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- Delivering nada. Zip. Zilch. Zero.
- The aftermath of large-scale failure is never pretty, but sometimes looking back reveals problems so obvious and severe they take your breath away. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Team, Performance, Problem, Bruce Webster, FUBAR, Team Management, Organizational Structure, Management, Human Resources, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- The real drug problem is in your mind
- Until we have an honest discussion over what we mean by the word drugs the drug problem will only grow. It can't be any other way. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Problem, Drug, Drug Problem, Consciousness, Psychoactives, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- More on the Vista DVD playback issue
- I thought I'd give you an update on the DVD playback problem that I reported on yesterday. Here's a summary of the problem: DVD playback is corrupted when one of the three screens (in this case a Wacon Cintiq WX12) is used to display the...
- Tags: Problem, Microsoft Windows Vista, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers
- The greatest advantage of the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. The biggest problem with the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. Ironic, isn't it? The sheer number of choices means you can almost certainly...
- Tags: Problem, Driver, OEM, Graphics Subsystem, Vista/Server 2008/Win7 Ecosystem, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Notebooks, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- IT failure at Heathrow T5: What really happened
- Anyone having the misfortune to pass recently through Heathrow's new Terminal 5 knows the huge project debuted as a case study in full-blown systems failure. Most reports have focused on stranded customers, a crazed supermodel, and Queen Elizabeth's grand opening speech, which called the terminal "a 21st Century gateway to...
- Tags: Software, CIO, Baggage, British Airways Plc., Information Technology, Problem, Terminal 5, BA, Vanderlande Industries, Vanderlande, Bags, Paul Coby, Airports Authority, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- The MacBook's mysterious WiFi dropout problem is still unsolved
- Despite Apple's recent spate of Airport updates, complaints on discussion boards keep climbing over long-standing problems with MacBooks and MacBook Pros holding their WiFi connection. While the WiFi technology chain is complex and problems can be transient, Apple is taking a quality-assurance beating on this issue. Several...
- Tags: Router, Network, Problem, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Wi-Fi, Wireless, Wireless LANs, Routers & Switches, Networking, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- News still hasn't seen the money from open source
- The Pew Charitable Trusts, founded by a mid-century Republican oilman, issued its second annual report on the medium since taking over Columbia's Project for Excellence in Journalism in 2006. The best word to describe the report is poverty. Few outlets have made money online, and the few which...
- Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, Google Inc., Management, Money, Open Source, Problem, Strategy
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Getting tired of the browser-go-round
- I don't know about you but I have three browsers in my dock â€" because I use all three daily. What's wrong with this picture? Shouldn't one browser be enough? I'm glad you asked. In a perfect world, yes, we'd all be using one browser and said...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Problem, Internet
- Blog posts 2008-03-16
- The media center keyboard Apple should have made
- I've been bugging Apple forever to release a Bluetooth keyboard with a built-in trackpad for use with a Mac media center. The problem is that Apple won't listen because they'd prefer that we buy an Apple TV and use their teensy stick-of-gum Front Row remote. Bah. ...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Keyboards, Apple Macintosh, Media Center PCs, Media Center PC, Apple Inc., Apple Intel Mac Mini, Problem, Hardware, Home Entertainment, Peripherals, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- 5 ways to fail at IT training
- Lousy training, change management, and documentation are among the top failure-inducing mistakes that IT implementation teams perpetrate against their projects. As I've said in the past: To be successful, users must understand the project’s goals, status, and impact on their jobs. Many projects pay too...
- Tags: Information Technology, Problem, Training, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- MindMentor, the first robot psychologist
- People affected by emotional problems are often reluctant when they're told to see a psychologist. Now, they can confidentially consult online MindMentor, the first robot psychologist. It will cost them €4.95 for one hour session (or about US$7.65 as of today). MindMentor has been developed by two Dutch psychologists specialized...
- Tags: Problem, MindMentor, Robots, Leadership, Emerging Technologies, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- Core Security names Hatton CEO; Aims to broaden pen testing
- Core Security Technologies on Monday named Mark Hatton CEO. Hatton was the president of North American operations for Sophos. Last year, Core lost CEO Paul Paget and product manager Max Caceres, who is well known in the penetration testing world. Hatton's mission is to grow the company,...
- Tags: Problem, Core Security Technologies, Mark Hatton, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Productivity software as games?
- In a thinly veiled swipe at Microsoft, Sam Lawrence, CMO at Jive Software challenges readers to question why productivity software is so clunky: Shouldn’t productivity software make us want to work? I mean, it’s goal is to make us and our company more productive. Given that, the most goal-oriented...
- Tags: Software, Problem, Enterprise, Productivity Software, Sam Lawrence, Social Networking, Tools & Techniques, Games, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Personal Technology, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- Practice Fusion - an RIA targeted at doctors in the field
- The New York Times has a piece today about Practice Fusion, a San Francisco startup that's using Flex and the concept of rich Internet applications to make a splash in the medical world by providing doctors a free EMR, or electronic medical records application. There are a couple of things...
- Tags: User Interface, Problem, Doctor, New York Times Co., Rich Internet Application, EMR System, Channel Management, Web 2.0, E-health, Web Browsers, Marketing, Internet, Healthcare, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Prevention killing the health care system
- In all the debates about health care inflation the core problem is not being addressed. Ben Franklin said an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and catching disease before it spreads does cut the cost of treatment. The problem is the cost...
- Tags: Problem, Health Care, AdvaMed, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- The U.S. voted no on Microsoft Office standard at ISO
- In all the talk (and there's been plenty of talk) concerning the ISO meetings on Office OpenXML OOXML one point stands out. (Picture from Stephesblog.) The U.S. voted no. As Andy Updegrove notes, the vote involved approving over 900 changes to OOXML meant to...
- Tags: U.S., Microsoft Office, Idea, Problem, ISO, Microsoft Corp., Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-02
- Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarking
- Enough with benchmarking the OS - let's see if Office 2007 is any faster on Vista SP1. The test The tests will be carried out on the AMD Spider platform that I have set up in the lab (Phenom 9700, Radeon 3850 graphics card, 2GB...
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Benchmarking, Microsoft Office, Problem, Goal, Microsoft Windows Vista, Test, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Microsoft responds to European demands with "Good Steve" day
- Back when Bill Gates ran Microsoft like an old-style Indian Maharajah, we would say that its bluster against open source was "bad Bill" and its moves of accomodation were "good Bill." There's a new man on the throne, but the game remains the same. So today was...
- Tags: Problem, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Government, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Another take on Vista vs. XP benchmarks
- As anyone who’s ever worked in a PC performance lab knows, the #1 rule of benchmarking is: Your mileage may vary. I remembered that rule when I read my colleague Adrian Kingsley-Hughes’ epic account of his benchmark tests of Windows Vista SP1 versus Windows XP SP2 (Part...
- Tags: Disk, Performance, Microsoft Windows XP, Service Pack 2, Problem, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Performance Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- No update from Microsoft on Vista SP1, Media Center problems
- Following reports of installation problems by some users attempting to deploy the final version of Windows Vista Service Pack SP 1, Microsoft is still not saying much. Microsoft officials are not discussing publicly how many users are affected by the "endless reboot loop" problem that users are...
- Tags: Media Center PC, Problem, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-18
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