http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2751 Independent Tech News and Product Reviews from former VP and head of CNET.com and Longtime Computer Shopper Columnist, Alice Hill author of the popular "Hard Edge" column. Originally named AliceandBill.com. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:05:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2751#comment-56907 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 00:45:12 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2751#comment-56907 Is it true you can trace/locate ip addresses or find out who you are chatting to on yahoo? Some individuals are very curt and it would be nice to find out who they really or or where they come from. Is it true you can trace/locate ip addresses or find out who you are chatting to on yahoo? Some individuals are very curt and it would be nice to find out who they really or or where they come from.

]]> http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2751#comment-14162 Thu, 02 Mar 2006 22:49:00 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2751#comment-14162 Did anyone ever think that the reason that they used Yahoo IM and AIM and communicated openly about leaving is that they weren't actually stealing anything from the company and didn't have anything to hide...and that Yahoo is trying to "spin" the fact that they are bleeding talent from every part of the company. Oddly, when Yahoo gutted Nuance's engineering department a few short months ago ("recruiting" 13 of 14 engineers to specifically rebuild what they were working on at nuance - in effect wiping out the opportunity for that small company to exist -- not, in this case losing like 6 out of 1000+ engineers to a small company that is not even a direct competitor) they generated page after page of publically available, sworn legal statements that companies couldn't keep employees from leaving and that skill sets were not "trade secrets", and on and on and on... Did anyone ever think that the reason that they used Yahoo IM and AIM and communicated openly about leaving is that they weren’t actually stealing anything from the company and didn’t have anything to hide…and that Yahoo is trying to “spin” the fact that they are bleeding talent from every part of the company. Oddly, when Yahoo gutted Nuance’s engineering department a few short months ago (”recruiting” 13 of 14 engineers to specifically rebuild what they were working on at nuance - in effect wiping out the opportunity for that small company to exist — not, in this case losing like 6 out of 1000+ engineers to a small company that is not even a direct competitor) they generated page after page of publically available, sworn legal statements that companies couldn’t keep employees from leaving and that skill sets were not “trade secrets”, and on and on and on…

]]> http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2751#comment-14004 Wed, 01 Mar 2006 19:15:36 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2751#comment-14004 i havent used it yet! i havent used it yet!

]]> http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2751#comment-13990 Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:03:57 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2751#comment-13990 I like how they switched to AIM like you can't trace and sniff out IM chat threads on your company network. Lame. I like how they switched to AIM like you can’t trace and sniff out IM chat threads on your company network. Lame.

]]> http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2751#comment-13982 Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:54:42 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2751#comment-13982 And to use Yahoo's instant messenger, obviously they aren't as smart as they think they are. And to use Yahoo’s instant messenger, obviously they aren’t as smart as they think they are.

]]> http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2751#comment-13974 Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:44:23 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2751#comment-13974 can y'all say "black-balled in the industry"? serves them right, obviously they thought they were smarter and wouldnt get caught. can y’all say “black-balled in the industry”? serves them right, obviously they thought they were smarter and wouldnt get caught.

]]> http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2751#comment-13951 Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:29:44 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2751#comment-13951 its good its good

]]> http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2751#comment-13924 Wed, 01 Mar 2006 02:48:14 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2751#comment-13924 If they are stupid enough to do this, they shouldn't be working for any company. If they are stupid enough to do this, they shouldn’t be working for any company.

]]> http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2751#comment-13919 Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:49:51 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2751#comment-13919 Wow. It's one thing to talk about leaving your current employer, but it's an entirely different story when you decide to steal from them and then use that stolen information or property to compete with them. Wow. It’s one thing to talk about leaving your current employer, but it’s an entirely different story when you decide to steal from them and then use that stolen information or property to compete with them.

]]> http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2751#comment-13918 Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:27:53 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2751#comment-13918 Wow. I worked with all these guys at Excite@Home and EarthLink. We all left Excite@Home for EarthLink as a group in October 2001 -- which was pretty understandable since Excite was bankrupt, in the process of dissolving, and had screwed over its employees. But they've done it twice since then (to Yahoo and now to MForma). I don't know anything about these latter two, but it seems like a dangerous game. Wow. I worked with all these guys at Excite@Home and EarthLink. We all left Excite@Home for EarthLink as a group in October 2001 — which was pretty understandable since Excite was bankrupt, in the process of dissolving, and had screwed over its employees. But they’ve done it twice since then (to Yahoo and now to MForma). I don’t know anything about these latter two, but it seems like a dangerous game.

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