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Is That Non-Compete Too Broad?: Interesting Calif. Case Involving Arthur Andersen (Yes, That's Not a Typo!) You really ought to check out this court filing involving that fascinating business/employee contract: the non-compete. This case is about an Arthur Andersen Tax professional whose group was being sold to another firm...; Tags: Arthur Andersen, Firm, Agreement, Brian Sommer; Blog posts 2008-09-16
Supreme Court nixes Andersen's Enron conviction: Supreme Court nixes Andersen's Enron convictionIncrediblehttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,193520,00.html" Just four days before Enron disclosed a stunning $618 million loss for the third quarter—its first public disclosure of its financial woes—workers who audited the company's books for Arthur Andersen, the big accounting firm, received an extraordinary instruction from one of the company's lawyers....; Tags: Enron Corp., Andersen, accounting, Arthur Andersen, worker; Discussion threads 2005-05-31
Beyond the Headlines: a Survey of Lessons Learned from Merger and Acquisition Activity: Andersen recently conducted a survey of executives from some of the largest companies in the technology, media and communications market segments involved in mergers, acquisitions and other similar transactions to bring to light the lessons learned from top value mergers and acquisitions. This white paper presents the key findings from...; Tags: Acquisition, Merger, Arthur Andersen, Survey, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Marketing Research, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Marketing; White papers 2000-10-10

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America loses its moral technologist: Michael Crichton: Author, Producer and Director Michael Crichton, 1942-2008. Photo: Associated Press With election week and coverage of other events such as the Microsoft PDC and the latest Windows 7 builds, many of ZDNet's readers may be unaware that one of America's most...; Tags: America, Fiction, Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Emerging Technologies, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-11-06
Sign of the Times: Should the 'Gray Lady' talk to a Yahoo?: Â The news has been unrelentingly bad for the news business, in the last two years as advertising keeps shifting to the Internet. And there's no question that the great â€˜Gray Lady' of newspapering, The New York Times, is in a vise. ...; Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-10-23

Amazon Kindle: ItÃ¢Â€Â™s not for us, Jack: Amazon Kindle: ItÃ¢Â€Â™s not for us, JackHappy Early Adopter HereI have a Kindle and I think it's great. I currently use it solely for reading books. That's ok, because that's what I bought it for! Once my current magazing subscriptions run out, I'll probably convert over to...; Tags: Wireless LANs, Cellular phones, Sony eReader, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-10-22
Amazon Kindle: It's not for us, Jack: My grubby hands on the Amazon Kindle at Continental Airlines' Presidents Club Lounge atÂ Newark Liberty International Airport. See Jason's Amazon Kindle Gallery. As I've discussed in this column before, I spend about 4 days a week away from home and about 8...; Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Kindle, Arthur C. Clarke, E-books, Wireless LANs, Personal Technology, Wireless, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-10-21
The services game: Will you trust a tech company to solve your business problems?: The services game: Will you trust a tech company to solve your business problems?Trust IBM!?Having witnessed first hand PWC's work on implementing SAP, and IBM's capabilities as an IT outsourcing expert, the trust is gone.Not a new concept, and not isolated to IBMThe concept of providing business services that fall...; Tags: Outsourcing, services game, business problem, tech company, IBM Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-09-22
BPA story gets all political: BPA story gets all politicalWhat a shock!And you are surprised by this? You can't be that naive.Big business, and even small business, has been bed with politicians forever...on both sides. It’s just more pronounced with this current bunch of Nazis in Washington for the past seven plus years. You know...; Tags: BPA, Nazi, TWAIN, BPA story, first study; Discussion threads 2008-09-17
Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays?: Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays?Jesper AndersonUh-oh PeopleSoft customers! Get ready for Fusion apps with no PTools, PCode, etc....RE: Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays?As a former leader among the Fusion Applications technology group I can assure you that Jesper...; Tags: Leadership, vertical play, Andersen, Oracle Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-09-04
News to know: Oracle's Fusion guru quits; Dell; Windows 7 boot times: Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Dennis Howlett: Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: New dual/quad core CPUs enter Intel price list, AMD drops prices ...; Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Portals, Operating Systems, Cellular Phones, Software, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-09-04
Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays?: I have seen an internal Oracle email that confirms persistent rumors that Jespers Andersen, SVP Application Development at Oracle has left for Cisco. The email says: "You may well have heard today, the rumour mill has been very busy that Jesper has resigned from Oracle. ...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Jesper, Team Management, Sales Strategy, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Force Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Management, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-09-03
Police Surveillance: Go Snoop, Yourself: Police Surveillance: Go Snoop, YourselfI think there is a balance to be struckI'm not happy with the proliferation of cameras you describe, and am opposed to fishing expeditions on principle. I'd much rather see more police on the street particularly in high crime areas, and more police officers who...; Tags: Corporate communications, Big Brother, Police Surveillance, camera; Discussion threads 2008-08-13
Microsoft's road to the cloud is paved with parallelism: Microsoft's road to the cloud is paved with parallelismMore InvestmentTwo words. How long? This new commitment is certainly a good direction, but it's hard to see it as leadership at this late stage. The move into parallelism is a great equalizer. The laws of diminishing returns are applied across the...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Games, Game players, parallelism, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-07-31
Yahoo, Icahn settle proxy fight: Assessing winners and losers: Updated below: Yahoo and billionaire investor Carl Icahn have settled their looming proxy war. According to a statement Monday, Yahoo's board of directors will be expanded to 11 members and one of those seats will go to Icahn. The two remaining seats will be filled based on...; Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-21
Levi Strauss: SAP rollout 'substantially' hurt quarter: Levi Strauss: SAP rollout 'substantially' hurt quarterWhoa Nellie.....Through the magic of Google alerts I discovered something I said five (count 'em 5) years ago was used to bolster the notion that an ERP implementation SAP specifically was the cause of Levi-Strauss' revenue problems in Q2 2008.I really would have loved...; Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Sarbanes-Oxley, Cultural Change, SAP AG, Levi Strauss, ERP; Discussion threads 2008-07-19
Hide & Secret 2 (exe): Scoot over Indiana Jones, make room for this adventuresome duo in the riveting sequel. Go globe-trotting to uncover intriguing clues while helping to convert a castle into a precious museum. This Hidden Object Adventure game takes you deep into the legends of King Arthur. Hold on tight for a thrill-ride...; Tags: Castle, SpinTop Games, Games, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2008-07-09
Thinking -- Or Feeling -- Like A Computer: So an unknown billionaire named Jeffrey E. Epstein has spent millions trying to develop a thinking and feeling computer. But winds up in jail instead. This sounds eerily like a wish to build a HAL 9000 computer that was the central character of Arthur C. Clarke's science...; Tags: Thinking Machines, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Computer, Astronaut, Productivity, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-07-01
Will Enterprise 2.0 be a wash?: Next week sees the start of Enterprise 2.0 in Boston. You'd think that given the line up of rock star speakers that it would be a magnet for eager buyers looking to find out what's likely to be new, fresh and shiny in the wonderful world of all things social....; Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-06-05
Of telescopes, patents and the death of discovery: Of telescopes, patents and the death of discoveryPatents are the greatest threat to the software industryIt should be written in our constitution, that no idea should be able to be patented or receive some kind of legal protection - only the [b]implementation[/b] of the ideas. Virtually every software developer is...; Tags: patent; Discussion threads 2008-06-04