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- The brutal truth - but not, I think, about Vista.
- A lawsuit alleging that workers are being forced to contribute unpaid over time because their PCs record start times only after long boot periods has that laugh until you cry feel to it because it's more revealing about the organization than about Vista. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-11-22
- Taleo's November to forget
- An HR Soap Opera This month hasn't been a good one for Taleo. Here's the timeline of events and an analysis of the lawsuits that are originating from recent events. On 11/3/2008, the company announced its Q3 earnings and they didn't delight Wall...
- Tags: Revenue, Taleo Corp., Stock, Revenue Recognition, Investment, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- iPhone vs. Android development: Day 4
- It's day 4 of a 5-day course on iPhone programming. As before I'll be sharing my observations from the classroom on how development on the iPhone compares to Android development. The class is presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. [Read: Day 1, Day 2, Day...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Animation, Camera, View, View Transitions, Core Graphics, Android API, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Salesforce bucks trend for Q3; shares rising.
- updated: At a time when companies are issuing warnings about missing earnings targets and scaling back expectations, enterprise cloud computing company salesforce.com seems to be bucking the trend. After the bell, Salesforce.com reported income of $10.1 million, or 8 cents per share, on revenue of $276.5 million...
- Tags: Revenue, Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Enterprise Software, Quarter, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Finance, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Gartner tries to scare businesses adopting open source
- The good news? Gartner says that 100 percent of businesses will be using open source within the next 12 months. The bad news? Gartner doesn't really seem to understand open source licensing requirements, and is trying to scare companies into adding bureaucracy around open source adoption. According to Gartner, companies...
- Tags: Software, Gartner Inc., Open Source, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- iPhone vs. Android development: Day 3
- This is the 3rd in a series of 5 posts about an iPhone programming course I'm taking this week. The course is presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. To make things more interesting I'm writing about how iPhone development differs from Android development, a subject with which I'm...
- Tags: OpenGL, Apple iPhone, Android, Timers, Textures Textures, MultiTouch, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Dell: How bad is it?
- Dell's fiscal third quarter isn't expected to be pretty. The only real question is where Dell's quarter falls on the ugly scale. The company's first shot at an outlook for the quarter unraveled just a few weeks later amid weak PC demand. And when Dell reports earnings...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Sales Strategy, Desktops, Sales, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Mozilla to end support for Firefox 2
- Stability and security releases for the browser will end next month, despite ongoing problems with Firefox 3 The Mozilla Foundation is planning to end support for the Firefox 2 browser in mid-December, despite the persistence of significant flaws in the most-recent version of the popular browser. ...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 2.0, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, Firefox, Mozilla, browser, Firefox 2, Firefox 3
- News items 2008-11-18
- Yahoo: Pondering Yang's replacement; The next move
- Now that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is out, the handicapping begins. Who will be Yang's replacement and what will that choice reveal about Yahoo's future? The story line Techmeme revolving around Yang's departure is familiar. Yang took over the company at the second worst time in Yahoo's...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., CEO, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, Internet, Strategy, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- With Yang out as Yahoo CEO, Steve Ballmer licks chops
- Jerry Yang is no longer CEO of Yahoo. After a short and stormy tenure as CEO Yang is back to being Chief Yahoo. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft and a search deal--if not outright acquisition--may not be too far behind. The official line from Yahoo Techmeme: Yahoo today...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., CEO, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Gartner: 85 percent of companies using open source
- The analyst house warns that, although take-up of open-source software is widespread, most companies do not have formal procurement or governance policies in place for such software. Eighty-five percent of companies are already using open-source software, with most of the remaining 15 percent expecting to do so...
- Tags: Software, Open Source, Open-source Software, Gartner Inc., OSS, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, open source, governance, Gartner
- News items 2008-11-17
- 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
- BearingPoint earnings call - part 2
- A Winter of Discontent? There were some other nuggets in this call. BearingPoint BE has retained the restructuring firm AlixPartners. Moreover, BE is replacing its CFO with an AlixPartners person. Again, we quote from the earnings announcement: "The Company has also appointed AlixPartners managing...
- Tags: Earnings, BearingPoint Inc., CFO, BE, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Give 'em the cash, forget fuel efficiency
- The chorus of disagreement in Washington over a measly 25-billion dollars is something to behold. For the record that's less than 4% of the money that's been earmarked by the federal government to save the banks, insurance companies, the mortgage mills and other big-spenders on Wall Street and their...
- Tags: Detroit, Cash, Mortgages, Insurance, Federal Government, Finance, Capital Structures, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Government, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Weekly addresses go on YouTube
- OK, Internet presidency, let's go. Wired reports that President-elect Obama will deliver his weekly addresses via YouTube, as well as radio and MP3. "President-elect Obama will continue to record and make available the Democratic radio addresses on video when he is in the White House," according...
- Tags: Radio, YouTube Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Papermaster countersues; IBM to put up $3M
- In keeping up with the latest developments of the IBM-Papermaster-Apple legal saga, now comes word via Information Week that Mark Papermaster, the veteran IBM executive trying to defect to Apple, has filed a countersuit against Big Blue, alleging that non-compete clause he signed with IBM is irrelevant because Apple and...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Agreement, IBM Corp., Papermaster, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Data leaks: Watch out for careless and disgruntled employees
- Outside hackers certainly can keep IT departments scrambling to keep a company's network and data secure. But what about "The Insider Threat," employees who are either careless or disgruntled with a company's data and pose even bigger threats? Cisco, completing a three-part study on the topic, released...
- Tags: Employee, IT Professional, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Beatmaker for iPhone
- Intua's BeatMaker (US$20, iTunes) bills itself as a "mobile music creation studio" for the iPhone and iPod touch. It's a revolutionary application that allows you to easily create and edit beats and loops in the palm of your hand. After using it a little it becomes so...
- Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Apple iPod Touch, Beat, Intua, BeatMaker, Tools & Techniques, Digital Music, Digital Media, Management, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- No judicial notice for Wikipedia
- It seems that courts will not take judicial notice of Wikipedia entries. A Texas appellate court declined a defendant's request that the court take notice of Wiki's page on the Reid technique of interviewing and interrogation, the Internet Cases blog notes. Fed. R. Evid. 201 provides...
- Tags: Notice, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
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