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Music, video phones may ride iPhone wave

Music, video phones may ride iPhone waveMusic, video phones may ride iPhone waveI'll stick with my $100 phone that does most of what the iPhone will be doing. Email, texting, music, video, applications, web browsing, qwerty keyboard? Check! All this at 1/5th the price.DuhMonkey see, monkey do. ...

Tags: Corporate communications, Telecom & Utilities, Digital music, Outsourcing, Digital media, Mac Zealots, Apple iPhone, U.S. Citizen, phone, U.S. Job, H-1B, iPhone wave, Music Video, video

Discussion threads 2007-05-18

Microsoft gets into the game; buys aQuantive for $6 billion

Microsoft gets into the game; buys aQuantive for $6 billionSo Microsoft Claimed $3.1 Billion Was Too MuchSo instead they plunk down over $6 billion for this company.Yeah, I can see the logic there.M$ is burning money fast!The faster it burns it's loot the better.Do I smellM$ INNOVATION at work?Shrewd move,...

Tags: game, ABM'ers, aQuantive Inc., Microsoft Corp., advertisement, U.S. Citizen, U.S. Job, H-1B

Discussion threads 2007-05-18

Outsourcing expert Ron Hira on H-1B reform bill's impact

Outsourcing expert Ron Hira on H-1B reform bill's impact70% of the 65,000 h-1b visas are taken by foreign IT offshoring firmsWe don't need to raise the cap, we need to stop the abuse of foreign IT offshoring companies. Foreign IT offshoring companies are using 70% or more of the...

Tags: H-1B worker, Ron Hira, outsourcing, H-1B program, U.S. Department of Labor, H-1B, worker, U.S. Citizen

Discussion threads 2007-04-05

H-1B reform bill may push more work offshore

H-1B reform bill may push more work offshoreWhich means more money goes out than it seemsCoz these foreign workers, a lot of theme nd up settling down here or at least living here for a long time. Which means they spend their hard earned money in this country - most...

Tags: Outsourcing, H-1B worker, U.S. Department of Labor, H-1B, worker, U.S. Citizen

Discussion threads 2007-04-03

Chertoff: Web could be terror training camp

Chertoff: Web could be terror training campHow many "staffers"?Did I understand this correctly? 35 staffers are going to monitor a network of websites that can't even be counted, and a couple of hundred million american Internet users? Good luck.Guess it's time to declare war on the internet...but where...

Tags: Workforce management, GUESS IT, Chertoff, training, Internet, terror training camp, training camp, U.S. Citizen, government, Web

Discussion threads 2006-10-17

Additional Resources

What would make you trust Microsoft?

Flame on!Let me save a couple people the time of posting"Microsoft is the most evil thing on earth and should be destroyed" - Linux Geek, Ole Man, D.T, No More Microsoft Software ...."I trust Microsoft with my life" - Mike Cox, Loverock, ... "They are a company. I trust them...

Tags: SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., extremist, open source, MHD

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Antitrust: Time to break apart the phone companies -- again?

Actually,those 'guaranteed revenue' companiesAre not so rare. Food companies, oil and gas companies, phone companies, electric companies, water utilities.... the list goes on and on if I had enough time to think of them all.That is why we need to break up any company that gets more than a 10%...

Tags: Corporate law, Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, Food & Beverage, 360Networks Corp., phone company, phone, antitrust

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

America backs away from the Internet with a whimper

Just like how the EU workswhen they do not agree on something, the bargining, voting, referendums, treaties, et cetera begin.And nothing gets done. I guess the internet will now become another thing to be bargin, bantered, discussed, and not agreed apon.Yes, the future looks so bright for it. I wonder,...

Tags: Mediterranean, Internet, parody, Dana

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Civics Flash Cards 2.1 (Mac)

Civics Flash Cards is the computer version of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services USCIS Civics Flash Cards that were recently updated for the new naturalization test that all immigrants will now have to face when becoming a U.S. Citizen. NOTE: When USCIS updates their Civics Flash Cards, I will...

Tags: Card, Apple Macintosh, SeaScape Software, Civics Flash Cards, Workforce Management, Productivity, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-09-30

U.S. willing to let go of Icann

Obama is selling us outonly a peace monger like Obama could cede US sovereignty to UN.It's time to elect a real American in 2012!Huge MistakeThis is a very bad idea. Whenever we cede control to the 'world,' the worlds tin horn disctators make a mess of it.This should have...

Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, Personal finance, Obama, salary, ICANN, job

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

How Internet surveillance, IT sleuth work helped indict suspected terrorist Zazi

Kinda eerieMakes me wonder if I should delete that "Socialism" picture of Obama as the Joker from my machine.There are 2 Issues HereThe first is whether such forensics have a legitimate place in law enforcement and the second is whether these methods can be misused. I believe that the...

Tags: Blogging, information technology, Zazi, Internet Surveillance, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

The democratization of IT

Get your head out of your paradigm"democratization of IT"... are you serious? Look at any complex multipolar situation in the world and you'll see that when there are diverging forces, democracy is a liability.Iraq... competing religious factions turned the idea of democracy into a joke.The Palestinian territories... Democracy resulted in...

Tags: Quality, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

EU, US looking at MSFT-YHOO search deal: Is competition for GOOG anticompetitive?

M$ is anticompetitive by natureGoogle on the other hand is a good citizen for everyone.RE: EU, US looking at MSFT-YHOO search deal: Is competition for GOOG antico"Even if it does cause ?antitrust effects,? wouldn?t the end result be a stronger competitor for Google? Clearly. That would be good for consumers...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Digital media, Digital music, Investment, Businesses, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Anonymity exposed, part deux: Google, ISPs ordered to expose academic dissidents

Freedom of anonimityWell done to the judge, everyone has the freedom of speech, where freedom of anonimity doesn't exist in any constitution.If people are going to make damaging remarks, make personal attacks on people and harm others and calim it as freedom of speech, then they should do so publicly....

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail, SECURITY, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Best Buy will not honor $9.99 HDTV deal

The question Best Buy has to ask themselvesis whether the bad PR is worse than the loss on the sales. Apparently they feel they can handle the PR backlash more than the losses on these sales. Which is probably right, because I can't imagine people declaring war on Best Buy...

Tags: Public relations, TVs, Sales strategy, TV & Home Theater, Financial services, Best Buy Co. Inc., HDTV

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

Fed's RFIDiocy pwnd at DefCon

Do you even read your own stuff?From your quote:". . . will be releasing a $50 kit at the end of August that will make reading 125-kHz RFID chips ? the kind embedded in [b]employee access cards[/b] ? trivial." emphasis addedAnd yet you go and say that this is a...

Tags: WPA2, passport, RFID, pwnd, RFIDiocy, RFIDiocy pwnd, security, DefCon, Federal Reserve Board

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Open Trust Frameworks for Open Government: Enabling Citizen Involvement Through Open Identity Technologies

Open government requires a way for citizens to easily and safely engage with government websites. Open identity technologies - specifically OpenID and Information Cards - fit this bill. They make it easier and safer for citizens to register, login, and when necessary share personally identifiable information across different websites and...

Tags: OpenID Foundation, Identity Technology, Government, Vertical Industries, Web Site Development, Internet

White papers 2009-08-10

US cyberwarriors a reluctant crew

US cyberwarriors a reluctant crewRelated problemThere's a related problem ... once they start using [b][i]any[/i][/b] offensive cyberwarfare, anyone could do anything anywhere and blame it on the U.S.Say, for instance, individual Israelis started hacking Iranian computers or vice versa, or Taliban sympathizers started attacking Pakistani systems or Indian systems. ...

Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, reluctant crew, attack, cyberattack

Discussion threads 2009-08-02

Should doctors go on strike?

Should doctors go on strike?Big government is the cause... of crazy medical expense. We need less regulation so there's less room for the insurance company and lawyer manipulation that jacks the medical cost. Obama's more government involvement is the wrong solution.No, life, liberty and the pursuit of happinessare fundamental human...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Medical Care, Obama, Big Government, health care, medical care, HIPPA

Discussion threads 2009-07-09

NSA will monitor private-sector networks

The Bushization of Obama continues with a plan to involve the NSA in screening private-sector networks, The Washington Post reports. The plan not only uses the NSA to monitor private networks but it does so in a way that makes it unclear who exactly is in charge...

Tags: Monitor, Network, AT&T Corp., U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, NSA, Post Story, Privacy Advocate, Networking, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-06