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- Tempest or Nuclear Winter
- A Hurricane Ike for Tech Start-Ups VentureWire Alert free subscription required today reported that venture capitalists are advising their portfolio firms to prepare for a potential nuclear winter. One venture capitalist featured in today's newsletter was quoted as telling firms "to slow down their burn rate, and...
- Tags: Firm, Venture Capital, Product Development, Investment, Product Marketing, Workforce Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Human Resources, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Capital, Capital. Wherefore art thou scarce capital?
- My Kingdom for Capital Expenditure Funding The current meltdown on Wall Street is definitely having an impact on the technology sector. This week's recent earnings forecast from SAP rather convincingly showed us that the capital markets will adversely impact technology sales. Capital for...
- Tags: Wall Street, Firm, Borrower, Pricing Strategy, Banking Relationship, Sales Strategy, Banking, Pricing, Sales Force Management, Roi/Tco, Sales, Financial Services, Marketing, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Will Wall Street Hurt SIs and Outsourcers?
- Importance of Financial Services to the Consulting & Outsourcing Industry While consultants and systems integrators have some enviable margins, these firms don't always make huge profits as they employ expensive resources who aren't always chargeable. In fact, these firms can be quite vulnerable to minor economic swings...
- Tags: Revenue, Consultant, Systems Integrator, Information Technology, Outsourcing Company, Firm, SiS, Outsourcing, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Financial Planning, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- Is That Non-Compete Too Broad?
- Interesting Calif. Case Involving Arthur Andersen (Yes, That's Not a Typo!) You really ought to check out this court filing involving that fascinating business/employee contract: the non-compete. This case is about an Arthur Andersen Tax professional whose group was being sold to another firm...
- Tags: Arthur Andersen, Firm, Agreement, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Secure Documents and Files
- The security of legal files is very important. Because many law firms are concerned about file security, they instruct their Information Technology IT departments, if they have one, to secure their servers, disk drives, and folders so that only authorized people in the firm can read and save files. For...
- Tags: Firm, Security, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Do companies benefit from social networking?
- According to two U.S. researchers, fewer degrees of separation make companies more innovative. They've studied the innovative performance of about a thousand companies in various industries over a six-year period. And they've concluded that "companies that network and form strategic alliances are more creative and develop more patented inventions than...
- Tags: Social Networking, Alliance, Network, Knowledge, Industry, Benefit, Firm, Alliance Network, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-17
- Small Accountancy Firm Improves Productivity by 50 Percent
- Accountancy firm Carolan & Blake had a lot of small technology issues that added up to a big business problem. The firm's computer system was prone to faults which made management concerned about losing client information. Carolan & Blake needed affordable technology that kept its data secure, helped employees work...
- Tags: Accountancy, Firm, Microsoft Corp.
- Case studies 2007-01-28
- BusinessCards (zip)
- BusinessCards is a program that connects businesses all over the world through a one single database network. It searches other firms with selected criteria. It shows the contact info, Web address, and other firm information. You can do partnerships with other firms. As one of the first Internet's B2B stand-alone...
- Tags: Firm, BusinessCards, Internet, Business Structures, B2B, Finance, E-business/E-Commerce
- Software downloads 2006-12-22
- Law Firm Improves Security and Clientele Service With Updated Operating System
- With 26 offices in the United States - in addition to offices in Asia, Europe, and South America - Holland & Knight is among the world's 15 largest law firms. Holland & Knight thrives on a "one-firm approach," where interdisciplinary groups that are drawn from the firm's global work force...
- Tags: Operating System, Law Firm, Firm, Microsoft Corp., Holland & Knight, Litigation, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Security, Viruses And Worms, Business Operations, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
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- The Carlyle Group Cuts Costs, Increases Productivity With E-Mail - Filtering Service
- The Carlyle Group is a global, private equity firm with 25 offices and 650 employees. The firm currently has U.S.$39 billion in committed capital, making it one of the largest private equity firms in the world. During the past several years, some of the firm's senior managers had become plagued...
- Tags: Private Equity, Private Equity Company, Firm, E-mail Message, Microsoft Corp., Carlyle Group, E-mail, Investment, Financial Services, Online Communications, Finance
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- ElcomSoft uses NVIDIA GPUs to speed up WPA/WPA2 brute-force attack
- Russian security firm ElcomSoft has released software that leverages NVIDIA GPUs to speed up the brute-force cracking of WPA and WPA2 pre-shared WiFi keys. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: NVidia Corp., ElcomSoft, GPU, Attack, Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- IBM signs up new client for sustainability consulting
- A financial investment firm from Boston, Jantz Morgan, is turning to IBM's green consulting services arm (aka IBM's business strategy consulting practice) to help it integrate the idea of sustainability into its corporate operations. The focus will go beyond the company's impact on the environment; it will...
- Tags: Sustainability, Consulting Service, Consulting, IBM Corp., Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- Will Bush sign Pro-IP? Biz, labor, schools push for it
- There's no word yet on whether President Bush will sign the PRO-IP bill [ZDN] but big business and labor were united in favor of the bill that creates a copyright czar in the executive branch. The bill originally called for the Justice Dept. to prosecute copyright...
- Tags: Bill, President, IP, Justice Dept, Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Forrester: Credit crunch may freeze tech services projects
- Forrester Research in a report is confirming that the credit crunch is beginning to hit technology services firms. The extent of the damage is unclear, but IBM's lower-than-expected third quarter revenue its earnings are stronger than expected may indicate something worse is afoot. Forrester's...
- Tags: Service Provider, IBM Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Business Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Economy-pinched semiconductor industry: How to ride the storm
- The credit crisis and overall economic downturn is starting to hit the semiconductor industry, which saw 5.5 percent sales growth in August. Research firm iSuppli has cut its 2008 sales growth forecast for the semiconductor industry from 4 percent to 3.5 percent and potentially even more if economic conditions continue...
- Tags: iSuppli Corp., Semiconductor Industry, Lidlow, Semiconductors, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- What's a Little Money Between Friends?
- Gaming Incentive Systems Joel Spolsky (www.inc.com/keyword/spolsky) wrote a nice piece in the October 2008 issue of Inc. magazine. The article, Sins of Commissions, provides a cautionary tale to executives who are contemplating the addition of or changes to sales incentives in their workforce. ...
- Tags: Incentive, Commission, Joe, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Entellium executives arrested by FBI for making up revenue figures
- Software as a service company Entellium's future is uncertain after its CEO and CFO were arrested by the FBI for inflating sales to land venture capital. The U.S. Department of Justice said in a press release that CEO Paul Thomas Johnson, 40, and Parrish Jones, 39, were...
- Tags: Revenue, Entellium, FBI, Revenue Figure, Federal Government, Operational Accounting, Corporate Governance, Government, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Poker sites fight to get domain names back from Kentucky
- This is a novel legal strategy. And so far it's working. Last month, in an effort to preserve the state's monopoly on legal gambling, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear sued to have 141 online gambling sites' domains transferred to the state's control. According to the Washington Post, a big...
- Tags: Kentucky, Domain Name, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Oracle + Primavera
- Where are the lucky couple registered? Yesterday, Oracle announced that it would be purchasing Primavera. Details of the transaction have not been made public. Already we see that Oracle has stated that Primavera management and employees will become part of a global business...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Professional Services, Primavera, Project Management, It Operations, It service Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Mail Goggles: an idea that goes well beyond drunk emails
- There's a new GMail Labs app: Mail Goggles, by GMail engineer Jon Perlow: When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check...
- Tags: Google Gmail, Jon, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Internet, Online Communications, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
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