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Jerry Yang is busy...Writing email

Yahoo filed its internal communications about Carl Icahn's proxy war plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The takeaway: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has been writing a lot of emails. To senior vice presidents at Yahoo, Yang delivered a few talking points following Icahn's first volley and...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Annual Meeting, Board, Carl Icahn, E-mail, Stockholder, Director, Company, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Google at Davos: Eric Schmidt helps set global agenda

Eric Schmidt, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Google, is co-chair of The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2007 Annual Meeting convened today in Davos, Switzerland.Google, Inc. is a “Strategic Partner” of this year’s high-powered, world agenda setting meet-up of many of the most powerful and influential people in the world....

Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Media, Search, Culture, Legal, Google, Government, Enterprise, Internet Data, Brands, Marketing, ecommerce, Google Software Applications, Social Media, Google Inc., Eric Schmidt

Blog posts 2007-01-24

Additional Resources

End-to-end encryption is the key to protecting data and reputations

In order to avoid the financial and brand damage associated with data breaches, businesses need to consider deploying end-to-end encryption as a tamper proof way of securing data. Commentary - Media outlets around the globe highlight new data breaches at an alarmingly regular rate. Forrester estimates that the cost...

Tags: PCI, Organization, Data Breach, PCI DSS, Encryption Key, encryption, security, Paul Meadowcroft Thales, Special to ZDNet, Paul Meadowcroft, Thales, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-11

Did Sermo save health reform?

Let's be seriousDana, as a physician, I appreciate the question you posed...but please, let's try to refrain from over embellishing the very limited role Daniel Palestrant and Sermo have played in the past few weeks. The AMA, and its 250,000 members, pushed President Obama on tort reform when he addressed...

Tags: Vertical industries, Sermo, Daniel Palestrant, physician, AMA, health care

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

Microsoft's Bing 2.0: Coming this fall (maybe even next week)

If the Tweets coming out of Microsoft's annual company meeting are on point, the 2.0 release of Microsoft's Bing search engine is coming this fall, and possibly as soon as next week. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Search, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-09-10

OpenSource World/NGDC/CloudWorld Experiences

I've been running from meeting to meeting at IDG World Expo's OpenSource World/Next Generation Datacenter/CloudWorld Conference at the Moscone Center in the heart of beautiful San Francisco (see OpenSource World/NGDC/CloudWorld.) Here are my initial impressions of the event: The event is significantly smaller than any I...

Tags: IDG World Expo, Event, Vendor Area, Data Centers, Channel Management, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Rehosting Mainframe Workloads: Legacy Migration and Modernization Solutions From HP and Clerity

With today's emphasis on improving Total Cost of Ownership TCO and Return On Investment ROI, organizations must find new ways to decrease costs while maintaining functionality, meeting service level agreements, and mitigating risk. If business relies on mainframe systems, one may feel locked into a proprietary infrastructure with annual software,...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Solutions Inc., Migration, Mainframes, Roi/Tco, Servers, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting

White papers 2009-08-01

Wall Street analysts descend on Redmond for annual financial meeting

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Tags: Financial accounting, Tiffany, financial meeting, financial

Discussion threads 2009-07-30

Ballmer: He knows when you're using a Mac

So what does Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer do when he faces a room of press and financial analysts toting a bunch of Macs. He counts Apple logos. The man knows when you're using a Mac. He knows when your Vista PC is awake. It's unclear if Ballmer...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Steve Ballmer, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hardware, Microsoft Windows 7, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-30

Wall Street analysts descend on Redmond for annual financial meeting

Today, July 30, is Microsoft's annual Financial Analyst Meeting FAM, when Wall Street analysts and press treated to back-to-back presentations from Microsoft's top execs, where they outline the company's product and strategy agenda for the company months. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Financial, Analyst, Wall Street, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-07-30

CIT unraveling could be headache for Dell, Avaya, resellers

The U.S. government has drawn a line in the sand---it won't bail out debt-ridden CIT, a financial services firm that loans money to small and midsized business in part to buy and lease technology equipment. Unlike other financial company implosions CIT's potential demise could have a direct impact on technology...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Financing, Leasing, Avaya Inc., CIT, Capital Structures, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-16

Sun Valley roundup: Google, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple and more

There's plenty of high-profile buzz coming from Sun Valley, Idaho, where media executives have gathered for the annual Allen & Co. conference, considered to be an exclusive event for the who's who in the world of media and technology. Among the big questions capturing some attention: Will...

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Sun Microsystems Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Twitter, Corporate Governance, Operating Systems, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-10

Demand for 13-in. Apple MacBook Pro outpacing supply

Apple is reportedly having difficulty keeping units of its newly-anointed 13-in. MacBook Pro laptop computer in stock as it enters the middle of the back-to-school buying season. In a note to clients on Tuesday, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster noted that the online...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook Pro, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-07

Can Yahoo steal the search throne from Google with Search Pad?

Yahoo is set to launch a new search feature this week that could give the embattled company an opportunity to do what it - as well as others - have been able to do in recent years: truly challenge Google in the search business. I know. It's...

Tags: Google Inc., Search Business, Yahoo! Inc., Search Pad, Search, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Chambers plays up power of network at Cisco Live

Cisco CEO John Chambers kicked off Cisco Live, the annual training event for IT professionals, at San Francisco's Moscone Center this morning with a quick peek back in time, the early days of the company and the Internet. It's been 10 years since Cisco Live - called Networkers back then...

Tags: John Chambers, Network, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Bartz to Yahoo shareholders: Change is coming; We're not Google

Yahoo's Carol Bartz took the stage at her first annual shareholder's meeting as CEO this morning. The first half of the meeting was business as usual, specifically votes on the re-election of board members and other official business facing the board. It wasn't until about halfway through the meeting that...

Tags: Shareholder, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Government, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Looking for a few good SOA case studies

Are you part of a successful SOA deployment, and would like to share some details with the rest of the world? The world wants to hear from you. The SOA Consortium, in conjunction with CIO Magazine, is once again holding it's annual SOA case study competition, and...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Sorry, the Help Desk Doesn't Cover That.

Dion Hinchcliffe has another good post up, this time on Cloud vs open source: there's a third dimension I'd like to expand on, and that's user support. After all the strategic planning is done, the plumbing hooked up and sawdust swept up, the...

Tags: Environment, Dion Hinchcliffe, Dion, Help Desk, Call Centers, It Operations, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-14

Mobile Prospector- Gold (annual) (Mobile)

Now there is a simple way for you to obtain key information and contacts from today''s most sought after businesses and executives - wherever you happen to be. Walk into your next meeting with all of the pertinent information you need - right at your fingertips.You get 37 million prospects...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, Mobilesynch, It', Advertising & Promotion, Pricing, Telecom & Utilities, Business Intelligence, E-mail, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Online Communications, Management

Software downloads 2009-06-11

Airlines on Climate: Don't blame us blame the Banks

I've posted before in these pages about how the business lobby, under pressure to respond to climate change, is starting to fracture. There was another dramatic example of this yesterday in Kuala Lumpur at the annual general meeting of the International Air Transport Association IATA when the CEO, Giovanni Bisignani, took an...

Tags: Bank, Carbon, Climate, Climate Group, Government, James Farrar, Management, Strategy, UK Air Passenger Duty

Blog posts 2009-06-09