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- EMI/Amazon execs unplugged: Will Amazon's DRM-free downloads dent Apple?
- EMI/Amazon execs unplugged: Will Amazon's DRM-free downloads dent Apple?The things you don't seem to understandI'm willing to be Jobs has zero regrets about calling for no DRM. What you don't seem to understand is that Apple seems ready to compete solely on merit, on the quality of their products...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Digital rights management (DRM), EMI Group Plc., friction, Apple Inc., iPODS, Apple iPod, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iTunes
- Discussion threads 2007-05-17
- Using Vista (or plan to use it)? Then try your hardest to run it as a non-administrative user first
- In response to yesterdays blog about whether or not Vistas tightened security could mean additional friction in the Web experience that Vista users will encounter, my fellow blogger George Ou first responded that the average user doesnt default to a non-administrative user or "limited user account" LUA but also took...
- Tags: General, Vista, Software Infrastructure, Mobile, Security
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
- E-commerce, meet your successor: Knowledge commerce
- You don't hear much about e-commerce anymore. Yet the replacement vision has yet to be well defined. I think I'll take a stab at it. Seems to me we're now well on the way to knowledge commerce. The vision is that anyone, anytime, just about anywhere can get all...
- Tags: knowledge, vision, friction, knowledge commerce, e-commerce
- Blog posts 2006-02-17
- PC Forum: Moving from friction-free to productive friction
- PC Forum: Moving from friction-free to productive frictionBrown and Hagal on "productive friction"The principles and practices used by Toyota Motor have been described and thrashed around for at least two decades in business books and journals. Mr. Brown and Mr. Hagel appear to have taken that long to repackage...
- Tags: productive friction, friction
- Discussion threads 2005-04-12
- Can friction spur innovation?
- Business thinkers call for reinvention of IT strategyAt PC Forum in Scottsdale, Ariz., scientist John Seely Brown and business strategist John Hagel talk to technology visionary Esther Dyson about "productive friction" and how it can harnessed to create value in IT.
- Tags: Strategy, friction
- Videos 2005-04-11
- PC Forum: Moving from friction-free to productive friction
- Day three of PC Forum started with a discussion with John Seely Brown and John Hagel about productive friction, which is the subject of their forthcoming book The Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends On Productive Friction and Dynamic Specialization.Seely Brown described differences between the way Toyota and Detroit car...
- Tags: productive friction, friction
- Blog posts 2005-03-22
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- Childs rigged crazyquilt private network
- Childs rigged crazyquilt private networkBut who is monitoring the monitor?Gartner's statement not worth quoting. They are the most worthless thing to hit IT.Was Childs the only IT person on staff that knew anything about computers? That's what it sounds like. But this isn't that hard to believe. Most IT...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Most IT department, private network, network, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- McAfee debunks recent vulnerabilities in AV software research, n.runs restates its position
- Several days after blogging about a research conduced by n.runs AG that managed to discover approximately 800 vulnerabilities in antivirus products, McAfee issued a statement basically debunking the number of vulnerabilities found, and providing its own account into the number of vulnerabilities affecting its own products : "A recent...
- Tags: Software, McAfee Inc., Antivirus, Vulnerability, Vendor, Flaw, N.Runs, Dancho, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- NVIDIA: Let's spread the blame far and wide
- NVIDIA: Let's spread the blame far and widePublically?"Well, since then the company’s stock has taken a serious battering, and the company doesn’t seem to be willing to talk about the problems with its GPUs publically."Publically is not a word. Publicly is.That aside, Nvidea is playing the blame game and not...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., GPU, blame, supplier
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- Why you'll have a long wait for Microsoft's next OS
- Why you'll have a long wait for Microsoft's next OSPerhapsbecause I said best bitsThe next OS from Microsoftshould employ the best bits of what is available, whether they are Microsoft ideas or not - most of the best ones have not been. For example, it should at the very least...
- Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- An Irregular experience with Oracle
- I was in Lisbon, Portugal yesterday, attending Oracle EMEA's marketing kick off. This was unusual on three counts: I tend to stick it to Oracle on any and every occasion It's rare for someone with my background to be invited to these affairs ...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Web 2.0, Channel Management, Public Relations, Internet, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- The customer is not always right
- How many times have you heard the old adage, "The customer is always right"? If you're like me you just took it as an axiom, something that was beyond questioning. I think it's time for software developers and project managers to start questioning it. Now, I'm not...
- Tags: Google Inc., Result, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Tools & Techniques, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Management, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Do the Busybox cases change anything?
- The GPL violation cases known collectively as the BusyBox cases never went to court, but they do seem to have settled the question of whether the license is enforceable. It is. So why is Edward Walsh, an attorney at Wolf Greenfield in Boston, trying to...
- Tags: Software, GPL, Open-source Software, Compliance, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- If Brian likes it, it's gotta be good
- My Irregular colleague Brian Sommer waxes lyrical about the OpenAir/NetSuite deal. Brian has more years' experience implementing and analyzing business applications than most others I know. If he says something is good, then that's high praise and well worth a buyer's attention. Condensing Brian's analysis: We believe this deal...
- Tags: NetSuite Inc., OpenAir Inc., Back-office, Brian Sommer, Operational Accounting, Product Development, Finance, Research & Development, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- WinXP on XO laptops OK as long as Linux runs, too
- Microsoft's agreement to offer Windows XP on OLPC's XO laptop is appropriate and long overdue. It was pure hypocrasy for Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates to publicly decry the so-called "Digital Divide" while privately refusing to support the XO simply because Linux was a supported operating system. ...
- Tags: Operating System, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Gates Foundation, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Windows, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Zoho's Googley login raises interesting questions
- This morning's announcement that Zoho Writer now supports login via Google and Yahoo! ID's is not of itself a big deal. Or is it? First up the details: If users already have a Zoho Account with their Google or Yahoo! email address, they'll be logged into their...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Zoho, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Why HP-EDS is a disaster in the making
- As I've noted elsewhere HP's takeover of Compaq destroyed essentially all of HP's pre-takeover value and left the Compaq organization operating as HP. Now they've announced their intention of taking over EDS. On the good news side there won't be a culture clash in bringing these...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows, Manufacturing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Operating Systems, Software, Investment, Finance, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- SAP BPM - business fail?
- On Sunday I sat through a day of SAP sponsored discussions around business process management as part of the company's ramp up to Sapphire08. In and among the presentations, Ginger Gatling, SAP NetWeaver BPM product manager introduced the packed room to Galaxy - aka SAP's NetWeaver Business Process Management environment....
- Tags: BPM, SAP AG, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Open to the public: MySpace Application Gallery; Facebook Chat
- The MySpace Application Gallery graduates from Beta MySpace has declared the Beta phase of its Application Gallery - a directory of third-party apps created under the social network's official Developer Platform - complete. "For the first time, the Gallery will be promoted and fully available to MySpace...
- Tags: Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Shuttleworth makes corporate case for Ubuntu 8.04 on its launch
- Updated Ubuntu creator Mark Shuttleworth said version 8.04 features a sexier GUI for consumers but it's the Long Term Support, Wubi Windows installer, server assets and expanding ecosystem that will make it a rising star in the corporate world. Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, Red Hat Inc., Servers, Open Source, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
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