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Plastic bags: going, going, go...

Another small sign that the plastic bag is losing it. It being prominence, or even legal circulation. Plastic bags: how did we live before? Now that upscale, more-organic-than-thou chain of provender providers, Whole Foods, is going to stop using plastic bags at the checkout. ...

Tags: China, Whole Foods, Trader Joe, Retail, Printers, Taxes, Free Trade, Hardware, Peripherals, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-01-22

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News to know: HP-3Com; AMD; Google; Blockbuster; Bing 2.0

News to know intro: Sam Diaz: HP announces $2.7 billion acquisition of 3Com; raises outlook Larry Dignan: Cisco vs. HP: 3Com acquisition ups the ante John Morris: AMD updates roadmap, promises "supercomputer in your lap" ...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca, Blockbuster Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, Games, Linux, Open Source, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-11-12

WebSphere versus .NET: battle royale!

You must have worked your fingers to the bone!Wow, what's this? A 79 word blog, of which 56 of those words are quotes from elsewhere!!!!Well, you've certainly earned your money today!Websphere really doesn't want...to get into an "either/or" battle with .NET because it's an unwinnable battle for the forseeable future....

Tags: Application servers, .NET, Middleware, Enterprise software, Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft .NET, IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, IBM AIX

Discussion threads 2009-08-19

News to know: Salesforce.com; Office; SOA; Facebook

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. Sam Diaz: Salesforce announces Twitter app; further validates power of cloud Ed Bott: Next Office version to ship in 32-bit and 64-bit versions ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Apple iPhone, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, Apple Inc., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Browsers, Digital Music, Strategy, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Personal Technology, Management

Blog posts 2009-03-23

FastFood 1.0 (Mobile)

Fastfood lets you find your nearest favorite eating place in a single touch. Lists 50+ restaurant chains in your area. Find many fast-food places like TacoBell, McDonald's, Subway, etc. Find cuisines like Thai, Italian, Chinese, Indian, American, etc. Find closest Costco, Safeway, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, etc....

Tags: Mobile, Apple iTunes, Kuchbi, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-12-19

Managing growth - a followup to yesterday's guest blog

Yesterday, Dean Cycon of Dean's Beans wrote a guest blog for this column on "Starbucks' Dirty Little Secret". The blog is worthy of some followup, as well as some additional information that Dean shared with me about their corporate philosophy. Growth is good for a company,...

Tags: Trader, Blog, Dean Cycon, X2 Development Corp., Strategy, Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-23

News to know: Apple; AMD; Metasploit; Yahoo; Open SUSE

Notable headlines: Jason O'Grady: Wagering on WWDC 2008 TUAW: Rumor: Mac OS X 10.6 to debut at WWDC 08? News.com: Third-party iPhone applications to arrive Monday Tech Trader Daily: How Big Is The Potential Market For the Apple iPhone? ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., SuSE, E-TEN, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2008-06-04

News to know: iPhone; Mix; Patch day preview; Eee PC 900

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: iPhone goes corporate bigtime. David Morgenstern: Reporter's Notebook: $100 million to promote iPhone apps Mary Jo Foley: Apple finally acknowledges iPhone's Exchange support Russell Shaw: What one developer thinks about iPhone SDK How long til the iPhone...

Tags: Apple iPhone, PC, Microsoft Corp., CeBit, Linux, Productivity, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-07

Inside story: why that MP3 you just downloaded probably sounds like crap

Many of the the real, true audiophiles I know-those with home entertainment centers worth more than many of our mortgages- have a disdain for online music that I can only compare to what prize-winning vintners and world-class wine collectors think about $2.99 wine from Trader Joe's. ...

Tags: CD, Wine, MP3, Music, Levine, God, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-12-23

News to know: Yahoo; Enterprise mashups; Ubuntu; Intel; IBM

Notable headlines: Dion Hinchcliffe: The 10 top challenges facing enterprise mashups. Dave Greenfield: Top 100 Enterprise 2.0 Links. Dan Farber: Coming up: Web 2.0 Summit Garett Rogers: Google Apps Gmail now uses the Gmail storage counter. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Looking forward to...

Tags: Ubuntu, OSI, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Symbian Inc., Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Mashup, Routers & Switches, Web 2.0, Networking, Internet

Blog posts 2007-10-17

News to know: Vista DRM; EU thumps Microsoft; SAP; DST; SCO

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Everything you’ve read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 1). EU court crushes Microsoft's antitrust appeal. David Morgenstern: Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit: Love the sinner, hate the sin. Marc Andreessen: The three kinds of...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Digital-rights Management, SCO Group Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Currency Trader, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-17

REST-style architecture in the real world

A couple of weeks ago, I presented REST to the IT staff in the London division of a major US investment bank. Out of something like 100 people, only a small number of people had ever heard of REST. Yet this bank had invested in a REST to SOAP bridge...

Tags: SOA, REST, Information Management, Content Management

Blog posts 2007-07-10

Bootcamp: end of the beginning or beginning of the end?

Bootcamp: end of the beginning or beginning of the end?Bootcamp effectsTo be honest, I've barely looked into Bootcamp at all. I haven't read what Apple's PR have said or what others have said. This is despite the fact that I've thought for some time that Apple should do this -...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Sales strategy, UNIX, Apple Inc., Bootcamp, Linux, MacOS X, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X

Discussion threads 2006-04-12

Meeting with Hong Kong's technology czar and other adventures . . .

I was a busy bee on Thursday. The day started slowly, I had trouble getting out of bed due to a 5am stop but by 11am I was up and running and heading down to Santa Clara a for a meeting with Hong Kong's technology czar Dr Robert Yang. Boyd...

Tags: Oxonica, Dr Yang

Blog posts 2006-02-24

Microsoft earnings top expectations

Microsoft earnings top expectationsGot to give it to them...Even in the sight of stiff competition, they are still performing extremely well.Incentives? Communists?Gates argued that stronger IP rights are needed to provide incentives otherwise people will not invent or create.$10.82 billion sounds suitably incentivised to me.It's your moneyAnd your burden of...

Tags: Research & Development, Spyware, adware & malware, Financial accounting, Investment, Operational accounting, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2005-01-27

Judge: RIAA can unmask file swappers

Judge: RIAA can unmask file swappersCan't Unmask ME!Cause I live in a place where people's privacy is protected.This should send a clear message to PIRATESYa think the Pirates will get a clue now???Doubt it, but at least they are gonna go to the slammer sooner than later. Hang these ****...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), RIAA, file-swapping

Discussion threads 2004-07-27