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Thoughts on the decline of EarthLink- and a way for them to come back

Colleague Larry Dignan is the first on our block to run with the story that ISP EarthLink is laying off 900 people, closing several offices, and so forth. After running excerpts of an EarthLink corporate statement citing reasons and intent for the downshift, Larry casts doubts...

Tags: EarthLink Inc., Colleague Larry Dignan, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-08-29

Here's why the Skype sign-in outage WON'T matter much

Now, as Skype brings more users back online after yesterday's sign-in malfunction, is a time to look at the harm from these events.Let's go over a couple of my colleague's views on this mess. Then I will offer my views, and then solicit yours.Colleague Larry Dignan feels this outage...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Outage, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-08-17

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Verizon-Google changes mobile landscape; Customers have real options again

I had to take a moment to pause and think about this new Google-Verizon chumminess and their common, yet unspoken, quest to go after the Apple-AT&T relationship with the iPhone that includes today's partnership news and a new ad campaign. For those who don't know, I am...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Mobile, Verizon Communications Inc., Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-06

Microsoft-Nokia: A dog of a deal born from weakness

As I was pondering the Microsoft-Nokia partnership I was hit with some inspiration from the movie Hotel for Dogs, a favorite of the kiddiepoos. Remember the scene where the dogs were running in the street? Nokia and Microsoft were the big ones that were struggling to keep up....

Tags: Nokia Corp., Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Business Structures, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Hardware, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-13

Sustainable change or SOX 2.0?

I had not intended riffing on my colleague Vinnie Mirchandani's piece: How ERP vendors can change the world. Seriously. We'd discussed the topic over the phone earlier in the week and at the time it was clear he had a solid position which Larry Dignan duly picks up. But there...

Tags: Strategy, Sustainability, Accounting, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Consulting, Vinnie Mirchandani, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Outsourcing, Operational Accounting, Regulations, Financial Services, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-02

The just shoot me vacation: Stay tethered; Forget two weeks; Install a fax in your room

This in from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas: You must bring your smartphone, laptop and every other work-tethering item on your vacation. If not you'll just worry about being laid off.  Here's what America has come to---a two week vacation is deemed too long and you...

Tags: Vacation, Phone, Cell Phone, Challenger Gray & Christmas Inc., E-mail, Fax, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-20

Gauging the return on R&D: Do tech giants spend too much?

Tech giants are spending heavily on research and development, but it's difficult to follow the bouncing return on investment ball. The research and development return topic was brought up by my ZDNet UK colleague Rupert Goodwins earlier this week. Rupert went on a tour of Microsoft Research...

Tags: R&D, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., IEEE Spectrum, Research & Development, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-14

Will Android and Windows Mobile get squeezed as smartphone market shakes out?

While the iPhone has shown that there is a large consumer market for smartphones, the primary market-driver for the smartphone is - and will remain - enterprises and small businesses. This dynamic is similar to the PC operating system market. Think about Windows Vista. It has largely...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Android, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Platform, Palm Inc., Smart Phone, Business, Microsoft Windows, RIM BlackBerry, Symbian Inc., Informa, BlackBerry Let, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-03-17

Amazon: king of the enterprise IT cloud

In a previous post, I marveled at the irony of a bookseller going into the software business Amazon Web Services, while some IT companies go into the book publishing businesses IBM Press. Now the bookseller-turned-IT-vendor has teamed up with the IT-vendor-turned-bookseller. In light of Amazon Web Services'...

Tags: Software, Information Technology, Amazon.com Inc., IBM Corp., Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-02-15

Kindle Economics 2: Why Amazon should not be Apple, and Jeff Bezos is not Steve Jobs

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos presents the Kindle 2 to a packed auditorium. What sort of product rollout does this remind you of? So the Kindle 2 has now made its debut, with everything you'd expect of a gee-whiz product launch -- a packed auditorium filled with media types, a...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, E-books, 3G, Wireless LANs, Sales Strategy, Storage, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Sales, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-02-09

Satyam fallout: Should customers stick? Full text of chairman's stunning letter

Indian outsourcing company Satyam has cooked books, a $1 billion cash sink hole and its chairman and founder B Ramalinga Raju has fabricated figures. Meanwhile, Merrill Lynch has bailed on being an adviser to the company and shares of the firm were down 90 percent or so in premarket trading...

Tags: Board, Satyam, Maytas, Task Force, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-07

How to be less stupid in 2009

The title of this post was going to be 'How to be more smart in 2009' but three things changed my mind. First up several of my Twitter followers 'voted' for the 'less stupid' title, second several posts I saw in catching up on New Year reading had me groaning...

Tags: Information Technology, Geek, Tool, Mike, Production Deployment, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-01-06

Is the PlayStation Doomed?

Sony, putting aside the human toll of massive restructuring, is a fascinating example of the carnage happening in the business world today, and the stifling of innovation in large companies. Today's multinational conglomerate had humble origins in post WWII Japan: Masaru Ibuka started a radio repair...

Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Playstation, Game Players, Games, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-06

'Facebookgate': Fake Class of 2013 groups today; Annoying marketing tomorrow?

We may be about to see the latest frontier of viral marketing--fake students starting groups for the incoming class of 2013 in the name of data collection. Brad Ward, a recruitment specialist at Butler University, outlined the details on his blog. He became suspicious after talking to...

Tags: Blogging, Chronicle, Group, Internet, Larry Dignan, Marketing, Marketing Research

Blog posts 2008-12-21

iGeneration 2008 in review

I started on this blog, a nervous and precarious young man, and remain somewhat a young man. To be honest, I'm surprised I've been here this long, let alone seconded onto another blog. Still, it's been an interesting year and I'll run through some of them in a minute. So...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Blog, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Post, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Blogging, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-12-18

Arrington: 'Yahoo Almost To $10. Referee, Please Call This Fight'

As Yahoo stock dropped almost 9 percent to just $10.34, TechCrunch's Michael Arrington points to a horrific big-picture view of the company's staggering plummet to the bottom: "That means they’ve officially destroyed $31 billion in shareholder value since turning down Microsoft’s acquisition offer earlier this year. We now remember...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., MicroBook, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-12

IBM's one-day tumble: Tough quarter or fluctuating dollar?

The perfect storm may be brewing for Big Blue. Clearly, the economy is slowing. Also, the impact of Wall Street’s activity this week, as well as the troubled financial sector that IBM serves, could start to trickle down. And, the dollar is fluctuating. As a result, IBM’s stock dropped by...

Tags: Dollar, Wall Street, IBM Corp., Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, E-mail, Finance, Online Communications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Zoho Marketplace: awesome

Awesome is not a word I use often but when I saw Zoho Marketplace, the sound of my jaw hitting the desk was audible in the next street. What better way to get its collection of services working as the hub for other services that might build from Zoho products?...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marketplace, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Economic crisis as a technology change agent

Sometimes, to make an omelette, you need to break a few eggs. However if this week's bloodbath on Wall Street is any indication, then I would say we've made ourselves a full-blown deep dish quiche the size of Yankee Stadium with tens of billions of cartons...

Tags: Agent, Infrastructure, Mainframes, Data Centers, Linux, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-16

China's cyber-militia behind U.S. blackouts?

Chinese hackers may have been behind power blackouts in Florida and the Northeast, according to a report in the National Journal. The report, penned by Shane Harris for the National Journal, lays out a lengthy case that China has deployed hackers working unofficially and officially for the...

Tags: U.S., China, Blackout, Hacker, Intelligence Official, Takeaway, Government, Hacking, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-30