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- Virgin Atlantic Airways Pilots Radio Frequency Identification With Oracle and Tata Consultancy Services
- Since it was founded in 1984, Virgin Atlantic Airways, as a company, is always looking for ways to take advantage of technological advancement. The aviation industry is gradually moving toward RFID standards, and the company wanted to ensure that when these are agreed, Virgin Atlantic will be well placed to...
- Tags: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Oracle Corp., Virgin Atlantic, Radio, Aviation Industry, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
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- Would you lie to get your project funded?
- 83% of cost/benefit analysis supporting IT proposals is a fiction I was reviewing an academic manuscript, Managing the Realization of Business Benefits from IT Investments (published in (MIS Quarterly Executive, March 2007) by Professors Joe Peppard, John Ward and Elizabeth Daniel, when a footnote really caught my...
- Tags: Information Technology, Benefit, Strategy, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- The widget conundrum
- There's a pretty good article in Advertising Age about the benefits of widgets and the fact that not a lot of people are using it. AdAge says that "entire segment" will amount to around $100 million. That sounds like a chunk of money, and especially one for an industry that...
- Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Silverlight, Mobile, Rich Internet Application, AdAge, Widgets, Desktops, Hardware, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Why Grandma Sandy and Aunt Roz don't want an HDTV for Christmas
- Answer: Rectangular peg, Square Hole. With the prices of HDTV's plummeting, one would think that people would be rushing to buy new sets, particularly with the analog TV mass-extinction event coming in February. But the reality is, many people have no intention...
- Tags: Cabinet, HDTV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Virtualization and Emulex
- Although I wouldn't have thought of Emulex and virtualization technology at the same time, a conversation with the company changed my viewpoint. How did Emulex achieve the improbable? Read on. Here's what Emulex says about itself Emulex makes a wide range of enterprise-class products...
- Tags: Emulex Corp., Storage, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- 'Dumbing down' the security profession
- * Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Shyama Rose The market for the development and implementation of source code analysis static and dynamic tools is swelling. Companies are increasingly relying on source code analysis tools to identify security-related vulnerabilities. The demand and reliance...
- Tags: Analysis Tool, Vulnerability, Analysis, Tool, Productivity, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Go, Carts, Go! Trumps "drill, baby, drill."
- Even in oil country folks are turning to electric golf carts for transport. Like in Hobart, Oklahoma. The annual fee: $10. How long before Exxon goes to court to stop this madness? City after city the local laws are being alterd to allow electric,...
- Tags: Cart, Car, Street, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- What might end Apple's open source pass
- What surprises me is the silence of the music industry. If this breaks that silence, then we will have a turning point. My guess is they no longer love their Cupertino overlords. Time to show it. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: DMCA, Apple Inc., Digital Media, Open Source, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- Hapax CEO recognises importance of shared infrastructure moving forward
- I had an enjoyable conversation with Mark Redgrave recently, ahead of his company's unveiling of their 'meaning platform,' Amplify. Mark is CEO of London-based Hapax, a company that has been applying patented technology to natural language processing NLP since 2000. According to the Press...
- Tags: Natural Language Processing, Advertisement, Brand, Ontology, Amplify, Branding, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- Business Service Automation: HP and Virtualization
- Michel Feaster, Director of Products, Business Service Automation, of HP and I had an interesting conversation about managing, automating and orchestrating workloads and system resources. Although a cringe a bit when HP uses "BSA" as an acronym because it makes me think of things such as the BSA Motorcycles or...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, Business Service, Automation, Strategy, Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- Thanksgiving: Some of the things that make me thankful
- For those of you in the United States, "Happy Thanksgiving!" Today is one of the times that I reflect on all of the things that make me very thankful. While you're munching on your holiday meal, here is a partial list of a few of the things that make me...
- Tags: Health Care, Friend, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-27
- If networking can be hip and cool, then so can storage
- In a blog post last month, I chimed in on how some tech companies - notably Dell and Cisco - were using video as a marketing tool to promote their technologies, not just their brand names. After all, if networking comes across as cool, then maybe you'll buy a Cisco...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Network, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., Corporate Communications, Storage, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- I'm a PC and, yes, I love Vista
- * Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest editorial by Todd Hooper It's true - I'm a PC. Searching through my 2006 emails recently reminded me it was two years ago this month when I loaded a beta of Windows Vista on...
- Tags: Security, PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Laptop Computer, NAP Agent, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Cassatt helps organizations implement in-house clouds
- A crew of folks from Cassatt presented Active Profiling Service, a new service offering, and Active Response 5.2, a product update for the company's orchestration and automation product. I was very interested in learning more because Cassatt has long been helping organizations discover and then make best use of their...
- Tags: Cassatt Corp., Data Center, Cassatt Active Profiling Service, Cassatt Active Response, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- US music sales to reach $9.2 bln by 2013
- Forrester Research estimates that music sales in the United States will decline to $9.2 bln in 2013, from $10.1 bln 2008. That compares with $14.6 bln in 1999, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. by AM
- Tags: Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, AM
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- I want an iPhoneStormDroid
- Wind River's Multicore Software Hypervisor solution permits multiple embedded OSes to run on a single device. Wouldn't it be great if you didn't have to actually choose between an iPhone, a BlackBerry, or a Google Android? What if all those device operating...
- Tags: Device, Operating System, RIM BlackBerry, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Cloud definitions and economics
- Like Phil Wainewright, I attended the excellent CloudCamp in London several weeks back. Unlike Phil, I walked away with more questions than answers but with my enterprisey antenna on high alert. Two things struck me. Rhys Jones of Royal Bank of Scotland's assertion that while cloud computing...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., James, Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- HP's Hurd: IT downturn different than 2001; Ink matters
- Hewlett-Packard's fiscal fourth quarter didn't offer up many surprises given the company preannounced the results along with its outlook. But there were more than a few notable nuggets that indicate where tech demand is heading. Here's a look at the top five takeaways from HP's earnings report...
- Tags: Revenue, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Mark Hurd, Notebook Sale, Operational Accounting, Sales Strategy, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- The uncertainties of social media for traditional brands
- Guest post: Drew Bartkiewicz is a vice president of Technology and New Media Markets for The Hartford, and author of the upcoming book, Unseen Liability. In today's 24/7 business world, companies and their customers are consuming, sharing and storing data at an unprecedented rate. This data has...
- Tags: Web, Brand, Network, Social Media, Tiffany, Web 2.0, Intellectual Property, Internet, Research & Development, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- From private jets to car pool? Detroit may be getting the message.
- Nothing definite will happen concerning the Detroit Big Three automakers before December 2nd. But the saga of the sagging auto sales and the wilting industrial giants in Michigan is rich with plot points and maneuvering. Here are just a few of the things happening or being said: ...
- Tags: Car, Automobile Company, Detroit, Airline Flight, Sales Strategy, Manufacturing, Sales, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
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