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- Run by Wall Street? A Cause or a Company?
- Guest post: Anshu Sharma is author of Anshu's blog, which focuses on Software as a Service and the emerging SaaS Ecosystem. He is an Enterprise Irregular. In light of the Yahoo! - Microsoft fiasco, fellow bloggers Larry Dignan and Vinnie Mirchandani have been asking the question whether...
- Tags: Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., Vision, Wall, Management Team, Software As A Service (SaaS), Financial Accounting, Construction, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Management, Anshu Sharma
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
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- Live Webcast: Make Customer Experience a Cornerstone of Your Revenue Strategy
- Join this live BNET Webcast to hear industry experts Jeffery Tarter, Executive Director of the Association of Support Professionals ASP, share how leading companies are investing in support and services to deliver a better customer experience, which translates to customer loyalty and reoccurring revenue; and Robert Bell, Services Management Consultant,...
- Tags: Strategy, Revenue, Webcast, Citrix Systems Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance
- Webcasts 2008-07-09
- Kaminsky and Ptacek comment on DNS flaw
- Well, well, well, what a day for security news! I got a chance to get the scoop word of mouth from Dan Kaminsky of IOActive (pictured above [image courtesy of quinnums]) and Thomas Ptacek of Matasano pictured below on the DNS flaw that's been all over the...
- Tags: DNS, Flaw, Nate, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Broadcast or communicate?
- When the Czarist autocracy was overthrown in the 1917 Russian revolution, fundamental changes in Russian society under the new political structure occurred. A fascinating example for me is that while most of the world was busy building out telephone communications infrastructure, the Soviets chose to focus on installing...
- Tags: E-mail, Collaboration, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Apple hasn't learned from past security mistakes
- * Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest editorial by Aviv Raff Apple's Safari for Windows is a nice browser. It really is. It has slick user interface, some pretty cool features, and benchmarks show that it is really fast. But, saying that...
- Tags: Security, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Web Browser, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Deskless Workers, Useless Services: Microsoft Online Misses the Mark
- I spend a lot of time tracking the deskless souls who inhabit the workworld, the factory workers, nurses and others who spend more time on their feet and less time on their butts than the rest of us. So I was all ears as Stephen Elop, Microsoft's latest Business Division...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Worker, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Did open source make Green go at VMWare?
- Diane Green Greene has been shown the door at VMWare, the company she founded. Another victim of open source? Possibly. Ironically, Green Greene told our Dan Farber two years ago "the industry goes at Microsoft's cadence," and she's being replaced by a former Microsoft executive,...
- Tags: VMware Inc., Diane Green Greene, Virtualization, Open Source, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- They don't all really need laptops, do they?
- I've been getting this question a lot lately from administrators, parents, and taxpayers. The question isn't malicious, but rather comes from folks with a vested interest in making sure that our technology dollars directly benefit students. Does giving teachers laptops directly benefit students? For people who aren't...
- Tags: Teacher, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Productivity, Benefits, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Human Resources, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Does Google need a standards office pronto?
- Google is increasingly in the middle of multiple efforts like Android and standards development. The problem: Google doesn't have a centralized standards office to manage its efforts. According to open source consultant Stephen Walli, Google needs a standards office as its reach grows. Walli writes in a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Standards Office, Walli, Team Management, Blogging, Management, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Enterprise IT and the hypercompetition boom
- Corporate information technology has led to more winner take all markets and a super competitive business environment where players often flame out as quickly as they showed up. That's the big conclusion from Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson in this month's Harvard Business Review. ...
- Tags: Laggard, Information Technology, Leader, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- PlateSpin Launches PowerConvert 7.0
- PlateSpin, a recent acquisition of Novell recently announced PowerConvert 7.0, The company was quick to point out that this is the first product launch since the acquistion. Why would they go to such great lengths to mention that? They want to convince the market that PlatSpin will continue to be...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Novell Inc., Data Center, Migration, PowerConvert, Aragorn, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Document Management, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Ticking bombs in enterprise land
- I believe the enterprise software industry is heading for major problems. It started when I read Francine McKenna where she talks about what she sees as a doomsday scenario for at least one of the Big Four audit businesses. Francine's focus is on questioning the effectiveness of current methods for...
- Tags: Software, Audit, Francine, Tools & Techniques, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- UPDATED: Learning how to use "green" and Microsoft in the same sentence
- NOTE: I've updated this post to include another link with tips on other Microsoft technologies that can contribute to your company's green credentials as well as the link for the Imagine Cup winners. It being the week of Microsoft's annual big-deal partner conference and all, I thought...
- Tags: Data Center, Green Technology, Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Study: Offshore outsourcing dings customer satisfaction; Taking back office offshore ok
- Study: Offshore outsourcing dings customer satisfaction; Taking back office offshore okBy the same token......who are the "customers" of the "back office" people? Yeah, the CSRs. You keep them in house but outsource the "back office", and all you've accomplished is a slight shift of the dissatisfaction - your...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Strategy, back-office, outsourcing, Offshore outsourcing dings customer satisfaction, back-office offshore, offshore outsourcing, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Google's new foray into image search
- In an interview with Beet.tv's Andy Plesser, Google's director of product management for consumer search properties, R.J. Pittman, discusses the search giant's development of software for facial recognition and scene analysis.
- Tags: Image Search, Google Inc., News, google, RJ Pittman, facial recognition
- Videos 2008-07-07
- Lemon-filled odorless socks?
- According to the latest American Chemical Society ACS Weekly PressPac, Portuguese researchers have developed a new type of microcapsule filled with perfume and embedded in fabric for production of scented suits, socks, undergarments and other clothing. This PressPac contains a very short note titled 'Toward perfumed-clothing: Fabric-friendly microcapsules hide unpleasant...
- Tags: Technique, Researcher, Agent, American Chemical Society, Productivity, Real Estate, Business Operations, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Segway CTO to become Apple VP of product design
- A post by Über Administrator and Wise Segway Elder John Grohol on the SegwayChat message boards reveals that Doug Field is leaving Segway for Apple. Doug Field, the chief technology officer at Segway who heads their entire engineering team (and has since Day 1), is leaving Segway to become...
- Tags: Product Design, Segway, Apple Inc., Doug, Product Marketing, Team Management, Marketing, Management, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Vista is "OK", says Ubuntu-converted teenager
- Having finally gotten my oldest son a nicely-working install of Ubuntu on his laptop, I couldn't resist but wipe out his hard drive (saving his music, of course) and install Vista to get his impressions. He was perfectly content with Ubuntu once I had it all spiffed...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Windows Vista, Compiz, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Icahn: Ballmer would do a deal if Yahoo's board goes; Microsoft confirms
- Icahn: Ballmer would do a deal if Yahoo's board goes; Microsoft confirmsThe only way Icahn could "save" GM would be to buy up shares cheap, andthen sell them to Toyota for double the money.... matchnow which one is the Match and who is the striker They are both very incendiary...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Micro$oft, board, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Confirms, Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Icahn, Ballmer pair up, talk Microhoo; Push to boot Yang and Yahoo's board
- Updated: Activist investor Carl Icahn and Microsoft are now in cahoots to toss Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and the company's board of directors. Icahn says in a letter that he has been chatting up Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer along with other key executives about how the two...
- Tags: Transaction, Steve Ballmer, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Icahn, Steve, Search, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
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