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- Digital SLRs bring lens quandary
- Digital SLRs bring lens quandaryCanon LensesThe high end "L" series are about the best lenses I've ever seen. For those that don't know, just about all sports photography is done with high end Canons. They feature image stabilization, fast focus ability and high precision optics. Then again some of these...
- Tags: lense, Digital-SLR, quandary
- Discussion threads 2006-06-06
- EU in quandary on new action against Microsoft
- EU in quandary on new action against MicrosoftI demand that the commision should act nowand issue an order that M$ should sell only windoze with no applications bundled.Vista is Vaporware - impossible to actVista is but a threat to IT and not an actual problem yet. It should be ignored...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Vertical industries, Strategy, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., quandary, Microsoft Windows Vista, government
- Discussion threads 2006-05-09
- The 3G handset quandary
- The 3G handset quandaryDon't trust QualcommQualcomm had a virtual monopoly in trucking communications and satellites. The company exercised it's dominance in the industry by providing poor quality products, poor service and high prices (MS - anyone?).Thankfully there are now alternatives in both trucking and cell phone technologies to Qualcomm....
- Tags: Cellular phones, CDMA, Qualcomm Inc., quandary, 3G, handset
- Discussion threads 2005-07-29
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- McCain's campaign team has no Facebook chops
- You have to admire the chutzpah of the idea of convincing voters that they should vote for a candidate through an arcade game rip-off of Space Invaders, because it's simply ludicrous coming from a candidate who has declared he doesn't even know how to "use a computer." Aaron Jacobs-Smith of...
- Tags: Facebook, Team, John McCain, McCain, Jacobs-Smith, Games, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Nokia 3555 - blue (T-Mobile)
- Photo gallery:Nokia 3555Of the major U.S. carriers, Nokia seems to get along best with T-Mobile. Though Nokia continues to disappoint us with its relatively small presence here, T-Mobile adds a new Nokia handset to its lineup every few months. In the second half of last year America's fourth largest carrier...
- Tags: Nokia Corp., Nokia 3555, T-Mobile
- Product reviews 2008-03-21
- Triple-core Phenom - Where does it fit in to the big picture?
- Triple-core Phenom - Where does it fit in to the big picture?give me IntelI would pay more for the Intel Q6600 because it has been out in the market longer with no serious issues unlike the phenom processor.RE: Triple-core Phenom - Where does it fit in to the big picture?We...
- Tags: Processors, Phenom, quad, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., dual-core
- Discussion threads 2008-03-13
- Brief: 5
- Brief: 5Okay...... but if the missing prose is important you might want to quote it here. The last prior prose is: "... and only then give them the task of coming up with the integrated information systems needed for the merger to actually succeed."The problems of using non-standard...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, merger
- Discussion threads 2008-02-08
- Microsoft breaks the perpetual licence covenant
- Many people fondly believe — in common with Talkback poster jim_d to my previous post — that when they pay a one-time fee to buy a 'perpetual' licence to use conventional software, then that's their only cost. But as I pointed out in my riposte, that fails to take into...
- Tags: Cost, Licence, Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Security, Management, Office Suites, Software, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- Are Mac users more honest than Windows users?
- Details of new research on Mac OS X Leopard show that Mac users are buying family pack licenses, even though they aren't forced to. On the other hand, Microsoft goes to great lengths to validate every Windows installation. So does this mean that Apple customers are more honest than Windows...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Leopard, Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Software, Sales, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Toward greener jet fuels
- Researchers at Princeton University are currently working on two projects to reduce jet travel's role in global warming. The first one, a major project funded by the U.S. Air Force with $7.5 million, is focused on developing computational models that accurately simulate the burning of jet fuel, a complex process...
- Tags: Princeton University, Petroleum, Aerospace, Alternative Fuel, Aerospace & Defense, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-21
- Workstream prefers virtualization to multi-tenancy
- Among the product announcements at last week's HR Technology conference in Chicago was a major relaunch from Nasdaq-listed SaaS vendor Workstream. The unveiling of its flagship TalentCenter 7.0 marks the company's emergence from a period of much behind-the-scenes work. "We really went invisible for the past sixteen months while we...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Virtualization, Environment, On-demand, Vendor, Human Capital Management, VMware Inc., Workstream, Human Capital, Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Resources, Workforce Management, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- Choosing how to connect up the dots in 2.0
- The pantheon of entities tagged 2.0 grew ever more bloated with the unveiling of 'Travel and Expense 2.0' at the business travel industry's annual convention in Boston this week.Concur was the vendor trying to thrust T&E management into 2.0 territory. But its press release headline misses the point about 2.0...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Ecosystems, Business applications
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Why is it so hard to understand Microsoft's virtualiztion vision?
- Why is it so hard to understand Microsoft's virtualiztion vision?Innovators DilemmaI think one of Microsoft's issues in this area is that while virtualization opens up new opportunities, they may feel it threatens their historic revenue streams from their OS. If you've watched the machinations around the Vista license clauses...
- Tags: Virtualization, Storage management, Utility computing, Microsoft Corp., vision
- Discussion threads 2007-07-10
- Sun demurs from adopting GPL v3 for OpenSolaris, keeps CDDL only
- Sun demurs from adopting GPL v3 for OpenSolaris, keeps CDDL onlyGPL2/GPL3 compatibilityI suspect that the problem may be that GPL3 and GPL2 are incompatible with each other, so to maximize compatibility with GPL licenses you should release your code under GPL2 with a "or later versions" clause. That way you...
- Tags: Blogging, OPEN SOURCE, Sun Microsystems Inc., GPL 2, fewer license, GPL, OpenSolaris
- Discussion threads 2007-07-02
- Using technology to enhance humans
- Its a well-known fact that technology can improve our lives. For example, we can reach anyone and anywhere with our cellphones. And people who cant walk after an accident now can have smart prosthesis to help them. But what about designing our children on a computer or having a chip...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Keith Bauer, microchip, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, patient
- Blog posts 2007-05-13
- Sun's courting of start-ups discloses a new quandary -- it needs to compete with its core market
- Some good blogging coming out of a Sun get-together this week. Dan Farber, Mike Arrington and Steve Gillmor weigh in. But Im not sure I get the follow-through of Sun wooing mashup artist start-ups. If anything, by Sun trying to appeal to these types of low-capital spending firms shows Suns...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Sun Microsystems Inc., mashup
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
- Microsoft still has more OS tricks up its sleeve
- Microsoft still has more OS tricks up its sleeveOccam's razor and the end of service packsWhy not take the most straightforward view?Service packs end, replaced by RollUps which can occur more frequently because of the internet.New versions of Windows are issued at 2 year interviews, satisfying everyone's need for profits.Given...
- Tags: Operating systems, .NET, Application servers, OCCAM, operating system, Microsoft Corp., sleeve
- Discussion threads 2006-12-14
- IAC's AskCity hard to ask
- The $31 billion local online search and classifieds market opportunity is not Google’s for the taking, I put forth yesterday in “Google: $31 billion local winner?” Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp upped the local ante today with the launch of a new, locally-focused service within IAC’s Ask.com search engine. Fellow...
- Tags: IAC, CitySearch, AskCity, Local
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- Continuous Disk-Based Windows Protection
- Today's Windows-based organizations find themselves in a quandary. On the one hand, users require instant, on demand data recovery. On the other, industry estimates show data volumes continue to grow 40% to 50% per year. While traditional tape backup has proven effective over the years, today's business climate demands a...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Data Recovery, Disk, Microsoft Windows, Backups, Storage Management, Operating Systems, Databases, Software, Storage, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-11-14
- Microsoft gives adware pusher an MVP award
- Microsoft gives adware pusher an MVP awardThere are two issues involved hereOne is the reality of Patchou's software, which is questionable at best.Even more important is the perception. This is a PR disaster for Microsoft and it's also a breakdown in its vetting process for MVPs. It took me less...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Cyberthreats, MVP Award, adware, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-06
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