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- Xerox CEO: Time for Washington's help
- She's been called the second most powerful woman in business. By now, she may be No. 1. In a wide-ranging discussion about technology, politics, and her company's plans, Xerox's CEO tells News.com's Charles Cooper that the tech industry hasn't found a particularly sympathetic ear in the nation's capital, especially when...
- Tags: Xerox Corp., CEO, Human Resources, Labor Relations, News, xerox, ann mulcahy, charles cooper, politics, president, government, election, h-1b
- Videos 2008-06-06
- Aussie water rage kills one during hot election season; and now carbon gets hot, too
- First, you must remember it's the austral spring. Australia is warming up for another hot season. And they've had seven years of drought. Now we learn one man there died after being beaten for watering his yard...well, just wait until they run out of water in some...
- Tags: Election, Carbon, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Internet Commerce Enabler Makes Election Results Available on the Web
- Elections are an important aspect of life for the citizens of Rome. With well over three million voters, 30 political parties, and 3,800 polling sites, Rome's biggest fiesta is the election of the Mayor. Roman government compliance laws set strict guidelines for election procedures. Upon receiving permission, Rome had one...
- Tags: Web, Election, Unisys Corp., Internet Commerce, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing
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- Web Site for Greek Elections Attracts Over 150 Million Hits
- The Ministry of Interior in Athens wanted to improve its results service for voters in the 2002 municipal and prefectural elections. Using the Microsoft .NET Framework, Delta Singular provided not only results via the Internet but also via SMS messages and hand held computers. The reporting system is one of...
- Tags: Web, Election, Web Site, Hit, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Channel Management, Internet, Telephony, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Marketing, Networking, Hardware
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- Yahoo and Icahn Reach Agreement
- The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Yahoo has reached an agreement with Carl Icahn, the activist investor who has been waging a proxy contest to unseat the board and push Yahoo closer to a deal with Microsoft. Yahoo said Mr. Icahn will join the board himself. The board...
- Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Agreement, Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Yahoo, Icahn settle proxy fight: Assessing winners and losers
- Updated below: Yahoo and billionaire investor Carl Icahn have settled their looming proxy war. According to a statement Monday, Yahoo's board of directors will be expanded to 11 members and one of those seats will go to Icahn. The two remaining seats will be filled based on...
- Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja
- Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninjaLiberties"Mr. Future President, while you’re at it, could you also do something about all of the civil liberties we’re losing because of the ‘war on terrorism’? That’d be great. Thanks!"that is the point of Cyber Czar - censor what...
- Tags: SECURITY, cyber-security measure, comprehensive cyber-security measure, Obama, cybersecurity
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018
- Since my blogging buddy Harry Fuller is on vacation this week, I need to pick up the gauntlet and ensure that we've got some good political fodder for those of you who want to debate the existence of global warming and the necessity of reducing our dependence on foreign oil....
- Tags: San Jose, Mr., Al Gore, Fossil Fuel, Gore, Blogging, Investment, Internet, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- AMD CEO Ruiz out; Can Meyer turn it around?
- Updated: AMD CEO Hector Ruiz has stepped down and the chipmaker has named chief operating officer Dirk Meyer as its new leader. The news comes amid the latest financial miss for AMD--a second quarter loss that missed estimates by a wide margin. Meyer's job: Restore credibility. According...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Meyer, Product Momentum, Asset Management, Research & Development, Processors, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- We don't want you to talk, Mr. Ballmer
- We don't want you to talk, Mr. BallmerThe ghost of Mr. Ballmerwill be forced to bear the clippy's that he has forged in this life.Oh, the eternal wailing.Well, hey, it IS fun to watch them squirm. But, it probably DOES help themshort term at least to create FUD around open...
- Tags: open source, MSFT, Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-12
- Microsoft-Yahoo on again?
- Carl Icahn and Steve Ballmer announced plans today for Microsoft to acquire some or all of Yahoo if the current board was ousted in an upcoming election on August 1st. While they didn't come out and say it was a done deal, it does appear that Microsoft is still interested...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Corporate Governance, Entrepreneurship, Search, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Icahn, Ballmer pair up, talk Microhoo; Push to boot Yang and Yahoo's board
- Updated: Activist investor Carl Icahn and Microsoft are now in cahoots to toss Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and the company's board of directors. Icahn says in a letter that he has been chatting up Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer along with other key executives about how the two...
- Tags: Transaction, Steve Ballmer, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Icahn, Steve, Search, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Inventor of Web lamented election results
- Inventor of Web lamented election resultsLAUDING G DUBYA????i had come across these statements while searching for an article and (albeit 4 yrs later) i was appalled by the plaudits given him by so many!!! he will, no doubt, be remembered in history as a "who cares" and the...
- Tags: Channel management, election result, Inventor, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- McCain's campaign team has no Facebook chops
- You have to admire the chutzpah of the idea of convincing voters that they should vote for a candidate through an arcade game rip-off of Space Invaders, because it's simply ludicrous coming from a candidate who has declared he doesn't even know how to "use a computer." Aaron Jacobs-Smith of...
- Tags: Facebook, Team, John McCain, McCain, Jacobs-Smith, Games, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Would a re-regulated oil market destroy green tech investment?
- Would a re-regulated oil market destroy green tech investment?How do you define a speculator?The problem is not the guys who buy and sell commodities on an ongoing basis, it is the investors who have discovered a new asset class called "natural resources" and who take, and hold long positions betting...
- Tags: Commodity Market, green technology, green tech investment
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Shell edges closer to Arctic drilling, but still has to delay
- Shell Oil has obtained one of its needed permits to begin exploratory drilling offshore in Alaska. It got the EPA's permissions to release a certain amount of nitrogen oxides at each of its proposed drilling sites. The EPA says that is the amount released annually by 1500 school...
- Tags: Offshore, Permit, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Alaska, Outsourcing, Advertising & Promotion, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-21
- House approves telecom immunity in 'compromise'
- Congressional leaders reached a compromise on a telecom immunity bill and the House passed it handily 293-129, AP reports. Compromise hardly seems like the word it, though. Listen to Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.), the lead Republican negotiator, quoted in the Wall Street Journal: ...
- Tags: Immunity, Telephony, Government, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- A security company wants you to DDoS its servers
- A security company wants you to DDoS its serversWhat a JokeI totally agree - Anyone with the capacity to perform DDoS is not gonna give a crap about a $50 gift certificate to think geek.Legal ImplicationsFrom the perspective of US law, it sounds as though they might be solicting others...
- Tags: security, server, distributed denial of service
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- Obama benefits from the Net's election power
- Obama benefits from the Net's election powerObama loves Pooh!He's a man filled with and surrounded by hate, but hey, he loves Pooh bear. Obama for pres!
- Tags: Obama benefit, Pooh, Obama
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- Obama benefits from the Net's election power
- The Internet has fundamentally changed the second most important aspect of elections: money. In fact, writes Tom Regan in the Christian Science Monitor's "Innovation" column, if not for Internet fundraising, Barack Obama would not be the Democratic nominee. In a year when he continues to break all fundraising records,...
- Tags: Network, Benefit, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
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