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Is Sony Really Flirting With PSP Phone
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 29, 2009
... if Sony cannot afford new development on the system because of some silly PSP Phone, it would be a tragedy.
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Social entrepreneurship in China
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on May 23, 2009
...rnaut of growth. One example is related to the recent earthquake that ravaged Sichuan Province. The tragedy unleashed a huge wave of volunteers in China as tens of thousands of people donated time and...
3 Strikes is in for France
in Digital Music - The Future, on May 14, 2009
...It's sad to have to post this but the "3 strikes and your out" copyright law in France has come into play. It's a seriously idiotic piece of legislation that brings copyright infring...
Time to lob a Molotov cocktail
in The CIO Weblog, on May 14, 2009
... © Marek Peters
So, speaking of revolutions , it strikes me that this one isn't being evangelized very well. Nick Carr has turtled, turning off blog comments and going largely off the radar ...
The Revolution
in The CIO Weblog, on May 12, 2009
...egy, and both are among the techniques that I would recommend exploring. But the mindset as a whole strikes me as reactionary and defensive. I'm sure that's conventional wisdom in circumstance...
Google Likes To Steal Other's Thunder
in Wangtam, on May 3, 2009
...• Google Likes To Steal Other's Thunder
• Quicken Online strikes back at upstarts with iPhone app
• SKOUT - Matches | location-based mobile dating
• Glearch: 3x the global search
• Malari...
Taiwan Approves Three-Strikes Law
in P2P File Sharing, on April 30, 2009
..." writes Billboard's Thibault Worth . "In addition, the law introduces a 'three-strikes' provision whereby ISPs can restrict the Internet access of users who download copyrighte...
GM Drops Pontiac, Journalists Miss the Point
in carzz.org, on April 29, 2009
... that here was a Pontiac to be reckoned with.
What happened to Pontiac in contemporary times was a tragedy forced upon it by, yes, more marketing "experts." The Aztec, possibly the ugliest ...
ACTU Issues Warning About Nanomaterials
in Nanotechbuzz, on April 18, 2009
...bres, governments and business must not repeat the painful lessons of the past and allow another tragedy to occur again," says ACTU assistant secretary Geoff Fary. "Existing laws and regulat...
Fake Accounting Standards Board strikes again
in Sox First, on April 6, 2009
As if last week's ruling the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), which I have renamed the Fake Accounting Standards Board, wasn't bad enough. The FASB has ruled that companies can use their own judgement in assessing what an asset's worth under fair value, which in effect me...
Saving precious lives is what RFID intends to achieve
in The RFID Weblog, on March 31, 2009
...d.
Once implemented this system would ensure that no precious lives are lost in case any disaster strikes as this system is expected to offer precision of a higher level. It has already been tested s...
Millionaires and fake prosperity
in Sox First, on March 12, 2009
...isleading. The so-called prosperity was just an illusion created by the financial bubble. This is a tragedy that's not about the rich losing money....
Rapid web-based app development: good or evil?
in The CIO Weblog, on February 27, 2009
...r, apparently similar technologies, so I want to be careful using the Excel comparison here. But it strikes me that it may be more apt in this context than where Mike originally applied it: both busin...
The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown by Charles R Morris
in Sox First, on February 19, 2009
...mingly, to downplay and to conceal. That is a path to turning a painful debacle into a decades-long tragedy." ...
Gaps In the Schedule
in Eagle Par Birdie, on January 28, 2009
...n Tour released its 2009 schedule today under the heading "First courses revealed".
This strikes me as a little odd since the schedule also indicates that no less than 7 of the events are c...
Security is just broken
in The CIO Weblog, on January 15, 2009
...r CEO's laptop is compromised?"
I'm not sure yet what the answer to that is, but it strikes me that it probably revolves heavily around virtualization, centralized control (rather than...
Range Finders - Threat to the Game?
in Eagle Par Birdie, on January 14, 2009
...o use such devices) but an advantage over the game.
Call me old-fashioned or conservative but golf strikes me as a game with two main elements. First, you must strike the ball and send it in the dire...
Apple to Introduce Media Server at Macworld?
in On Storage, on January 2, 2009
...e media junkies who demand regular fixes of audio, video, and images wherever and whenever the need strikes. A media server allows access to personal files stored on it - or stored in the proverbial c...
Suicide Bomber Strikes In Iran
in Exclusive from our news room , on December 29, 2008
Attacks by suicide bombers are a common occurrence in Iraq and Israel as well as most other countries in the Mid-East.
That is, except for Iraq, where a suicide bombing is rarer than an American flag.
But, with the region being a powder keg in the midst of dozens of oppositional political and reli...
Three strikes
in WebKinzBlog, on December 13, 2008
We were excited to see a Wheel of Wishes spin today but the outcome certainly was a bummer for us! We only got to spin in three of our accounts and we didn't win a Wish Token in any of the three - we got a Mohawk, Air Hockey Table and $210 cash.
Must be one of those days where good luck wasn...
The Mumbai Tragedy
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on December 1, 2008
... prayers go out to their families and associates at this time of sorrow. We can only hope that this tragedy, when combined with the economic and political difficulties faced by the world, has only a m...
The Subprime Solution - Robert Shiller
in Sox First, on December 1, 2008
...problem as a one-act play, soon to end, it could in fact be but the first act of a long and complex tragedy." Shiller, one of the founders of the behavioral finance school of economics, argues t...
More woes for India-based outsourcing
in The CIO Weblog, on November 26, 2008
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Not to minimize the very real human tragedy and other geo-political implications of the terror attacks currently paralyzing the Indian city of Mumbai, but the first technology related thought to c...
System Failure: Va Tech's Text Messaging System Crashes
in The Universities Weblog, on November 17, 2008
... Safety on campus has changed a lot since the tragedy at Virginia Tech back in April of 2007. Many schools, Va Tech among them, have implemented emergency alert systems that include sending text mess...
CTO of the United States
in The CIO Weblog, on November 7, 2008
...though there are probably some successes to be had in unifying and systematizing government IT, it strikes me that this may be one of those situations where the goals of government and the processes f...
Shooting at the University of Central Arkansas Leaves Two Dead
in The Universities Weblog, on October 27, 2008
...ampus has installed a emergency system of text messages and emails in response to the Virginia Tech tragedy and authorities are saying that systems worked well.
Police have two suspects in custody an...
Language Learning: Free Online French Classes
in The Online Universities Weblog, on October 21, 2008
...our interest, search through our archives of free classes . You're sure to find something that strikes your fancy....
Mixed messages on the economy
in The CIO Weblog, on October 3, 2008
...soft denied the report , while confirming that it is "reviewing" its hiring plans, which strikes me as being a more politic way of conveying the same information.
I think it's a pruden...
The Lunacy of Sports Writers
in End Zone Buzz, on September 30, 2008
... the end of May. He's not even leading the league anymore in that category."
Huh? Howard strikes out 199 times - tying himself for the second-highest single season total in the more than 100...
Closing the GAAP
in Sox First, on August 28, 2008
...on and Marie Leone suggest it might end a lot sooner. Like from next year. One of the issues that strikes me is whether there are enough skills for the take-up, although six years should give accoun...
Bootstrapper's hall of fame: Bra strap bootstrap
in BootStrapMe, on August 24, 2008
...could be marketed to create the resources she needed to accomplish her goal.
• Inspiration strikes. The answer came in the form of handmade beaded straps used for bras, tanktops, dresses or linge...
Jabra SP700 Bluetooth Speakerphone Bugs Your Desk and Car
in The Gadgets Weblog, on August 21, 2008
...hitting the streets soon, and while it is billed as an "orbital" or space-aged design, it strikes me a bit more insect-like. In fact, it looks a lot like there is a dead bug sitting on the d...
Calm down: Gamestop's Girls Night In Page Not As Bad as Some Think
in House of Nintendo, on August 12, 2008
..."the team with the cutest quarterback," there just isn't a whole lot on the site that strikes me as so horrible.
So what if it has recipes for a Madden Party? Wouldn't a page about...
MyCMDB: the cool BSM software with the funny name
in The CIO Weblog, on August 7, 2008
I made fun of Managed Objects new social-networking influenced CMDB interface product myCMDB when it was announced last month, critiquing both the kindergarten playground name of the software and the fact that something as prosaic as a configuration management database product was jumping o...
RFID Taser Bracelets: The anti-hijacking device
in The RFID Weblog, on August 7, 2008
...sengers and their luggage.
Some may feel it as a trouble but if you go back and remember the 9/11 tragedy you would certainly say a yes to it.
...
WiFi in Mexico
in Latina Viva, on August 6, 2008
... email. It lets emails be received, but there are restrictions and issues with sending.
So three strikes and I'm done. I'll just buy a multifon card at the airport....
Persystent imaging and repair
in The CIO Weblog, on July 31, 2008
...y sticks by it. While I am not going to accuse Microsoft of any prodigious feats of engineering, it strikes me that the initial installation of all that software takes hours. Simply copying the releva...
Cloud computing: getting what you paid for
in The CIO Weblog, on July 29, 2008
...r under average load for one month, then sliced accordingly). It's an interesting idea, but it strikes me that what works well for Mosso may not as accurately represent the loading and structure o...
The iPhone 3G: You Really Expected a Smooth Launch?
in The Wireless Weblog, on July 12, 2008
...nown for being customer oriented and for its technical excellence."
Spring's declaration strikes me as a bit melodramatic - I've been very much looking forward to getting a new iPhone, ...
China's Business Confidence Index - Up and Down
in China Venture News, on July 9, 2008
...rs just released in China .
I haven't paid much attention to China's BCI before now. It strikes me as something like trying to take the temperature of a small fire. China's economy is ...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 31
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on July 1, 2008
...ve never gone to bed with an ugly woman, but I've sure woke up with a few."
Buffett again strikes the theme that Berkshire prefers established businesses:
In the strange world department, n...
The future of eXpresso
in The CIO Weblog, on July 1, 2008
...t, for years to come. Although that's undoubtedly the case for most users simply by default, it strikes me that the open document format wars may catch eXpresso in the cross-fire. Although the com...
Castlevania Fighting Game For Wii Problematic
in House of Nintendo, on June 29, 2008
...i Castlevania game was announced (Castlevania Judgement). Fans rejoiced.
But not so fast.
Two new strikes have this game hampered from the start. First, it's a fighting game. A FIGHTING game. Ca...
Who should run software companies?
in The CIO Weblog, on June 25, 2008
...how to answer half the pop-ups it throws at her.
I respect Gates' intellectual prowess, but it strikes me that a non-programmer more attuned to the consumer's sensibilities and capabilities m...
Why won't this thing just die?
in The CIO Weblog, on June 24, 2008
...t is possible that simply the ongoing discussions are having a negative effect even if the ultimate tragedy that would be a culmination of the deal never does. Certainly it isn't helping Microsoft...
Government puts "gun to the head" of British ISPs
in Digital Music - The Future, on June 24, 2008
...supposed to stop pirated content being shared?
Perhaps they are thinking of going the "three strikes and your out" way the french have recently gone to attept to combat piracy?...
Go Nude
in Are you a beauty?, on June 22, 2008
... greasy or they don't moisturize the delicate eye are enough. NUDE's Advanced Eye Complex strikes a perfect balance, thankfully.
This chicly packaged eco-friendly eye cream is formulated wi...
Free Online Digital Photography Course And Photo Critique
in Digital Shot, on June 22, 2008
... fan that enjoys sharing her knowledge and experience but still considers herself a beginner.
This strikes me as a good place for noobies, and not so noobies, to exchange ideas and get a feeling for ...
Saturday Link Love: Best of the Outdoor Blog
in The Outdoor Weblog, on June 14, 2008
...e hiking in, it's best to know what types of weather you might encounter. Check out Mt. Rainer Tragedy Reminds Us To Be Prepared (especially helpful is the section on being caught in a lightning...
The Great Hardware debate
in The CIO Weblog, on June 10, 2008
...pecialized approach can address some of the common problems found with commodity hardware, but that strikes me as being beside the point. It's not as if any of this stuff started off as a commodit...
RIM Strikes Back with BlackBerry Thunder
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 9, 2008
Rumors surrounding the 3G iPhone are swirling, but RIM isn't scared. Research In Motion is on the verge of releasing their own touchscreen wonder-phone. While details on the gorgeous hardware are slim, the geniuses over at The Boy Genius Report have live pictures and a few hints; BlackBer...
微软官方发布 2007 年 Windows XP/Vista 安全报告
in Wangtam, on May 23, 2008
微软官方发布 2007 年 Windows XP/Vista 安全报告
Identity 2.0 Keynote
Flock More Than Doubles Its Funding
Bnarrator Gets Your Site Talking
金喜善确认怀孕 推迟复出时间
Configure Firefox 3 to use Gmail as your default email app
Eureka Science News
Google Sites正式向所有用户开放！
四部"汶川电影"将陆续开机
Sonico: Soc...
Virtualization - Before Disaster Strikes
in On Storage, on May 22, 2008
© e-strategyblog.com
What would you do if you knew a major catastrophe was on its way and threatened to totally destroy your data center?
I venture to say you really couldn't do anything today except maybe unplug everything and hope for the best. But if you had time to plan, what would yo...
Cool Pet: World's Smallest Dog
in Cool Picking, on May 11, 2008
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This dog, named Dancer, only reaches four inches in height, but what really strikes me is his incredible little bark. This dog, which recently became inducted as the smallest in the world, was ...
Dell launches VM optimized servers
in The CIO Weblog, on May 8, 2008
... manufacturers are going to jump on the virtualization bandwagon; after all, the concept implicitly strikes at their core business, allowing fewer boxes to serve more purposes, and there is little tha...
Buddy Dank at the Borgata Day 3
in Internet Poker, on May 6, 2008
...nk Radio for the Battle of the Blogger Tournaments. Currently at the Borgata, Buddy Dank, Instant Tragedy , and Riggs have been bringing live coverage of the Atlantic City casino's $500,000 gu...
It's jail time for tax evader Wesley Snipes
in Sox First, on April 25, 2008
...n California can go to jail for life under California's ridiculously harsh criminal "three strikes and you're out" law, but wealthy elites who mock the nation's tax laws often ge...
Mesh with Microsoft
in The CIO Weblog, on April 24, 2008
...synchronization platform this week. Live Mesh, brainchild of industry legend Ray Ozzie, probably strikes you, like most of the blogosphere, as a pretty sharp implementation of one of the long-held i...
When Inspiration Strikes
in Pretty Things, on April 24, 2008
You never know where you will find the first big thing - a coffee shop, your corner store or maybe on a social networking site - Fad Mashion where it merges designers, retailers and media together! That being said, I am a member of this site and I was approached by Charmaine Ho which makes am...
Here are RFID robots to assist in rescue operations
in The RFID Weblog, on April 23, 2008
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Rescue operations after disaster strikes in a particular area can be an extremely difficult task but now there is no need to worry as RFID is out there to act as a helping hand in the rescue oper...
HFC Childrens Gala
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 23, 2008
... funds to support children who are suffering from abuse and neglect which is a widespread national tragedy and a serious problem in our local communities," said Melinda Kramer, Co-Chairperson...
2008's Ugliest Dog Contest
in Cool Picking, on March 30, 2008
...ot a top pick for The Ugliest Dog. . . but you'll have to check it out for yourself to see what strikes you as the most hideous dog. These little pups ono display are often rescue dogs, and most s...
John Daly's Role in Golf
in Eagle Par Birdie, on March 15, 2008
Why do we have such a fascination with John Daly?
He's made golf news headlines again with his antics at the recent PODS Championship, antics that involved drinking at the Hooter's hospitality bar, getting the coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to caddy for him, having his world-fa...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 29
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on March 12, 2008
...nthropies, and I want society to reap the maximum good from these gifts and bequests. It would be a tragedy if the philanthropic potential of my holdings was diminished because my associates shirked t...
Where does Walcott go from here?
in The Soccer Weblog, on March 7, 2008
Just how much did Sven Goran Eriksson set back Theo Walcott's career by taking him to the 2006 World Cup? It seemed a strange decision at the time and when Walcott, still only eighteen now, didn't get near making an appearance at the tournament it seemed even stranger.
At the age of six...
The Absurd David Jaffe Strikes Again
in House of Nintendo, on March 1, 2008
Image created for House of Nintendo by Rob Howard
David Jaffe is at it again! in a farcical conversation about what he'd do if tasked with a Mario game, the man credited with creating God of War suggested that he would play up the "drug angle:"
"There's clearly a kind of...
Online College Admissions Essays
in The Online Universities Weblog, on February 26, 2008
...own up to these issues. Explain any extenuating circumstances (such as dropping out due to a family tragedy). If there is no good excuse, explain what you've learned from your mistakes and why you...
Northern Illinois University Shooting Updates
in The Universities Weblog, on February 17, 2008
... his own life after the shooting. It was the worst campus violence since the Virginia Tech tragedy exactly 10 months earlier.
The campus was closed on December 10 while police investigated...
UK to follow France's plans?
in P2P File Sharing, on February 13, 2008
...to a new UK based report, there is plans for a similer system for the United Kingdom.
Once again a strikes system is planned, with the first strike being an email warning (how do they propose to get ...
