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If true, I love this: According to Pioneer, this 16-layer 400GB optical disc can be read in any
normal Blu-ray player. And it's only the beginning, because they have planned 1TB for 2013. The...
MySpace and provider of
authentication and identity management solutions Vidoop have teamed up with
Flock to develop an OpenID management addd-on
for version 2.0 of the ’social’ browser.
Here’s how works: the extension will enable Flock to collect and manage OpenID credentials
and use them whenever you browse an OpenID-supported service. It will also automatically alert
you if you can use a stored OpenID to log into a website. The plugin, currently in alpha, can be
found here. Further
details on the IDIB project and OpenID for Flock (which is open source, under GPL) are also
available at the project’s Google
group page.
Bringing OpenID directly to the browser is a sensible thing to do, too bad that Flock isn’t
exactly the most popular kid on the block. I wonder how well OpenID would do if it were
integrated into IE, Firefox and Safari as well?
The nation's governors are meeting with President-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday to press their case
for at least $40 billion to help pay for health care for the poor and disabled and even more for
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One look at this conglomeration and you pretty much know it's from Brando. Their latest clunky tech
masterpiece is officially named a USB Notebook Cooling Pad + 3-Port Hub + 2.5" HDD. At its core,...
h4Qamp;A/h4 pstrongQamp;A/strong I'm planning to buy a graphic card, but I'm really confused on
which one to buy. I've come up with two choices: the Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT and the AMD ATI Radeon
HD 4670..../p
A new competition from the Google-owned video-sharing site in conjunction with some classical music
heavy-hitters encourages members to enter via video submission and yes, possibly win a trip to
perform at Carnegie Hall.
A new competition from the Google-owned video-sharing site in conjunction with some classical music
heavy-hitters encourages members to enter via video submission and yes, possibly win a trip to
perform at Carnegie Hall.
Contest organized by the Google video site and classical-music heavy-hitters encourages members to
enter via video submission and yes, possibly win a trip to perform there.
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Last week, Danish Computerworld awarded IT Factory, a
provider of CRM, HRM and Business Intelligence add-on solutions based on a SaaS delivery model,
with the prestigious “Denmark’s Best IT-company 2008″. This week, the company
has been declared bankrupt and its managing director Stein Bagger went missing in Dubai while
under scrutiny by the police and Interpol.
The remarkable story is all over the Danish press but has remained largely unnoticed outside of
the country so far.
Stein Bagger apparently got his hands really dirty: he’s wanted by Interpol for
financial fraud and by the Danish police for a possible assault on a business man (reportedly
executed by members of the Hell’s Angels, a group he was connected to somehow). Nobody has
seen Bagger since last Thursday, when he disappeared somewhere in Dubai, where he was attending a
business conference in the company of his wife and child (his wife is also the one who reported
his disappearance).
The Danish press dugg up his background after Computerworld did some research in the context of
the award that was handed out to IT Factory last week, and it turns out Bagger has connections to
two Swedish business men (Carl Freer and Mikael P. Ljungman), both convicted fraudsters. Further
investigation is still being carried out.
Reporters also found out Bagger had been renting a secret office in a conference hotel since two
weeks near the IT Factory offices, which he reportedly used to forge documents and signatures in
order to keep the massive-scale fraud going (it concerns about half a billion Danish Kroner or
$85 million). Overall, sources assess that up to 90 percent of IT Factory’s turnover had
been based on non-existing or false contracts. There’s also talk of a scam where
non-existing IT equipment and other stuff was sold to leasing firms, and the cash was sent off to
shady offshore companies.
The fraud scandal has many corporations and banks in Denmark licking their wounds. One of the
victims is international cycling team CSC-Saxo Bank, led by Bjarne Riis, who counted on IT
Factory as one of their main sponsors.
Most of the information above comes from a tipster and translated versions of Danish articles.
We’ll update this post whenever we get more information.
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Véritable franchise
cross-média, Blue Dragon a bénéficié
des services d’Akira Toriyama, le créateur de Dragon
Ball Z, lors de la conception du jeu vidéo sorti sur Xbox 360. En
février 2009, Kana sort le premier tome de l’adaptation en manga signée
Tsuneo Takano et mise en image par Takeshi Obata, le
dessinateur de Death Note. Cerise sur le gâteau, la série
ne compte que 4 tomes, vendus chacun 6,25 euros.
Every cellular phone network has weak spots in certain parts of town, where access can be spotty.
If youíre constantly dropping calls in these areas, you could simply avoid making calls in
those areas or you could plug the Cell Ranger into your car's cigarette lighter. The idea behind
Cell Ranger is to boost any cellular networkís signals so you can connect and make phone
calls in formerly poor-co...
h4Fewer customers through console door/h4 pGame Group saw sales growth slow to 11.4 per cent in the
44 weeks ended 29 November, down from 44.1 per cent in the same period last year but recent trading
has been substantially worse - for the last 18 weeks of the period like-for-like growth fell to
just 1.5 per cent..../p
Telus today priced out its version of the BlackBerry Storm. Contradicting some early rumors, the
Canadian carrier says it will offer the Storm at promo pricing for $250 CAD ($200 US) on a
three-year plan, or closer to (but still above) the cost of the iPhone 3G on Rogers. The phone will
also be available on shorter terms and should sell for $600 when contract-free. More details should
be availa...
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Ben Fritz' stunning piece on the a
href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117996526.html?categoryid=13"downfall of Brash/a (oh, you
remember, it was the game studio that aimed to change the image of terrible licensed games by
making emhorrible/em licensed games). For example, did you know Brash created their sales
projections on emSpace Chimps/em assuming it was made by Fox animation (the house behind mega-hit
emIce Age/em) when in fact, Fox was only releasing the film? It's true!br /br /You owe it to
yourself to see all the games a
href="http://weblogs.variety.com/the_cut_scene/2008/11/brashs-release.html"Brash had in
development/a, where a
href="http://weblogs.variety.com/the_cut_scene/2008/11/brash-what-happ.html"their cash went/a,
their a href="http://weblogs.variety.com/the_cut_scene/2008/11/brashs-wall-str.html""Wall Street"
MMO/a and, of course, a
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story/a. With Brash officially dead, this is pure rubbernecking at the scene of the crash ... but
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pC#39;est assez fascinant d#39;observer le dialogue des formes et des supports. Après
l#39;arrivée des écrans quot;platsquot; puis quot;a
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target=_blanksouples/aquot;, après l#39;arrivée des téléphones et des
ordinateurs a href=http://www.apple.com/macbookair/ultra-plats/a, voici venu un nouveau
quot;conceptquot;, le portable enroulable ou plus exactement quot;a
href=http://www.vincentabry.com/lordinateur-baton-concept-2808 target=_blankl#39;ordinateur
bâton/aquot;. Soit un volumen avec un codex informatique à l#39;intérieur. Nous
n#39;en sommes encore qu#39;au stade du concept, mais quelque chose me dit que ce concept là
a de l#39;avenir. Vertigineux :-)/p
Voici une preuve manifeste qu’à l’heure de prédire la fin de certaines
tendances il faudrait avant tout s’interroger sur le but des choses. En gros avant de
prédire la fin d’une génération d’outils et services a peine nés
il importe avant de tout de se demander quelle est leur utilité, leur valeur. Car crise ou
pas crise on sera davantage enclin à payer pour un service utile qu’utiliser
gratuitement un service inutile alors qu’on pourrait faire quelque chose de plus productif
à la place.
L’exemple de LinkedIn est édifiant sur ce point. D’accord la
levée de fonds était bouclée depuis aout, mais tout de même. C’est tout
simplement la preuve que lorsqu’un service délivre une réelle valeur pour
laquelle un certain nombre d’utilisateurs sont prêts à ouvrir leur porte monnaie
l’avenir est tout de même plus rose. Qui paierait pour utiliser Facebook ? Ou twitter
? Certainement pas moi.
Depuis qu’on nous repête chaque matin que le monde s’effondre ma boite mail et
mon téléphone connaissent un net sucroit d’activité. Un point commun à
tout cela : des gens qui cherchent des gens qui…
· Il va me falloir monter une équipe “commando” pour passer les deux
prochaines années, tu connaitrais pas quelqu’un qui aurait ce profil ? Je
préfère “insourcer” quelques “top guns” car il va falloir se
battre dur.
· Hé tu connais quelqu’un chez Untel ? Impossible de les toucher en ce moment
mais il me faudrait vraiment un contact ?
· On est en short list chez un client et là c’est vraiment dur. Tu connais bien
le décideur tu pourrais le rassurer sur notre fiabilité ?
· Dis tu as des nouvelles d’untel ? Ca fait des années que je l’ai perdu de
vue et là j’aurais bien besoin d’un petit de coup de pouce. Il travaille
toujours chez Truc hein ? Tu as gardé le contact avec hein ? Tu sais comment le joindre ?
Discussion de fin de semaine avec des amis commerciaux. “Bon on est tous dans des
entreprises différentes, non concurrentes, ce serait bien qu’on s’organise pour
se repasser les bons tuyaux quand on voit une opportunité pour l’un d’entre nous
chez un de nos clients respectifs”. Petit sourire en coin de ma part…je n’avais
jamais réussi à les convaincre de l’utilité d’une logique de
réseau. “Quand on est bon on a pas besoin des autres pour vendre”. Sauf en temps
de crise.
Bref on redécouvre l’intérêt d’avoir un réseau large, entretenu
et à jour. Qu’il s’agisse de contacts extérieurs à l’entreprise
ou même de ses propres collègues : il faut aller vite et sauter sur la moindre
occasion. Il faut donc se connaitre, échanger, discuter. En interne comme en externe.
J’en reviens donc à l’ami Davenport. Je ne pense pas qu’il faille
raisonner en termes d’outils mais de service. Il prend l’exemple de Second Life (qui
avec la maturité acquise par l’expérience est en train de trouver sa propre
seconde vie) en disant que les gens n’auront surement plus le temps ni l’envie de
s’y balader. Je suis d’accord, sauf pour ceux dont le métier fait que ça
leur est indispensable. Par contre des outils qui délivrent à un vrai service à
finalité professionnelle ont un bel avenir. Il y a les services qui se définissent par
leur utilisation et ceux qui se définissent par ce qu’ils permettent : les seconds
survivront.
Je n’ai plus le temps ou l’envie d’utiliser ça ou ça, mais j’ai
besoin de trouver des contacts, des prospects, des partenaires, et ce plus que jamais. En interne
comme en externe. Toute la nuance est là. C’est ce qui différencie les facebook,
twitter de Linkedin ou de plateformes de réseaux internes/externes dédiés au monde
de l’entreprise.
Ca n’est pas l’outil qui crée sa finalité, en tout cas plus ces temps ci.
Mais la finalité appellera toujours l’outil.
PS : J’ai peut être été un peu rapide avec Facebook et twitter. On me disait
dernièrement “c’est dur, j’ai pas le moral, finalement ça fait du
bien d’avoir un endroit où on se sent avec ses amis, où on prend un bol
d’air”. Pas faux non plus. Quoiqu’il en soit, plus les temps sont durs plus le
lien prend de la valeur. Qu’on se le dise.