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Is your culture getting in the way of your IT success?: Many enterprise IT investments lead to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches - but often forgotten is the culture of an organization itself. Commentary - While any planned enterprise IT investment leads to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches, too often left out...; Tags: Job, Team, Information Technology, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Team Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Panasonic Computer Solutions, IT management, culture, Jim King, Special to ZDNet, Jim King, Panasonic Computer Solutions, Special to ZDNet; News items 2009-11-23
Psystar: Cocaine, car crashes and a chance to beat Apple: Monopoly Much?How has apple been able to get away with this? Microsoft gets sued for sending their browser with their operating system while not blocking anyone else's browsers on their systems. Apple does not allow anyone else to use their operating system on other hardware, not sure how...; Tags: Operating systems, car, Apple Inc., operating system, hackintosh, Psystar; Discussion threads 2009-11-12
Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform: In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...; Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2009-11-08
eRecorder Lite for iPhone 1.2 (Mobile): With eRecorder Lite for iPhone record memos, lectures, debates, medical dictation, music, ambient noise discussions, interviews, business meetings, spontaneous ideas, or any other sounds on your iPhone. Use it as a voice recorder or a sound recorder. Record for seconds or hours. It features beautifully animated and intuitive user interface...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Recorder, Mobile, Vanke Software, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2009-11-06
Droid Preview: iPhone's first real competition has arrived: The MicroSD card is not only expandableIt is hot-swappable. So basically your storage is only limited to how many cards you can afford.Competition is GREAT!I am glad Android is taking off, the future is Linux driven devices/appliances.To the naysayers that Linux distro devices/appliances are a 'niche' I guess Google is...; Tags: Smart phones, Apple iPhone, Droid Preview, phone, card; Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Seeking a Stallman for open source: Stallman is for OSS what Washington was for USAWe need more people like Stallman to liberate us from the M$ tirany not Benedict Arnolds like Icaza!We need to speek louder about M$ dirty deeds not to seek peace with the devil.Stallman is a liberalJust thought LinuxGeek ought to know that....; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Stallman, open source, Icaza, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2009-10-09
Windows 7 security: A great leap forward or business as usual?: The public release of Windows 7 is approaching fast. Debates and discussions have been raging on the security improvements in the new platform, and some potential problems have also emerged. In this white paper, we run through the most significant changes and additions, and look at what they might mean...; Tags: Security, Sophos Plc., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software; White papers 2009-10-02
Social media at the WashPost: It's time to loosen the tie: For the sake of full disclosure, I spent a little more than two years working as an editor and later a reporter/blogger for the Washington Post - roughly from the summer of 2005 until early fall of 2007. I tell you this because it gives you some...; Tags: Journalist, Blog, Social Media, Washington Post Co., Post, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2009-10-01
Washington finally embraces tech; the benefits will be here soon: It's about time.. Maybe they'll even learn about tech.Now if only Washington would start protecting our digital media rights. We should be able to use media we purchase on any device we own. Washington has done everything it can to screw us out of that right for the past decade....; Tags: Government, Benefits, Vertical industries, cloud computing, Data Ownership, Google Inc., benefit, Federal Reserve Board; Discussion threads 2009-09-16
Faceoff on Facebook: comparing all the official mobile clients: Why do a comparison and not actually test the BlackberryThe iPhone may have the mindshare, but Blackberry is still the smartphone sales top dog. No one in your office had a Curve, Storm or Bold for you to test? You had time to test the Nokia and the...; Tags: Handhelds, Smart phones, RIM BlackBerry, mobile, Facebook; Discussion threads 2009-09-10
Condemning what the market does worse: Agree, but unfair comparisonI do agree with most of what you are saying, but feel compelled to take issue with the following:You said "Few deny the Obama Administration has mangled the health care debate. On my personal blog I have compared this to how the Bush Administration handled Hurricane Katrina."The...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, government, insurance; Discussion threads 2009-08-24
SOA services: stop worrying about protocols, worry about the business: Richard Watson says there is too much hand wringing over service protocols and standards (REST, WS-*, etc.), and not enough thought given to why a service may be needed by the business in the first place. In a new post, he states that while "debates about whether to use REST...; Tags: Watson Co., SOA, Service, Service Modeling, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Research & Development, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2009-08-10
Placing blame for the XTent failure: Science, Research, and Data Are Not To Blamefor these rest on the scientific method. Instead, other social factors are to blame:The irresponsibility of our public media in chronically sensationalizing news for the sake of entertaining rather than informing the public;The caution practicing physicians must exercise to avoid liability in...; Tags: comparative effectiveness, Paxil, XTent, stent; Discussion threads 2009-08-07
Tenenbaum admits all, while judge's ruling opens the door to a massive damages award: Tenenbaum admits all, while judge's ruling opens the door to a massive damages awardlucky for us not all the world have the american rules and court systemntDifficult to judge ...... who is the most stupid in this and other piracy 'debates':1. The defendent.2. The defendent's lawyers.3. The plaintiffs copyright hoders.4....; Tags: Intellectual property, Tenenbaum; Discussion threads 2009-07-31
Find Out 1.0 (Mobile): FindOut trawls through voluminous amounts of data out there on the Internet and matches it to your requirement. For this it makes use of two very efficient Discussion Forum and FAQ search engines, Omgili, and SnappyFingers which have made out a niche for themselves in their respective areas independently. The...; Tags: Mobile, BluePal, FindOut, Internet, Search; Software downloads 2009-07-20
Time to Put A Stake in The Ground on Social CRM: The debate and discussion about what defines Social CRM a.k.a. CRM 2.0 vs. its traditional parent has been going on for about 2 years pretty regularly and started, according to thought leader Graham Hill almost a decade before that. Personally, I'm done defining it and am moving...; Tags: Customer, Business, Tool, CRM, Social CRM, SCRM Business Strategy, Co-creation, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg; Blog posts 2009-07-06
Elections 1.1 (Mobile): Elections features candidate listings, polls, news, debates, electoral map resource, watchdog tools, my votes list, candidate news, and search engine results. Monitor election news feeds from CNN, Fox, ABC, USATODAY, CBS, and AP. View up-to-the-minute Poll feeds from Pollster.com, Gallup, and Rasmussen. Use watchdog tools to inform yourself on candidate's...; Tags: Search Engine, Mobile, Magnificent Library, Search; Software downloads 2009-07-01
Political gaming around the Waxman-Markey bill: Political gaming around the Waxman-Markey billEvidence for your assertions, pleaseWhile there is at least weak scientific evidence that man contributes to global warming (I do not trust it, but at least some studies try to make the point), there is none for climate change causing weather events like hurricanes. ...; Tags: Messiah, hurricane, global warming, Waxman-Markey, life saving, sea level, game, Katrina; Discussion threads 2009-06-30
Frugal Friday: Angry Mac Bastards, iPhone 3G S Mania, Fedora 11, ProxMox, Mono, Presidio Networked Solutions: Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss how I incurred the wrath of the Angry Mac Bastards (see 1:05:50 mark in AMB podcast, explicit language) The iPhone 3G S launch, Red Hat's Fedora 11 release, ProxMox virtualization, the never-ending Mono debates, and interview Dave Hart, CTO...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Mono, Apple Macintosh, Fedora Project, Apple iPhone 3G, .Net, Development Tools, Open Source, Podcasts, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Internet, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2009-06-19
Pure Digital Flip UltraHD mini digital camcorder [review]: Pure Digital Flip UltraHD mini digital camcorder [review]"Mere" $200 for a mono-function device?Too much! Or that's what they say about products they don't likei want one that you can plug ini guess i need to check the typical cam corders but we need something that can record 2 hour long...; Tags: Pure Digital Flip UltraHD, Pure Digital, digital camcorder, camcorder, camera; Discussion threads 2009-05-13