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Study: IT spending to improve in 2004

Study: IT spending to improve in 2004good news: India will grow faster than expectedwhile the rest of us here run out of unemployment benefits.Yeah, plane trips to India are EXPENSIVE!...Applying for a job in India, it pays $10,000 a yearBut, I can live in a tunnel with rats, and...

Tags: Free trade, NAFTA, IT-spending, http://www.conservativebookclub.com/Join/JoinBookPage.asp?prod_c, job, Southern Pride

Discussion threads 2004-02-06

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I... B... Wha?

The following is a true story, and happened to me today. I'm on a business trip visiting Richmond, Virginia --  which for those of you kids reading this piece, is the state capital, has a population of over 200,000, and is home to...

Tags: Computer, IBM Corp., Productivity, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Best platforms for book on "tape"

Best platforms for book on "tape"They could use their ownAs an example, in our ninth grade the students study four novels. Three of the four are available through the Central Mass Regional Library System in a format that allows storage/playback on MP3 players including the iPod as well as burning...

Tags: Digital music, Branding, Digital media, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-29

Rating Booster (zip)

Rating booster is a new program developed by a computer science student at the University of Southern California. It's main aim is to do what none of it's competitors do, and that is Boost your traffic ratings and Video stat ratings. Where Tube increaser falls short, Rating Booster kicks in,...

Tags: Computer Science, Video, Site, MicroAtlantic, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-09-24

News to know: Windows 7; Google; Pepcom gadgets; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: How long will Microsoft support XP and Vista? Adam O'Donnell: Webmail providers can fix Palin hack-style problems Is the HTC Dream Google...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Larry Dignan, Green Technology, Microsoft Windows 7, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Online Communications

Blog posts 2008-09-22

"Papa Bear"'s take on the Palin Hack

"Papa Bear"'s take on the Palin HackDon't go calling him a "Republican"...The true Republican Party was shot between the eyes in the aftermath of FDR's New Deal; the carcass staggered on for another three-plus decades, when it was put out of its misery by Nixon's "Southern Strategy" that whipped up...

Tags: MSM, O'Reilly, Taft, Bill O'Reilly, Bush Administration

Discussion threads 2008-09-20

Southern Edison gets green light, some moolah for smart metering program

The good news: Southern California Edison just got $1.63 billion in funding approved by the California Public Utilities Commission for its smart metering program, which is called Edison SmartConnect. The not so good news, if you live in California: The money will come in the form...

Tags: Southern California Edison, Edison, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-19

A Failure To Not Communicate

The preliminary findings of the investigation of last week's commuter train crash in Southern California: Text-messaging was involved, the Wall Street Journal reports. This is a wreck that should make us think, about how much we need to communicate.. by Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Tags: Southern California, Wreck, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-18

Arctic Class of '08: less ice, but not the least

Arctic Class of '08: less ice, but not the leastArctic Ice can not effect sea level"What If All the Ice Melts?" Myths and Realities (Wm. Robert Johnston, B.A. Astronomy, M.S. Physics)http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/environment/waterworld.html[b]"[i]Arctic Ocean pack ice = 0.01 % Fraction of world ice - The melting of floating ice will not change...

Tags: ice, Arctic, RealClimate.org

Discussion threads 2008-09-17

Technology could have averted fatal LA train crash

Positive train control" technology - already in use in some parts of the country -- could have avoided last week's fatal train crash in southern California, the Federal Railroad Administration pronounced yesterday. PTC includes GPS and digital communications to enforce speeds and monitor movements. Twenty-five people were...

Tags: California Public Utilities Commission, PTC, LA Times, Monitors & Displays, Government, GPS, Federal Government, Hardware, Components, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-16

DECE - Lipstick on the DRM pig

DECE - Lipstick on the DRM pigRE: DECE - Lipstick on the DRM pigAs long as there is any DRM involve, this is for me.Buy Once -> *cough* *cough* -> Play Anywhere. Unfortunately, not everyone knows how to *cough* *cough* :DWho audits their books?Curious, who is the auditor of Apple's...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, DECE

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

About that London Stock Exchange IT failure

The obvious lesson from the correlation between Microsoft's eagerness to brag about the performance and reliability of the system installed at the London Stock Exchange and it's actual performance and unreliability is that pride goeth before a fall - but the deeper lesson is that top management didn't do its...

Tags: Incentive, Hewlett-Packard Co., London Stock Exchange Plc., Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., LSE, Infolect, Linux, Sales Force Management, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Sales, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-09-13

LHC a sure sign that Europe is the center of physics

The successful start-up of the Large Hadron Collider represents not just a huge victory for particle physics but also a victory for Europe. Once upon a time there was a brain drain from Europe to the U.S. – not only Albert Einstein in the 30s but also Wehrner von...

Tags: Europe, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-11

Something in the air: Several random wind energy updates

It's been so still here in northern New Jersey for the past week that I can't imagine using the technology that I'm going to mention in this post. And yet the wind has been known to bend the trees in my yard, like kelp responding to a tidal surge. So,...

Tags: Alternative Energy, mW, Wind Energy, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Chrome, IE8, and longer term thinking

Chrome, IE8, and longer term thinkingI wonder -- would others please weigh inOk, your stats here are out to lunch but I wonder about your basic point.I think it's wrong - that almost any non OS specific programming language can be used to produce a standard code base from...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Programming languages, operating system, Linux, Google Inc., IE8, Chrome, longer-term, COBOL, window

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Revenge of the techies

Revenge of the techiesThink of it this way.You fired me, i had planned on living my life as it were, i might have a house and kids to take care of, you have essentially ruined me. Now it might not seem right to destroy and take information, but that...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Revenge, job

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Don't leave that fridge by the curb!

I saw a television out on our street a couple of mornings ago when I left for my morning job/walk, waiting for pick-up by the garbage dudes. I resisted the urge to narc on my neighbors, since it's actually illegal to place said TVs curbside in New Jersey, but it...

Tags: Southern California Edison, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Google journeys to the center of the earth (well not quite) with latest alternative energy foray

Apparently Google's philanthropic arm isn't content investing in just one source of alternative energy, which makes sense considering the geographic diversity of the planet we live on. The search and business applications giant last week said it will put up about $10.25 million toward energy technology called enhanced geothermal systems...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Google Inc., Geothermal Energy, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-25

AMC Pagan Daybook 3 (exe)

AMC Pagan Daybook 3 is a calendar to keep track of the days of the week, the ancient and modern tides and the pagan festivals and observances that fall on each day of the year. Far more interesting than a conventional calendar, it's something unique to put in the Startup...

Tags: Screensaver, Alchemy, Alchemy Mindworks, AMC Pagan Daybook 3, Pagan Daybook 3

Software downloads 2008-08-21

Google.org invests in geothermal

Google.org is investing $10 million in Enhanced Geothermal Systems, a technology that drills miles down into the earth to get that nice, hot granite under the surface, Tom Zeller reports on the dot-earth blog at the Times. As Zeller notes, $10 million ain't a lot in this...

Tags: Geothermal Energy, Google.org, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-19