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- Microsoft's Project Natal for business: In your dreams
- Natural user interfaces will be big. Anyone that sees Microsoft's Project Natal demo comes away impressed. Once Microsoft execs try to extend that to the business world you can't help but snicker. That clunky transition from the Xbox to the business world was in plain view at...
- Tags: Environment, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Business World, Mundie, Game Players, Microsoft Project, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- Sharepoint's DisneyWorld Style Strategy
- Dennis Howlett thinks the promise of Enterprise 2.0 is years away and feels Dion Hinchcliffe's ROI value accrual model is more evangelizing hand waving than evidence of any substantial uptake. From my perspective I think we're at a point where many of the...
- Tags: Strategy, Environment, Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett, Business World, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Collaboration Return-On-Investment
- "Competition has its place in the marketplace or against last year's performance -- perhaps even against another office or individual where there is no particular interdependence, no need to cooperate. But cooperation in the workplace is as important to free enterprise as...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Environment, Business World, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-03-29
- The Advantage of Using Unified Communications in Today's Business World
- Effective communication is essential to the success of any business. For those who are unable to get the message across, their company will suffer. Likewise, for those who are unable to forge strong connections and relationships, their business goals will remain out of reach. The essential nature of good communication...
- Tags: Unified Communications, InterCall, Business World, Collaboration
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Working With Business Partners From Around the World Has Never Been Easier
- Business world is a global community, one where clients and associates can be located anywhere in the world. Consequently, geographical distances have become less significant, as have national borders and boundaries. This global quality of the business world has developed over recent decades as a result of technological advancements and...
- Tags: InterCall, Business World
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Policy-Based Collaboration: Moving to an Enterprisewide Framework for Working and Communicating With Confidence
- The business world is changing rapidly. As it moves from many isolated regional economies to one global, interconnected economy, speed and agility are crucial. Organizations are rapidly transitioning from physical meetings to virtual ones, using rich online tools that enable workers to reach across geographies and time zones. People are...
- Tags: Compliance, Cisco Systems Inc., Business World, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-11-01
- IBM System Storage: Planning for Heterogeneous IT Business Continuity
- Business world involves acquisitions, mergers, and a very fast pace of change in an on demand world. As customer environments continue to proliferate, a major future trend in customer Business Continuity requirements is heterogeneous platform Business Continuity. This paper examines the concepts of effectively planning Business Continuity for a heterogeneous...
- Tags: Information Technology, Storage, Business Continuity, IBM Corp., Business World, It Services
- White papers 2007-03-22
- 10 obscure Excel tricks that can expedite common chores
- The business world is full of users who have neither the opportunity nor the inclination to figure out Excel's timesaving shortcuts. They end up wasting a lot of time and adding to your support burden because they just don't know the smartest ways to work with spreadsheet data. IT...
- Tags: Spreadsheet, Jeff Davis, Business World, Microsoft Excel, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Download resources 2007-01-05
- Business world requires a two-sided brain
- Business world requires a two-sided brainDUH!!A Whole New MindThe new Daniel Pink Book talks about this topic as moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age and how the left brained people dominated the Information Age and now in the Conceptual Age, more right brained skills are required.What we...
- Tags: Conceptual Age, Business World, Information Age
- Discussion threads 2005-06-15
- Buyers don earplugs at upgrade time
- Buyers don earplugs at upgrade timeIt should be more like hip wadersOne has to wade through some serious s**t to get to what they want at times. I have a lot of users that get by just fine on Open Office and freeware. Yet the industry keeps telling the consumer...
- Tags: Strategy, business world, information technology
- Discussion threads 2004-07-09
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- Google trying not to cross 'the creepy line'
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Fox Business last week that "we're trying not to cross what we call the creepy line" when it comes to the data it gathers. CEO Eric Schmidt told Fox Business last week that "we're trying not to cross what we call the creepy line"...
- Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Internet, Network Technology, Networking, Google, privacy, Tom Krazit CNET News
- News items 2009-11-09
- Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform
- In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...
- Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-08
- Scary study on how lack of IPOs is harming US economy
- The cart before the horse?With low skilled/educated labor and low negative savings rate, I don't think the ingredients for a fundamental rebound exist in the US. I guess Wall Street would like to continue to be able to fleece us, but hopefully, being taken once is enough for most investors....
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, economic destruction, same policy, IPO, carbon tax, USSR, socialist
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- February 2013 - The date when Firefox could pass Internet Explorer
- RE: February 2013 - The date when Firefox could pass Internet ExplorerThat does assume that everything remains constant, which it won't. If someone creates a new browser that could disrupt it, or when either company releases a new version of their browser that is also going to throw things...
- Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- 18 truths: The long fail of complexity
- Agree *****One of the best distillations of what 'risk' actually is, and why complexity exponentially increases it, I have read.But more to the point takes a realistic, rather than optimistic or pessimistic, view of how to asses it. And correctly acknowledges the 'human' factors involved in both cause, and...
- Tags: Strategy, HEALTHCARE, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda
- Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...
- Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- What would make you trust Microsoft?
- Flame on!Let me save a couple people the time of posting"Microsoft is the most evil thing on earth and should be destroyed" - Linux Geek, Ole Man, D.T, No More Microsoft Software ...."I trust Microsoft with my life" - Mike Cox, Loverock, ... "They are a company. I trust them...
- Tags: SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., extremist, open source, MHD
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Open source needs successful champions
- Open Source powers the Internet period!Open_Source powers the ENTIRE Internet withrouters/switches/servers you name it like Microsoft sitting behind caching Linux distroname servers.Now you tell me what does it need now???It is the FUTURE of smart devices, appliancedriven infrastructure, just like VMware using a Linux derived kernel and it is #1...
- Tags: Linux, software cost, Linux Distro, open source, operating system, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Enteprise 2.0 - the non-debate
- Mega-Corps & the worldThere is life beyond the Mega-Corp droneculture where management punishes theworker ants for a mistake and threatensthem with layoffs and pay cuts.No thanks, small enterprise businessis the groundwork, big mega-corpsare puppet shells with CEO's pullingthe strings.RE: Enteprise 2.0 - the non-debateWell putRE: Enteprise 2.0 - the non-debateUnfortunately...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enteprise 2.0, Enterprise 2.0
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- News to know: Intel; Microsoft layoffs; Motorola, Palm; Oracle-Sun; MSN
- 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.: Sam Diaz: New York AG files antitrust charges against Intel; alleges bribery, coercion Mary Jo Foley: Are the Microsoft...
- Tags: Layoff, MSN, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Motorola Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Storage, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Data Management
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
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