Tuesday, June 27, 2006

 

IT skills shortage -- fact or fiction?

"More imported workers will be needed and we'll have to send more work overseas to outsourcers... Baloney! The software doesn't know, of course, that someone with good Windows administration skills can learn Linux skills to become the new Linux administrator whoâ??s desperately needed."

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Kent State University bans Facebook

Soon, Kent State's nearly 400 athletes will be banned from Facebook -- not by the Web site, but by university administrators.

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The use of colour in web designing

This article explains the use of colour, what colours signify, and how to find colours that fit with each other in your web pages.

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Cable Guy Says Google, Yahoo Are Toast

Leo Hindery's Washington Insider Keynote at the Convergence 2.0 conference asserted that portals (Google, Yahoo etc.) are stealing money from providers (cable cos, telcos), and they will eventually be toast.

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OpenOffice.org challenges Microsoft Office

Microsoft today announced the opening of a "test drive" so that
people can see what Microsoft Office 2007 looks like.

The OpenOffice.org Community invites potential upgraders to go one
better - download the full OpenOffice.org 2 office suite today for a
test drive, and if you like it, use it free for as long as you like.

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Confirmed: SMART cars coming to USA

DaimlerChrysler is going to announce tomorrow that the SMART car will come to the United States in early 2007. That's the word from three major newspapers citing insider sources! This comes after months of speculation.

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Inside HTTP Headers

What is in the headers? What can you do with header data? What is all that stuff for? This tut answers those questions and more with an easy to follow explanation.

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Recycle cell phones only after calling plan ends

A woman dropped a locked, password-protected phone into a recycle bin at Best Buy. A few months later she received a bill for $20,590.67 from Cingular, for calls made on the phone.

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New Digg v3 Launched

It's was live just right now. The midi was fun to hear.

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Are you a bad customer? Being kept on hold is a sign

Many companies today are deciding some of their customers simply aren
â??t worth the trouble. Thatâ??s why many corporations, aided by massive computer databases of customersâ?? shopping habits, try to separate their profitable from their unprofitable customers. here are some examples of how they treat â??badâ?? customers differently.

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Too many passwords?

Hashapass automatically generates strong passwords from a master password and a parameter. Given the same master password and parameter, Hashapass will always give you the same result. That
â??s so you donâ??t have to store your generated passwords anywhere: just come back here with your master password and the parameter.

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Google AdWords Attacked by Jellyfish

Jellyfish.com will offer an alternative to cost-per-click advertising by opening an online marketplace where advertisers can bid directly to customers for their attention and patronage.

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How To Get 50% Off Cable TV Bill

Article on how to get discounts on your cable bill. This applies to a lot of your current bills.

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