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- Stallman admits GPL flawed, proprietary licensing needed to pay for MySQL development
- You really believe that?Look at Red Hat. $5.1 Bln market cap and they're not making *any* money with free software? There is plenty of money out there for consulting services and support. Just ask IBM.Proprietary software is not religion.The problem with Sun was that they couldn't commit either...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Websters, MySQL, GPL, Stallman
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- One more voice AGAINST geo-engineering to combat global warming
- Two words: unintended consquences. Here's a summary of report warning that geo-engineering carries unmeasured risk. Sorta like playing the stock market, huh? But there's potential profit of billions in geo-engineering if global warming gets severe enough, so don't rule it out. People still buy plenty of...
- Tags: Voice, Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-09
- TrendProphecy FX 3.0 (Windows)
- TrendProphecy FX monitors the most active parts in the market by monitoring the International Currency market 24 Hours a day, with prices from a variety of sources in the Interbank market and based upon our proprietary research the Users have information about the current Trend and are able to follow...
- Tags: Monitor, Trader, Microsoft Windows, TrendProphecy, TrendProphecy FX, Trend, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-05-23
- Cisco's third quarter: Better than expected; Sales down; Economic recovery 'eventual'
- Cisco Systems said today that it earned a a third quarter profit of $1.3 billion, or 23 cents per share, down 21 percent from a year ago, on sales of $8.2 billion, which fell 16.6 percent from $9.8 billion in the year-ago quarter. Excluding items, the company reported net income...
- Tags: John Chambers, Recovery, Cisco Systems Inc., Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Sales, Finance, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- Our fancy Internet infrastructure operates on a wire and a prayer
- Our fancy Internet infrastructure operates on a wire and a prayerYou're missing the pointWe should not permit single point of failure networks to be built. Besides, there's over 80 million miles of fiber in the U.S. alone, and it simply is not possible to monitor all that cable, or...
- Tags: Network technology, WikiAnswers, cable, prayer, Internet-infrastructure
- Discussion threads 2009-04-10
- How much legal trouble is Cisco in against the FSF?
- How much legal trouble is Cisco in against the FSF?damm that open source creeping!I guess this means that cisco doesnt employ strict version control and monitor what goes into their products?I guess that would mean they make good products but dont actually know whats in them and therefore could be...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., open source, open source license, Free Software Foundation
- Discussion threads 2009-04-07
- Brittany's story: a tale of heroism amid RIAA abuse
- Brittany Kruger may be a scared young lady but she has also proven to be a brave advocate for victims, like herself, of RIAA Mafia shake-downs, arm-twisting and assorted rough stuff. According to Ray Beckerman Brittany and her father's willingness to expose the fact that MediaSentry violated Michigan law by...
- Tags: RIAA, College Student, Michigan, Person, Brittany, P2Pnet, Litigation, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-03-01
- Google blames 'human error' for search 'malware' hiccup
- Google is blaming "human error" for today's search results screw-up that flagged the entire Web as serving up malicious code. But the company's explanation, detailed in a blog post by VP of search products and user experience Marissa Mayer incorrectly linked StopBadware.org to...
- Tags: Google Inc., Malware, Site, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Channel Management, Search, Productivity, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-01-31
- UPDATE x5: Google goes nuts with the "This site may harm your computer" warnings
- I'm getting reports that Google search is going nuts with the "This site may harm your computer" warnings and displaying this beneath all entries. I'm seeing it no matter what I search for, which is a real pain because you can't get to sites...
- Tags: Google Inc., Site, Computer, StopBadware.org, Productivity, Search, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2009-01-31
- EMC: IT spending to fall; Little visibility into 2009
- EMC joined the growing list of companies that can't see beyond a quarter. The storage giant said Tuesday that it expects 2009 IT spending "will decline as a percentage in the mid to high single digits compared with 2008." Meanwhile the company couldn't provide an outlook for 2009 due to...
- Tags: IT-spending, EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-27
- Windows 7 beta 1 performance - How does the OS compare to Vista and XP?
- Windows 7 beta 1 performance - How does the OS compare to Vista and XP?Im guessingthat you did not post exact times so as to get around the no-benchmarks part of the EULA? Unfortunately how much better one is compared to the other matters. Is it insignificantly faster? a small...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Windows 7 beta 1 performance, Windows 7 Beta 1, WINDOWS 7 BETA, operating system, Microsoft Windows, performance
- Discussion threads 2009-01-01
- RIM warns for the third quarter; Blames Bold, Storm slippage, weak Loonie
- Research in Motion said its third quarter sales and earnings will be lower than expected primarily due to "shifts in product launch dates" and a weak economy. In a statement late Tuesday, RIM said that revenue for the third quarter will be $2.75 billion to $2.78 billion....
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Quarter, Storm, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- SAP slapped with 'sell' rating; Pushback from customer base cited
- Societe Generale analyst Richard Nguyen hit SAP with a sell rating on Wednesday citing increased odds of a fourth quarter profit warning and signs that customers are pushing back on the software company's attempt to upsell them following a maintenance price increase. Nguyen's report--he downgraded SAP shares...
- Tags: SAP AG, Nguyen, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Car crash imminent?
- Car crash imminent?Fire the AUW workers and hirepeople who actually want to work for a raise, not just come in and do the bare minimum as they receive the same raise regardless of how much or little they work.It is not the government's fault, it is the UAW and the...
- Tags: Benefits, UAW, car
- Discussion threads 2008-11-16
- Making clouds a move forward
- Making clouds a move forwardWindows Azure Is NOT VaporI was able to get a simple data-backed ASP.NET Web forms app installed and running in a Windows Azure instance in less than 15 minutes after testing it with the local (on-premises) Development Storage and Fabric facilities. See http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/azure-storage-services-test-harness.html for more details.As...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, cloud computing, Manufacturing, Data Ownership, Pie-In-The-Sky, Windows Azure
- Discussion threads 2008-11-13
- Nortel's rerun: Another purge, another restructuring
- Nortel on Monday purged its executive ranks--Chief Marketing Officer Lauren Flaherty, Chief Technology Officer John Roese, Global Services President Dietmar Wendt and Executive Vice President Global Sales Bill Nelson are all leaving Jan. 1--and announced yet another restructuring amid a weak earnings. Continuity and Nortel are two...
- Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Real Estate, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Business Operations, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Now Debuting: One-Click Payment For Illegal Downloads
- Now Debuting: One-Click Payment For Illegal DownloadsBlackmailThis is blackmail by the richest companies in the world.RICH STEALING AGAIN FROM THE POOR.No doubt they won't use it against Third world countries where people can't afford to eat, or WILL THEY?Personally I like to listen to tracks for week or two before...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, SECURITY, One-Click Payment, software
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- Does Big Brother know where you've been surfing?
- If you think no one will ever know about the Web sites you were surfing last night, guess again. It may not be your spouse, your boss or a cop - but there's growing interest in what sort of data your Internet Service Provider is collecting about your viewing habits....
- Tags: Google Gmail, Advertisement, Internet Service Provider, Packet Inspection, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Online Communications, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- News to know: Apple patches; D6 coverage; Yahoo; Google I/O
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Leopard mega-patch plugs 41 security holes Jason O'Grady: Apple releases Mac OS 10.5.3 software update Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update Google: Mac OS X 10.5.3: sync Google Contacts Psystar offering new...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, I/O, Patch Management, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Apple under pressure to fix Safari 'carpet bomb' flaw
- The Google-backed StopBadware.org coalition has called on Apple to rethink its stance on whether the Safari "carpet bomb" issue reported by Nitesh Dhanjani constitutes a serious security risk. Dhanjani originally discovered than it is possible for a booby-trapped Web site to litter the user's Desktop Windows or...
- Tags: Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Flaw, Google-backed StopBadware.org Coalition, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Instant Messaging, Cyberthreats, Internet, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
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