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China's growing respect for IP

A little over a year ago I wrote a blog post about China and intellectual property where I noted that a tremendous barrier to local development of IP was rampant lack of respect for it in the country. Piracy, in other words, didn't just deprive...

Tags: western country, pie, intellectual property

Blog posts 2006-08-08

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America's airways ready for NextGen

It's time – long past time – to upgrade the U.S. air traffic control system. The current system, designed during World War II, contributes mightily to flight delays, customer dissatisfaction and a massive energy wastefulness. But a GPS satellite-based system, on the drawing board for more than a decade, has...

Tags: FAA, Air Traffic Control, Greenhouse Gas, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-10

EasyStock Info (exe)

easyStockInfo from easyStockDater is a stock company information data base. The user can search stocks by entering the ticker or sliding a speed slider. The database contains following data fields: company name, ticker, sector, industry group, industry, sub industry, associated index, associated index ticker symbol, main exchange, country of origin,...

Tags: Stock, Ticker, Industry, easyStockDater, Investment, Finance

Software downloads 2008-10-10

Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hiding

Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hidingPalin Yes - Obama NoIt amazes me the the Left's knee-jerk reaction to Sarah Palin, when you have Barry Obama with his association with unrepentant terrorist William Ayers and anti-American bigot Jeremiah Wright. And never mind the fact Obama...

Tags: Obama, Sarah Palin, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Where are all the programmers?

Where are all the programmers?It's worse than you think!I'm in SO CAL. The market for good communicating and highly technical developers vanished back in 2000 with the .com meltdown. The guys from India and China are bright, but come on, business rules that are highly complex are missed when you...

Tags: Development tools, programmer, software development

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Intel X-25M solid-state drive (80GB)

Intel's X-25M solid-state hard drive represents a major leap forward for the solid-state drive category. While we've heard about the benefits of solid-state hard drives for years--faster access and boot times, improved battery life--Intel's drive raises expectations for the category as a whole. You will most definitely have to...

Tags: Intel Corp., Intel X-25M, SSD, hard drive

Product reviews 2008-10-08

Where are all the programmers?

I was at a conference Wednesday that covered an awful lot of ground. There were some good sandwiches, too, and the cookies were first-rate. One thing that stuck out in my mind, though, aside from the deserts, was one companies inability to hire good programmers domestically. This...

Tags: Recruiting, Programmer, Computer, Development Tools, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Canadian Conservatives vow to implement new copyright law

Canadian Conservatives vow to implement new copyright lawCanadian Politicsare worse than we ever thought of having in this country. The vows they make are seldom carried out for one grand reason or another. I live on the border and have watched both sides of it.

Tags: copyright law

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo email

Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo emailI bet he is praing for an Obama winin November, as that way he has a great change at receiving a pardon from him.If McCain wins, well five years in Guantanamo is not really [i]all[/i] that bad... ;)RE: Kernell indicted in break-in to...

Tags: Palin, Yahoo Email, Kernell, e-mail, break-in, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Student indicted for Palin e-mail hack

Student indicted for Palin e-mail hackno luck for youseems your daddy wont be able bail you out of this one. Just remember to bring plenty of vaseline with you in prisonoh boy, is this kid in the crapperThis little jerky-boy is headed for a really miserable experience. Having a...

Tags: Palin, Palin e-mail, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Do we we have a way to defeat global warming?

Is the recession the ultimate way to fight global warming? That's the suggestrion from one market commentator. Less spending=less greenhouse gas, he says. The outlook from international finance organizations is decidely gloomy. It follows that if spending's down, industrial output from China and elsewhere will...

Tags: Capitalist, Stock, Global Warming, Fossil Fuel, Oil-rich Russia, Investment, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-10-08

C'mon, Vista really isn't that bad

C'mon, Vista really isn't that badRE: C'mon, Vista really isn't that badI agree, it eases the transition from the digital to the physical world for computer users and seems especially geared towards newer computer users and explaining steps and giving more information about the system itself and any software installed....

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, C'MON, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

C'mon, Vista really isn't that bad

Picture the scene. A small country pub in Canterbury, a warm, autumn evening, surrounded by friends drinking and smoking in the beer garden; relaxing after a difficult, hard day at work. The birds are singing, the breeze is light and feathering our very souls. This is heaven....

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows Meeting Space, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Forget the damn netbooks. Can “Windowsâ€� replace Windows?

Forget the damn netbooks. Can “Windowsâ€� replace Windows?It's not about Windowsbut It's about pirated Windows. In my country, you will rarely see a person who willing to buy a genuine copy of Windowseven the rich people except it's coming with the PC they buy. So, if they couldn't afford a...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Chicken, egg and mobile open source

Chicken, egg and mobile open sourceExtrapolating from a pointDana, you're looking at this from a very parochial point of view. The carriers only have a say in one country on Earth: the United States, and the US is very very far from leading the mobile space. As in,...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, mobile, mobile open source, carrier, open source

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.

Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.Telecommute JobsI see these articles appear every few months. They always talk about how great this concept is, and how it is a great deal for both companies and employees. However, my husband has been contacted by headhunters several hundred times...

Tags: telecommuting

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capital

Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capitalRE: Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters caI think it's quite smart personally.foolishJust another CEO desperate to save his bonus. Once you carve up the company, quality goes downhill. The chips will suffer. AMD will be...

Tags: Balance sheets, Asset management, Semiconductors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Asset Smart, manufacturing, balance sheet, chip, asset

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Can two AMDs be better than one?

Can two AMDs be better than one?They should never have bought ATIATI was content with competing with NVIDIA, and if market conditions had let them fail at it, so be it. What we're seeing now is the failure of 2 companies, not just one.ExpensiveThe cash infusion may have been...

Tags: Research & Development, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Student Technology Day: Steve Ballmer Q&A

There was quite a lot to transcribe out, and many questions asked. Some questions put to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, include: Will we always need programmers? What's Microsoft's input in Facebook and social networking? Does Microsoft have any changes in mind for their...

Tags: India, Pyramid, Laughter, Network, Microsoft Office, Steve Ballmer, Product, Microsoft Corp., Programmer, Question, Microsoft Windows, Social Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-06

RealDVD sales suspended, case moves north

RealDVD sales suspended, case moves northLook at her smiling on her face......saying it is unavailable!ROFL!RE: RealDVD sales suspended, case moves northCan anyone tell me what the difference between RealDVD and AnyDVD or DVDFab... is? Why don't the movie studios go after them as well?RE: RealDVD sales suspendedI wonder how...

Tags: Investment, RealDVD sale

Discussion threads 2008-10-06