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Small Business Makes You Feel Good. It Is Not Good For The Economy

Walmart is cheap because they don't offer amazing service, they buy in bulk, they use distribution centers to minimize shipping costs, and [more]

YCombinator Wants To "Kill Hollywood With Entertaining Startups".

Story telling is the second oldest form of entertainment (the first is only legal in Nevada, and they shut down that section of Craig's [more]

A Peek Inside Facebook's Oregon Data Center

Tens of Thousands of Energy-Efficient Servers Handle the Deluge of Data Generated by More Than 800 Million Users  Call it the heart of [more]

Don't Fall to the Consumer Revolution, Lead it!

Today we have a guest post from Brian Solis. Brian is a principal at Altimeter Group, a research-based advisory firm. [more]

Cloud Computing Democratizes Digital Animation

Pay-As-You-Go Datacenter Processing Power Creates Opportunity for Smaller Business Origami Animation"To make things move like paper ... is [more]

Why I love PandoDaily, new media company focused on startups

Today Sarah Lacy, formerly of Techcrunch, announced she was starting a new media company and has gotten funded, to the tune of [more]

How To Practice Carpentry And Basic Woodworking

Carpentry is the oldest of the arts, and it has been said that the knowledge necessary to make a good carpenter fits one for almost any [more]

Mastering Self Discipline

Today we have a guest post from Dominique Molina. Dominique is President of the American Institute of Certified Tax [more]

CES 2012: Measuring Social Conversations Amid the Noise

A Look Inside the Social Cockpit Intel is Using to Discover and Analyze What's Getting the Most Buzz on Twitter, Blogs, Facebook and [more]

CES 2012: Celebrities Abound at Vegas Tech Event

Justin Bieber, Snooki, Eliza Dushku and 50 Cent Are Among the Household Names and Cult Favorites That Will Make the Scene at the Consumer [more]

Companies and Technologies Microsoft And Google Should Invest In

If we just admit we are heading in to a technology Duopoly split between Microsoft and Google. Microsoft is the reigning king of the desktop, Office Automation, and all things local.  Google reigns over all things Net, Search, and Connected.  As the lines blur between the desktop, the Net, and the Cloud, the two kings [...]

How to Get a Good Job with Out the College Degree: Industry Certifications

The impact of technology in our lives has grown exponentially over recent years. The demand for better, faster, more productive software and hardware equipment has increased the need for more experienced and better qualified IT (Information Technology) specialists. These IT professionals must possess a degree of knowledge and expertise that sets them apart from others [...]

Counterfeit Cisco Router May Be Backdoor Into FBI

DonkeyOnAWaffle.com is hosting a Powerpoint file which even if fake outlines a very real possibility in which fake Cisco Routers could be used to gain access to sensitive areas of US Government networks. Through reverse engineering, or simply purchasing chips from the same supplier Cisco uses, companies have been able to create nearly exact duplicates [...]

So Much For A Microsoft-Cisco Peace Accord

It hasn’t even been a month and there are already cracks in the much- vaunted peace accord between Cisco Systems (CSCO) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT). The chief executives of the two companies, John Chambers and Steve Ballmer, got on stage last month — together with Charlie Rose, playing the role of peacemaker — and declared [...]

Future Of Software Update & Other GigaNET Headlines

If the 1990s were all about client server wars – Oracle versus Microsoft versus everyone – the coming years will be all about communication centric software. And that means Microsoft will tussle with Cisco, current peace accord not withstanding. Continue reading to find out why. Read more » Future of Software: Is Enterprise Failing The [...]

Future Of Software Update & Other GigaNET Headlines

If the 1990s were all about client server wars – Oracle versus Microsoft versus everyone – the coming years will be all about communication centric software. And that means Microsoft will tussle with Cisco, current peace accord not withstanding. Continue reading to find out why. Read more » Future of Software: Is Enterprise Failing The [...]

Microsoft in the Web 2.0 World, Why I like .Net

You can’t fault Microsoft.  It is intrinsic to their roots.  You let a bunch of engineers drive your development and you are going to get names that are well utilitarian. Windows Named for the biggest feature of the OS.  Office which was short for Office Automation. Home Media Server; Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere.  Boring, boring, boring.  [...]

Nike Won’t Mess with Texas

Recently Nike added the option to custom create your own version of the Nike Air Turbulence. At first I was impressed with the ability to create my own shoe with custom color combinations from awesome to ugly. While the color combinations prevent you from making totally stupid choices (Pink with lime green highlights) they do [...]

IPhone Source Code to be Made public

That “Other” Iphone, for VOIP from Cisco (not the ipod like one from Apple) is based on Linux and as such is required to make the source available.  GPL Violation.org reported that Cisco would conform to the GPL with in the next month.  Computer World has more…. This is really only news because Cisco was [...]