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- Wither Silicon Valley? IT will be driven by emerging markets
- Gartner is projecting that the "worse year ever" for IT spending---down 6.9 percent in 2009---will be followed up with dead-cat spending bounce in 2010 of a meager 3.3 percent. Does this dead-cat IT spending bounce mean traditional tech power centers---notably Silicon Valley---are no longer in the driver's seat? ...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Emerging Market, IT-spending, Application Roster, Marketing Research, Financial Services, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Out-Innovated by Management Practice Blowback - a Video Conversation with John Hagel
- I had the opportunity to sit down for a discussion with John Hagel of Deloitte's Center for the Edge last week. My previous post about the 'Shift Index 2009' report is augmented by this video, and fellow ZDNet blogger Dennis Howlett attended the...
- Tags: Innovation, Management Practice, Video, Motorcycle, Destination Point, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- Some welcome competition in mid-market ERP
- Sage's X3 - Does it need big systems integrators as part of its market success? A few days ago, several members of the analyst and press community were given a briefing on Sage’s high-end ERP product, X3. X3 was acquired by Sage three years ago and...
- Tags: Accounting, Reseller, ERP, Channel Partner, Sage, X3, X3 Product Line, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- Analyst: Low-end iPhone to drop Wi-Fi
- A research report published by analyst Daniel Amir for Lazard Capital Markets claims that Apple is expected to begin production on a high-end iPhone with 32GB of NAND beginning this spring. According to the report production is anticipated to begin in April, ramp up in May with an announcement in...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Wireless LANs, 3G, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- Wind and sun--how important will they be to our energy future?
- Wind and sun--how important will they be to our energy future?Answer to your questionThey will be extremely important. In a very bad way for the simple fact that environmentalists, gripped by the irrationality of their anti-capitalist nature worship will foist this crap on us, totally oblivious to the laws of...
- Tags: energy future
- Discussion threads 2009-01-21
- News to know: Jobs' medical leave; Windows 7; BlackBerry PDF vulnerabilities; Tech economy
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Jobs to take medical leave; Back in summer at WWDC? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Steve Jobs takes "medical...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, Larry Dignan, Patent, Microsoft Windows 7, Adobe PDF, Leave, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Photograph, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-01-15
- Lenovo confirms window shopping for acquisitions
- Lenovo on Thursday confirmed that it is talking to "independent third parties" about potential acquisitions and investments. In overseas trading Wednesday--Lenovo trades on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong--shares spiked 27 percent in heavy trading on various reports that the PC maker was going to pull the...
- Tags: Brazil, Acquisition, Lenovo Group Ltd., Window, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-11
- IDC: PC sales growth to slow as emerging markets struggle
- Emerging markets--once the growth engine of PC sales--are showing signs of strain, according to an IDC report projecting sluggish demand for 2009. IDC on Wednesday said in a statement that it expects worldwide PC shipments to grow 3.8 percent in 2009, well below previous projections. IDC expects...
- Tags: PC, Emerging Market, International Data Corp., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Tech CEOs: Will they step up in a downturn?
- Technology CEOs worth their paychecks are going to use this economic downturn to revamp business models and position for the so-called post recession era. It sounds rather obvious, but why don't all CEOs follow this playbook? We've heard the mantra repeatedly: Reload in a downturn. And a...
- Tags: Technology Company, Information Technology, CEO, Forrester Research Inc., Strategy, Social Networking, Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Dell: Turnaround interruptus as share grab hurts net, margins
- Dell's second quarter earnings fell short of projections, but revenue was well ahead of targets. Translation: Dell is gaining share at the expense of its bottom line as price competition heats up. Dell reported fiscal second quarter earnings of 31 cents a share on revenue of $16.4...
- Tags: Revenue, Dell Computer Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Dell delivers: Is a turnaround in sight?
- Dell's fiscal first quarter results topped expectations courtesy of strong growth in its commercial and consumer businesses. On Thursday, Dell reported net income of $784 million, or 38 cents a share, on revenue of $16.07 billion, which was up 9 percent from a year ago. Wall Street...
- Tags: Revenue, Dell Computer Corp., Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- As SOA hype turns five, IBM turns to Smart SOA Social Network to bind communities of users
- The global WebSphere ecology has trooped to Las Vegas this week for the IBM Impact 2008 conference, with a kick-off rally of sorts in the MGM Grand arena this morning. I saw Fleetwood Mac here at a Comdex, must have been 12 years ago. IBM has sure...
- Tags: SOA, IBM Corp., WebSphere Ecology, PT, Smart SOA Social Network, Lotus Connections, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Dell: Still a work in progress; Sees conservative IT spending
- Dell's fourth quarter results fell short of expectations Thursday and the company "will continue to incur costs as it realigns its business to improve growth and profitability." Meanwhile, Dell said future results "could be adversely impacted by more conservative spending by its customers." Simply put, Dell is...
- Tags: Revenue, Dell Computer Corp., IT-spending, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- Applying the transparency taste test
- Last week I was in Berlin as the guest of SAP and Transparency International. For those that are unfamiliar, TI is a pressure group that addresses issues around corruption. It operates in some of the most difficult parts of the world. It tends to focus on the governmental factors impacting...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Dennis Howlett, Finance, Financial Planning, Management, Reality, Software, Strategy, Tax, Taxes, Texas Instruments Inc., Tools & Techniques
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- Summer Davos in Dalian China
- Last week I was in Dalian, China for the World Economic Forum Inaugural Meeting of the New Champions. That’s a mouthful, so the Chinese simply called it the “Summer Davosâ€. It makes sense as this feels very much like Davos only a bit smaller and slightly more relaxed and less...
- Tags: China, Venture Capital, Davos, World Economic Forum, Dalian China, John Newton
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- Sun's Jonathan Schwartz: Consumers, not IT, driving markets
- Sun is holding an Emerging Markets Summit on its Menlo Park, CA campus. CEO Jonathan Schwartz led off the event with this statement: "The Internet is the most powerful social utility the world has ever seen." The "social utility" phrase is part of Sun's new view of...
- Tags: Phone, Information Technology, Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-08-29
- End of the PC? No, iPhone is the end of the cell phone
- You can read a lot from what the Apple iPhone will do, and surely there are a lot of glaring deficiencies. What can we read of them?And what should we make of the iPhones company on stage at this weeks Macworld? Google, Yahoo, and Cingular. The best of the Internet,...
- Tags: Home, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, Mobile, Apple, Microsoft, Windows, SaaS, Patents, content delivery network, Internet, convergence, Google, Google Inc., iPhone, VoIP, Apple iPhone
- Blog posts 2007-01-11
- Oxfam GB CIO: Simon Jennings - Transcript
- Dan Farber:Simon, thanks for joining me.Simon Jennings:It’s a pleasure Dan.Dan Farber:Now, Simon, you’re the CIO of Oxfam Great Britain which is part of Oxfam international. Could you explain the scope of your responsibilities as well as how Oxfam GB fits into the international organization?Simon Jennings:First thing to understand is that...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2006-10-24
- Oxfam GB CIO: Simon Jennings - Transcript
- Dan Farber: Simon, thanks for joining me. Simon Jennings: It’s a pleasure Dan. Dan Farber: Now, Simon, you’re the CIO of Oxfam Great Britain which is part of Oxfam international. Could you explain the scope of your responsibilities as well as...
- Tags: Innovation, Revenue, Product, Mobility, Satellite, Organization, Office, Oxfam, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Administrator
- Blog posts 2006-10-24
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