Gridlock - Just another KM Blog
"GridLock" is written by Arjun Thomas. This blog is a guide to various topics related to Knowledge Management, its technologies and practices, in an attempt to De-mystify it.
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Man gets $85,000 cell phone bill for modem use. “Piotr Staniaszek had been using his cell phone as a modem for his computer, thinking he was covered under his $10-a-month unlimited mobile browser plan from Canadian telco Bell Mobility. He actually caught the bill at $65,000. When he called to complain, he was told that it [...]
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:05:39 +0000 - Talk about excessive!!
Got US$45,600 burning a hole in your pocket? Try out Seitz Phototechnik’s 160-megapixel 6 x 17 Digital Camera. And save a bit more of your allowance for a lens, too. The mammoth device is able to take an image measuring 60 x 170mm, a big notch up from high-end SLRs with a 24 x 36mm frame. [...]
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:22:08 +0000 - What does KM mean to NASA?
For those of you interested in KM, here is how NASA does it…. What is Knowledge Management? Knowledge management is getting the right information to the right people at the right time, and helping people create knowledge and share and act upon information in ways that will measurably improve the performance of NASA and its partners. [...]
Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:50:53 +0000 - Sony HALVES PS3 build cost!
Source : Cnet Historically, console manufacturers have made a loss on the hardware itself and recouped their losses on the resulting software sales. Although Nintendo has claimed that the Wii has been making money since day one, the PlayStation 3 costs Sony money for every unit sold. However, according to a report in Business Week, the Japanese [...]
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:06:05 +0000 - The Apple “Time” Capsule…
Source : ZDNet Apple’s Time Capsule, announced today at the Macworld press conference, promises Mac and PC data backup over a wireless network. Time Capsule is essentially an Airport Extreme Base Station with a 500GB or 1TB hard drive built in. The 500GB version goes for $299, and the 1TB version for $499. Both are currently for [...]
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:04:25 +0000 - Open Sesame - Yahoo Quest!!
Source : NYTimes For months, Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang has been talking about swinging open the doors to the Yahoo portal. A key goal, he has said again and again, is to turn Yahoo into a set of platforms for third-party publishers and developers. Jerry Yang gives the Yahoo! gesture after his keynote address. (Photo: Paul Sakuma/Associated [...]
Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:11:11 +0000 - Microsoft Warns of New Excel Vulnerability
Source : PC World Attackers are exploiting a vulnerability that lies within several versions of the Excel spreadsheet program, Microsoft warned late Tuesday. The problem in Excel allows a hacker to create a malicious Excel document that when opened can compromise a computer, Microsoft said in an advisory. The vulnerability could allow remote code to be executed [...]
Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:07:46 +0000 - Hubble to get an upgrade!
Source : NewScientistSpace Space shuttle astronauts will attempt an unprecedented in-orbit repair of key Hubble Space Telescope (HST) instruments during the servicing mission scheduled for August 2008. The repairs, along with the addition of two new instruments, will make Hubble 90 times as powerful as it was after its flawed optics were corrected in 1993. In October [...]
Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:32:22 +0000 - Amazon goes head to head with Apple
The big story in the music world is that Amazon.com announced this Thursday that it would start selling music from Song BMG without the restrictive digital rights management software. This makes Sony the last of the major record labels to embrace the open format. “DRM is dying,” Tim Bajarin, principal analyst with Creative Strategies, said in [...]
Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:21:06 +0000 - The FBI forgot to pay their phone bill!!
Source : Yahoo News A Justice Department audit released Thursday blamed the lost connections on the FBI’s lax oversight of money used in undercover investigations. In one office alone, unpaid costs for wiretaps from one phone company totaled $66,000. In at least one case, a wiretap used in a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act investigation “was halted due [...]
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