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News to know: Vizio; Apple-Psystar; Buffett; Facebook status; Palm Pre; AT&T

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sean Portnoy: Vizio spills the beans on its Internet TV plans Sam Diaz: Court allows Apple-Psystar case to resume...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard Co., Palm Inc., AT&T Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Software As A Service (SaaS), Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Security, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-06-25

General Imaging starts shipping new touch-panel GE E1250TW

General Imaging, the licensee of GE branded cameras, began shipment of its GE E1250TW today, after debuting on Home Shopping Network last week. What's so special about this camera? The 3.0-inch LCD touch-screen allows for swiping, rotation and zoom, among other features. However,...

Tags: General Electric Co., Imaging, Camera, Keyboards, Document Management, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Components, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-06-24

One example of "smarter planet"

The smart grid for electricity has become so mainstream Congress wrote it into the stimulus law enacted earlier this year. IBM's marketing of "smarter planet" goes way beyond electricity and networked grid. I recently spoke with Drew Clark, director of strategy of IBM Venture Capital Group. And...

Tags: Sensor, Grid, IBM Corp., Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-21

Ubuntu aims at healing Linux's 'paper cuts'

Ubuntu aims at healing Linux's 'paper cuts'Ubuntu aims at healing Linux's 'paper cuts'Papercuts? More like deep stab wounds that require major surgery.You can't polish a turd. It still has linux underneath it. The problem is there is no fixing linux. Its inner workings of being a mesh of...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Ubuntu

Discussion threads 2009-06-16

News to know: Android notebooks; Twitter bugs; Samsung, Nokia

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. John Morris: Five big issues with ARM and Android netbooks Ryan Naraine: Coming in July: Month of Twitter Bugs ...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Notebook, Nokia Corp., Smart Phone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Smart Phones, TVs, Cellular Phones, Tv & Home Theater, Handhelds, Channel Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-06-16

GE buying health IT market share

Big companies need to tie hospitals and clinics to their big iron projects quickly or many could move to software as a service plans with little upfront expense, given that NCHIT David Blumenthal has indicated such plans will be eligible for stimulus payments. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Software-as-a-service, General Electric Co., Information Technology, Health Care, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-06-15

Windows enthusiasts launch 'Boycott Opera' campaign

Windows enthusiasts launch 'Boycott Opera' campaignYeah, ok, Apple too, along with Microsoft.I did forget Apple: I don't get that either. HansWhat is a "Windows Enthusiast"?This is something I don't understand. I've never understood how someone could get behind a for profit company like this. I could...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, Opera Software, Windows Enthusiast, boycott

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

Microsoft's naive vision of the future home

Microsoft's naive vision of the future homeCost go down and effciency goes up after a while.Most technology costs goes down as time goes by. 50+ in HDTV a 10 years ago costs mored than 10K, now you can buy them at less 1500. Cost of new technology is always expensive...

Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Zack, future home, vision, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-10

New software enables communication for students with severe disabilities

New software enables communication for students with severe disabilitiesWow!To me, that is the natural progression of software/technology, to be able to include everyone in a full, rich life experience and share it with others. I often wondered how children with severe speech issues are able to express the natural...

Tags: Operational accounting, HEALTHCARE, Peachtree Software, revenue, Accenture Ltd., Sun Microsystems Inc., New Software

Discussion threads 2009-06-09

Siemen's Global SuccessFactors Cloud

The new Siemens talent managing environment being deployed by SuccessFactors is more like the entire troposphere than a cloud solution; 420k users across 80 countries in 20 languages will be linked and unified in one giant environment. Replacing existing multiple HR talent systems...

Tags: Strategy, Talent, SuccessFactors Inc., Siemens AG, Siemen, Talent Management Systems, Employee Central, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Sustainability: More Capitalist Than Jack Welch?

Sustainability: More Capitalist Than Jack Welch?SickThese corporate types are all sick. There is so such more to life than corporate growth, power, and big paycheck,Listening to corporate types scheme can make you sick to the stomach too.RE: Sustainability: More Capitalist Than Jack Welch?Isn't Jack Welch the guy who started...

Tags: Jack Welch, sustainability, capitalist

Discussion threads 2009-06-07

Google: Enterprise business profitable; Says email migration 'proof points' building

Google Enterprise president Dave Girouard said the search giant's corporate apps business is small potatoes relative to advertising, but has "a few 100 million dollars" in revenue and is "profitable and growing." Meanwhile, Girouard said Google Apps is getting a solid pipeline of "proof points" of large enterprises moving to...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Migration, Google Sites, Cloud Computing, E-mail, Online Communications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Sustainability: More Capitalist Than Jack Welch?

What's wrong with this picture? At a time where more leading companies than ever are integrating sustainability, not just into their mid term strategy but into the core of their business models, Jack Welch sits awkwardly on the landscape. Jack and Suzy Welch published a missive on sustainability in Business...

Tags: Strategy, Sustainability, Jack Welch, CSR, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Accounting for success? Darwin meets the green eyeshade world…

Have you really looked at your options for finance & accounting lately? BPO business process outsourcing for Finance and Accounting has been going on for a time. The industry owes some part of its success to the shared services efforts of larger firms. When businesses created shared...

Tags: Software, Accounting, Firm, Darwin, F&A, F&A Executive, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-06-04

Green boom busted?

Green boom busted?Silly thing about investorsThey want a guarantee of a return. And unfortunately this alternative energy thing is a tough nut to crack. The only forms of energy that seem to work reliably and cheaply other than burning things are wind, which is still not so reliable because the...

Tags: Taxes, Personal finance, Right Now IT, alternative energy, tax

Discussion threads 2009-06-04

Will health IT go to the usual suspects?

Will health IT go to the usual suspects?Health care is GE's market to loseWhat does this latest Chrysler nonsense tell us? UAW, the very organization that took the company down along w/ the bad management, got the lions share of bankruptcy protection while the bond holders were screwed. Why? Well,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Litigation, Obama, health-IT, usual suspect, General Electric Co., health care

Discussion threads 2009-05-28

Four companies join favored IT asset disposer list

Market research firm IDC has added TechTurn, GE Capital, Converge and Insight Enterprises to the list of companies that have been blessed with its Green Recycling and Asset Disposal for the Enterprise (G.R.A.D.E.) certification. That means their practices are compliant with best practices and standard for 34 different task areas...

Tags: Asset, Information Technology, International Data Corp., Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-04-28

Apple is being accused of stifling free speech; again

Apple is being accused of stifling free speech; againIf iTunes was not garbage and ...iTunes is slow. Even on desktops, it is simply slow. Everything from search to menu clicks there is always just a 1-2 second delay where nothing happens. (Maybe on OS-X it works well)....

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Pirate Bay, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

G.E. discovers how to put 500GB on a disc; eventual Blu-ray killer?

G.E. discovers how to put 500GB on a disc; eventual Blu-ray killer?Double edged swordWith the ISPs boosting fees and limiting monthly usage the "instant media download" scheme will never take off. The "flash" thing is still too expensive and unreliable (what would a 500 gig flash module cost). ...

Tags: Consumer electronics, Flash Media, DVD archive, killer, G.E., disc, DVD, disk, Flash Movie

Discussion threads 2009-04-27

Miami's smart grid no-brainer

It's a city that must have air conditioning to survive. Clothes dryers and dehumidifiers are a fact of modern life. So it's smart of Miami to enlighten its electric grid. And they're planning to use federal stimulus money to do just that. GE CEO Jeffrey...

Tags: Miami, Grid, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-20