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Campaigning for the Empowerment of Women in IT in Zambia: Barbara Munyati is one of Zambia's rare female success stories. As a lecturer in Computer Sciences at the University of Zambia, she is amongst the few women in her country who have a responsible job, and she is often approached by headhunters to work for rival organisations. Barbara understands the...; Tags: Women, Information Technology, Empowerment, Cisco Systems Inc., Barbara Munyati, Barbara, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources; Case studies

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What could Open Office do with a business model?: What could Open Office do with a business model?No need for built-in AV in OOoWhy in the world would an office tool need a "built-in" anti-virus??Security should be part of the original design and not just an after thought. Including an anti-virus program from the same company that created (and...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, government start, antivirus, anti-virus package; Discussion threads 2008-07-05
Achieving magical results in IT: Achieving magical results in ITClient assignments, no thanksI agree that Trust and empowerment are powerful motivators, but I doubt that there will be many cases where empowerment will be on the menu while assigned to a client area. This will require a similar shift in thinking for the client, away...; Tags: Strategy, information technology; Discussion threads 2008-06-30
Business PCs are going nowhere fast: "Everything that can be invented has been invented." If Charles Duell, in 1888 the Commissioner for the U.S. patent office, actually said that, then he would, of course, have been wrong; but I think the claim may have some applicability to the business PC in 2008....; Tags: PC, Business PC, Unix, Desktops, Hardware, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-14
SAP's CTO: Business knows 'what', IT knows 'how': The Naked IT interview series talks with innovators about the evolving relationship between IT and business. Please listen to the audio podcast and enjoy the brief excerpts below. Vishal Sikka is SAP's Chief Technology Officer. Reporting directly to CEO Henning Kagermann, Vishal is responsible for driving...; Tags: CTO, Line Of Business, Information Technology, Packaged Application, SAP AG, Business byDesign, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-04-28

WOA may soon eclipse SOA as most impactful business transformation agent: In a recent blog post I questioned whether services oriented architecture SOA was driving substantive transformation inside of enterprise IT. My conclusion is that something is not quite right in SOA-ville. The uptake of general-purpose service enablement is by no means a hockey stick trend line. The...; Tags: Web, Agent, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-04-04
UI guidelines: one reason the Mac shines, Windows sucks: Is there a method behind the madness of the Windows experience and the elegance of the Macintosh? One reason can be seen with just one look at the human interface principles found on Apple's and Microsoft's developer sites. This exploration was sparked by a blog post on...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, User Interface, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Kermadec, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Software, Apple Mac OS, Hardware, David Morgenstern; Blog posts 2008-03-26
Any former Microsoft execs looking to turn over a new leaf?: Any former Microsoft execs looking to turn over a new leaf?About rightMS is enormously wealthy, but at the cost of their reputation Hugh Hefner is rich too. OLPC doesn't need that.Enough with the sarcasm, alreadyObviously (regarding Negroponte's previous statements about Microsoft) the quote is simply equating "Microsoft" with "ubiquitous,"...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., new leaf, leaf; Discussion threads 2008-03-07
The worst PC myth of all: The worst PC myth of allThe myth is that you know what you're talking about.You start off by defining "the best lie" and then you set about telling it.I've been working with personal computers since they were first invented, and have been working as a consultant to corporations using them...; Tags: Desktops, PC; Discussion threads 2008-02-27
ICANN might spit out domain-tasting grace period: ICANN might spit out domain-tasting grace periodPLEASE! DO IT!!!I don't care if the original purpose was for typos. That's a lame excuse. Millions of addresses are locked up by cybersquatters. Many times, they just renew it for another free "trial". Or, another cybersquatter picks them up. They are never freed...; Tags: Typos, grace period, ICANN, domain-tasting grace period; Discussion threads 2008-01-30
Follow-up: Build-A-Bear says it will take privacy suggestions to heart: There were lots of reactions to my last post about Build-A-Bear luring kids and parents into divulging personal information they might otherwise, in other contexts, guard more closely. While some responses channeled Scott McNealy, most seemed to get that my beef was not with the fact of the data...; Tags: Information, Build-A-Bear, Privacy Policy, Upshot, E-mail, Online Communications, Denise Howell; Blog posts 2008-01-26
The Big Switch: The network becomes the data center: The Big Switch: The network becomes the data centerSounds like McNealy's Big Friggin Webtone Switch 2.0Sounds like McNealy's Big Friggin Webtone Switch 2.0. Only this time, there won't even be ANY servers. It will be in the magical cloud. The network is the computer, who needs computers....; Tags: Data centers, Servers, Reading, data center, server, consolidation, Big Switch, network; Discussion threads 2008-01-13
Commercial the dominant word in open source: Commercial the dominant word in open sourceYes, MS is forced outside of their comfort zone!MS does NOT like that they can not force everybody over to higher end hardware to run Vista. MS is now forced to TRY to make XP run on low end hardware to deny Linux an...; Tags: open-source community, Microsoft Corp., open source, man-hour, dominant Word; Discussion threads 2008-01-01
OLPC's XO Laptop hits mass production: OLPC's XO Laptop hits mass productionAre there any orders?Or are they hoping someone buys them?Rugged, low power data loggerThis thing would make an ideal data logger for one of the projects that I'm working on. I'm going to try to convince my boss to purchase one.RE: OLPC's XO Laptop...; Tags: Uruguay, XO-laptop, One Laptop Per Child project, Milly, No_Ax; Discussion threads 2007-11-06
China's cyberwar: Is it all that surprising?: China's cyberwar: Is it all that surprising?Why blog about it?Who cares? As long as Americans continue to be in love with the "sell for less" concept that essentially equals buying products made in China because you can save a couple bucks, they are in no position to complain about what...; Tags: irony, cyberwar, free trade, IS IT, Cuba; Discussion threads 2007-10-18
A turn in the antispyware war?: A turn in the antispyware war?WTF?A Common sense ruling in our US court system?!?! I tell ya, this country is going down hill fast.Next, we will be electing a president that has common sense ....;->WTF? Completely different.Standard journalistic practice is to sumarize the information needed to understand the article before...; Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, anti-spyware, spyware, advertisement, software; Discussion threads 2007-10-03
Christina Aguilera Glamour Screensaver (zip): Christina Aguilera's overtly sexual image has been subject of intense criticism and ridicule, although in recent times it has given her respect for promoting independence and female empowerment. A must download free screensaver for true fans. Contains 24 high quality photos.; Tags: Screensaver; Software downloads 2007-09-26
FeedHub brings a layer of intelligence to feeds: RSS and Atom have brought some order out of chaos. The information that you subscribe via those protocols magically arrives in your feed reader, but it's still overload when you track several hundred feeds. At DEMOfall 07, mSpoke is giving feed readers more smarts with FeedHub, which formulates...; Tags: Algorithm, FeedHub, Engineering, RSS, Internet, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-09-23
Open source booming in K-12 education: Open source booming in K-12 educationOne thing...Peer reviewed journals are nice and all. But do you really expect high schoolers to understand the papers, and how many of them are free and accessible for free from home?Other than that, I'd be interested to see you delve deeper into this topic.I...; Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, open source, Internet, computer, K-12; Discussion threads 2007-08-31
Vista fixes to come down the tubes - Out in time for Leopard: Vista fixes to come down the tubes - Out in time for LeopardCan you go a single week without bringing Apple...into the blog. What does Microsoft fixes need to be tied to the release of Leopard ???Why does Leopard matter?Microsoft has the market cornered. Apple is a small player....; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Peer Comparison, OSX, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Leopard, Microsoft Windows Vista; Discussion threads 2007-07-31