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Microsoft Dynamics Revenues: Is More Really Less?

Microsoft Dynamics Revenues: Is More Really Less?How much lock-in will the market bear?People aren't that stupid, and Vista if just an affirmation of how bad this monopoly has gotten.Is it exactly $1 billion?I worked at MBS a few years ago and we used to speak of the goal of becoming...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Dynamics Revenues, Microsoft Corp., MBS, dollar business, Microsoft Dynamics

Discussion threads 2008-03-13

Will Google ever build another billion dollar business?

Will Google ever build another billion dollar business?Google "listens" in on YOU!http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/03/google_eavesdropping_software/What's that you say? "Do No Evil"? BuwahahahahahaEerie.Would not most people consider this the sort of experience they would prefer to avoid?"Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, believes that when he is listening to the radio in his car,...

Tags: Google Inc., hash, Pluto, dollar business

Discussion threads 2006-09-11

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Can IT strengthen the economy?

At the Garner IT Expo in Orlando, Fla., Cisco CEO John Chambers explained that many company heads are looking for flexibility along with cost effectiveness--aspects that video conferencing and social networking provide. He says that, soon, IT and business strategy will be so intertwined that we won't know the difference...

Tags: Information Technology, Social Networking, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Cisco, collaboration, Gartner, CEO, cost effective, video conferencing, IT, business strategy, economy

Videos 2008-10-15

Constellation Wines (maker of Mondavi, Wild Horse and other big U.S. wine brands) goes solar

Pacific Power Management is building out a 1.2-megawatt solar system that will cover the winery warehouse roof for theConstellation WinesU.S. Gonzales Winery in Monterey, Calif. The system, set to be completed by the end of 2008, is supposed to produce more than 1,700,000 kilowatt hours per year. ...

Tags: Winery, Brand, Wine, Pacific Power Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-15

ebay beats Q3, adjusts guidance for Q4, FY08

eBay reported third quarter earnings today, beating Wall Street's expectations with revenues of $2.12 billion, up $228 million from the third quarter of 2007. It reported non-GAAP profits of $592 million, or 46 cents per share. GAAP profits were $492 million, or 38 cents per share. Analysts had been expecting...

Tags: Earnings, eBay Inc., GAAP, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-15

It's not easy being green--Optimizing eco-friendly packaging

Early adopter brands have further differentiated their products and won consumer affinity by adopting green strategies in their brands and packaging. But risks are many says Affinnova's Steve Lamoureux. Commentary--On every progressive brand manager’s short list is a sustainability initiative. In just a few short...

Tags: Risk, Brand, Standard Quantitative Approach, Branding, Marketing, Steve Lamoureux, Affinnova, Special to ZDNet, Steve Lamoureux, Affinnova, Special to ZDNet, green, packaging

News items 2008-10-15

Judge freezes assets of massive spam ring

The Federal Trade Commission won a huge antispam victory in court yesterday, with a federal courts in Chicago's order to freeze the assets of a botnet spam group generally known as HerbalKing. The group used botnets to spread its poison around the globe. Just one botnet...

Tags: Asset, FTC, Spam, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Signs your company might soon go belly-up

Before a company goes under, just about everybody knows it. And before everybody knows it, a bunch of people are already whispering in the corridors and around the water cooler, certain they see the writing on the wall. But what about you? Can you read the clues sprinkled like breadcrumbs...

Tags: Job, Recruitment & Selection, Real Estate, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-10-15

JetBlue unveils high-tech terminal Oct. 22; IT as customer service tool

Joseph Eng, executive vice president of JetBlue's systems and technology, said the company will unveil its high-tech terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York Oct. 22. The terminal when it launches will be the culmination of one big technology project. JetBlue's terminal at JFK,...

Tags: Customer Service, Information Technology, JetBlue Airways Corp., Tool, Projects, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Operational Accounting, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-15

80 ways to mix open source and business

Open source and business do mix. In fact, according to Matthew Aslett at the 451 Group, you can mix open source into more than 80 combinations of development model, licensing model, and revenue schemes. Usually, people talk about three licensing combos: Proprietary, mixed, and "pure" open source...

Tags: Aslett, Open Source, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Gartner Top 10 embraces the Cloud

As in previous years, the analysts at Gartner have unveiled their 'Top 10 Strategic Technologies,' and Jason Hiner provides details elsewhere on ZDNet. The press release is here. One of the analysts involved David Cearley discusses the Top 10 over on YouTube, and posts the information from...

Tags: Gartner Inc., David, Jason, Semantic Web, Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Facebook and its ilk are for the enterprise too

Companies are blocking Facebook, frowning on social networking and pretending that employees don't peruse information from Wikipedia and Delicious, but they should embrace those sites. In fact, it may make sense to bring them into the enterprise instead of buying some corporate social networking application. Gartner analyst...

Tags: Facebook, Network, Chances, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Conversation with Richard Muirhead of Tideway Systems

Richard Muirwood, CEO of Tideway Systems, and I had our semi-annual chat the other day. Tideway's Tideway Foundationâ„¢is a management tool making it possible for organizations to get a clear understanding of the underlying physical and virtual infrastructure supporting their business applications. They call what they do "dependency mapping." ...

Tags: Tideway Systems, Richard, Productivity, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Use this presentation to plot your organization's projects

Classifying your projects will help you ensure that they're aligned with your company's business goals. Jay Rollins classifies projects as infrastructure, transactional, informational, or strategic -- a system that can help you balance your project portfolio so that it reflects your company's risk tolerance. This PowerPoint presentation will help you...

Tags: Project, Jay Rollins, Blogging, Microsoft Office, Internet, Office Suites, Software

Download resources 2008-10-15

The Future looks very Cloudy

I've just attended the one day, highly-focused executive 'Cloud Summit' conference. The Cloud—used to describe everything from internet-based computing utilities to Software as a Service — was examined and its future impact explored within the highly appropriate venue of the Silicon Valley Computer History Museum. ...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Trend Micro Inc., Information Technology, Cloud, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Google blocking Chrome from some countries

Google tends to comply with the governments of countries like China who want to prohibit some search results from being shown to their citizens -- it's a bit of a touchy subject, but that is the choice Google has made, and for now, that's how it's going to be. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Thoughts on Apple's new products

Thoughts on Apple's new productsExcept the rest of the market didn't hold an event......announcing new products.The reasons to not buy anything always outweighthe reasons to buy.When you switch to a MacBook Air, you can't believe how you just don't care about what connectivity you don't have. With wi-fi everywhere...

Tags: FireWire, Notebooks, GO PC, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

IT's challenges: The end of device charging; ROI; Super programmers

Gartner on Tuesday outlined its grand IT challenges from 2008 to 2033 and it includes a world where you'll never have to charge your device. That was one of the futurama type predictions outlined by Gartner analyst Ken McGhee at the firm's Symposium ITxpo. These prediction presentations...

Tags: Device, Information Technology, Gesture, ROI, Programmer, Programming, Wireless, Roi/Tco, Strategy, Development Tools, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Intel barely beats for Q3

Intel reported net income of $2 billion, or 35 cents per share, for the third quarter, up from $1.8 billion and 30 cents a year ago. Revenue was $10.2 billion for its third quarter, up 1 percent over the same quarter a year ago. statement Analysts had expected the company...

Tags: Intel Corp., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Jobs: “Blu-ray is just a bag of hurtâ€�

Jobs: “Blu-ray is just a bag of hurtâ€�I get the feeling that Apple is worried thatif they placed a Blu-Ray disc into the unit that it would cut down on rentals thru iTunes.In that case it would appear that Blu-Ray has little need of Apple.Care to back that up?[i]I get...

Tags: Blu-ray, DVD, Consumer electronics, Digital media, job, Apple Inc., Blu-ray disc

Discussion threads 2008-10-14