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Financial Profiles Helps Advisors Deal With Small Business, Estate Planning Issues: Tom Stahl, an advisor with LPL Financial Services since 1987, serves more than 200 small business owners in the Denver area on either a fee or commission basis. An eight-year user of Financial Profiles' solution, Stahl finds the benefits of Profiles+ Professional to be in its ability to gather and...; Tags: Commission, Advisor, Small Business, Financial Profiles Inc., Sales Force Management, Investment, Sales, Finance; Case studies

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Press Day: Google Heath is now public: Today Google hosted their "factory tour" which was basically a chance for them to give the press a good idea of what they have been working on. It was heavy on the explanation of how Google's search results are becoming smarter, and more able to predict what a person...; Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Garett Rogers; Blog posts 2008-05-19
Nanorobots to improve health care: Using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases is not a new idea check here or there. Of course, nanorobots floating inside our bodies to improve our health are still years away. However, an international team of American and Australian researchers is developing a nanorobot hardware architecture for medical defense...; Tags: Software, 3D, Protein, Biomedical, Health Care, Hardware Architecture, Healthcare, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-19
Cohen's negotiated open source idea moving ahead: Former OSDL head Stuart Cohen's Collaborative Software Initiative today rolled out the first successes in its "negotiated open source" initiative. When we first wrote about this last year, we called what he was doing a "vertical application stack." But in an interview with ZDNet last week it...; Tags: Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Cohen, CSI, Open Source, Regulations, Government, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-19
Microsoft: Doing Facebook, Yahoo search two-step to set up Google showdown?: The rumor mill over Microsoft's search for an online strategy is working overtime. The latest: Microsoft is working to buy Yahoo's search business and then Facebook. These rumors, swirling about Techmeme from John Furrier with an assist from Kara Swisher, have been stoked by Microsoft's revelation over...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Yahoo Search, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., IPO, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Financial Services, Management, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-19

Panda Security delivers cloud-based security management service for SMBs: IT security provider Panda Security has unveiled its Managed Office Protection solution, a security-as-a-service offering aimed at small and medium businesses SMBs as well as large companies with a significant number of geographically dispersed offices. The service from the Panda keeps the total cost of ownership TCO...; Tags: Administrator, PC, Security Management, Small And Medium Business, Panda Security, Managed Office Protection, Protection Product, Updates, Smb/Sme, Security, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-19
Dell names new CFO: Dell said Monday that Brian Gladden will become the company's new chief financial officer. Gladden replaces Don Carty, who resigned effective June 13 statement. He will remain on Dell's board of directors. Carty joined Dell in January 2007 and was credited with playing "a key role in...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-19
Leading US search engines in April 2008: Leading US search engines in April 2008Gosh! What a surprise!Look at those numbers and the Bloatfarm is again the cellar-smeller in search.Why could that be?Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the great dungheap has no monopoly position from which to harass and coerce customers. Maybe...; Tags: Financial accounting, Bloatfarm, developer, search engine; Discussion threads 2008-05-17
Buying from the enemy: Last week zdnet bloggers Richard Koman and Michael Krigsman independently responded to the news that the FBI has been pursuing a major criminal investigation into the sale of counterfeit IT components - particularly Cisco routers. As part of his report Krigsman...; Tags: FBI, Federal Government, Government, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-17
Disaster averted: But (sob) my next notebook might not be an Apple one: I'm thinking I owe GreenTech Pastures readers an update on the state of my Apple PowerBook G4, which now is resting comfortably on the desk behind me, although it's in a bit of rehab with some applications that have disappeared. (Yes, I have two computers, so shoot me.) One of...; Tags: Toshiba Tecra, Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-05-17
Run by Wall Street? A Cause or a Company?: Guest post: Anshu Sharma is author of Anshu's blog, which focuses on Software as a Service and the emerging SaaS Ecosystem. He is an Enterprise Irregular. In light of the Yahoo! - Microsoft fiasco, fellow bloggers Larry Dignan and Vinnie Mirchandani have been asking the question whether...; Tags: Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., Vision, Wall, Management Team, Software As A Service (SaaS), Financial Accounting, Construction, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Management, Anshu Sharma; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Microsoft blames users for Vista infections: Microsoft blames users for Vista infectionsyes, yes. yesJust blame everything on the users. Its like if Honda came out and said: "Well our car is the safest we ever build, but since so many people drive and crash it, the car safety rating went down."Just another reason to switch to...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Operating systems, NT-kernel, Macintosh user, Microsoft Corp., Vista infection, infection, Microsoft Windows Vista; Discussion threads 2008-05-16
(Photos: Cracking open the Atari 2600): (Photos: Cracking open the Atari 2600)The Atari 2600 VCS and Atari 800 Computer - Hooray!I still love to play from time to time. Some of the games still hold up well. They take no time to understand and there is nothing you need to unlock to experience the...; Tags: Games, Atari Inc., Atari 2600, game, Cracking Open, photograph; Discussion threads 2008-05-16
Web 2.0 and the end of advertising: The idea that software on the Web is going to be largely funded by advertising is just so wrong-headed, I hardly know where to start. It had me spluttering in the latest BriefingsDirect Insights analyst podcast hosted by Dana Gardner — more on that in a moment. Let's move on...; Tags: Software, Web, Web 2.0, Advertisement, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Dynamic documents as two-way end points help bind people and processes to SOA: Read the full paper. Listen to the podcast. Sponsor: JustSystems North America. Making services oriented architecture SOA a fixture across larger swaths of enterprise IT and business processes has grown into a top goal. Finding additional innovation to amplify a SOA's value is therefore always welcome. ...; Tags: Document, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Does 'SOA lifecycle management' say it better than 'SOA governance'?: Oh what a difference five years makes. Back in the good old days, 2002-03, IT people at the time our ancestors were fascinated with this new approach called "service oriented architecture," which would make integration faster and cheaper and less onerous. Now that many companies have services in production, they...; Tags: Lifecycle Management, SOA, SOA Governance, Miko, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Yahoo to Icahn: You misunderstand: Yahoo's board has responded to activist investor Carl Icahn: "Your letter reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal." That letter--delivered by Icahn earlier Thursday Techmeme--has one theme: Yahoo's board botched the Microsoft deal and hasn't served shareholder interest. In its...; Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Stockholder, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-15
BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking: Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...; Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Inkjet and laser multifunction peripherals enjoyed a healthy growth of 11% and 13% respectively in Q4 2007 in China: Both the inkjet and laser multifunction peripherals enjoyed a healthy growth of 11% and 13% respectively in Q4 2007 in China, according to IDC. The demand from the public, education and financial sectors increased the sales of the SDM Serial Dot Matrix printer, resulting in a 16% increase in Q4...; Tags: Inkjet Printer, Laser, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals, NB; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Commercialising the Semantic Web: Commercialising the Semantic WebOne specific opportunityGood post Paul. One specific opportunity at SemTech will be my session, where we'll drill into the financial services space to see how technologies are actually being applied within specific sub-sectors and processes (not so much as examples of pushing data, but tools/methods) and...; Tags: Semantic Web; Discussion threads 2008-05-15