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Could 'The Toyota Way' & Enterprise 2.0 Rescue the Big 3 US Auto Companies?

Could 'The Toyota Way' & Enterprise 2.0 Rescue the Big 3 US Auto Companies?McAfee poor on adoptionOliver,I don't disagree with the principles laid out in McAfee's post. But, the "[b]White Knight[/b]" approach is very naive.More details on this post: http://ccsblog.burtongroup.com/collaboration_and_content/2008/12/the-auto-industry-and-enterprise-20.htmlClueless people should remain quiet.And when it coems to how to...

Tags: Toyota-way, Big 3, Enterprise 2.0

Discussion threads 2008-12-15

Investing in the right vehicles for change

Investing in the right vehicles for changeTop-down, bottom-up, until we get rid of THOSE terms ...... it will always be "business as usual" for businesses the world over.The mass of unorganized workers will NEVER be able to implement change from the "bottom-up" because they are simply not empowered.The elite up...

Tags: right vehicle, Phil, Big 3

Discussion threads 2008-11-22

Detroit auto industry going through shock therapy? As in electric shock? Sales numbers say this is real and this is do-or-die

Detroit auto industry going through shock therapy? As in electric shock? Sales numbers say this is real and this is do-or-dieAmerica is finishedThis latest downturn coupled with the internet and lax foreign ownership laws means that the devaluation of housing, which would normally ultimately let poor Americans back...

Tags: Big 3, car, sales, Saturn, therapy

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

The RSS Space: The Next Google

Recently I made an attempt at defining "The RSS Space". Based on some great discussions with VCs and wise people in the RSS business, we came up with the following categorization for RSS vendors: Publisher Services Sub-categories:...

Tags: RSS

Blog posts 2005-09-12

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Dell Inspiron i1545-4374PBU

Editors' note: This review is part of our holiday 2009 retail desktop and laptop review roundup, covering specific fixed configurations of popular systems that can be found in retail stores. There's something to be said for simplicity. The Dell Inspiron i1545-4374PBU might not look like much and its limited supply...

Tags: Notebooks, Keyboards, Dell Inspiron, Dell Computer Corp., Intel Corp.

Product reviews 2009-11-07

HTC Droid Eris (Verizon Wireless)

Editors' note: Portions of this review were taken from our review of the HTC Hero. The two devices share similar features. The HTC Droid Eris is the second Verizon Wireless' Google Android phone after the Motorola Droid. Where the Droid was flashy and high-end, the Droid Eris offers a simpler,...

Tags: Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Smart phones, Verizon Wireless, DROID ERIS, High Tech Computer Corp., phone, HTC Droid Eris

Product reviews 2009-11-06

Toshiba Satellite T135-S1309

Sometimes, it takes a good retail excursion to find a deal that isn't otherwise possible. Case in point: the Toshiba T135. While we have already reviewed two different versions of Toshiba's Windows 7 entry to the thin-and-light laptop landscape, we were pleasantly surprised by this retail-only configuration. This is not...

Tags: Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Processors, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba Satellite

Product reviews 2009-11-06

February 2013 - The date when Firefox could pass Internet Explorer

RE: February 2013 - The date when Firefox could pass Internet ExplorerThat does assume that everything remains constant, which it won't. If someone creates a new browser that could disrupt it, or when either company releases a new version of their browser that is also going to throw things...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap (or even free)

RE: Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap or even freeGreat post, Ed! Seeing how you outlined the cheapest way to get Microsoft Windows 7 there should be no reason why anyone would not want to upgrade now. Price is no longer an issue. This would be...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, legal way, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Sizerox 1.3.6 (Mac)

Sizerox is the simple way to Resize, Rename, Crop, Rotate and Watermark hundreds or thousands of your Images with a single Drag-and-Drop using presets. Mostly when you want to email your friends pictures, post images on your website, or upload them to your iPod or iPhone,you recognize that the images...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Image, Omid Pajuhideh, Sizerox

Software downloads 2009-11-06

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

New Epic 3D game engine toolset: Fabulous, fun, and free!

This is big: Epic Games just announced the release of the Unreal Development Kit UDK, a free edition of the Unreal Engine 3. This is the same technology behind popular PC and console games such as Gears of War, Unreal Tournament, Bioshock, and Medal of Honor. Now anyone can download...

Tags: 3D, EPIC, Games, Personal Technology, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Revisiting the Motorola Droid on Verizon [Q&A]

Why the hate for drag and drop?Almost every review I have read faults the Droid because you can't auto-sync music:"(You can dump your music on a microSD card and pop it in, but it?s a copy-paste files affair, not a ?load my music? integrated experience.)"The Droid ships with a 16...

Tags: Smart phones, Motorola Droid, Droid, Apple iPhone, Revisiting, music, Verizon Communications Inc., Motorola Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

The iPhone is one of the best phones in the world, carriers with it are the problem

far from perfect indeedIt's a great gadget...until it freezes and you have to wait several minutes while you reboot it. That is if you know how to reboot it, the first time is always accompanied with panic because you think the thing went dead. Don't blame the carriers,...

Tags: Smart phones, iPhone Screen, BlackBerry Tour, Apple iPhone, phone, carrier, keyboard

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Are the Microsoft layoffs over now?

I hope soI hate seeing "SoandSo killing X amount of jobs" in the news =/Ballmer should be the first to get laid offHis reklessness to ignore the FOSS and cling to the proprietary model drove M$ into the ground.Q1 revenues of $13Bn generating $3.5Bn in net profit ...... would tend...

Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Creative accounting, Microsoft Corp., layoff

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Xobni expands to include enterprise but where are Web, Mobile and even Mac versions

Search tools more than important!!!Good that mostly everbody knows that in business life nothing works without e-mail and even that important is a reliable and fast search tool for Outlook! One of those is Lookeen It has so many features which lighten your work that is amazing. It works with...

Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, Mail.app, Entourage, Web, Xobni, Microsoft Outlook, Apple Macintosh, mobile

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

News to know: Ruiz, Moffat resign; Microsoft; Psystar; Smartphones

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: Ruiz resigns as GlobalFoundries chairman; no mention of insider trading scandal Moffat no longer with IBM as...

Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, CBS Interactive Inc., Microsoft Corp., Psystar, Smartphone, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Mainframes, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Servers, Hardware, Sales

Blog posts 2009-11-03

Sony Ericsson Equinox TM717 - carbon black (T-Mobile)

Photo gallery:Sony Ericsson Equinox TM717The Sony Ericsson Equinox is the first phone from the manufacturer to land at T-Mobile since the TM506. In many ways the Equinox is a fitting successor; like the TM506 it has a thin flip phone design and it sports a similar feature set that includes...

Tags: display, Equinox, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, phone, T-Mobile

Product reviews 2009-11-03

Analyst: Big on Motorola, Android; no love for RIM, Palm

To Stay in Business,eventually they will turn to Android.The SAME WAY did HTC and MOTOROLA.and IT will not Take Long!RE: Analyst: Big on Motorola, Android; no love for RIM, PalmRIM forever!droid is cool, but read the comments on the original article.this guy is probably waaaay off.IT Analysts are kind of...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Investment, Handhelds, droid, IT-Analysts, Motorola Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Palm Inc., phone, Pre, v60

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Mozilla goes back to the beta with Firefox 3.6

Oh bother. Does this mean Firefox 3.5 is buggy and insecure?Having used Firefox since 0.6 I find 3.5 to be one of the less stable versions. I hope that they get the bugs out for 3.6.3 things this version must have or it may fall too far behind1. SELinux/AppArmor...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Web browser, Mozilla Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Firefox 3.6, beta, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-02