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Worth Watching: Steve Ballmer in the heart of Silicon Valley . . .

There was quite a bit of excitement Thursday evening prior to Steve Ballmer's appearance at the Churchill Club Annual Dinner in the heart of Silicon Valley and just a stone's throw from Yahoo! There was who's who crowd gathered at the event. There was no dancing on...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Steve Ballmer, Ann Winblad, Virtualization, Corporate Communications, Cloud Computing, Performance Management, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Storage, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-09-26

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H2O + C = cool idea

Forty years ago the protagonist in "The Graduate" was told the magic word for the future was "plastics." I would suggest the magic word for our future now is "water." Two Michigan innovators just won a prize for an air conditioning system that uses water as the coolant...

Tags: Turbine, C, Air Conditioner, Fiber, Air Conditioning System, John Barrie, Muller, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-23

Live Webcast: 5 Best Practices for Modernizing your Enterprise Portal

Modern enterprise portals offer superior user experience, greater individual and team productivity along with reduced development and support costs. Learn how to get more business value out of your existing enterprise portal using 5 proven best practices. This webcast will show how you can modernize your portal through...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Webcast, Enterprise Portal, Best Practice, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts 2008-11-18

Collision course for American-owned car makers

America's auto makers were very handy in protecting themselves against having tougher fuel efficiency standards. Just this past year as fuel prices spiralled ever upward the feds finally increased the fuel efficiency standards after thirty years of stasis. So now those auto makers in America and elsewhere are...

Tags: U.S., Car, Automobile Company, Detroit, U.S. Congress, General Motors Corp., Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-17

More on Apple's new Mini DisplayPort (updated)

One of the announcements coming out of Cupertino is that their MacBooks now ship with a new video out port called the Mini DisplayPort complete with funny capitalization and lack of space between the words. It means that you'll have to remember to bring a US$30 dongle/adapter with...

Tags: HDMI, Apple Inc., Mini DisplayPort, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Ballmer's battle with VMware

At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks to Ann Winblad, a partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, about Microsoft's move into virtualization with its new Hyper-V technology. He also shares his thoughts on increasing the overall market and how his company differs from...

Tags: Steve Ballmer, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Churchill Club, Microsoft

Videos 2008-09-26

Microsoft CEO still positive on tech economy

At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks to Ann Winblad, a partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, about the current financial crisis. Ballmer says the tech industry is weathering the economic storm, but is not immune to it.

Tags: Financial, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., CEO, Financial Accounting, Finance, Churchill Club, Microsoft

Videos 2008-09-26

Video: Ballmer's quest to compete with Google

At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks to Ann Winblad, a partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, on its long-term strategy to battle Google in the search market. Ballmer says that to succeed, the company will have to find a way to change...

Tags: Google Inc., Steve Ballmer, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-09-26

Ballmer's quest to compete with Google

At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks to Ann Winblad, a partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, on its long-term strategy to battle Google in the search market. Ballmer says that to succeed, the company will have to find a way to change...

Tags: Google Inc., Steve Ballmer, Strategy, Management, Churchill Club, Microsoft

Videos 2008-09-26

In remembrance of scoundrels past

In remembrance of scoundrels pastSame mess - different scum.I agree. I did some consultancy work for a large brand name in sportswear and was horrified by their IT systems. It had been held in thrall by one man who started his IT career in the 70s and was still going...

Tags: Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, information technology, IT System

Discussion threads 2008-09-15

Speech Recognition Based on DTW (zip)

Speech Recognition Based on DTW - Matlab source code. Searching for the best path that matches two time-series signals is the main task for many researchers, because of its importance in these applications. Dynamic Time-Warping DTW is one of the prominent techniques to accomplish this task, especially in speech recognition...

Tags: Technique, Luigi Rosa, DTW, Speech Recognition, Productivity, Emerging Technologies

Software downloads 2008-08-31

Managing risk in your career

At the Women Tech Executive Roundtable at the Churchill Club, panelists discuss how to balance risk and responsibilities and how to see an uncertainty as an opportunity. Speakers include Gina Bianchini of Ning, Charlene Li of Forrester Research, Carol Mills of Adobe, and moderator Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad Venture...

Tags: gender and diversity, professional development, human resources, career, churchill, tech, women, risk

Videos 2008-08-06

Northern lights: Count Anchorage among one of the latest LED cities

The city of Anchorage in Alaska, notoriously gloomy in the winter months, will spend approximately $2.2 million to retrofit 16,000 municipal roadway lights (about one-quarter of all streetlights) with LED fixtures. The deal is one of the latest projects to emerge from the LED City program,...

Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Engineering, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Podcast: Churchill Club women in technology

In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, a panel of executives talk about the critical factors in their success and how they overcame the obstacles of the fast-paced tech industry that is often considered to be dominated by men. Speakers include: Gina...

Tags: Women, Podcasts, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Churchill Club video: Women tech leaders

At the Women Tech Executive Roundtable at the Churchill Club, moderator Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners asks Charlene Li, formerly of Forrester Research, how she rose to such an influential role. Li explains how she gained confidence, got a few speaking tips, and gives her strategy for standing...

Tags: Women, Leader, Video, Li, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-05

Making the call: Distinguishing yourself among executives

At the Women Tech Executive Roundtable at the Churchill Club, moderator Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners asks Charlene Li, formerly of Forrester Research, how she rose to such an influential role. Li explains how she gained confidence, got a few speaking tips, and gives her strategy for standing...

Tags: Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Li, Gender And Diversity, Productivity, Strategy, Human Resources, Management, churchill, tech, CEO, women

Videos 2008-08-04

Ann video converter (exe)

Ann Video Converter is a professional and easy to use video convert tool. One leader in the world of modern video compression. Almost all video formats can be converted. It can convert all video formats to AVI MPEG PSP IPOD WMV RMVB video files etc, and extract audio to MP3...

Tags: Video, AnnVideo, Ann Video Converter, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-06-16

The search engine conundrum

The search engine conundrumlove it!Great article. More please...garyAll search engines lack clarityThe simple truth is all text-based search engines lack clarity and reliability.Whenever I search for something, there are literally thousands of ranked results that have nothing to do with what I am doing, and why? Because there...

Tags: SEARCH, search engine, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-06

Brewster Kahle offers a cookbook for fighting security letters

Just talked to Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive about their successful settlement with the FBI of a lawsuit over a National Security Letter. The FBI had demanded personal information on a user; the Archive replied with a lawsuit challenging the propriety of the NSL. As part of the settlement,...

Tags: Security, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FBI, Library, Brewster Kahle, Cookbook, National Security Letter, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-08

Google's board member targeted by SEC

Google director Ann Mather is facing civil charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection to an options backdating scandal at Pixar, where Mather used to be CFO from 1999 to 2004. In Google's filing, the company disclosed: On April 23, 2008, Ann was advised...

Tags: Google Inc., Board, SEC, Pixar Animation Studios Inc., Corporate Governance, Stock Options, Investment, Benefits, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-29