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- Will China manufacturing costs be a tech overhang?
- Will China manufacturing costs be a tech overhang?China TCOThe Chinese currency is broadly pegged to the dollar so the exchange rate hasn't influenced the relative cost of Chinese manufacturing. Rather it is the shortage and therefore higher cost of skilled labor and, especially, mid-level management. Through in high fuel costs,...
- Tags: skilled-labor, manufacturing cost, manufacturing
- Discussion threads 2007-12-11
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- Will Bush sign Pro-IP? Biz, labor, schools push for it
- There's no word yet on whether President Bush will sign the PRO-IP bill [ZDN] but big business and labor were united in favor of the bill that creates a copyright czar in the executive branch. The bill originally called for the Justice Dept. to prosecute copyright...
- Tags: Bill, President, IP, Justice Dept, Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- America's airways ready for NextGen
- It's time – long past time – to upgrade the U.S. air traffic control system. The current system, designed during World War II, contributes mightily to flight delays, customer dissatisfaction and a massive energy wastefulness. But a GPS satellite-based system, on the drawing board for more than a decade, has...
- Tags: FAA, Air Traffic Control, Greenhouse Gas, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capital
- Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capitalRE: Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters caI think it's quite smart personally.foolishJust another CEO desperate to save his bonus. Once you carve up the company, quality goes downhill. The chips will suffer. AMD will be...
- Tags: Balance sheets, Asset management, Semiconductors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Asset Smart, manufacturing, balance sheet, chip, asset
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Can two AMDs be better than one?
- Can two AMDs be better than one?They should never have bought ATIATI was content with competing with NVIDIA, and if market conditions had let them fail at it, so be it. What we're seeing now is the failure of 2 companies, not just one.ExpensiveThe cash infusion may have been...
- Tags: Research & Development, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Data Processing scores big success! Linux loses, again!
- Data Processing scores big success! Linux loses, again!Wrong title, MurphIt should be "IT N00bs at large in Canada" or something along those lines :)Also funny they switched to a windows server. "Oh, we understand windows, cause we use it at home! let's try that! Oh no use! Oh no, what...
- Tags: Operating systems, data-processing, Murph, Linux, big success, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- Five unfortunate ways the financial crisis affects your daily grind
- Five unfortunate ways the financial crisis affects your daily grindJob SecurityWhile some of those points are quite good, I have to question " Skilled workers might not be spared". When was the last time skilled workers *were* spared? In the IT field, our jobs have been hanging on a...
- Tags: Financial services, bank, financial
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Five unfortunate ways the financial crisis affects your daily grind
- By now, you're probably up to your eyeballs in unsettling economic crisis news. The stock markets, tanked. Mondays $700 billion Hail Mary of a bailout plan, dead on arrival though since resuscitated. Real estate value, sunk. Federal Reserve chairman Bernanke warned last week that the difficulty households and businesses were...
- Tags: Job, Financial, Economist, Worker, Recruitment & Selection, Real Estate, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Well, I do actually worry (about mobile viruses)
- In response to Kaspersky's statement that they were concerned about mobile malware, I provided a flurry of reasons why mobile malware epidemics don't occur today. This may not be the case in the near future, however, as changes in the handset space is making the creation of malware far...
- Tags: Mobile, Malware, Virus, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- To: Circuit City and Best Buy, From: You
- To: Circuit City and Best Buy, From: You"We don't pay you to think."As an ex-employee computer technician from the pilot store, this was told to me verbatim several times. To me it sounded curious because if anyone should be thinking, it should be the guy repairing the computers, right?If you...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Best Buy Co. Inc., Circuit City Stores Inc., LET IT, sales
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Job alert: SAP, COBOL, PowerBuilder??
- As enterprise Web 2.0 makes its way into organizations, there is a misconception held among a pocket in the industry that the new technologies will replace the old says Nexaweb's Jeremy Chone. Commentary--Was anybody else not surprised by the recent Foote Partners finding that the...
- Tags: Job, Web, Misconception, Knowledge, SAP AG, COBOL, Enterprise Application, Web 2.0, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Internet, Management, Software, Nexaweb, SAP, Jeremy Chone, CTO, Nexaweb Technologies, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2008-10-01
- My Article Submitter (zip)
- Drive Insane Traffic To Your Web Site Using The Magic of Article Submission. My Article Submitter is the Fastest and Easiest way to get your articles posted on hundreds of article directories without spending hours and hours on the manual labor of doing so! My Article Submitter has 138 Auto...
- Tags: Article, Gridmarketing, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-10-01
- Microsoft says crisis will impact tech
- Microsoft says crisis will impact techGround Control to L.E.M. Apollo13 Gemini has returned to Canada:Tom Hanks Impersonator,"Aren't we glad Houston didn't say San Fransico. That fire would wipe-out the SSA and put fourteen million Americans out of their homes."" I wonder how my trailer park is doing?"Wrong!!What's needed is NOT...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft says crisis, MICROSOFT SAYS
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Go West young IT worker!
- In 1851 Indianna journalist John Soule advised: "Go West Young Man." With the financial crisis causing turmoil in the financial services sector there are tens of thousands of IT jobs being lost on the East coast and elsewhere in the US. On WebGuild Daya...
- Tags: Job, Financial, Information Technology, Startup Life, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Microsoft: Windows and Linux offer same TCO in emerging markets
- Microsoft: Windows and Linux offer same TCO in emerging marketsThis line says it all ...[i]That’s the conclusion of a recent [b]Microsoft-sponsored study[/b] from Vital Wave Consulting, which Microsoft is touting in new posting on the company’s Unlimited Potential UP blog.[/i]Why am I not surprised of the results of this "study"?...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, ROI/TCO, OPEN SOURCE, emerging market, Linux, same TCO, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., TCO
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- Traffic Increase eBook (zip)
- Traffic Increase eBook covers the tips that a Web master or Web site owner must know to increase the traffic. Some of the topics that we discussed are article marketing forum marketing, traffic exchanges, free classifieds, press releases, resource box, email, Google AdWords, title tag, submission to directories, HubPage and...
- Tags: Web, BSystems, Channel Management, E-books, Marketing, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-09-24
- The price of a pink slip
- The price of a pink slipdouble-edged swordThis is a double-edged sword. Employers are going to be much more reluctant to hire someone if they know they will have to continue paying them after they fire them. And what's the incentive for a laid-off worker to look for a...
- Tags: pink slip, worker
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Taking a Bott beating
- My colleague Ed Bott, who writes the Windows column for ZDNet, takes issue with the problem solving approach that I used when I went about migrating my friend Christine's old PC over to Vista. From the nature of the talkbacks to that original post, I would...
- Tags: PC, Ed Bott, USB, Christine, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Desktops, Hardware, Storage, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- You cannot beat open source
- You cannot beat open sourceBig Money MattI call Matt Asay "Big Money Matt" because he works for an open source company and makes a good income from it. He's just here for giggles.Next course at the Harvard Music School...How to Stamp Out Amateur Music. Learn the threat that community...
- Tags: open source
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Support quality
- Support qualityPrepare for a first....I've had not one, but [b]TWO[/b] such calls to Microsoft, of all places. Neither call resulted in new purchase orders. Both calls were at a point where I was at my wits end. Search resulted in a number of results that bore NO resemblance to the...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Quicken, server
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
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