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- SAP All-in-One implementations in less than 3 months?
- At the risk of sounding like an infomercial for SAP or turning Irregular Enterprise into 'SAPWatch,' I recently learned about a consulting shop that guarantees implementing SAP All-in-One in three months at a fixed price. I was skeptical given that the on-demand Business ByDesign implementations I'm hearing about are taking...
- Tags: SAP AG, Training, Workforce Management, Change Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- The Waltham Pact: Where are the tangibles?
- Â This week, Microsoft renewed their union with Novell, to the tune of an additional 100 million dollars in commitment to buy more SUSE Linux support certificates that it can sell to its customers. Dang, Ballmer, for that kind of cash, you can get your vows renewed...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Open Source, OpenOffice, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Office Suites, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- SpamZa - opt in spamming service fighting to remain online
- A recently launched unethical spam list building service called SpamZa, is fighting to remain online after providing highly successful (87 spam emails in 8 minutes) into fulfilling its objective, namely, to sign up any email submitted to hundreds of newsletters anonymously. What is SpamZa anyway? SpamZa is...
- Tags: Newsletter, Spam, Spamming, SpamZa, E-mail, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Overheated iPod nano blamed for three fires
- Overheated iPod nano blamed for three firesYikesSounds like a bad battery.The AP says 2 overheated, Reuters says 3 fires... So which is it?http://apnews.excite.com/article/20080819/D92LAQMG1.htmlA scorched paper and a scorched mat do not mean fires.How do Reuters and AP have such wildly different stories?RE: Overheated iPod nano blamed for three firesI'm...
- Tags: Digital music, Apple iPod Nano, Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- A fresh model for software maintenance
- It is clear that the homogeneous application of round sum percentages applied to software maintenance pricing is a dead business model. Nowhere is that more clearly illustrated in the recent kerfuffle over SAP's forced price rise for its maintenance services. SAP has put up a spirited defense but on the...
- Tags: Software, Vendor, Customer, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Excel and Basic Accounting Error
- Excel and Basic Accounting ErrorWe should go back to manual ledgers...VisiCalc was created to eliminate accounting errors. Now the spreadsheet is now being blamed for accounting errors. Perhaps the real problem is GIGO. Garbage in, Garbage out.The real culprit is slick sleaze ball corporate accountants and managers that are trying...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, fun thing, Microsoft Excel, spreadsheet, big system, accounting
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- IBM: Measure, measure and measure some more
- So far, the main green tech consulting offerings have emerged from the biggest of the big systems vendors and this latest service I'm referencing today out of IBM is no different. The new IBM Green Sigma offering, for those companies that do the Lean Sigma thing, focuses...
- Tags: Green Technology, Carbon, IBM Corp., Transportation, Research & Development, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Outsourcing, Business Operations, Leadership, Management, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- News to know: Limelight's Olympics; Software prices; Wordcamp 2008; Windows 7 Server
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet Larry Dignan: Limelight by the numbers: Akamai's thorn? Podcast: CIO tells how he reduced impact...
- Tags: Olympic Games, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Server, Microsoft Corp., Internet, Semantic Web, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Compliance and IT
- Compliance and ITOne Small Comment[i]for the average company with three or four sites and a few thousand employees[/i]The average company doesn't have a few thousand employees. 99% of all companies are SME's.AccuracyIf I only had a dollar for every time I was told the tracking data in some system...
- Tags: compliance, IT IS, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Samsung uses Olympics to unveil 'green' phone: E200 Eco
- At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, Samsung announced its "green" mobile phone, the E200 Eco, which is made of bioplastics and has a number of environmentally-friendly and energy-reducing features. by Jason Hiner
- Tags: Phone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Cell Phone, Telecom & Utilities, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeWhen everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.W.S. Gilbert, Gondoliers.So many managers. An employee without a management title will feel overlooked.Murph, you outline the functional groups for your organization based on the leader. That means the effectiveness of each one...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, disaster recovery, leader, IBM mainframe, IBM Corp., job, data-processing, mainframe
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- Sinofsky dishes on Windows 7
- Sinofsky dishes on Windows 7E7 blog is up and runningIt's up:http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/08/14/welcome.aspxFreudian slip ;-)"The fact that he’s wiling to speak ..." ;-)Yes, wily types those M$oftie$!Much as I've criticised VISTA and M$ I do hope they get it right this time.Glad to see some progress here,.I'm hoping for MS to release...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Sinofsky, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, blog
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Bill Gates: Software innovation poses privacy challenge
- Bill Gates: Software innovation poses privacy challengeUbiquity means......we can fade into the noise. At least that's my remaining hope for privacy. Sigh. :(BTW...that's what I wish Bill would do. You're not in charge of anything anymore...be quiet.Software innovation accelerates decline in privacyIsn't it great to...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Software Innovation, privacy challenge, Bill Gates, software
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- SimpleTech (Re)Drive
- The SimpleTech ReDrive will help protect your data and the planet. Housed in a casing of renewable bamboo and recycled aluminum, the external hard drive features a pleasing design--like something you might see inside the pages of Dwell. The drive's packaging also leaves little to waste: no plastic bag, no...
- Tags: SimpleTech Inc., USB 2.0, Drive type External hard drive Connector, cord
- Product reviews 2008-08-13
- Exclusive: A robot with a biological brain
- Exclusive: A robot with a biological brainThe begining of the Cylon race? nt:(probably meant "you're" funnyDoesnt' change my opinion at all.Well, if this isn't the most immoral thing ever...it's gotta be kinda close.Cool but. could open a can of worms later...Did anyone else get a chill up the back of...
- Tags: Robots, biological brain, robot
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Google tells Congress about DoubleClick cookie
- Google is implementing a DoubleClick ad-serving cookie across its content network that will give advertisers new powers to target advertising. The cookie also gives users the ability to opt-out, the company told the House Energy and Commerce Committee in a letter released yesterday. in...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Network, U.S. Congress, DoubleClick Inc., Cookie, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Followup with Greenpeace - "recycling" your computers
- Yesterday I posted an article on the environmental and human rights disaster that computer "recycling" is creating in countries like Ghana and Nigeria. Today, I contacted Greenpeace's Casey Harrell from their Toxics Division to follow up and determine if we can do anything within Ed Tech to dispose of...
- Tags: Greenpeace, Recycling, Product, E-waste, Computer, Individual Producer Responsibility, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Alarmed about Vista security? Black Hat researcher Alexander Sotirov speaks out
- Alarmed about Vista security? Black Hat researcher Alexander Sotirov speaks outNicely doneI appreciate that you took the time to speak with the researcher who actually discovered the flaws.There are a couple of bloggers on ZDNET who always seem slant their "blogs" with grandiose claims against one platform or technology.I think...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Blogging, Black Hat, Microsoft Windows Vista, Alexander Sotirov, Microsoft Corp., security
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress
- In the wake of the Russian-Georgian conflict, a week worth of speculations around Russian Internet forums have finally materialized into a coordinated cyber attack against Georgia's Internet infrastructure. The attacks have already managed to compromise several government web sites, with continuing DDoS attacks against numerous other Georgian government sites, prompting...
- Tags: Web, Russia, Web Site, Site, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Georgia, Attack, Alania TV, RIA Novosti, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
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