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Microsoft's Zune bizdev head counter-challenges my offer to shave my head

Yesterday, via e-mail, Zunecorps blogger Charlie Curran sent me an e-mail saying that Microsoft's head of business development for Zune Bill Wittress had a counter-offer to my open challenge to Microsoft president Robbie Bach to shave my head if Microsoft is ranked #2 in personal digital media player PDMP units...

Tags: SanDisk Corp., Problem, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Bloomberg L.P., Bill Wittress, Sales Strategy, E-mail, Blogging, Sales Force Management, Sales, Online Communications, Internet, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-12

Should YouTube take down pro-Nazi video clips?

After complaints, Google now says it will remove videos depicting Nazi and anti-Semitic propaganda from its YouTube site in Germany. Already illegal in Germany, the videos of such wretched content as pro-Nazi films, clips of Nazi-era rallies and thankfully much smaller current-era expressions, have drawn takedown...

Tags: Google Inc., Germany, YouTube Inc., Video, Bloomberg L.P., Video Clip, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-09-12

Bloomberg Stock Watcher (msi)

Bloomberg Stock Watcher includes support for international exchanges and indices allows you to track your investment worldwide. All information is retrieved directly from www.bloomberg.com, typically delayed up to 20 minutes in US. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Stock, Bloomberg L.P., Bloomberg Stock Watcher, Investment, Finance

Software downloads 2007-09-11

Bloomberg News (widget)

Bloomberg News displays Bloomberg financial news. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Bloomberg L.P., Financial Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2007-08-01

Service Component Architecture gets slapped around a bit

Service Component Architecture gets slapped around a bitSCA is about building services to fit into a SOAHi Joe,Its Oracle Dave Chappell. In my blog writeup on the SCA panel discussion gets heated after the fact I spoke about this area of contention, which I thought that David, Gregor et...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., runtime infrastructure, Bloomberg L.P., Joe IT, JBI, Service Component Architecture, SOA

Discussion threads 2007-06-01

Why Salesforce.com's Merrill Lynch move is important

Why Salesforce.com's Merrill Lynch move is importantBloombergBased on what I heard at the Salesforce.com event on Tuesday, I don't think that the company is going on a frontal assault on Bloomberg. It appears that there are plenty of opportunites with 3.8mn Internet savvy financial advisors. Brokers and traders...

Tags: Sales force management, Bloomberg L.P., Salesforce.com Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-02-28

Salesforce.com's big customer: Mystery solved

Salesforce.coms big enterprise customer that will be announced Tuesday is apparently Merrill Lynch. BusinessWeek reports in its latest issue subscription required that Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is looking to take on Bloomberg. For the non-Wall Street types Bloomberg provides a...

Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, SaaS, Salesforce.com

Blog posts 2007-02-24

Massive fraud, 'free' trades roil online stock brokerage

The FBI, the SEC and the NASD are investigating losses at TD Ameritrade and ETrade stemming from “one of the biggest cases of identity theft to strike the U.S. securities industry,” online infiltration of customer accounts by computer hackers in Eastern Europe and Asia, according to Bloomberg reports: In one...

Tags: TradeKing

Blog posts 2006-10-24

The 80/20 rule of SOA service reusability

The main value of SOA is reuse. Build once, use often. So it can be assumed that any services you build and deploy should be reusable across the enterprise, or whatever other sphere you work in -- or else you're not getting your money's worth, right?Well, it depends, advises ZapThink's...

Tags: Bloomberg L.P., SOA

Blog posts 2006-06-08

Bloomberg holds fast against cellphones

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is seeing red over cellphones in schools and his take-no-prisoners attitude is making parents angry, the New York Times reports. Since aggressively removing students' phones earlier this year, the Mayor has been upsetting parents and other policymakers. In some corners of the...

Tags: Bloomberg L.P., cell phone

Blog posts 2006-05-17

Mashups from Mars, SOAs from Venus?

In recent posts, I spoke of the SOA-open source-Web 2.0 conglomeration, a whirling dervish that is provoking a range of reactions across the industry, from eye rolls to wide-eyed fascination. The mashup of applications above service-oriented architectures seems to have legs, and IBM's Bob Zurek coined the phenomenon as Enterprise...

Tags: mashup

Blog posts 2006-05-15

NY mayor's $100 million for stem cell research

NY mayor's $100 million for stem cell researchGood going Mayor Bloomberg, The Bush administration hasn't the guts to.....stand up for what's good for all Americans. This quote from the article hit the nail on the head..........."The Bush administration has not supported federal funding of embryonic stem research which would include...

Tags: Bloomberg L.P., John Kerry, stem-cell, Katrina

Discussion threads 2006-02-03

Additional Resources

The App Store's buggy update process

The App Store's buggy update processI got mine to updateBasically when it gave me that "find all the updates" screen, I would just look for version numbers that had changed (this is easy to do now that everything is 1.0 generally, it will only get harder as time goes on,...

Tags: Desktops, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., App Store, cryptic error message, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

552 applications available in the App Store at launch

According to a tweet by Omni developer Greg Titus, there are 552 total iPhone applications available this morning. 21 per page, 26 full pages, + 6 more on the last page. Here's what I've downloaded so far: AIM eBay Mobile NetNewsWire ...

Tags: List, App, Tools & Techniques, Management, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-10

Apple's iPhone app parade begins; Salesforce, Oracle get early jump

Apple's iPhone app parade got an early jump on the 3G version of the popular device Thursday, but business and productivity apps seem to be lagging in the back of the line. Aside from Salesforce.com and Oracle, enterprise heavyweights seem to be sitting out the early wave...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Apple iPhone, Oracle Corp., Apple Inc., App, Business Indicators Software, 3G, Cellular Phones, Sales Force Management, Digital Music, Wireless, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-10

Panasonic Viera TH-50PZ850U

Ever since we gave the Panasonic TH-50PZ800U an Editors' Choice award as our favorite plasma HDTV so far, we've been bombarded by variations of the same question: "Is the more expensive TH-50PZ850U better?" After finally getting the chance to review the 850U, our answer is "no." The TH-50PZ850U is the...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TH-50PZ850U, Panasonic, HDTV, TV

Product reviews 2008-07-01

News to know: Vista search; Android; Gmail

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Fixing Windows Vista, Part 5: Faster, smarter search Phil Wainewright: Scaling the cloud, deflating the price of software Ed Burnette: 50 questions asked and answered on Android News.com: Google to let users test new...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, E-mail Providers, H-1B, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-05

How SOA and IT are faring in the 'unrecession'

Rich Seeley, who has been tracking the relationship between the overall economy and IT/SOA in the recent turbulent months, just posted an update on how SOA has been faring through it all. SOA will sink or swim because of SOA, not the economy He...

Tags: Information Technology, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-05-30

Software bug prevents Big Brown quick pick racing payoff

Software bug prevents Big Brown quick pick racing payoffIs anyone else sick and tired...of the same, tired argument being pulled out every time a software bug screws consumers? It's like "all software has bugs" has become the stock excuse and people are just supposed to say "Oh, well in...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Big Brown, software, Software bug

Discussion threads 2008-05-30

Got science?

It seems there are numerous American scientists who feel bereft. I can relate, because I am related. I have two brothers who are physicists, like our father before them. My father drove a beat-up pick-up truck with a bumper sticker that read, "Legalize Physics." That was...

Tags: Science, Scientist, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-29