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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

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic"

RE: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are One report has at 4% market share the weekend of launch so im sure its past that already.Has Windows 7 marketshare eclipsed total OS X marketshare yet?Just wondering. :)MSFT: 1/2000 = $56. Today, $28.40Win 7 may not be the catastrophe the last...

Tags: Sales strategy, Businesses, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, stock split, Win7, recession, Steve Ballmer, sales, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Browser rivals to register official complaints about Microsoft's ballot screen proposal

Opera"Browser rivals to register official complaints about Microsoft's ballot screen proposal". . . and by "browser rivals" you really mean Opera, who has been whimpering and whining the whole time. A browser that barely appears on anybody's charts, but still retains a cult following.I think Microsoft is improving with IE7...

Tags: Web browsers, ballot screen, Web browser, Opera Software ASA, ballot screen proposal, Microsoft Corp., official complaint

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Revisiting the Motorola Droid on Verizon [Q&A]

Why the hate for drag and drop?Almost every review I have read faults the Droid because you can't auto-sync music:"(You can dump your music on a microSD card and pop it in, but it?s a copy-paste files affair, not a ?load my music? integrated experience.)"The Droid ships with a 16...

Tags: Smart phones, Motorola Droid, Droid, Apple iPhone, Revisiting, music, Verizon Communications Inc., Motorola Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Wal-mart preempts Black Friday with HDTV specials this Saturday

China made productsYES all we need is more 'Made In China' to get the economy churning....Bring it home to 'China' no longer USA because we are like Rome we manufacture nothing, we import everything and borrowing TRILLIONS from China.How long will this last I would say as long as they...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, HDTV, manufacturing, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Enterprise 2.0 - the non-debate

If I'd paid the full whack $2,495 to attend the Enterprise 2.0 conference I'd be demanding at least a partial refund. It seems the 'Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock' debate was less than a damp squib and more like a feeble whimper. Here's the back story: ...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-05

The iPhone is one of the best phones in the world, carriers with it are the problem

far from perfect indeedIt's a great gadget...until it freezes and you have to wait several minutes while you reboot it. That is if you know how to reboot it, the first time is always accompanied with panic because you think the thing went dead. Don't blame the carriers,...

Tags: Smart phones, iPhone Screen, BlackBerry Tour, Apple iPhone, phone, carrier, keyboard

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Organic Social Networks, the Yankees and....Wha'? (UPDATE: WE WON OUR 27TH WORLD SERIES!)

Needless to say, being a Yankees fan of the entirely driven and committed sort, I'm biting every nail on my hands off and frankly, if I could reach my feet, would go at those nails too (Ugh.). I do that every time that the Yankees are in the playoffs or...

Tags: Facebook, Network, Twitter Inc., CRM, Games, Social Networking, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Google Maps and the mystery of the non-existent town

anagram softwareDid you get the words "not real" out of it? With an extra "G" left over?Brilliant!Good find! If that isn't the solution, then it sure is one heck of a coincidence.It wouldn't surprise me at all if that is it. Similar things -- adding a fictional item...

Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Network technology, Zack, Yahoo Maps, Google Inc., Google Maps, Argleton

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Are the Microsoft layoffs over now?

I hope soI hate seeing "SoandSo killing X amount of jobs" in the news =/Ballmer should be the first to get laid offHis reklessness to ignore the FOSS and cling to the proprietary model drove M$ into the ground.Q1 revenues of $13Bn generating $3.5Bn in net profit ...... would tend...

Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Creative accounting, Microsoft Corp., layoff

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

2010 Lexus RX 450h

Photo gallery:2010 Lexus RX 450hRemember that Seinfeld episode where George Costanza said, "I would drape myself in velvet if it were socially acceptable?" Well, sitting in the 2010 Lexus RX 450h is like being draped in velvet, and, with the economical hybrid drivetrain, it is socially responsible. Lexus vehicles show...

Tags: Lexus

Product reviews 2009-11-03

Google Wave: Has potential, but let loose too soon

Open sourceKeep in mind that the code to developers is completely open source. If someone wants to make their own wave software or use the real time HTML 5 support for something else.Besides this is just a preview of the basics. Open to only 100,000 people, you can't expect much....

Tags: Google Inc., developer

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

LG 60PS80

Photo gallery: LG PS80 seriesWhen it was announced at CES 2009, the LG PS80 series of plasma TVs earned one of our three nominations for Best of CES in the TV category. We've already reviewed the other two sets--Panasonic's G10 plasmas and Vizio's VF551XVT LED-based LCD--and both scored...

Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, LG Electronics Inc., LG PS80

Product reviews 2009-11-02

LG 50PS80

Photo gallery: LG PS80 seriesWhen it was announced at CES 2009, the LG PS80 series of plasma TVs earned one of our three nominations for Best of CES in the TV category. We've already reviewed the other two sets--Panasonic's G10 plasmas and Vizio's VF551XVT LED-based LCD--and both scored...

Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, LG Electronics Inc., LG PS80

Product reviews 2009-11-02