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- Alienware shows off ultra-ultra-wide curved screen
- Alienware shows off ultra-ultra-wide curved screennow that is uber cool all though Apple with make one soon andnow that is uber cool all though Apple with make one soon and claim to have invented it lol.
- Tags: uber, Alienware
- Discussion threads 2008-01-16
- Google creates uber search site
- Google creates uber search siteGoogle creates uber search siteIt would be better if Google actually improved its search query results and made their site usable before rolling out new features which are more than likely only half-implemented. Their employees are too busy playing with toys in their office to...
- Tags: uber, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-16
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- Would you buy an all-screen notebook computer?
- People love to complain about the virtual keyboard found on the iPhone and iPod touch myself included but in reality it's quite good after the requisite learning period. It still needs haptic feedback but that's a topic for another blog post.If you're ok with a virtual,...
- Tags: Brick, Notebook Computer, Apple iPod Touch, Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Keyboards, Notebooks, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Yammer - another nice T4E but no cigar
- In time honored Gartner fashion, I'm now using T4E as a TLA Three Letter Acronym to describe 'Twitter 4 Enterprise' style services that are coming out the woodwork at a rapid rate of knots. This time around it's Yammer, which provides a private form of messaging for use inside the...
- Tags: Business Process, Cigar, Twitter, Service, Yammer, Operational Planning, Instant Messaging, Business Operations, Internet, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- 'I Hate the New Facebook' group surpasses 500,000 protestors
- 'I Hate the New Facebook' group surpasses 500,000 protestorsDon't hate the changeAs a web developer, I believe in changing layout/graphics/styles of a website. Let's face it, in 5 years the web 2.0 styles that are popping up all over will be making way for something that looks more 'modern'. I...
- Tags: Channel management, New Facebook, protestor, Facebook, new layout
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
- The role of media in the Internet age
- The role of media in the Internet ageThe problem is simple and will never be correctedPrint media is dying because they are not much more than democrat-party house organs and people are tired of listening to "America sucks" stories that constitute their constant non-stop drivel.They'll never fix the problem because...
- Tags: Investment, Advertising & Promotion, stock price, stock, problem-I, Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Excel and Basic Accounting Error
- Excel and Basic Accounting ErrorWe should go back to manual ledgers...VisiCalc was created to eliminate accounting errors. Now the spreadsheet is now being blamed for accounting errors. Perhaps the real problem is GIGO. Garbage in, Garbage out.The real culprit is slick sleaze ball corporate accountants and managers that are trying...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, fun thing, Microsoft Excel, spreadsheet, big system, accounting
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Gmail locks out users for an hour
- Today, Gmail went down for a "subset of users" but from what I can tell it seems like it was everyone. When trying to log in, users were greeted with an uber descriptive error message "Temporary Error (502)". The outage lasted for an hour, and according to the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Customer Service, Gmail Team, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Internet, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Cable: Natural born monopoly?
- The second quarter results are out and it appears that the cable industry is winning share in broadband, phone and TV connections and handily thwarting encroachment by the likes of Verizon and AT&T. In fact, TV and broadband service is meant to be a monopoly and cable appears to be...
- Tags: verizon communications inc., broadband, at&t corp., ma bell, satellite, moffett, broadband growth, cost reduction effort, network technology, cable, broadband internet, telecommunications, networking, personal technology, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Windows Fiji: a world class failure
- Before I get blasted by the uber-nerds, I'll tell you now. I've been playing with Windows 7 (6519) for a while, and Fiji, the new Windows Media Center TV Pack supposedly for Windows 7 for Windows Vista (ta, MJ) for a good few days. ...
- Tags: microsoft windows 7, microsoft windows vista, microsoft corp., tv, microsoft windows vista sp1, microsoft windows, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), operating systems, tvs, software, personal technology, home entertainment, zack whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-08-09
- Office 2.0 Conference September 3-5
- I've attended every Office 2.0 conference so far and found it to be a fascinating cutting edge experience, and a source of both great contacts and intriguing and useful information. Office 2.0 is a collective experiment organized every year in San Francisco, CA and aimed at discovering...
- Tags: Sony PlayStation 3, Sony Playstation, Conference, Office 2.0, Collaboration, Groupware, Game Players, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC, phone space
- Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC, phone spaceMicrosoft Store in the works...My rep told me Microsoft is looking into significant retail space in higher end upscale shopping malls. In the mock-up of the store, boxes of Vista and Office 2007 were kept under lock and key. Customers will be...
- Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., PC phone, PC, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?
- Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has thrown down the gauntlet to his merry band of open source followers: Make Ubuntu as pretty and ultimately better looking than Apple's Mac OS. eWeek's Darryl Taft quotes Shuttleworth Techmeme: "The great task in front of...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, Operating System, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- News to know: Amazon S3 outage; iPhone 3G; SOA debugging; Microsoft
- Notable headlines: Michael Krigsman: Amazon S3: 'Elevated error rates'. Techmeme GigaOm: S3 Outage Highlights Fragility of Web Services Dana Blankenhorn: Do open source applications take security seriously? Dancho Danchev: Spam coming from free email providers increasing ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, S3 Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Microsoft Corp., Outage, 3G, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Strategy, Open Source, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Conferences as conversation starters
- Ten years ago Comdex - the gigantic Las Vegas hi tech conference and show - was reaching its high point. In that pre broadband internet era of CD ROM's, beige boxes and Windows 95, tens of thousands would converge on Vegas, stay in massively marked up hotel rooms and walk...
- Tags: Web, Industry, Conference, Web 2.0 Movement, Corporate Communications, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Strategy, Marketing, Internet, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Would a re-regulated oil market destroy green tech investment?
- Would a re-regulated oil market destroy green tech investment?How do you define a speculator?The problem is not the guys who buy and sell commodities on an ongoing basis, it is the investors who have discovered a new asset class called "natural resources" and who take, and hold long positions betting...
- Tags: Commodity Market, green technology, green tech investment
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Firefox and the horrors of the Solaris install process
- Firefox and the horrors of the Solaris install processnot that i had anything interesting to sayI am used to having my comments *deleted*. ;)I'm sure incompetent top management...was to blame. Couldn't be the IT personnel.As was Fedora'syum -y updateRE: disappearing commentsAs many of you will have noticed comments sometimes...
- Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, UNIX, Most linux distro, WinBlows, Microsoft Windows, Mozilla Firefox, horror, Sun Solaris, WINDOWS USERS, windoze user
- Discussion threads 2008-06-22
- Why is Microsoft sponsoring the Open Source Census?
- Why is Microsoft sponsoring the Open Source Census?Microsoft sees RedHat and Novell making...money with open source. They are looking to see if it is a market they can tap into as well. Microsoft would rather make money from Open Source than try to kill it - something they have found...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., open source, Winux
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- Snow Leopard to leave PowerPC users out in the cold?
- Snow Leopard to leave PowerPC users out in the cold?Well, every platform eventually comes to an endIt does not mean that because the developer tools are "Intel only" the environment will be unable to generate PowerPC binaries, e.g., the gcc compiler can emit binaries for all manner of CPU architectures.Apple...
- Tags: Processors, Power PC architecture, IBM PowerPC, Snow Leopard, Apple Inc., PowerPC user, cold
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- Seeking inspiration? Visit "Greenville" for simple ideas on energy-efficient uses for IT
- Here's a quickie informational link. It's for a "virtual town" called Greenville that's been fabricated by the Technology CEO Council—the uber-tech-power lobbying group that includes big-name CEOs like Michael Dell, Mark Hurd of Hewlett-Packard, Sam Palmisano of IBM, and Paul Otellini of Intel. (When was the last time you saw...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Small Business, Transportation, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
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