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- The case of the missing iPhones
- Steve Jobs at Macworld noted that Apple had sold 4 million iPhones through mid January and 3.7 million at the end of December. But AT&T has activated about 2 million of those. Theories abound about where those missing iPhones may be stashed. Pondering the case of the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Theory, Apple Inc., Downside, Bachman, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- For green data centers, it's location, location, location
- Spoke last week with Ben Stewart, senior vice president of facility engineering for uber colocation provider Terremark Worldwide, which is building a mammoth data center campus on a new site in Culpepper, Va. The campus will eventually include five 50,000-square-foot data center structures that can act as...
- Tags: Data Center, Terremark Worldwide, Downside, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-10-28
- Business ByDesign: an Irregular verdict
- After a long day and intense series of discussions with SAP executives, the Enterprise Irregulars parsed immediate impressions of Business ByDesign. The general mood was one of quiet approval for a product set that is, as the company claims, a complete on-demand offering. Our generally positive...
- Tags: SAP AG, Downside, BBD, SAP Business ByDesign, Sales Force Management, Games, Channel Management, Sales, Personal Technology, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- Quad-core PC project - Parts list
- OK, many of you have asked for a detailed parts list for the two quad-core systems that I'm building. Well, here it is: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 This is the newer 95W G0 stepping. Asus Striker Extreme This has the NVIDIA 680i chipset...
- Tags: Quad-core, Downside, 520W Corsair PSU, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-09-03
- Why SMI-S Compliance Is Key to Efficient Storage Management
- The rapid rise of storage networking has improved the effectiveness of managing storage assets. The downside has been increased complexity from trying to manage numerous heterogeneous storage networking components. Point storage management tools do not have a comprehensive enough view to allow them to address all of the resulting inefficiencies....
- Tags: Storage Networking, Downside, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2006-04-28
- 10 things you should know about BizTalk Server 2004
- BizTalk Server 2004, Microsoft's third try at an integration server for bridging business processes internally and between companies, was a charm. But there's more under the hood than you might be aware of—we list 10 for you. Integrated with Visual Studio .NET 2003 and leveraging XML as...
- Tags: Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004, Downside, Web Services, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Download resources 2005-07-19
- Unified ITIL
- The Information Technology Infrastructure Library ITIL is a treasure trove of best practices. To gain benefits quickly, there needs to be both a defined approach as well as a need to integrate the various domains to create a culture of causality that understands the impacts of change on the organization....
- Tags: Downside, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations
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- Howard's happy: Sirius-XM merger (finally) approved; Now the work really begins
- The government regulatory debacle known as the Sirius-XM merger has officially ended as the Federal Communications Commission approved the deal after 17 months of deliberation and lobbying from the National Association of Broadcasters. According to the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal the FCC approved the deal...
- Tags: Merger, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Radio, Sirius, Howard, Satellite Radio, Digital Music, Advertising & Promotion, Federal Government, Mergers & Acquisitions, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Government, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-26
- We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!
- We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!Linux has no marketing.Market share is directly related to marketing. When is the last time anyone saw a Linux commercial?Isn't that the point?You say that Canonical needs to listen more to the "customers" but...
- Tags: Copiers, Operating systems, Desktops, Notebooks, Market-Share, Apple Inc., Ubuntu, wanna-be, Microsoft Corp., photocopier, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- The evolution of search over traditional BI
- Today's business intelligence tools are great at tracking tradional numbers but fail to quench business's thirst for more information says Commentary--A recent Gartner report predicts that IT’s involvement in business intelligence BI will diminish in time as business users adopt new technologies to quench...
- Tags: Payment, Data, Analyst, Information, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, business intelligence, search, Sid Probstein, Attivio
- News items 2008-07-22
- If sameness is a recipe for losing, how do you win?
- If sameness is a recipe for losing, how do you win?OT but relevant: The heavy tread of IT.Quoting from the stern warnings about SharePoint from another Comment:“As many shops are discovering, SharePoint is also a development platform that people both inside and outside of IT use to create intranets,...
- Tags: Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise software, Microsoft SharePoint, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- New studies highlight the potential downsides of SharePoint
- New studies highlight the potential downsides of SharePointSharePoint Best Practices!!!I'm not disputing the result of the studies but i think the downsides are normally excerbated by inappropiate practices. Every product has its downsde but i believe these downsides can be overcome if appropiate practices are used: SharePoint Best Practices Start...
- Tags: Groupware, Collaboration, Enterprise software, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Windows "Workstation" 2008 better than Vista? OK then, show me the money!
- Windows "Workstation" 2008 better than Vista? OK then, show me the money!dre` typo, i think"...nothing I would lie better than to..."It's the cost, Adrianlook at the difference in price.if i paid that much for a "desktop" OS, you can bet that I'd convince myself it was faster ;)The other thing...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Desktops, workstation, Vista x64, Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, desktop, server, Vist-___
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Farewell iCards
- Farewell iCardsRe: Farewell iCardsThough the iCard service was not as good as some of the other internet greeting card services, it was really nice to be able to create my own card using a photo that I had taken and uploaded to my iDisk. I'll miss the service and can't...
- Tags: Public relations, Farewell iCards
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- Measuring IT: "Operational Health"
- Measuring IT: "Operational Health"MetricsMetrics are important, but in some organizations that I have been affiliated with in the past, the metrics had a nasty habit of becoming the central focus.i.e.: the measurement of the thing becomes more important than the thing itself. So, you end up making all the metrics...
- Tags: Operational Health, Measuring IT
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- Attacking phishing at the source
- Good news on the phishing front. Google reports that they are now authenticating all e-mail that purports to come from eBay and PayPal. Using e-mail authentication standards including DomainKeys and Domain Keys identified Mail, and working with PayPal and eBay, Google's Gmail now verifies every e-mail...
- Tags: Bank, E-mail Authentication, PayPal, eBay Inc., E-mail, Phishing, Financial Services, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Anyone bothering to teach 35mm photography classes anymore?
- Anyone bothering to teach 35mm photography classes anymore?Overall Cost and ValueIn my experience, digital photography was not vastly less money outlay than 35mm. I paid enough up front to amount to what I would have paid for 35mm including processing in the next 10 years. However, once I had made...
- Tags: Digital cameras, Digital photography, PRODUCTIVITY, Photgraphy, photography
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- Westinghouse VK-40F580D
- Anybody who's owned a combination TV/VCR, or its multiheaded offspring, the TV/DVD player/VCR, knows that the VCR eventually breaks, and fixing it is not easy. Happily, the DVD part seems a lot more robust, which should reassure prospective buyers of the Westinghouse VK-40F580D, which is one of the few larger-screen...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, standout, DVD, Westinghouse VK-40F580D, Westinghouse, DVD player, TV
- Product reviews 2008-07-07
- An IT productivity horror story
- An IT productivity horror storyMiddlemen1, Speculating on your unconfirmed report, is there any love lost between the insurance companies and the independent insurance brokers? Relationships between suppliers and independent brokers tend to change over time. If the companies are after the margins of the brokers, automated communication may be the...
- Tags: Financial Planning, IT productivity, information technology, insurance, insurance company
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Motorola Rokr E8 - black
- We're always pleased when a cell phone for which we've waited a long time to see finally goes on sale. When Motorola introduced its Rokr E8 at CES 2008, we only had a few minutes to play with it, but we were so impressed that we gave it CNET's Best...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Rokr E8, Motorola ROKR, Motorola Inc.
- Product reviews 2008-06-26
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