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- Proving to business leaders that new technology is not just a gimmick
- Learn how to overcome the resistance of business leaders to new technology projects through more effective communication. by Shannon Kalvar
- Tags: Gimmick, Information Technology, Leader, Manager, Productivity, Leadership, Strategy, Operational Planning, Management, Business Operations, Shannon Kalvar
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- 3 things your resume could do without
- Here are three things that, judging from my mail, hiring managers dislike in a resume. 1. Spelling and grammatical errors. We've covered this area quite a bit on TechRepublic. (See 10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid) Some members have blasted us for our seeming...
- Tags: Gimmick, Wall Street Journal, Hobby, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- It lives! Andersen and Microsoft joint venture comes out of hibernation
- Avanade Inc., the temporarily dormant venture between Microsoft and Andersen/Accenture, has finally been launched. Columnist Tom Rodenhauser discusses the start-up's lofty goals and its fledgling identity.Avanade Inc., the joint venture launched by Andersen/Accenture and Microsoft last March, is reemerging after seven months of relative dormancy. Whether by design or by...
- Tags: Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., Tom Rodenhauser, Avanade, Andersen/Accenture, Microsoft Corp.
- Technical articles 2000-11-03
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- Amateur mythbusting: Shooting open padlocks
- My unknowing Jedi Master Charles Stross pointed out this little bit of amateur mythbusting: The universal movie gimmick of someone shooting open a padlock is debunked in fairly scientific fashion by a couple of serious gun enthusiasts. To be fair, they were using a decent sized 2-inch...
- Tags: Rifle, Movie, Lock, Shotgun, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2005-11-23
- That which I covet - The geekest of things
- I seem to recall a wise man or maybe it was Hannibal Lecter once said that we are judged by that which we covet. Since nobody has taken any really demeaning personal shots at me in the last 15 minutes, I thought I'd open for criticism that...
- Tags: Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-03-24
- Readers zoom in on Microsoft's JPEG rival
- Well...Why have MS developed this?Answer this question and we have a winner.OK, they may base their OS picture & images on the format, fine - they are free to do so. They can add in viewers to windows and make it a selling point, again fine. However to...
- Tags: JPEG, ms, yinbig, programming, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-06-01
- Coming soon to an egg near you: Advertisements
- Reason #5174 to hate Marketers, courtesy of BoingBoing: "CBS will laser-etch ads for its programs on 35 million eggshells in the coming TV season -- the slogans will bear goody, egg-related puns, like 'CSI: Crack the Case on CBS.' The company that does the etching promises...
- Tags: Advertisement, CBS Broadcasting Inc., Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-07-18
- Photos: Get your (sneaker's) motor running
- It is cool, but is it fair, healthy or a gimmick?I have to say this idea is way cool, but I was just thinking about whether or not it will be banned from sports events, if it proves durableand helps alot. Suppose hypotheticly that, wearing a pair of these, I...
- Tags: peace@..., health and technology, sport, computer cheats, hardware, photograph
- Discussion threads 2006-04-25
- Photos: Symantec under ground
- Bomb proof>I am not sure if this article is a spoof or not, In the event of a nuclear holocaust, is it reassuring to know that Symantec’s security staff are housed in a bomb proof shelter, guarding us against the threat from hackers and the like.Will any users be concerned...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., symantec, malware, pictures, Kiltie, security, photograph
- Discussion threads 2006-06-05
- Ditch your BlackBerry
- It is a lovely Sunday morning over here in Singapore. Yes, the fact that I am GMT +8 does play a pivotal part in me seeing the new day already when most of you folks in the UK or the US are still sleeping or having a late night....
- Tags: Marketing, RIM BlackBerry, E-mail, PDAs, Handhelds, Online Communications, Hardware, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-06-03
- Why columnists often write awful blogs (like this one)
- Not that I consider myself a "real" columnist--I only use the term because it's the easiest for people who know nothing about online content or Web development to grasp when they ask what I do for a living--but my secretly drafted Jedi Master John Scalzi (himself a...
- Tags: Columnist, Blog, Column, Newspaper Column, Blogging, Internet, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-01-12
- Secure your system with the Yoggie Pico USB hardware firewall
- If the sky is looking particularly blue this Monday, do hop down over to Yoggie Security Systems and check out their latest USB-powered hardware firewall, the Yoggie Pico, a newly released and spectacularly miniaturized version of the company's original Gatekeeper product. Basically, what both products do is...
- Tags: Hardware, Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Viruses And Worms, Networking, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Plastic guitars and video cards at SXSW
- I just got back from the South by Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, TX, this week. As with CES 2008, the big gimmick for attracting visitors to your booth was Guitar Hero III. I saw at least four booths with GHIII running and, being a nut about Rock Band and...
- Tags: Video Card, Video, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Corporate Communications, Video Cards, Marketing, Hardware, Components, Shawn Morton
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- Xirrus gets cocky about 802.11n and tells IT pros to "Ditch the switch"
- At Interop Las Vegas 2008, Xirrus tried to convince IT pros that it was time to ditch their switches and replace them with the Xirrus 802.11n wireless arrays. From its inception, Xirrus has been about trying to bring the reliability of the traditional wired LAN to the...
- Tags: Xirrus Inc., Information Technology, IEEE 802.11n, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Wireless, Strategy, Networking, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Red Hat scoops up JBoss
- An acquisition for the open-source business modelLinux distributor Red Hat signed an agreement to buy open-source company JBoss for at least $350 million, a move that expands Red Hat's product line and adds to its growth potential.Do you think this acquisition validates the open-source business model?yes and no.It proves that...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., open source, linux, java, news, red hat, acquisition, jboss, Sonja Thompson, programming, business model, Mandriva
- Discussion threads 2006-04-10
- honesty in advertising
- a great one:http://rivarola.free.fr/humour/images/bmw.jpgDoes that mean thenthat all windows users have "soft-tops?"If this catches onit might usher in a whole new genre of advertising.For example: a car with only two gears to change instead of four -- for Mac users who can only cope with a single button mouse.And the Linux...
- Tags: Jaqui, advertising, off-topic, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2005-09-27
- Geek Trivia: Cents of humor
- Test your command ofuseless knowledge by subscribing to TechRepublic's Geek Trivia e-newsletter. Automaticallysign up today!Geeks and non-geeks alike have long recognized Google as theundisputed king of Internet search engines. But true technophiles regard thesearch authority as one of the few remaining holdouts of the all-but-extinctdot-com culture.Google employees are still the...
- Tags: Google Inc., humor, Jay Garmon, job
- Technical articles 2004-06-01
- The Hot Button: Internet Explorer 7 could extinguish the re-ignited browser war
- The Hot Button: Internet Explorer 7 could extinguish the re-ignited browser wararticle rootInnovation or Catch-upDo you believe Firefox is more secure and innovative? Can Firefox make a play for a significant marketshare of Internet Explorer or is IE 7 going to quell the rumblings?Your opinion counts at The Hot Button.IE7...
- Tags: hardware, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft Windows, Mozilla Firefox, Steven S. Warren, Web browser, windows
- Discussion threads 2005-09-10
- You go, girl gadgeteer
- You go, girl gadgeteerarticle rootMarketing gender-specific gadgetsWomen, a growing force in the consumer-electronics market, have a message for gadget makers, and it's not all about the color pink. See the photo gallery: Wild for women's gadgets.http://techrepublic.com.com/2300-1035-6091395.htmlWhen it comes to gadgets, women say they care about style and good design, but...
- Tags: Sonja Thompson, women, gadgets, news, gallery, networking, gender, laptop computer, marketing
- Discussion threads 2006-07-10
- Sun now shipping Data Center in a Box, to go!
- Wow, Sun now sells complete data-centers-in-a-mini-shipping-container 20x8x8. With water cooling and power connections. I'll have some fried computers with that, please!http://www.networkcomputing.com/channels/storageandservers/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=VZHZD4MUQBIRSQSNDLRCKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=193303412I guess if you're Augur and need to break the Taelon's rotating encryption, fight the lizard people, like on V series, or just a...
- Tags: Dr Dij, Sun Microsystems Inc., data center
- Discussion threads 2006-10-19
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