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Boise State University's Student Self-Service Earns Top Rating by Graduating Seniors

With nearly 19,000 students, Boise State University is the largest institution of higher education in Idaho. The university wanted to replace disparate, antiquated administrative systems with an integrated ERP system to better serve students, faculty and staff, and to run the university's business processes smoothly and accurately. The challenge was...

Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Boise State University, Human Capital, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software, Business Operations

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VCs a glum bunch over economy, lack of exits

Venture capitalists are having a confidence crisis as dwindling exit opportunities and a weak economy conspire to put the kibosh on returns. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capital Confidence Index the second quarter registered a reading of 3.07 on a 5 point scale, down from the...

Tags: Entrepreneurial, Confidence, VC, Mark Cannice, Venture Capital, IPO, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Financing Startups, Financial Services, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Congress looks at next-gen ad networks

The Center for Democracy and Technology will testify Wednesday about the privacy concerns over ad networks like NebuAd, which has come under fire over a deal with Charter Communications to deploy user-tracking technology, ChannelWeb reports. "For years, Web sites have entered into agreements with advertising...

Tags: Advertisement, Network, U.S. Congress, Ad Network, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-08

If Twitter buys Summize now... are its priorities in order?

If this deal goes down, Twitter would be smart to state that the timing goes hand-in-hand with its in-progress back-end reconstruction, rather than merely claiming Summize as a new feature. User loyalty may depend on it. by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Twitter, Venture Capital, Search, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-07-08

News to know: Linux; iPhone; Gmail; Insecure antivirus software; SAP

Notable headlines: Phil Wainewright: SaaS star leaves SAP for Salesforce.com Dennis Howlett: Ticking bombs in enterprise land Garett Rogers: Your Gmail is now a lot more secure Dancho Danchev: Approximately 800 vulnerabilities discovered in antivirus products ...

Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Linux, Google Gmail, SAP AG, Antivirus Software, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Approximately 800 vulnerabilities discovered in antivirus products

In what appears to be either a common scenario of "when the security solution ends up the security problem itself", or a product launch basing its strategy on outlining the increasing number of critical vulnerabilities found in competing antivirus products, the IT/Security consulting firm n.runs AG claims to have discovered...

Tags: Antivirus Product, Antivirus, Vulnerability, Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-07

Microsoft-Yahoo on again?

Carl Icahn and Steve Ballmer announced plans today for Microsoft to acquire some or all of Yahoo if the current board was ousted in an upcoming election on August 1st. While they didn't come out and say it was a done deal, it does appear that Microsoft is still interested...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Corporate Governance, Entrepreneurship, Search, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-07-07

What's next for the MacBook Air?

Brook Crothers at CNet's nanotech blog has posted an interesting piece about what upgrade options might be coming for the MacBook Air. Drives Apple dropped the price of the 64GB Solid State Disk SSD option by US$400 on Thursday but Crothers points to higher capacity, 128GB...

Tags: Processor, Disk, MBA, Apple MacBook, Battery, Apple Inc., Solid State Disk, Intel Corp., MLC, Engineering, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-07

Study: Offshore outsourcing dings customer satisfaction; Taking back office offshore ok

A trio of professors working with the national Quality Research Center at the University of Michigan finds that offshore outsourcing hurts customer service ratings, but farming out back office operations has a limited impact. The working paper, conducted by the University of Michigan as well as Nasscom,...

Tags: Offshore, Customer Service, Offshore Outsourcing, Customer Satisfaction, Back-office, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Product Marketing, Operational Accounting, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-07

Apple drops Solid State Drive price by US$400

Apple drops Solid State Drive price by US$400Once again for you "early adopters"...BOHICA (B-end O-ver H-ere I-t C-omes A-gain)Always been that wayPull out a computer mag from the 90's and see the power and costs of the computers and other bits & pieces advertised. Things just seem to be...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, US$400, computer, solid state disk, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-07

Apple drops Solid State Drive price by US$400

Apple dropped the price of the Solid State Drive SSD option in its MacBook Air subnotebook computer on Thursday by US$400. Previously available as a US$999 upcharge, the 64GB SSD option can now be added to the MBA for US$599. You can see the price drop when you...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Solid State Disk, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-07

Hardcore math at the speed of the Net

From its inception, the Internet has been about connecting researchers and research institutions to each other (and, of course, about national defense). As the Web continues to explode, though, it's interesting to see how new generations of researchers work, collaborate, and criticize online. A particular example...

Tags: Proof, Mathematician, Li, Web 2.0, Wiki, Blogging, Channel Management, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-07

New Magic Rituals: Subconscious Techniques (exe)

Despite the magic environment of the program, it is not traditional magic at all. It is magic of a new level. This program is only starting its development and all our users will soon be able to get updates for further self-improvement. This product is a complete innovation and there...

Tags: Magic, Astraport, Productivity

Software downloads 2008-07-07

Google trying to take privacy seriously

Google trying to take privacy seriouslyRE: Google trying to take privacy seriouslyThe whole thing is a legal can of worms which I did not see American judges opening. I hope this will be overturned for it has very serious implications all over the world.While the state may potentially be the...

Tags: SECURITY, Google Inc., privacy

Discussion threads 2008-07-05

Your computer as your singing coach

Israeli researchers have developed an electronic ear to coach vibrato technique. Until now, the quality of a vibrato -- the pulsating change of pitch in a singer's voice -- could only be judged by voice experts. Now, a Tel Aviv University research team 'has successfully managed to train a computer...

Tags: Researcher, Quality, Teacher, Computer, TAU, Productivity, Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-05

Energy Independence Day...not yet, but it's a popular idea

Click on any image to see the whole picture. These are just three of the images from our local Fourth of July Parade today. We happen to live in a state which does not produce much...

Tags: Subsidy, Denmark, Natural Gas, Taxes, Free Trade, Telecom & Utilities, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-07-04

Why tech jobs are beating the employment odds

Why tech jobs are beating the employment oddsCan somebody tell me whenan economist has ever called it right? Every piece of economic news includes the line "more than" or "less than" what economists predicted.Why do we even listen to these folks?I'd have just put it more brutally...US companies have wanted...

Tags: employment odd, tech job

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

I have to stop using Gmail :(

I have to stop using Gmail :(You can enable POP3 support in Gmail...If you switch on POP3 support in Gmail, then you can still comply with archiving procedures: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13273That way, you can both send and receive e-mails with an e-mail client like Thunderbird or Evolution or even Outlook Express. I...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Using Gmail, Google Gmail, archiving, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Q'n'A: Are Youtube users are royally screwed?

I've been reading the headlines today, and the main headlines on most of the top technology websites are about the YouTube/Google/Viacom saga. I'd like to call this: Youglecomgate, a potentially volatile situation hovers over the midst of everyone who has been on YouTube ever, so that's probably the majority of...

Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Viacom Inc., Corporate Communications, Internet, Networking, Marketing, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Seven Tech ways to make America better this July 4

Seven Tech ways to make America better this July 4Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less.Get the environazi boot of our neck.Build more refineries.Reduce government regulations.Eliminate the Endangered Species Act.Build more dams for flood control.Build more highways to relieve traffic congestion.Relax nuclear power plant requirements to build more reactors.Your mindset is...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy, Telecom & Utilities, vision, computer

Discussion threads 2008-07-03