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Sunday, July 11, 2010
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Managing the Tough Stuff in Human Resources
Employees are not always perfect. Sometimes, they mess up, fail to show up, miss deadlines and commitments, trample expectations, sport messy work areas, and behave inappropriately with coworkers. More
Recruiting & Human Resource Issues in China
Prospects for China’s economic growth continue to be bright since the country’s entry into the WTO. With greater opportunities to do business, read more
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Laptop makers push for a universal power supply
Its about time one thing I hate when repairing laptops is people sometimes forget the chord and as usual the only chord I don't have is the one for that particular laptop. You can read the whole story here
Software, Tablet PCs How-to: Install Flash on your jailbroken iPad
We just saw Flash 10.1 ported to the iPad demonstrated in video form by Comex, and now you can get in on the action too, as long as your iPad is jailbroken. It's called Frash, and while the plugin is still pretty early and doesn't do video playback yet, you can definitely play games and other animations right now, and we're told video support is forthcoming. Okay, so let's try this out, shall we? It's not point-and-click simple, but it's not that hard, either. Full instructions can be found here
Apple responds on iTunes fraud, vaguely confirms said fraud
Over the weekend we saw reports of what appeared to be fraud occurring in the iTunes system -- namely, a rogue developer had somehow managed to snag 42 of the top 50 sales positions in the App Store's "book" category with seemingly bogus content. It looked as if there was some correlation between those suspicious sales and word of an increase in iTunes account fraud, but Apple had been mum on the subject over the holiday weekend. We've finally gotten a response from the company, and the folks in Cupertino say that the developer in question -- a gentleman named Thuat Nguyen -- has been chucked out of the Store altogether. Additionally, while they don't explicitly say fraud occurred, they suggest you check with your bank and kill your card if any of your info was stolen... which seems to suggest that something funky happened to some users. Here it is from the horse's mouth: read the whole thing here
Today's solid-state drives: The value perspective
This is a very good article on the current value of solid state drives. While i see them as something that will be widely used to replace hard drives for now they are mostly used to carry around data (jump drives) or in devices that are compact like ipads, laptops or cell phones. anyway go read the whole thing over here
Star Wars' creator says laser too much like lightsaber
Update
(CNN) -- "Star Wars" creator George Lucas wants to force a laser company to stop making a new, high-powered product he says looks too much like the famous lightsaber from his classic sci-fi series.
Lucasfilm Ltd. has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Hong Kong-based Wicked Lasers, threatening legal action if it doesn't change its Pro Arctic Laser series or stop selling it altogether.
"It is apparent from the design of the Pro Arctic Laser that it was intended to resemble the hilts of our lightsaber swords, which are protected by copyright ... ," said the letter, dated last month and provided to CNN by Wicked Lasers.
The letter calls the company's newest laser "a highly dangerous product with the potential to cause blindness, burns and other damage to people and/or property."
Steve Liu, CEO of Wicked Lasers, said his 7-year-old company has been selling similar lasers for years and has never compared the product to the Jedi weapon wielded by Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader and others in the "Star Wars" franchise.
"Most people feel it's kind of ridiculous ...," he said. "We would never use any comparison like that to 'Star Wars' or a lightsaber or anything like that."
He called the $199 gadget's design fairly typical for a handheld laser and said it isn't a copy of the lightsaber. read the rest here
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