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Sex, violence and open government in Mass.

Sex, violence and open government are setting tongues wagging as they used to say in rural Massachusetts. First the sex, as related by the Salem News. Former Newburyport mayor Mary Anne Clancy admitted two years ago that she had exchanged "inappropriate" e-mails with Nock Middle School teacher Jason...

Tags: Brian Clancy, government

Blog posts 2006-08-01

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Magink aims to outshine LED technology, but not outpower

A six-year-old developer of reflective display technologies has snagged an indoor albeit heavily sunlit installation with the New England Patriots. Take a look. What makes Magink's technology interesting is not just the brightness of the picture OR the...

Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Magink, Engineering, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 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

News to know: AMD; iPhone security; Linux; SAP

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: AMD to spin off manufacturing. Techmeme Heather Clancy: The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Information Technology, SAP AG, RIM BlackBerry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web Servers, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Strategy, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-07

The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments

I realize Advanced Micro Devices has some news in the offing this week that likely will supersede the urgency of this blog's content, but I wanted to recount some high points from a conversation I had about two weeks ago with Larry Vertal, the company's senior strategist when it comes...

Tags: Energy Efficiency, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Larry Vertal, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-06

News to know: Green PCs, IT; IBM; Nokia; Apple

 Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebEx Matthew Miller: First impressions of the Nokia N96. Gallery right. Mary Jo...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., PC, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, IBM Corp., Podcasts, Linux, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Forrester: There's really no such thing as "green IT"

News flash. In a recent report called "Is Green IT Your Emperor With No Clothes?," market research house Forrester is advising IT managers to forget about the notion that there's any such thing as TRULY green technology. Yes, folks, it's part of that green tech backlash that we've all been...

Tags: Asset, Green Technology, Information Technology, Green IT, Forrester Research Inc., Energy Consumption, Asset Management, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-05

Wind: A sound investment in unsound times?

The first intra-state public offering associated with the development of community-backed wind farms in Dodge, Olmsted and Mower counties in Minnesota has been completed in just four months. The project managers, National Wind and High Country Energy, reported this week that the offering pulled in 60 Minnesota...

Tags: Minnesota, Investor, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-04

You can now purchase a technology trade-in plan when you buy a gadget from TigerDirect or CompUSA

If you're buying a new consumer electronics product from either TigerDirect or CompUSA, you can now lock-in a trade-in strategy and some moolah or store credige by buying a Guaranteed Buyback plan from TechForward at the time of purchase. To refresh your memory, TechForward is an...

Tags: Plan, CompUSA Inc., TechForward, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-03

News to know: HP's Smartphone; Obama's iPhone app; Skype in China; Data breach bill

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: WSJ: H-P plans to unveil smartphone Jason D. O'Grady: Obama campaign unleashes iPhone app Track the Presidential election polls with...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., Skype Technologies S.A., Apple Inc., Smartphone, Obama, Smart Phones, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, RSS, Financial Accounting, Open Source, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-03

SAS invests big in green tech for Cary campus

If you've ever been for a visit to software developer SAS in North Carolina, you already know that they have one of the most unique corporate campuses of any high-tech company with daycare, multiple fitness centers and a dry-cleaning facility all right on site. (They've also got their own television...

Tags: Green Technology, Farm, SAS Institute, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-02

News to know: Cloud wars; Apple; Google; China is watching you

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft's planned cloud platform. Techmeme A new mystery: What's Microsoft got up its Office Live sleeve? Zack Whittaker:...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IPO, Robots, Linux, E-mail, Digital Media, Financial Services, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Toshiba: Feel free to trade in more gadgets. Lots more.

Can't figure out what to do with your old laptop, tablet PC, monitor, projector, camera, camcorder, server, home audio receiver, mobile phone, car audio system, home electronics device, global positioning satellite receiver, MP3 player, personal digital assistant or game system? (Whew.) Toshiba Digital Products says it now will take it...

Tags: Toshiba Corp., Toshiba Digital Products Division, Branding, Tablets, PDAs, Projectors, Notebooks, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Handhelds, Components, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Click Heels 3 Times and Say 'I want to IPO, I want to IPO'

Alas Liquidity Events, I Knew Them Well.... If only wanting a liquidity event and getting it were that easy. As we say back in Texas, "'wantin' and ‘gettin' are two different things". For technology executives looking for a liquidity event for their firm, the...

Tags: M&A, Liquidity, Liquidity Event, IPO, Investment, Financial Planning, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-10-01

The 'Social Media' Conundrum

I'm fascinated by '30's depression era attempts to foster business innovation, not least because of the financial challenges that seem likely to dominate our coming years. Surprisingly I've found The Rotary International Club is in many ways a precursor to the looser social media movement which has been a feature...

Tags: Marketing, Social Media, Brian, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-10-01

News to know: Economy watch; Google trades; RealDVD; Apple's showdown; Pandora

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Reuters: Senate agrees to vote on bailout, stocks rally Michael Krigsman: Economic meltdown: The insanity of disagreement Larry Dignan: Analyst: Intel will weather the storm ...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Apple Inc., Semantic Web, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-01

How green is your IT leasing company?

One might be tempted, perhaps, to consider leasing as an option when considering how to manage your company's IT portfolio with an eye to green issues. In the sense that you'll keep a better lid on the age of your assets or maybe spend a little...

Tags: Information Technology, Leasing, Redemtech, Capital Structures, Finance, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Mea culpa. HP has pledged mercury-free notebooks, too

Something tells me that I MUST have blogged about this before, but it deserves a reminder, since I just mentioned Dell's intentions, which technically came later than Hewlett-Packard's. In any event, the goodly PR folks at HP remind me they, too, have pledged mercury-free notebooks. Their company's...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Public Relations, Notebooks, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-30

News to know: Bailout bust and tech fallout; Cloud computing; Netgear; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: AP: Stunning Defeat for Bailout Plan Torpedoes Stocks; Dow Sinks Over 750. White House, lawmakers plan new bailout deal Larry Dignan: Is Apple really recession proof? Wall...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Sprint Xohm, Apple Inc., NetGear, WiMAX, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Open Source, Wireless

Blog posts 2008-09-30

New motivation for couch potatoes. Take a walk, charge your mobile phone.

Imagine keeping your mobile phone more or less perpetually charged just by walking out of the house in the morning. Is that a bit of green technology you'd be willing to spring for? Well sometime in mid-to-late 2009, start-up M2E Power says it will team up with...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, Cell Phone, Motivation, Business Development, Strategic Planning, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Strategy, Management, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-29