10 things Windows 7 must do to succeed
I recently attended a briefing where Microsoft Corp. explained
some of the new features in Windows 7 to reviewers from different
publications. At the end of the meeting, the Microsoft folks asked the
half-dozen of us present what it will take for the new operating system
to be a success.
"Injecting about $3 trillion [...]
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When good browsers go bad - and they all do
Jeffrey Zeldman must have thought he'd never live to see the
day. Ten years after he co-founded the Web Standards Project, all of the
major browser vendors have shown renewed commitment to supporting World
Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards in the last few years - and they're
following through.
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The browser blockers: Is browser sniffing outdated?
It's vexing enough when certain Web sites render incorrectly in
your chosen browser (see "When good browsers go bad - and they all do").
But what about when you can't get into a site at all? Many financial
institutions and some other Web sites restrict access to only approved
browsers. As many new [...]
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Internet link fails at blogger conference in Berlin
Berlin - More than 1,000 technology-obsessed bloggers gathered
Wednesday for a twittering conference in Berlin - and promptly lost what
they needed most of all: their internet connections.
The annual event, re:publica, brings together Germans who share
their innermost thoughts via blogs, or online diaries. Many employ
Twitter, an internet service allowing them to type out [...]
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Huge Interest in Intel's Xeon CPUs
The level of interest around the new Xeon 5500 from Intel is
huge among the servers selling companies such as Cisco, IBM, Dell and
others.
The capabilities of the Xeon 5500, formally known as Nehalem,
are said to be revolutionary. Its power efficiency is great and its
speedy access to information stored in memory even greater. [...]
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Yet Another Rumor: Google To Buy Twitter
TechCrunch.com is reporting that according to three anonymous
sources Google is ready to acquire the new Web wonder-kid,
Twitter.Earlier this year, Twitter received a $35 million infusion from
Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) and Benchmark Capital while
previous investors Union Square and Spark also increased their
investments, though the amounts were undisclosed.
After these investments, Twitter was [...]
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The IT job market is tanking - but not for everyone
Shortly after Donnie Reynolds, the chief operating officer at
Automated HealthCare Solutions Inc. in Miramar, Fla., learned that
Microsoft Corp. planned to cut 5,000 workers over the next 18 months, he
and another employee of the medical services provider flew to the
software vendor's home city of Redmond, Wash.
"We don't like to pass on a [...]
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Salary Negotiation
Did you know that you may be able to negotiate some of your
benefits? Even though companies put fixed policies on most benefits,
some benefits are negotiable - and sometimes, all you have to do is ask.
Signing bonus. If a company wants you badly enough or can't meet
your salary demands, it might sweeten the [...]
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Lots of red meat increases mortality risk
The largest study of its kind finds that older Americans who eat
large amounts of red meat and processed meats face a greater risk of
death from heart disease and cancer. The federal study of more than half
a million men and women bolsters prior evidence of the health risks of
diets laden with red [...]
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