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Pros and cons: Will HP weather the economic storm?

Pros and cons: Will HP weather the economic storm?Cisco's entry into servers?What impact would Cisco's potential entry into servers have on HP's Q1 or even guidance at this stage?Consulting and support contract may be...Worth looking at to see if HP is moving more into where IBM has been successful in...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., base pay, economic storm

Discussion threads 2009-02-18

No bailout for you? Online finance tools help you ride the economic storm

No bailout for you? Online finance tools help you ride the economic stormThanks, but no thanks!Why should I go online and risk the privacy of my financial data? All anyone needs is an OFFline spreadsheet.RE: No bailout for you? Online finance tools help you ride the economic stormCan an...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Financial accounting, Financial services, finance tool, economic storm, bailout, spreadsheet, finance

Discussion threads 2008-12-31

Essential strategies for weathering the economic storm

Essential strategies for weathering the economic stormHard-driving type As ruin company in first placeThis kind of hard-driving Type A person is what ruins companies in the first place. His strategies to fix things are what they did to destroy things in the first place. This list can basically be summed...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Operational accounting, strategy, job

Discussion threads 2008-10-17

Additional Resources

Save Time and Money With Virtualization

In these difficult economic times, everyone is being pressed to do more with less. By applying technologies and techniques like server virtualization, leading CIOs have prepared themselves to weather the storm with dramatic economic and operational results. The attendee of this webcast will listen to Government Technology and the Center...

Tags: VMware Inc., Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Servers, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-11-27

Green building boom

Somebody please explain something here.How can these green building--and associated manufacturing--jobs not be the same old "not green" jobs just slid into a new spot? Are these in addition to the "not green" jobs. Are the old "not green" just canned and dropped from the rolls of humanity....

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, McGraw-Hill Construction, job

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Survey: cloud interest grows triple-fold; cost may not be main factor

buble bust...anyone learns from 2000 and so IT burst?Current interest in private cloudsHi Joean interesting piece, and thanks for the link to my post? This current enthusiasm for private Clouds is also interesting? and I am left wondering how long it will continue.It's presumably a mix of security concerns (real...

Tags: Marketing research, cloud computing, survey

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Is the Palm Pre a failure?

Wrong, so what's right?You say the ads don't work.What kind of ads do you suggest would? I'm interested to hear what you think would be effective.Those silly adsI think the Palm Pre ads are worse than the initial Windows ads. They are really bad. Their only really good quality is...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Palm Inc., advertisement, Sprint Communications, Verizon Communications Inc., Palm Pre, Apple iPhone, CDMA

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

MobiTradeOne for FOREX.com BlackBerry Storm edition 1.6 (Mobile)

MobiTradeOne for FOREX.com BlackBerry Storm Edition is a mobile trading platform for FOREX.com clients compatible with BlackBerry mobile devices. This mobile trading platform gives customers flexibility and ease in accessing their accounts anytime and anywhere. MobiTradeOne provides added convenience in the ability to observe financial market trends and trade from...

Tags: Financial, Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, Analysis, BlackBerry Storm, MobiTradeOne, Financial Accounting, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-08-05

Windows 7: Now it's an economic savior too

Windows 7: Now it's an economic savior tooAnalogy:Churchill: "You can't tax yourself out of poverty"Obama: "Let's spend [future generation's money] to become wealthy again".WTF!If Cap and Trade Passes People Will Balk At Buying AnythingPrices of goods and services will go through the roof, think people are going to care about...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-06-29

Are economic conditions changing how you manage server turnover?

Guest post: TechRepublic's Scott Lowe, Chief Information Officer for Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, examines some of the reasons server sales have dropped and handicaps the recession's impact. For more posts like this see TechRepublic's data center blog. Between cloud computing, virtualization and economic...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Data Center, Virtualization, Sales, Server Sale, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-29

NOAA sounding like Noah: head for the hills

Here are some findings on global warming released just now by NOAA. Heat waves will become more frequent and intense, increasing threats to human health and quality of life. Extreme heat will also affect transportation and energy systems, and crop and livestock production. ·...

Tags: Report, NOAA, Transportation, Healthcare, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Senators ask FCC to look into iPhone-AT&T exclusivity

Senators ask FCC to look into iPhone-AT&T exclusivityDuhThe FCC is a little too late in the game. Yes, locking devices with plans impairs innovation. Isn't it obvious? Mobile networks in the U.S. are now years behind Europe and Asia. Many features the iPhone can do were crippled because of the...

Tags: Federal government, Government, Telecom & Utilities, Pre, phone, iPhone-AT&T exclusivity, iPhone-AT&T, carrier, FCC, exclusivity, innovation

Discussion threads 2009-06-16

Why does 'complex event processing' have to be so complex?

I've always felt that "complex event processing" is a term that scares people away. Perhaps there needs to be a softer way to describe what this thing is -- perhaps just plain old "event processing" will do? Or perhaps "sense and respond, times 100,000"? You don't need...

Tags: Event, Financial Services, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-11

Windows 7 to launch October 22; RTM next month

Windows 7 to launch October 22; RTM next monthHats off. I rather like 7. Will welcome the RTM come July!A bit sooner than expected though. Not that I'm complaining.Do you know if beta keys will work?Will the existing beta keys work and still expire of course or will people without...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows 7, RTM, RTM next month, RTM Next, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-06-02

Recession, depression, and a graduate job market drought

Summer is fast approaching and job vacancies are being snapped up faster than a fat person snapping up cake in a bakery. Undergraduates like me, but unlike me as you will see, are struggling to make it through the term through the lack of work and employment opportunities on the...

Tags: Human Resources, Industry Connection, Job, Management, Recession, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Technology Industry, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Lowering 3G Bills and Increasing Availability With Wi-Fi: Why Hotspots Make Sense for Smartphone Users

Smartphones and other Web-friendly mobile devices are taking enterprise IT departments by storm, and are often brought into the workplace as employees' personal devices. While analyst firms IDC and Strategic Analytics both confirm that sales of cellular handsets dropped sharply during the first quarter of 2009 as part of the...

Tags: HotSpot, iPass Inc., Mobile, Wi-Fi, Smartphone, Cellular Phones, Sales Strategy, Handhelds, 3G, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Hardware, Marketing

White papers 2009-05-04

Can smartphones buck the economic trends?

I spotted a couple of interesting take-aways within a CNET piece this morning about a state-of-smartphones report released today. These days, given the economics of the day, forecasts and predictions become a bit more, well, unpredictable. Still, market research firm Informa Telecoms & Media gives it a try. Here's my...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Smart Phone, Smart Phones, Sales Strategy, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Sales Force Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-09

Facebook's new look: Will it show us the money?

As a Facebook member, I have mixed feelings about today's announcement about look-and-feel changes that are coming to the site. Total strangers can now follow me without asking to be my friend. Fan pages will look just like profile pages. And the news feed becomes a live stream and adds...

Tags: Revenue, Facebook, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-04

Intel: Economy hurts but there are bright spots

Intel, like so many other tech companies, is feeling the pinch of the economy. And Paul Otellini, President and CEO of the chip maker, isn't trying to deny it. But at the Goldman Sachs Technology conference in San Francisco this week, Otellini said there are some factors that are working...

Tags: PC, Paul Otellini, Laptop Computer, Netbook, Intel Corp., That\, Upgrade Cycle, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-25

Screw licensing OS X - Give me an iPhone-based netbook

Screw licensing OS X - Give me an iPhone-based netbookHow about ...... Windows 7 touch netbook.RE: Screw licensing OS X - Give me an iPhone-based netbookApple say that they don't want to release netbooks for now,and probably forever, and don't know how to build $500 PC which are not crap....

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Apple Mac OS X, netbook, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-02-23