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By John Beck
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:50:06 -0800 -
Your mobile bills to bloat 30% this yea
Vodafone quietly raised tariffs of postpaid users in January by about 20% in Delhi and plans to extend this to other regions, with rivals set to follow suit.
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:53:13 -0800 -
Tired of Gnome and KDE Bloat and Bling? Try XFCE 4.
When you get tired of bloat and bling, try the lean, mean, clean XFCE 4.8.
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:45:31 -0800 -
Bloat-cutting Mit
Mitt Romney is a work in progress. He?s under attack for being a hugely successful private-equity banker at Bain Capital. Bain identified distressed companies and found value in them for shareholders, investors and, ultimately, consumers. When things worked right, Romney and his team streamlined firms and injected fresh capital...
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:31:42 -0800 -
Compact software development is IN, bloat is OUT
For years I have discussed with others about how software development should get back to basics, using native code (rather than scripting languages) by using compilers optimized for creating fast and compact applications. A recent TIOBE index reemphasizes this point. The most telling part of the index is the graph of long term trends. What I thought was interesting with the TIOBE index long term ...
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:43:33 -0800 -
4 ways to beat data bloa
It is estimated that unstructured data -- everything from email to spreadsheets, documents and digital media -- accounts for at least 90% of an organization's data. You systems are bloated with everything from personal iTunes playlists to the early versions of that PowerPoint presentation you delivered in March. To make matters worse, analysts at Gartner and IDC predict that data growth in IT ...
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:42:28 -0800 -
Windows 8 to tame storage hassle with 'Spaces' technolog
Windows 8 will tame data loss and storage bloat on PCs by offering a simple form of the thin provisioning and virtualisation technology more commonly found tin data centres, Microsoft has said.
Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:40:55 -0800 -
Analysis: Santorum tax plan cuts rates, keeps goodie
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum appeals to the party's hunger for low taxes, but earns poor grades from economists across the U.S. political spectrum who say the plan will bloat the already intractable U.S. deficit. Santorum has garnered new attention after coming from behind to virtually tie Mitt Romney in last week's Iowa caucuses, the first nominating ...
Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:47:08 -0800 -
O?s flawed fix for college-cost crisi
Except maybe for Hollywood and Goldman Sachs, there has been no firmer source of support for Barack Obama?s presidency than academia. University faculties have been among his greatest sources of donations, while professors have happily charged his critics with racism on every imaginable ground. So, naturally, Obama?s throwing...
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:48:07 -0800 -
Obama seeks authority to merge federal agencie
President Obama announced a new campaign yesterday to shrink the federal government, a proposal notable less for its goal - the fight against bloat has been championed by every modern-day president - than for its challenge to a hostile Congress. Obama called on lawmakers to grant him broad new authority to propose mergers of government agencies, which the Congress would have to approve or reject ...
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:30:32 -0800 -