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Massive job cuts at HP

Two things fail to surprise me in the AP article "HP surprises Wall Street with size of EDS job cuts". That HP took such a big axe to the EDS bloat and that wall street is surprised. Anyone that has ever worked with EDS, especially on the supply side, could tell you how much bloat was within that company. The

Pandora Should Leave USA

I don’t know how Pandora works. I just know it does. Pandora is an online music service I’m sure most of you have heard of if not used. I started using it last year and I absolutely love it. It learns what you like as you use it. You pick a single song or artist when starting up and it

Dish + DirecTV = Real Competition for Cable/Telcos?

For the last two days there have been rumors swirling about the possibility of Dish Network and DirecTV attempting a merger. They tried it in 2001 but the FTC wouldn't approve it. After the recent merger of XM and Sirius, I have to think the FTC has loosened their stance on not allowing large media providers to merge. I would

Airlines are Nickel and Diming us to Death!

Is it just me? Or is everyone that flies on a regular basis, getting pretty sick and tired on how the airlines are nickel and diming us to death. I have flown nearly 70,000 miles since January 1st and it seems that nearly every flight I take things are getting more ridiculous.

What is the advantage of a tender process

It has been tender central at the day job recently with the sales teams answering multiple tenders from corporate and government clients. It has meant long hours and frustration for everyone with the promise of extra business if we win. Statistics suggests that we will win 1 in 3. Over my time in IT I have seen hundreds of tenders

Living with the Sprint 5Gb EVDO Bandwidth Cap

July is the month the folks over at Sprint have implemented Bandwidth Caps on their wireless data plans. Over the past 6 months I have averaged between 4 & 9 gigs of usage. So for the first time ever I have had to change the way I used the Internet.

Tech companies amongst the most respected in the US

Harris Interactive released its 9th annual survey of perception of US top corporates. In rating the most and least respected Google, Intel and Microsoft made it into the top 10. While there are some telco's in the bottom 10 tech companies have kept themselves out of it. This survey only looks at the 60 most visible US companies so not