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- Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity
- Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Yahoo rejects latest Microsoft-Icahn proposal; Calls Microsoft 'erratic'
- Yahoo rejects latest Microsoft-Icahn proposal; Calls Microsoft 'erratic'What is the fascination with bringing up Vista in......just about every blog forum? This blog had nothing to do with Vista yet here you are whining about it. Why?It has to do with eyeballs and marketing.In the search market, Yahoo is number 2...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Icahn
- Discussion threads 2008-07-13
- Would Microsoft ever split itself up?
- Would Microsoft ever split itself up?they couldThey could, but they'll never do that. Micro$oft is too greedy. In my perfect world I want to see Microsoft as a software company and another branch as a hardware company for actual computers, Phones and other devices, like Music Players, GPS, and Car-Support.The...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Major Projects, Micro$oft, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- A hard lesson in Internet values, and the Internet's value
- A hard lesson in Internet values, and the Internet's valueThe answer is not simple and depends on multiple variables ...If we take all of the information available to us on the internet, and use it wisely (look at multiple resonses to our query, check out validity of those responses,...
- Tags: Wiki, Internet, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
- D6: Snippets of Microsoft's morphing business model emerge
- D6: Snippets of Microsoft's morphing business model emergeMicrosoft should not emulate appleMacintosh sales come from iPod sales which come from aggressive marketing campaigns. Microsoft needs to ignore Apple and focus on improving software that people use to get the work done. While the Apple may have cornered beatnik and trendy...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
- House of Hackers social community opens up
- PDP, the leader of the Gnucitizen White Hat Hacker outfit announced the opening of the House of Hackers social community yesterday. The House of Hackers is intended to enable its members to exchange ideas with each other, communicate, form groups, elite circles and tiger/red teams, conglomerate around projects, and participate in...
- Tags: Community, Network, Member, Hacker, Gnucitizen White Hat Hacker, House, Hacking, Social Networking, Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Keells Super Uses Motorola for Real-Time Inventory of Goods
- Keells Super is one of the largest super market chains in Sri Lanka. It is a subsidiary of John Keells Holdings PLC, a Sri Lankan blue chip conglomerate. In a single Keells Super store, there are between 12,000 - 15,000 individual items for sale. The IT team wanted to improve...
- Tags: Mobile, Stock, Motorola Inc., Keells Super, Investment, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless, Finance, Marketing
- Case studies 2008-04-09
- UPenn says no to Vista SP1
- UPenn says no to Vista SP1Here we go againI've been using Vista RTM for well over a year now. Since last month, I've updated 5 computers, from a five year old 2GHz P4 with 768MB and a 40GB hard drive to a high end Q6600 with 4GB of RAM...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, UPenn
- Discussion threads 2008-03-24
- GenieTown: Local services as local community
- In a market where many of the global players have local listings for businesses and service providers, GenieTown is starting at the ground level and building up. The company, which made its public debut today, is a knowledge-sharing community built around person-to-person and small-business services providers in the Bay Area....
- Tags: Community, Service Provider, GenieTown, Business Services, Benefits, Human Resources, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Big+Yahoo+shareholder%3A+There+are+few+alternatives+to+Microsoft+bid
- Big+Yahoo+shareholder%3A+There+are+few+alternatives+to+Microsoft+bidGeez, are you even kidding???YHOO has *many* options! Bill Miller & Legg Mason have an obvious stake in seeing to it that there is just one option...so that they can profit! What kind of journalism is this? Try enumerating some of the many other options, instead of...
- Tags: Portals, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Goog, Yahoo! Inc., mobile
- Discussion threads 2008-02-12
- Enhancement and Management of Multiple Underwriting Applications for a Large Insurance Corporation
- The client is a USD 170 Billion conglomerate operating across 130 countries. MindTree Consulting leveraged its expertise in the insurance and financial domain and internet technologies to enhance and maintain complex, business critical underwriting applications for a large insurance provider. MindTree helped reduce operational overheads, improved workflow, and reduced turnaround...
- Tags: MindTree Consulting, Insurance, Financial Planning, Internet, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance
- Case studies 2008-01-24
- Secure Automatic Data Uploads for 50,000 Banks and Branches in Japan for a Large Consumer Finance Company
- The client is the subsidiary company of 396 Billion Dollar conglomerate and a leading provider of financial services to consumers and retailers in over 40 countries across the globe. The company's challenge was uploading, comparing and updating tables of more than 50,000 records was a time taking task. Hence it...
- Tags: MindTree Consulting, Bank, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Retail, Mergers & Acquisitions, Databases, Finance, Investment, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-01-24
- Ready to Sell Trade Portal for a Travel Conglomerate
- One of the industry's largest travel conglomerates required an airline trade portal which could be marketed by its Global Distribution System GDS as a hosted solution to prospective airlines. The portal would deliver a high volume of airline travel content that could be accessed, managed, and distributed across the global...
- Tags: MindTree Consulting, Airline, Portals, Web Technology, Internet
- Case studies 2008-01-24
- Hey Time Warner: Left hand, meet right hand
- So just days after the news broke that Time Warner was getting ready to test a pay-for-pipe rate plan for Road Runner customers, HBO announced that it would start making some of its shows available to subscribers via the Web for free. (Henry Blodgett, for one, is convinced the new...
- Tags: Time Warner Inc., Road Runner, Subscriber, Advertising & Promotion, Channel Management, Marketing, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- To fight Time Warner Cable's download pricing plans, we need a bit of "Nanny State"
- Hit the fan earlier today: Time Warner Cable says they will implement a tiered broadband subscription structure in which heavy downloaders will be charged more per month than those who don't download so much. AP reports in part: The company, the second-largest cable provider in the...
- Tags: Time Warner Inc., Broadband, Video, Net Neutrality, Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Marketing Research, Corporate Communications, Internet, Telecommunications, Marketing, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- The best Kodak (yeah, Kodak) camera at CES
- The best Kodak (yeah, Kodak) camera at CESYou people always rag on KodakLook I know you and your so called tech experts bag Kodak and bow to Canon, Nikon, Fuji, and the other so called better cameras, but Kodak makes some good and in somecases better stuff for some great...
- Tags: Eastman Kodak Co., camera
- Discussion threads 2008-01-10
- The implosion of music DRM
- The implosion of music DRMWhat's so hard to understand?* DRM-free is worth more to the purchaser* DRM costs the distributor* The cost of DRM is passed to the purchaserNet result to the purchaser: higher price, lower value.Basic economics.Tiers has been done...Tiers has been done with the tiers relating not to...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, music, digital-rights management, implosion, DRM-free
- Discussion threads 2008-01-04
- Successful Virtualization Garners Cost Savings, But Also Harbors IT Risk
- Global Enterprise Manufacturing GEM, a fast-growing international conglomerate, recently deployed a vast virtual infrastructure to support more than 12,000 users across 22 business divisions. The company's new virtual networks span diverse departments, from finance to marketing to product development, and have resulted in substantial cost savings. By employing virtualization, GEM...
- Tags: Information Technology, Cost Savings, Virtualization, Product Development, Hardware, Research & Development, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-01-01
- First Moonlight port of Silverlight to Linux due in six months
- First Moonlight port of Silverlight to Linux due in six monthsTime to make .Net truely crossplatform.This is a good move forwards - but I wish Microsoft would accept that .Net has to be more widely available. True, it's on 92%+ of all computers (well, not really - it can run...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, .NET, Middleware, Microsoft Silverlight, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., Microsoft .NET
- Discussion threads 2007-12-06
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