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- Federal bill targets offshore labor
- Federal bill targets offshore laborThat's because of unions"Although much of the work heading overseas has been in white-collar categories--such as engineering and software design work moved to cheaper locations such as India and the Philippines-- the Democratic candidates have tended to focus on manufacturing jobs."Manufacturing jobs tend to be unionized,...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Recruitment & Selection, Outsourcing, Leadership, Ventura County California, flat tax, tax, job, American Worker, Wachovia Corp.
- Discussion threads 2004-02-20
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- Inside an early star-forming galaxy
- U.S. astronomers from the California Institute of Technology Caltech have used adaptive optics AO on the 10-meter Keck Telescope in Hawaii in conjunction with other images provided by the Hubble Space Telescope to look inside a young star-forming galaxy as it appeared only two billion years after the Big Bang....
- Tags: California Institute Of Technology, Image, Adaptive Optic, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- IBM considering financing IT project partners because of banking crisis
- I recently ran into Drew Clark, head of IBM's Venture Capital Group, based in Menlo Park, California. I asked him about the financial crisis and what IBM could do in response. "We would never make an equity investment but we are looking at financial help in projects where we partner...
- Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Banking, Financing, IBM Corp., Financial Accounting, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Up on the rooftop: Brightening prospects for solar technology
- It's midnight, do you know where your solar panel is? I read somewhere yesterday where thefts of solar panels are on the rise, no doubt due to the rather dear price that they still command. Hopefully, that's on a pace for change, given that many of us...
- Tags: Installation, Solar Energy, Photovoltaics, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hiding
- The Associated Press takes a hard look at Sarah Palin's spotty – perhaps, hypocritical – record on open government and online transparency. She claims to be a reformer who will bring to Washington the government openness she says she established in Alaska. But the AP's review of her...
- Tags: Associated Press, Alaska, Sarah Palin, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Oracle + Primavera
- Where are the lucky couple registered? Yesterday, Oracle announced that it would be purchasing Primavera. Details of the transaction have not been made public. Already we see that Oracle has stated that Primavera management and employees will become part of a global business...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Professional Services, Primavera, Project Management, It Operations, It service Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levels
- After years of operation, California based ISP Atrivo/Intercage, a well known Russian Business Network darling, faced the music and was disconnected from the Internet by its upstream provider at the end of September. What happened according to MessageLabs's latest intelligence report, was a brief decline of spam due to the...
- Tags: Internet Service Provider, Atrivo/Intercage, Intercage, Atrivo, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Cyberthreats, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- TRO hearing today on RealDVD
- Federal Judge Marilyn Patel will hear arguments today on whether Real should be temporarily restrained from selling its RealDVD copying software. The software has been unavailable since Friday, when the Hollywood studios won an emergency halt on sales, a move that Real claims caused them "irreparable harm." ...
- Tags: DVD, RealDVD, Real, CSS, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- RealDVD sales suspended, case moves north
- A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order against Real, suspending sales of RealDVD, NewTeeVee.com reported over the weekend. Hollywood studios had sought the injunction as part of a suit against Real's DVD copying software. The RealDVD website now says the product is "currently unavailable." ...
- Tags: Movie, Sales Strategy, DVD, Sales Force Management, Sales, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Truevert stands on Yahoo!'s shoulders; learning to search for Green issues
- Joining the growing band of search solutions built on top of Yahoo's Build Your Own Search Search Service BOSS initiative, Truevert seeks to apply semantics in providing a particular slant on searches across Yahoo!'s index. Topically, Truevert "is focused on green, environmental...
- Tags: Taxonomy, Yahoo! Inc., Ontology, Search Result, Truevert, Search, Strategy, Management, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- California Governor urges Silicon Valley Companies to go to Germany for Cebit
- California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was in Silicon Valley Thursday morning at Intel's HQ to make an announcement about California's partnership with the giant Cebit trade show in Hannover, Germany. California is offering its high tech companies money to attend the show in early March 2009. Here is...
- Tags: Germany, California, CeBit, Governor, Business Structures, Corporate Communications, Finance, Marketing, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Schwarzenegger terminates new data breach bill (again)
- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed data breach notification legislation for the second time in the last year. The bill, dubbed the Consumer Data Protection Act, would have required retailers that take card transactions to disclose more detail about any data breach. Schwarzenegger's veto comes after the...
- Tags: Bill, Payment, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Agency, Schwarzenegger, Advertising & Promotion, Operational Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Texting? Pull Over ...
- So, it looks official. The train engineer who never slowed down before ramming his commuter train into a freight train in California was indeed sending text messages right up to the time of the crash. That's bad enough. Twenty-five people died and 135 were injured in the...
- Tags: Train, California, U.K., Wreck, Bicyclists, Advertising & Promotion, Food & Beverage, Marketing, Manufacturing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Pirates plunder Adobe Creative Suite 4
- Pirates plunder Adobe Creative Suite 4That's how they're the "de-facto" standard.Just like Microsoft would be screwed without pirated copies of Windows floating around street corners across the globe.Without pirated copies of Photoshop, it would have a truly limited market. Look at the bloody price of it to figure out...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., graphics, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Creative Suite 4, Adobe PhotoShop, piracy
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- News to know: Cloud wars; Apple; Google; China is watching you
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft's planned cloud platform. Techmeme A new mystery: What's Microsoft got up its Office Live sleeve? Zack Whittaker:...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IPO, Robots, Linux, E-mail, Digital Media, Financial Services, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- California governor: Silicon Valley should go to Germany
- After more than a hundred years of talk about the Pacific Rim economic opportunities for California, Silicon Valley and other California businesses are firmly focused on the west rather than the east. But Thursday morning California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be at Intel's HQ in the heart of Silicon Valley...
- Tags: California, CeBit, Transportation, Strategy, Corporate Communications, Management, Marketing, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- House servers suffering from financial bail-out
- House servers suffering from financial bail-outsimple solutionThe Congress must replace those servers with Linux boxes that can handle the trafic, so the people can communicate and the lawmakers can listen and fix the economy.Everebody wins in this scenario and there will be no need for $700 billion bailout.Linux will...
- Tags: Linux, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, server, U.S. Congress, financial
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- House servers suffering from financial bail-out
- The U.S. House of Representatives website continues to suffer severe latency this morning. A Firefox visit at 6:30 am Pacific time took easily 10 seconds to load and the associated style sheet never did load. The problem appears to stem from a massive overload of traffic...
- Tags: Financial, Server, U.S. House Of Representatives Website, System Engineer, Financial Accounting, Finance, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- RealDVD officially launches, so does lawsuit
- RealDVD officially launches, so does lawsuitThis is stupid. I already do this with AnyDVD and mymovies.Its essentially built into my movies if you pay for the anydvd software. On top of that.. you can also rip HD and Blueray.The only thing you cant do directly is burn the...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, Standing Up, RealDVD, DVD, lawsuit
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- RealDVD officially launches, so do lawsuits; Is it 'StealDVD'?
- Update: RealNetworks announced Tuesday that its RealDVD software, which allows you to rip and burn DVDs easily, officially launched. And the lawsuits weren't far behind. In a statement Techmeme, RealNetworks billed RealDVD as a "watershed" product. The software, which goes for $29.99 on sale, allows you to...
- Tags: Lawsuit, Movie, RealNetworks Inc., RealDVD, RealDVD Software, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
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We need to get back to freethinking and innovation that is core to our roots. Companies like Intel were founded on thoughts like the famous quote from Robert Noyce - "Don't be encumbered by the past, go out and do something wonderful."
