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Chrome OS: The reflective phase
in The CIO Weblog, on July 10, 2009
...ve
We aren't ready to run everything on the Web
Microsoft is a formidable opponent
Google fails often
The Chrome OS makes no business sense
I'll address these, point by point, afte...
Google releases an OS after all
in The CIO Weblog, on July 9, 2009
...ture of computing. Google's view is of cloud-based applications and services, with lightweight, fail-proof devices used for access. While I don't think they ever really wanted to be in the mar...
Will California drag down the United States?
in Sox First, on July 2, 2009
...res. As the San Francisco Chronicle tells us, they just have one month to balance budget. If they fail to do that, the deficit blows out by another billion dollars. The state plans to issue IOUs bu...
What VCs Are Worrying About
in Wangtam, on July 1, 2009
... held stock.
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Coke Redefines Business Intelligence with RFID based Freestyle Drink Dispenser
in The RFID Weblog, on June 9, 2009
...emember the time when New Coke bit the dust and its just one of the several varieties of coke which failed to take of in the market. Even the market seems to have changed since then and has become mor...
Wells Fargo accused of pushing bad loans on African-Americans
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 8, 2009
...a mortgage loan that they eventually wouldn't be able to pay, people will say to me.
What they fail to grasp is that mortgage loan officers are supposed to be looking out for the best interests o...
Pay cuts fail to save HP jobs
in The CIO Weblog, on May 28, 2009
... prefer the more traditional sugar-coating and uncertainty followed by outright layoffs or business failure, prompting this observation in comments:
It's an interesting portrait in psychology, h...
National Venture Capital Association: Suggestions and Blind Spots
in TJ's Weblog, on May 25, 2009
...up in start up companies that are behind schedule for going public and (in the current economy) may fail. Red Herring summed up the NVCA's suggestions: Mr. Doll asked that "both the private s...
Palm Pre Knows How to Successfully Launch a Product
in The Gadgets Weblog, on May 22, 2009
...product, and Palm knows it. The secret is simple; you simply hype the heck out of product and then fail to deliver any to stores which will cause a massive shortage. The media storm will follow, and w...
US and China: the drug dealer-addict relationship
in Sox First, on May 20, 2009
...ially pleasant to think about what the global economy will look like if China and the United States fail to fix their dysfunctional relationship. The frequent flares of social unrest in China could sp...
The deplorable state of mathematics education today
in The CIO Weblog, on May 17, 2009
...ng this that I have seen, is ask what the enterprise has to pay to achieve those same levels. And failing to ask that question, they fail to connect the necessary dots that make the entire topic wor...
Saving Money with Grocery Coupons
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on May 15, 2009
...d the value of the coupons in discounts. They sometimes go through the motions, but somehow it can fail to give you the discounts you were looking for. Correct any problems before you leave the store ...
Navigating the new mortgage roadmap
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 12, 2009
...e credit report . You can find out more about this at the Federal Trade Commission .
If you do fail to qualify for a mortgage today, don't feel too bad. You're in pretty good company. Acc...
Do boycotts work?
in Sox First, on May 12, 2009
...ts work? The answer is yes and no, according to a new study. The study Why Boycotts Succeed - and Fail by Kellogg professor Brayden King examined boycotts of 144 companies. As expected, the boycott...
Google Chrome ads on TV
in Wangtam, on May 10, 2009
...astronaut will tweet, take YouTube questions ... live from space
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Omeka | Serious Web Publishing
in Wangtam, on May 6, 2009
...aking Better Pictures than 2.2.1?
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Franchises Coast Through Recession
in Biz Plan Hacks, on May 5, 2009
... say franchising is recession-proof, but I do say that franchising is recession-resistant. Can you fail with franchising? Of course. How likely you will succeed with franchising? More likely than othe...
Failure Whets the Appetite for Success
in TJ's Weblog, on May 5, 2009
...'s Thoughts had some interesting ideas to share recently about everybody's favorite topic: failure. More specifically, he looked at how failure impacted the entrepreneurial spirit. Give me th...
The Pirate Google
in Wangtam, on April 25, 2009
...09
• Hole, not fail whale, sinks Twitter OAuth support
• What Annoys Me About Twitter
• Top E.D.S. Executives Leave H.P.
• 低迷时代的车展有诚意
• 6 Twitter Search Services Compared
• What's The ...
非主流 (34): TwitPic 的喜与忧
in Wangtam, on April 16, 2009
随着 Twitter 的迅猛发展，其热门的周边应用也在"借光"式的迅速成长。其中，专为 Twitter 提供图片分享的服务 TwitPic ，同样有喜有忧。
根据 Twitter 官方的统计信息， 注册用户已经超过 100 万 。可以使用 Twitter ID 登录的 TwitPic 也就等于拥有了这 100 万的用户群体，虽然其中难免一些非使用 TwitPic 的用户，但是根据 TwitPic 的说法，目前他们每月已经获得了 230 余万的独立访客。这是一张非常不错的成绩单，但是，随之而来的是一些无法避免的隐患。
几个小时前，正好在玩 Tweefight ，...
Is the US becoming like Russia?
in Sox First, on April 15, 2009
...to be solvent. Also there is a need to drop the belief that there are institutions are too big to fail. "That is not capitalism, but socialism,'' Wolf writes. "That is one of the poi...
The great economic cover up
in Sox First, on April 10, 2009
...ives. But I think they are sincerely just panicked about, "We just can't let the big banks fail." That's wrong. BILL MOYERS : But what might happen, at this point, if in fact they ...
中国移动正式启动3G大规模体验
in Wangtam, on April 7, 2009
...id to Fail Over Payouts, Other Terms
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Internet Advertising Crash: Could It Take Down Your Business Model?
in Biz Plan Hacks, on April 3, 2009
...n any type of revenue from Internet advertising. The piece, by Eric Clemons, is Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet .
Clemons is Professor of Operations and Information Management at The Wha...
Is the Internet shattering advertising?
in Sox First, on March 23, 2009
... it has not been requested and when the consumer is in the midst of something else on the net, will fail as a major revenue source for most internet sites. This is particularly true when the consumer ...
Newspapers: obituaries and renewals.
in Sox First, on March 17, 2009
...ut there. It's just going to take different forms and there will be many experiments. Some will fail, and some will be spectacularly successful....
Hacking as a Service
in The CIO Weblog, on March 13, 2009
...imes and whether or not the provider is going to stay in business and what your options are if they fail are trebled when your provider is, not to put to fine a point on it, a criminal. Will criminal ...
Warhammer Online shuts down 63 servers
in PCGamers Blog, on March 13, 2009
What does it tell you when a massively-multiplayer online RPG closes several servers? At the top of one's head, shutting down game servers probably doesn't bode well for the MMO as a whole. But according to Mythic GM Mark Jacobs' forum post , it's actually a good thing when Warh...
Climate change battle lost?
in Sox First, on March 9, 2009
...at the chances of getting an international deal at Copenhagen at the end of this year are likely to fail and that we need to come up with an alternative solution. According to the scientists, people a...
GM - too big to fail?
in Sox First, on March 7, 2009
...y told the Financial Times . That said, I suspect that GM might be classified as "too big to fail". If GM is allowed to slide into bankruptcy, it will hit supplier companies and force them...
Bank nationalisation on its way
in Sox First, on March 6, 2009
...uot;We are painfully learning that the world's mega-banks are too complex to manage, too big to fail and too hard to restructure. Nobody would wish to start from here. But, as worries in the stock...
Biocase Fingerprint Lock Will Be Well Intentioned Failure
in The Gadgets Weblog, on March 4, 2009
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Some uses of technology are well intentioned but destined to fail. Windows Vista, Circuit City, and musical greeting cards are great examples. The Biocase Fingerprint Luggage lock is another well...
Rapid web-based app development: good or evil?
in The CIO Weblog, on February 27, 2009
...ovide powerful tools as an important, cost-effective service without long-term consequences if they fail, or do they tend to lead to the dark side of data and logic silos which are expensive and time-...
The 25 Most Dangerous Places for Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on February 26, 2009
...e, lists like this are speculative, at best, but they do highlight something that many corporations fail to fully grasp - when your critical information is being held offshore, the effect of world eve...
Fly.com
in Wangtam, on February 17, 2009
... Technology Preview
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Multivitamins Don't Protect Women From Cancers and Heart Disease
in Straightfromthedoc, on February 11, 2009
...tamin supplements have a role to play.
Then why are we told to take multivitamin supplements? Ahhh okay...for nutrition's sake.
...
Dashboard Madness
in The CIO Weblog, on February 11, 2009
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Michael Krigsman, of ZDNet's IT Project Failures blog, points out the recent rapid expansion of flashy technology dashboards, those cool collections of reports and data which appeal to almos...
Geithner's vague debut
in Sox First, on February 11, 2009
...at will work. Nor do we know whether banks lumbered with toxic debts will be allowed, or forced, to fail. And don't ask how those illiquid assets will be removed from balance sheets. For that matt...
Will GM and Chrysler go bust?
in Sox First, on February 10, 2009
...iling." And according to this analyst report , the chances of a bankruptcy are high. If they fail to produce a restructuring plan by March 31, the automakers will be required to pay back the go...
Bank bailout failure
in Sox First, on February 3, 2009
... the latest events are showing us that Bush's bank bailout strategy was a complete and absolute failure. First, we had the reports last week of four banks closing in January. The year had barel...
Spotify - Why it rocks
in Digital Music - The Future, on January 31, 2009
...e at the record labels.
It's one of those pipedreams we hear about all the time until they all fail to get licencing, but Spotify has really got it down, although they are having a few cross bord...
Diamond sensors comes to the aid of modern day soldier
in The RFID Weblog, on January 31, 2009
...nsors are estimated to detect chemical and biological agents in water since other materials tend to fail to perform under water. The sensor would be the width of a human hair and have probe molecules ...
Winter's Cold Increases Arthritis Pain: A Complimentary Booklet On Knee and Hip Pain Brings Relief
in Straightfromthedoc, on January 23, 2009
...c Hospital of Chicago , also provides treatment options for those cases where preventative measures fail.
Some of those treatment options include: hip resurfacing, gender knees, mobile bearing knees ...
Outsourcing safely
in The CIO Weblog, on January 9, 2009
...pad their margins by hiring sub-standard talent, or cutting corners on the services they provide. A failure to significantly assess the impact of outsourced tasks on your operations and to systematica...
Why No One Follows You... (on Twitter)
in The Social Networking Weblog, on January 7, 2009
Atherton Bartelby had an excellent examination this week of why you might not be collecting many followers on Twitter. His Mashable piece looks at ten reason why he doesn't return the favor and follow people who are following him...
Top of the list? You don't even have an avatar. After al...
More bailouts on the way
in Sox First, on January 3, 2009
...tution is sufficiently important to the nation's financial and economic system (i.e. too big to fail) and the extent to which it has access to alternative sources of capital and liquidity. It'...
The worst forecasts for 2008
in Sox First, on December 31, 2008
...Eve. My favorite is Ben Bernanke's forecast back in February: "I expect there will be some failures. ... I don't anticipate any serious problems of that sort among the large international...
Voice recognition: Is it now mature enough?
in Supplychainer, on December 28, 2008
...ime to get more mature: As an example in the environment with a lot of noise, the devices sometimes fail to deliver the promised quality.
What do you think?
...
Linux Foundation Launches "I'm Linux" Video Contest
in HackITLinux, on December 24, 2008
The Linux Foundation this week leapt into the advertising wars with the launch of the 'I'm Linux' video contest .
"The Linux Foundation saw those successful I'm a Mac commercials, and Jerry Seinfeld playing with Bill Gates , and they wanted in," writes Gizmod...
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5
in Wangtam, on December 19, 2008
...Is simultaneously, previous versions of Firefox would fail.
• Fixed several issues found in the accessibility implementation.
• Added the ability to send OS-specific system notes in the crash reporter...
Madoff and SEC neglect
in Sox First, on December 13, 2008
...xchange Commission so slack to pick up what he was doing? More to the point, why did the regulators fail to act on the warnings about Madoff? As The Wall Street Journal points out, the SEC was warn...
Outline of The Google Software Stack
in Googlestack, on December 11, 2008
...ta avaialability, as one of the assumptions made during the development of the GFS is that machines fail, and they do so often. This basic replication approach turned out to be pretty useful in practi...
Google Blocks World’s Largest Porn Torrent Tracker
in Wangtam, on December 8, 2008
...e Reader Like A Rockstar
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Is there a bailout strategy?
in Sox First, on December 3, 2008
.... "If everyone is talking about bailing out US automakers because they're a 'can't fail,' we're already talking about virtual nationalization. We're looking at an outdated...
RFID: A real solution to prevent spread of AIDS?
in The RFID Weblog, on November 26, 2008
...pping rituals in some Papua tribes apart from high rate of promiscuity.
I believe even RFID would fail to deliver the goods in this situation and the only way to prevent the spread of this dreaded d...
World's Smallest Active Asset RFID Tag from Orizin
in The RFID Weblog, on November 25, 2008
...y have their own internal power source but work perfectly in environments where radio frequency may fail to deliver.
...
Automakers heading nowhere
in Sox First, on November 19, 2008
...ting it could just be like putting a band-aid on a bullet wound. This is a tough one. Letting them fail could devastate the US economy but at the same time, there is no guarantee a bailout would do a...
GM: Death or bailout?
in Sox First, on November 12, 2008
...ill survive is with a US government bailout. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says GM is too big to fail and she has a point, given the shock waves it would send through supply chain. If GM fails, it ...
iGlassware: Will not leave customers at the table disappointed
in The RFID Weblog, on November 10, 2008
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Most of the bars tend to lose a part of their revenue as waiters fail to ask the customers for a repeat drink. Now here is something which will ensure that customers are served in a prompt manner...
Hot, Flat and Crowded - Thomas Friedman
in Sox First, on November 3, 2008
...December 2009, countries around the world will have to sign a new treaty in Copenhagen. And if they fail to do that, we will be in serious trouble. But then, Friedman in his naivete says global clima...
Classic Car Commercials Break New Ground but Fail Creatively
in Classical Drives, on October 29, 2008
...ly! "
Which would be wonderful if the videos were actually worth watching. Unfortunately they fail to include the one thing that could make them truly enjoyable, and that's the sound of the ...
Prosper.com: No New Loans
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 16, 2008
...d a whole blog to the wonders of Prosper.
It's really an exciting idea. Unfortunately, it will fail.
Well, Prosper is now not accepting new lenders . According to the New York Times , defaults...
Wal-Mart DRM server shutdown
in Digital Music - The Future, on September 30, 2008
DRMed music is never a good thing for us here at DMF, and here is a Great example of why.
Wal-Mart, up until recently, ran a DRM based music download service, before eventually switching to a drm-free MP3 approach. However, customers could not convert to the new MP3s they had bought, oh no, the...
I'm Very Tempted to Buy Small Banks
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on September 30, 2008
...tocks. Unless all three completely crash and burn, you probably come out ahead. If two out of three fail, you probably come out even, because at least one will survive and return to former glory. If t...
Can the bailout fix things?
in Sox First, on September 29, 2008
...ient cleansing period and a healthy recovery period. How? Irresponsible and unprofitable businesses fail. Bad debts get liquidated. Excess resources go on sale, flow into more stable ventures and pool...
Judge Tosses out RIAA's victory
in P2P File Sharing, on September 26, 2008
In a heroic moment for p2p and general justice everywhere, Judge Michael Davis has overturned the idiotic $222,000 fine that was given for "making available" to single mother Jammie Thomas . A concept which can now no longer be used to slap silly fines on people by the RIAA.
Read up on...
Lehman & AIG & The Rest Can All Go Straight Down the Toilet As Far As I'm Concerned
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on September 16, 2008
...d then they come looking for the government to bail them out, often with the argument that if they fail, then it creates a house of cards that will cause others to fail and soon it all goes straight t...
Do you test IT job applicants?
in The CIO Weblog, on September 15, 2008
...ce. You may bring in a candidate who has never worked on systems similar to yours before and he may fail every knowledge question on them that you can ask; yet he may be a better candidate than the on...
The tanking banks
in Sox First, on September 15, 2008
...me. Former Fed chief Alan Greenspan has warned that "we will see other major financial firms fail". Meanwhile economist Nouriel Roubini has warned we could see a run on the investment ba...
