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Novell Case Study: Mutual Fund Company

The company is one of the largest mutual fund companies in the U.S., managing funds for millions of shareholder accounts. The fast-growing company needed a way to manage the vast array of information coming through and to convert it into meaningful data so as to identify and address its real...

Tags: Information Security, Novell Inc., Mutual Fund, Fund Company, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, Investment, Financial Accounting, Security, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance

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Attention renewable energy developers: Grant fund seeks applications

Transportation and logistics company seeks grant applications for alternative energy projects. by Heather Clancy

Tags: Developer, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, Supply Chain, Transportation, Telecom & Utilities, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-11-09

News to know: iPhone; Win 7 upgrade answers; Psystar; SOA; Google

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Finally, some answers to Windows 7 upgrade questions Dion Hinchcliffe: Are the iPhone and social networks making...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Psystar, Photograph, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Facebook settlement: Kill Beacon, pay $9.5 million into fund to promote online privacy

So "paranoia" is not so abnormal .....even if you've done NOTHING wrong! (IE: The wrong could be "being done" to you without your knowledge)!Free service ... you get what you pay for.I find it hilarious that people can sue a company that is giving them a free service.I'm...

Tags: online privacy, Facebook

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Facebook settlement: Kill Beacon, pay $9.5 million into fund to promote online privacy

A class action suit over Facebook's controversial Beacon program today received preliminary approval PDF by a U.S. District Court, bringing an end to the Beacon service and giving the company an option of clearing the matter without long - and expensive - court proceedings. The proposal calls...

Tags: Facebook, Online Privacy, Settlement, Class Action, Beacon, Class Action Settlement, Litigation, Business Operations, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-23

Immelt seeks to unite healthcare with Silicon Valley mainstream

A lot was written about GE chairman Jeff Immelt's appearance yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit, but one key point can't be emphasized enough. Jeff Immelt was at the Web 2.0 Summit. He wasn't at a health care show. He was pitching tech people. ...

Tags: General Electric Co., Health Care, Immelt, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Web 2.0, Human Resources, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Stallman admits GPL flawed, proprietary licensing needed to pay for MySQL development

You really believe that?Look at Red Hat. $5.1 Bln market cap and they're not making *any* money with free software? There is plenty of money out there for consulting services and support. Just ask IBM.Proprietary software is not religion.The problem with Sun was that they couldn't commit either...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Websters, MySQL, GPL, Stallman

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

HP's kinder, gentler stance toward printer paper

I know I'm dating myself, but when I was a girl hooked on Nancy Drew mysteries, disappearing ink was all the rage as a tactic for covert operations. Now, as I sit staring at my printer every day, reluctantly printing out notes and other items that I just can't deal...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Photograph, Printing, Printers, Document Management, Digital Cameras, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Senior IBM exec among those charged in Wall Street insider trading sting

Greed on Wall Street has landed six people - including a long-time, high-level IBM executive - in handcuffs after the FBI charged them with being involved with "the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history." In all, the six netted illegal profits of more than $20...

Tags: Hedge Fund, FBI, Wall Street, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Chiesi, MOFFAT, Federal Government, Investment, Financial Services, Government, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-16

GM to sell small electric car for less than $6,000

it would be nice......if GM would sell these cars in North America...just my two centsRE: GM to sell small electric car for less than $6,000It aggravates me. Why is the US the last one to get this type of innovation that is affordable. I WANT ONEOh yeah people in a...

Tags: car, General Motors Corp., electric car, small electric car

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Can we let the Kindle/1984 thing go already?

I wanted the Red TruckBut I wanted the red truck.Oh no, that was a limited time offer, says so right here in the fine print.Even kids know its wrong to hide behind fine print...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiAvHPPc8M8$150,000 is a little excessiveBut I like to think that Mr. Orwell's spirit is smiling at the...

Tags: Litigation, Amazon.com Inc., Kindle/1984 thing, Kindle/1984

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Cleantech draws more investments in Q3

Investment globally were again for the cleantech sector, markking further rebound from the beginning of this year which began glumly. Cleantech Group says total Q3 investments were nearly $1.6 billion. Overall investments in cleantech were up 10% from Q2 but still lagging compared to Q3 in 2008, just...

Tags: Investment, Clean Technology, Cleantech Group, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-30

Twitter announces "significant" funding; offers few details

As expected, Twitter announced today that it had received "a significant round of funding with a group of investment firm" but offered few details beyond that. Earlier this week, reports in the Wall Street Journal and TechCrunch implied that the company was close to raising $100 million...

Tags: Twitter Inc., T. Rowe Price Group Inc., Investment Partner, Investment, Mutual Funds, Finance, Human Resources, Benefits, Retirement Plans, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-25

What does staid T. Rowe Price see in Twitter?

Twitter is reportedly close to raising $100 million in funding at a valuation approaching $1 billion. According to the Wall Street Journal Twitter may get the new funding from as many as seven investors. Tech Crunch reported that Twitter was going to be valued at $1 billion....

Tags: Twitter Inc., T. Rowe Price Group Inc., Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, Investment, IPO, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Financial Services, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-24

Does Oracle matter to open source

only as long as Oracle fights M$the reason OSS is doing very well is because people hate M$ and proprietary software in general.As long as Oracle will fund this insurgency against the evil M$ empire everybody will be better off.Eventually M$ will collapse like the Soviet Union and great days...

Tags: open source, proprietary software, OSS, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

Help your company, help the earth

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the average office worker in the US uses 10,000 sheets of paper, which comes out to 4 million tons of copy paper used annually. I want to share with you all the handy dandy Environmental Defense Fund Paper Calculator, which easily allows you to...

Tags: Savings, Paper Calculator, Document Management, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Doc

Sponsored content 2009-09-18

Microsoft to detail planned changes in its fiscal reporting structure

won't save themNo matter how much monkey boy tries to obfuscate this criminal enterprise, it will still go down in flames.Microsoft Cooks Bookshttp://www.aaxnet.com/news/M990112.htmlMicrosoft fills the "cookie jar" in good times and dips into it in bad to create an appearance of steady growth. FTC does not approve of this accounting...

Tags: Litigation, Vertical industries, Operational accounting, Financial accounting, Financial services, government, fraud, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

AOL hires Garlinghouse at 'pivotal moment'

AOL has hired Brad Garlinghouse, the former Yahoo exec who penned the "Peanut Butter Manifesto," as president of its Internet and mobile communications. Garlinghouse will aim to expand AOL's e-mail and instant messaging services and bolster the company's Silicon Valley footprint. Garlinghouse had roughly the same gig...

Tags: America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., E-mail, Internet, Online Communications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-08

How a software engineer tried to save his sister and invented a breakthrough medical device

A CREDIT TO ENTREPENEURSThis is the stuff of history; Thomas Edison, Alexander Fleming, John Logie Baird.I lost my sister to cancer at age 36yrs so he has my heartfelt sympathy and utmost admiration Robert Goldman is the kind of person who should be nominated for a Nobel Prize in Medicine.RE:...

Tags: software, GoldMan, breakthrough medical device

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

What really happened to Wikipedia

Well, not quite.:-) Nice piece.I'd question that the influx of money (which is still trivial - a few million dollars is NOTHING to run a top 10 website) has anything much to do with the processes such as the living people's bio policy. One is the Foundation, the other is...

Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, Wikimedia

Discussion threads 2009-08-25