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- Activating the iPhone 3G
- CNET.com's Brian Tong heads to the Palo Alto, Calif., Apple store to check out the crowds and see what's involved in the activation process.
- Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, News, brian tong, iphone 3G, apple, steve jobs, itunes, ipod
- Videos 2008-07-11
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- News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- What's a Little Money Between Friends?
- Gaming Incentive Systems Joel Spolsky (www.inc.com/keyword/spolsky) wrote a nice piece in the October 2008 issue of Inc. magazine. The article, Sins of Commissions, provides a cautionary tale to executives who are contemplating the addition of or changes to sales incentives in their workforce. ...
- Tags: Incentive, Commission, Joe, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Tempest or Nuclear Winter
- A Hurricane Ike for Tech Start-Ups VentureWire Alert free subscription required today reported that venture capitalists are advising their portfolio firms to prepare for a potential nuclear winter. One venture capitalist featured in today's newsletter was quoted as telling firms "to slow down their burn rate, and...
- Tags: Firm, Venture Capital, Product Development, Investment, Product Marketing, Workforce Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Human Resources, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- News to know: IBM earnings, Blackberry Storm, WiMax arrives, Oracle+ Primavera
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: IBM reports early. Profits up 20 percent, full year estimates reaffirmed. Larry Dignan: IBM: Beats earnings target but... Times are officially...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, RIM BlackBerry, Earnings, IBM Corp., E-mail, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, WiMAX, Monitors & Displays, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Wireless, Components, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Renaissance in Portfolio Management & GRC?
- Why Oracle Bought Primavera Now ? (Note: I actually prepared this post 24 hours before the Oracle - Primavera announcement. Now, it seems a bit obvious.) A few months ago, businesses had access to vast amounts of inexpensive capital. With lots of exceptionally low cost...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Initiative, Project Portfolio Management, Primavera, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Oracle + Primavera
- Where are the lucky couple registered? Yesterday, Oracle announced that it would be purchasing Primavera. Details of the transaction have not been made public. Already we see that Oracle has stated that Primavera management and employees will become part of a global business...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Professional Services, Primavera, Project Management, It Operations, It service Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- News to know: Clickjacking redux; SAP pricing; BlackBerry Storm; Windows 7
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Webcam hijack demo highlights clickjacking threat Dancho Danchev: Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levels Adobe posts workaround for clickjacking flaw, NoScript releases ClearClick ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, SAP AG, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Pricing Strategy, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows, Semantic Web, Linux, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Internet
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- 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: 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
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