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Milo Vermeulen : Oldskooler Ramblings - The diskette that blew Trixter’s mind [via]
deusx : The diskette that blew Trixter’s mind « Oldskooler Ramblings - "The manual for Mental Blocks claims that, for both C64 and IBM, you put the diskette in label-side up. I thought that had to be a typo, since every single mixed C64/IBM or Apple/IBM diskette I have ever seen is a “flippy” disk where one side is
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4 month ago
Anil : Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever - Bill Gates has pulled off one of the greatest hacks in technology and business history, by turning Microsoft's success into a force for social responsibility. Imagine imposing a tax on every corporation in the developed world, collecting $100 per white-co
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4 month ago
Anil : Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever - Bill Gates has pulled off one of the greatest hacks in technology and business history, by turning Microsoft's success into a force for social responsibility. Imagine imposing a tax on every corporation in the developed world, collecting $100 per white-co
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5 month ago
Anil : Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever - Bill Gates has pulled off one of the greatest hacks in technology and business history, by turning Microsoft's success into a force for social responsibility. Imagine imposing a tax on every corporation in the developed world, collecting $100 per white-co
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Anil : Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever - Bill Gates has pulled off one of the greatest hacks in technology and business history, by turning Microsoft's success into a force for social responsibility. Imagine imposing a tax on every corporation in the developed world, collecting $100 per white-co
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5 month ago
Andy Baio : It's 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The Future - selections from a vintage IBM sales presentation; I want a t-shirt of several of these slides [via]
Rod Begbie : It's 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The Future - Slides from a vintage IBM sales presentation. I might do a presentation some time that *only* uses these for illustration. [via] #
nelson : IBM Slides 1975 - Beautiful graphic design
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wearehugh : About Carl | outside-in-thinking - the vice president of worldwide development for IBM’s Enterprise Content Management business runs (a vulnerable version of) Wordpress with the default theme
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8 month ago
Linkorama : The IBM-Google connection - Currently, Salesforce.com is selling Google Apps as an integrated part of its platform. It's not far-fetched to think that Google would seek out IBM's help with its business partners to spread the Google word in the enterprise.
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9 month ago
Linkorama : IBM Pitches Mashup Suite to 'Enterprise 2.0' - Big Blue ratchets up Web 2.0 strategy with new, lightweight data-integration offerings for businesses.
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11 month ago
Andy Baio : Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign and Yahoo join the OpenID Foundation - holy cow, that's some mighty big guns
nelson : OpenID, the big day - All the big players join. Congratulations!
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11 month ago
wearehugh : ThinkCentre M57p tower technical specifications
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12 month ago
Linkorama : Lotus Struts its Stuff - And this is another thing that came out of the conference: that IBM encourages openness and integration. While it has its own world, this does have very porous edges which could lead to an interesting software ecosphere which doesn't necessarily put IBM a
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12 month ago
Linkorama : IBM's fight over Web 2.0 will dwarf past clashes against Microsoft - IBM/Lotus this week shifted into high gear its integration, social software and unified communications story as it prepares for a Web 2.0 scuffle that likely will dwarf its past e-mail clashes against Microsoft.
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12 month ago
Linkorama : Lotus Connections adds friends, mobile - Steve Hodgkinson, Dwight B. Davis Lotus Connections adds friends, and goes mobile IBM Lotus has announced the proposed next release of its business-grade social networking product called Connections.
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12 month ago
Linkorama : Lotusphere 2008: Social Computing Chess Match - IBM announced a strategic partnership with both Socialtext and Atlassian to integrate each vendor's wiki technology into Lotus Connections. This represents the opening moves in a chess match between IBM anbd Microsoft that will evolve over the next two ye
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Linkorama : Lotusphere Day 1- Part Deux - With the firehose of announcements that Lotus spewed yesterday, here is a bit of data about Lotusphere it’self. There are about 7500 people attending, with attendance up by about 500 people over last year. All the sessions were packed and there was stan
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12 month ago
Linkorama : KLUGE.DE - Das Kluge Blog - I must admit - I was a little bit dissapointed. Not only because of a guest speaker I never heard of before. I knew there will be no "big announcements" this year, but the big questions for me on this monday mornings at Lotusphere are: How will
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12 month ago
Linkorama : IBM Lays SAAS `Foundations` for SMBs - IBM makes two significant overtures to the SMB customer set, offering a SAAS system for extranets and a line of turnkey servers.
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12 month ago
deusx : Palm says goodbye to IBM Java virtual machine - Download Squad - "for some unexplained reason, Palm will stop offering a download link on Jan 12, 2008."
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12 month ago
deusx : The Official Palm Blog: Last chance to download JVM for PalmOS - "Come on Palm - it's great that you are sharing info in a blog, but you know that there are two critical bits of info missing here. 1) Why? 2) What (if anything) does this mean about Palm's ongoing support of java on devices?"
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12 month ago
plasticbag : Five Popular Brands the Nazis Gave Us! - Fascinating for making me uncomfortable about the people who made my last suit, making me despair of IBM and raising an eyebrow at the Aryan origins of the company that bought BBC Technology a few years back...
adamrg : Third Reich to Fortune 500: Five Popular Brands the Nazis Gave Us - Crass and superficial. But funny and at least the five companies named are accurate.
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13 month ago
Linkorama : IBM Poopheads say LAMP Users Need to "grow up" - The trick isn't to make PHP more complex, it's to make the enterprise less complex. You need to equate complex requirements with complex systems less and start asking "do we really need this?" more.
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14 month ago
deusx : open...: Proprietary Software Does Not Scale - "The whole point about cloud computing is that it has to be effectively infinite - the more people want, the more they get. You can't do that with software that requires some kind of licensing payment, unless it's flat-fee."
Simon Willison : Proprietary Software Does Not Scale - Proprietary Software Does Not Scale. I’ve been thinking this for a while: if you’re using software with a per-CPU license you can’t just roll it out as an image across a bunch of virtual machines when you need to.
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14 month ago
Linkorama : IBM takes out Cognos for $5 billion - Remember that last independent business intelligence company, Cognos? It's now a part of IBM's software unit.
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14 month ago
Linkorama : IBM, Microsoft, SAP lag behind on Web 2.0 - "Right now I'm seeing a clear preference toward smaller vendors," says Rob Koplowitz, an analyst at Forrester. "Generally speaking the big vendors are playing catch up, and the big vendors have a deployment model that is not very attractive
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