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• Intuit cut 575 jobs - is this "user generated unemployment?"

  The other day I reported that Brad Smith, the CEO of Intuit, had asked his managers to see which jobs could be cut because there were volunteers among Intuit's 50m ...

  Tags: Human Resources, Unemployment, Workforce Management, Intuit Inc., Tom Foremski, Job, Recruitment & Selection

  Jul 23, 2008 10:05 AM PDT

• How sick is Steve Jobs?

  Apple Inc.'s stonewalling over this material corporate event says something very bad about the company. It says they're totally dependent on Jobs, that no one can tell him no on ...

  Tags: Human Resources, Cancer, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Steve Jobs, Dana Blankenhorn, Software, Benefits, Enterprise Software

  Jul 23, 2008 10:02 AM PDT

• MindTouch Deki: Kilen Woods release

  Today, MindTouch Deki releases Kilen Woodds, its latest and biggest release. In conversation with co-founder Aaron Fulkerson I learned that Deki is rapidly transforming itself from being a smart wiki ...

  Tags: Dennis Howlett, Aaron Fulkerson, Collaboration, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Management Option, Mashup, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Microsoft Corp., Databases

  Jul 23, 2008 10:01 AM PDT

• Free the XBOX 360!!!

  It's good that Microsoft has begun to allow home users to create XBOX 360 games that they can sell through XBOX Live. Microsoft, however, could do so much more with ...

  Tags: TV, Game Players, Personal Technology, Microsoft Corp., Game Console, Games, Consumer Electronics, Microsoft Xbox, John Carroll

  Jul 23, 2008 9:29 AM PDT

• Entellium puts a video game spin on CRM with a desktop RIA

  Yesterday I sat down and talked with Entellium, an on-demand CRM company that has recently gone away from a purley browser-based model and moved into a desktop smart client application. ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Sun Java Studio Creator, Entellium, Rich Internet Application, Ryan Stewart, Hardware, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Desktop Application, Desktops

  Jul 23, 2008 9:18 AM PDT

• Ultra-light micro air vehicles

  Dutch engineers have built the third generation of the DelFly autonomous air vehicle. The DelFly Micro made its first public flight earlier today in Delft. This micro air vehicle weighs ...

  Tags: Roland Piquepaille, Micro, Gram, Photograph, Centimeter

  Jul 23, 2008 9:10 AM PDT

• Enterprise communities: build or join?

  Determining how a company should engage with or create an online community is a critical process. Aaron Strout, VP of social media for Mzinga authored this primer on what steps ...

  Tags: Site, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Social Media, Social Networking, Facebook, Customer, Jennifer Leggio, Network, Advertising & Promotion

  Jul 23, 2008 9:07 AM PDT

• Social browser Flock wants to be fashionable

  It's actually a pretty clever strategy by Flock: Build customized versions of the company's social browser, populated with vertically-targeted content from an array of partners -- and in return expose ...

  Tags: Web Browsers, Flock, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear, Web Browser, Marketing, Internet, Entertainment, RSS

  Jul 23, 2008 8:58 AM PDT

• 166 Frames of Fame

  "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes," Andy Warhol famously said in 1968. Turns out, four decades into the future, the tomato can and Marilyn Monroe pop ...

  Tags: Gawker, Blog, Post, Warhol, Internet, Blogging, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

  Jul 23, 2008 8:38 AM PDT

• Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?

  Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has thrown down the gauntlet to his merry band of open source followers: Make Ubuntu as pretty and ultimately better looking ...

  Tags: Linux, Ubuntu, Operating System, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan, Open Source, Hardware, Software, Mark Shuttleworth, Desktops

  Jul 23, 2008 8:28 AM PDT

• COPA is unconstitutional

  The Third Circuit has upheld a lower court decision that the Child Online Protection Act is unconstitutional, AP reports. In its ruling Tuesday, the federal appeals court concluded that the ...

  Tags: Regulations, Child Online Protection Act, Third Circuit, Government, Richard Koman, Parental Control

  Jul 23, 2008 8:23 AM PDT

• MSI to build LG's X110 netbook?

  MSI has been pretty successful grabbing headlines with their Wind -- and it seems they've impressed LG, too. Today's DigiTimes is reporting that LG is hoping to solicit MSI's services ...

  Tags: Components, Memory, Microsoft Windows XP, Hardware, Notebooks, Notebooks & Tablets, MSI, Microsoft Windows, Andrew Nusca, Semiconductors

  Jul 23, 2008 8:09 AM PDT

• What people hate most about health insurance

  In a public system bureaucracy is just waste. But in a private system, bureaucracy is a profit center. As the debate over health care heats up, this is the point ...

  Tags: Human Resources, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Health Care, Bureaucracy, Dana Blankenhorn, Software, Carrier, Health Insurance, Benefits

  Jul 23, 2008 8:00 AM PDT

• Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs

  Terry Childs's lawyer, Erin Crane, offered the court some insights into the Childs' motivations in changing SF's network passwords. She will argue today for a reduction in his $5 million ...

  Tags: Terry Childs, Network, Richard Koman, Backup, Password

  Jul 23, 2008 7:32 AM PDT

• October Esquire magazine will use electronic ink

  Earlier this month I mentioned how Hearst is embracing the mobile web by offering much of their content on mobile phones. Hearst is now going to bring a bit of ...

  Tags: Matthew Miller, Electronic Ink, Mobile

  Jul 23, 2008 7:31 AM PDT

• SF mayor gets back to the keys to the city

  "The first thing I want you to know, Mr. Mayor, is that when you walk out of this room, you will have the computer codes." So spoke Terry Childs, San ...

  Tags: City, Lawyer, Richard Koman, Productivity, Computer

  Jul 23, 2008 7:16 AM PDT

• Super-duper green computers

  If you think about sheer performance-per-watt potential, it's pretty hard to beat a supercomputer. So any company with gargantuan transaction processing needs might want to scout the latest Green500 list ...

  Tags: Altix ICE, Operating Systems, Databases, SGI Altix, Heather Clancy, Data Management, Software, Enterprise Software, Silicon Graphics Inc., UNIX

  Jul 23, 2008 7:05 AM PDT

• Microsoft gives a new Xbox 360 experience

  Despite having what is regarded as one of the best user interfaces of all the major consoles, Microsoft is reinventing the Xbox 360's look. Despite ostensibly having what is regarded ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Game Players, user-generated, Marketing, Corporate Communications, LiveParty, Gamespot, Microsoft, Xbox Experience, Consumer Electronics

  Jul 23, 2008 7:04 AM PDT

• NY gov signs game bill into law

  New York State legislation that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed was signed into law. A bill that will have ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, video games, Law, Minor, Games, GameSpot, video game violence, Brendan Sinclair, Nintendo DS, New York

  Jul 23, 2008 6:12 AM PDT

• Delivering nada. Zip. Zilch. Zero.

  The aftermath of large-scale failure is never pretty, but sometimes looking back reveals problems so obvious and severe they take your breath away. by Michael Krigsman

  Tags: Management, Human Resources, Organizational Structure, Performance, Team Management, Team, Michael Krigsman, Problem, Bruce Webster, FUBAR

  Jul 23, 2008 6:11 AM PDT

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