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 <description>As an owner of the OLED XEL-1 Television I can truely say that I am in as mush awe today as the day I bought it over 6 months ago. It&#039;s a show-peice must for any serious collector of fine consumer electronics.</description>
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Dear Sir,
   I don’t know the local here in China are not allowed visit your site. And my girl said that she has lost many pictures that I mean my girl lost her computer so I wanna see if your site has my girl’s picture. Can u tell me why?
   I wanna say I don’t know whether my girl is die or not now. And I can’t get contact with my girl—Portia Parttel, and my sister-in-law Elezabeth Parttel(Portia Parrtel’s sister )who is all from UK. And their mother what is my mother-in-law from Ghana. &lt;span class=&#039;read-more&#039;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/37001&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Read more&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description>
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 <title>Why IT will adopt Windows 7</title>
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 <description>In the next few days, I want to take some time to address the coming release of Windows 7. As a person who was named a Windows Vista Master, I want to look at three areas where Windows 7 will make a difference when Windows Vista did not seem to make a dent, so to speak. 


Starting today, I will discuss the following topics:
1.	Why IT will adopt Windows 7
2.	Why XP users will switch to Windows 7
3.	Why Windows 7 will crush Linux (that’s right -- I said &lt;strong&gt;CRUSH&lt;/strong&gt;)

 &lt;span class=&#039;read-more&#039;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/36935&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Read more&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:41:38 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Acer ASPIRE one is realy the best one</title>
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 <description>i newly buy Acer ASPIRE One.it is light wight , powerful , producing very low heat and battery life is about 6 hour (with 6 cell battery).it is my swiss army knife and i do all my networking related task with that.the performance is acceptable and the only cons is small display and touchpad (very small).but it is more better that heavy notebook if you need to console session to your router or ssh connection to your net devices.</description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:48:00 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Bluetooth webcam</title>
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 <description>Would be interesting if this device announces itself as a webcam - that would mean a service like HomeCamera (www.homecamera.com) would pick it up easily. I can see opportunities for bundling and lots more. But if it&#039;s yet another complicated device requiring users to define com ports and other techno-geek gibberish then I&#039;m afraid the device will only appeal to the very tech-savvy.

Incidentally, this is not the first bluetooth camera, though it indeed may be the first such camera for Macs. &lt;span class=&#039;read-more&#039;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/36911&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Read more&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description>
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 <title>Muglia Promotion Secures Windows Azure Future</title>
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 <description>&lt;img style=&quot;float: right; margin: 4px 0px 10px 10px&quot; src=&quot;http://www.biggerstage.com/images/bob_muglia_pdc2008.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;133&quot; height=&quot;135&quot; /&gt;We all think of the Windows desktop OS and Office apps when we think of the power houses at Microsoft, but there&amp;#39;s a new sheriff in town ready to paint the place Windows Azure blue. Bob Muglia received the Microsoft exec equivalent of an at-a-boy, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;amp;articleId=9124901&amp;amp;intsrc=hm_list&quot;&gt;being promoted&lt;/a&gt; to president of the servers and tools division. &lt;span class=&#039;read-more&#039;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/36868&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Read more&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:14:53 -0500</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Mitchell Ashley</dc:creator>
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 <title>free trade that has caused our current problems</title>
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 <description>Total nonsense.  It is free trade that has caused our current problems.  The prevailing business plan over the past few decades is shut down manufacturing, sent it offshore then bring the output here to sell to those who still have jobs or credit. That model has failed. Obama&#039;s fix may indeed shore it up for a few years but it will fail again and again.
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 <description>&lt;p style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;I was invited to blog here for a brief period of time to assist in promoting the concepts of virtual business processes.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The window has come to a close and this is my last post at this site.&lt;/font&gt; &lt;span class=&#039;read-more&#039;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/36838&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Read more&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:50:24 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>This review is not very well done...</title>
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 <description>This review is not very well done. I own this player and it&#039;s not the best, but at least the picture quality is outstanding.
What kind of TV were they using?</description>
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 <title>Strategize 2009: Virtualization Continues to Lead</title>
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 <description>Virtualization is not a new topic, however, it continues to be an emerging and quickly-adopted strategy for combating several enterprise technology problems.  How does adopting a continual virtualization plan help an organization&#039;s bottom line?  In many ways, actually.  Believe it or not, many have been slow to adopt this strategy.  They still have datacenters full of under-utilized hardware, consuming precious resources.

&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why should adopting a prominent virtual environment be a part of your 2009 strategy?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;
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 <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:45:36 -0500</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Well, it’s that time of year. In our first blog post about the “&lt;a href=&quot;/community/node/26055&quot;&gt;Top 20 Most Braindumped Certification Vendors&lt;/a&gt;” we promised that we would keep you abreast of the progress each vendor is making. Unfortunately, the numbers being presented here don’t show there is any progress being made, but I assure you that progress is being made. Although the numbers have risen since we published the first blog post, the numbers here are a combination of newer websites opening up and some of the other websites being shut down. &lt;span class=&#039;read-more&#039;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/36814&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Read more&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:54:11 -0500</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;We at CertGuard are always looking for ways to expand education on the Internet when it comes to preventing braindumps.  Today, we are pleased to announce the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.certguard.com/Braindump-quiz.asp&quot; title=&quot;CertGuard Official Braindump Quiz&quot;&gt;CertGuard Official Braindump Quiz&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;span class=&#039;read-more&#039;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/36810&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Read more&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>Sounds good to me. 
Though I don&#039;t know it its going to be widely popular though...</description>
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 <description>You, and everyone else, refer to it as being 7mm thick. Which would make it 0.28 inches thick. Which is wrapping paper. Is someone confusing cm with mm?</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;m not necessarily in the business of officially making predictions about the IT industry or market, I&amp;#39;ll leave that to the realm of the analysts. But as a technologist, product creator, entrepreneur and IT guy, I&amp;#39;m always casting my net in the direction I think things are headed or will be headed. &lt;span class=&#039;read-more&#039;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/36774&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Read more&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:02:32 -0500</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Mitchell Ashley</dc:creator>
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 <title>Cisco ain&#039;t got the skills to make it in the consumer market</title>
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 <description>In the opinion of yours truly, a very eye-catching &lt;a href=&quot;http://gigaom.com/2008/12/29/ciscos-misguided-foray-into-the-living-room/&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#0000FF&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;critical salvo&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was fired this week at Cisco&#039;s much ballyhooed consumer market hype:

&lt;table style=&quot;width:470px;&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td  valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gigaom.com/about-om/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.bradreese.com/images/om-malik.jpg&quot; width=&quot;187&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; vspace=&quot;0&quot; hspace=&quot;10&quot; height=&quot;163&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Om Malik&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&quot;In order for Cisco to compete with Samsung, Sony and even Apple, the company would need to rewire its entire DNA, and unfortunately, it ain’t got the skills,&quot; said &lt;a href=&quot;http://gigaom.com/about-om/&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#0000FF&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Om Malik&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Founder and Senior Writer of the emerging technology news site &lt;a href=&quot;http://gigaom.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#0000FF&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;GigaOM&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.

&quot;Cisco has a checkered past when it comes to diversification into new markets. Lets face it: Cisco’s skills are in selling equipment to corporations and the government, which is why their push into telepresence (video conferencing) and data center-related equipment makes a lot of sense. 

&quot;How does a company that gets &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/36490&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#0000FF&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;big fat margins&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; from selling expensive equipment (and paying its sales team accordingly) live with the razor-thin margins of consumer entertainment gear? For Cisco this would like climbing Mount Everest without an oxygen tank.&quot;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt; &lt;span class=&#039;read-more&#039;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/36749&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Read more&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:01:01 -0500</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Brad Reese</dc:creator>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Redmond, you&amp;#39;ve got too much to do so don&amp;#39;t be listening to Wall Street&amp;#39;s calls to start laying off people. No disrespect to the analysts, but a big round of layoffs is that last thing Microsoft needs distracting it from the work at hand. Plus, telling 10% of your workforce sayonara so Wall Streeters can make $0.10 more per share will do more damage to your employee base and the &lt;a href=&quot;/community/node/34829&quot;&gt;new Ray Ozzie-driven momentum&lt;/a&gt; you built up than a short term bump of ten cents per share. &lt;span class=&#039;read-more&#039;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/36729&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Read more&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:00:46 -0500</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Mitchell Ashley</dc:creator>
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 <title>1% of Cisco products generate 50% of Cisco product revenue</title>
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 <description>&lt;table style=&quot;width:470px;&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td  valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cisco.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.bradreese.com/images/cash-bag.jpg&quot; width=&quot;146&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; vspace=&quot;20&quot; hspace=&quot;10&quot; height=&quot;194&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Cash&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Stumbled upon a Cisco PowerPoint Presentation dated Nov. 17, 2008 that astonishingly revealed 1% of Cisco products generated an incredible 50% of all Cisco product revenue.

Moving further down the Cisco food chain, an additional 46% of Cisco products generated only 30% more in Cisco product revenue.

Finally at the very, very bottom rung of Cisco&#039;s amazing money making machine, the majority - 53% of Cisco products, generated just a mere 20% of Cisco product revenue.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt; &lt;span class=&#039;read-more&#039;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/36710&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Read more&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:02:02 -0500</pubDate>
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 <description>Dick Tracy would feel right at home with it...</description>
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