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- Liddell destroying Microsoft from within
- Has anyone succeeded in buying-out a sector of the technology industry and making the whole worth more than the sum of its parts? (Picture from NASDAQ.) That's the trick paper executive Chris Liddell, now Microsoft's CFO, claims he can pull off. To do what no one has...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Problem, Autonomy, Vision, Microsoft Corp., Technology, Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Management, Investment, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Today's Debate: Docs in a box
- One of the greatest fears physicians have, I have learned, is of becoming mere cogs in the health care machine. (Aeromed has trademarked Doc In The Box for a line of document displays.)A recent Wall Street Journal piece on "convenient care" demonstrated the problem and drew an immediate response.Call it...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Dana Blankenhorn, health care, autonomy, physician
- Blog posts 2007-08-10
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- A health policy turning point?
- A health policy turning point?Who can blame the doctors?Especially if they get irritated calling "1-800-Mommy-May-I" to get approval for a procedure they consider necessary. And who is on the phone at the insurance company making a decision on your health care? Some high school graduate?The simple fact is...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, health policy, insurance, insurance company
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- A health policy turning point?
- Given a choice between the insurance-backed Medicare Advantage and the government-backed Medicare, doctors went with Medicare. Whether they continue to do so depends on whether, in next year's health policy debates, doctors see more autonomy on the insurance side or the government side. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Medicare, Insurance Company, Health Care, Healthcare, Insurance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- News to know: Apple patches; Adobe; XP-Vista; Yahoo
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Apple plugs 25 Mac OS X security vulnerabilities. David Morgenstern: Apple releases Leopard 10.5.4 update Apple update notice. Robin Harris: Why computers fail Adobe: Adobe Advances Rich Media Search on the Web ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Web, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Patch Management, Apple Inc., IBM Consulting Service, Web 2.0, 3G, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Open Source, Internet, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Autonomy CEO: Web 2.0 'under all the hype, there is something there...'
- Autonomy CEO: Web 2.0 'under all the hype, there is something there...'knowledge-at-point-of-careGreat review of Mike Lynch's article.ISABEL, a clinical diagnosis reminder system based on Autonomy is a sign of things to come in the vast and underexplored area of point-of-care knowledge and expertise management in healthcare; the current generation of...
- Tags: Autonomy Corp. plc, Web 2.0, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Autonomy CEO: Web 2.0 'under all the hype, there is something there...'
- An intriguing article by 'meaning based computing' company Autonomy's CEO Mike Lynch in today's Financial Times: Embracing the friend, taming the beast – Web 2.0 in the enterprise. Autonomy are mature and stable (with a 4 billion market capitalisation), rapidly becoming the second largest pure software company...
- Tags: Web, Autonomy Corp. Plc, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Would Microsoft ever split itself up?
- Would Microsoft ever split itself up?they couldThey could, but they'll never do that. Micro$oft is too greedy. In my perfect world I want to see Microsoft as a software company and another branch as a hardware company for actual computers, Phones and other devices, like Music Players, GPS, and Car-Support.The...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Major Projects, Micro$oft, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Cell phone as desktop computer
- Cell phone as desktop computerGood stuffThat is a really good idea and if Microsoft doesn't implement it, someone will like meS. Jobs said something similar not too long agoIn a WSJ interview he said that he thought we'd see most big advances come from "devices" rather than normal computers.The conversation...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Desktops, phone, computer, cell phone, desktop, desktop computer, docking station, keyboard
- Discussion threads 2008-06-20
- A look at Obama's IT strategy: The Facebook connection and the scale challenge
- Barack Obama has sealed the Democratic party nomination with the help of social networking, a Facebook staffer and an off-the-shelf IT strategy. Those are some of the takeaways from a case study by David Carr at CIOZone, a site started by a bunch of my former Baseline...
- Tags: Strategy, Facebook, Phone, Information Technology, Volunteer, Barack Obama, David Carr, Hughes, Productivity, Social Networking, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- The Obama Party and the Googlization of politics
- Barack Obama is the Google of modern American politics. MyBarackObama and Google share strengths and, perhaps, weaknesses. I just described Google's problem with the ASP loophole. By supporting the loophole Google maintains its proprietary advantage but risks losing friends in the open source community....
- Tags: Movement, Google Inc., Barack Obama, Stoller, Open Source, Blogging, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- 3Com names new CEO; Eyes China expansion
- 3Com said Tuesday that it has appointed Robert Mao to replace Edgar Masri as CEO. The networking firm also brought on Ronald Sege as president and chief operating officer. The shakeup isn't entirely unexpected given the 3Com's inability to sell itself to a group of investors led...
- Tags: 3Com Corp., Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- How many doctors reject insurance?
- How many doctors reject insurance?Let's change the business modelI'm not a liberal by any means. But my past experience with well-meaning and dedicated doctors is pushing me towards advocating socialized medicine.The first doctor I went to when I moved to Virginia decided to stop taking insurance. So I...
- Tags: Financial Planning, insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-04-21
- Salesforce and Google team to conquer the enterprise
- Salesforce has just released see all coverage the long-awaited integration of its CRM applications with Google Apps, embedding email, documents, online chat and integrated calendaring directly into its core sales force automation, marketing and customer service applications. I've had advance warning of this move, as [in a paid engagement —...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Google Apps, Team, Application, On-demand, Integration, Google Talk Integration, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- A lawyer inside your PC - British software can flag corporate nefariousness
- . . . No more corporate scandals? Autonomy [AUTN], the second largest European software company Monday launched Autonomy Information Governance AIG, software that can understand in real-time the meaning of email, blogs, and other documents. It can flag illegal communications and also find documents related to a...
- Tags: Software, Autonomy Corp. Plc, PC, Autonomy Information Governance Software, Documents, E-mail, Tools & Techniques, Corporate Governance, Online Communications, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- 9000 PCs in Swiss schools going Linux only
- 9000 computers in Swiss schools have been dual-booting Windows and and Ubuntu for some time now in anticipation of guidelines from the Switzerland's Department of Public Instruction, whose motto is "Long Live Free Software." The Tribune de Geneve featured a story on Friday about the elimination of dual boot...
- Tags: Ubuntu, PC, Computer, F/OSS, Linux, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-06
- Richard Waters showcases the 'world wise web'
- At the risk of getting tied in knots by timezones (x-8 to get on ZDNet's blog publishing timezone is hard when you only have two hands and need to keep typing...) and the distribution schedules of the print media, let me begin... Richard Waters writes in this...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Artificial Intelligence, Tim Berners-Lee, Vision, Advance, Richard Waters, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- World Wrestling Entertainment Streamlines Operations With Enterprise Management Solution
- World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. WWE is an integrated media and entertainment enterprise. WWE wanted to provide a robust, scalable IT infrastructure to support WWE's current and future Human Resources HR, financial management, and unique business needs and eliminate manual processes across the enterprise. The challenge was to improve flexibility and...
- Tags: Enterprise Management, Human Resources, Financial, Entertainment, WWE, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Financial Planning, Finance
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Healthcare Provider Eliminates Office Incompatibilities With Open XML
- To respect the autonomy of all its users and let them continue using the office suite of their choice, CHU Grenoble recently implemented an architecture based on Open XML Formats. The hospital completely eliminated document exchange issues due to varying formats and at the same time simplified the administration of...
- Tags: Hospital, Microsoft Office, XML, Health Care, Healthcare, Productivity
- Case studies 2008-02-22
- H-Store: Complete destruction of the old DBMS order?
- Guest Post: Curt Monash reports from the front lines of a database revolution. Mike Stonebraker created much of the database management industry. Now he wants to blow it up. Via a project called H-Store [pdf file], he proposes to manage high-end OLTP databases entirely in...
- Tags: Disk, DBMS, Brown University, OLTP, RAM, H-Store, I-Store, H-Store Team, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Curt Monash
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
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