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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

S. Korea moves to tighten the Net

Even as China is being roundly criticized for restricting Internet access even for Western journalists during the Olympics, another Asian country is moving to restrict the net. Reuters reports that South Korea is starting to make moves to restrain the Net, as well. The mass access to the Internet,...

Tags: media, south korea, internet, government, advertising & promotion, vertical industries, marketing, enterprise software, software, richard koman

Blog posts 2008-08-04

Tech 'tips' for Beijing visitors

It looks like foreign tourists are avoiding Beijing in droves. China originally expected 1.5 million visitors. Now that's down to 450,000. Still, that's nearly 450,000 journalists coming to town. Everyone's a reporter now, thanks to tiny electronics and the Web. Even tourists should regard themselves as such....

Tags: china, journalist, beijing, video, corporate communications, marketing, tom steinert-threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-31

Green light for hacker's extradition

Green light for hacker's extraditionUS owned server spaceWhen he hacked into our military's network's, he was trespassing on US owned server space.The EU would cry bloody murder if we had a little pasty 16 yr old hack MI6 and do what this guy did, and we didn't extradite him. book...

Tags: hacking, security, green light, extradition, hacker

Discussion threads 2008-07-30

Better RIAs from the Ribbit-BT Acquisition

This morning Ribbit and BT confirmed previous rumors by announcing an acquisition price of $105 million. I've been a big fan of Ribbit since they launched because they made voice a first class citizen and data type for rich Internet applications. They helped bridge the gap between voice in your...

Tags: acquisition, voice, ribbit, british telecommunications, rich internet application, telecommunications, ryan stewart

Blog posts 2008-07-29

Katie Moussouris on HOPE 2008: HOPE Springs Eternal

Guest Editorial by Katie Moussouris of Microsoft If cyberspace is a mass, consensual hallucination, as William Gibson characterized it, then HOPE was a dream manifested in meatspace that would not die. While Hackers On Planet Earth has been running every other year since 1994, it was...

Tags: symantec corp., ip, tool, con, katie moussouris, last hope, wiki, internet, productivity, security, network technology, online communications, networking, nathan mcfeters

Blog posts 2008-07-28

What people hate most about health insurance

What people hate most about health insurancetry medicaid if you want a real headacheIf you think your paid insurance is bad, try living on SS or SSI, yet being expected to make co-pays on everything they can find to ding you on, it may sound like no big deal if...

Tags: vertical industries, benefits, healthcare, insurance, health care, health insurance

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Citizen journalism and traditional news

Citizen journalism and traditional newsHere's a way to learn and improveRecord your video and then DON'T look at it right away. go do something else and look at it at least an hour later. Then see what you did wrong. Think about that but don't do it...

Tags: corporate communications, blogging, planning, consciousness, citizen journalism, video

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Prohibition 2.0

Prohibition 2.0Version skippingAt least version 3.0, perhaps higher.The "War on Drugs" was at least version 2.0, and you could count the fiasco over the 55 mph speed limit as another.This is why it's a bad idea......to let lobbyists write the laws. If the average citizen comes to the conclusion...

Tags: government, vertical industries, prohibition 2.0

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Citizen journalism and traditional news

I've been experimenting recently with CNN's site for "citizen journalism" named iReport.  I created a few video posts of myself in response to requests for questions targeted at future visitors to Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room" (you can see my iReport site here - http://www.ireport.com/people/JohnCarroll). There are a few kinks in...

Tags: video camera, video, camera, corporate communications, marketing, john carroll

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018

Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018Infogreat info...to bad most want to stay on the bandwagon...politically correct view...passing the LIE around...then understanding Global Warming is a political tools to keep those we dont want in power to stay there.RE: Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate...

Tags: global warming, foreign oil, attention-getting challenge, latest attention-getting challenge, oil, gore, dependence, fossil fuel

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Comcast: We won't bump Vonage over network management

Vonage and Comcast said Wednesday that they will collaborate to "address the reasonable network management of Internet services." That's a fancy way to say that Comcast won't bump Vonage from its network even though they compete. Under the pact, which is a bit sketchy,...

Tags: network, comcast corp., vonage holdings corp., network management, networking, telecommunications, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-09

What putting off health care means

What putting off health care meansPreventionI used to get severe headaches occasionally migraine whenever the weather changed. If a thunderstorm was coming, I would get a bad headache. When the weather was turning nice again, I would get a severe headache. I had a couple of dental...

Tags: vertical industries, health care, insurance

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

America's blocked labor policies

America's blocked labor policiesAll of our restrictions help Canada though. Companies, including MS are nowsetting up shop in Canada to get around US restrictions. Also, India and others will benefit, as more people stay home. Not sure what the solution is, but we only hurt ourselves with the restrictions.RE: America's...

Tags: h-1b, recruitment & selection, visa, blocked labor policy, labor policy, job, h1b

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

How does Apple get away with this badware behavior?

How does Apple get away with this badware behavior?Zombies?"Over the years Apple users are brainwashed into zombies that will take anything Apple give them."Hmmmm...Really? Just because they're using the best alternative OS available? I beg to differ. IMHO, there are far more 'Windows'-zombies out there , and just now (with...

Tags: tools & techniques, digital media, digital music, security, stink, apple inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromise

Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromiseThis was not a compromise...it was a SELL-OUT.RE: Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromiseHardly a compromise. And hardly adequate. You admit it yourself -- seven years with no attack, and just because the White House didn't invite you personally to...

Tags: republic, 9/11 commission

Discussion threads 2008-06-19