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- Seesmic fires a third of staff as recession bites
- Loic LeMeur, CEO of Seesmic has announced the company is reducing its headcount by seven people. That may not sound like a huge number but as LeMeur says in the video announcement: ...the longevity of the company is obviously of significant importance - and thus we must reduce costs...
- Tags: Recession, Video, Seesmic, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- ZDNet blogger: working from home
- More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, intranet's and extranet's, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier...
- Tags: Phone, Tea, Blogger, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- The Secrets of CEOs
- I just finished reading an advance US manuscript of 'The Secrets of CEOs - 150 Global Chief Executives lift the lid on business, life and leadership' by Steve Tappin, who is a managing partner in the global CEO & board practice of Heidrick & Struggles, and Andrew Cave, a leading...
- Tags: CEO, Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- EIC podcast: Tech economy turmoil; Cloud computing; Citizen journalism fails
- On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan and I talk about the economy's impact on the tech sector, cloud computing and citizen journalism following the fake Steve Jobs heart attack story. On the economy Dan and I covered a lot of waterfront. We talked about technology spending...
- Tags: Podcast, Citizen Journalism, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Five unfortunate ways the financial crisis affects your daily grind
- Five unfortunate ways the financial crisis affects your daily grindJob SecurityWhile some of those points are quite good, I have to question " Skilled workers might not be spared". When was the last time skilled workers *were* spared? In the IT field, our jobs have been hanging on a...
- Tags: Financial services, bank, financial
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Apple aims to dismiss Psystar countersuit
- Apple asked a U.S. District Court judge to dismiss Psystar's counterclaims against the company. As background, Apple launched a suit against Psystar alleging that the Mac clone maker harmed its brand. Psystar all resources fired back arguing that Apple was abusing monopoly power and launched its own...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Antitrust, Apple Inc., Computer, Psystar, Productivity, Corporate Law, Desktops, Security, Business Operations, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Is security really a big drag on innovation?
- Have you ever held back innovation because of information security concerns? Apparently more than a few technology executives are repeatedly gun shy. According to an IDC-RSA study to be released Wednesday security fears stifle business innovation at 80 percent of companies. This security vs. innovation theme was...
- Tags: Innovation, RSA Security Inc., Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Congress passes 'unconstitutional' Pro-IP bill, Bush likely to veto
- Congress passes 'unconstitutional' Pro-IP bill, Bush likely to vetoGee...What a surprise that a bunch of compromised congresscritters pass another attack on the People with the backing of the "Copyright Alliance". (read, BSA, MPAA, RIAA, MS, Time Warner, Disney...)It's good that Bush will veto it. Even though he's only doing it...
- Tags: Blogging, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Bush, Pro-IP, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Escalation in the storage wars
- Escalation in the storage warsSun's competitors' strategyWere Sun to produce a superior storage product, would you expect it to come to dominate the market?I would expect not, because Sun has neither the products specialized for defined uses nor the controlling connection with a wide range of customers to implement it.Yes,...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., information technology, SAS HBA, storage, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- EXCLUSIVE: C-SPAN launches gadget-fueled 'Debate Hub' as social, political destination
- If you love using your gadgets -- and you're fired up about this year's election -- have I got a site for you. Less than 24 hours before the first debate, C-SPAN, the cable network known for airing non-stop, unfiltered coverage of government proceedings, has unveiled its...
- Tags: Site, Twitter, C-SPAN, Corporate Communications, Blogging, Marketing, Internet, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Budget season: shiny new collaboration models for 2009!
- The large IT vendors have really latched onto the collaboration buzz created by enterprise 2.0 and are rolling out their offerings for the 2009 budgeting season in large enterprises. Oracle's Beehive launched this week at Oracle OpenWorld, and Cisco also launched their new 'collaboration portfolio'....
- Tags: Collaboration, Oracle Corp., Financial, Cisco Systems Inc., Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- The price of a pink slip
- The price of a pink slipdouble-edged swordThis is a double-edged sword. Employers are going to be much more reluctant to hire someone if they know they will have to continue paying them after they fire them. And what's the incentive for a laid-off worker to look for a...
- Tags: pink slip, worker
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- The price of a pink slip
- It turns out, it costs less to sack a worker in the U.S. than it does almost anywhere else in the world. Suddenly, relocating Bolivia or Venezuela--places where workers cannot be fired at all--doesn't sound so bad. by Deb Perelman
- Tags: U.S., Worker, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Many UK teachers support creationism
- Many UK teachers support creationismWhy doesnt the headline read 72% opposed?Why does the media so often favor or present the minority view while ignoring the majority. Hey reporters! I'm a nut job wank that wants to promote the Gods from Outerspace theory of origins in all schools. ...
- Tags: Quality, creationism
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- LHC ready for trial collisions
- Let's smash some atoms! The Large Hadron Collider is back on track for trial collisions this week, after a glitch with the cooling system, Times Online reports. Once the two beams had been inserted into the LHC ring last Wednesday, the next task was to "capture"...
- Tags: Collision, Beam, Large Hadron Collider, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Palin conducted state business from Yahoo email
- Open government? Call it Yahoo government. The hacking of Sarah Palin's Yahoo email has raised serious questions about whether she was trying to hide official government business from the public. The prospect is especially worrying given the Bush Administration's use of Yahoo accounts at the RNC and the subsequent...
- Tags: Hacking, Yahoo! Inc., Ms., E-mail Address, Gawker, E-mail, Government, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Why "better" often doesn't sell
- Why "better" often doesn't sellGeneralizationsWhen it comes to marketing there are lots of strange things:1. Better may sell but it may not make profits.2. "Better" is in the eye of the beholder3. Better but sacrifices business plan.At the core I think sometimes companies get so involved with...
- Tags: Murph, Microsoft Corp., PC Products, End Users
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- SanDisk plays hard to get as Samsung (and maybe Toshiba) eye takeover
- Samsung is making a hostile bid for SanDisk for $26 a share in cash, or almost double SanDisk's current stock price. SanDisk promptly said no to Samsung's overtures. And why not? Toshiba may be interested too. In a letter to SanDisk's board, Samsung CEO Yoon-Woo Lee said:...
- Tags: SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Toshiba Corp., Flash Memory, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Citrix launches XenServer 5.0 and Citrix Cloud Center (C3)
- Citrix fired a one-two punch at VMware today by launching XenServer 5.0 and Citrix Cloud Center (C3). Let's look at each of the announcements separately. In short, Citrix is taking the open source Xen hypervisor and making it sing and dance. What Citrix had to...
- Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., XenServer 5, Citrix C3 Solution, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
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