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Wyeth Executive Optimizes Productivity With Assistive Technology Tools

Wyeth Corporation is one of the world's largest research-driven pharmaceutical and healthcare products companies. The Executive Director of Customer Operations skillfully and efficiently handles his responsibilities for overall sales and distribution for large corporate customers of Wyeth Corporation. The executive director interacts fluidly with customers and co-workers using assistive technology...

Tags: Wyeth, Executive Director, Mobility, Tool, Keyboards, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals

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SageCRM.com - Helping Create Lifetime Relationships at Big Brothers Big Sisters

The Big Brothers Big Sisters organization is one of the nation's most respected charities. In 2004, the organization's growth showed signs of slowing. Donations were flat and volunteerism was down. What the organization obviously lacked was a cohesive method of tracking individuals involved with the charity. The new executive director...

Tags: Executive Director, Relationship, Sage Software, CRM, Big Brothers Big Sisters Organization, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software

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Wordpress picks up college newspapers with CoPress

Wrong URLThe Copress website is wrong, it points to copress.com but the correct is copress.org.Great post, anyway.No official "deal" with WordPressTo clarify, CoPress has no official "deal" or partnership with WordPress. We've adopted the platform because of its features, ease of use, and flexibility, and thinks it performs wonderfully for...

Tags: CoPress, Wordpress

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Senior IBM exec among those charged in Wall Street insider trading sting

Greed on Wall Street has landed six people - including a long-time, high-level IBM executive - in handcuffs after the FBI charged them with being involved with "the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history." In all, the six netted illegal profits of more than $20...

Tags: Hedge Fund, FBI, Wall Street, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Chiesi, MOFFAT, Federal Government, Investment, Financial Services, Government, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Wi-Fi Direct connections coming soon; Like Bluetooth, but better

The Wi-Fi Alliance this morning announced that it is nearing completion of a new specification that will allow WiFi devices to connect to each other - devices such as mobile phones, cameras, printers, as well as devices such as keyboards and headphones - and that certification is expected to begin...

Tags: Device, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Bluetooth, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Torvalds calls Linux "bloated" and "scary." Is he right? [poll]

Has Linux become a victim of its own success? At the LinuxCon conference in Portland this week, Linux creator Linus Torvalds dropped a bit of a bomb when he said that the open-source kernel had not become the "streamlined, hyper-efficient kernel I envisioned when I started writing...

Tags: Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-22

eBay names Sun veteran head of data center strategy

EBay has appointed Dean Nelson, a Sun Microsystems veteran, to be in charge of its data center strategy. Nelson will be senior director of global data center strategy, architecture and operations. Nelson is founder of Data Center Pulse, a non-profit data center industry group. ...

Tags: Strategy, Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., eBay Inc., Dean Nelson, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-08

Live Webcast: How AOL Analyzes Human Capital Metrics to Drive Strategy

Every part of every organization has heard the cry for more metrics, more analytics, more fact-based decision-making. For some functions, it can be difficult to get your story heard if you are not talking about sexy metrics that are directly impacting things like revenue. But that doesn't mean your story...

Tags: Strategy, Metrics, Webcast, America Online Inc., Tableau Software, Human Capital, Tools & Techniques, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Management, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2009-08-28

How do you look on the Internet? MIT Sociable Media Group's "Personas" shows how you look

A friend (yes, I have a few) pointed out an interesting "installation" that can be found on MIT Sociable Media Group's website.  It's called Personas. Personas was created by Aaron Zinman, with help from Alex Dragulescu, Yannick Assogba and Judith Donath. This installation allows a person to...

Tags: Team, Media, Reference, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Personas, Internet, Team Management, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-24

Apple should name Cook to board

But for one small issuethe others on the board are outsiders, with no chance to move into Job's position of running Apple.Except for Cook. He is a person on the inside. RE: Apple should name Cook to boardLarry, Cook is a fine executive, but they are replacing an outside director....

Tags: Corporate governance, Apple Inc., board

Discussion threads 2009-08-14

AT&T testing iPhone MMS in Washington (Updated 4x)

While on vacation last week I received an MMS on my iPhone (running OS 3.1 build 7C116a) while passing through Forks, Washington. I received the message from a user on Verizon Wireless on the east coast. Normally this would be a non-story, except for the fact that...

Tags: Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-08-12

FTC: Our probe of Google-Apple boards continues

FTC: Our probe of Google-Apple boards continuesOh and of course we won't mention...Former Microsoft executive Steven VanRoekel recently became Managing Director of the FCC.And if you seriously believe, given Microsoft's history of planting "ex" executives in positions of influence, that an ex-Microsoftie in the FCC does not raise issues concerning...

Tags: Corporate governance, Federal government, Apple board, FTC, Microsoft Corp., board, Apple Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

Palm Pre's creepy ads: They worked. You're still talking about them

There's a good bit of chatter today about the latest Palm Pre ad. In a nutshell, actress Tamara Hope, who oddly sort of resembles Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation, goes all abstract about the Palm Pre. And folks can't handle abstract...

Tags: Advertisement, Palm Inc., Ad Age, Palm Pre, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-04

NYT's Pogue starts revolution vs. carriers' 15-second voicemail delay

You know that monotonous introductory message that plays every time you want to leave a voicemail? "At the tone, please record your message. When you have finished recording, you may hang up, or press 1 for more options. To leave a callback number, press 5."...

Tags: Message, Verizon Communications Inc., Voicemail, Beep, Carrier, NYT, Telecommunications, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-30

TechRepublic's CIO Jury: Split on deploying Windows 7

IT departments have largely ignored Windows Vista and stuck with Windows XP as the corporate standard. However, Windows 7 has received a warmer response from IT professionals than Vista did, and TechRepublic’s CIO Jury is split down the middle on whether to deploy Windows 7. On July...

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., CIO, Information Technology, Director Of Information Technology, Jury, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Enterprise architecture heads north: report from Open Group

John Meyer of The Open Group sent some detailed dispatches from the group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference, being held this week in Toronto. Thanks to John for a great job summarizing many of the key insights coming from the conference -- some highlights from day one are summarized below:...

Tags: Open Group, Enterprise Architect, Electronic Arts Inc., Information Technology, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-07-23

Pigs are flying low: Why Microsoft open-sourced its Linux drivers

Pigs are flying low: Why Microsoft open-sourced its Linux driversgpl2 forced them to free the source code In my opinion they need to kill virtualbox, vmware or kvm (redhat/ubuntu) so it's doesn't matter to throw some lines of code to the linux kernel via the novell proxy programmers Here is...

Tags: Federal government, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., FCC, Linux Drivers, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-07-22

SOA's squishy paybacks revisited

A couple of years back, I posted some observations on the issues around SOA payback. Some analysts still say there has been little to no payback from these efforts.  Since SOA payback is still such a raw and confusing issue, here is an updated reprise of that post: ...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Payback, SOA, Service, Business Agility, David Linthicum, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-07-17

A CIO's take on the home PC support dilemma

This is a guest post by TechRepublic's Scott Lowe, CIO of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. You can find more posts like this in TechRepublic's IT Leadership blog. This week, Bill Detwiler posed the following question in a poll: Should corporate help desks support home PCs? The responses...

Tags: Home PC, Employee, PC, Computer, Productivity, Help Desk, It Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-16

Internet Radio agreement: Good enough for now

Hollywood and Silicon Valley have reached an agreement on Internet radio - an experimental payment structure that is far from perfect but much better than the alternative rate system that threatened to put Web-based streaming sites out of business. The agreement creates a tiered-system for the radio...

Tags: Revenue, Internet Radio, Agreement, Webcaster, SoundExchange, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-07