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- 8 common lies told by enterprise software sales people
- 8 common lies told by enterprise software sales peopleThe Truth Is Out ThereGreat post and great e-Book! Its about time someone told the truth about enterprise sales!ObservationsHere on ZDNet I've posted:"The normal condition of software is broken."The author states:"The bottom line with custom software in the enterprise is that...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, Tools & Techniques, salesperson, IT IS, enterprise software sales people, common ly, enterprise software sale, IT Department, ROI, software, enterprise software
- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
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- Appearance: PPUG meets tomorrow in Philly
- If you're in the Philadelphia area I'd like to invite you to attend the Philadelphia PowerBook User Group PPUG meeting tomorrow at the Manayunk Brewery and Restaurant. We meet from 12 noon to 3pm over lunch and fine local beer. Want to debate my theory on...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Philadelphia, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- iPhone gas application roundup
- On 18 June 2008 I published my iPhone app wishlist and I'm happy that most of my most requested applications have been released (Thank you Texas Hold'Em!). Two my most request applications dealt with fuel, specifically a fuel economy tracker and a cheap gas finder. Several iterations...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Vehicle, MPG, AccuFuel, Gas Finder, Roi/Tco, GPS, 3G, Handhelds, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Software makers may sue eBay
- Tired of being "stiff-armed" by eBay, the Software and Information Industry Association is signaling its ready to sue over pirated software sales on the dominant online auction site, PC World reports. SIIA has offered eBay several suggestions for stemming the sale of pirated software on...
- Tags: Software, Software Information Industry Association, eBay Inc., Tiffany, Tools & Techniques, Piracy, Sales Strategy, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched
- Digital media delivery firm RealNetworks has shipped a high-prority patch to cover four gaping holes in its flagship RealPlayer software, warning that the vulnerabilities could put users at risk of code execution attacks. The patch comes a few hours after Secunia released an advisory warning for one...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., RealNetworks RealPlayer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- What paper trail?
- I've been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I've blogged before, I am still one of those people who can't help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....
- Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Talent development
- Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...
- Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- EIC podcast: Microsoft's analyst meeting; Icahn's deal; Facebook
- On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan is back and we talk about Microsoft's analyst meeting, Kevin Johnson's departure from the software giant, Carl Icahn's deal with Yahoo and Facebook. The big news this week was Microsoft's financial meeting (see Mary Jo Foley and Ina Fried's coverage)...
- Tags: Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Dan, Podcasts, Portals, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing
- On the heels of the release of weaponized exploit code for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, Microsoft has joined the chorus of security pros pleading with DNS server providers to immediately apply patches to protect users from malicious attacks. The Redmond, Wash. security...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Dan Kaminsky, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS X, Networking, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Britain moves against illegal file sharing
- CBC News out of Canada is reporting that British ISPs are making an aggressive move against illegal file sharing by implementing a program designed to discover copyright violators, who will be sent warning letters and may potentially have their internet connections disconnected. For more on the article,...
- Tags: File-sharing, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated)
- Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Cool Tools - Slingpage extends stickies and sharing to Firefox users
- Slingpage, which announced its social browsing extension for Internet Explorer last month, will introduce an equally feature-rich version of its service to Mozilla Firefox users next week. Slingpage offers a way for Web surfers to find information about favorite topics via "Slingcast" feeds as well as create...
- Tags: Monitor, Mozilla Firefox, Note, Tool, Slingpage, Web Browsers, Monitors & Displays, Internet, Hardware, Components, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- iPhone 2.0 jailbreaker for iPhone 2g/3g is available
- The iPhone DevTeam blog has released the development sources for their tool xpwn version 0.3. This tool is the firmware 2.0 version of the team's "cross-platform jailbreaking library/command-line utility". The team claims it has been tested on Linux, Windows XP, and Windows Vista for both the iPhone 2g and the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Productivity, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- New telescopes embedded in glasses lens
- Small bioptic telescopes mounted on glasses to help people with visual impairments have been in existence for about 60 years and are allowed for use in driving by 39 states in the U.S. Most of them were either too heavy or too ugly to be widely used. Now, a Harvard...
- Tags: Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...
- Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Offshore outsourcers likely to beef up security following Bangalore blasts
- A series of bombs have exploded in Bangalore and companies that have technology operations in India are likely to need increased security precautions following what appears to be a terrorist attack. According to various reports from Reuters and Rediff.com, nine bomb blasts have rattled Bangalore, which hosts...
- Tags: India, Bangalore, Rediff.com India Ltd., Sacchin Uppal, Outsourcing, Business Security, Security, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer
- Update 07/25/2008: Aaron Portnoy of TippingPoint's security research group was kind enough to point out that I'm actually not affected by this, since I've installed the newest version of RealPlayer. From Aaron's email: Notice the Secunia advisory states it affects RealPlayer 10.5... the latest is 11.x, which now uses...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., Buffer-overflow, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Secunia Research, Vendor, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Who do you trust, me or that gadget?
- One of the most fascinating trends in medical computing involves the use of gadgets to extract data people are otherwise reluctant to give, and to offer advice on that data when it's needed. Do you trust the gadget more than the doctor? Will you obey the gadget? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Teen, Gadget, Tablets, Notebooks, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Marketing Research, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- My Awesome IT Job: Researcher and manager, Microsoft
- Desney Tan, researcher and manager at Microsoft, says the toughest technology lesson he has learned was that for the most part, people don't care about technology--they really just want to get things done, no matter how snazzy what you've created may be. Part of an ongoing series profiling Awesome IT...
- Tags: Life, Researcher, Information Technology, Hobby, Microsoft Corp., Team Management, Recruitment & Selection, Productivity, Strategy, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 'Branded community' leads to trademark morass
- After publishing a guest blog on enterprise communities, I received what appeared to be a cross between a sales pitch and cease-and-desist email from a branding business. How is this approach good branding? by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Community, Branding, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
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