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- 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
- 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: 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
- Accounting vs. Technology - Who's At Fault
- Accounting vs. Technology - Who's At FaultActually two people are responsible for the mess......and it involves the repeal of Glass-Steagall in 1999.Sen. Phil Gramm for sponsoring it in the first place...and President Bill Clinton for signing it into law.RE: Accounting vs. Technology - Who's At FaultBrian - this is something...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, Regulations, Financial accounting, accounting
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Would you buy an all-screen notebook computer?
- Would you buy an all-screen notebook computer?Well, given that you could carry a folding keyboard, why not?But, how about touch screens that somehow gave you a feeling when your fingers were in the right place??? You could possible put at least a raised "dash" on the screen for the F...
- Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, PRODUCTIVITY, keyboard, notebook computer, notebook, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Accounting vs. Technology - Who's At Fault
- Did technology play a role in the financial services meltdown? A columnist for a major IT publication documented his positions on the role of IT in the current financial services meltdown. He asked questions such as "Were the internal IT groups in these firms working on...
- Tags: Accounting, Financial, Accounting Industry, Financial Accounting, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Hole in Adobe software allows free movie downloads
- A security hole in Adobe Systems' software is giving users free access to record and copy from Amazon.com's video streaming service. NEW YORK--A security hole in Adobe Systems' software, used to distribute movies and TV shows over the Internet, is giving users free access to record and copy from...
- Tags: Software, Adobe Systems Inc., Web, Movie, Amazon.com Inc., Video, TV, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Reuters, Adobe Systems, piracy, video streaming, Amazon.com, Hulu
- News items 2008-09-29
- News to know: Tech sales and the art of spin; Firefox; Apple; HD streaming
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Brian Sommer: Quit Spinning - You're Making Me Dizzy Ryan Naraine: Firefox rushes out fix for password manager bug Matthew Miller: Microsoft deep sixes...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, Mozilla Firefox, Steve Ballmer, Radio, Apple Inc., Sales, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Quit Spinning - You're Making Me Dizzy
- The Spin of Technology The other day, I was with some colleagues as we discussed how well software salespeople can spin. Forget the political talking heads on cable news television as they have nothing on a great EVP of Sales for software company. ...
- Tags: Software, Lie, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-09-28
- Startup essentials: Dr. Pepper, coffee and accessories
- One of my Irregular chums started a GoogleGroup thread about what you need in a job that requires you work from a home office. The same can be said for the 1-3 person startup. The conversation immediately became a discussion of the merits or otherwise of different coffee making facilities...
- Tags: Dr., Beverage, Accessory, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Budget season: shiny new collaboration models for 2009!
- Budget season: shiny new collaboration models for 2009!enterprise toolsBusinesses are looking for web 2.0 tools, but I agree that many workers are just forging ahead on their own with the implementation of web 2.0 tools in the work day. Business networking is one of those web 2.0 tools that the...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Channel management, web 2.0 tool, Web 2.0, collaboration, Business Networking
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- Odds for Yahoo-AOL deal may increase
- Yahoo's board reportedly set the stage for additional talks with Time Warner's AOL unit for some kind of deal. According to a relatively thin Financial Times report Yahoo's board approved talks with Time Warner about the future of AOL. Time Warner has been trying to unload AOL...
- Tags: Time Warner Inc., America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Corporate Governance, Performance Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- News to know: Google and T-Mobile on G1; OpenWorld; SOA; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Andrew Nusca: T-Mobile G1: Specs, pricing breakdown UPDATED: T-Mobile, Google, HTC unveil G1 (with hands-on pics) Ed Burnette: Google releases Android 1.0 SDK Hands-On with...
- Tags: Google Inc., T-Mobile, Apple Inc., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Semantic Web, Web Services, Research & Development, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Marketing 101 for Tech Vendors
- Satire For those of you who work for a technology firm, particularly you Marketing types, you will no doubt want to hold an "Analyst Day" to wow, dazzle and impress some influential types - like IT Research Analysts and the Enterprise Irregulars (disclosure - I'm an EI...
- Tags: Analyst, Corporate Communications, Marketing Research, Marketing, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Americans Hate Flying - Consultants Must Really Loathe It
- Can't We Have a More Civilized Flying World? c Several media outlets picked up on a study released by the Travel Industry Association last week that indicated that 41 million Americans are forgoing air travel due to the hassles involved in doing so today....
- Tags: Security, Southwest Airlines Co., Beverage, Entertainment, Carrier, Food & Beverage, Advertising & Promotion, Manufacturing, Marketing, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- News to know: Windows 7; Oracle OpenWorld; Adobe CS4; Search 2.0
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows Live team confirms Win7 to replace subsystems with services Ed Bott: How to set up a new PC in one easy session ...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, BEA Beehive, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Open World, Help Desk, Java Development Tools, E-books, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Personal Technology, Software
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Search 2.0: compromising privacy for better results?
- Search 2.0: compromising privacy for better results?Searching web 2.0I think search needs to make big leaps in what it can do with social networks. I realize that the social networks control what Google can index, but I think there should be some sort of agreement to get more social networking...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Search 2.0, social networking
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
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