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Are iPod touch users second-class citizens? Apple says yes

Are iPod touch users second-class citizens? Apple says yesI bought the update, and was happy to do so.I would prefer that the update should have been free though, but there are features that I like to have in the update, that I can now use. Like the pairing of BT...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Operational accounting, Apple iPod Touch, Apple Inc., Apple iPod, Apple SAYS, second-class citizen, iPod touch user, Apple iPhone, yes, revenue

Discussion threads 2009-06-29

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Google makes Chrome OS open source today

Contrary to rumors, Google did not release a beta version of its much anticipated Chrome operating system today. And nothing is coming anytime soon: the final version is at least a year away, the mega giant web company said. But there was some significant news for the...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Operating System, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Open Source, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-11-19

Antitrust: Time to break apart the phone companies -- again?

Actually,those 'guaranteed revenue' companiesAre not so rare. Food companies, oil and gas companies, phone companies, electric companies, water utilities.... the list goes on and on if I had enough time to think of them all.That is why we need to break up any company that gets more than a 10%...

Tags: Corporate law, Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, Food & Beverage, 360Networks Corp., phone company, phone, antitrust

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Behind the GOP revolt on health care

ZDNET is not a LIBERAL soap box...Treat it like the TECH blog its supposed to be.You want to talk the merits of tech in medicine - I'm there.If you just use your position as a writer to spout your liberal views, you're doing the site a disservice.that's FUDThere is no...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Blogging, NOW IT, Dems, GOP, tax, health care, blog

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

How Internet surveillance, IT sleuth work helped indict suspected terrorist Zazi

Kinda eerieMakes me wonder if I should delete that "Socialism" picture of Obama as the Joker from my machine.There are 2 Issues HereThe first is whether such forensics have a legitimate place in law enforcement and the second is whether these methods can be misused. I believe that the...

Tags: Blogging, information technology, Zazi, Internet Surveillance, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

The First Amendment rights of anonymous defamers

Actually, this is a 6th amendment issue.Namely, the right to face your accuser in a court of law. The anonymity was stripped because the woman intended to file criminal charges.Huh?The blogger was intending to sue the celebrity?The difference between free speech and defamationWhy do people think they can say ANYTHING...

Tags: First Amendment, defamation, perpetrator

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

Fed's RFIDiocy pwnd at DefCon

Do you even read your own stuff?From your quote:". . . will be releasing a $50 kit at the end of August that will make reading 125-kHz RFID chips ? the kind embedded in [b]employee access cards[/b] ? trivial." emphasis addedAnd yet you go and say that this is a...

Tags: WPA2, passport, RFID, pwnd, RFIDiocy, RFIDiocy pwnd, security, DefCon, Federal Reserve Board

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

US government sanctions hit Windows Live Messenger in embargoed countries

US government sanctions hit Windows Live Messenger in embargoed countriesgreat opportunity for Google and YahooNow is the time for an agressive campaign by Google and Yahoo to convert all those users blocked by M$ to their IM.By the time we invade them or bomb them into the rock age, M$...

Tags: Zack, American Values, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, U.S. Government, Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft Windows Live

Discussion threads 2009-05-28

How a student fooled the world's media

On the 28th March, Shane Fitzgerald who studies at the University of Dublin, began an experiment which could put journalism into disrepute, by faking a quote on Wikipedia and measuring the spread across the world's media outlets. Maurice Jarre, a famous French composer, died in late March...

Tags: Journalist, Media, Fake, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-05-13

News to know: Microsoft; Facebook; Acer; WiFi health scare

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Jury orders Microsoft to pay $388 million over anti-piracy patent Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft delivers SQL Server 2008 SP1 Adrian...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Health Care, Wi-Fi, Microsoft Corp., Acer Inc., TechMeme, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals

Blog posts 2009-04-09

Carolina hydrogen: heavy duty but lighter than air

Carolina hydrogen: heavy duty but lighter than airWrong againDemocrats caused the housing crisis along with Acorn that has ties to Obongo who was bornin Kenya.Anyways, we will see how much your love for numbnuts lives on when your electric bill goesup 25% and your fuel bill goes up as well...

Tags: Water Vapor, hydrogen, Obongo, heavy duty

Discussion threads 2009-04-02

Why cyberwarfare sounds more like AK-47s than like stealth bombers

Cyberwarfare consisting of citizen militias and the digital equivalent of cheap rifles does not preclude the existence of more effective weaponry. First, a history lesson. The second half of the twentieth century witnessed a shift in warfare from battles fought by large standing armies...

Tags: Rifle, Army, Productivity, Government, Security, Adam O'Donnell

Blog posts 2009-03-15

Time (and CRM 2.0) Marches On: CRM Integration w/social platforms expands

The buzz around social CRM and CRM 2.0 is picking up.   The strategists are getting out there and throwing fastballs down the heart of the plate (ahhh, spring training. Go Yankees!) and pushing recognition that CRM has always been a strategy, as Gartner CRM Eurodemigod Ed Thompson points out at...

Tags: CRM, Integration, CRM 2.0, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-03-13

Citizen Pain: Who Needs Another Electronic Reader?

So today’s the day when reviews are coming in from CNet and Between The Lines on the second edition of Amazon’s Kindle electronic book reader. You decide whether you want to spend $350-plus for a device that lets you, essentially, read one type of publication. The Kindle...

Tags: Hearst Corp., Kindle, E-books, Sales Strategy, Notebooks, Personal Technology, Sales, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-03-02

Software in the Obama world

Is it time for a changing of the software guard? A lot of material has crossed my desk lately regarding software sales in the Obama, crisis-cleanup world. There is some interesting material here and two vendors stand out in the midst. First, let’s discuss...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, OpenAir Inc., Entity, PBO, Government Contractor, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Project Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, It Operations, It service Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-03-02

EU to extend copyright to 95 years

EU to extend copyright to 95 yearsCurious decisionI too cannot see the rationale behind this decision. One suspects Sir Cliff will have another hit soon: 'most downloaded torrent of 2009'.On another issue: be interested to hear your comments on Psystar's v Apple and the judge's reference to 'abuse of copyright...

Tags: Operational accounting, Mickey Mouse, Sonny Bono, income

Discussion threads 2009-02-13

Oh, CRAP. We're Now Named TARP. Maybe It's Time To Change. Again.

This company's mission is to help its clients "profit from interaction" with customers. You're probably never heard of it. But at about the time the Macintosh was born, it was cited by Business Week for teaching companies how to use toll-free 800 numbers to handle customer...

Tags: Health Care, Federal Government, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Product Marketing, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-26

Can the smartphone beat down violent crime?

Can the smartphone beat down violent crime?RE: Can the smartphone beat down violent crime?Depends on how much the smartphone weighs, and where you strike the assailant :)Technically not hard to accomplish MurphFor example, my cell phone a Nokia N95 has an [url=http://mymobilesite.net/]Apache Web server built in[/url], with Python and Perl...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, violent crime, smart phone, phone

Discussion threads 2009-01-22

News to know: plane crash; Windows 7; Bartz's salary; Intel

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Zack Whittaker: New York plane crash: online media spreads word within seconds Andrew Nusca: New York CTO to statewide...

Tags: Job, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Dana Blankenhorn, Apple Inc., Salary, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows, Recruitment & Selection, Keyboards, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Peripherals

Blog posts 2009-01-16

Salesforce.com Powers Obama's Change.gov Citizen's Briefing Book

Consider this a followup to yesterday's entry - and one that shows the power of CRM 2.0 too.  Big time. This morning, as part of the larger announcement of salesforce.com's ServiceCloud applications to be covered at a later date  I found out that salesforce.com's Ideas social application...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., CRM, Briefing Book, MyStarbucksIdea, Citizen, Sales Force Management, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-01-15