News Mueslix

A picture is worth a thousand words, when you accidentally delete your digital wedding album and your wife will scream a thousand obscenities

Dell will start to offer a lazy man’s way of data recovery by selling computers with a ghost hard drive. So, if a customer were to delete needed documents they wouldn’t have to deal with messy recovery software, rather just call up Dell and enable the spare hard drive. The hard drive isn’t extra space, just a copy-cat drive.

Enterprise Watch

Fujitsu Ltd. is preparing for an aggressive push into the multicore arena with its SPARC64 processor.

SPARC64 VI will be the Tokyo-based technology company's first dual-core processor, and will first appear in the new systems—called the Advanced Product Line—jointly developed with Sun Microsystems Inc. that are due in mid-2006, according to a presentation given by Takumi Maruyama, manager of enterprise server development at Fujitsu, at the Fall Processor Forum 2005 show, in San Francisco.

Wal-Mart wants to America to pay workers more…just not the sick ones.

An open letter to Wal-Mart:
Your supply-chain and distribution channel amazed me during the recent hurricanes. Your charitable contributions to school aged children affect by the storms was unbelievable. And I applauded the Fortune magazine article that celebrated your achievement that surpassed even the Federal government. But alas, you have failed me again.

Yesterday you said that you want to raise the minimum wage. And, not because you wanted to give your employees more money to buy that little-needed health insurance, but because you didn’t want customers to be struggling paycheck to paycheck.

"The U.S. minimum wage of $5.15 an hour has not been raised in nearly a decade and we believe it is out of date with the times," Scott said. "We can see first-hand at Wal-Mart how many of our customers are struggling to get by. Our customers simply don't have the money to buy basic necessities between pay checks."

And now today, an internal memo was released that details ways you’re trying to cut operating expenses. An internal memo sent to the Wal-Mart Stores Inc. board proposes numerous ways to hold down health care and benefits costs with less harm to the retailer's reputation, including hiring more part-time workers and discouraging unhealthy people from seeking jobs, the New York Times said Wednesday.

I don’t even know to start on this one. But I don’t have to. You feel my pain.

Slow Growth to Blame for Software Consolidation

InformationWeek is reporting on a new Research and Markets paper that states large vendors will delve into other software sectors to make up for falling revenue. Just when you thought software consolidation had to do with a strategic plan to align business and IT, it’s in fact a strategic plan to buy more IT to make the business plan.

The global software market reached a value of $132.2 billion in 2004, demonstrating and compound annual growth rate of 4.1 percent from $112.7 billion in 2000, according to the guide. Western producers dominate the market because clients believe experience and investments make them better prepared than smaller competitors to deliver cutting-edge solutions, the report stated.


Earnings Watch

Amazon reported lower quarterly profit sending the price of its shares down 8%.


It’s a Google world, you just live in it

Google is now going after eBay. This adds another front to their war on Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, VOIP vendors, Wi-Fi vendors and broadcast companies. Google is offically out of control.