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- My friend Russell Shaw
- My friend Russell ShawThanks for sharingThanks for sharing, and again, my deepest condolences to his friends and family.Thanks Dana so much for your rememberancesRest in peace Russell Shaw.Watch out for the dead coming back to life!Russell's probably talking their ears off in heaven right now. They might come back just...
- Tags: Russell, Shaw
- Discussion threads 2008-03-17
- Russell Shaw, rest in peace
- Russell Shaw, rest in peaceCondolences to his friends and familyHe was a good writer, and his sheer determination to call the big powers to account often made a positive difference in the industry. He'll be missed...RE: Russell Shaw, rest in peaceMr. Shaw shall be missed in this community. May he...
- Tags: Shaw, Russell
- Discussion threads 2008-03-16
- Rest in peace Russell Shaw; We'll miss you
- Rest in peace Russell Shaw; We'll miss youThis is truly very sadThis is truly very sad. It is a great loss to his family and to our family here at ZDNet blogs. My heart goes out to Russell Shaw’s family. We will all miss you Russell.Sincerely,George OuRE:...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Blogging, VOIP, Russell, Shaw
- Discussion threads 2008-03-16
- News to know: 30 things about Linux; Vista's bum rap; Losing data; Deconstructing Twitter
- Notable headlines:Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: 30 things I've learned from using Linux …Ed Bott: Vista scare stories distort the real picture.Robin Harris: How data gets lost.Phil Wainewright: Spend, spend, spend for SaaS success.Sun extends UltraSparc reach.Review: Sony VAIO TP1 Living Room PC - Core 2 Duo T5600 1.83 GHz right.Ryan Naraine: Mozilla...
- Tags: Facebook, Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- Here's the main issue Ron Paul's netroots supporters need to understand- but don't
- Here's the main issue Ron Paul's netroots supporters need to understand- but don'tLibertarianism Mis UnderstoodShaw writes: "A key purpose of laws and regulation should be to keep the powerful out of your pockets."Exactly.One of the classic misunderstandings of libertarianism - and I blame libertarians for this problem - is...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Shaw, central issue, Ron Paul, federal government, regulation
- Discussion threads 2007-08-06
- News to know: Patch day; Jobs hostile Windows takeover; Solaris and GPL3
- Notable headlines:Torvalds: Solaris could nudge Linux to GPL 3.Ryan Naraine: 'Critical' Vista, IE 7 patches highlight MS security updates. Microsoft advisory. Gallery right: How to run Internet Explorer securely.The great iPhone hunt of 2007. Ed Bott: Is Jobs planning a hostile takeover of the Windows desktop?Mary Jo Foley: Windows Home...
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-13
- News to know: Big Blue chips; Zimbra; Apple's green missive; ActiveX bugs
- Notable headlines: IBM puts vacuum spaces in chips. Gallery right. Video. Russell Shaw: Google-compatible Phone Interface platform described in Patent app. David Berlind: Solving the Web app’s ‘offline problem’: How Zimbra did it and others will follow. Gallery. ...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Before the world knew: insider's diary of BlackBerry service shutdown
- Before the world knew: insider's diary of BlackBerry service shutdownDude's Obsessed...Russell Shaw's getting a little too obsessed with this issue and trying to make this an even bigger issue than it was. For sure, I notified many people the morning after and told them they may experience problems...
- Tags: Russell, BlackBerry-service, Shaw, Dude
- Discussion threads 2007-05-01
- RIM Botches BlackBerry outage communication
- Research in Motions BlackBerry has had an outage since late last night, but the company response appears slow. If you dial the BlackBerry support line--877-255-2377--heres what you get: "Please be advised we are currently experiencing a service interruption that is causing...
- Tags: Wired & Wireless, Research In Motion, Personal Technology, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- For SprintNextel, customer "service" is a jangled mess
- For SprintNextel, customer "service" is a jangled messThe stupidity of this blogger is quite facinating...So I go online to the Sprint-Nextel website. On the Sprint-Nextel website, there is a link that leads to the phone accessories section. I click accessories. There is one side that says Sprint, and another that...
- Tags: Engineering, Customer relationship management (CRM), Nextel Communications Inc., BlackBerry 7520, battery, Russell, Shaw, RIM BlackBerry, new battery, customer service, Sprint Communications
- Discussion threads 2006-10-22
- Cable broadband ISP's QoS enhancement surcharge draws Vonage's ire
- Cable broadband ISP's QoS enhancement surcharge draws Vonage's ireI am not a fan of regulation but "Net Neutral" is mandatory.Let's hope our elected animals understand that. Or more accurately, care about the people more than the "contributions" from the players.Different regulatory situationIt's not so obvious that the U.S. providers...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Internet service providers (ISPs), VoIP, Shaw, QoS, Cable broadband ISP, cable broadband, Vonage Holdings Corp., cable
- Discussion threads 2006-03-07
- Cable broadband ISP's QoS enhancement surcharge draws Vonage's ire
- As I posted last week, more than a few Vonage customers are suspicious that Comcast is crimping the quality of their voice calls. Vonage denies the charge, but the subject is still a red-hot issue on the Vonage Forum. But now we have concrete proof of another strategy broadband...
- Tags: Shaw Communications, Shaw Digital Phone
- Blog posts 2006-03-07
- Bloggers rally for jailed Iranians
- Bloggers rally for jailed IraniansThe bloggers are scaring the big boysThe rise of alternative media is really beginning to get under the skin of the big media propaganda conglomerates. Within minutes to a few hours big "breaking" commercial news stories are being shot down completely, with even follow up analysis...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Blogging, blogger, Shaw, media, entertainment, Internet
- Discussion threads 2005-02-22
- Shaw's Supermarkets' Success With CA's eTrust IAM Solutions
- Shaw's uses eTrust Single Sign-On to help eliminate multiple passwords for users. The password synchronization feature of eTrust Admin then makes sure that each application to which the user has access is immediately updated with the new password. Join this webcast to learn more about their use of CA's eTrust...
- Tags: CA eTrust, Password, Computer Associates International Inc., Shaw, Viruses And Worms, Security
- Webcasts
- Shaw Industries Increases Sales Process Efficiency and Reduces Errors With the Fujitsu LifeBook T4000 Tablet PC
- Shaw's 1,000 US and Canadian-based sales reps sell more than 25,000 different products using the phone, fax, on-site customer visits, and paper order forms. The challenge for Shaw was to improve efficiency and maintain profitability in the face of shrinking margins caused by the rising cost of materials. Shaw's sales...
- Tags: Mobile, PC, Tablet PC, Fujitsu LifeBook, Fujitsu Ltd., Sales Representative, Shaw, Sales Strategy, Tablets, Notebooks, Sales Force Management, Sales, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Case studies
- Shaw's Supermarkets Reduces New User Administration Time From 45 Minutes to 5 Minutes Using CA's eTrust Admin
- Approximately 1,400 associates have access to PCs at the corporate offices, distribution centers and retail stores of Shaw's Supermarkets throughout New England. For the company's IT security team, this means a constant flow of user administration tasks, including creating, changing or deleting accounts. Although highly skilled in security administration, Shaw's...
- Tags: CA eTrust, Administrator, Administration, Computer Associates International Inc., Shaw, Security Administration, Team Management, Security, Viruses And Worms, Management
- Case studies
Additional Resources
- Q'n'A: Your correspondence to date
- Over the last week or two, I've been inundated with an email. On a serious note, there have been a few questions asked; not that they need clarification as I've already covered these things, I'll answer these anyway. Q. [Email] Open Source ERP5 is now used to...
- Tags: Mobile, E-mail, Public Relations, Online Communications, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Bell Canada's packet inspection violates privacy law, group says
- And you didn't like Comcast's TCP resets. Something far more egregious is going on in Canada, where Bell Canada has been engaged in deep-packet inspection of traffic. Bell is using DPI to find and limit the use of peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent, which it says are congesting its network,...
- Tags: Bell Canada, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Using satellite imagery to explore ancient Mexico
- An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology RIT is using satellite imagery to peer into the ancient Mexican past. Bill Middleton, an archeologist, is teaming up with computer scientists to build the most detailed landscape map of the southern state of Oaxaca in order to learn...
- Tags: NASA, Scientist, Satellite, Satellite Imagery, Bill Middleton, ScienceDaily, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- 99.999 per cent of bloggers have a day job...
- Matt Richtel's New York Times article about the heavy stress of making a living as a blogger is not about the blogger life at all. It is about the life of a freelance journalist, which often sits at the bottom a very shallow barrel in terms of journalist compensation. ...
- Tags: Job, Media, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
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