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- Apple: Perception is Reality
- Apple: Perception is RealityRE: Apple: Perception is RealityAbsolutely, Apple's response will do nothing to allay investors fears and in many cases will accelerate the rumour mill.Apple need to come out a flatly confirm or deny Steve's current health and produce, at the very least, a barebones succession plan to restore...
- Tags: Warren Buffet, Apple Inc., Perception IS reality
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Market disconnects
- Market disconnectsLootoI remember a few years back, the state Lotto was over $100 million. An investor firm wanted to buy one ticket for every number (at the time, about 20 million numbers). They went to the state and asked to purchase the 20 million tickets. The state came back and...
- Tags: Investment, trader, Warren Buffet, Sun Microsystems Inc., stock
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- Gates Foundation expands library project
- Gates Foundation expands library projectGates Foundation expands library projectMore of that excellent news coming from the Gates Foundation. I love to hear when people donate to worthy causes like this and who better to lead the pack than Bill and Melinda Gates. Keep up the great work and...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Warren Buffet, Mellinda Gates, Microsoft Healthcare Division, Gates Family, Gates Foundation, library project, physician, Drugstore
- Discussion threads 2006-12-01
- Ellison reverses $115 million Harvard donation
- Ellison reverses $115 million Harvard donationlarry ellison...just one more indication that the guy is one of the world's biggest slimeballs!Ellison is quite a piece of work...That don't impress me much.Why a piece of workSummers essentially gets forced out because he says men and women are different with different aptitudes, and...
- Tags: Gender and diversity, Warren Buffet, donation, Larry Ellison, Ellis Abramoff, Harvard
- Discussion threads 2006-06-28
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- Bill Gates - the science guy
- Bill Gates - the science guyMust be nice, spending other people's money.And feeling "good" because of it.Well Gates, in the grander scheme of things, you're a thief. And giving away what you took from others is not going to change that.Funny how all this philanthropy... comes with strings attached to...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., science guy
- Discussion threads 2009-07-17
- Justifying non-removable batteries
- Apple got the ire of its users when it released the original iPhone with a fixed, non-removable battery. The mainstream media and blogosphere myself included barbecued Apple for the omission as everything from flat out stupid to a fatal blow to the success of the device. We see how far...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Battery, Engineering, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Will the Chrome OS make Google more loved or hated in OS world?
- Will the Chrome OS make Google more loved or hated in OS world?Chrome OS and Google DominationHow does one compete against a "free" product?As much as I like and enjoy using its products though I have been using Bing faster and Ask more relevant a lot more lately, Google is...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Operating systems, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Google Inc., Chrome, operating system, Chrome OS, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-08
- Apple makes big bucks profit per iPhone 3G S
- Apple makes big bucks profit per iPhone 3G SYou forgot a componentApple Logo = $421.04Medialets Sunspider Tests: iPhone 3GS 3x faster than Pre, 5x faster than G1In Medialets controlled tests on Javascript execution using Sunspider test suit provided by Webkit it found that the iPhone 3GS was significantly faster than...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G S, big buck, Apple iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, phone
- Discussion threads 2009-06-25
- Buffett: Steve Jobs' surgery was a "material fact"; should have been disclosed
- Buffett: Steve Jobs' surgery was a "material fact"; should have been disclosedFlawed logic"They?re gonna find out about it anyway so I don?t see a big privacy issue"The fact if something is found out, does not define if something is private in the first place or not.But hey, this is an...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Investment, Steve Jobs, surgery, health care, material fact, Apple Inc., absence
- Discussion threads 2009-06-24
- VC perspective: Can enterprise software companies do SaaS?
- VC perspective: Can enterprise software companies do SaaS?Large vendors can, but will they?Steve Lohr at NY Times had a similar point this weekend that big companies have more of an ability to invest in innovation - and I responded below. http://dealarchitect.typepad.com/deal_architect/2009/05/the-innovation-tilt-toward-big-companies.htmlWith some exceptions like Intel, Apple, Google the trend in...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, SaaS IS, software-as-a-service, enterprise software
- Discussion threads 2009-05-27
- The $17.5 million hard drive
- Some employers think they own you when all they're doing is renting your time. It cost 1 company $17.5 million to learn that stealing an employee's hard drive is really, really stupid. It's about time. Wha' happened? An RV sales manager was hired...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Sales Manager, Punitive Damage, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Notebooks, Sales, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-05-25
- If we build it, what will come?
- The American infrstructure cheerleaders have a wish list, nearly a half-trillion dollars worth. They should learn to think BIG, like those Wall Streeters who are nearly their second trillion dollars of government case without a single shovel-ready project. Weell, there were some small grave-digging projects for the likes...
- Tags: Job, Project, Highlights, Job Year, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- Learning from Walmart
- Learning from WalmartTelxonIt's interesting that this technology still gets mentioned by name. We worked with Telxon units at a small IT software development company I worked at in the mid to late-1990s, developing client/server solutions for Fortune 500 companies. What we worked with was handheld computing form factors. We ran...
- Tags: Handhelds, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Telxons, free trade
- Discussion threads 2009-02-12
- 10 reasons to purchase new hardware during a recession
- TechRepublic guest post: It may seem like the last thing you want to do in the midst of tough economic times is invest in new hardware. But IT consultant Erik Eckel suggests that trying to coast on failing or outdated equipment will cost you more in the long run. You...
- Tags: Employee, PC, Recession, Server, Hardware, Organization, Budgets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-20
- Would you sign off on this audit? What’s a going concern in this business climate?
- Are Audited Financial Statements of Value Anymore? Auditors will surely do a lot of head scratching in the coming months as they decide which of their clients’ books are prepared as: - going concerns - breakup basis - going concern but with...
- Tags: Auditor, Audit, Firm, Financial Accounting, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-12-17
- What if Steve Jobs ran GM?
- What if Steve Jobs ran GM?Talk is cheapLet's watch the computer industry go into a prolonged slump and see what is in his spine.I'm saying this because some are serious about that.RE: What if Steve Jobs ran GM?We'd have one model that cost twice as much as a similar car...
- Tags: Telsa, General Motors Corp., What-if Steve Job, car
- Discussion threads 2008-12-10
- Election Talking Points: A discussion place
- Election Talking Points: A discussion placeSpoken like a true believer in ...a constitutional republic.RE: Election Talking Points: A discussion placereally this post is for an opinion location,It really becomes a bunch of BSGuess doe to reports about the debate it help McCain,everyone has to put two cents of nonsense,Ok...
- Tags: Mortgages, Palin, Election Talking Points
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- The lighter side of Bill Gates
- As you all probably know, considering the 2 year lead-up to today and the considerable press coverage, it's Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft. I'd like to take a slightly different spin on covering his career and life, by pointing out the stupid stuff, in the hope it will appeal...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 95, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Sales, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Icahn: I want Yang gone from Yahoo
- Icahn: I want Yang gone from YahooThat's grounds for white collar crime.The illegal hiding of important facts from shareholders is basically a criminal act.Let's hope the REAL OWNERS the shareholder get to do what they want, and not what Yang wants.RE: Icahn: I want Yang gone from YahooWhile the stockholders...
- Tags: Corporate governance, E-mail providers, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Yang, Balmer, shareholder, board, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- How artificial is the crude oil price? Have we passed peak oil?
- Here's a map that purports to show how much oil there is in North America and that the supply far exceeds the demand. This website argues greed is driving the high oil price, not shortage. Wait a minute, isn't greed the heart and soul of a free makret...
- Tags: Oil, Petroleum, Clean Technology, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
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