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- Is age-ism rampant in Silicon Valley and beyond?
- I recently blogged about an article focused on Silicon Valley's workforce and how the author, Tamara Carleton, believes that Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials can form a potent team. In the innovation lifecycle, if Boomers serve as advisors and Gen Xers as the entrepreneurs, then the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Ballmer: Microsoft never recovered from Vista blow
- Word of Mouth...... trumps design and usability. Seems that once the drumming starts in the ABM crowd, there is little to do about the avalanche of "me too-ism."Vista is a fine operating system done in by third party vendors who refused to update their drivers to work with Vista's...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
- OpenOffice users: Just say no to a Microsoft-like Ribbon interface
- OpenOffice users: Just say no to a Microsoft-like Ribbon interfaceThey better follow Microsoft.Anyone who remember Jensen Harris' presentation at MIX08 knows that the Ribbon is the best thing to happen in user interface design in a long time. Lots of research went into it.OOo would be best-off using Microsoft's research...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-05
- Apple Board vacancy: Good riddance to Eric Schmidt
- Apple Board vacancy: Good riddance to Eric SchmidtArt Levinson is nextNow Genentech CEO Arthur Levinson needs to exit either Google's or Apple's board.RE: Apple Board vacancy: Good riddance to Eric SchmidtMy opinion is any of these Board members who receive Stock Options as partial remuneration for their services on this...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-03
- While I'm away...Kindlenomics and OLPC revisited
- Since my wife is 6 months pregnant and my mom is visiting from Seattle, we've decided to take a night away while said mom watches the kids. As a result, you get one more repost. I'll be back tomorrow, recharged after a bed and breakfast getaway; it will...
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- VAR Uses Rapid Implementation to Reduce Project Completion Time by 40 Percent
- ISM, a value-added reseller of Microsoft Dynamics business management software based in Portland, Oregon, was looking for a way to streamline its implementation process to reduce costs and improve its competitive advantage. Recently, at a Microsoft training event, an executive from ISM discovered Rapid Implementation Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP,...
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Wi-Fi and Bluetooth: The Path From Carter and Reagan-Era Faith in Deregulation to Widespread Products Impacting Our World
- The rules adopted in Docket 81-413 had a much greater impact than any of its advocates could ever have imagined at the time. They enabled the development of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, the majority of cordless phones now sold in the US, and myriad other lesser-known niche products. In doing so they...
- White papers 2009-05-31
- Forget Kindle DX. How about the ZuneBook?
- Forget Kindle DX. How about the ZuneBook?Isn't it a tad too prematurefor there to be Kindle fanboi-ism?No "fanboi-ism" sicI just paraphrased some of the nonsense you usually propose and added a couple of thingsHowever, isn't it premature to deride the Kindle DX?Apparently not.This one has his/her shorts in a wad...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-06
- ITIL V3 and Information Security
- This paper discusses the role and importance to the business of effective Information Security Management ISM, how it is supported by an extensive family of global standards and the way these harmonize with ITIL. The intended readership is business and IT managers familiar with or interested in ITIL. The paper...
- White papers 2009-05-01
- Interactive SMS Master 1.02 (Mobile)
- BriefingInteractive SMS Master ISM is an all-in-one SMS manger. It integrates all useful SMS features you can image to one application! ISM can schedule to send out up to 1600 char long text messages to unlimited recipients anytime. And protect all SMS chat contents and logs with specific senders and...
- Software downloads 2009-04-27
- The U.S. electrical grid: How big of a cyber target is it?
- The U.S. electrical grid: How big of a cyber target is it?So, in the future......"Live Free or Die Hard" could end up being a prophetic sort of documentary. That blows.There's only one solution. FIX IT!RE: The U.S. electrical grid: How big of a cyber target is it?All this while Obama...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-08
- NetApp: Layoffs and a $3 million CEO jet
- NetApp: Layoffs and a $3 million CEO jetIf You've Got the Money, You'll Spend It On SomethingWhile I personally believe that we have more important things to do in this world than to buy toys, I think those who have substantial money will be spending it in some manner. The...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-20
- Obama's Transparency Problem
- Obama's Transparency ProblemNo changeI like Obama, he is a very nice guy. But his administration brings nothing new, no change. Nothing. The same old guys that are responsible for the great mess we are in now, soon to be named The Greatest Depression, mark my words, are now here in...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-21
- Identity and Security Management and Strong Information Technology Governance: Novell's Solution Suite Automates the Approach to the Perfect Union
- This paper examines Novell's Identity and Security Management ISM solutions and how these integrated offerings can play a key role in enforcing security compliance for enterprise organizations. When properly implemented and deployed, these solutions help companies to avoid violations of government and industry regulations. It also helps to avoid the...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- A Low-Power Monolithic CMOS Transceiver for 802.11b Wireless LANs
- Wireless LANs WLANs are currently seeing significant growth in the worldwide consumer electronics market. The high data rate (11 Mbps) WLAN standard IEEE 802.11b in unlicensed 2.4 GHz ISM band is the most popular one. With more handheld devices such as PDA and IP phones integrated with the WLAN function,...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Users reporting 30 GB Zune failures
- Users reporting 30 GB Zune failuresZuneInsiderThe Zune team know about it and are looking into it. You can check their progress on twitter @ http://twitter.com/ZuneInsiderThe 4 Gig versionswe gave to the kids this year have had no issues to date.I assume the software/hardware to be much the same between models,...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-31
- OLPC is dead...What Kindlenomics taught us
- Fellow ZDNet blogger, Jason Perlow, wrote a neat piece suggesting that, if electronic versions of most college textbooks existed, it wouldn't take many semesters for the average undergraduate to pay for the Kindle on which to read them. In fact, with a fair amount of arm-waving, it wasn't too...
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- President Obama will take away kids cold medicine
- President Obama will take away kids cold medicineWhy regulate something that is only a problem due to irresponsible parentsALL over-the-counter OTC medications have information about who can use it and how much medicine it should get. Every bottle of OTC medication has very visible warning and most specify that...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Slimming down the bloated iTunes 8 installer
- Slimming down the bloated iTunes 8 installerPerformance?Let alone the installer size, does anyone else out there have kind of mediocre performance with iTunes in Windows Vista? I've had a number of times where it just seems to come up black, or respond slowly, or syncing just slows my PC to...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Has the iPhone delayed the Blackberry Bold's US debut?
- Even though RIM's Blackberry Bold is currently available in 13 countries, the U.S. ain't one of them, and that could be because the iPhone 3G is hogging AT&T’s 3G network, according to a story in yesterday's Toronto Globe and Mail. "Both devices use the same next generation (3G) network...
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
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