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- Leadership vs. Management
- Leadership vs. ManagementMy contentionIT leaders still need a current skill set to include project management experience, effective communications skills and an open mind. It doesn't matter how good you are at what you do, odds are there is still someone more technically proficient and possibly more personable. That's...
- Tags: Strategy, Financial services, NEXT Friday, figurehead, leadership, knowledge
- Discussion threads 2008-03-21
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- Apple: Perception is Reality
- Apple: Perception is RealityRE: Apple: Perception is RealityAbsolutely, Apple's response will do nothing to allay investors fears and in many cases will accelerate the rumour mill.Apple need to come out a flatly confirm or deny Steve's current health and produce, at the very least, a barebones succession plan to restore...
- Tags: Warren Buffet, Apple Inc., Perception IS reality
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- News to know: Oracle's Q4; Bill Gates' last day; Sticking with XP
- News to know: Oracle's Q4; Bill Gates' last day; Sticking with XPIn retrospect......no one will ever be able to deny the legacy that Bill Gates will leave behind.All criticisms and vitriol aside from opponents and corporate rivals, Gates is easily one of the great pioneers of Information Technology.We lesser mortals...
- Tags: Servers, Oracle Corp., Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry Ford
- Bill Gates is arguably the individual who has had the biggest impact on the world of technology and his departure from Microsoft on 27 June will mark the end of an era. Bill Gates is arguably the individual who has had the biggest impact on the world of technology...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Professional Development, Career, Tim Ferguson silicon.com, Microsoft, Vista
- News items 2008-06-25
- Strong sales focus as SAP shuffles the board
- Strong sales focus as SAP shuffles the boardZenckeZencke was a force at that company. He had the ability to get people deep inside engineering to move on customer problems quickly. He was one of the few people, inside the company that can easily turn the ocean liner of...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), board, SAP AG
- Discussion threads 2008-04-02
- From the 'I'm glad I'm not a Vista salesperson' files
- From the 'I'm glad I'm not a Vista salesperson' filesVISTA MigrainesI have been operating on VISTA since i bought a new P.C. in Feb. 07. I have had nothing but one problem after another. Everything from compatability to right simply put crashes of my whole system. I have had...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Sales force management, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, sales, marketing, Microsoft Windows, EOM
- Discussion threads 2007-06-21
- Yahoo investors, and others, make noise on the Web
- Yahoo investors, and others, make noise on the Web3 yrs ago I said Semel was a bad fit, and Yahoo-he's OutYahoo tried to buff up their image by playing to the favorites of Hollywood when importing Terry Semel, but all they got was an extremely over-priced figurehead. There is nothing...
- Tags: Channel management, Yahoo! Inc., Terry Semel, Web
- Discussion threads 2007-06-19
- Craig Newmark on eBay, Craigslist 'exit strategy'
- An evening with Craig Newmark is always a treat. The namesake behind the ever popular Craigslist has his signature shtick, but it is heartfelt.Think YouTube's Chad Hurley gets all the love?Newmark was the guest of honor at the Social Media Club's NYC meeting last evening and many of the new...
- Tags: Craigslist, Citizen Journalism
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- The Vista question is about want, not need
- The Vista question is about want, not needBut it all depends.....I agree with you in principle but if you want to make an informed purchase and get to really know what is under the hood of Vista and if it has the compelling something that makes the upgrade worthwhile how...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Tablets, Vista Question, Microsoft Windows Vista, tablet, Foldera
- Discussion threads 2007-01-26
- Now that Microsoft's licensed DRM doesn't "Play For Sure," will any DRM do it? Ever?
- The rest of the world is beginning to get hip to what happens when the provider of a digital rights management technology DRM decides to change gears as Microsoft recently did when it essentially forked its DRM into two versions: one that it keeps for itself and its Zune brand...
- Tags: General, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Security, Entertainment, Digital Restrictions Management, Legal, Hollywood on Demand
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- China: We don't censor the Internet. Really
- China: We don't censor the Internet. ReallyChina: We don't censor the Internet. ReallyI have lived in Beijing for 5 years. In that time I have never, ever been able to access BBC News or any of their related sites. I reckon that every day on average there are 5 sites...
- Tags: Big Lie, Communism, British Broadcasting Corp., Internet
- Discussion threads 2006-10-31
- Senate won't quiz telecoms about NSA spying
- Senate won't quiz telecoms about NSA spyingSuprise supriseMoney talks again....Dear Arlen,Please remove your face from Bush's rotting crotch.:o)Much coverage in US press?Has this had any significant coverage in the US papers?This really should be a major issue that's picked up on. My cynical mind however tells me...
- Tags: Telephony, Cheney, George W. Bush, NSA Spying, telecommunications, U.S. Senate
- Discussion threads 2006-06-06
- Islamic militants recruit using U.S. video games
- Islamic militants recruit using U.S. video gamesI can only speak for myselfbut in games with Nazi depictions, I've not tied the Nazi soldiers/party to modern day Germans. Too many times people tie a moment, a party, a figurehead or spokesman to be the feeling and voices of all of...
- Tags: Games, game, Islamic, Nazi, Islamic militant, militant, bad guy, video game, video
- Discussion threads 2006-05-05
- More momentum for Microsoft's media juggernaut
- More momentum for Microsoft's media juggernautThe smart players go with the winner...Business as usual.Is there a market for this?Great, Microsoft has a super product that is going to dominate the field. The question remains, is there really a field there? Do people really want video on demand on...
- Tags: TV & Home Theater, Digital media, HEY PEOPLE, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-07-06
- Computer scientists slam e-voting machines
- Computer scientists slam e-voting machinesI like the idea of a electronic voting machine"recommending they not be used in elections unless they provide a physical paper trail. "as long as it prints out a card i can verify and deposit somewhere in case of a recountUnless Bush/Kerry wins by an absolute...
- Tags: Printers, Tools & Techniques, Sales force management, computer, e-voting machine, e-voting, software
- Discussion threads 2004-09-27
- GNOME: We've overtaken Windows, bring on Apple
- GNOME: We've overtaken Windows, bring on AppleEasy enough to do.Since Windows has been stagnant for several years. I think they will have harder time catching Apple though.The most significant pointIs barely mentioned. That OS X is considered the OS to catch, not Winblows. MSFT is quickly becoming obsolete...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, MSFT, Apple Inc., GNOME, GUI, operating system, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2004-09-15
- Sun's McNealy swings at rivals
- Sun's McNealy swings at rivalsAnd yet didn't take a look at his mirrorto see the miserable failings of being the egocentric, courtroom R&D over tech R&D, figurehead that painted a negative malaise over his company, embattling it with more 'competitors' than by the virtue of the products created and evaluated...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, desktop, Sun Employee, Sun Microsystems Inc., open standard, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2004-06-30
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