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Putin snubs Dell at Davos

Vladimir Putin seems hell-bent to let the world know what an asshole he is. Meeting Michael Dell at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Putin spurned Dell's offer of technological help, The New York Times reports. Following a speech Wednesday at the World Economic...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Russia, Davos, Mr., Vladimir Putin, Corporate Communications, Workforce Management, Leadership, Development Tools, Marketing, Human Resources, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-01-29

Summer Davos in Dalian China

Last week I was in Dalian, China for the World Economic Forum Inaugural Meeting of the New Champions. That’s a mouthful, so the Chinese simply called it the “Summer Davos”. It makes sense as this feels very much like Davos only a bit smaller and slightly more relaxed and less...

Tags: China, Venture Capital, Davos, World Economic Forum, Dalian China, John Newton

Blog posts 2007-09-14

Additional Resources

What Corporate Sustainability can learn from twitter, Robert Scoble & Iran

[caption id="attachment_763" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Amanpour: A little more Davos & Friend Feed, a little less Damascus & live feed?"][/caption] The celebrated celebrity blogger, Robert Scoble, is ticked off with CNN over its weak coverage of the Iran election and aftermath. In his most recent blog post -'The day Twitter kicked...

Tags: Sustainability, Social Media, CNN, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-06-22

Signs of the Times, Redux: The World's Next Mass(ive) Medium?

In colonial times, journalism was born on broad sheets of cheap paper and the vocal chords of human marketing throats. The long sheets delivered news to those who could read. But in the middle of most cities of any size, from Derby, England, to New York, NY,...

Tags: News, Willard, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-04-29

Qik for Windows Mobile 2.25 (Mobile)

It's an innovative, patent-pending technology enables anyone to share their moments live with their friends and family or the entire world. Notable events captured on Qik include the lighting of the Olympic torch from both inside and outside the Olympic stadium in Beijing, the Mars landing from mission control, and...

Tags: Phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Microsoft Windows, Qik, Telecom & Utilities, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-04-23

Flash coming to Android, can iPhone be far behind?

Andy Rubin first demonstrated Flash running in a Web browser on a T-Mobile G1 running Google's Android OS video during the Adobe MAX developer’s conference in November 2008. It's worth noting however, that the Flash update still isn't publicly available for the G1. Can it be long...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Flash, Smart Phones, Corporate Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-02-02

Flash on the iPhone? Don't hold your breath

Adobe has confirmed that Flash capabilities won't be coming to the iPhone anytime soon due to the technical difficulties in deploying it on America's most popular smartphone. Silverlight, anyone? (Just kidding.) At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Mobile, Apple Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-02

Getting on the wavelength

There's a solid, wide focused article by Tim Weber on the BBC News website's Davos coverage which articulates well the challenge many companies have in understanding and engaging with the internet on the most basic strategic level. Readers of sophisticated technical sites like...

Tags: Knowledge, Social Media, Accountability, Perception, Internet, Public Relations, Blogging, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-30

News to know: Fannie Mae, RIAA, IBM, Storm components

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily .  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Sam Diaz: WSJ: Dell eyeing smartphone biz Larry Dignan: Fannie Mae IT contractor indicted for planting malware; Mortgage...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Fannie Mae, Dana Blankenhorn, RIAA, Sam Diaz, IBM Corp., Smart Phones, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software

Blog posts 2009-01-30

Putin snubs Dell at Davos

Putin snubs Dell at DavosNo, Russia Doesn't Really Need The HelpPutin is an asshole, but he's right, Russia doesn't really need IT "help", in the way Mr. Dell phrased it. A number of my development and system tools are coded in Russia, the work outsourced from or marketed by a...

Tags: Strategy, Putin, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-01-29

Kyrgyzstan under cyberattack

Kyrgyzstan under cyberattackMe thinks russia thinks they are too small and need more terrirtoryThey are reclaiming what was theirs. I cant say that i wouldnt if i had the chance. They have the money now, so why not. I dont agree with it, these are soverign countries though.Now...

Tags: Hacking, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Kyrgyzstan, cyberattack, Putin

Discussion threads 2009-01-29

Honey I just blew up the ERP

Sigurd Rinde, one of my Irregular pals is also one of the sharpest people I know. He constantly challenges the status quo in a creative way. This morning's offering made me smile: Good thing about working from home is that I can watch webstreams from conferences -...

Tags: Innovation, Business Process, Accounting, Crowdsourcing, ERP, Sig, Dick, Steve, Effectiveness, Operational Planning, Web 2.0, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Business Operations, Internet, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-01-29

Managing the flow at Davos

The World Economic Forum WEF and numerous ancillary events kick off in Davos this week, and despite an apparent dearth of bankers the small Swiss town will play host to even more politicians, business leaders and journalists than usual. Most mainstream news outlets devote significant airtime, column...

Tags: World Economic Forum, Portals, Web Technology, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-01-27

Wurth Switches to HP ProCurve Networking to Satisfy Its Group's Global Strategy

The Wurth Group, Switzerland comprises ten organisations dedicated to the provision of trade, finance, IT, and transport services. Designed to the highest security criteria to safeguard its clients' information, Wurth ITensis provides outsourced IT services from two data centres located at Chur and Kusnacht, near Zurich and a third smaller...

Tags: Strategy, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP ProCurve, Wurth ITensis, Utility Computing

Case studies 2008-10-01

Facebook: Revolution, Weed and Philanthropy

At the risk of endlessly re boiling the cabbage on the now infamous Sarah Lacy interview of Mark Zuckerberg at SXSW, it is worth highlighting some pretty important things he had to say on Facebook & corporate philanthropy before the reporter became the bigger part of the story.  The flippant style of interview...

Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Web 2.0, Government, Homeland Security, Strategy, Internet, Management, James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-03-21

Gates in '04 said 'spam soon to be thing of past' and me on Charlie Rose about the real solution

Last week, I published a video holding AOL, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo's feet to the fire for not working together to put an end to spam. Because of how many global e-mail users are covered by them alone, if those four e-mail service providers agreed to some common approaches...

Tags: Solution Provider, Charlie Rose, Microsoft Corp., Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-08

Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 2)

Windows Vista includes a new set of features that allow playback software to work with protected media. This DRM infrastructure is bitterly controversial, and it's given rise to an enormous amount of misinformation. No one has been more active or successful in spreading FUD and misinformation about this technology than...

Tags: Protection, Dell Computer Corp., Media Center PC, PC, Digital-rights Management, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Requirement, Reality, Aero, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Media Center PCs, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2007-09-18

Scaling out like Technorati

My fellow World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, David Sifry, the founder of Technorati, was also in Dalian, China for the “Meeting of New Champions” or “Summer Davos” as the Chinese like to call it. During Davos in January, I had the great misfortune of pitching Alfresco against Technorati in a...

Tags: Google Inc., Technorati, Data, Blog, User, JN, DS, John Newton

Blog posts 2007-09-17

Jimmy Wales and Enterprise Wikis

At the Summer Davos in Dalian, China, I was able to speak to Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, about wikis in the enterprise. Wikipedia has become not only the world’s most popular wiki, but the ninth most popular web site in the world. Jimmy is here as a Young...

Tags: Difference, Wiki, Wikipedia, Enterprise, Jimmy, MediaWiki, JN, JW, Wikia, John Newton

Blog posts 2007-09-14

Does YouTube really help children in Africa?

YouTube's King Hurley is determined to truly merit the world worship he receives. From Davos World Economic Forum to the U.S. Congress, Chad is universally celebrated as a world hero and he is regularly solicited as a beacon shining for the betterment of the world's fuure.In U.S. Government to YouTube: WOW! But ‘Take that stuff down’ I...

Tags: Google, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-05-30