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- The Steve Jobs Standard
- The Steve Jobs StandardWell saidIn a world of greed, that last sentence was a breath of fresh air.Amen, Tom ntntThe unsung hero of AppleJohnathan Ive.An Apple product develops something like this:Jobs to Ive: Give me something sexy.Ive: Here you go.Jobs: Awesome.Gee - Maybe he should be a SaintNo doubt Steve...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Cell phones tracking nightlife activity
- A Columbia University computer science professor has co-founded a New York-based company named Sense Networks to sell tracking software to other companies. It is also distributing a free version of this software named Citysense, which shows on your cell phone where the wild things are happening in your own town....
- Blog posts 2008-06-29
- Fiji government official tells Microsoft: 'Fiji' is not for sale
- Fiji government official tells Microsoft: 'Fiji' is not for saleUmm... so, it was wrong to use Chicago, Cairo...and also, Intel should not use rivers in Oregon; and maybe Apple should not use MacIntosh a type of Apple...RE: Fiji government official tells Microsoft: 'Fiji' is not for saleFiji government is a...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- '.wow': ICANN to allow almost any domain suffix
- The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has accepted a proposal allowing companies, cities and others to use almost any suffix they want for a web address. At its meeting in Paris, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN, a not-for-profit organization that...
- News items 2008-06-27
- House of Brides (gadget)
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- Software downloads 2008-06-27
- Job Finder (zip)
- Search jobs from all the major job sites including Career Builder, Monster, Dice, and Hot Jobs. Enter your search term and choose your options to narrow down your search result. Set notifications to alert you, or send you an email when new jobs meeting your criteria appear on job sites....
- Software downloads 2008-06-26
- Nokia N78 North American version now available
- I have been checking out the European version of the Nokia N78 and am quite impressed with the device. I recieved a note that the North American 3G-enabled version of the N78 is now available at the Nokia Flagship stores in New York and Chicago or via other retailers shown...
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Savvis gets savvy-er about when to retrofit and when to start anew with data centers
- Welcome to my latest post in the Greenest-Data-Center-of-them-all blog series. This brief entry comes courtesy of my chat last week Jim Kozlowski, vice president of hosting service for data center operator Savvis, which just opened a new facility in the Chicago area. The actual press release detailing the opening of...
- Blog posts 2008-06-21
- Xohm WiMAX service to launch in Baltimore in September 08
- We have been hearing about the on and off story of Sprint, Clearwire, and Xohm for quite some time now and I pretty much had given up hope of really seeing any commercial release of WiMAX with 4G right around the corner. According to Sprint CTO Barry West, Xohm will...
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Pigs is pigs and data is data
- Pigs is pigs and data is datareal meaning of statisticsThe whole problem of overal testing and of data collection is that eaming lies on statistics and that you must not think in terms of individuals when regarding those. You cannot understand why one individual child failed the test exploiting statistics;...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Airport security part 3: Planes, trains, and automobiles
- I took a trip home to Michigan this week via Amtrak, and I got to thinking about previous articles I've written about airline security and wondered why are the security concerns so much more lax for trains and cars than they are for planes? There's certainly some obvious...
- Blog posts 2008-06-15
- TSA is failing us, let my associated ranting begin thusly
- TSA is failing us, let my associated ranting begin thuslyHand Sanitizer Bombinterestingly enough, it's probably completely possible to build a bomb out of a can of hand sanitizer and a lighter. well... maybe not a bomb persee... but enough of a distraction i'm sure.i know i'm not giving away...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-09
- Airport security part 2: TSA is failing us, let my associated ranting begin thusly
- I want to start out by saying that I take great personal risk of getting black listed before my flight to K.C. tomorrow morning, but I thought I'd talk about an article by Rafal Los on how the TSA is failing us again. This actually reminds me of an older article that...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violation
- Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violationwho do they think they are fooling?apologizing for nothing does not absolve M$ of the other grave crimes they commited in the last 20 years.The point of CodePlex is???I have a fellow developer thats completely oblivious to anything non-MS. We would discuss...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
- Programming stream of consciousness
- My wife is out of the country now visiting family. That, combined with the fact that I quit Microsoft last week in order to pursue full-time a startup project that concentrates, in the near term, on Africa, means that I am spending every waking hour programming. ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Control PowerPoint presentations with your voice
- Not too many people have taken advantage of the speech recognition capabilities that Windows has, but this one might just change your work life forever. Blogger and Microsoft employee Rob Chambers offers a handful of free macros you can add to your Speech Macros folder to...
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Gates rules out returning to Microsoft
- Gates rules out returning to MicrosoftGet rid of BallmerGates should return, but they need to get rid of Ballmer first. That jumping monkey boy has done more damage than good for Microsoft. I'm not even a big MS fan, but I think Gates is forward-thinking enough to get the right...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
- Ghostly ring found circling dead star
- An international team of scientists has found a strange ring around a dead star by using images taken by NASA's Spitzer space telescope. This star, called SGR 1900+14, belongs to a class of objects known as magnetars. According to NASA, a magnetar is 'a highly magnetized neutron star and the...
- Blog posts 2008-06-01
- Developing Solutions with SharePoint Server 2007
- Instantly save $400 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic or ZDNet! Offer ends August 22, 2008.View Available Dates and LocationsIn this survey course, you will explore the development opportunities with Microsoft's most recent release of SharePoint Products and Technologies. During the first half of the course,...
- Training 2008-06-01
- Measuring and Justifying IT Services
- Instantly save $400 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic or ZDNet! Offer ends August 22, 2008.View Available Dates and LocationsLearn how to avoid IT project failure by measuring and justifying the right projects for your IT service strategy. In this course, you will learn...
- Training 2008-06-01
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