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• VW model gets "Green Car of the Year" in Los Angeles

  The winning Jetta. Courtesy: CBS Interactive It is a VW diesel that won the award. Specifically: VW Jetta TDI. The LA Award winner was chosen by "Green Car Journal." There ...

  Tags: Diesel, Harry Fuller, VW, Car

  Nov 20, 2008 1:02 PM PST

• Detroit automakers have little to be thankful for

  But they do have a little time to pull their drumsticks out of the oven. Today the Democrats in Congress gave the U.S. auto industry until December 2nd to come ...

  Tags: Management, Workforce Management, Government, Marketing, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller, Leadership, U.S. Congress, Detroit, Recruitment & Selection

  Nov 20, 2008 12:44 PM PST

• Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Bargain Apples

  Apple is undoubtedly one of the hottest tech and consumer brands in the world and they should easily sell more than 2 million Macs and 20 million iPods in the ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Engineering, Inserts, Battery, Digital Media, Richard Solo 1800 mAh Battery, Consumer Electronics, Apple iPhone, 3G, Cellular Phones

  Nov 20, 2008 12:15 PM PST

• EIC podcast: Jerry Yang; BlackBerry Storm; Gadgets

  On this week's EIC squared Dan and I talk Yahoo's new CEO, Verizon Wireless and the BlackBerry Storm, CES and pushing gadgets in a down economy. First, the big news ...

  Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Handhelds, masaokad, Hardware, Podcast, RIM BlackBerry, Jerry Yang, CEO

  Nov 20, 2008 12:13 PM PST

• Gartner tries to scare businesses adopting open source

  The good news? Gartner says that 100 percent of businesses will be using open source within the next 12 months. The bad news? Gartner doesn't really seem to understand open ...

  Tags: Joe Brockmeier, Open Source, Software, Gartner Inc.

  Nov 20, 2008 12:09 PM PST

• Microsoft hires away key search VP from Yahoo

  The rumors were true: Microsoft has hired away from Yahoo Sean Suchter, Vice President of Yahoo's Search Technology. Microsoft confirmed Suchter will start with the Redmondians on December 22. by ...

  Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Human Resources, Workforce Management, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley, Internet, Search, Portals, Recruitment & Selection

  Nov 20, 2008 12:07 PM PST

• Beggars, and no longer choosers

  Detroit, its auto industry and its UAW find themselves facing a whole new era. A Congress that may NOT come across with dollars to keep the Detroit Dinosaurs (that's a ...

  Tags: Harry Fuller

  Nov 20, 2008 12:00 PM PST

• We Got GMail Themes!

  Oh Joyous day! COLOR!!!!! Click on the photo to enlarge. Just a few hours ago, Google rolled out its Themes feature to my personal GMail account. I have to say, ...

  Tags: Cloud Computing, Jason Perlow, Theme, E-mail Providers, Internet, Google Gmail

  Nov 20, 2008 11:55 AM PST

• Fortune 500 series: How OfficeMax uses social media

  OfficeMax is facing similar economic woes that other big businesses face, however the company is still focused on continuing the social programs it started testing out in 2006 by Jennifer ...

  Tags: Jennifer Leggio, Marketing, Social Media, OfficeMax Inc.

  Nov 20, 2008 11:46 AM PST

• Microsoft: Free anti-malware for all (Windows users)!

  The other day Microsoft announced that it would phase-out sales of Windows Live OneCare subscriptions and roll out no-cost anti-malware during the second half of 2009. What does this mean ...

  Tags: Sales, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Microsoft Corp., Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Viruses And Worms, Malware, Security, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Nov 20, 2008 11:12 AM PST

• Under worm attack, US Army bans USB drives

  Under sustained attack from what is described as a rapidly spreading network worm, the U.S. army has banned the use of USB sticks, CDs, flash media cards, and all other ...

  Tags: USB, Ryan Naraine, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Online Communications, E-mail, USB Flash Drive, Viruses And Worms, Malware, Security, Worm Attack

  Nov 20, 2008 10:34 AM PST

• Amazon CTO: Cloud infrastructure keeps companies focused on innovation

  On the night of the historic U.S. presidential election, news outlets across the country streamed live video of the news coverage on their Web sites. Obviously, the Web traffic that ...

  Tags: Innovation, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Amazon.com Inc., Data Centers, Data Management, Sam Diaz, Infrastructure, Storage

  Nov 20, 2008 10:11 AM PST

• Online advertising growth stalls from second quarter to third quarter

  The Interactive Advertising Bureau and PriceWaterhouseCoopers said that third quarter online ad revenue was nearly $5.9 billion, up 11 percent from a year ago. Compared to the second quarter, however, ...

  Tags: Online Advertising, Larry Dignan, Interactive Advertising Bureau, Internet, Quarter

  Nov 20, 2008 9:46 AM PST

• The future of... Paper

  It's a possible fix for the reams and reams of paper that are printed, used briefly, and then tossed everyday. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das takes us inside the Palo Alto ...

  Tags: Xerox PARC, Larry Dignan, Ream

  Nov 20, 2008 9:36 AM PST

• How Apple gained the upper hand on Microsoft

  I've just been working my way through hundreds of emails released as part of the Vista Capable lawsuit and there's one phrase that keep coming across that might explain why ...

  Tags: Experience, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hardware, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Corp., Online Communications, Apple Inc., E-mail

  Nov 20, 2008 9:07 AM PST

• A 1.4-gigapixel camera to detect asteroids

  MIT engineers have developed silicon chips that will be at the heart of a telescope installed on Haleakala mountain, Maui, Hawaii, which will begin operation next month. The system, called ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Roland Piquepaille, Digital Photography, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Digital Cameras, Pan-STARRS, Chip, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Semiconductors

  Nov 20, 2008 9:06 AM PST

• Ginkgo Biloba does not help either

  The Journal of the American Medical Association published results from a randomized test of ginkgo and found it does nothing to prevent either Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia. by ...

  Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Human Resources, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Health Care, Dana Blankenhorn, American Medical Association, Software, Benefits, Enterprise Software

  Nov 20, 2008 8:33 AM PST

• Sex, Rock and Roll, and Open Source Reporting Frameworks

  Actuate 10 and the Eclipse-based Open Source BIRT framework allows you to build rich reporting applications for your enterprise. Click on the photo to watch a video of the software ...

  Tags: Business Intelligence, Actuate Corp., Open Source BIRT, Jason Perlow, Open Source, Data Management, Reporting Tool, Software, Enterprise Software

  Nov 20, 2008 8:18 AM PST

• Open source to the rescue of gene analysis

  Scientists can upload data sets directly and the system compares them to known gene sequences. This allows the sample to be quickly categorized. by Dana Blankenhorn

  Tags: Roche Holding AG, Bottleneck, Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source, Analysis

  Nov 20, 2008 8:15 AM PST

• 5 reasons to kill IT projects

  A survey of IT experts revealed 43 percent of their organizations had recently killed an IT project. Here's the list of reasons, with commentary. by Michael Krigsman

  Tags: Management, Information Technology, Strategy, Project, Michael Krigsman, CIO

  Nov 20, 2008 7:55 AM PST

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