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- How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?
- Information technology departments are overloaded, missing the consumerization wave, and failing to use new developments to cut their budgets. Those are some of the takeaways from a Gartner presentation at the IT Symposium in Orlando. The spiel by Gartner analysts David Mitchell Smith and Tom Austin revolves...
- Tags: Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Information Technology Department, Discontinuity, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- TechRepublic's CIO Jury: Split on deploying Windows 7
- IT departments have largely ignored Windows Vista and stuck with Windows XP as the corporate standard. However, Windows 7 has received a warmer response from IT professionals than Vista did, and TechRepublic’s CIO Jury is split down the middle on whether to deploy Windows 7. On July...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., CIO, Information Technology, Director Of Information Technology, Jury, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- New CIO's vision: Democratizing Data
- DC's data feed of crime data on Google Maps links a police report to the location. W. David Stephenson knows our new federal CIO pretty well: he's been cowriting a book with him: Democratizing Data, to be published by O'Reilly. So I turned to Stephenson...
- Tags: Performance, Data, Vision, DC, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-03-08
- Ballmer touts Windows 7 features
- At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed that Windows 7 is going to be a major release, not just a Vista update. He says the new Windows will have a better user interface, information management tools, and performance. It isn't practical to wait for Windows...
- Tags: Information Management, Microsoft Windows 7, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Strategy, Software, Management, Ballmer, Microsoft, Gartner, Vista, Windows 7, user interface, touch, compatibility
- Videos 2008-10-17
- Ballmer: It's ok to wait until Windows 7; Yahoo still 'makes sense'; Google Apps 'primitive'
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Thursday defended Vista's honor--again--but at least gave a nod to enterprise buyers that planned to skip it and upgrade when Windows 7 launches. He also noted that a Microsoft purchase of Yahoo would still make sense, but there are no talks. And he called Google...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Microsoft Windows 7, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Cloud Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-16
- Bungee Connect beta goes public, adds oomph to development and deployment as a service
- Bungee Labs continues its march toward "platform as a service" PaaS with today's announcement that it has opened Bungee Connect as a public beta, inviting all developers to, in Bungee's words, "get inspired, get started, and get involved."Bungee Connect is an end-to-end environment that allows developers to build desktop-like applications...
- Tags: Innovation, Developer, Web, Amazon.com Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Integration, Bungee Labs, WideLens, Demonstration Video, Strategic Planning, Channel Management, Strategy, Management, Marketing, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Windows adoption rates: a history lesson
- In the Talkback section of my earlier post on XP versus Vista adoption (Who's choosing XP over Vista?), several commenters pointed to a PC World Techlog post by editor Harry McCracken that they believe contradicts my conclusions. Here's what Harry had to say: On January 30th, Microsoft released Windows...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2007-12-31
- Microsoft CEO talks Google, SaaS
- At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks to Gartner research analysts, Yvonne Genovese and David Mitchell Smith about the company's strategy regarding software as a service, or SaaS, as well as its competition with Google in the office productivity and advertising markets.
- Tags: Google Inc., Software-as-a-service, Gartner Inc., Microsoft Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Personal Technology
- Videos 2007-10-11
- Will Mozilla fill Open Office product holes?
- Yesterday, Paula laid the smackdown on IBM for not going after Microsoft Outlook with its Symphony announcements. Before Big Blue could even rise from the mat, however, the Mozilla Foundation tagged me with news it was expanding its Thunderbird initiative with $3 million seed funding and David...
- Tags: Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Corp., OpenOffice, E-mail Clients, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
- Mozilla pumps $3M into Thunderbird spin-off
- The open-source Mozilla Foundation is putting up $3 million to fund a new subsidiary to manage the Thunderbird e-mail initiative. The new company will be led by David Ascher, who joins Mozilla from ActiveState where he last worked as CTO and vice president of engineering. ...
- Tags: Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Corp., E-mail, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
- After losing track of sex offenders, DE vows it will not happen again
- In Delaware, Secretary of Safety and Homeland Security David B. Mitchells staff lost track of some 800 sex offenders. And Mitchell said Thursday his top priority is to ensure that it never happens again, Delaware State News reports. Mitchell asked the legislative Joint Finance Committee for three additional employees...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Law enforcement, sex offender, SBI
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
- Open source software: Meaning or meaningless?
- David Berlind, Dana Blankenhorn and others have been noting how open source could be in trouble if there arent standard definitions for it. The gist: So many software makers claim something is open source that the whole movement loses meaning. And it gets worse....
- Tags: Linux, Open Source, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-11
- According to a Washington Post article, the Department of Homeland Security violated a congressional funding ban when it continued to develop a computerized program that creates risk assessments of travelers entering and leaving the United States. "Clearly the law prohibits testing or development" of such computer programs, said...
- Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Blog posts 2006-12-11
- SOA: business first. Web 2.0: business later
- Service oriented architecture and Web 2.0 share a lot of common ground. Both invoke reusable code, both enable the rapid development of mashed-upped (read: composite) applications, and both rely on industry wide standards. But theres an important difference between the two, according to at least one analyst. The mantra you...
- Tags: General, Business ROI, Standards Watch, Web Services
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- When vendor business models vanish
- A couple of years back, I posted a piece, based on my own observations, on how megashifts can wipe out entire industries in a matter of a few years, as well as seemingly well-entrenched business processes. In light of recent events -- such as Microsoft coming out of its official...
- Tags: word-processing
- Blog posts 2006-11-03
- The first bionic woman
- Today, the Washington Post reports that a new life is within reach for the first woman with bionic arm free registration required. Claudia Mitchell lost an arm in a motorcycle accident, but she's now using a 'bionic' arm that she can control with her thoughts. This bionic arm was designed...
- Tags: nerve
- Blog posts 2006-09-14
- PC Forum here we come...
- Starting Monday, David and I will be posting from Esther Dyson's PC Forum conference in hopefully sunny Scottsdale, Arizona. Stay tuned for our coverage, including some podcasts and live action photos. The "PC" in PC Forum was about the personal computer when the conference started 28 years ago. Now "PC"...
- Tags: PC Forum
- Blog posts 2005-03-18
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