Hi, I am your new manager.

I don’t expect all of you to like me, and I probably wouldn’t be able to like you all the same.

We have a tough job ahead of us, and when we are moving forward, I’d like all of us to pull together.

I expect to make mistakes, and when I do, I’d like you to tell me straight. There is no value in talking behind my back.

If we make some mistakes but do well in many other things, we should still be ok. If you help me, and I make too many mistakes, I wouldn’t need your backbiting — I’d probably fire myself anyway.

And if I do that, I would rather us part with beautiful memories of working together.

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Whoa! What does that tell you of IBM’s confidence in the gadgets and desktops markets? or in China?

IBM, which sold its PC division to Lenovo several years ago, is reducing its stake in Lenovo.
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HONG KONG, July 21 (Reuters) - International Business
Machines Corp (IBM) is selling up to $80 million worth of
Lenovo shares at a discount of 3.9 percent to 7 percent
to its closing price on Monday, according to a document sent to
investors.
IBM is selling 116.19 million shares at HK$5.19 …

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I think it will grow… the question is how fast? Over 10 years ago, I got excited on thin clients. It seems to be making a comeback now…. Ditto with Tablets, ditto with voice recognition, ditto with e-book readers.

When the technology matures, it will come.

Cloud computing - the latest handle attached to the idea of hosted Web services used by consumers and businesses - is beginning to get considerable traction now that there are more companies offering services online. Consumers have always bought books and music, auctioned off unneeded items, or found jobs and home using services running on the Internet. But now they’re storing personal files, meeting future mates and running entire businesses using services to which they can subscribe. This all means that people and enterprises don’t have to set up their own IT systems anymore to get work done.
- Video Content….

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Microsoft has always win in the market.

Maybe there is method in their madness…. Its a continual understanding of the way businesses work — sometimes the best strategy may not be the most straightforward way.

When worlds collide: Microsoft funds Apache |CNET News.com

Microsoft, one of the biggest rivals to open-source programming, has begun funding the Apache Software Foundation, one of open-source software’s biggest supporters.

“Microsoft is becoming a sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). This sponsorship will enable the ASF to pay administrators and other support staff so that ASF developers can focus on writing great software,” said Sam Ramji, a senior director of platform strategy at Microsoft. He announced the move Friday in a speech at the Open Source Convention, and noted Microsoft’s support of the Apache on the software company’s Port 25 blog as well.

He was an inspiration.

Live your dreams. Live your life as if it is your last day.

That’s great advice, and we should always remember that.

but we should remember that it is also important the other way - plan long term. Live some of your days as if you have a hundred more years to live. Some dreams and really great things can only be achieve by painstaking and unremitting focus for a good amount of time — something you cannot have if you perpetually think you will go away very soon.

Prof whose ‘last lecture’ became a sensation dies - Yahoo! News

Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose “last lecture” about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47.

A few thousand pages of that belongs to me (grin)….

Google: We Have 1 TRILLION Pages Indexed - Mixx

“Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days — when our systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!

who knows? At the end, as long as it looks like ‘magic’, people will get it.

Microsoft tries to one-up Google PageRank | CNET News.com

Though a distant third place to Google, Microsoft thinks it can teach its rival a thing or two about searching the Internet.

A big part of Google’s rise to search engine leadership was an algorithm called PageRank that assesses a specific page’s importance by how many other Web pages link to it and by the importance of those linking pages. Microsoft researchers and academic collaborators, though, detailed an idea this week it calls BrowseRank that seeks to bring more of a human touch to that assessment.

This is worrisome….

InformationWeek | Daily Archive

More than three-quarters of bank Web sites have design flaws that could expose bank customers to financial loss or identity theft, according to a University of Michigan study that will be presented this week at the Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy.

The study, “Analyzing Web Sites For User-Visible Security Design Flaws,” examined 214 bank Web sites in 2006. It was conducted by University of Michigan computer science professor Atul Prakash and doctoral students Laura Falk and Kevin Borders

Sometimes, maybe visiting blogs can still be a security risk?

PC Pro: News: Google Blogger “hosts 2% of world’s malware”

Google’s Blogger service is responsible for 2% of the world’s malware hosted on the web, according to a new report from security firm Sophos.

The security firm claims hackers are setting up pages on the free blogging service to host malicious code, or simply posting links to infected websites in other bloggers’ comments.

Yesterday, a research firm noted that IT staff would be one of the more recession proof jobs.

Maybe not, according to this.

3rd party professional services seems like the place they would be cutting….

Study: IT jobs will drop in 2009

IT staff jobs are at increasing risk — both for contractors and in-house workers — according to a survey of top CIOs by Goldman Sachs & Co. released last week. Global services companies will also feel the pinch because of the slowing economy.

A second survey showed that basic PC and network hardware, as well as professional services providers, would bear the largest proportion of spending cuts. It also showed that CIOs planned to emphasize economizing measures over investments in new technologies, with cloud computing emerging as the last item on their priority lists, despite the hype around it.