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Windows 7 Pricing announced
in The CIO Weblog, on June 25, 2009
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I'm not throwing this out there as a sign of weakness on Microsoft's part or as a thing to attempt to take advantage of. Whether they are making the decision out of based on this factor or no...
OIN Seeks Prior Art in TomTom Patent Suit
in HackITLinux, on May 1, 2009
...s 5579517 , 5758352 and 6256642 — to a section of its Linux Defenders website in an attempt to get community members searching for prior art that could prevent Microsoft from wielding t...
Giving banks permission to lie
in Sox First, on April 4, 2009
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More fallout from the Financial Accounting Standard Board's latest attempt to make the banks happy. From now on, it should be called the Fake Accounting Standards Board. As Peter Schiff, the ...
The New Ho Chi Minh Trail
in Eagle Par Birdie, on March 25, 2009
...with the main points of the Vietnam War, a war that took hundreds of thousands of lives in a futile attempt by the U.S. to shore up a corrupt regime in the South.
Ho Chi Minh continued to inspire his...
Market soars as trade collapses
in Sox First, on March 24, 2009
...and elsewhere, making households unwilling to purchase durable goods such as automobiles while they attempt to rebuild their savings. Falling commodity prices, while a boon to consumers in importing c...
France Debates 'World's Toughest' Anti-P2P Law
in P2P File Sharing, on March 12, 2009
... for up to a year," according to Digital Trends' Christopher Nickson .
"The French attempt to pass the world's toughest 'graduated response' law against P2P file-sharers h...
Counterpoint: Employers snoop away!
in The CIO Weblog, on March 4, 2009
...es, can do to an IT department and company, I don't think it's in the least unreasonable to attempt to determine someone's proclivities in that direction before hiring them. Similarly, som...
Some thoughts as the month ends
in WebKinzBlog, on February 28, 2009
...o collect them and then play like 30 at a time to win. It's a great strategy but now, no longer possible
-A lot of people mentioned in comments they think the new header for the arcade means the ... ...e
-A lot of people mentioned in comments they think the new header for the arcade means the end of attempt to get high scores lists actually fixed. I hope not but I fear that is true.
-I cannot get ...
Ford May Sell Volvo To China
in Exclusive from our news room , on February 5, 2009
...olvo, one of the company's many bad investments, to the Chinese, is Ford's latest effort to attempt to raise capital.
Read here about Ford's willingness to take a multi-billion dollar l...
AOL 宣布裁员 700 人
in Wangtam, on February 3, 2009
TC 消息 ， AOL CEO Randy Falco 上周在致全体员工的备忘录中表示，受经济衰退的影响，公司将裁员 700 人。
Falco 在备忘录中称公司将裁员 700 人，占员工总数的 10%。同时还将冻结 2009 年全年的加薪计划。"全球经济衰退已经影响到每一个角落，包括我们自己。" Falco 表示。
本月初， AOL 的母公司时代华纳其 2008 年的营收预期下调了 3.7 亿美元，这意味着其旗下 AOL 的广告营收同比下降了 18%，大约为 6400 万美元。
上周，Google 承认其于 2005 年收购 AOL 5% 股份已成为一笔亏本生...
Google gone bonkers?
in The CIO Weblog, on January 31, 2009
...ogle has gone bonkers today. Every non-News/ image search result that comes back for any query I attempt in the search engine returns with a warning beneath the link "This site may harm your c...
Virgin Media Cancels 'Virgin Music Unlimited' P2P Service
in P2P File Sharing, on January 24, 2009
...rgin Music Unlimited, represented a major investment for the ISP and would have been the first such attempt to monetise P2P file sharing in an ISP partnership in either Europe or the USA," Orlows...
Novices Given $1 Million to Start a Hedge Fund on TV
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on January 23, 2009
...up camp in one of the buildings grade A office suites, buying and selling in the stock market in an attempt to make their millions.
Full story at HedgeCo News
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Blockbuster Video Service Coming To Cell Phones
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on January 19, 2009
...uters, net-connected televisions and of course, cell phones.
This latest news is Blockbuster's attempt to match the advances of Netflix in late November when it introduced a gadget that connects ...
Security is just broken
in The CIO Weblog, on January 15, 2009
...t aspect than they are typically presented. One of the slides the first presenter put up (a blatant attempt to be scary, as far as I could tell) said in 18 point type: "Can you guarantee that yo...
Columns versus Rows
in Googlestack, on January 10, 2009
... In an attempt to bring the column oriented storage closer to the readers, I've managed to find a series of really great explanations about these two distinct storage schemes. While still theore...
4 Crisis Related Suicides (Report)
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on January 7, 2009
...rnoon trading session of São Paulo's commodities and futures exchange in an apparent suicide attempt in November. Trading stopped for about 15 minutes.
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Implementing Agile Operations in your IT department
in The CIO Weblog, on January 6, 2009
...39;t ask for it, don't do it. Base as much of your project inventory and operating processes as possible off of actual end-user demands. Listen to those requests and don't go out of your way t... ... * To borrow a phrase, let architecture emerge. Establish guidance and sketch out plans, but do not attempt to set your infrastructure overmuch in stone before you need it. Instead, be prepared to imp...
On Tour With Condoleeza Rice
in Exclusive from our news room , on December 20, 2008
... The President 's trip has to be the shoe throwing incident in Iraq; which easily eclipsed his attempt at trying to convince the world that his Presidency was one of peace and progress.
Now we h...
SEC: porn, conflicts of interest and private businesses
in Sox First, on December 20, 2008
..."The OIG completed three investigations of employees who misused their government computers to attempt to access and successfully access pornographic website. In the first of these matters, the O...
Honora Pearl Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on December 16, 2008
...isshapen (baroque). Only in rare cases will a natural pearl occur in a spherical shape, making it impossible to supply commercial quantities of round necklaces to the marketplace.
A Cultured Pearl ... ...In a defensive response, the mollusk begins secreting nacre, thin layers of calcium carbonate in an attempt to cover the offending object.
Black Cultured Freshwater Pearl Bracelet in Sterling S...
Entellium files Chapter 11; Intuit hopes to pick up the pieces
in The CIO Weblog, on December 3, 2008
...ective a company such as Intuit has every incentive to make the customer transitions as painless as possible.
I think this bodes well for SaaS, on the whole. If the big fear over the delivery of Soft... ...
Entellium has filed for bankruptcy protection in an attempt to keep operations running while company assets are sold off and customers... well, while something is done with customers; what exact...
Online Program to Help Failing High School Students
in The Online Universities Weblog, on November 29, 2008
...d NovaNET and run by Pearson, a national education company, will have several focuses, including an attempt to salvage the academic careers of high school seniors who are in jeopardy of not graduating...
T-Bird #1 Goes on the Block in Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Auction
in Classical Drives, on November 26, 2008
...t by the Thunderbird grew heavier until it no longer bore any resemblance to the original. A recent attempt at a retro revival was, sadly, a marketing flop. Nevertheless, because it was first off the ...
Walking to Guantanamo
in Latina Viva, on November 3, 2008
...to Guantánamo: Images from a Journey Through Cuba, is both a personal chronicle of one man's attempt to battle depression through an incredible journey and a travelogue of his encounters and rumin...
Ooma Adds New Features
in The VoIP Weblog, on October 29, 2008
...t;Though I use my system solely for outbound calls, some folks have jotted down the Ooma number and attempt to call me on it. So I'm looking forward to having my cell phone ring when a VoIP call c...
More reasons I'm ready to be stoked about Windows 7
in The CIO Weblog, on October 22, 2008
...anyone overseeing software development projects.
Engineering 7 is a very authentic and unvarnished attempt to drum up some positive buzz for 7, started by Steven Sinofsky and Jon DeVaan in an effort ...
The Boring Game
in Eagle Par Birdie, on October 21, 2008
...ed over a season and then handicapped for the final six tournaments is a heavy-handed failure of an attempt to "create" excitement.
Golf's excitement is in the playing of the damn game...
So it's just going to be "Seven"
in The CIO Weblog, on October 13, 2008
... if you want to spell it all out, but I imagine most people won't.
I like it. Another breathy attempt to be trendy like " vista " would have just been a bit too much at this point. 7...
Update on Kentucky vs. the Internet Lawsuit
in Internet Poker, on October 11, 2008
...s state via seizure of domain names by the Kentucky government.
Beshear has admitted this is an attempt to "protect" the other gambling interest in the state such as its world-renown hor...
Hedge Fund Manager Attempts Overhaul of Noront's Board of Directors
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 10, 2008
...ing, "Rosseau's action is not in the best interest of shareholders. It is an opportunistic attempt, in light of extraordinary recent market conditions......Norent will respond (to the circula...
Wikia to launch applications around search
in The Search Engine Weblog, on October 9, 2008
... have a whole business domain around search rankings and the results are difficult to guess. In its attempt to make the choice of community shape a search engine, Wikia announced the Wikia Intelligent...
Nintendo Makes Huge Announcements, Fans Weep with Delight!
in House of Nintendo, on October 3, 2008
... with buttons. But not using motion for a Punch Out game seems ridiculous. Is balance board support possible?
Sin and Punishment 2 for Wii
For those who don't know, this is a sequel to an N64 g... ...e is the rundown of the bigger, most noteworthy things:
New DS!
The DSi looks like Nintendo's attempt to revitalize the DS market. It is still tops in the US, but it has been supplanted by the P...
BioWare's Sonic RPG Now Available for DS
in House of Nintendo, on October 1, 2008
...ut him back on equal footing with Mario.
Sonic: The Dark Brotherhood is the most off the wall attempt yet, an RPG made by BioWare, the current heavyweight champion of Western RPG design (Mass Ef...
Barney Frank Presses Government On Internet Gaming
in The Gambling Weblog, on September 25, 2008
...mand the restoration of their freedom to use discretionary income as they wish.
Frank's recent attempt to overthrow the stifling, and unclear tenets of the, "Unlawful Internet Gambling Enfor...
Kentucky Declares War on the Internet
in Internet Poker, on September 23, 2008
...tucky.
Governor Steve Beshear is not a fan of online poker/gambling and shows it by his outlandish attempt to ban online poker domains within the state of Kentucky via lawsuit. He's is not exactl...
Yesterday's VMworld entry
in The CIO Weblog, on September 19, 2008
... am sorry for subjecting you to my half-completed musings and I hope to get things fixed as soon as possible.
... ...have thus been subjected to. Unfortunately, the support team tells me that I should not go back and attempt to fix that entry until they have had a chance to examine it and hopefully unveil the bug ca...
Game Informer Hates Nintendo, Pretends it is out of Respect
in House of Nintendo, on September 19, 2008
...ck to Wii Music...) might not be any good. But don't just tell us it isn't and then make no attempt to tell us why: it got no coverage other than to say they hated it! Also, the way the magazi...
RIAA sues P2P-Law Blogger
in P2P File Sharing, on September 18, 2008
... throughout the cases he has been involved with, and has posted all his actions to the public in an attempt to give a negative view of the RIAA, and thus makes the case unfair.
Wait...so does that me...
MySQL fragmenting under Sun?
in The CIO Weblog, on September 5, 2008
...tion in it, it may indicate some fragmentation within the project, and that may be the result of an attempt by Sun to push the preferred platform for the database software from Linux to Solaris, as so...
Oooh, shiny!
in The CIO Weblog, on September 2, 2008
...of their planning. As Carr points out, this is less about Chrome itself as it is about Google's attempt to push other browsers in the market to expand their capabilities to make browsing faster, s...
Internal security is the most important security
in The CIO Weblog, on August 30, 2008
...been those who, to a greater or lesser degree, decided to let acrimony interfere with judgement and attempt to disappear with company equipment or information, or disrupt what was left behind. In some...
Start of a Productive Day...
in Biz Plan Hacks, on August 21, 2008
...ad. While there is going to be times that you cannot sleep for whatever reason, you need to make an attempt to get a minimum of 6 to 8 hours sleep.
Next you need to do something in the morning to ge...
EA Announces New Tennis Game For Wii, will use Motion Plus
in House of Nintendo, on August 21, 2008
...for the Wii Remote™ that will give players a new level of accuracy and responsiveness.
Any attempt at Tennis with standard motion control results in something similar to Wii Tennis, which of course a...
Support requirements driving application selection
in The CIO Weblog, on August 16, 2008
...most organizations to select Office, of course; they do it because everyone else does. Were they to attempt to abandon it and move to a flurry of free, open-source alternatives, though, I think they m...
MyCMDB: the cool BSM software with the funny name
in The CIO Weblog, on August 7, 2008
...es such as Digg or Wikipedia, the burden of entering information could be pushed down to the lowest possible level of responsibility, who also happened to be the people most likely to have accurate kn...
Search Social Networks To Find Information You Want
in Web 2.0, on August 7, 2008
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When you first try to search using Delver, you'll be asked to enter your name. Then it will attempt to find your social network profiles. It found several of mine right away, amazing. Now your...
Will Motorola be rescued by the Alexander?
in The Smart PDA, on August 6, 2008
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If you remember we made a post few days ago regarding Motorola's final attempt to make a come back by launching a device called Alexander . Well we now have the first live pictures of the ...
UIGEA Getting Clarified, New Law Introduced
in Internet Poker, on August 5, 2008
...gambling legislation is on the way, according to an article at Pokernews.com that covers the newest attempt by the United States government to clarify just what is, and isn't a legal wager. The si...
The consultant as a CIO
in The CIO Weblog, on August 5, 2008
...rly trusting and being taken for a ride.
So employing a former consultant as a CIO may be the best possible answer, at least in that respect. As a consultant myself (with no desire at all to become a... ...de as consultants but really offer only one or a handful of possible solutions which they will attempt to impose on any situation) will learn a great deal from the flexibility required to success...
Dell to Launch Wi-Fi Enabled iPod Competitor
in The Wireless Weblog, on July 31, 2008
... what Dell's sorry excuse, I just hope it doesn't blow through too much money in its second attempt to jab at Apple's windmills. Prove me wrong, Dell..."
More here from Wired ... ...
MPAA create piracy alternative
in P2P File Sharing, on July 30, 2008
...hey are setting up a website where you can put in the title of a film, and it will give you all the possible ways you can watch it on the net, or alternitively where you can buy it. Seems a good idea ... ...ually do like watching movies online (videos, on a computer?! what is this?!), and so, in an attempt to combat piracy, they are setting up a website where you can put in the title of a film, an...
Miyamoto: We are still working on core games
in House of Nintendo, on July 17, 2008
...id all of the turmoil surrounding the Nintendo press conference, Miyamoto has come out and made his attempt to calm the masses. And, to his credit, he didn't just shrug his shoulders and diss the ...
Barracuda 7200.11 SATA 3Gb/s 1-TB Hard Drive
in On Storage, on July 12, 2008
... © JennyHuang
In an attempt to cool down the storage hungry needs of gamers and media junkies, Segate now has a 1TB hard drive for mass consumption. With a 3Gbs SATA interface, 105 MBPS, 32MB ca...
Pointing Fingers
in The CIO Weblog, on July 9, 2008
...;s long been a tenet of mine that IT should provide tools and support to the business units, not to attempt to replace them wholesale, but I had never made the leap to insisting that the business unit...
Does poor security lead to innovation?
in The CIO Weblog, on July 3, 2008
That's an over-simplification of the argument, of course, as all title lines are, but when you get right down to it, that's the implication of Jonathan Zittrain's concept of "generative systems," the open and unobstructed tools on which he lays the credit for the creation cool ...
Windows File Server Consolidation
in On Storage, on July 2, 2008
... © L_Savage
Often times, in an attempt to manage the ever increasing demand for storage, we deploy network storage with Windows file servers. The end result is Windows File server sprawl,...
Enticing Recipes
in Do you like to cook?, on June 30, 2008
...plit peas in my cupboard. Pass the naan bread!
A forgotten blog birthday led to JenJen's first attempt at a Layer Cake . Check out the gorgeous Cocoa-Buttermilk Birthday Cake she made for...
Glum to Glam? WSOP 2008 Event #15 and #16
in Internet Poker, on June 11, 2008
...t chips with pocket kings that found a third on the turn to turn away the Ace-Rag army's futile attempt to crack her hand with an ace on the river. $244,702 in first place prize money will hopeful...
Conrad Black's last-ditch appeal
in Sox First, on June 9, 2008
... the Chicago Tribune . As Canada's National Post points out, this is Black's last-ditch attempt. If he loses this, he'll have to serve most of that sentence....
Carl Icahn 称 Yahoo 应以每股 34.375 美元出售给微软
in Wangtam, on June 8, 2008
激进投资者 Carl Icahn 日前表示，Yahoo 应当以每股 34.375 美元的身价将自己出售给微软。
Carl Icahn 称，雅虎应当接受这一价格，并与微软合作。 Carl Icahn 今天在发送给 Yahoo 董事会的一封信中表示，如果他控制了 Yahoo 董事会，他将中断有关备选交易的谈判 ━━━━ 除非能够给股东带来每股至少33美元的收益。
这封信对杨致远施加了更强大压力，要求他或者与微软达成交易，或者走人。 Carl Icahn 表示 ，两家公司合并是微软和 Yahoo 与 Google 竞争的唯一途径。
如果不能与微软达成交易， Carl Icahn 计划...
Celebrity Pregnancy Problems
in The Celebrities Weblog, on June 8, 2008
...fied.
Here's an interesting article about what some pregnant celebrities are facing in their attempt to have a normal life.
This site will keep you up to date on which celebrities have a bu...
Sun Microsystems - Flash Storage for Everyone
in On Storage, on June 4, 2008
...B drive but just think of the performance gains. No longer will you need to waste disk space in an attempt to gain high performance numbers. Plus I know many database shops that run with 100-200GB...
NFL's Worst DB Combos
in End Zone Buzz, on June 4, 2008
...Vikings allowed the most passing yards in football, which is forgivable considering the number of attempts they faced, but they also allowed opponents to complete 64.2% of their passes against them, ...
Classic Streetcars and Vintage Hillclimb Highlight 2009 Subaru Test
in Classical Drives, on May 30, 2008
...ears the surface was dirt whereas it is now paved and a pair of residence driveways interrupted any attempt to simulate repeats in the Subaru. A pair of cautious runs proved that all-wheel-drive is no...
NFL's Worst QB Combos
in End Zone Buzz, on May 28, 2008
... © timsamoff
Originally, this was going to be an attempt to rank the best NFL QB combos. But that's a little too mundane. I mean, how can I rank the Indianapolis Colts ' QB tandem w...
Heroic Climber Finally Summits Everest
in The Outdoor Weblog, on May 24, 2008
...time on Thursday, May 21.
This is notable because Brash is one of the climbers who sacrificed his attempt in 2006 to save Australian climber Lincoln Hall . Hall had been left for dead before Brash ...
FBI Issues Phishing Warning
in I got Spam?!, on May 24, 2008
... the form and submit before May 10th, 2008 to ensure that your refund will be processed as soon as possible.
Submitting your form on May 10th, 2008 or later means that your refund will be delayed due... ...ng Hian Lim
The FBI has issued a warning about a new spam attack. The spams, which are phishing attempts are designed to look like official correspondence from the IRS. Here is their official state...
Rupert Murdoch in China
in TJ's Weblog, on May 20, 2008
...orp. (Star TV) in Beijing in the late 90s. It's a great insider story of Rupert Murdochs failed attempt to conquer the mainland. Most stories about Murdoch end with Rupert getting the deal done an...
Outsourcing in a recession
in The CIO Weblog, on May 17, 2008
... results. To which I can only reply, good point. I should have addressed that more deeply, and will attempt to do so now.
The crux of making specific recommendations in broad contexts such as this, o...
