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Survey: 37% of employees would become insiders given the right incentive

Survey: 37% of employees would become insiders given the right incentive37% of tech employees are corrupt?Not at all good. If you'd sell out your employer for any price, you're just as corrupt as a public official who accepts bribes. The only issue remaining is whether you're worth your...

Tags: Sales force management, Very few people, right incentive, survey, incentive

Discussion threads 2009-04-29

WinXP on XO laptops OK as long as Linux runs, too

WinXP on XO laptops OK as long as Linux runs, tooThey should double the RAM as well, and that would be good for XP and Linuxboth. Actually, if they put plenty of flash and RAM on these things, that would drive a lot more volume and get the prices down....

Tags: Operating systems, Memory, Very few people, Microsoft Windows XP, XO-laptops OK, Linux-run, Linux, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-05-16

An OS X zero-day group may clarify security debate

An OS X zero-day group may clarify security debateAnwer to why!Reason for the security and other flaws in windows, in my opinion, lies in its popularity on the desktop side. It has the greatest market share(about 97%) compared to about 2% for apple and about 1% for linux. This popularity...

Tags: Linux, Construction, Apple Mac OS, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, security, window, operating system, Apple Mac OS X, Very few people

Discussion threads 2007-02-02

CES battleground: Is LCD or plasma better when picking hi-def big screen flat panels?

CES battleground: Is LCD or plasma better when picking hi-def big screen flat panels?Video'sThe video is fine as an add-on for those that want to see it but please stop using it instead of a printed article.VideosI second the previous comment. I come to this site to read thoughtful analysis...

Tags: Corporate communications, Monitors & displays, Very few people, video, LCD

Discussion threads 2007-01-09

Hey, where's my (search) app, dude?

Hey, where's my search app, dude?"dude"?To understand why I'm using these rather ugly titles this week you have to know about an inside joke. I have this rather, ahem, cough, "blue" as in eye searing car and in six years my wife has never ceased to give me grief about...

Tags: Internet, Very few people

Discussion threads 2006-07-10

The EFF chimes in on Sun's DRM scheme

The EFF chimes in on Sun's DRM schemeOne more time, it's not just media!!!Come on Joe, the fact is that systems get hacked all the time, millions of people have had their private information stolen recently. My being in control of my "content" (financial, health, personal, etc.) and letting...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Blogging, Internet appliance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Very few people, digital-rights management, luxury item, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Discussion threads 2005-08-25

Additional Resources

Fawning over Chatter and how SAP missed its chance

Ever since Salesforce.com announced Chatter, there's been a rising crescendo of what I can only describe as fawning and uncritical waffle. It's worrying. As I've said before, Chatter is ESME with a few bells and whistles. Yet here we have everyone from Scoble...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., SAP AG, ESME, Scoble, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Falling behind in science? No kidding!

Our school district is providing H1N1 shots to any students whose parents request it. It's an easy way to build some so-called "herd immunity" in the age group most vulnerable to this particular flu strain. In fact, my 7-year old was the very first in the district to...

Tags: Vaccine, Flu, H1N1 Flu, Science Education, Healthcare, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I

(NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog.  Let's see how that...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-23

East Anglia, the next chapter

Harry's world must be imploding;-)NY times reports:"The evidence pointing to a growing human contribution to global warming is so widely accepted that the hacked material is unlikely to erode the overall argument. [b]However, the documents will undoubtedly raise questions about the quality of research on some specific questions and the...

Tags: global warming, TripleII

Discussion threads 2009-11-21

Science of better fuel cells

Get realSo we are going to have 1-ton work trucks with a battery.PleaseYou are an idiot, please shut up.Misleading. Not produce, STOREThis article is misleading.If you can produce excess solar energy during the day, you can use some for electrolysis to create hydrogen, which may be easier to store, and...

Tags: Fuel cells, fuel cell

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

What's Happening Twitter? Slight languages changes have meaning

"For eons, people described Twitter as an application that asked..."Eons?This stupid thing has been around in the public domain for a whopping 2 1/2 years (July 2006). That's "eons" to you? Please.Oh no!How dare a writer use hyperbole?! I could very well say of your reply, "Whopping? 2...

Tags: Twitter Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Internet: A threat to government or the other way around?

The Kleptocrats that feel entitled to your money...worry that us mushrooms now have other uncontrollable sources for the "truth" and won't eat the horse compost fed to them by the monopolistic crony Main-stream Media.RE: Internet: A threat to government or the other way around?There are two things tyrants and bureaucrats...

Tags: Vertical industries, government, retraction, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

iPhone - is it a good tool for traveling business people?

yes- hmmmm....You're right Dan. Droid? Then you can have google navigation and we'll be able to find a better restaurant in NYC than the worlds busiest Korean :p Maybe those nice people @ 451 will buy you one ;)Thanks for the thoughtOne issue with the current Android V2 phones is...

Tags: Smart phones, calendar issue, tool, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Michael Dell sticks to Windows 7 big bang theory

too old?"Windows XP is 8 years old"So What? If it ain't broke don't fix it!Windows 2000 is ten years old and still does almost everything I need. Everyone around me runs XP or newer, yet I have far fewer problems.What is good for the computer industry is not...

Tags: Operating systems, theory, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Conference energy levels

Coming to Dreamforce has been a revelation. The news was dominated by Chatter but that only tells a fraction of the real story. As I sat in the media room chatting sic to an old buddy it occurred to me this was a conference that annoyed for all...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Event, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Sales Force Management, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-20

Techmeme's 6 editors signals potential trouble with Google PageRank

It's the money"I think it is a function of not having enough time to create the links; and also it isn?t as fashionable as it once was"Wrong.. It's all about money. Links to other sites take people away from your site and your advertising.Maybe it is google to blame?Before...

Tags: INTERNET, TechMeme, Google Inc., Google PageRank

Discussion threads 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

Google's Chrome OS: Will you give up desktop apps?

I won't ntntI can'tI'm not online 24/7. I need local apps, as does everyone else. Say what you want. But network outages happen... Weather by forces of nature or human error, a network will eventually go down. It's only a matter of time. And knowing Google's past GMail outages, I...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Desktops, operating system, desktop, Google Inc., desktop app, netbook, Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Live from Googleplex: Chrome OS details revealed

Ubuntu 9.10 has more immediate potentialMight I suggest trying Ubuntu 9.10? A phenominal OS with much more to offer then even Windows 7.Open source, free and ready to try today...http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1122http://www.tuxradar.com/content/vista-windows-7-ubuntu-904-and-910-boot-speed-comparisonhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYgWE6Svpaghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16-nad9N3pgNot that I have readI'd stick with 904immediate potential to sink in obscurityGoogle was Linux's last fleeting chance to turn...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu 9.10, Linux, Google Inc., operating system, Chrome OS, Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-19