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- My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services
- Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...
- Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Is OpenOffice good enough?
- Yes. OK, obviously there's more to this story than my tongue-in-cheek answer. This came up after one of our supercool, power user secretaries (who is an Office 2003/2007 wiz) ran a training session for the other secretaries in the district. The other secretaries are largely...
- Tags: Secretary, Training, OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Google PPOB? What is it?
- When you are looking for things that Google is about to do, the best place to keep your eye on is Google's robots.txt file -- a document they keep updated with a list of websites they don't want search engines to index. A week ago, they added "/search2001" which...
- Tags: Google Inc., Internet, Web Site Development, Search, Web Technology, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Up on the rooftop: Brightening prospects for solar technology
- It's midnight, do you know where your solar panel is? I read somewhere yesterday where thefts of solar panels are on the rise, no doubt due to the rather dear price that they still command. Hopefully, that's on a pace for change, given that many of us...
- Tags: Installation, Solar Energy, Photovoltaics, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- News to know: IBM earnings, Blackberry Storm, WiMax arrives, Oracle+ Primavera
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: IBM reports early. Profits up 20 percent, full year estimates reaffirmed. Larry Dignan: IBM: Beats earnings target but... Times are officially...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, RIM BlackBerry, Earnings, IBM Corp., E-mail, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, WiMAX, Monitors & Displays, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Wireless, Components, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Times are officially tough: Sequoia says so
- Talk about the insulated bubble that is Silicon Valley. Sequoia, one of the best venture capital firms out there, emails a bunch of portfolio companies and tells them to hunker down. And now everyone notices that things may not be so peachy in Web 2.0-ville. GigaOm has...
- Tags: Web, Sequoia, E-mail, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, Government, Channel Management, Investment, Online Communications, Finance, Financing Startups, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Have we all become a bunch of anxious, depressed, sleep-deprived irritable stress-heads?
- Have we all become a bunch of anxious, depressed, sleep-deprived irritable stress-heads?To answer your question, yes.I'd write more, but I'm too busy.ChrisBusy IT LifestyleIt's true - the IT world is very hectic and requires lots of work as well as time to research and respond to messages in many forms....
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Sleep Apnea, Eating Well
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Have we all become a bunch of anxious, depressed, sleep-deprived irritable stress-heads?
- Let's face it, the last month or so has been a challenge for just about anyone's tolerance of stress and has made even the most "stable" of us question our own emotional and mental health. But I've discovered that IT workers in particular, or anyone who...
- Tags: Sleep, Job, Beverage, Health Care, Computer, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Food & Beverage, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Poker sites fight to get domain names back from Kentucky
- This is a novel legal strategy. And so far it's working. Last month, in an effort to preserve the state's monopoly on legal gambling, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear sued to have 141 online gambling sites' domains transferred to the state's control. According to the Washington Post, a big...
- Tags: Kentucky, Domain Name, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo email
- Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo emailI bet he is praing for an Obama winin November, as that way he has a great change at receiving a pardon from him.If McCain wins, well five years in Guantanamo is not really [i]all[/i] that bad... ;)RE: Kernell indicted in break-in to...
- Tags: Palin, Yahoo Email, Kernell, e-mail, break-in, Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Student indicted for Palin e-mail hack
- Student indicted for Palin e-mail hackno luck for youseems your daddy wont be able bail you out of this one. Just remember to bring plenty of vaseline with you in prisonoh boy, is this kid in the crapperThis little jerky-boy is headed for a really miserable experience. Having a...
- Tags: Palin, Palin e-mail, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Is the BlackBerry Storm touchscreen system better than the iPhone?
- I just got done reading Matthew Miller's preview of the BlackBerry Storm, RIM's first BlackBerry that's replaced the keyboard with a touchscreen system -- one that you must physically depress with your finger to manipulate (resulting in a "satisfying click," as many reviewers have reported). My question...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Forget about the name - The real question is how many flavors will Windows 7 come in?
- Forget about the name - The real question is how many flavors will Windows 7 come in?They'll all be bitter.Don't get me wrong. I'm what passes for a happy Microsoft user, but all the "flavors" have and shall continue to leave a bitter taste and confused consumers. Another plus for...
- Tags: Home entertainment, 64-bit, Operating systems, Games, SKU, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft NEEDS, real question, home theater
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Forget about the name - The real question is how many flavors will Windows 7 come in?
- Ed Bott's been sweating the small stuff, wondering what the next version of Windows will be called. To be perfectly honest with you, I couldn't care less what it's called. I'm far more interested in how many different flavors of the OS we can expect to have to deal with....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Server, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- The IT role in the mortgage meltdown
- The IT role in the mortgage meltdownNobody likes a WhisleblowerYou got blacklisted for publicly Whistle-blowing at a company meeting. For your trouble you lost a job, faced economic hardship, and had to explain at interviews why this employer would not give you a reference. You did not follow...
- Tags: Leadership, information technology, mortgage meltdown, IT role, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Apple dominates the teen vote, but...
- Teenagers just love their Apple gear as the iPhone and iPod widen their lead among this fickle set. According to a Piper Jaffray report Apple is dominating teenagers' buying patterns. The high level details of a survey of 769 teens: 22...
- Tags: Teen, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, 401(k), Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Human Resources, Benefits, Retirement Plans, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Forget the damn Linux netbooks. Can Windows replace Windows?
- My esteemed ZDNet colleague Ed Bott, God bless him, wrote a very insightful piece in which he discusses Taiwanese PC mainboard and component manufacturer MSI's challenges of selling Linux-based versions of their netbook, the Wind U90. Apparently, according to MSI, Linux-based versions of their netbook are...
- Tags: MSI, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Will Windows 7 get a new name for its release?
- Will Windows 7 get a new name for its release?Following Steve's PhilosophyAs you so accurately noted, Steve has a knack for whole numbers as we know from his Microsoft Office reign. Office 12 (2007), Office 11 (2003), Office 10 (XP or version 2002), Office 9 (2000) and these were the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Vista R2, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, new name
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Will Windows 7 get a new name for its release?
- I'm reading more and more about Windows 7 lately as PDC approaches and Microsoft begins revealing more snippets of information about its most secretive product ever. In most of that coverage, I've noticed an assumption that Windows 7 is going to be the final name of the product. I've been...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
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