It is not often you get to see Fortune 500 CEOs admitting to mea culpas. Granted Nardelli is only a new car person (from Home Depot), however it was most telling that:
“The mistake Chrysler probably made during that period is that we were responding to the customer who wanted bigger, more expansive, higher horsepower vehicles [...]

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The popular Chinese Buick
A considerable amount of trees (and bytes for that matter) have been soaked up debating the merits of an automobile bailout. From what I have read there has been an almost unanimous animosity towards the US automobile industry and the executives in particular. The only defense I [...]

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FutureBrand has release their annual Country Brand Index, and once again New Zealand scores big including the most desirable place to visit in the world.
CBI, now in its fourth year, is a comprehensive study of approximately 2,700 international business and leisure travelers from nine countries conducted by FutureBrand, a leading global brand consultancy, in conjunction [...]

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Windows Mobile was originally launched as Pocket PC in April 2000. It was born in an age when Microsoft was busy trying to tie everything to the Windows Desktop and cast a long shadow over every part of the IT industry. It was not long after that that the Windows wheels fell [...]

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As I suggested yesterday, the meltdown of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) was a very fishy affair. The outage was blamed on “connectivity” which suggests network issues, but as I suggested it did not sound plausible because it was not a complete outage, but very spotty services. This to me suggested a database issue.
Well today [...]

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With Microsoft’s stumbling with the lauch of Vista has come a litany of stories about the demise of Windows as the IT industries richest franchise. However it’s death, if evident, will be slow and painful and will be a result of lots of small cuts, not a wholesale shift to [...]

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[Uploaded on July 10, 2008 by SashaNZ]
IPhone 3G Mania struck New Zealand at 12am (NZ Time) this morning as red beanie (touke) wearing yanks desend on Auckland’s Vodaphone  shop on Queen St.Both ifixit.com and Engadget.com flew to New Zealand to get their mitts on lamburgers and Apple’s iPhone.

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Sunnyvale CA based automotive devices company PLX Devices has created the PLX Kiwi. A variation on their multifunction gauges, it has an embedded algorithm that calculates mileage and suggests how to drive to maximize fuel economy. The kiwi score keeps track of efficiently you drive.

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Those of us who are used to the nightmare of upgrading and installing software on Windows will relate to Bill Gates 2003 experience when he tried to download and install Moviemaker:
I decided to download (Moviemaker) and buy the Digital Plus pack … so I went to Microsoft.com. They have a download place so I went [...]

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For one otherwise entirely ordinary Auckland day each year, all Aucklanders are asked to capture a moment in their Auckland, in whatever way it manifests itself to them through a camera lens.

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