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Warner Brothers: All your memories belong 2 us

Warner Brothers: All your memories belong 2 usI'm not a bit surpisedWhen it comes to their precious copyrights, these companies shoot first, and don't ask questions later. I learned a long time ago not to post stuff that might violate copyright anywhere. But distribute it 'under the radar'. If I...

Tags: Corporate communications, Studies, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., HAPPY BIRTHDAY, memory

Discussion threads 2009-04-02

Studies: more mobile traffic, mobile video in coming years

Studies: more mobile traffic, mobile video in coming yearsWe need 3G firstThe ISPs had better get cracking. I live in a university town in the south-east of England. Coverage here is 2G (GPRS, 4.5 KB/s). That's from Vodafone.

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Corporate communications, Cellular phones, mobile, mobile traffic, mobile video, Studies, video

Discussion threads 2009-02-10

Motorola builds nanotube-based display

Motorola builds nanotube-based displayAn FED by any other name....This is fascinating news, given Motorola's high-profile investment and then sudden abandonment of FED technology years ago. And this is just a CNT version of FED, apparently. Any talk about "how easy these new panels are to manufacture" is just whistling in...

Tags: Nanotechnology, Studies, cleanup, contamination, Motorola Inc., nanotube, manufacturing

Discussion threads 2005-05-09

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HP: How about your own personal smart grid for your data center?

No thanks HPI am ripping out all HP gear and implementingDell hardware and VMware.Sounds like more smoke and mirrors to sell more HP gearHP is not interested in you reducing your energy costs as much as they are in selling you more HP gear, which of course integrates more tightly...

Tags: data center, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Washington: lots of talk about global warming

Fuller: Too many blogs about the LIE of global warming.Global warming b*llshit demolished:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1533290/Climate-chaos-Dont-believe-it.htmlGuys (or should I say - Fuller), stop LYING.Also, stop saying there's a problem and then coming up with burdening 'solutions' to non-existent problems. The latest FASCIST idea: Blame Children for 'global warming'. Yeah right.http://unitedfamiliesinternational.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/children-to-blame-for-climate-change/Fuller, why are you...

Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Kidneys do not like those chip and diet soda lunches

Linn and Gary Curhan published two studies, one of which found a correlation between high sodium intake and kidney function decline (that's the chips), the other of which found a correlation between artificial sweetener intake and kidney function loss (that's the diet soda.) by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Correlation, Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-11-03

Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 - Strengths and weaknesses

Nice articleIts nice to see a balanced article like this. I consider myself an OS agnostic user as I used Windows for years and tried a Linux Desktop OS like Ubuntu a few times and only recently (last 2 years) has Ubuntu taken over as my primary OS.One of the...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, default theme, task bar, Ubuntu, Linux, Microsoft Windows, software, hardware, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Diabetes can be kept at bay

move your ass, lazy americanswalk, run, practice sports and you won't get diabetes.except type I that is geneticThey don't have the incentives ...when they keep getting free handouts that progressives love so much from the big fat@ss government. Free health care, free lunch, free everything and then of course they...

Tags: diabetes, Wall St., progressive, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Diabetes can be kept at bay

Diabetes prevention costs a lot less than treatment, and much of the savings expected from health reform is based on studies like this which prove that prevention works. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Diabetes, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-10-29

Statistics Toolkit for iPhone 1.3 (Mobile)

Statistics Toolkit for iPhone is powerful, compact, easy to understand, and practical. Most of the basic statistics are packed into a power pack of stat calculations. With Statistics Toolkit for iPhone you can perform forecasting based on sales history using linear estimation. It computes all basic statistics including mean, weighted...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Deviation, OpenStack, Sales Strategy, Smart Phones, Sales Force Management, Sales, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-27

The Study Helper for iPhone 3.0.5 (Mobile)

The Study Helper for iPhone provides a great tool for the user to manage their school work and daily activities. Toss out the old fashioned daily planner. As you have one more test to study for, and another homework assignment due, write it down in checklist, and check them off...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Mobile, Tool, GP Apps, Productivity, Wiki, Smart Phones, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-27

The chief value of open source

Custom code solutions...It's great you can see the code, but for companies I disagree that is a "value".What SMB has the resources to comb through thousands of lines of code to assure reliability and security? Even if they do manage to find a bug, are they going to fork...

Tags: open source, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

iPhone app review: Mantis Bible Study

boo!if i wanted religion, i would have gone to my nearest parish. cmon zdnet, this is a business tech site, not jesus's facebookWhy is software excluded from'tech' just because it happens to be for religious purposes? Are you saying that software made by, dare I say it, religious people...

Tags: Bible

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

Could diabetes fight the obesity epidemic?

Nice one, Dana.When are you going to write something relevant - like IT - on this site?There is no IT in this blog. Just pointing out the obvious.When will you learn to use google?This is among the worst medically releated post you have written. And please stop quoting the...

Tags: Exenatide, diabetes, GLP-1, secretion

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Finally! A Three-Cornered Consulting Service for Enterprise 2.0

Managing Change is the Biggest Challenge for Enterprise 2.0 & Social MediaGreat post Paul- and agreed that congrats are in order. What is often missed in deploying new technologies or old standards is the degree to which it changes how people do their job, what their daily life looks like-...

Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Leadership, Enterprise software, Dion, Managing Change, Enterprise 2.0, CRM

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

HP's Hurd: Cloud computing has its limits (especially when you face 1,000 attacks a day)

Now here's a ringing endorsement of cloud computing......"HP "wouldn?t put anything material in nature outside the firewall." "Sure gives one confidence, doesn't it? And this company is trying sell people on the cloud...but its CEO doesn't trust it? Nice. :-(Translation: We make a lot of money selling overpriced, under utilizedservers...

Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing, Hewlett-Packard Co., server

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

HP's kinder, gentler stance toward printer paper

A question and a comment[i]"I am now shoving the paper that I just used to print a press release about the HP program back into my printer so that at least both sides are used."[/i]Question: For 20 years at other employers and home I did that and it worked fine....

Tags: Printers, printer, humidity, Hewlett-Packard Co., laser printer

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Spring Design debuts Google Android-based e-book reader, Alex

Myself, I do not even want a separate device, no matter how cheap. AND, I want to be able to read my books on any of my devices, such as smart phone, netbook, or desktop.ExactlyI would like to read my eStuff on my desktop, laptop or any other device. I...

Tags: E-books, Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Google Android, Google Inc., e-book Reader, e-book, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Netbooks may not be for everyone, but they're peachy in Ed

No netbooks hereI'm at a campus with 2000 students, have not seen a netbook yet.Students have to do a LOT of typing for papers, and need a full size keyboard.RE: Netbooks may not be for everyone, but they're peachy in EdOur children are experienced users and will not be happy...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, netbook

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

News to know: Intel; Microsoft; Cisco; Google Voice; Postini; Nokia

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Intel: Solid third quarter; Sees brighter prospects ahead Sam Diaz: Analysts interested in Intel's 2010, not just...

Tags: Google Inc., Postini Corp., Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., Voice, Camcorder, Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, 3G, Data Centers, Wiki, Operating Systems, Software, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Online Communications

Blog posts 2009-10-14