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Bendigo Bank Bolsters Growth Strategy With IBM Global Financing

With 25-30 new branches opening each year, Bendigo Bank views IT infrastructure as critical to supporting the bank in its efficient delivery of banking and wealth management services to customers nationally. With its business growing by over 20 per cent per annum, Bendigo Bank began to face the challenges imposed...

Tags: Bank, Information Technology, Financing, Bendigo Bank, IBM Corp., Strategy, Servers, Management, Hardware

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Forrester: Credit crunch may freeze tech services projects

Forrester Research in a report is confirming that the credit crunch is beginning to hit technology services firms. The extent of the damage is unclear, but IBM's lower-than-expected third quarter revenue its earnings are stronger than expected may indicate something worse is afoot. Forrester's...

Tags: Service Provider, IBM Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Business Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Tempest or Nuclear Winter

A Hurricane Ike for Tech Start-Ups VentureWire Alert free subscription required today reported that venture capitalists are advising their portfolio firms to prepare for a potential nuclear winter. One venture capitalist featured in today's newsletter was quoted as telling firms "to slow down their burn rate, and...

Tags: Firm, Venture Capital, Product Development, Investment, Product Marketing, Workforce Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Human Resources, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Entellium executives arrested by FBI for making up revenue figures

Software as a service company Entellium's future is uncertain after its CEO and CFO were arrested by the FBI for inflating sales to land venture capital. The U.S. Department of Justice said in a press release that CEO Paul Thomas Johnson, 40, and Parrish Jones, 39, were...

Tags: Revenue, Entellium, FBI, Revenue Figure, Federal Government, Operational Accounting, Corporate Governance, Government, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-09

IBM: Beats earnings target but...

IBM said that it will beat Wall Street's earnings estimates for the third quarter, but there were enough nuggets disclosed to raise a few eyebrows. First, the headlines. IBM statement said it would report earnings of $2.05 a share, a good 3 cents better than estimates. Revenue,...

Tags: Revenue, Earnings, IBM Corp., Thomas Weisel, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?

Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?RE: Palin e-mail hacker indictedIf someone opened your U.S. mail box and took your mail he or she would be prosecuted and possibly jailed . . . this is no different.RE: Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice...

Tags: Social Security, Palin, Palin e-mail hacker, e-mail hacker, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Do we we have a way to defeat global warming?

Is the recession the ultimate way to fight global warming? That's the suggestrion from one market commentator. Less spending=less greenhouse gas, he says. The outlook from international finance organizations is decidely gloomy. It follows that if spending's down, industrial output from China and elsewhere will...

Tags: Capitalist, Stock, Global Warming, Fossil Fuel, Oil-rich Russia, Investment, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Streamline Your Debt (zip)

Shave thousands of dollars and 10-15 years off your current mortgage by using a Home Equity Line of Credit HELOC and our software. By using our software and your HELOC, you can see how much you should send to your mortgage and when, to save you the most amount of...

Tags: Streamline, Amortization, Mortgages, Finance, Capital Structures

Software downloads 2008-10-08

Scammers introduce ATM skimmers with built-in SMS notification

Scammers introduce ATM skimmers with built-in SMS notification[x] funny [x] interesting [x] scaryWhat's next, the feeder mod that uses that data automatically in another ATM and makes bank transfers?Number card plus keypad static code security should end soon.

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Network technology, Telephony, NETWORKING, ATM, SMS

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Capital, Capital. Wherefore art thou scarce capital?

My Kingdom for Capital Expenditure Funding The current meltdown on Wall Street is definitely having an impact on the technology sector. This week's recent earnings forecast from SAP rather convincingly showed us that the capital markets will adversely impact technology sales. Capital for...

Tags: Wall Street, Firm, Borrower, Pricing Strategy, Banking Relationship, Sales Strategy, Banking, Pricing, Sales Force Management, Roi/Tco, Sales, Financial Services, Marketing, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Scammers introduce ATM skimmers with built-in SMS notification

The bust of the notorious ATM scammer going under the handle of Cha0 in early September, once again puts ATM skimming in the spotlight. Among the main insecurities scammers face while embedding an ATM skimmer, is the retrieval process of the device that is now containing the credit card details...

Tags: Device, Credit Card, built-In, SMS, Scammer, ATM, Network Technology, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Networking, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capital

Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capitalRE: Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters caI think it's quite smart personally.foolishJust another CEO desperate to save his bonus. Once you carve up the company, quality goes downhill. The chips will suffer. AMD will be...

Tags: Balance sheets, Asset management, Semiconductors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Asset Smart, manufacturing, balance sheet, chip, asset

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Yahoo: What happens if Google deal doesn't go through?

Yahoo: What happens if Google deal doesn't go through?WHAT?"The Department of Justice will ultimately approve the Google deal because derailing it could leave Yahoo–the second largest search player–materially weaker"So with this new push for regulation we're seeing, the logic hear holds that Yahoo is sort of like a bank and...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-06

IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebEx

IBM will announce Monday that it is launching a beta of "Bluehouse," a social networking and collaboration service designed to link businesses with various partners. The move, part of a broader effort to define IBM's cloud computing strategy, will put it in direct competition with Cisco's collaboration...

Tags: WebEx Communications Inc., Collaboration, Beta, Cisco Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-05

Fake Steve Jobs heart attack story pushes stock price below $100

Fake Steve Jobs heart attack story pushes stock price below $100short-sellersanother reason that shorting-selling a stock should be forbidden all together. this financial crisis shows how awful that is. they short a stock, spread false rumors and make a lot of money. a few people win by manipulating the market...

Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, stock, stock price, Fake Steve Jobs heart attack story, heart attack story, Fake Steve Jobs

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Apple says report of Steve Jobs heart attack is false

Apple says report of Steve Jobs heart attack is falseWhat a knee jerk reaction by Wall Street.What a bunch of idiots.RE: Apple says report of Steve Jobs heart attack is false[i]cited an unnamed "reliable" source [/i]And there is the problem! Sounds like someone did this just as a prank....

Tags: Federal government, Steve Jobs, Apple SAYS, heart attack, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Salesforce.com: Worries emerge

Salesforce.com on Friday was downgraded from a buy to a sell by UBS analyst Heather Bellini because software as a service companies are likely to face the same headwinds as larger applications vendors. Meanwhile, Salesforce.com is targeting larger enterprises and that means it faces a slower buying cycle. ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Microsoft Hyper-V Server

Microsoft was kind enough to let me know that the Hyper-V Server, that is a dedicated, minimal Windows 2008 Server platform dedicated to being a bare metal, type-1 hypervisor, is now available. It joins products of this type available from VMware, Citrix and several Linux distributions. ...

Tags: Industry Standard, Supplier, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Server Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Channel Management, Desktop Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-03

KeyDesktop (exe)

KeyDesktop includes Schedule electronic organizer, Address Book contacts and address book, Back Up (PC, notebook data back-up to USB storage device), Restore USB storage device restore to PC , Password (saving Web site & bank account & password information ), and Expense saving shopping list. This version is the first...

Tags: Notebook, Password, Storage Device, USB, KeyRunner, KeyDesktop, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-10-03

Greentech Investing: Not So Fast

There's an inevitable slowdown in venture capital investing and that's not good news for Silicon Valley nor the Cleantech start-ups. Last quarter VC activity was about one-third of the same quarter last year. While economists claim there's plenty of capital around, the investments being made are more cautious....

Tags: Bank, Alternative Energy, American Media, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-10-02