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Looking inside Sun
From insideHPC

Looking inside Sun

I do not own any significant Sun gear at all, other than in my archive storage system, so I think I’m pretty unbiased when I say that one thing I really appreciate...

QLogic builds support for IB channel partners in
From insideHPC

QLogic builds support for IB channel partners in

Earlier this month QLogic announced a new program targeted at capitalizing on the increasing adoption of InfiniBand in HPC installations: The new SignatureHPC program...

A Modest Proposal
From CERIAS Blog

A Modest Proposal

Yesterday and today I was reading repeated news stories about the pending bailout—much of it intended to prop up companies with failed business models and incompetent...

Branding Only Works on Cattle
From The Eponymous Pickle

Branding Only Works on Cattle

Have now read Jonathan Salem Baskin's book: Branding Only Works on Cattle: The New Way to Get Known (and drive your competitors crazy). He also has a supporting...

BOXXTech Releases Monster
From insideHPC

BOXXTech Releases Monster

BOXX Technologies, proprietors of high-end graphics workstations and servers, have announced the release of their latest high end workstation series, the 4850 Extreme...

An experience designer at a technology company
From Putting People First

An experience designer at a technology company

Clive Grinyer wrote a highly honest, yet optimistic post about his experience of working in a hardcore technology company (Cisco) as a user experience designer....

Solar Goose
From The Eponymous Pickle

Solar Goose

Tom Chorman, colleague of mine at Procter & Gamble has a new start-up called Solar Goose. He is marketing a whole group of solar powered rechargeable lightingSolar...

Biggest Kludges of Copyright Law
From The Eponymous Pickle

Biggest Kludges of Copyright Law

Lots of interesting information like this at the Plagiarism Today blog.

Open Source Drives The New Sun
From Wild WebMink

Open Source Drives The New Sun

The Register article reporting Ian Murdock's move to Sun's new cloud computing group seems to have irritated Ian and it does indeed seem to be an attempt to gather...

From Putting People First

Laurent Haug, an entrepreneur based in Geneva, Switzerland and founder of the LIFT conference, launches a new concept: publicy. “What happens with social networks...

Mike Kuniavsky detangling the meanings around the design of services
From Putting People First

Mike Kuniavsky detangling the meanings around the design of services

Mike Kuniavsky (ThingM) is currently writing a ubicomp user experience design book. He just posted a few tidbits on service design: “There are two fundamental ways...

Pachube: connecting environments, patching the planet
From Putting People First

Pachube: connecting environments, patching the planet

Pachube is a web service that enables you to connect, tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments around the world. The...

Important Things in Social Media
From The Eponymous Pickle

Important Things in Social Media

I see that former (in two enterprises) colleague Krista Neher is now CEO at Marketess Consulting where she just posted an item:

Mass Customization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mass Customization

Will mass customization work better during financial crises?-

Penguin Names new Sr.VP and General
From insideHPC

Penguin Names new Sr.VP and General

Penguin Computing has announced that it has named Tom Coull a senior vice president and general manager.

NVIDIA Names New Chief
From insideHPC

NVIDIA Names New Chief

NVIDIA has announced that it has named a new Chief Scientist/VP of Research.

Sun
From insideHPC

Sun

Sun announced this week that it’s opened a new energy efficient data center in Broomfield, Colorado. Responding to market demand for more energy-efficient datacenters...

Marketing Execs Say Use Fewer Numbers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Marketing Execs Say Use Fewer Numbers

In Adage, This is a dangerous way to fool yourself. The worst cases I have seen of research misapplied is when researchers find what they are looking for, emotionally...

IBM Lays of 2,800, More on the
From insideHPC

IBM Lays of 2,800, More on the

Yesterday, IBM announced that they have laid off some 2,800 employees.

Sun announces Q2, posts
From insideHPC

Sun announces Q2, posts

Sun announced its Q2 results for fiscal 2009 this week with both revenues and margin down year over year, but up slightly from Q1 Revenues for the second quarter...
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