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EU to Admit Linux

Published on 20 Mar 2006 at 9:37 pm. No Comments.
Filed under Uncategorized, The Cargo Cults of Business, Technopolitical, Business and Corporation Related, Pure Geek, Information Technology, Open Source Software, Legal, Law, and Courts, Government: Federal, State and Local, Economics and the Economy, Public Relations and Marketing.

EU Votes to Admit Linux; Surprises Pundits

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The First Semiconductor

Published on 10 Mar 2006 at 12:21 pm. No Comments.
Filed under Networking Technology, Pure Geek, Information Technology.

J. C. Bose, Galena, and the Hollow State

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A Hacker’s Eye View of Disruptive Computing Technologies

Published on 8 Mar 2006 at 10:00 am. No Comments.
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Thanks for Playing, Winners and Losers, Technopolitical, Business and Corporation Related, Networking Technology, Information Technology, Open Source Software, Economics and the Economy.

An excursion into where the computer industry has been and where it’s headed in terms of disruptive technologies, with some new perspectives on product trifectas and the primal driver of computing architecture

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Turnaround CIOs

Published on 29 Sep 2005 at 8:06 pm. No Comments.
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Brain Trust, Business and Corporation Related, Information Technology.

Nice article at CIO about acting as a turnaround CIO

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Getting It Right At Fog Creek Software

Published on 12 Sep 2005 at 1:33 pm. No Comments.
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Manifest Masquerade, Total Quality Madness, Principal Acronyms Only, Winners and Losers, Business and Corporation Related, Information Technology, Branding and Values.

Accolades to Fog Creek Software for having their priorities and perspectives in order when it comes to hiring development engineers. They are well deserving of credit for putting function before form in assessing their candidates.

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Survey Says! … Apple Wins?

Published on 8 Sep 2005 at 12:00 pm. No Comments.
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Apple Computer and Macintosh Related, Information Technology.

Apple is widely acknowledged to be the industry leader in ease of use, but an ACSI survey seems to indicate wider reaching implications.

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Enraging Your Customers 101 - Phone Support

Published on 23 Aug 2005 at 4:00 pm. No Comments.
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Total Quality Madness, Service With A Smirk, Design, Interface, and Usability, Business and Corporation Related, Information Technology, Branding and Values, Public Relations and Marketing.

Automated telephone systems are a bane for customers everywhere because of the rude and obnoxious ways they are programmed. But it doesn’t have to be this way…

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Apple and the Jaws of Intel

Published on 8 Aug 2005 at 11:24 am. 3 Comments.
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Total Quality Madness, Pathetic Success, Brain Trust, Winners and Losers, Apple Computer and Macintosh Related, Business and Corporation Related, Information Technology.

Unabashed predictions of how Apple’s switch to Intel will give them another chance to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

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Getting fired for Blogging

Published on 5 Aug 2005 at 12:21 am. No Comments.
Filed under And Stock Options For All, Technopolitical, Blogosphere, Business and Corporation Related, Information Technology.

Am I missing something here?

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IBM Speaks With Forked Tongue

Published on 3 Aug 2005 at 1:24 pm. 1 Comment.
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Manifest Masquerade, Service With A Smirk, Brain Trust, Technopolitical, Business and Corporation Related, Information Technology, Open Source Software.

Brief commentary on IBM’s bait-and-switch with their CGIDEV2 tool

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