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Powerful Applications of the EMC Documentum Brand Management Solution

Interactive technologies such as Web 2.0 and Rich Media have changed the way organizations market their products. Consumer expectations are high; they demand access to credible, personalized, and relevant information - instantly. With the EMC Documentum Brand Management Solution, one can extend the power of the Documentum platform to deliver...

Tags: Brand Management, EMC Corp., Documentum, Consumer Expectation, Storage, Content Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts 2009-06-30

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Toilet Tissue, Quilted Northern, 60/Carton

Quilted Northern Goes Cheap Quilted Northern, relying on the long term customer base they established and that has the expectation of continuity, has now changed/cheapened their product. If you have old rolls compared to the newer packages the first noticeable changes are in size. To me,...

Tags: Georgia-Pacific Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Microsoft wins seat at health IT table

this is shamIt is inconceivable that an anti christian organization like M$ would work with a christian hospital.Scary having your stuff running on MS softwareIt's scary to have any data about you stored on a Microsoft Infrastructure. Even scarier that it's your health records.Glad I don't use (or will...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Benefits, EMR, Microsoft Corp., health-IT, health care, interoperability

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Apple's future TV: Can Web-based apps replace "channels," kill cable?

Gene Munster's living room of the future is centered around a Web-connected, iTunes-powered Apple-branded TV - a 50-inch, high-def, wall-mounted iPhone, if you will. And the stuff you'll watch on this "TV set" won't come in via Comcast or DirecTV. It will all stream in from - or be archived...

Tags: Web, Apple Inc., Apple TV, Apple iTunes, Cable, Munster, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Forget 99 cent smartphone apps, let's be fair to developers too

Price floors don't help anyoneFirst, setting a minimum price is a price floor. Basic microeconomics teaches that this lowers demand and raises supply, generating an inefficient surplus. I don't see how that's good.Second, you seem to imply in this article that $0.99 apps are Apple's fault. They...

Tags: Action Games, developer, cent smartphone app

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

Windows 7 "Anytime Upgrade" prices set to chisel netbook users

Windows 7 "Anytime Upgrade" prices set to chisel netbook usersAero...While you can mimic some of the Aero features with free apps, you can't enable Aero w/o an upgrade. There are a few apps that require Aero, but most likely nothing you'd want to run on a netbook. This was blatantly...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, netbook, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-21

Intel shines: Earnings, revenue, margins well above estimates; Outlook better

Intel on Tuesday delivered an impressive second quarter relative to Wall Street estimates and didn't disappoint on its outlook either. The company, which predicted a bottom in its first quarter results, delivered strong results across the board. Intel reported net income of $1 billion, or 18 cents...

Tags: Revenue, Microsoft Outlook, Quarter, Earnings, Intel Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Blu-ray buzzkill: the death-spiral

Blu-ray buzzkill: the death-spiralThey're kidding themselves if they think we'll pay more for it.They f'd up, plain and simple. Like all consumer electronics tech, be it tv, smartphone, mp3, whatever, the customers expectation is next year we get more features for less money. BluRay quality audio/video should have been...

Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, BluRay

Discussion threads 2009-06-23

Microsoft puts an 18-month cap on Windows 7 to XP downgrades

Microsoft puts an 18-month cap on Windows 7 to XP downgradesIf written to MS guidelines they should.[i]Existing applications should remain compatible for many years from their first development.[/i]The problem is too many applications didn't follow Microsofts guidelines. Perhaps Microsoft should offer a binary compatability guarantee like the one Sun offers.NightmareThat...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., XP-downgrade, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, service pack, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-06-18

Dell's major units take first quarter hits; IT demand indicators 'remain mixed'

Dell's major business units---public sector, large enterprise, small and medium business and consumer---suffered double digit sales declines in the first quarter as net income fell 63 percent from a year ago. For the first quarter ended May 1, Dell reported earnings of $290 million, or 15 cents...

Tags: Revenue, Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, IT-spending, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-28

4G wireless makes progress with WiMax, LTE developments

Suddenly, there's a light at the end of the 4G tunnel. We keep hearing about the next generation of wireless communications but thanks to two developments this week, it's finally starting to feel like we're getting close. First, Clearwire and Cisco announced that Cisco would be the...

Tags: 4G, Network, Clearwire Corp., AT&T Corp., Wireless, LTE, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-14

EC fines Intel record $1.45 billion in antitrust case for moves vs. AMD

EC fines Intel record $1.45 billion in antitrust case for moves vs. AMDChoice vs. StandardizationWith respect, Dietrich, the digital world is not as simple as freedom of choice. Freedom of choice is great for hamburgers, pizza, and toothpaste. But multi-state and global companies users and developers require some level of...

Tags: Strategic planning, Desktops, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., uniformity, Apple Inc., OS Installed, PC, Linux, standardization, Intel Corp., antitrust

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

Microsoft's mixed quarter: 'We expect weakness to continue'

Microsoft's mixed quarter: 'We expect weakness to continue'Amazing cash flow given the economyMore than $4 billion in cash in one quarter? Pretty much any other company in the world would be drooling to have that kind of problem. Still, revenue down is not a good thing. It looks like investors...

Tags: Sales strategy, Desktops, PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., desktop, PC, mixed quarter, sales, computer

Discussion threads 2009-04-23

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

Will Obama health IT committee give open source a chance?

Will Obama health IT committee give open source a chance?Please someone SAVE us!Please will someone save us from our socialist gov...Pretty sad...Pretty sad when the only way open source can get anywhere in life is to hope that people are forced not to choose anything else.Pathetic, really...The socialist canard no...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, information technology, open source, socialist, government, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-04-10

Apple intentionally crippled Bluetooth in iPod touch 2G, wants $10 to unlock it!

Apple intentionally crippled Bluetooth in iPod touch 2G, wants $10 to unlock it!Don't they have to charge for Tax reasons? Or something like that. [nt][nt]They are using very conservative accounting...so as to avoid any possible trouble. This has been gone over so many times, it's ridiculous.By some interpretations...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Cellular phones, Digital media, iPhone Update, Apple Inc., Bluetooth, iPod touch 2G, 2G, Apple iPod Touch, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2009-03-18

Microsoft to cut 5,000 jobs

Microsoft to cut 5,000 jobsthe end is comming for M$Linux and OSS are winning the battle with the evil.It's time to dump M$ stock and software and invest in OSS software and companies.Change is comming to America and the world, fueled by the grass roots of the FOSS.RE: Microsoft to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Investment, Recruitment & Selection, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, stock, job

Discussion threads 2009-01-22

Palm Pre sales guesstimate: 1.5 million

Palm's Pre introduction has won over a lot of folks--including some Wall Street bears. And one is predicting 1.5 million units 12 months after the Pre launches sometime in the first half. In a research note, Citi analyst Jim Suva upgraded the Palm to a "hold" from...

Tags: Palm Inc., Sales, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-12

The day Microsoft killed the "Vista" name - January 31, 2006

The day Microsoft killed the "Vista" name - January 31, 2006I see brand new system that run like crap withXP, 2000, or HP-UX on them. ok , the later are nor brand new system, but they were sold as new system, (add a zero to a decent confuiguration price to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), FUD, Microsoft Windows Vista, VISTA IS, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-18

PBWiki: growing in a recession

Earlier today I had a conversation with Chris Yeh, VP enterprise marketing at PBWiki. He brings an honesty and refreshing spirit to the business of building a startup. PBWiki is a company that everyone kinda knows but doesn't always see. They're not big on the blah-blah circuit...

Tags: Collaboration, Recession, Environment, PBWiki, Chris Yeh, Wiki, Marketing Research, Online Communications, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-23