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- I've been privileged to be around some amazing people recently, first at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston and now this week at SuperNova, Wharton Business school's conference, which this year explored "how decentralization and pervasive connectivity are changing our world". My take away word of the...
- Tags: Talent, Mozilla Firefox, Collaboration, British Telecommunications, Openness, JP Rangaswami, Sam, Web Browsers, Groupware, Workforce Management, Leadership, Security, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- NakedIT: JP Rangaswami says, 'Don't call them IT projects'
- NakedIT: JP Rangaswami says, 'Don't call them IT projects'Most tangible elementProjects, especially challenging ones, tend to focus on their most tangible and short-term measurable aspects. Budgets and schedules are tangible. Whether a server is in place or not is tangible. Whether an application is accessible to the...
- Tags: Strategy, IT Project, NakedIT, information technology, JP Rangaswami, Business Value
- Discussion threads 2008-02-13
- CIO Sessions: BT's JP Rangaswami
- CIO Sessions: BT's JP RangaswamiQuestonDan - I'm giving a presentation to an ICT Outsourcing summit early next year - I'd love to use excerpts from the interview suitably acknowledged of course.Any chance of getting a raw feed to cut sections from - I'm particularly interested in his comments about SaaS...
- Tags: JP Rangaswami, British Telecommunications
- Discussion threads 2007-11-01
- Perpetual questioning is the price of liberty
- In More on wikipedia and expertise and gatekeepers and quality, JP Rangaswami says regarding Jaron Lanier's Digital Maoism: Let me end by saying that any medium of expression has the capacity to be subverted into a propaganda machine. The internet is not a medium of expression, it is a...
- Tags: JP Rangaswami, Politics
- Blog posts 2006-09-06
- JP Rangaswami on complexity, control and bigness
- The always interesting JP Rangaswami, former CIO and now chief of Alternative Market Models at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, struck a chord in his recent post dealing with the triad of control, complexity and sprawling bigness.There is considerable organisational inertia to task redefinition, de-sequencing and re-sequencing, as people desperately try and...
- Tags: Complex
- Blog posts 2006-08-22
- The four application pillars of enterprise 3.0
- If the move to services architectures is going to shake up and redefine enterprise applications, what will be the end result? JP Rangaswami, CIO at top global investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein DrKW gave his prediction last week at a private gathering in London of some of the...
- Tags: enterprise application, DrKW
- Blog posts 2005-12-09
- DrKW CIO JP Rangaswami on the 'new outsource'
- DrKW CIO JP Rangaswami on the 'new outsource'The most important aspect of IT[Much of what I see sent offshore is commoditised stuff where the value should have been in coming together as an industry and saying we'll build utilities that all banks and financial houses can use.]Systems integration! Integrating ulilities...
- Tags: Outsourcing, DrKW, JP Rangaswami, outsource
- Discussion threads 2005-08-12
- DrKW CIO JP Rangaswami on the 'new outsource'
- Silicion.com's interview with JP Rangaswami, CIO at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein DrKW, provides a glimpse into one of the smartest people in IT. He is one of the few CIOs unafraid to try out a broad array of new technologies and open source projects. Here's a sample of the...
- Tags: offshore, open source, outsource
- Blog posts 2005-08-11
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- Microsoft launches software for cheap Portuguese laptop
- Microsoft launched on Friday a software package for a Portuguese ultra-cheap laptop for school children that the government hopes will boost the country's technological edge in education. LISBON--Microsoft launched on Friday a software package for a Portuguese ultra-cheap laptop for school children that the government hopes will boost the...
- Tags: Software, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, Computer, Portugal, School Children, Government Hope, Magellan, Productivity, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Reuters, laptops, education
- News items 2008-10-03
- 1 million Classmates headed to Venezuela
- 1 million Classmates headed to VenezuelaAgreedChavez can control any Open Source software in his country, as the government is taking control of all private industries.This is not really about what he feels is best for all, but instead of what he feels he can control the best.You failed to notice...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Web browsers, Debian, Classmates, aversion, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Shuttleworth: Open-source desktops need a facelift
- Shuttleworth: Open-source desktops need a faceliftAll part of the evolution of the Linux desktop. Looking forward to somegreat user interface innovations in Jaunty Jackalope. But, in any case, the user interface for Ubuntu has been advancing rapidly. This will make it even faster.Shuttleworth: Open-source desktops need a faceliftIs linux in...
- Tags: UNIX, Desktops, Operating systems, Right Now IT, Shuttleworth, facelift, Ubuntu, KDE, open source, Linux, desktop, Open-source desktop
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
- Top sites in Japan in June 2008
- Property May 2008 June 2008 % Change Total Audience 55,705 56,220 1 Adobe Sites 5,619 6,842 22 ITMEDIA.CO.JP 3,358 4,024 20 FRESHEYE.COM 3,317 3,940 19 SOFTBANK.JP 2,325 2,679 15 YOMIURI.CO.JP 4,567 5,251 15 Lycos Sites 2,228...
- Tags: Site, NB
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- Social networking profile for Japan in June2008
- Days per Visitor Minutes per Visitor Pages per Visitor Total Internet 14.9 1,053.1 2,129 Orkut 11.5 454.0 1,557 MIXI.JP 7.5 134.0 246 Gree 3.5 130.5 214 FACEBOOK.COM 3.5 40.5 98 MYSPACE.COM 3.0 34.7 81 Source: comScore...
- Tags: Orkut.com, Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, NB
- Blog posts 2008-08-30
- Top social networking sites in Japan in June 2008
- June 2007 June 2008 % Change Total Internet 53,716 56,220 5 MIXI.JP 12,367 12,738 3 MYSPACE.COM 1,137 1,245 10 Orkut N/A 638 N/A FACEBOOK.COM 172 538 213 Gree 531 455 -14 Source: comScore ...
- Tags: Network, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, NB
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Palm Treo: The reviews are upbeat; Can a device turn Palm around?
- Palm may have a hit on its hands with the Treo Pro judging from the recent spate of reviews as NDAs ended on Wednesday. The larger question is whether this pricey device can give the company a boost in the bottom line. To wit: ...
- Tags: Device, Palm Inc., Palm Treo, Treo Pro, QWERTY Keyboard, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Dancing on E-voting's grave
- Dancing on E-voting's graveAgreed - but consider the slippery slopeBecause once you recognized the problem in kind, you ended up arguing (accurately, I think) about degree.Why client-server can't workBecause the expert has to say "yes" to the question in court - no matter how difficult or impractical it may actually...
- Tags: Fair Use, e-voting, client-server, Fairness Doctrine
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Delivering the Olympics: Akamai and Limelight respond
- Akamai disputes Limelight Networks' take on its infrastructure and my recent post, Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet. Limelight, however, says its implementation facts are accurate and that it absolutely stands behind its words.Keep in mind that the two companies compete fiercely and have different takes on...
- Tags: Olympic Games, Network, Server, Akamai Technologies Inc., Content, Limelight Networks, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Data Centers, Networking, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Solar power, no money down, could prove profitable
- You get a solar installation, you could get positive cash flow, and you pay no money down. Sounds like an offer you might read in some spam note from Bulgaria. But it's a legitimate offer from an legitimate cleantech company in California and Arizona. Solar...
- Tags: Electricity, Solar Energy, California, Arizona, Solar City, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Time for open source to build a Code Recycling Center
- Time for open source to build a Code Recycling CenterExcellent ideaExcellent idea. Often companies have utilities created for in-house use that are no longer needed. Years ago I wrote a utility to determine the answer date on lawsuits in Texas, which does not work on a "20 days...
- Tags: Code Recycling Center, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPC
- IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPCSupercomputer Uses.I don't want to sound dumb, but unless the NNSA does nuclear simulations couldn't they keep track of their nuclear stockpile with a Windows, Linux or Mac machine? :-)Update: I read another article related to the supercomputer that states they...
- Tags: Game players, Sony Playstation, supercomputing, IBM Corp., HPC, Intel Corp., chip, Crysis
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
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