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- AOL co-founder backs new online payment firm
- AOL co-founder backs new online payment firmLike Revolution Health It's Going To Be DOAThe only "revolution" coming is a backlash against services that want lots of personal data to mine for marketing purposes, yet offer little or no real value in return and raise significant security concerns. With PayPal...
- Tags: E-business/E-commerce, Vertical industries, Benefits, America Online Inc., Steve Case, online payment company, Revolution Health, online payment
- Discussion threads 2007-09-25
- Steve Case resigns from Time Warner board
- Steve Case resigns from Time Warner boardThe rats are jumping shipjust another nail in the Time Warner coffin, to piece it.RE: The rats are jumping ship by Boot_AgnosticWhile merging with Always Off Line was a BIG mistake for Time Warner, TW is STILL the BEST cable ISP that can be...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Time Warner Inc., Time Warner board, rat, Steve Case, board
- Discussion threads 2005-10-31
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- My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services
- Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...
- Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., SMS, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Are there really too many Windows editions?
- Ask any Windows pundit about all the different versions of Windows Vista that Microsoft offers and you'll invariably get the same response. There are too many! Consumers are confused! It all needs to be simplified! To which I say: Be careful what you wish for. The case for reducing the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Edition, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'
- Higher return rates for Linux-based netbooks don't necessarily reflect badly on the open-source operating system, according to Ubuntu backer Canonical. The return rate on Linux-powered netbooks may be higher than that for Windows netbooks, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing for Linux, according to Canonical. ...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Software, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, netbook, Windows XP, MSI Wind, Asus Eeee
- News items 2008-10-10
- What's a Little Money Between Friends?
- Gaming Incentive Systems Joel Spolsky (www.inc.com/keyword/spolsky) wrote a nice piece in the October 2008 issue of Inc. magazine. The article, Sins of Commissions, provides a cautionary tale to executives who are contemplating the addition of or changes to sales incentives in their workforce. ...
- Tags: Incentive, Commission, Joe, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Anonymity and the Internet
- A case winding its way through a court in Pennsylvania attempts to pierce the veil of anonymity that protects web forum participants' ability to say whatever they want about public figures. Though I don't agree with the conclusions of the judge, I am not fan of anonymity of the...
- Tags: Anonymity, Internet, Web Site Development, Web Technology, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Kevin Rose: advertising, can you Digg it?
- Digg faces two big challenges going forward. How to expand its user-base and therefore content beyond its geeky roots, and in turn, how to increase ad revenue. Addressing the latter, co-founder Kevin Rose says the social news site is exploring "Diggable ads". by Steve O'Hear
- Tags: Digg, Advertisement, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Is Microsoft's fatal flaw the computer?
- I was browsing on webmagazine Salon when I came across an interesting review written by Scott Rosenberg of the book "Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know" by Randall Stross. (The title of the article is, "Google's Vulcan death grip." Boy am I a sucker.) ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Flaw, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Productivity, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Opera bitten by 'extremely severe' browser bug
- Buried in the flurry of feature-related news surrounding the release of Opera 9.6 is the fact that the update fixes an "extremely severe" vulnerability that could expose Opera users to code execution attacks. According to an Opera advisory, which is not mentioned anywhere in Opera's giddy press...
- Tags: Opera Software, Web Browser, Applet, Rohlf, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- sBOOKs - Robert Louis Stevenson (exe)
- See 15 ebooks from R. L. Stevevson in one easy to use application. Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on the 13 November 1850. He studied at Edinburgh University and also qualified as a lawyer. He travelled extensively in Europe and began his writing career during these years. He...
- Tags: SmartSolutions, E-books, Professional Development, Personal Technology, Career
- Software downloads 2008-10-09
- Have we all become a bunch of anxious, depressed, sleep-deprived irritable stress-heads?
- Let's face it, the last month or so has been a challenge for just about anyone's tolerance of stress and has made even the most "stable" of us question our own emotional and mental health. But I've discovered that IT workers in particular, or anyone who...
- Tags: Sleep, Job, Beverage, Health Care, Computer, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Food & Beverage, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Poker sites fight to get domain names back from Kentucky
- This is a novel legal strategy. And so far it's working. Last month, in an effort to preserve the state's monopoly on legal gambling, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear sued to have 141 online gambling sites' domains transferred to the state's control. According to the Washington Post, a big...
- Tags: Kentucky, Domain Name, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- WiMax - the technology, devices and momentum - finally arrives.
- Finally! WiMax is officially here. I know this because executives pulled out the big scissors - in this case, hedge clippers - to the cut the symbolic copper wire instead of a ribbon to signify the end of the wired Internet. Whenever there's a ribbon cutting, you know its official....
- Tags: Sprint Communications, Laptop Computer, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Microsoft shows interest in WaMu bankruptcy over software agreements
- When Microsoft filed a "notice of appearance" in the Washington Mutual bankruptcy proceedings - which is basically a request to be kept updated on developments of the case - and then initially declined to comment about its interest in the case, the speculation began. (Silicon Alley Insider wondered if Microsoft...
- Tags: Software, Washington Mutual Inc., Enterprise Software, Agreement, Microsoft Corp., Bankruptcy, Times, Litigation, Business Operations, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?
- Justice is being served against the kid who allegedly hacked into Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account, right? David Kernell, the 20-year-old son of Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell and a student at the University of Tennessee, was indicted on a charge of accessing...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Hacker, Computer, Kid, E-mail, Productivity, Online Communications, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Another bit of positive green investment news. Smart grid is again the focus.
- More positive news on the clean-tech investment front announced before the market meltdown but significant nonetheless: Another smart-grid player, GridPoint, is using at least some of its $120 million in recently raised equity financing to buy V2Green, which sells technology for integrating infrastructure for supporting plug-in electric hybrids with the...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Grid, Clean Technology, Hybrid, GridPoint, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Updated: Restraining order against RealDVD stands
- Updated: Restraining order against RealDVD standsMiss GuidedWithout going into too much detail I can safely say that DVD X COPY is not the only product in this marketplace. I can understand to a certain extent the wish to impose stricter digital rights management. What the court must ask...
- Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, RealDVD stand, RealDVD
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- $236m judgment against spammer couple
- $236m judgment against spammer coupleSadly, it's pointlessSadly, in reality such a judgment is pointless.Let them pay it in jail time$236m is a fair bill to run up. I say let them paying it back in jail time.Let's even be generous and say 1 day in jail will reduce the bill...
- Tags: Spam, Email Ads, e-mail, spammer, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- $236m judgment against spammer couple
- How much is spam worth? In the case of a couple who sent millions of spams to a small ISP, $236 million. That's the judgment a federal judge in Iowa levied against the husband-and-wife spamming team of Henry Perez and Suzanne Bartok, IDG reports. Over four months in 2003,...
- Tags: Judgment, Spammer, CIS Internet Services, Spam, Cyberthreats, E-mail, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
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