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Teaming Up to Crack Innovation and Enterprise Integration

There is a thought provoking piece in the November issue of the Harvard Business Review written by James I. Cash, Jr., Michael J. Earl, and Robert Morison. Morison is an executive vice president and director of research at nGenera Corporation, while Earl and Cash are...

Tags: Innovation, Enterprise Integration, Morison, Distributed Innovation Group, Leadership, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-21

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Report: Microsoft in stealth Yahoo takeover?

Techcrunch, quoting anonymous sources, is reporting that a group of Silicon Valley executives and investment bankers are proposing a takeover of Yahoo - with the help of financing from Microsoft. The proposal calls for a premium of about 20 percent over Yahoo's current share price, which closed...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Marketing Research, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-07

CES 2009: Don't count out those Millennials or Online Media, Cell Phone on the rise as entertainment device, says Deloitte

 The idiot box is still king, but don't count out online advertising. (Source: Deloitte LLP) At this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Deloitte LLP revealed the results of its 3rd State of the Media Democracy Survey, which are likely to be...

Tags: Social Networking, Deloitte LLP, Advertisement, Phone, Japan, Cell Phone, Online Media, TV, Survey, Entertainment, Millennials, Entertainment Device, Idiot Box, Early-adopter Millennials, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-01-07

AMD Neo, HP dv2 take on both netbooks and notebooks

AMD Neo, HP dv2 take on both netbooks and notebooksTablet PCsI hope this and Windows 7 will help usher in a new, more successful era of Tablet PCs / UMPCs. I think one design flaw which [b]signficantly[/b] hampered the adoption of Tablet PCs particularly the slate model, was the fact...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Desktops, Hewlett-Packard Co., netbook, notebook, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., tablet, tablet PC, PC

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

How to be less stupid in 2009

How to be less stupid in 2009The ribbon, a "debacle?""As has been shown in the ‘ribbon’ menu debacle of Office 2007, no-one will likely want it."There have been some dissenters, but from what I've read so far, the biggest complaints have been simply that it's so different and the lack...

Tags: Strategy, ribbon, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

Forget MacWorld and the keynote. Jobs as Obama's CTO? No.

So Mike Contaxis at MacSoda had the "real reason" why Steve Jobs was not going to give the keynote today at MacWorld. This was before Jobs' disclosure of the "hormonal imbalance" that his medical team has determined is leading him to lose weight. Jobs is set to...

Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, CTO, Macworld, Obama, Internet, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-06

Thousands of Israeli web sites under attack

In the wake of the escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas, it didn't take long before pro-Hamas supporters organized themselves and started to defacing thousands of pro-Israeli web sites in order to use them as vehicles for propaganda -- Israel is meanwhile hijacking TV signals. For the...

Tags: Web, DNS, Web Site, Israel, Web Site Defacement, Attack, TEAM-Evil, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Web Technology, Hacking, Security, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-01-06

Windows 7 - Heal thyself!

Windows 7 - Heal thyself!I would be happier if the OS was perfect[url=http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1851228&tstart=15] Like [/url][url=http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1848781&tstart=15] OS [/url][url=http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1853856&tstart=30] X [/url]:)RE: Windows 7 - Heal thyself!Vista apparently has this feature also. Try to hit F8 during booup.If ZDNet needs to implement layoffs...Mr. Jason Perlow should be the first out the door!His blogs...

Tags: Operating systems, PRODUCTIVITY, Boot Failure, Microsoft Windows 7, Heal Thyself, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

Is the PlayStation Doomed?

Sony, putting aside the human toll of massive restructuring, is a fascinating example of the carnage happening in the business world today, and the stifling of innovation in large companies. Today's multinational conglomerate had humble origins in post WWII Japan: Masaru Ibuka started a radio repair...

Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Playstation, Game Players, Games, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-06

Apple rolls the dice on fixed MacBook Pro batteries

Apple rolls the dice on fixed MacBook Pro batteriesIn "theory" I don't see a problem with it.8 hours use on battery along a theoretical 5 years of use out of a mobil computer. Imagine the wear and tear after a full 5 years on a mobile device like a...

Tags: Engineering, Notebooks, battery, laptop computer, Apple Inc., MacBook Pro Batteries, Apple MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

Apple's final Macworld: Schiller delivers but announcements disappoint

Apple's final Macworld: Schiller delivers but announcements disappointNot worthy?"DRM-free tracks ... will expand to include all 10 million songs in the catalog" and you have to question if this is "worthy of a “One last thing…” announcement"???This is GREAT news, and it alone would have made my day! But...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Notebooks, Desktops, DRM-free music, Apple Inc., Macworld

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

Are we spoon-feeding our users too much?

One of my techs is a really outstanding guy. He always smiles, he makes movies for the teachers he directly supports with instructions on everyday tasks, and he does everything he can to make their computers easy to use. The group of teachers he supports also happens to...

Tags: Training, Teacher, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Food & Beverage, Human Resources, Manufacturing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-01-05

The 2009 Green Wars Being Fought Now

In Washington D.C. the stakes are high. The stakes are huge. The stakes are for a major porton of the cash that will go into the United States' mounting federal debt. That means big money. How much will Obama's version of the federal government put into...

Tags: Health Care, Stimulus, U.S. Senate, Vertical Industries, Taxes, Benefits, Healthcare, Free Trade, Enterprise Software, Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-05

HP's SaaS PPM solution

A Relevant and Robust Offering for today's IT organizations I had a chance to speak with Marc Olesen – VP SaaS for HP Software and Solutions recently. We discussed HP's offerings in the Project Portfolio Management PPM and IT Management spaces. Background: HP's software...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Solution, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Project Portfolio Management, Project Portfolio Management Buyer, Project Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, It Operations, It service Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-01-05

Debunking myths about the SaaS partner channel

Debunking myths about the SaaS partner channelSaaS business solutions have to be sold face-to-faceHow a particular solution is sold Saas or on premise has to do a lot with many factors not just whether it is Saas or On-Premise. I refer to these two modes of selling as low...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, Saas, SaaS partnerships benefit, low touch

Discussion threads 2009-01-05

Gartner doles out sobering predictions for open source over next 5 years

Gartner doles out sobering predictions for open source over next 5 yearsMeaningless corporate clap-trapProblem with reports such as this one is that, while they sound smart at the surface, I have to admit that once I dig deeper I realize than I have no idea what the report is saying.Article:[i]That’s...

Tags: Open Source Apps, open source, Gartner Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-01-05

Gartner doles out sobering predictions for open source use in the enterprise for next 5 years

The economic slowdown should benefit open source software but whether open source software will benefit its owners is up in the air. That's according to Gartner Group predictions for 2009, which claims that over the next few years most enterprises using open source won't manage those assets correctly and most...

Tags: Open-source Software, Gartner Inc., OSS, Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-01-05

Freescale and ARM promise $200 netbooks

Freescale has unveiled an ARM-based, Ubuntu-toting netbook reference design, claiming it will bring cheap internet devices to the younger, more widget-centric generation. Chipset manufacturer Freescale on Monday unveiled an ARM-based blueprint for cheap, low-cost subnotebooks. At the heart of the reference design is the i.MX515 processor,...

Tags: ARM, Intel Corp., Freescale, Chipsets, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Software, netbook, Intel, Ubuntu, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk

News items 2009-01-05

Apple's Jobs being treated for 'hormone imbalance'; Will remain at helm

Apple's Jobs being treated for 'hormone imbalance'; Will remain at helmThe opposite would have happened at Microsoft...If rumors were that Steve Ballmer's health was failing and he would have to step down as CEO of Microsoft, Microsoft stock would probably triple over night. There's no denying that top leadership is...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, imbalance, job, Apple Inc., Apple job

Discussion threads 2009-01-05

ScanTango 2.5.2 (Mac)

First released at MacWorld in 2005, ScanTango has rapidly become the first choice of professionals that require high-speed conversion and distribution of documents in PDF or TIFF format. ScanTango's support for bar-coded Ã?¢ââ??¬Ã?â??patch cardsÃ?¢ââ??¬Ã?? in scan batches enable the input of multiple documents in a single operation and changes to...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Adobe PDF, ScanTango 2.5.2, Scanners, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-01-05