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Microsoft CRM Online: not so sharp

Microsoft CRM Online: not so sharpDisclosure?[i]But I can't agree with Josh Greenbaum's assertion last week that the product is going to be a big challenge for Salesforce.com this year [disclosure: Salesforce.com is a client].[/i]I'm afraid your whole post is compromised. What is the value of your opinion of your...

Tags: Sales force management, Tools & Techniques, Customer relationship management (CRM), Enterprise software, Microsoft CRM, razor, Microsoft Corp., CRM Online, Salesforce.com Inc., software, razor blade, CRM

Discussion threads 2008-04-22

The deadly problem of hospital logistics

The deadly problem of hospital logisticsPriorities[i]But when lives are on the line, don't you think you're worth the same attention as a package of razor blades?[/i]Where in the process does my opinion enter in?It's not like I'm part of the process or anything -- I'm the product. Cost minimization,...

Tags: hospital logistic, razor blade

Discussion threads 2008-01-10

Virus hunter: It's a 'horrible world'

Virus hunter: It's a 'horrible world'Another Lucky 'Businessman'Johnson is another enterpreneur who is very happy to provide the plaster to close all the holes -- of 'varying shape and size' -- in the s/w written by the s/w giant.Security is one of the main dimensions in the design and implementation...

Tags: Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, virus, Johnson, S/W, razor blade

Discussion threads 2003-12-09

Additional Resources

More notebooks using two, and now three, GPUs

More notebooks using two, and now three, GPUsI see this going the way of the razor bladeSingle blade razors worked well. Then came the 2 blade razors and yeah, I thought that was an improvement. Then came the 3 blade razors and I started joking about how soon they would...

Tags: Blade servers, Utility computing, Servers, notebook, blade razor, blade, GPU

Discussion threads 2008-11-07

iPhone 3G: Was it really such a great deal for AT&T?

AT&T's iPhone 3G pact with Apple doesn't come cheap. It cost AT&T its quarterly targets and took a chunk of cash flow even though company officials declare the iPhone-induced earnings hit "success-based costs." The company on Wednesday reported adjusted third quarter earnings of 67 cents a share,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone 3G, Stephenson, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-23

Mitsubishi HC6000

Mitsubishi's HC6000 replaces last year's model, the HC5000, as the company's entry-level 1080p home theater projector. The main improvement is higher contrast ratio due mainly to improved black level performance. It also delivers on its 1080p resolution promise for the most part, with video processing courtesy of Silicon Optix and...

Tags: Projectors, menu system, Auto Iris feature, color temperature, Mitsubishi HC6000, projector, Mitsubishi Corp.

Product reviews 2008-04-15

JVC DLA HD100 - D-ILA projector

JVC's DLA-HD100 1080p resolution front projector is the company's new flagship model, while the DLA-HD1 from last year remains in the line at a lower price point. The HD100 adds some improvements that are certainly desirable--including improved black level performance and contrast ratio--but oddly the color accuracy and light output...

Tags: DLA HD100, DLA-HD100, JVC, menu system, projector

Product reviews 2008-03-11

The polycarbonate all-in-one 22" LCD PC

The polycarbonate all-in-one 22" LCD PCNot a belt sanderThis version is way, way better than your wooden version. But wouldn't a random orbital sander work better? Belt sanders are pretty harsh.A very nice project however...I feel this blog is slowly losing relevance to the tech world. I...

Tags: Blogging, PC, LCD, belt sander, polycarbonate

Discussion threads 2008-01-22

Radio Frequency Identification: A Business Revolution Providing Strategic and Competitive Advantage

Radio Frequency Identification RFID is a wireless data collection technology developed during World War II that has been used in tracking and accessing applications for about a decade. The technology transfers data wirelessly between a tiny transceiver and a tag. A tag is a combination of an electronic transponder with...

Tags: Transceiver, Competitive Advantage, Radio, Tag, RFID, Intellectual Property, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Research & Development, Business Operations

White papers 2007-08-28

Do consumables (notably ink) matter to IT departments?

Kodak released an inkjet printer line that aims to cut ink costs. Kodaks argument: Buy our printers and save money on ink. Kodak is making a total cost of ownership argument and its one that resonates to anyone that spends a...

Tags: General, IT Management, Hardware Infrastructure, Hewlett-Packard, Printers, Eastman Kodak Co., printer, Kodaks

Blog posts 2007-02-07

If it consumes consumables (ie: ink, bulbs, etc), check their cost too before buying it

If it consumes consumables (ie: ink, bulbs, etc), check their cost too before buying itLow-end Lexmark printers are a good example of thisBecause Lexmark, HP and others use ink cartridges that have a combined printhead, the price of these cartridges is often greater than the printer itself. My father recently...

Tags: Printers, Oki, printer, cartridge, consumable, toner

Discussion threads 2007-02-07

If it consumes consumables (ie: ink, bulbs, etc), check their cost too before buying it

Photo Gallery: See our photo gallery that shows the different angled views of Toshibas TLP-XD2000U LCD projector. Last month, as a part of putting on Mashup Camp at MIT in Cambridge, MA, I decided it was time to insource a couple of items because outsourcing simply wasnt paying off...

Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, Mobile, Image Gallery, badge, printer

Blog posts 2007-02-06

How Microsoft (mostly) managed to keep Home Server a secret

How Microsoft mostly managed to keep Home Server a secretThe reason whyis that its totally and completely unimportant.Quattro? That makes me think of the uber-effective razor blade...Hmmm, maybe Schick could sue for name infringement... If Microsoft will go after a guy's home business Mike Rowe Soft, turnabout seems fair...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Corp., Home Server, potential market, home server, computer, server

Discussion threads 2007-02-06

The $600 iPhone: One expensive blade (as in razors and blades)

According to Jagdish Rebello, director and principal analyst with iSuppli, the sky-high prices of Apples 4GB and 8GB cell phones cant defy gravity for very long. According to News.coms Michael Kanellos: The consulting firm on Thursday released an analysis of what the total component budget will likely be for the...

Tags: General, Personal Technology, Berlind, Apple, Motorola, Apple iPhone, blade

Blog posts 2007-01-19

The untold part of the iPhone story and FairPlay to get fairer?

The untold part of the iPhone story and FairPlay to get fairer?Wishful thinkingI'm not sure I buy the razor blade analogy, at least not yet. iTunes songs and movie sales aren't anywhere near the level they'd need to be to surpass the hardware business. I also worry about...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Apple iPhone, digital-rights management, Apple Inc., Fairplay, Microsoft Corp., USB-device, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2007-01-19

The untold part of the iPhone story and FairPlay to get fairer?

Between CES last week, a holiday weekend, and Mashup Camp and Mashup University this week, Ive been too distracted to circle back to Apples iPhone that many said upstaged all of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. From a press perspective, that may indeed be true. Almost in shock,...

Tags: General, Entertainment, Mobile, Personal Technology, Wired &, Wireless, Motorola Q Review, Apple, Telephony, Events, CES 2007, Apple iPhone, Consumer Electronics Show

Blog posts 2007-01-19

Report: Rivals seek to imitate iPod-iTunes success

Report: Rivals seek to imitate iPod-iTunes successBass AckwardsBackwards but not surprising. These guys are all software developers, so they think software first, hardware second.Apple is a hardware maker. They made the iPod first, then a music service for it.The software geeks still don't get it. They think the key to...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Tools & Techniques, Apple iTunes, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., software

Discussion threads 2006-09-18

What future faces FOSS?

A lot of people, here and elsewhere, want to define Free and Open Source software as antagonists. Politically they are. In fact they are not.Free software is Richard Stallman, with his beard like that of a Civil War veteran, possibly Confederate, and his messianic belief that freedom isn't free, that...

Tags: open source, F/OSS, software

Blog posts 2006-08-21

Fair use, Xbox hacking, and how far will Linux users go to get a cheap PC?

Fair use, Xbox hacking, and how far will Linux users go to get a cheap PC?You need to be better informedWow, some real doozies in your article.---The thing with fair use is that there's a huge gray area between legitimate fair use (say, copying a CD for use in a...

Tags: Game players, X-Box, Microsoft Xbox, fair use, Microsoft Corp., Linux, IS IT, business model, hacking

Discussion threads 2006-06-22

Thermal grease and the MacBook

Thermal grease and the MacBookno need to waitI guess we'll have to wait for the die hards to re-apply the grease on their MacBooks.it really doesn't matter what cpu and even what heatsink you're talking about, so we dont have to use a macbook specifically to know the end result...

Tags: Processors, CPU, grease, heatsink, Apple MacBook, compound, processor, paste, Thermal Grease

Discussion threads 2006-05-22