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- Web 2.0 isn't dead, but Web 3.0 is bubbling up
- Web 2.0 isn't dead, but Web 3.0 is bubbling upWhen will Web 3.0 be bornThere will be a short intermission before the birth of Web 3.0, if the past is any indicator. First a few latecomers to the party will have to take a financial bath as the musical...
- Tags: Channel management, Web 3.0, Web, IKEA, E*Trade Financial Corp., Web 2.0
- Discussion threads 2006-11-12
- E*Trade adopts additional security for traders
- E*Trade adopts additional security for tradersThese fobs work great!Company "F" has been using them for many years now. SecureID makes fobs for the NSA - which was good enough to sell us on it.
- Tags: E*Trade Financial Corp., trader, security
- Discussion threads 2005-03-02
- First of many? Financial services and strong authentication.
- This is great news. E*Trade is offering strong authentication to its online brokerage customers. These RSA tokens look like a key and can be carried almost as easily. If a hacker/identity thief wants to break into your account they have to have the key (actually the 6 digit number...
- Tags: RSA Security Inc., E*Trade Financial Corp., Financial Service, Authentication, Financial Accounting, Security, Financial Services, Finance, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2005-03-01
- Flexibility Propels Exponential Growth at E*TRADE FINANCIAL
- In 1995, E*TRADE FINANCIAL was one of the fastest-growing private companies in Silicon Valley. Early on, E*TRADE FINANCIAL realized that a robust, Web-enabled, ERP application was essential for delivering relevant and timely strategic data in a manner that was consistent with E*TRADE FINANCIAL's overall philosophy. The challenge was identifying the...
- Tags: E*Trade Financial Corp., Oracle Corp., Exponential Technology, Flexibility, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- E*TRADE FINANCIAL Saves 50 Percent in Web-Conferencing Costs With Live Meeting
- Since 1996, E*TRADE FINANCIAL has been providing customers with an integrated offering of investing, trading, banking, and lending services. Because they needed to communicate and collaborate in real time, the geographically dispersed employees began to use several tools, including video and conference calling. However, these tools did not integrate with...
- Tags: E*Trade Financial Corp., Web Conferencing, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office Live Meeting, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Case studies
Additional Resources
- Small differences can make a BIG difference
- I recently got a chance to talk with one VC firm that's focused some of its attention and money on cleantech. One of their investments is in OPX, which seems to have a unique approach to solving some of the energy and raw material supply issues facing the planet....
- Tags: Chemicals, Clean Technology, Costs, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO
- Microsoft's participation in the One Laptop Per Child OLPC initiative has been fraught with mystery and disinformation from the get-go. But on May 15, Microsoft officials finally gave the OLPC project Redmond's official blessing. Up to this point, OLPC Chief Nicholas Negroponte preannounced Microsoft's every move on...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack
- Microsoft won't be delivering database backup as one of the new features promised for the first "PowerPack" update for Windows Home Server when it ships later this year. The independent "We Got Served" Home Server blog acknowledged the feature cut in a May 9 entry. According to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Microsoft Corp., Backups, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Yahoo to Icahn: You misunderstand
- Yahoo's board has responded to activist investor Carl Icahn: "Your letter reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal." That letter--delivered by Icahn earlier Thursday Techmeme--has one theme: Yahoo's board botched the Microsoft deal and hasn't served shareholder interest. In its...
- Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Stockholder, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- OCZ debuts DIY gaming notebooks
- Here's something that fans of building their own PCs will be interested in - OCZ has launched a build-it-yourself gaming notebook kit. The idea is simple. You buy a kit (currently there's no word on pricing but the wording on the OCZ website suggest that this will...
- Tags: Game, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...
- Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Facebook: Google Friend Connect violates our privacy standards
- The social networking ground war is well underway. Facebook said Thursday that it will block Google's Friend Connect services because it "redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users' knowledge." Facebook's Charlie Cheever writes regarding Google Friend Connect: We're excited that our industry partners...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Standards, User Information, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- EU has privacy concerns over Street View
- The EU is not too happy with the upcoming launch of Google Maps' Street View in Europe. The problem: privacy. The AP quotes the EU's top data protection supervisor, Peter Hustinx: "I would encourage Google to think about how to do this," Hustinx told...
- Tags: Google Inc., Data Protection, Privacy, European Union, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Judge: Possible 'manifest error of law' in Thomas case
- In a huge break in the Capitol v. Thomas case – in which Jammie Thomas right was hit with a $220,000-plus verdict for copyright infringement – the judge in the case said he may have made a "manifest error of law" in his instructions to the jury. ...
- Tags: Distribution, RIAA, Judge, Mr., Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Microsoft delivers another update to Office Live Workspace
- Microsoft rolled out quietly on May 15 its 1.1 update to its Office Live Workspace service, which is currently in beta test. The 1.1 bits are available from the Microsoft Downloads site. adds performance updates, making Office Live Workspace run faster with Microsoft Office programs, plus the...
- Tags: Microsoft Office Live Workspace, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Exclusive: First look at the Fast Mac U-Charge
- Here's an exclusive sneak peak of FastMac's newest product - U-Charge. U-Charge is a portable, standalone charger that connects directly to the battery's terminals to recharge the battery quickly and efficiently. It's compatible with over nine years of Apple laptop batteries as well as after-market/third party replacements...
- Tags: Apple PowerBook, Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, Battery, Mac U-Charge, Notebooks, Engineering, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Ideology and self interest won't win health care debate
- The knives have already come out in the fight against health care reform in 2009. On the one hand we have ideology, represented by former Rep. Dick Armey, who complains that some Republicans are getting weak-kneed in their rejection of any but the most "market-oriented" (i.e., tilted...
- Tags: Physician, Ideology, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Medical companies celebrate death of patent reform
- Medical device makers and drug companies are celebrating the apparent death of the 2008 Patent Reform Act. (For the other side of this debate, visit my open source blog.) Why were AdvaMed, PHRMA, and the rest of the industry so dead-against an end to...
- Tags: Patent, Industry, Patent Approval, Drugs, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Patent reform dead for 2008
- The death of the Patent Reform Act in the Senate spells hard times for open source. That's because one of the act's main aims was to end "forum shopping," the practice of filing lawsuits in, say, the Eastern District of Texas, which never saw a patent plaintiff...
- Tags: Patent, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Images: Mars is getting a new visitor
- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is expected to search for life after it touches down near an icy region of the Red Planet on May 25.On the morning of May 25, Mars will receive a new alien contraption from Earth, the Phoenix Mars Lander. Its three month mission is to sample...
- Tags: Surface, Earth, NASA, Phoenix Technologies, It', CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-05-15
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