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Working Assets calls for iPhone boycott (updated)

Working Assets calls for iPhone boycott updatedYou do realize that...Working Assets is a phone company, don't you? "Actforchange.workingassets.com" is analogous to "boycottApple.Microsoft.com." Completely bogus.Poll already begun - get Apple to open upA poll was set up here to vote which provider you'd prefer iPhone on. Vote here too,...

Tags: Working Assets, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2007-06-29

Working Assets calls for iPhone boycott (updated)

There was bound to be a backlash at some point. The AT&T bashing has begun:Working Assets is calling for a boycott of the iPhone. The locking of all iPhones to AT&T is unnecessary, and Working Assets has specific issues with AT&T -- including their stand on net neutrality, their warrantless...

Tags: AT&T, iPhone, Working Assets, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2007-06-29

Additional Resources

Chrome OS: Some Early Preview Videos

google should move away from linuxI suppose they could easily take away all those messes of the current os by doing that. Haha! Crummy-um "Chromium OS and Open Source" video-- the guy is calling it Crummy-um! Sounds about right.RE: Chrome OS: Some Early Preview VideosAnd ZDNet falls hook, line,...

Tags: Corporate communications, Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, ChromeOS, Chrome, Chrome OS, early Preview Video, operating system, Preview Video, video

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

'The Purpose of a Business is to Create a Customer' - Peter Drucker Centenary

This month marks the centenary of Management guru Peter Drucker's birth, and the Harvard Business Review - the Vogue magazine of management fashions - has a terrific section devoted to his legacy and ideas this month. The paper version is a keeper. Drucker's...

Tags: Performance, Knowledge, Drucker, John Hagel, Knowledge Stock, Lloyd, Strategy, Collaboration, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-16

IBM is doing some serious training

IBM is working the Long Island Rail Road LIRR. LIRR will use IBM software to manage and maintain approximately 1,180 rail cars, locomotives, and associated components. The goal: improve operations and passenger safety. As part of a project, expected to be completed in 2012, IBM will assist...

Tags: Long Island Rail Road, Training, IBM Corp., Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-15

ReadyAsset 1.0 (Windows)

readyAsset is an adaptable maintenance software or CMMS, for small companies and personal use. You will save twice by controlling preventive maintenance on your company's facilities and your own assets. readyAsset is for those who wants to keep working their assets and for people who sell services to customers and...

Tags: Asset, Maintenance, Microsoft Windows, Soinsoft, readyAsset, Asset Management, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Finance, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-10-12

The democratization of IT

Get your head out of your paradigm"democratization of IT"... are you serious? Look at any complex multipolar situation in the world and you'll see that when there are diverging forces, democracy is a liability.Iraq... competing religious factions turned the idea of democracy into a joke.The Palestinian territories... Democracy resulted in...

Tags: Quality, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

Understanding the Economics of Remote Access

More employees are demanding it and more organizations are taking advantage of it - working outside the office. To make it work for your company, you must ensure your employees have remote access to their office assets.

Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Remote Access, Telecommunications

Webcasts 2009-09-15

Albert Gonzalez was hacking in high school...where were the safety nets?

I agree.....Most of our schools are not equipt for the new age of computers and programming. Most of our schools but not all are still stuck in the liberal arts mode of teaching and not letting students focus on their strengths. Its all about well rounded B-S. ...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Development tools, hacking, Albert Gonzalez

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

When will Microsoft admit the truth about software patents?

HERETIC !My patent is better than you patent!What a waste of resources!I couldn't agree with you more.Now for the sharks in the suits .... what are they to do if they have to keep their Lexus more than 6 months?Duh!I simply do not understand the warped reasoning that would make...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Intellectual property, Microsoft Corp., Protecting intellectual property, patent, software, Donald Knuth, Newton, software patent

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

Rupert Murdoch's grand subscription plan: Much ado over minimal revenue?

News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch said that the company will begin charging for its news sites. The details were a bit vague, but Murdoch said News Corp.'s big experiment kicks off in 2010. The larger question is whether this move is much ado about little revenue. We'll...

Tags: Revenue, Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch, News Corp., Quality Journalism, Weinkes, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-06

RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630 (Sprint)

Photo gallery:RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630Editors' note: The RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630 for Sprint is largely similar to Verizon's version of the smartphone in terms of design and features. For this review, we highlight the different features and performance of the Sprint model. For more details on the device, please read...

Tags: Handhelds, Cellular phones, Smart phones, Sprint BlackBerry Tour, Sprint Communications, RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630, RIM BlackBerry Tour, Verizon Communications Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Research In Motion Ltd.

Product reviews 2009-07-27

SOA security issues best addressed by empowered service consumers

Dr. Chris Harding, a thought leader behind The Open Group who I've enjoyed working with from time to time, wonders whether we've been looking at the SOA security problem "the wrong way around." In a guest post over at Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect site, Chris suggests SOA and the use of...

Tags: SOA, Security Problem, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-07-21

Some important truths about pen-testing

Guest editorial by Alberto Soliño Penetration testing is a highly scientific, metrics-driven approach to IT security that has been in practice since almost the dawn of the modern computing era when programmers first began conducting organized tests, or “hacks” of their own, or others’ technologies to test...

Tags: Process, Security, Penetration Testing, IT Security, Information Technology, Organization, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-07-20

CIT unraveling could be headache for Dell, Avaya, resellers

The U.S. government has drawn a line in the sand---it won't bail out debt-ridden CIT, a financial services firm that loans money to small and midsized business in part to buy and lease technology equipment. Unlike other financial company implosions CIT's potential demise could have a direct impact on technology...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Financing, Leasing, Avaya Inc., CIT, Capital Structures, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-16

Quick thoughts on the (possible) demise of OpenSolaris

Quick thoughts on the possible demise of OpenSolarisWhere's the news?All I see here is a blog post from someone who says that people working on OpenSolaris are worried about the future. What else is new?Above and beyond that, the post is pure speculation. He's afraid OpenSolaris is going to "die...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, OpenSolaris, Linux, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Financial (CplxCalPro) 1.0 (Mobile)

This is a program that has 8 different financialcalculations plus help. It contains PE Ratio, Gross Profit Margin, Earnings Per Share,Profit Margin, Return on Total Assets, Net Working Capital, Debt Ratio and InventoryTurnover. Simply press the financial calculation you desire and the results will displaybased upon your input. A special...

Tags: Financial, Mobile, ADACS, Financial Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2009-07-08

SOA, IT and cloud governance converge into 'total services governance'

Is it time to govern the cloud?  Should it be the same governance we're working so hard to apply to service oriented architecture?  These are the questions tackled at Dana Gardner's latest BriefingsDirect analyst podcast, in which I had the opportunity to chime in. (Full transcript available here.) ...

Tags: Governance, Information Technology, SOA, Service, Ron Schmelzer, David Kelly, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), B2C, Web Services, Strategy, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Brick and Click Stores: How Circuit City Could Re-Open Its Doors

Why doesn’t a consumer electronics store work this way, in the age of the Internet? You walk into the digital photography section. On a slanted shelf sit 15 different cameras, each tied to its stanchion for security. But there’s a big screen...

Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Camera, CompUSA Inc., Fiorentino, Internet, Retail, Branding, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-06-12

Airlines on Climate: Don't blame us blame the Banks

I've posted before in these pages about how the business lobby, under pressure to respond to climate change, is starting to fracture. There was another dramatic example of this yesterday in Kuala Lumpur at the annual general meeting of the International Air Transport Association IATA when the CEO, Giovanni Bisignani, took an...

Tags: Bank, Carbon, Climate, Climate Group, Government, James Farrar, Management, Strategy, UK Air Passenger Duty

Blog posts 2009-06-09