Stunning NYTimes article about Vista – it seems that Microsoft employees and board members knew that Vista was, well, not so good. There’s even a class action suit…. “Last month, Judge Marsha A. Pechman granted class-action status to the suit, which is scheduled to go to trial in October. (Microsoft last week appealed the certification …
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Real Estate is falling – what happens next?
The housing crash is cascading around the world, and the dire predictions are coming true. Here’s the latest chart from The Economist – check out Ireland on the bottom. That’s a crash, not a “balanced slump”. Meanwhile Trade Me just surpassed 70,000 property listings, on the back of signing up one of the last few …
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Why intervention is needed for Telecom and not for Auckland
Falafulu Fisi asks an excellent question to the previous post on Auckland Airport: “Aren’t both Auckland Airport & Telecom private companies? Why would you want to say that the government is an interventionist regarding the CPPIB attempt to buying shares in the Auckland Airport but not saying the same thing about Telecom? I am a …
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Xobni is cool – add your name to the list
Not that I have it yet, but Xobni is a very cool add-on to Outlook that gives you handy things like threaded conversations and stats for everyone you communicate with. What a great idea! Their premise is that we have all created far more MB of information through our email than through our web presence. …
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Ham-fisted intervention in markets is dull thinking
Score one for protectionism, and minus several ranks of the economic freedom index for New Zealand, after the Government intervenes to prevent a Canadian fund from buying into Auckland airport. When the market drops by 2% after a new protectionist law is created it should be obvious to everyone the impact of ham-fisted interventionist Government …
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Juran, founder-father of Lean, six sigma, TPM, pareto analysis dies
Joseph Juran, author of the immense textbook “Quality Control Handbook” (or Quality Management Handbook) has died, after an excellent innings of 103. Juran bough QA to the Japanese, and they loved it – the Toyota Production System, Six Sigma, Lean and so forth can all be traced to his work. He also tried to introduce …
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The sage of Omaha speaks
Warren Buffet’s yearly missive is out. Essential reading for anyone interested in investing. Here are some tasty snippets: “You only learn who has been swimming naked when the tide goes out – and what we are witnessing at some of our largest financial institutions is an ugly sight. It’s better to have a part interest …
Juha Exposed
Separated at birth? or just related. We find out a ittle more about who is behind that mask: Juha/Bach is blogging over at Stuff…
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Why Digitalmax now sucks, and how they can get better
Natalie at SimpleandLoveable laments the passing of a great service into a lousy one – after a shoddy website redesign by DigitalMax. Now I briefly used DigitalMax two or so years back, so I went to the DigitalMax site to see how bad it now is. Let’s start with the homepage, an ask the age-old …
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Linked in finally starts moving
With the most elite network – connected through business relationships – linked in has incredible potential. That potential has drifted somewhat recently as the competition (namely Facebook) moved well ahead. Well – finally a redesign, and a move to some web 2.0 slickness, making, for example, it much easier to upload a profile photo. But …
one in 99 USA adults is behind bars
Not only are US Prisons terrifying, . , but now we hear that 1 in 99 of the US adult population is behind bars. “Incarceration rates are even higher for some groups. One in 36 Hispanic adults is behind bars, based on Justice Department figures for 2006. One in 15 black adults is, too, as …
What’s cool and what’s uncool
IRD Cool Vodaphone uncool when did it go so very very wrong?
NetRatings Pop-ins are bad for business
It’s pretty easy to ignore reading the NZHerald (or whatever site) when this happens: I browse in tabs, so I just close the NZHerald tab and move on. It is easier to do that then to move the mouse down to the close (X) button on the NetRatings pop in. Net Ratings could fix this …
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