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- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."
- July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...
- Tags: PC, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Microhoo mudslinging: Icahn says Yahoo distorts facts of offer; Microsoft agrees
- The Microhoo saga gets messier by the minute and will probably get worse as we near the Aug. 1 shareholder meeting where Carl Icahn tries to boot Yahoo's board and CEO Jerry Yang. We're back to dueling letters again and the saga is very messy Techmeme. On...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Search, Yahoo! Press Release, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Not just a nip and tuck, application modernization extends the lifecycle of legacy code assets
- Not just a nip and tuck, application modernization extends the lifecycle of legacy code assetsExcellent PieceApplication Modernization is the need of every IT department. I've worked in IT myself for over 12 Years and now own my own software development firm. Recently wrote a similar piece myself.http://hubpages.com/hub/Application-Rationalization--Modernization-Strategies-for-Investment-Bank-IT-DivisionAnusheelRE: Not just a...
- Tags: Asset management, Software development, legacy code asset, nip, application modernization, Application Modernization, asset
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Investment Bank Plans to Boost IT Performance, Reduce Hardware Costs With New Server Technology
- Based in Toronto, Canada, BMO Capital Markets is the North American corporate and investment banking division of BMO Financial Group. With 400 servers distributed worldwide, BMO Capital Markets wanted to create a dynamic IT infrastructure that could easily scale to meet increasing demands for performance and international expansion. The company...
- Tags: Bank, Microsoft Windows Server, Information Technology, Investment, Investment Banking, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- A Major International Financial Services Institution Uses the Information Gleaned From IBM's Social Network Analysis Solution to Streamline Its IT Support and Infrastructure Operations
- The financial services institution's operational structure comprised three separate divisions each of which had different requirements in terms of IT hardware, software and support. Using a central IT infrastructure to meet such a diverse set of needs meant that design and engineering were performed at the lowest common denominator, creating...
- Tags: Social Networking, Information Technology, Financial Service, Streamline, IBM Corp., Financial Services Institution, Strategy, Financial Services, Management
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Is India adapting to the Night Shift?
- Is India adapting to the Night Shift?Give 'em all Prozac and ...tell them to get used to the health issues. It comes with the American or Indian in this case Dream. Our life style here in America can kill the strongest of men... or women.Issue ain easyI work...
- Tags: Business process outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, IT Services, HEALTHCARE, Associated Press, Indian IT industry, attrition rate, Night Shift, BPO, odd hour
- Discussion threads 2007-12-28
- WorkLight secures Facebook for enterprises
- Social networks are growing like weeds. This creates a difficult weeding problem for enterprises, who fear adverse impact from employees spending time and sharing company info in Facebook groups, which aren't protected by corporate firewalls. WorkLight is addressing both issues with WorkBook, a Facebook application that allows...
- Tags: Facebook, WorkLight, Social Networking, Financial Services, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Google versus the telecoms
- Google versus the telecomsInfrastructure game will suck up all Google's cashThere is no better way to spend capital than investing in the infrastracture business. If Google gets into building a 700MHz network, it will be years before they can get their investment bank. There is also the handset side to...
- Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Wi-Fi, telecommunications, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-30
- Facebookers: Choose your words more carefully
- At the FourSquare Conference in New York put on by the private investment firm Quadrangle, Facebook CFO Gideon Yu made a gonzo statement that is being picked apart by the blogosphere. As reported by Sam Gustin of Portfolio, who apparently was the only journalist to witness the...
- Tags: Facebook, Advertisement, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- Former Red Hat exec leaves Zmanda after short stint, brain drain at Red Hat continues
- Former Red Hat online chief Pete Childers has resigned as CEO of Zmanda after a two-month stint in that role. Childers, who joined Zmanda in May of 2007 and left in July, is now CEO of Claritive Systems, a Palo Alto, calif. software consulting and strategy firm...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Zmanda, Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- REST-style architecture in the real world
- A couple of weeks ago, I presented REST to the IT staff in the London division of a major US investment bank. Out of something like 100 people, only a small number of people had ever heard of REST. Yet this bank had invested in a REST to SOAP bridge...
- Tags: SOA, REST, Information Management, Content Management
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Yahoo brings in a dealmaker: Transactions ahead
- Yahoos choice for Chief Financial Officer, Blake Jorgenson, formerly of the investment bank Thomas Weisel Partners, indicates the company has decided to compete through acquisition. You dont bring in a dealmaking gun if you arent prepared to pull the trigger on a lot of acquisitions.Having been beaten to the punch...
- Tags: Business &, Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- Google doubleclicks on advertising
- So what does the Google acquisition of Doubleclick tell us?It says that Google isnt an all-you-can-eat restaurant in Mountain View or a do-no-evil NGO or a research department of Stanford University. It isnt even a search engine. No. Google is a remarkably profitable business that is cornering the market for...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-15
- Do you use your BlackBerry to tell the time?
- Just back from a mini-vacation about all I have time for these days to a rainy and windswept beach on the Pacific Coast of Washington State.Because it was a vacation, I tried to live differently than during the workweek, when I must syncopate my efforts to the clock.I said...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- Windows, Office to get 'critical' fixes
- Windows, Office to get 'critical' fixes"Should auld acquantance be forgot......and ne'er brought to mind..."Should be "Should old OS be forgot...."and never used again.i can only improve with practise,thank you for your feedback!Should old acquaintance be forgot....And never ever die..... I think that is how it goesWell it is the first...
- Tags: Operating systems, SECURITY, OPEN SOURCE, Windows Office, flaw, Microsoft Windows, critical flaw, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-04
- What next for Apple?
- PiperJaffray, the middle market investment bank and institutional securities firm, issued a company note on Apple Computers, Inc. on December 5th which paints a very positive outlook for the company. It expects Apple shares to outperform the broader market over the next 12 months. The reports rates the...
- Tags: certainty, Apple
- Blog posts 2006-12-07
- The muse of social software
- If you don't know JP Rangaswami, you should. His Confused in Calcutta blog is must reading the 'new enterprise,' how they should operate internally and relate to customers. By day he is the chief of Alternative Market Models at the investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort...
- Tags: social Software, software
- Blog posts 2006-09-04
- Symantec picks away at Vista's core
- Symantec picks away at Vista's coreSymantec... whata buncha FUD spreading jerks...if they are this scared Vista must be doing something right for once- SamI see no reason to buy a Symantec product anywayI mean, of COURSE they're going to find some vulnerabilities, their business depends on it. The whole Symantec...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SECURITY, Hypervisor software, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Windows Vista, Symantec Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-08-09
- The Transition to Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM 8.9: An Analysis of Customers' Early Experiences, Challenges and Business Benefits
- This paper examines the business case for upgrading to Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM 8.9, based on the experiences of customers in the United States and Europe. It looks at a wide range of factors that influence the upgrade path, from maintenance issues affecting users of older applications to the potential...
- Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Analysis, Benefits, Human Resources
- White papers 2006-05-01
- US adware business is doomed
- The one thing that can be said for Claria's announcement yesterday is that it displaces the work of 180Solutions as the most imaginative use of the Press Release to mislead. As Suzi Turner pointed out , Claria, the ones who brought us sappy screen savors bundled with...
- Tags: adware
- Blog posts 2006-03-22
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