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Dirk Meyer, the man to watch at AMD

Dirk Meyer, the man to watch at AMDRuiz is fine, they need product developement disciplineThe article brings up god points about Ruiz. He is a business man and had done well for AMD. What AMD needs is product development leadership that enforces discipline. Dirk may be the guy to do...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Meyer, repercussion, Ruiz

Discussion threads 2008-01-03

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What if there was no Google? A lesson in monoculture

What if there was no Google? A lesson in monocultureYa'll are trying to hard......to invent the next Microsoft. You answered most of your own questions. If Google up and disappeared you'd just use the next service or the one you were using before Google came along. I tend to use...

Tags: Ya'll, Google Inc., monoculture, What-If, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-02-03

Google trying to take privacy seriously

Google trying to take privacy seriouslyRE: Google trying to take privacy seriouslyThe whole thing is a legal can of worms which I did not see American judges opening. I hope this will be overturned for it has very serious implications all over the world.While the state may potentially be the...

Tags: SECURITY, Google Inc., privacy

Discussion threads 2008-07-05

Pakistan removed from the Internet

4:30 PM Eastern US. The telecom company that carries most of Pakistan's traffic, PCCW, has found it necessary to shut Pakistan off from the Internet while they filter out the malicious routes that a Pakistani ISP, PieNet, announced earlier today. Evidently PieNet took this step to...

Tags: YouTube Inc., Pakistan, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2008-02-24

Sprint lays off 4,000, restructures amid customer defections

Sprint lays off 4,000, restructures amid customer defectionsI didn't want to jump ship...I wanted an iPhone which was only available with an AT&T account. I had nothing against Sprint. I'm sure they lost a good portion of their customers because of iPhone users. Good for AT&T, bad for Sprint.So the...

Tags: Outsourcing, Sprint Communications, AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-01-18

Skepticism on denial of a Microsoft-Linux suit connection

Skepticism on denial of a Microsoft-Linux suit connectionWhen you run out of ideas, you sue.Or in Microsoft's case, they try to get other groups to do the dirty work for them.Much like the Recording Industry that has lost sight of what it should be doing in getting products to the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., hill, SCO Group Inc., Microsoft-Linux, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-10-18

New GPLv3 draft takes aim at Microsoft/Novell but loosens crypto restrictions

New GPLv3 draft takes aim at Microsoft/Novell but loosens crypto restrictionsWe all love software patents...Just another excuse for companies to sue each other and sit on their asses and enjoy the monopolies they can protect with the help of Justice haha. Well done to the government of the Land of...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, GPLv3, GPLv3 Draft, Novell Inc., Stallman, Microsoft Corp., Free Software Foundation

Discussion threads 2007-03-28

Second Life: gangs, theft and goo.

Second Life: gangs, theft and goo.It's Linden Labs virtual world and their ToS.So if they transfer jurisdiction to the players either expressly or otherwise, then that's where the players get their authority. Maybe LL has a good deal of faith in their players, or maybe they deleted torches and pitchforks...

Tags: Games, game, Second Life

Discussion threads 2006-11-22

MagicSRF AutoCAD & BricsCAD Surface Area Manager 4 (Windows)

MagicSRF The AutoCAD Surface Area Manager English Version 4.0 for AutoCAD R14-2004 & BricsCAD V6The AutoCAD Surface Area ManagerAUTOMATIC SURFACE AREA MANAGEMENTMagicSRF is a powerful AutoCAD surface area manager. It lets you compute automatically, manage and extract surface areas in drawings, keeps them up to date. The computed surface areas...

Tags: AutoCAD, AKT, Surface Area, Microsoft Windows, Benefits, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources

Software downloads 2006-10-06

Google CEO on click fraud: 'let it happen' is perfect economic solution

Google CEO on click fraud: 'let it happen' is perfect economic solutionThe market does eventually self correct, but not in the short termMr. Schmidt is theoretically correct. In fact, I wrote a blog espousing similar arguments a few months ago. http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/ Mark Cuban and I have debated this issue...

Tags: click fraud, Google Inc., Eric Schmidt

Discussion threads 2006-07-09

Death of a Credit Card Processor?

Not since CFS RailRoad let their CIO, CISO, and CSO go has there been such a dramatic repercussion from a security incident. That case was a result of not taking industry best practise protection against a widely predicted threat: MSBlaster attacking the RPC DCOM vulnerability in Windows. A quick recap....

Tags: credit card

Blog posts 2005-07-21

Building a new-idea factory

Building a new-idea factoryWhy stop at owning ideas, why can't people own air?[i][b]One thing that intrigues me about the whole patent area is the emotion it engenders. If you bring up patents to some people, they really get wound up.[/b]Myhrvold: Yeah, it's very funny to me, and it's a cultural...

Tags: biotechnology, IP, patent

Discussion threads 2005-04-28

New ban for DVD copying software

New ban for DVD copying softwaresomeone explain to me.....how not being able to make copies of legally purchases DVD slides around our fair use provisions? and why are these infringments if htey are after all allowed to be passed through the courts?I don't know a ton about fair use, but...

Tags: DVD, DVD-copying, movie, software, Valenti

Discussion threads 2004-05-20