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Top 10 Risks of Offshore Outsourcing

Minimize your risk!Very in-depth and informative article! Outsourcing should be done in baby steps. Before jumping into bed with an outsourcing company and transitioning an entire department make sure you know what you want to accomplish by outsourcing.There direct saving and in-direct saving due to the time and energy...

Tags: Managed hosting, outsourcing, baby step, offshore outsourcing

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

(Photos: Baby steps for NASA's small-plane challenge)

(Photos: Baby steps for NASA's small-plane challenge)i see a problemwhat about my rights to the inovations i make?who has access big bussiness government contractors no one will give you an answer!i have ask before on other government contracts and challenges.

Tags: Baby Step, NASA, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-08-14

Mobile ads take baby steps to reach consumers

Mobile ads take baby steps to reach consumersService for freeShort of getting the entire cellphone service for free I don't know what would make me vote to get advertised on my cellphone..Clearly no stone will be unturned for advertisers to get their wares in peoples faces.RE: Mobile ads take baby...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Mobile ad, baby step, advertisement, mobile

Discussion threads 2008-02-15

Enterprise IP telephony's "baby steps" problem

We hear a lot about companies making "wholesale" switches from traditional telephony to VoIP.We hear less about companies that are getting there by a series of baby steps. But my sense is that in the enterprise space,there are far more baby-steppers than mass adopters.In some cases, these baby steps are...

Tags: Allstate Corp., VoIP, Brandi Landreth

Blog posts 2005-10-10

Here's why smaller companies take fewer VoIP deployment "baby steps"

Here's why smaller companies take fewer VoIP deployment "baby steps"VoIP DeploymentHaving deployed Cisco AVVID in 2001 for a company of less than 50 that there is no realistic way to deploy in small parts. It would be very difficult to have two phone systems running as most small...

Tags: Telephony, VoIP Deployment, baby step, VoIP

Discussion threads 2005-03-29

Additional Resources

Microsoft confirms 'detailed' Windows 7 exploit

Ummm interesting....so just block 139 and 445...445? great that port aggain.Is SMB blocked to/from internet by th firewall by default?RE: Microsoft confirms 'detailed' Windows 7 exploitPorts 139 and 445 are blocked by default for Internet access by Windows firewall in Windows 7 and any commerical hardware firewall. They are enabled...

Tags: Firewalls, SMB/SME, SMB protocol, Microsoft Windows 7, firewall, Windows 7 exploit, Microsoft Windows, small and medium business, Microsoft Windows Vista, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

My new daughter is a lot like Linux

Windoze is a boys smelly diaper, Linux is a girls one, that's the messageI guess some people will never be mature enough to get it.Handling the learning curve...is not very hard. Particularly when you let them use the simple Gnome user interface which the standard Ubuntu has.Maybe this website of...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, diaper

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

It's a girl! (or Ed Tech, 6 years hence)

Regular readers and followers of my Twitter feed will know that yesterday was pretty eventful. My wife and I (well, mostly my wife, but I did make some moderate contribution) had a baby girl who currently remains nameless (we're leaning toward Penelope, but she was delivered by c-section so...

Tags: Web Application, Social Media, E-books, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Personal Technology, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-10

Pre-Copenhagen climate talks end in Barcelona

Who could he be talking about?How about the 57% of people in America who don't buy carbon emissions causing global warming?Looks like the other "vested interests" needs to step up their re-education regime, er, I mean, need to do more "raising awareness."Lies told to control populationOh yeah, look at Al...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Kevin Rudd

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Facebook, Wrong Again!

There was a book and movieabout assassinating Bushmaybe the secret service has a pointbut both sides of the aisle should have more respect for the presidency Come on....I don't care for the guy myself, but all you need is the results to be over 50% and some whack job will...

Tags: Free-speech, Facebook, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Why health care is not in the Constitution

Neither are food, clothing, and shelterThey're nowhere to be found in the constitution, yet are more important than healthcare. Without those 3 things you'll die real fast so you won't need healthcare. Those needs DID exist when the Constitution was written. There is no federal law making any...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Obama, health care, Constitution

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Microsoft Exchange 2010 buzz grows louder

Exchange 2010 has lots of appeal!There are so many improvements in 2010 that it's hard to pick a personal favorite, but built in archiving and the vast improvements to OWA are definitely high on my own list.Fortunately, I've been buying my Exchange mailboxes with Software Assurance on my Volume Licenses,...

Tags: E-mail servers, Groupware, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange 2010, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office, Exchange 2010

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

Will all the good open source companies be acquired?

Another one bites the dust. Add SpringSource to the expanding list of independent open source companies that have been gobbled up by proprietary software giants. Let's consider the growing list: IBM's purchase of Gluecode, Novell's purchase of SUSE, Citrix's XenSource deal, Nokia's Trolltech buy,...

Tags: VMware Inc., SpringSource, OpenBravo, Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Coca-Cola Teaches The World To....

"Participating in the community of the consumer." I love that phrase.  That's the way Jim Keyes, Blockbuster CEO described their Facebook group - which is for the most part, despite all our conversations to the contrary, is what most people think of when you say "community" or "social network"...

Tags: Facebook, Fan, Coca-Cola Co., Beverage, Customer, Machine, Coke, Coca-Cola Freestyle, Food & Beverage, RFID, Manufacturing, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-07-15

Do security and privacy make health IT reform impossible?

Do security and privacy make health IT reform impossible?The first step is to be simple.I just had gall bladder surgery last Wednesday and came fact to fact with IT again.First there was a need to review my information on file - which should be simple as I had a heart...

Tags: Insurance, HEALTHCARE, security, health-IT, privacy

Discussion threads 2009-06-29

Can a startup challenge Google on the re-invention of e-mail?

The two co-founders of a small Silicon Valley startup had a "Holy Crap!" moment last week when Google unveiled Wave, a online tool that's looking to reinvent e-mail, IM and other forms of online communications. For the past several months, Michael Cerda and Ben Dean, co-founders of...

Tags: Google Inc., E-mail, Online Communications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-04

Bing is live: Nice first impression; Will Bing boost Cashback?

One of Microsoft's best innovations has been its search Cashback program, which is a rewards system for users of the software giant's search. Bing, which launched a few days early, seems to integrate Cashback everywhere--especially with anything related to shopping.    ...

Tags: Bing, Productivity, Branding, Search, Leadership, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-01

Bartz can carry a room; Can she carry Yahoo?

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz sure can carry a room---especially the crowd at the D7 conference. The formula: Drop an F-bomb, talk Dilbert, mock the silos at Yahoo and tease us about a search deal with Microsoft if there are big dollars involved. Next step: Do something about the sources of...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Twitter, Gender And Diversity, Personal Finance, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-27

Nehalem-EX - 8 cores, 16 threads, 2.3 billion transistors, very cool!

Nehalem-EX - 8 cores, 16 threads, 2.3 billion transistors, very cool!Um, that should be good enough I guessntIntel needs to spec a backplaneIt would be nice if Intel would speck out an 8x backplane that processor modules could plug into. That way multiple manufactures could build compatible modules and backplanes.With...

Tags: Semiconductors, Processors, Servers, Network technology, Nehalem-EX, transistor, processor, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-27

Is an IBM purchase of Red Hat inevitable?

Is an IBM purchase of Red Hat inevitable?Jboss would complement Websphere?Really? Is that like how MySQL is going to complement Oracle's flagship product? Doesn't make sense to me, these products are in direct competition with eachother.I think the biggest threat to RedHat's business model is CentOS. Smart...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Storage, IBM Corp., Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., X64, Linux, Sun T2, server

Discussion threads 2009-05-15