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Here's one view of a green future: more jobs and healthier planet

The Status Quo Crowd SQC are gonna write this off as left-wing, Euro-socialist propaganda. The SQC better hope the ideas in this report don't make their way into the halls of power because it proposes wholesale changes in the status quo and a peaceful revolution in how big business...

Tags: U.S., Job, Greenpeace, Report, Status Quo Crowd, Transportation, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-11

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Here's one view of a green future: more jobs and healthier planet

Here's one view of a green future: more jobs and healthier planetThe luddite denialists will do everything to prevent it from happeningThey will deny it, they will call it a hoax, they'll claim they have "scientific" evidence on the contrary, etc."The report sees nearly eight million green energy jobs by...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, healthier planet, green future, SQC, cleaner energy, hoax

Discussion threads 2009-03-12

Yo-yo'ing on Millennials

Larry Dignan's post earlier in the week asking whether Millennials will re-invent IT struck a chord with a few of my Irregular friends. First up, Larry's conclusion: I remember this generational stereotyping with the Generation X crowd. Job market stunk. Generation X was differentâ€"they were pissed. They were wearing...

Tags: Information Technology, Generation, Millennials, Hindsight, Ross Mayfield, Susan Scrupski, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-20

Critics urge rejection of Microsoft 'open' format

Critics urge rejection of Microsoft 'open' formatwe demand the rejection of the M$ 'open' formatbloated, proprietary and incompatible with OSS, that's enough to vote a big NO on it.Microsoft to lose the ISO ballot in a close voteI hope someone is monitoring the vote process. This is important. Competitive bids...

Tags: Quality, ISO standards, Process improvement, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-08-28

Nortel has a burn the boats strategy says CTO

The clap and rumble of thunder is followed within seconds by the sound of a torrential, tropical downpour. Im sitting in the Tonga Room, in the bowels of the swank Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, with John Roese, CTO of Nortel, the $11bn Canadian telecoms equipment giant.The thunder and lighting...

Tags: Business strategy, Enterprise IT, Top interviews

Blog posts 2007-02-13

That deceptive, misleading WGA installation

That deceptive, misleading WGA installationnonsense? not reallyI have a friend that works in customer service, and at the bottom of each email is the usual 'may contain proprietary information / copyrighted stuff' tag line. Now, yesterday she typed back that lunch was on. The fact that we were...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-07-13

Net neutrality and politics don't mix

[Update: 12:00 AM June 9, 2006] The amount of political rhetoric coming from the Net neutrality crowd is at a fever pitch. From MoveOn.org to SaveTheInternet.com practicing their brand of scare the public to a self-interest driven "do-no-evil" Google, the consistent message we're getting is this: [More scare...

Tags: Internet

Blog posts 2006-06-07

The consequences of information overload

We've got the makings of a classic salon discussion right out of the playbook of Gertrude Stein emerging here at ZDNet. Dion Hinchcliffe, responding to a thought-provoking post about the nature of change by Mitch Ratcliffe, presents his perspective on what the increasing availability of information means as a...

Tags: Mitch Ratcliffe, Dion

Blog posts 2006-03-20

The only thing you can count on is change, the rest is S.H.I.T.

Simple hacks of intellectual transactions, or S.H.I.T., is all the rage among marketers and gurus these days. As I've explained before, responding to, amongst other things, David Berlind's repeated complaints about C.R.A.P, S.H.I.T. that supposedly will eliminate the complexities and reciprocities of the existing economy, including C.R.A.P., are fantasies that...

Tags: S.H.I.T.

Blog posts 2006-03-14

Next for Sun, Google, Java: Walking papers for the fat client cartel?

As my colleague Dan Farber has already pointed out, News.com's Stephen Shankland has penned an analysis piece that pretty much exhausts all of the possibilities that could come out of a Sun-Google partnership being announced as I press the publish button. It's worth pointing out, however, that the subset...

Tags: Google Inc., Java

Blog posts 2005-10-04

Microsoft antitrust pact bounces back to court

Microsoft antitrust pact bounces back to courtThis about says it all"It the settlement fails to stop Microsoft's illegal conduct and does nothing to restore competition to the monopolized market or to prevent Microsoft from engaging in similar means to the same unlawful end," Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly said in...

Tags: Litigation, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, antitrust, Microsoft antitrust pact, Bill Gate$, Microsoft Corp., OEM

Discussion threads 2003-11-03

PC sales bolster Microsoft profits

PC sales bolster Microsoft profitsJust wait 'til LonghornLonghorn will drive these numbers through the roof. My own personal feeling is that Longhorn will drive consumer revenue to $4 billion within 1 year of its release. The integrated search and WinFS filesystem will make this a MUST HAVE upgrade for 90%...

Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Operating systems, Corporate America, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Profits, sales, PC

Discussion threads 2003-10-23