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SEC charges four more ex-Nortel officers in fraud

SEC charges four more ex-Nortel officers in fraudofficer and director bars, FIN 48ODB, good one. A little known accounting change called FIN 48, requires that listed companies report the amount of money set aside for questionable tax positions. The problem here is out of country investors who put pressure on...

Tags: Taxes, Litigation, Free trade, Financial accounting, Outsourcing, Chief Operations Officer, Nortel Networks Corp., ex-Nortel officer, ex-Nortel, John Roth, SEC

Discussion threads 2007-09-12

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Two new tomes offer tips to guide your Green IT strategy

Believe it or not, I have a stack of 10 business books on my desk right now, begging to be read and reviewed. Two are pertinent for the loyal Green IT folks in the GreenTech Pastures, so I felt it appropriate to mention them as a scan some of the...

Tags: Strategy, Data Center, Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-09

HP Software CTO: Virtualization and cloud sourcing sprawl likely

HP Software sees a lot of sprawl on the horizon with virtualization and cloud computing. Those are the two primary key takeaways from my conversation with Jamie Erbes, Chief Technology Officer for HP Software & Solutions. Erbes right has an interesting track record. She arrived at HP...

Tags: Software, Sourcing, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Electronic Data Systems Corp., HP Software, IT Department, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Purchasing & Procurement, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Hardware, Storage, Business Operations, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-17

Savvis on Cisco's Unified Computing System

Bryan Doerr, Chief Technology Officer, Savvis and I communicated about Cisco's Unifed Computing System UCS. Here are his answers to some questions that were posed to him.  Since Savvis currently operates 29 data centers (a total of 1.4 million square feet of space), his views could be seen as...

Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Environment, Cisco Systems Inc., Savvis Communications, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-20

Facebook hires former Genentech exec as CFO

Facebook today announced the hiring of David Ebersman, the former executive vice president and chief financial officer CFO of Genentech, as the company's chief financial officer. He won't join the company until September. Techmeme Back in March, the company started the search for a new CFO before...

Tags: Facebook, Genentech Inc., CFO, Real Estate, Financial Accounting, Personal Finance, IPO, Business Operations, Finance, Financial Services, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-29

Apple's secret society

It's well known that Apple is one of the most secretive companies in silicon valley, if not the world but at what point does that secrecy adversly affect products, or worse, become illegal? Like most technology companies Apple requires all employees and contractors to sign strict non-disclosure...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Apple PR, Public Relations, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Human Resources, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-06-23

Law Firm Ensures Mission-Critical Communication With Unified Messaging

Winston & Strawn LLP is an international law firm that manages business-related legal issues. With more than 2,000 personnel, it places significant emphasis on technology and teamwork in an effort to respond quickly and effectively to its clients' needs. "Communication is mission critical," asserts the Chief Information Officer at Winston...

Tags: Unified Messaging, Microsoft Exchange Server, Law Firm, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Litigation, Groupware, VOIP, Instant Messaging, Collaboration, E-mail Servers, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Telecommunications, Networking, Internet, Online Communications

Case studies 2009-06-01

Sapphire 09 Live: Smart business plans, moral benchmarks

SAP is always a bit of a conundrum to me. They have extraordinarily talented people, an incredibly deep product portfolio that they are always extending, more often than not make good acquisitions that take some time but work out all in all, and seem to be actually dedicated to transforming...

Tags: Sustainability, SAP AG, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-05-13

Apple's growth potential: Unleash the iPod Touch

In this Apple story, it's not about whether you're a Mac or a PC. This time, it's all about the iPod Touch, the shy younger cousin of the iPhone that really hasn't had its moment in the spotlight - until now. Susquehana Financial analyst Jeffrey Fidacaro wrote...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iPod Touch, Digital Music, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-12

MySpace names Facebook VP Van Natta as CEO

News Corporation today announced the appointment of Owen Van Natta to the role of MySpace Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Van Natta will be based in Los Angeles and report directly to Jonathan Miller, News Corporation’s CEO of Digital Media and Chief Digital Officer. ...

Tags: Facebook, News Corp., MySpace, CEO, Corporate Governance, Investment, Digital Media, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-04-24

Apple beats for Q2; Best non-holiday quarter; Netbook hardware 'junky'

Apple, known for conservative financial forecasts, easily surpassed Wall Street's estimates for the second quarter, reporting net income of $1.21 billion, or $1.33 per share, on sales of $8.16 billion. Statement Wall Street had been expecting earnings of $1.08 per share on $7.9 billion in sales, according to Thomson Reuters....

Tags: Revenue, Apple iPhone, Financial, Apple Inc., Netbook, Sales Strategy, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Sales Force Management, Sales, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-22

Is it time for a Chief Social Media Officer?

Peter Kim posed the question during his Web 2.0 Expo panel in San Francisco a couple weeks ago: "Is it time for a Chief Social Media Officer?" It was a question that no one else really touched on and, from my perspective, the packed room was split between nods of...

Tags: Social Media, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-04-16

Facebook CFO Yu out; Company touts financial performance

Facebook's chief financial officer, Gideon Yu, has left the company, which has already launched a search for a replacement with some "public company experience." That, in turn, has revived discussions about Facebook's future, including an eventual IPO. In a Wall Street Journal report, a source said the...

Tags: Facebook, Financial, CFO, Boomtown Blog, Gideon, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-31

Former Google CIO Merrill out at EMI

Not quite a year ago, Douglas Merrill left his position as Google's Chief Information Officer and went on to try something crazy challenging - and maybe even just plain crazy. He accepted an executive's position at record label EMI and was handed the task of figuring out this whole digital...

Tags: Google Inc., Lawsuit, EMI Group Plc., Douglas Merrill, Digital Media, Digital Music, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-23

Browser wars: the platform wins

Panel: Arun Ranganathan Mozilla, Chris Wilson (Web Platform Architect, Microsoft), Brendan Eich (CTO, Mozilla Foundation), Charles McCathieNevile (Chief Standards Officer, Opera Software), Darin Fisher (Software Engineer, Google) Browser experts from Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Opera, and the Webkit project are all here. ...

Tags: JavaScript, Web Browser, Gecko, Web Browsers, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-03-16

Getting inside a CIO's head

I was disappointed to see that our nation's first chief information officer, Vivek Kundra, is having some major distractions, with the FBI raiding the District of Columbia CIO's office he was overseeing. According to this report from ZDNet's Sam Diaz, Kundra has not been linked to the raid, which stemmed...

Tags: Job, CIO, SOA, Mike, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Recruitment & Selection, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-03-13

AMD's new dawn: 'Tickled pink' about GlobalFoundries deal; Challenges remain

AMD has closed the spin-off of its manufacturing assets, received a much needed cash injection, created product lineup that is competitive and set course for a more focused future. These moves, however, come amid a sharp decline in PC and server demand. Where is AMD headed? For...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., GlobalFoundries, Nehalem, Manufacturing, Litigation, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-09

Does Kundra have an impossible job as Obama's federal CIO?

On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra as the CIO of the federal government. Kunda below is a 34 year-old IT leader with a strong reputation in the tech community. He has track record for driving efficiency and transparency, and has shown a penchant for bold actions such...

Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Vivek Kundra, Government Operation, Federal Government, Government, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-03-06

Does Kundra have an impossible job as Obama's federal CIO?

On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra as the CIO of the federal government. Kunda below is a 34 year-old IT leader with a strong reputation in the tech community. He has track record for driving efficiency and transparency, and has shown a penchant for bold actions such...

Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Vivek Kundra, Government Operation, Federal Government, Government, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-03-06

Obama names D.C. CTO Kundra as federal CIO

President Obama today named Vivek Kundra, Washington, D.C.'s chief technology officer, to the position of federal chief information officer. Kundra, who previously served as a technology policy adviser for President Obama (and who ZDNet Open Source blogger Dana Blankenhorn considers "Obama's tech daddy"), will be responsible for...

Tags: Washington, Barack Obama, CTO, Vivek Kundra, Government, Cellular Phones, Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-03-05