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- Interview: Alex Wiley, creator of the gold MacBook
- Interview: Alex Wiley, creator of the gold MacBookthey ought to be gold or platinum......for how much they overcharge for hardware. Compare the hardware and you can plainly see you are overpaying. At least if the Mac came with gold plate or stones I could justify such a premium on the...
- Tags: Notebooks, Wiley, hardware, ALex, Apple MacBook
- Discussion threads 2008-04-23
- What a long strange trip it's been
- What a long strange trip it's beenCongrats.And at $18.99 it's a steal compared to most tech books.I've already ordered a copy. (Although I was a little amused by this notice: "We may send your order in separate boxes to ensure the fastest service." I've never seen a book you had...
- Tags: Groupware, Tablets, Notebooks, Microsoft Outlook, Congratulations!, Wiley, Outlook 2007
- Discussion threads 2007-03-30
- Supernova: General Motors rising on social media
- During a workshop at Supernova on the rise of social media, marketing whizes from General Motors, Proctor & Gamble and Yahoo discussed how they are harness the Web and content created by user to sell their products. According to an ancient Pew Research study from 2003, 44 percent of consumers...
- Tags: General Motors Corp., advertisement
- Blog posts 2006-06-21
- Jobs' book banning backfiring
- Jobs' book banning backfiringbackfiringor is it?Wiley bio?Why should Steve Jobs sell MORE books for Wiley, who stands to make more $ on a serial hatchet job on Jobs?? This isn't "book-banning" any more than it's about "biography", but about self defense. The official Wiley biography tells little of the Wiley...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Wiley, job
- Discussion threads 2005-04-28
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- Oil climbs peak, economies plumb depressions and the future will not imitate the past
- To maintain any modicum of modern life countries and individuals will increasingly turn to electricity generated from renewable sources. There is no way to dramatically increase the world's oil production, now or in some dreamy future. All the major fossil fuels will be in declining supply by 2025...
- Tags: Oil, Coal, Energy, Fossil Fuel, Chris Nelder, Nelder, IEA, U235, Corporate Communications, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Bugs harmed by nuclear radiation?
- Many studies have been conducted about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown of 1986. A large majority of them were focused on the environmental consequences of the radiation release. But, as the San Diego Union-Tribune asks, what happened to bugs? Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, a scientific illustrator from Zurich, Switzerland, has collected...
- Tags: Radiation, Bug, Sales Strategy, Web Site Development, Sales, Internet, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-25
- A new must-read for math/science teachers
- A new must-read for math/science teacherssorry, sorta uselessquarts gallonpints quartinches footEver hear of metric?This week's book for my 6-year oldBesides my 8-year old's passion for being a member in the WordMasters group before school starts in the AM, my 6-year old brought home last week a booked entitled "Jump...
- Tags: new must-read, math/science, must-read
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Apple earnings cheat sheet: It's all about the Mac units
- Apple reports its fiscal second quarter results Wednesday and the most important item driving the quarter will be Mac sales. All eyes will be on Mac units. Apple's Mac--despite a lot of focus on the iPhone--will make or break the quarter. Chances are pretty good that the...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Unit, Quarter, Apple Inc., Earnings, Chances, Wall Street, Sales Strategy, Desktops, Sales Force Management, Sales, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- News to know: Microsoft Mesh; Microhoo; OLPC; Patents; Linked data
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Ten things to know about Microsoft's Live Mesh Ryan Stewart: Silverlight and the future core of Microsoft Screen shots: Microsoft's Live Mesh right Images: Hands-on with Live Mesh Techmeme ...
- Tags: Patent, Dana Blankenhorn, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Linux, Open Source, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Interview: Alex Wiley, creator of the gold MacBook
- In October 2007 an outfit called Computer Choppers gave us the 24-karat gold-plated MacBook Pro (15-inch) complete with diamond-studded Apple logo. Now comes the gold MacBook Air pictured with multi-colored sapphires in the Apple logo. Computer Choppers offers the following plating ...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Jewelry, Notebooks, Computer, Productivity, Computer Choppers, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, O, W
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Blogging about blogging
- There's a new book due out next week that should be of interest to anyone who is curious about what makes bloggers and blogging tick. It's called Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World's Top Bloggers. And I am honored to be one of those...
- Tags: Bank, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- Coming Soon: Microsoft 2.0 the book
- After years of insisting I had no interest in writing a book, I've finally taken the plunge. I am writing a book about -- you guessed it -- Microsoft. It will be published in the Spring of 2008 by John Wiley & Sons. The title: Microsoft 2.0:...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0, Business Structures, Blogging, Construction, Internet, Finance, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-09-26
- Fed cutbacks strips schools of tech funding
- In a report indicative of many schools across the country, educators in Santa Clarita, CA, are concerned that decreased state and federal funding for technology will compromise future technology programs, reports the LA DailyNews. Despite the fact that computer technology is becoming more ubiquitous in the workplace and firms...
- Tags: Funding, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- What a long strange trip it's been
- With apologies to my favorite band, thats exactly the feeling I had last night when I arrived home from ETech in San Diego to find a box from Wiley and Sons waiting for me in the front hall. In it were copies of my book, The Unofficial Guide to Microsoft...
- Tags: Mastering the Inbox, Utilities and Add-Ins, Software, Productivity, Microsoft Office
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- How Apple orchestrated web attack on researchers
- Last summer, when I wrote "Vicious orchestrated assault on MacBook wireless researchers," it set off a long chain of heated debates and blogs. I had hoped to release the information on who orchestrated the vicious assault, but threats of lawsuits and a spineless company that refused to defend itself meant...
- Tags: Blogging, Wi-Fi, Web, SecureWorks Inc., David Maynor, David Chartier, Jim Dalrymple, Apple Computer Inc., video
- Blog posts 2007-03-20
- My take on the best and worst Windows ever
- My buddy Ed Bott, who has much better credentials to be doing this sort of thing than I do, has weighed in with his report card on every version of Windows that has been released. In his post, Ed rates each version on a scale from 1 to 10 and...
- Tags: Tablets, Instant messaging, Notebooks, Desktops, IM, Apple Macintosh, operating system, tool, Microsoft Windows, tablet PC, tablet
- Blog posts 2007-03-17
- Closing thoughts on my MacBook Pro Experience
- Closing thoughts on my MacBook Pro ExperienceIs it because youcan't or _won't_ see?My guess is the latter because for everything positive that Adrian wrote about it, you tried to bash from a your position of complete ignorance and having never really used a Mac that's for sale today.That smacks of...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Apple MacBook Pro, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Apple MacBook
- Discussion threads 2007-02-27
- Thurrott weighs in on Office 2007 and the Ribbon UI
- I was reading the second installment in Paul Thurrotts review of Office 2007 and the following three paragraphs really jumped out at me. I usually dont quote so extensively from someone elses writings but these three concepts really sum up nicely what will be three of the more interesting discussions...
- Tags: Productivity, Microsoft Office, Software, Vista, Windows, Ribbon UI
- Blog posts 2007-01-28
- Before you go Vista: Advice from nine experts
- Not all experts are created equal. In the Windows world, there are a handful who really live and breathe Microsoft operating systems -- and whose opinions influence everyone from Microsofts developers, to its customers. I asked some of the best known of the bunch for one -- just one...
- Tags: Vista, Windows client, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-01-26
- A 2-nanometer-high Solomon's knot
- UCLA chemists have built a molecular Solomons knot at the nanoscale. The Solomons knot is composed of two rings that interlace each other four times, with alternating crossing points that go over, under, over and under as one traces around each of the rings. This nano-version is roughly 2 nanometers...
- Tags: Nanotechnology, Science &, Nature, Engineering &, Innovation, University of California at Los Angeles, J. Fraser Stoddart
- Blog posts 2007-01-14
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