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- IT is from Mars; Business is from Venus
- IT is from Mars; Business is from VenusAnd miscommunication is from Earth."What we have here is a failure to communicate", - Strother Martin in Cool Hand Luke.There are other departments in a corporation that don't communicate either. Engineering and sales are good at going at it also. That is why...
- Tags: IT IS, Venus, user community
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- (Images: Today's Venus weather forecast: Sulfuric acid clouds)
- (Images: Today's Venus weather forecast: Sulfuric acid clouds)Time Traveling, are we?[b]This image of ultraviolet wavelengths was taken on July 8, 2008.[/b]Last I checked my calendar, it's only March 3rd, 2008... And July comes AFTER March, April, May and June...These pictures are a reminder...to take care of what we have here...
- Tags: Sulfuric acid cloud, Venus, Sulfuric Acid, weather forecast
- Discussion threads 2008-03-03
- CEOs are from Venus, CIOs from Mars and cliches reign
- CEOs are from Venus, CIOs from Mars and cliches reignA common language is keyYou're right about the lack of effective communication Larry. We interviewed a number of senior business and IT people in the research for our book (see http://technologygarden.wordpress.com for more details) and the establishment of a common language...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology, Venus
- Discussion threads 2007-10-09
- Images: Peeking through the veil over Venus
- The European Space Agency's Venus Express has been orbiting the mysterious planet for a year, giving it a long look at the cloud cover.
- Tags: Venus, European Space Agency
- Image galleries 2007-04-11
- What you don't eat will heat your home
- What you don't eat will heat your homeTwo problems solved in one stroke.Now we have a good reason to get that potato salad from 1986 out of the fridge; Toss it into a digester hooked up to your home and you have some natrual gas for heat, or whatever...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, food, Venus
- Discussion threads 2006-10-20
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- I'll have the #3 Value Meal, Super Size, with an order of Linux
- I'll have the #3 Value Meal, Super Size, with an order of LinuxPlagiarism, Jason? :-)Exactly my thoughts, in a Talkback some time ago:http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-10535-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=46338&messageID=858549&start=0Greeting, Pjotr.Planet DietsYou forgot to mean the lean but mean Mars Ubuntu, and of course the sweet Venus Ubuntu versions just to get back to the basic...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Super-Size, Ubuntu
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- Samsung Soul SGH-U900 (unlocked)
- Photo gallery:Samsung SoulThe Samsung Soul (aka the SGH-U900) was one of the stars of this year's GSMA World Congress in Barcelona. Samsung showed it off at a big press conference and huge banners with images of the phone covered the city, from the airport baggage claim to the convention center....
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., phone
- Product reviews 2008-06-24
- FCC wants no-porn, free broadband wireless auction
- FCC wants no-porn, free broadband wireless auctionHmmm....Is Porn illegal? If not is this not a governmental nose-snubbing at freedom of speech, making it highly illegal ?Do we really WANT this sort of action by our government?Do we want to become China?I dunno. I'm just askin'...The moral crusaders :)Ok,...
- Tags: Federal government, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Government, WIRELESS, broadband wireless auction, broadband wireless, FCC, broadband
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Can we trust our GPS devices?
- In recent years, we have become increasingly dependent on applications using the Global Positioning System GPS, such as railway control, highway traffic management, emergency response or commercial aviation. But in a very short news release, the American Geophysical Union AGU warns us that we can't always trust our GPS gadgets...
- Tags: Satellite, Occultation, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- IT is from Mars; Business is from Venus
- Relations between IT and business can be frustrating for both sides. Some observers call this mutual animosity "lack of alignment." Ed Yourdon, esteemed grand explainer of IT failures, summarized the issue in an interview with this blog: The question is: whether IT is building the kinds...
- Tags: Information Technology, Business, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- LG enV(2)
- We'll admit that the LG enV(2) was a bit of a surprise to us when we first heard about it. We had initially thought the LG Voyager was the final successor to the high-end messaging phone line from LG and Verizon Wireless. (As you'll recall, the original was the LG...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, LG enV, LG Electronics Inc.
- Product reviews 2008-04-23
- Power costs and responses
- Power costs and responsesDistributed is the way to goOne rack of servers maybe none per building or floor coupled with Linux workstations on desktops is the most efficient way to go. (User education and IT SLAs are key in this environment. Users that like to reboot should be shown the...
- Tags: global warming, server, closet, POWER COSTS, user hostility
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
- 5 tips to prevent IT extinction
- 5 tips to prevent IT extinctionJargon - useful, concise, natural extension of vocabularyIT personnel should be reasonable in their use of jargon just as much as professionals in other disciplines - Medicine, for instance. A user who needs to be spoken in language devoid of any technical terms might...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- News to know: Microsoft StartKey; SaaS; NeoOffice; Intel Atom; Apple
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft preps StartKey: A 'Windows companion' on a USB stick Will OOXML get the ISO standards nod? It's not a given. Dana Blankenhorn: The U.S. voted no on Microsoft Office standard at ISO Ed Bott: A real-world Vista...
- Tags: Google Inc., Software-as-a-service, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Software As A Service (SaaS), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Images: Today's Venus weather forecast: Sulfuric acid clouds
- The Venus Express is able to cut through some of the planet's haze to discover dramatic global weather patterns and acid clouds. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Weather, Venus Express, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-02-29
- The music business is dead. Or dying. Or morphing. Or all of the above
- Five hundred music business execs gathered today at the Digital Music Forum East conference in New York. To read Nate Anderson's account in Ars Technica, attendees differed on the matter of the importance of record labels. Sentiments were expressed that because the record companies...
- Tags: Social Media, Music, Music Business, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Get this: in tech hub Seattle, School Board still uses dinosaur VAX!
- For those of you who have been around the silicon-based world for awhile, the mere mention of VAX computers might spark a memory or two. That pic might jog your memory. First debuted back in 1977, courtesy of Digital Equipment...
- Tags: Board, Memory, Official, Digital Equipment Corp., Seattle Times, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- MB Free Zodiac Love Sign (exe)
- MB Free Zodiac Love Sign describes the placement of Venus in your birth chart. This planet is also known as the Planet of Love. This sign shows how you express your self in your romantic relationships and marriage. This also describes your sense of beauty, aesthetics and outlook towards the...
- Tags: MB Free Zodiac Love Sign
- Software downloads 2008-02-13
- Head over heels for tomorrow's personal robots
- Head over heels for tomorrow's personal robotsRE: Head over heels for tomorrow's personal robotsQuick! Somebody get me Sarah Connor!Just say no to robotsNo robots for me. They can NOT be made fool-proof. Just watch or read "I, Robot". Even in Star Wars, 3PO is incessantly annoying.My solution is,...
- Tags: Robots, robot, personal robot
- Discussion threads 2008-01-11
- Turbo Charge Tc2 portable cell phone charger
- Cell phone chargers may not be glamorous, but indeed, they can be indispensible when your phone loses power and you're on the go. And though a wide variety of such products exist, from the solar powered to the muscle powered, we prefer to get our emergency juice from more reliable...
- Tags: Engineering, Cellular phones, Turbo-Charge, battery, cell phone, battery holder
- Product reviews 2007-12-19
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