06 July 2008
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Apple screws customers badly

07/11/08 06:25 PM Filed in: Marketing & Business in the 21st Centure
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Apple’s meltdown is a classic example of problems that can result from complex systems that have single points of failure. In today’s case, the company appeared to invite disaster by not separating its existing customers from new ones. On Friday morning, Apple executives acknowledged the problem and said the combination of original iPhone users upgrading and new iPhone 3G users trying to complete their activation swamped the company’s servers. Does Apple care? Why should they? After all they are Apple ! Read More...
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Cheney wanted cuts in climate testimony

07/08/08 08:35 AM
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Vice President Dick Cheney's office pushed for major deletions in congressional testimony on the public health consequences of climate change, fearing the presentation by a leading health official might make it harder to avoid regulating greenhouse gases, a former EPA officials maintains. Read More...
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Why is doing the right thing so hard today for so many people?

07/07/08 09:45 AM Filed in: Life 101
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Do the right thing ! It sounds so easy but why is it so hard for people to do today? It comes down to a lot of things, mostly fear. Fear of losing your job, fear of being singled out and the fear that we “won’t fit in”. If more people just did the right thing there would be a hell of a lot less trouble in this world. Read More...
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