It amazes me that the press has not picked up on the recent deal between IBM and Blade Network Technologies (http://www.bladenetwork.net/). All IBM employees working on the IBM BladeCenter Management Module we laid off from IBM with one day’s notice and no option to accept other available IBM jobs, and told the same day they were all offered jobs at BNT at their current salary.
...read moreWe've been hearing in the news a lot about layoffs. Even recently in CW, there was an article about Dell.
...read moreSo here this pilot fish is, deep into deployment of a new Antivirus and Security package to the user community of about 800 users. We are rolling out the new package through group policy and aside from a few glitches from the previous installations things are moving along well, until..
...read moreApple again snubs consumers by not having adequate server capacity to handle software and application upgrades for its products.
...read moreIn the tragic/comedic tales related in "Top 10 tech embarrassments you'll want to avoid", I especially enjoyed situation #9, which advises against posting photos online that you'll regret later.
...read more"Storm seen as business-capable smart phone"
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My favorite quote from the above article about the new trouble-plagued Blackberry Storm (barely 2-weeks old and already a firmware upgrade):
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Computerworld ran this article recently:
Windows 7 Photo Gallery
After reading this article and looking at the nice pictures, I felt a sense of emptiness, as if all Microsoft has done is change the way a lot of the things look. Not the the way they work.
...read moreA user calls and says she has been trying to print to the copy machine and every time she does nothing happens. She even has her boss try and print something and nothing. I asked are you getting any error messages on your screen when you click print?
...read morePurchased SYSTEM MECHANIC PROFESSIONAL at local wal Mart.
I did not function properly so went to return to store. Was told "No refunds on that item."
Next, contacted iolo on oomputer where I left a message as the product is guaranteed. Received noticed that my letter will be replied too shortly.
...read moreYou may be aware that IBM changed the name of their midrange system again earlier this year. Here is a hypothetical conversation that could take place in any shop that uses the platform:
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"The 'i' is now available," the manager will announce after a brief outage.
"You're available? Why are you using a definite article for yourself? 'The' you. Really!" exclaims the user.
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