The New York Post has set out more concern this morning at the health of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Apple will reveal its quarterly results during a conference call this afternoon at 2pm (PDT), but, according to the report, people meeting him in recent... 9 to 5 Mac »
The Association of National Advertisers have sent a letter to government regulators regarding the search advertising deal between Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO). The letter sent to Assistant Attorny General Thomas Barnett... (posted on 7 Sep 2008 by Pulse 2)
 (this post is adapted from a similar one I just posted on the Future of Work blog, “Managing Telecommuters - Chapter 573.2“) “How do you manage people you can’t see?” - that’s probably the number one question we get asked whenever we discuss the... (posted on 7 Sep 2008 by The AppGap)
I don’t know about you, but I can’t think of a better way to promote a new mini-laptop than by telling a good love story that happens to revolve around the use of a Lenovo IdeaPad S10 and an IM client. Oh wait, sure I can.  But apparently Lenovo decided... (posted on 7 Sep 2008 by Liliputing)
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is planning on launching a new service that will place several customer service representatives in stores like Best Buy and Circuit City. These customer service reps will answer any technical questions about Windows... (posted on 6 Sep 2008 by Pulse 2)
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) first started as a project by Sergey Brin and Larry Page at Stanford University. Google was founded on September 7, 1998 after receiving a $100,000 check from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems. About 6 years... (posted on 6 Sep 2008 by Pulse 2)
This post is longer than normal but you may find it entertaining as an example of how not to do Level 1 support. All the politeness in the world is no substitute for actually listening, and having some understanding of the environment where... (posted on 6 Sep 2008 by The IT Skeptic)

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