner: Office politics kills IT projectsGood to remember...That Machiavelli was a republican, not a monarchist. In "The Prince" he described what princes (particularly "new princes" aka usurpers and conquerors) need to do to be effective, not his ideas about good government (if you're going to be a tyrant, be...
- Tags: office politics, IT Project, information technology, Gartner Inc., Good Governance
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
- The importance of communication
- I'm neck deep in alligators at the moment, wrapping up a play with the high school's drama club. I can't say I really had time to volunteer for this particular job and, not surprisingly, the drama kids are consumed, currently, by their own internal drama, balanced against mid-terms. ...
- Tags: Election, Productivity, Leadership, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Obama won the election - not social media
- Obama won the election - not social mediaSocial Media DID WinSocial media certainly did win last night. The part it played in Barack Obama's win may have been overblown by some, but the social media presences both candidates had played a huge part in communicating the issues to a...
- Tags: Obama, social media
- Discussion threads 2008-11-05
- So about that election
- So about that electionwhat are you talking about?While the elitists and the teenagers are 'voting online' and blogging about marxist ideeas, we the real Americans are voting and taking this country in right direction.Tonight, I'll be watching TV and enjoy how Mac comes back and grabs the election from that...
- Tags: John McCain, Sarah Palin, Obama
- Discussion threads 2008-11-04
- Is George Ou right?
- Is George Ou right?Individualized drillIf every student must learn extensive details by rote, each student can work with a computer to learn at his own pace.Why the periodic table is considered important for all I'm uncertain. But so long as it must be learned, let the computer do the...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Workforce management, Jargon, Technolgy, computer, Facebook, tool, programming
- Discussion threads 2008-11-04
- Is George Ou right?
- Former ZDNet blogger, George Ou, is always good for a discussion of educational technology. As he wrote on my post yesterday ("Enough already with the Luddite schools"), I'm no luddite and I remember carrying an electric typewriter to a High School English class for a...
- Tags: Education, Software, Social Media, Teacher, Computer, George Ou, Classmate PC, Productivity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Microsoft: Third party apps killing our security
- Why would hackers target Microsoft directly when there is so much low hanging fruit hanging from the Windows operating system? The short answer is that hackers won't attack Microsoft directly because they have plenty of alternatives via third party applications such as QuickTime, RealPlayer and WinZip. That's...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Third Party Application, Chances, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Security, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Season Match 2 (exe)
- Bring the celebration of seasons back to the Fairytale Kingdom. Join forces with the Snow Queen and Princesses of Seasons to battle the despotic Prince January and save the Fairytale Kingdom from eternal winter. Solve clever puzzles to vanquish the forces of evil. Dazzle your senses with exciting hidden-object levels...
- Tags: Winter, Celebration, SpinTop Games
- Software downloads 2008-11-03
- More optimistic views on the future of enterprise software
- With SAP's decision to forgo its 2009 guidance a paradoxical beacon of truth in a falling market, I have decided to return from vacation a day early and get busy trying to gauge the market for enterprise software in the coming year. It's not an easy task, needless to day,...
- Tags: Technology Sector, Enterprise Software, Recession, Dot-com, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- Qwest CTO: Net neutrality, a two-sided issue
- Qwest CTO: Net neutrality, a two-sided issueWorking on the languageI am not an extremist on Net Neutrality, but I expect that the majority of the public feels the same way that I do: I would rather that I decide how my pipe is used than to have corporations partnering to...
- Tags: Net Neutrality, Qwest Communications Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-28
- Tech economy: Is the forecast glass half-empty or half-full?
- Talk about a doom-and-gloom outlook for the tech economy. Tech entrepreneur Jason Calacanis - founder of Silicon Alley Reporter, Weblogs, and Mahalo.com - has fired off a pretty glass-half-empty message to startups, via his e-mail subscription list. It's been about a week since Calacanis announced layoffs...
- Tags: Tech, Blog, Cell Phone Penetration, Tech Topic, Blogging, E-mail, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
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