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- The Secrets of CEOs
- I just finished reading an advance US manuscript of 'The Secrets of CEOs - 150 Global Chief Executives lift the lid on business, life and leadership' by Steve Tappin, who is a managing partner in the global CEO & board practice of Heidrick & Struggles, and Andrew Cave, a leading...
- Tags: CEO, Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- When it comes to China, is Skype the new Yahoo?
- Any major Western company doing business in China is collaborating with the government to some degree. We know this. Chinese citizens know this. The best case scenario is probably Microsoft or Google's operations where access to certain information is limited. The worst case, until now, has been Yahoo's explicit cooperation...
- Tags: China, Yahoo! Inc., Skype Technologies S.A., Tom, Government, Blogging, Vertical Industries, Wireless, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- The cost of doing business in China: Privacy
- The cost of doing business in China: PrivacySo does the US !The only difference is, in china's case, you know and in US, you don't (or atleast most people don't). They even hijack all the data that flows through pipes of ISPs and make a copy and put analyzers on...
- Tags: SECURITY, Skype Technologies S.A., fundamental human right, big deal, human right, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Seagate FreeAgent Go (blue, 320GB)
- The FreeAgent Go is part of Seagate's latest new line of portable hard drives and is by far the thinnest we've tested while still maintaining a reasonably fast transfer rate. Seagate sent us a blue 320GB model ($150) for our review, but you can take your pick of four vibrant...
- Tags: Operating systems, Seagate Technology LLC, FreeAgent Go, USB
- Product reviews 2008-09-26
- 2.8% of households wordlwide to have Internet TV by 2012
- Global subscriptions to Internet-based TV are on track to reach 19.6 mln subscribers in 2008, a 64% increase, according to Gartner. Revenue from worldwide Internet protocol television is forecast to reach $4.5 bln, up 93.5% from a year earlier, with Western Europe boasting the largest number of IPTV subscribers and...
- Tags: Revenue, IP Television, Internet TV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, AM
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- The mother of all notebook hard drives: Scorpio Blue
- I'm totally psyched that someone has finally released a 500GB hard drive that fits in my MacBook Pro. That someone is Western Digital. WD just announced its WD5000BEVT mobile hard drive, a.k.a. the Scorpio Blue with a huge 500GB capacity. The 500GB barrier was broken earlier this...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Holiday Spectacular! NYC 2008
- The 2008 Pepcom’s Holiday Spectacular! came to New York City with plenty of gadgets to gawk at. This year, representatives showed from: HP, Altec Lansing, Kingston, Pentax, Aliph, Seagate, Samsung, Canon, Sony, Nikon, Sanyo, Asus, Western Digital, Buffalo, Lenovo, RIM and more. by Andrew Nusca
- Tags: Andrew Nusca, product photos, Pepcom, Holiday Spectacular, Toybox
- Image galleries 2008-09-24
- The price of a pink slip
- The price of a pink slipdouble-edged swordThis is a double-edged sword. Employers are going to be much more reluctant to hire someone if they know they will have to continue paying them after they fire them. And what's the incentive for a laid-off worker to look for a...
- Tags: pink slip, worker
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Pepcom Holiday Spectacular! NYC 2008
- Hands-on with the Blackberry Bold, images of HP's 16- and 18-inch notebooks, Nikon and Canon DSLRs with video...excited yet? Last night, Pepcom's Holiday Spectacular! came to New York City, and this reporter attended, again with Nikon D40X in hand, to photograph the festivities for you, our dear...
- Tags: Nikon Corp., Canon Inc., Corporate Communications, Handhelds, Marketing, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- The "As close to $150 as you can get it" PC
- As usual, my mailbox is brimming with great comments and questions from Hardware 2.0 readers. Here's one that caught my eye: I notice that you talk about building PCs regularly. If you wanted to build a PC but spend as close to $150 as possible, what components would you...
- Tags: PC, Motherboard, CPU, RAM, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Dell: Demand is worse than we thought; Ingram Micro agrees; Best Buy misses
- Technology demand appears to be softening at a rapid clip. Dell said Tuesday that it is seeing "further softening in global end-user demand in the current quarter." Here's why that's worrisome: Dell had a more positive outlook on Aug. 28, or a little more than two weeks ago. ...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Earnings, Ingram Micro Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Spamming vendor launches managed spamming service
- A spamming vendor known as the SET-X Corporation, has recently launched the distributed SET-X Mail System, a sophisticated managed spamming service available for rent on a monthly basis starting from $2000, promising to achieve "spamming speed" of 5000 to 7000 emails per minute and over 1 million spam messages per...
- Tags: Malware, Server, Bot, Spamming, Spamming Service, SET-X Mail System, MX, Spam, E-mail, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-09-13
- (The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC)
- (The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC)$2000 build-it-yourself PCGreat article would do it if I didn't already have a pretty good PC. How about a build-it-yourself gaming laptop?RE: (The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC)I have a similar system with only 4Gb of cheaper ram , 2 Tb...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Games, Desktops, PC, video, game
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
- The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC
- The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PCWhy such an expensive processor?Surely you can cut a couple of hundred dollars off the price and not lose too much performance by getting a lower spec processor.That way you could keep both hard drives (great for keeping the data separate from the...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), video, PC, game
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
- 2 platter, 500GB, 2.5" drive
- Western Digital is announcing - and commencing volume shipments of - their first 2.5" 500 GB drive. Hey, didn't Hitachi and Samsung get there first? Not really. The 12.5mm Hitachi drive was too big to fit in most notebooks. Samsung's 9.5mm drive fits -...
- Tags: Hitachi Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Head, WD, MSRP, Notebooks, Storage, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Adaptec adds custom power management to its RAID products
- Adaptec has integrated a utility called Intelligent Power Management into its Series 5 and Series 2 Unified Serial RAID controllers. The software allows a systems integrator, OEM or IT manager to configure disks to run in one of three states: Normal Operation, which provides full power...
- Tags: Power Management, Disk, Adaptec Inc., RAID, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- End of an era: Dell may dump its factories
- End of an era: Dell may dump its factoriesRubbed up the wrong way?"The rub: It’s unclear whether contract equipment manufacturers would want to buy Dell’s manufacturing hubs. Do contract manufacturers really want to take on Dell’s capacity?"Don't CEM's want to take on everyone's capacity ... I mean isn't their model...
- Tags: Manufacturing, Notebooks, Dell Computer Corp., End-Of-An-Era
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Mumbai Local (jar)
- Mumbai Local is a Automated, Up to date, User friendly, and Menu based Non-GPRS Standby Installable Mobile Local Train Timetable for Mumbai People in Affordable price, for all its Western, Central, and Harbour Trains' Up and Down Routes. Very needful and easy utility now on your finger tips to know...
- Tags: Solution, Mumbai Local, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-09-01
- Dell: Turnaround interruptus as share grab hurts net, margins
- Dell's second quarter earnings fell short of projections, but revenue was well ahead of targets. Translation: Dell is gaining share at the expense of its bottom line as price competition heats up. Dell reported fiscal second quarter earnings of 31 cents a share on revenue of $16.4...
- Tags: Revenue, Dell Computer Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Clean-tech gets political while China moves into first place
- Clean-tech is getting more and more political. With so much money and government subsidy, or not, at stake, it was inevitable. A leading greentech venture capitalist spoke at the Democratic Convention. And the governor of Montana spoke about declaring energy independence for America, and added we Americans...
- Tags: China, Medal, Clean Technology, Montana, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
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