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- CDW flips the renewable switch at two hosting centers
- Chicago-based CDW, the national computer products and services reseller, is flipping the switch on the power source for its two enterprise hosting centers in Madison, Wisc. It's going 100 percent renewable. In a deal with Madison Gas and Electric, the IT services company will purchase approximately 12...
- Tags: cdw corp., productivity, telecom & utilities, heather clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- Yahoo: Does Jerry have to go?
- Yahoo got its wish. Microsoft is no longer a possibility as a purchaser. The company improves short-term results by partnering on search with Google. Carl Icahn may give up on his proxy war. And the company lives to fight another day--or at least until Aug. 1 when shareholders unleash their...
- Tags: google inc., jerry yang, yahoo! inc., construction, financial accounting, finance, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- SCE adds to its solar energy portfolio in deal with eSolar
- Everything around me is wilting today, including me. Therefore it seems apt for me to search around for something solar-related to write about. Found this quick update from Southern California Edison, which bills itself as the leading purchaser not provider of solar energy, buying about 90 percent...
- Tags: tower, solar energy, mw, sce, telecom & utilities, heather clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Napster gunning for iTunes with DRM-free music
- Does Apple have a Kick Me sign on their back or something? First Netflix fires a major shot over the bow of the Apple TV with their new Netflix Player set-top box, now Napster is going after iTunes with a new DRM-free music service. "We're...
- Tags: jason d. o'grady, napster inc., digital rights management (drm), digital-rights management, digital media, mp3, apple inc., apple itunes, digital music, music, consumer electronics, personal technology, security
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Some thoughts from Intel's green queen: Lorie Wigle
- Here's a stat about Intel that you might not have heard: The company is currently the largest purchaser of alternative energy: an estimated 1.3 BILLION (yes, billion with a B) kilowatt-hours in annual green power usage, according to the Environmental Protection Agency's latest Top 25 list. That's roughly 46 percent...
- Tags: data center, green technology, kwh, intel corp., data centers, podcasts, storage, hardware, data management, internet, heather clancy
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Can Apple stop Pystar from selling Mac clone?
- Can Apple stop Pystar from selling Mac clone?Assumptions"Assuming they pay Apple for every copy they sell..."D'ya think this may be the little hitch in your argument? By what mechanism exactly do you see Apple accepting money from a company that is aggressively violating their license? This improbability can only occur...
- Tags: apple mac os x, operating systems, pystar, apple inc., mac-clone
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- Can Apple stop Psystar from selling Mac clone?
- To hear Psystar tell it, they can install MacOS on their own hardware, despits Apple's end user license agreement to the contrary, because said EULA is an illegal "monopoly." "What if Honda said that, after you buy their car, you could only drive it on...
- Tags: software, apple macintosh, eula, apple inc., psystar, tools & techniques, management, richard koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- AIR Twitter client Twhirl gets bought by Seesmic
- I think this is the first case of an AIR application being acquired so it's a pretty cool day for RIAs on the desktop. Twhirl has been gaining a ton of momentum because it's so well designed and I think it shows off why RIAs on the desktop are going...
- Tags: desktop, web, api, rich internet application, twitter, twhirl, ryan stewart
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Fraud abroad remains 'uphill battle' for eBay
- Fraud abroad remains 'uphill battle' for eBayCry me a River!This ebay guy is a hypocrit! I appreciate they are looking into the cyber crime overseas, but how about the gigantic problem we have in USA sales. As a buyer, you have so much phoney junk to weed through... people selling...
- Tags: phishing, cyberthreats, spam, security, ebay inc., paypal
- Discussion threads 2008-03-11
- Wal-Mart ends Linux trials: "This really wasn't what our customers were looking for"
- Wal-Mart ends Linux trials: "This really wasn't what our customers were looking for"Not true[i]At the risk of sounding stereotypically snobbish, I think it says more about the WalMart demographic than a computer with Linux pre-installed.[/i]One of the common claims by the Linux crowd here is that Linux is now so...
- Tags: unix, open source, operating systems, linux, wal-mart stores inc., pc, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-03-11
- Sprint and T-Mobile: A disaster in waiting
- Sprint and T-Mobile: A disaster in waitingNO MORE MERGERSAs of late, almost every merger in the last 5 years hasn't made sense, nor have many been successful. While on the other hand, we do look at IBM spinning off their PC division and watch them fly with it.Sprint spun...
- Tags: cellular phones, mergers & acquisitions, graham ruck, sprint communications, t-mobile, cdma
- Discussion threads 2008-03-07
- Apple and Business -- Is it 25 Years Too Late?
- Apple and Business -- Is it 25 Years Too Late?I generally agreeI have always said that Apple makes a mighty fine piece of hardware for those that find Apple provides everything they want. They look slick, run slick and they are a secure platform. But Apple computers still...
- Tags: data centers, desktops, digital music, apple inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-07
- Wikinomics 6: Platforms for Participation
- And once again we come to a post on co-author Don Tapscott's Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. This Wikinomics series has just two posts to go; savor it while you can. Don Tapscott's thesis in this chapter is that we're in an era of what I...
- Tags: google inc., amazon.com inc., ebay inc., don tapscott, sales strategy, development tools, sales, software development, software/web development, ed gottsman
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Retail
- Retailing consists of the sale of goods or merchandise from a fixed location, such as a department store or kiosk, or by post, in small or individual lots for direct consumption by the purchaser. Retailing may include subordinated services, such as delivery. Purchasers may be individuals or businesses. In commerce,...
- Tags: retail company, quantity, softweb solutions, retail, supply chain management (scm), manufacturing, enterprise software, software
- White papers 2008-02-13
- Palm settles lawsuit for excessive Treo 600/650 repairs
- I just received the following notice in my email inbox from an email address (Palm__Inc@news.palmnewsletters.com) with Palm Inc. in the header. Apparently there was a class action lawsuit that was settled out of court and all the details can be found on the Palza Settlement website. The detailed email is...
- Tags: repair, lawsuit, palm inc., smart phone, settlement, palm treo, e-mail, treo 650, smart phones, cellular phones, handhelds, consumer electronics, personal technology, hardware, matthew miller
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Is GPS liability next?
- Is GPS liability next?RE: Is GPS liability next?The driver is the one at fault, not the maker of the GPS. It was their lack of driving skill if anything that got the car stuck, not the GPS.GPS Provider should not be liableThe GPS providers offer a device that provide...
- Tags: handhelds, gps software, gps, gps liability
- Discussion threads 2008-01-16
- A vision of fashionable Windows computers
- I stumbled by accident on this collection of photos featuring a Windows computer "fashion show" at CES wherein models strutted about with unusually designed Windows computers. That was shortly followed by an article on the subject on Betanews, titled quite self-explanatorily: "The future is in fashionable PCs." Mykel Nahorniak described...
- Tags: steve jobs, vision, apple inc., microsoft corp., hardware, computer, productivity, microsoft windows, strategy, operating systems, software, management, john carroll
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- The implosion of music DRM
- The implosion of music DRMWhat's so hard to understand?* DRM-free is worth more to the purchaser* DRM costs the distributor* The cost of DRM is passed to the purchaserNet result to the purchaser: higher price, lower value.Basic economics.Tiers has been done...Tiers has been done with the tiers relating not to...
- Tags: digital rights management (drm), digital media, music, digital-rights management, implosion, drm-free
- Discussion threads 2008-01-04
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