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What's really ailing Big Blue shares? Hint: IBM is part bank

Concerns about IBM's third quarter are popping up almost daily. The standard set of concerns revolves around technology spending and the willingness to pay IBM's army of consultants fees for big bang projects as well as a stronger dollar. But underneath the surface there's a bigger worry that isn't being...

Tags: Asset, Bank, Financial, Financing, IBM Corp., Finance Unit, Financing Unit, Global Financing, Commercial Financing, Participation Rate, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-02

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The Open College Textbook Act of 2009

ProfsWhat will the profs who force everyone to buy the latest edition of their own $125 textbook do now?Probably still the same thing.RE: The Open College Textbook Act of 2009You do know that this act will severely curtail the research that could lead to new curricula and textbooks?Why? It's because...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, textbook, Open College Textbook Act

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Fat Spaniel digs deeper into renewables with new software for solar plant operators

Fat Spaniel Technologies has retooled its approach to create an entire suite of applications that renewable energy plant providers can use to management their plants, financing and marketing activities. The application suite, called Fat Spaniel Solar Plant Vision, is offered as a service for either plant operators or solar plant...

Tags: Software, Operator, Spaniel, Fat Spaniel, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-14

New financing alternatives for solar power installations

One very tangible reason that people have been slow to adopt solar technology, other than its questionable current efficiency posture, is that very few of individuals or businesses have excess money to plunk down on the systems. There have been all manner of financing and credit and...

Tags: Solar Energy, kW, Financing, GRID Alternatives, Capital Structures, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-24

CIT unraveling could be headache for Dell, Avaya, resellers

The U.S. government has drawn a line in the sand---it won't bail out debt-ridden CIT, a financial services firm that loans money to small and midsized business in part to buy and lease technology equipment. Unlike other financial company implosions CIT's potential demise could have a direct impact on technology...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Financing, Leasing, Avaya Inc., CIT, Capital Structures, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-16

Enterprise software: are customers being pressured so vendors can make their numbers?

James Governor calls enterprise software sales a "pathology." ZDNet colleague Michael Krigsman calls it "ugly enterprise software sales tactics." Either way, both are calling enterprise software vendors on the carpet for foisting expensive solutions on customers that may not need all that application power. The instigator in...

Tags: Vendor, Governor, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Sales, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-04-21

Calculating Risk: Panning for gold in Goldman's 'gut'

All five investment banks that existed a year ago are gone. These are firms which put their own capital and the capital of big institutional and individual investors at risk, to merge or acquire companies. And were supposed to be experts at...

Tags: Capital Structures, Finance, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Management, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Mortgages, Strategy, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-02-09

Bucking the trend, handful of open source players attract VC funding

Venture capital spending is down eight percent nationally yet a number of open source companies have scored big funding wins as of late. Talend, which develops open source data integration software including Open Studio, this week announced it secured $12 million from investors Balderton Capital,...

Tags: Software, Venture Capital, Open Source, Finance, Financing Startups, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-01-27

Prius panic and other money matters

Courtesy: Toyota. Time to follow the money. Toyota has pulled back from its plan to assemble the hybrid Prius in the U.S. The Japanese carmaker has decided to not complete a factory being built in Mississippi. Originally the factory was slated to assemble...

Tags: Secretary, Toyota Motor Corp., Toyota Prius, Permit Application, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Outsourcing, Web Site Development, Sales, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-16

Is Apple recession proof?

Is Apple recession proof?The recession is not over, not by a long shot.If you think discretionary spending has dried up for the Christmas season, wait until next year. Either the UAW will concede a whole heck of a lot in the next two weeks or 2 of the 3...

Tags: Research & Development, Apple Inc., recession

Discussion threads 2008-12-10

No accounting software for Linux?

No accounting software for Linux?Compiere in no way can compete...with the likes of even Quickbooks. There are no third party vendors writing specific addons for compiere. CPA's don't support it so don't take a copy of your Compiere data files to your CPA at tax time. And uptodate payroll support...

Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, SMB/SME, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, accounting, Linux, accounting software, Compiere

Discussion threads 2008-11-25

Circuit City Black Friday ad finally leaks. More yawns.

Circuit City Black Friday ad finally leaks. More yawns.UnderstandableTraditional Black Friday strategy calls for very low prices and very high consumer traffic to compensate for it. For electronics, add old models that need to be cleared out.With Black Friday consumer traffic most likely to be low this year, there...

Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Circuit City Black Friday, Black Friday, yawn, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-11-16

Oerlikon Solar sees a shining future despite dark clouds over Wall Street

Wafer processing equipment and personnel. Courtesy: Oerlikon I blogged about Oerlikon last summer. Now the publicly-traded, Swiss-based company has come out with a new version of its turn-key thin solar panel manufacturing gear. Oerlikon Solar has developed new equipment that promises 50% more...

Tags: Solar Panel, Tax, Manufacturing, Oerlikon Solar, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-16

Tech financing: Are defaults becoming a worry?

The financiers of technology projects are seeing defaults rise and that ups the ante for customers looking for credit and the vendors extending loans. The Wall Street Journal connects the dots. In September, 0.86 percent of equipment loans--that includes office gear--were written off. That's...

Tags: Financing, IBM Corp., Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-27

News to know: Google; Green IT; Oracle; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before Beet.TV: Breaking News: Satellite to Gather Exclusive Images for Google Earth Blasts off in California...Larry...

Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Dana Blankenhorn, Green IT, Apple Inc., Video, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Corporate Communications, Rootkits, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Game Players, Marketing, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-08

Building Windows, not walls

Building Windows, not wallsBuilding Windows, not wallsHooray for ZDNet duplication! Now we only need 5 more articles about this subject which will coincide with ZDNet agenda.[i]will reinvigorate Vista's image and make Microsoft less of an Apple chump.[/i]As of lately the chump has been Apple with their failures. This ad...

Tags: Construction, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), zune, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, wall, Building Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Seinfeld

Discussion threads 2008-08-21

U.S. Business Journal (Mobile)

U.S. Business Journal-- The Most Comprehensive Daily Business Newspaper on the Internet now on Mobile PhonesBusiness News for your BlackBerry-- Monthly Subscription $19.95By Bastien Business PublicationsReceive the latest business news on companies nationwide in a comprehensive, time-saving format designed specifically for mobile device users. The U.S. Business Journal reports the...

Tags: Mobile, Smart Phone, RIM BlackBerry, U.S. Business Journal, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-08-12

Grumpy old man gets happy--how can this be? Isn't the U.S. economy hopelessly doomed?

I'm a grumpy old man. It's very easy to get really angry or completely depressed blogging about cleantech, or the need for it. From the global warming arguments to whole nations--like my own and China--stubbornly refusing to move to new technologies, this seems to be an era of...

Tags: U.S., McKinsey & Co., Clean Technology, Energy, Conservation, Deron Lovaas, Greenness, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-05

A Semantic view of the Wikipedia for Data idea

Last week CNet's Dan Farber picked up on a post by ex-Googler Bret Taylor, entitled 'We need a Wikipedia for data.' Sarah Perez followed up on ReadWriteWeb with a useful roundup in 'Where to find Open Data on the Web,' and the usual flurry of interested individuals commented on each....

Tags: Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-04-14

Dell: We'll save $3 billion; Cut 8,800 positions

Dell on Monday gave a preview of its analyst meeting later this week and reaffirmed that it will aim to save $3 billion over the next three years and reduce headcount by 8,800. In fiscal 2009, Dell said it will focus on its consumer, enterprise, notebook, small and...

Tags: Desktop, Dell Computer Corp., Financing, Investment, Financial Accounting, Notebooks, Finance, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-31