berman

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

We meat lovers are so screwed

Love a nice juicy steak, a great greasy cheeseburger? Think breakfast isn't breakfast without a few sausage links or strips of crispy bacon? Do you firmly believe pork fat rules? Prepare to die. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Meat, Health Care, Berman, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-03-24

Additional Resources

News to know: Apple; Salesforce.com; CRM; Microsoft; PayPal

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Apple's future TV: Can Web-based apps replace "channels," kill cable? DOJ gives blessing to Oracle-Sun, awaiting EC...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., PayPal, CRM, Sales Force Management, Sales

Blog posts 2009-08-21

AMD CIO: Key to success is fusion of business acumen and tech innovation

The intersection and fusion of business insight and technological innovation is the key to creating successful new business models, said AMD Chief Information Officer Ahmed Mahmoud today in the keynote of Wharton Business School's 13th annual business technology conference, "Future Unleashed," in Philadelphia. In a "fireside chat"...

Tags: Innovation, Information Technology, IT Professional, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Technology, Strategy, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-27

$22.5 million cash settlement for Apple iPod nano owners

Apple has settled a $22.5 million class-action suit filed against the company after receiving complaints from early Apple iPod nano owners that the devices scratched too easily. The settlement calls for Apple to set aside the $22.5 million. Nano users who apply for a refund...

Tags: Apple iPod, Settlement, Apple iPod Nano, Apple Inc., Attorney, Litigation, Digital Music, Digital Media, Business Operations, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-23

Taleo's November to forget

An HR Soap Opera This month hasn’t been a good one for Taleo. Here’s the timeline of events and an analysis of the lawsuits that are originating from recent events. On 11/3/2008, the company announced its Q3 earnings and they didn’t delight Wall...

Tags: Revenue, Taleo Corp., Stock, Revenue Recognition, Investment, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Why MySpace's MyAds won't be the next Google AdWords

When it comes to online advertising everybody wants to be the next Google, and News Corp-owned MySpace is no exception. Today the company rolled out its latest advertising platform called MyAds, designed to service "individuals and small businesses" rather than the big name brands that the social networking site's existing...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Google AdWords, MySpace, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-10-13

House votes to save webcasters, Senate votes today

The financial bail-out of Wall Street wasn't the only thing keeping Congress critters working through the weekend. Somehow, House members managed to get it together to withstand lobbying pressure from radio broadcasters and pass the Webcaster Settlement Act. Now, Pandora founder Tim Westergren says, the battle moves...

Tags: U.S. Senate, Broadcaster, Webcaster, Free Trade, Finance, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-29

Webcasters can't reach compromise with SoundExchange; Pandora set to close

Webcasters can't reach compromise with SoundExchange; Pandora set to closeArticle CorrectionMr. Berman is a Democrat, not a Republican.RE: Webcasters can't reach compromise with SoundExchange; Pandora set to closeFixed. thanks.RE: Webcasters can't reach compromise with SoundExchange; Pandora set to closeLovely. So the RIAA prop up successfully bought a judgment that...

Tags: Pandora, SoundExchange, Webcaster

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

Webcasters can't reach compromise with SoundExchange; Pandora set to close

I've been loving the Pandora app on my touch so news that Pandora is about ready to "pull the plug," is a heart-breaker. And yup, the Post reports, it's because of the draconian burden on webcasting royalties sought by SoundExchange and approved by the Copyright Royalty Board....

Tags: Webcasting, Webcaster, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Supporting the long tail of open source

Supporting the long tail of open sourcePerhaps a good start......would be for "good developers" to not consider people with questions as "stupid".Carl RapsonMixing modelsIt depends on what "model" or paradigm or whatever you want to call it produced the piece of OS software.Was it the IBM / Redhat "we'll professionally...

Tags: Development tools, open source, WAS IT, developer, software, Carl Rapson, long tail

Discussion threads 2008-08-12

MySpaceTV-produced series 'Roommates' debuts today

At last week's Web 2.0 Summit, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg told attendees that the social networking site didn't really view itself as a "media company", underlining one of the key differences between its strategy and that of rival MySpace. While third-party developers are free to write media-specific...

Tags: Web, MySpace, Social Networking, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2007-10-22

The state of play in patent reform

This week's patent suit against Linux should result in more attention to the issue of patent reform, so what are the prospects? Not bad. If my two beats can find a compromise. The House passed H.R 1908 last month, 220-175, and the Senate Judiciary...

Tags: Bill, Dana Blankenhorn, Patent

Blog posts 2007-10-13

Reform opponents promise patent fight in Senate

The tech industry may have been patting itself on the back Friday, after the House passed a patent reform bill, but the measure still faces an uphill battles in the Senate, opponent claim, InfoWorld reports. "I would not throw a party just yet," said Bobbie Wilson, director in the...

Tags: Bill, Patent, U.S. Senate, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-09-10

MySpace to Facebook: WE have the friends, and money

Is Facebook waging the wrong battles?Facebook: Who needs Yahoo, Craigslist, newspapers? Mark Zuckerberg and company have been floating in conjunction with touted new “game changing” Facebook services in the works.HOW ABOUT MYSPACE?Despite Zuckerberg’s incredulous insistence that MySpace is not Facebook’s competitive peer, MySpace does indeed reign supreme in the social...

Tags: Facebook, Metrics, MySpace, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-05-22

MySpace Friends: Rupert Murdoch is NOT the boss!

Rupert Murdoch is not the boss of me!So believes Eli Pariser, Executive Director, MoveOn.org Political Action, and he wants fellow civic organizers to believe the same.In a joint panel appearance today with MySpace Senior Vice President for Public Affairs, Jeff Berman, at the Personal Democracy Forum underway in New York...

Tags: YouTube, User-Generated Content, Social Networking, MySpace

Blog posts 2007-05-18

MoveOn.org accuses MySpace of "selective online censorship"

I'm not at the Personal Democracy Forum, but I have been receiving regular updates from MoveOn.org about what they believe is selective censorship of some user-generated content from MySpace.A pamphlet was to be distributed by MoveOn.org to an early afternoon panel featuring MoveOn's Executive Director Eli Pariser and MySpace's main...

Tags: Regulatory

Blog posts 2007-05-18

MySpace brings online town halls to campuses, but is this just another online debate?

MySpace announced today that it will host a series of "Town Hall" candidates meetings on college campuses, Reuters reports. The meetings will feature all of the major candidates, including Clinton, Obama, McCain, Edwards, Guiliani, Romney and Thompson. The meetings will be broadcast on MySpace video and MySpace users will...

Tags: Instant messaging, MySpace, online debate, Micah Sifry

Blog posts 2007-05-10

Red Hat and Building the Open Source Virtualization Stack

Since my conversation with the good folks at Red Hat (see Discussion with Red Hat’s Joel Berman and Nick Carr - 1st take) Ive been thinking about the companys strategy and how that plays out in the real world. Red Hat presents the notion that a stack of open source...

Tags: virtualization, virtual storage software, virtual processing software, virtual machine software, virtual access software, Managing virtualized environments, high performance computing, clustering software

Blog posts 2007-04-26

Apple behind new patent reform bill

Apple is one of several companies adding their support to the Patent Reform Act of 2007 which Macworld describes as "A bipartisan bill currently under consideration in the U.S. Congress, the proposed legislation calls for some fundamental changes to the way that patents are granted and the way they’re litigated...

Tags: Patent

Blog posts 2007-04-19

News to know: Microsoft bug disclosure; Apple Airport security; XP SP3; AMD woe

Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: Responsible disclosure, the Microsoft way.George Ou: Microsoft fights with researcher over Full Disclosure. A tale of two animated cursor attacks.Apple swats Airport Base Station security bugs.Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: XP SP3 is still on the schedule for Q1 2008.Microsoft to push fix for patch trouble.Dan Farber: Salesforce.com...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-04-10