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Accenture bulks up tech consulting

Accenture bulks up tech consultingThis statement should read the other way around..."But the short version seems to be that IT's inability to work with business has been just wonderful for consultants"Should beBut the short version seems to be that business inability to work with IT has been just wonderful for...

Tags: Strategy, Project management, information technology, Accenture Ltd., business folk, intermediary, IT-staff

Discussion threads 2007-06-18

You'd better call social services

You'd better call social servicesWhose ox is being gored?Dion, I think it makes a big difference in this discussion whether you're talking about business or IT folks being the movers and shakers in pushing SOA or Web 2.0 projects in the enterprise. Assuming that SOA projects are about, um, software...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Strategy, business folk, information technology, Web 2.0, SOA

Discussion threads 2006-02-09

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Rumored HTC 'Dragon' Google phone to spar with iPhone, Droid

The problem for competitors is that Google could throw a billion or more atmobile OS market including Android and ChromeOS. They just want a flood of cheap, very functional, very powerful mobile internet devices. They do not need ANY profits on the OS itself.Hardware manufactures like Palm, Blackberry, and Nokia...

Tags: Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Smart phones, Handhelds, phone, keyboard, Google Inc., physical keyboard, High Tech Computer Corp., iPhone Droid, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Intel to pay AMD $1.25 billion as companies end litigation war; Is it a new chip era?

Inhell got off cheaplyProbably AMD needed the cash now because it would have gotten a lot more in a trial.This is good news for computer usersGood news all around. The cross licensing will allow advancements with a minimum of lawyer intervention.Won't matter, AMD is toastThey haven't produced a CPU worth...

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Processors, litigation, phenom, amd, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., chip

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

T-Mobile Sidekick data outage tests mettle of 800,000 customers, carrier

And before the gloating over a MS screw-up goes too far......try this one on for size, regarding Apple Snow Leopard hosing ALL data when logging in as a "guest". http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139250/Snow_Leopard_bug_deletes_all_user_dataLOL...LOL...ROTFLMAO :DThat's the cost of secrecy...secrecy enables you to get by just swiping your deficiencies under the rug but that...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, T-Mobile, T-Mobile Sidekick, secrecy, Microsoft Corp., Lol, straight face, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

Teens are generation Apple as iPod, iPhone dominance reigns

Look at fall 2007Two years ago, 13% said they planned to buy a Zune. And, almost none of them did.Apple owns this market in the USA and will until the category of MP3 player is no longer relevant.I wonder how many teens plan to buy a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone?Big...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Microsoft Windows 7, Operating systems, Apple Inc., MP3, MP3 player, iPod iPhone dominance reign, dominance reign, Microsoft Windows, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Are we acting like silly fuels?

There is a steady flow of news these days about the drawbacks of our energy "system." The bad news seems to flow like...greenhouse gas, or even coal ash during a downpour. America's natural gas reserves are increasing as more and more deposits are found. The catch: fracking...

Tags: Coal Ash, Telecom & Utilities, Wiki, Online Communications, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-06

Update: Collecting bad stories about Ticketmaster

It's like the mobA while ago, there was a "government inquiry" into Ticketmaster and their practices. The newspapers read like it was the mob against the government. And the inquiry just went away. Without government proactively acting to protect us, we are at the mercy of big, greedy...

Tags: Vertical industries, box-office, Ticketmaster Corp., government

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Move over Enterprise 2.0, it's now Social Business Design

Given the relatively friendly pounding I took over my Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock post, it's gratifying to see that it has stirred some interesting interpretations and thoughts on the topic. That's always good and especially pleasing when one considers that most blog posts are the equivalent of digital...

Tags: BPR, Enterprise 2.0, Re-engineering, Cohen, Oliver Marks, Business Process Engineering, Organizational Structure, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-21

India outsourcing workers stressed to the limit

This applies to America as well"Workers are suffering from obesity, sleep disorders, depression and broken relationships - problems which can lead to more serious conditions such as diabetes or heart disease. In a country where a public healthcare system is virtually non-existent, overworked outsourcing employees could present a health crisis...

Tags: Managed hosting, Benefits, outsourcing, outsource, health care, job, information technology, worker

Discussion threads 2009-08-26

Jeremiah Owyang quits Forrester

Some will parse this as an exodus but following on from Ray Wang's departure from Forrester, we now learn Jeremiah Owyang is on his way to pastures new. From the Interactive Marketing Professionals Forrester blog: Nearly two years ago, I heard that an influential blogger was interested in an...

Tags: Analyst, Forrester Research Inc., Jeremiah Owyang, Ray Wang, Blogging, Benefits, Internet, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Confusion over Windows 7 upgrade path

Poor MarketingMicrosoft should have removed 64bit from the chart all together and added a note that you can't upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit and vice versa.Other than the confusing 64bit chart, this is a non-issue, people are more likely to buy a new computer with 7 then to upgrade an...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, 32-bit, Windows 7 upgrade path, Windows 7 Upgrade, Home Premium, computer, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-08-19

PC makers make (small) progress closing Apple's customer satisfaction gap

Let me put on my flame proof suit.....Apple customers as a group are unique in their loyalty to Apple. PC customers are not very loyal at all to any particular PC brand. Apple customers, as a group also seem to put up with abuse by Apple, which in my opinion...

Tags: Product marketing, PC customer, customer satisfaction number, Apple Inc., PC company, customer satisfaction

Discussion threads 2009-08-18

Government is killing Silicon Valley innovation

Who cares?'m tired of this struggle for capitalism, I'm off to Galt's Gulch.Wah, wah, wah!Americans like Franklin, Westinghouse, Whitny, Kilby, didn't need fake "incentives"!Massengill Satchel"I don?t want to come across as a crying venture capitalist " but..............Sickening. Self-centered VC story. Complaining about access to talent, h1b's etc. No mention of...

Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Regulations, innovation, H1B, government

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Microsoft to ship emergency IE, Visual Studio patches

Microsoft to ship emergency IE, Visual Studio patchesWhy not patch it nowIf it is such an emergency why wait? I think patch Tuesdays is stupid.They should release patches on going. We can't patch a hole cause it not the one Tuesday of the month is dumb. This time we will...

Tags: Patches, Web browsers, Microsoft development tools, IE 8, Visual Studio patch, patch management, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Visual Studio

Discussion threads 2009-07-27

NEXT09: deconstructing the enterprise gulf

Attending NEXT09 was a breath of fresh air for me. As seems to be the way, there's always a good showing by controversial polemicists. You won't for example get two more strident and different speakers than Jeff Jarvis and Andrew Keen. As an enterprisey guy, Keen's assessment...

Tags: Google Inc., Social Computing, Conference, CODA, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-05-07

What does open source community mean?

What does open source community mean?Too much thought on companies.......not enough on individual efforts. I think some folk get too caught up in the business aspect of it all and forget the root. I use plenty of FOSS tools that are backed by no large corporate entity. They may sometimes...

Tags: open source, F/OSS, developer, open-source community, joy

Discussion threads 2009-05-07

Obama's 100-day tech review

Obama's 100-day tech reviewWaiting on ....Well, I know one thing wait till the 2010 elections, we will see how wonderful it is when auto-makers are producing Yugo's and electricity has a 25% tax on it to pay for the 'free' healthcare for people WHO don't work...IF the country is around...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, NOW IT, Obama, tax

Discussion threads 2009-04-29

Any friends OK for open source?

Any friends OK for open source?Bye Bye PentahoI have been moving our data integration from Pentaho to Talend the department may look at Jaspersoft for BI. The folk over at Pentaho seem to be in another world or something. I'm not going to say I got deep into their community...

Tags: Managed hosting, Satyam, Pentaho, open source

Discussion threads 2009-04-08

Enterprise Geeks demo SAP ABAP server on iPhone

In what many are calling a technology breakthrough, the Enterprise Geeks have managed to shoehorn an SAP ABAP server onto the iPhone. Per the blurbs: There were some obvious technical challenges to getting a piece of software that was designed for 64-bit memory architecture and...

Tags: Apple iPhone, SAP AG, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Programming Languages, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Hardware, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-04-01