I’m ERP, I’m Workday

Workday is getting into the act on the “I’m a PC, I’m a Mac” advertising treatment. It’s clever and I very much appreciate camcorder advertising but the only problem with the proliferation of these ads is that in the original series the PC character is actually a lot more likable than the Mac character, and [...]

SF Cabbies Get Competition, Raise Fares

I’ll go slow just in case anyone has problems following me on this story:

San Francisco taxi cabs are already the most expensive per mile taxis in the country
In 2002 they logged 1.2 million rides to SFO, in 2006 that number had dropped to 323,000 rides to the [...]

Germans Un-Shred Secret Files

This sounds like a good thing. The Fraunhofer Institute must be one wickedly cool place to hang out.

German researchers said Wednesday that they were launching an attempt to reassemble millions of shredded East German secret police files using complicated computerized algorithms.

link via Samizdata

More Turtle Bay Follies

At first I thought this was a satire piece worth of publication in The Onion…

Imagine my lack of surprise when I saw that this is simply a case of business as usual at Turtle Bay, after all it’s hard to argue with Zimbabwe’s credentials for leading a UN panel on the environment and economic development… [...]

Gmail Hiccups

This is never a good feeling…

Puuuhhhleeeeze Can I Get a Diesel!

The 24 Hours at LeMans is shaping up to be a really competitive race this year at the hands of an unlikely racing technology powering the 2 leading teams, Audi and Peugeot - diesel. Audi has been dominating the ALMS for 2 seasons, going undefeated in their first year out with a diesel powered race [...]

Business Objects to Launch Insight

Here’s the PR blurb I received on Business Objects’ Insight launch next week:Insight takes the concept of an online community and moves it beyond transactional relationships, like MySpace and LinkedIn, to true collaboration.  Additionally, it’s a way for number crunchers to gain access to some very powerful tools and network with others in their field [...]

The Euro’s Day of Reckoning

TCS Daily - The Euro’s Day of Reckoning: Within the constraints of a currency union, the Mediterranean countries cannot resort to currency devaluation to restore competitiveness. Nor can they use interest rate policy to stimulate domestic demand. Instead, the rules of the currency union require them to endure deflation or to increase productivity as the only [...]

WiMax News

There was a time when military R&D fed the commercial sector, but of course it’s very apparent that commercial off the shelf (COTS) technology is moving the other way. The army has long envisioned something like WiMax for battlefield use, but has not got their own technology even close to the point where WiMax is now. [...]

Speck Hard Case for Laptops

I’m kinda obsessive compulsive about having a clean laptop… it just bothers me when I see dirty keyboard keys and I feel my pulse quicken when someone starts poking their fingers close to my fingerprint free screen.

Yesterday I picked up a Speck hard case for my MacBook Pro. It’s a hard plastic shell that snaps [...]

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