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Image: Takeover attempts at a glance

Just how common is it for U.S. companies to try taking over other companies? And in such cases, how often does it get hostile? These charts break it down.Just how common is it for U.S. companies to try taking over other companies? And in such cases, how often does it...

Tags: Chart, U.S. Company, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-05-01

Nortel shares sink, but CEO's pay rises

Nortel shares sink, but CEO's pay risesTypical for U.S. Corporation....No matter if the corporation is sinking the Execs get while the getting is good laying off so they can increase their own paychecks.And people wonder why U.S. Corporations are failing to provide jobs in the U.S.. It is greed pure...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, U.S. company, job, Nortel Networks Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-03-03

New nuke? Not since Three Mile Island

They want to build two new nuclear reactors in Texas. NRG Energy already has two reactors southwest of Houston in Bay City. They want to double the size of that electricity generating plant. NRG co-owns the Bay City plant along with utilities in San Antonio...

Tags: U.S. Company, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-09-25

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Hacker scores by posting East Anglia global warming emails

Control over eating a hamburgerGood grief please stop the madness of all of these un-truths about global warming trash.I want a burger I will eat a burger, if I want to drive to town to ride around so be it, if I want to raise cattle and have them pass...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, burger, PCB, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Research paints ugly IT employment picture: Almost 2 million jobs gone in 14 years

Depressing...So much innovation happened in America in the 90's. Alot of what we have now was accomplished by American engineers, and now we are not being included anymore because of what? Arbitrage. Sad, Sad, Sad....Of courseBecause all these CEOs and wannabe businesspeople think quality doesn't matter so...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, information technology, comeback, profit margin, job, worker

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Vizio announces Black Friday deals on its LCD HDTVs, Blu-ray player

You may have noticed that Vizio hasn't been prominent in the Black Friday ads leaked online from Best Buy, Target, or Wal-Mart (save for a 26-inch LCD HDTV early special through Wal-Mart). But that doesn't mean the company, which has remained the number-one shipper of HDTVs in the U.S. for...

Tags: Costco, HDTV, LCD, 1080p, Blu-ray, Vizio, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-19

Inside the Google Chrome OS security model

The proof will be in implementationAll of these lofty goals are one thing. Making it happen in code is quite another. It sounds like they are just giving a laundry list of what people want them to say. I'm in the "believe it when I see it" camp. Good intentions...

Tags: security, Google Inc., licence, Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

AT&T loses lawsuit over Verizon's map commercial

Ha! Take THAT Such a silly waste of the court's time. If they finally lose, I hope they are made to pay treble court costs just as a lesson in frivolous lawsuits clogging the courts. That would send a much needed messageThat if a corporation is going to...

Tags: Cellular phones, AT&T Corp., GSM, CDMA, Apple iPhone, Verizon Communications Inc., W-CDMA

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Selling customer information leads to prosecution

What's the big deal?Isn't this how everyone does it? My boss would routinely buy millions of data records from companies to conduct email campaigns.Ah, but in Great BritainThey have made it TOTALLY illegal to sell data records. You cannot do stuff like this period over there, and I applaud...

Tags: Asset management, INTERNET, Big Deal, asset, customer information

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Do former CEOs make better politicians than career diplomats?

Well, The Poll is Evidence of the ProblemAt this point, those who think CEOs would not make good politicians outnumber those who do. But the original question was a comparison; do former CEOs make better diplomats than career politicians? Too many people have still been brainwashed into thinking that politicians...

Tags: Professional development, career, career diplomat, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Jabra Stone

Not many Bluetooth headsets combine style and performance, and when they do, they stand out. Examples include the Aliph Jawbone Prime, the BlueAnt Q1, and the Plantronics Discovery 975. Jabra, a company that has been in the Bluetooth business a long time, attempts to come up with yet another headset...

Tags: headset, Jabra, Stone

Product reviews 2009-11-17

CRM Association-Netherlands Rocks Het Huis!

I'm in love with Amsterdam....no wait, I love it but I'm not in love....no, hold on, I like it a lot, but I'm not in love, nor do I love it. The Theory.... Interestingly enough (to me at least and who else am I really writing this for...

Tags: Car, Amsterdam, Conference, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-16

Report: Asus in talks with Toshiba to depose Acer as No. 3 laptop maker

Toshiba's USA Share"Toshiba is a trusted name, despite lacking popularity in the U.S."According to IDC, Toshiba has a 8.1% USA market share, compared to 9.4% for Apple. Not bad, for a company that gets almost no USA media attention.Perhaps, but......it all depends on how you look at the numbers. Apple's...

Tags: Notebooks, Toshiba Corp., ASUS, Acer Inc., laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Life insurance may prove difficult to get if you contract H1N1

Insurance company business model:Only sell insurance to those who will not need it and hence not collect.For life insurance, they at least have a case, because it should not be possible to take out a $1M policy the day before you die of cancer.Health CARE however is supposed to be...

Tags: Financial Planning, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Personal finance, payroll solutions, H1N1 flu, insurance, life insurance, health insurance, health care

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Google hit again with Street View privacy concerns - in Switzerland

It is NOT up to Google to insure your privacy in public places. These are places it is perfectly legal to be in and take pictures of, then publish the pictures. Just because the pictures are taken automatically, does not suddenly make them illegal. If you want to restrict the...

Tags: U.S. Military, Google Inc., photograph

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Google's storage price cuts and a big missed backup opportunity

SkyDriveYup, as ReadWriteWeb points out:"SkyDrive offers a free 25 GB of online storage for your files and also serves as the central repository for Windows Live Photos as well as the documents created via the new Office Web Applications service, Microsoft's challenge to Google Docs. But where's Google's answer to...

Tags: Backups, Google Inc., backup, storage

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Garmin plots Android phone

Why does everyone think they can make a good phone?!Granted Apple made it look easy with the iPhone, but look at Motorola. The Droid appears to have broken their streak of clunkers, but even a company with a long-history of successes in the market can struggle to turn out a...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Smart phones, Droid, Garmin Ltd., phone

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Real appeals injunction against RealDVD; says judge erred

Real has filed an appeal in its legal battle with the Motion Picture Association of America, arguing that a judge erred when she agreed to a preliminary injunction to halt sales of a DVD-copying program called RealDVD. In legal documents filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals...

Tags: Software, Preliminary Injunction, CD, Apple iTunes, RealDVD, Piracy, Digital Music, Sales Strategy, Digital Media, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Sales, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-11-11

Nokia 3711 - sable (T-Mobile)

Nokia fans in the United States don't get many breaks. Few of the company's phones make it to U.S. carriers and the models that land here tend to be basic handsets for making calls. The Nokia 3711 for T-Mobile is one such phone. Simple in form and function, the 3711...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, T-Mobile, phone, Nokia Corp., keypad button

Product reviews 2009-11-10

No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of them

And, as servers move to the cloud, fewer and fewer will be Windows servers.When you deploy thousands, you can pay millions in licensing for Windows, and, then Windows is less stable and less secure.RE: No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of themI wonder how well those outsourced...

Tags: Servers, server, information technology, Rackspace

Discussion threads 2009-11-10