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- Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of â89
- Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Consumers score a partial win against Walmart
- Consumers score a partial win against WalmartThis is why DRM should be illegalIf wal-mart want to make it right,it should give everyone with DRM infected music a clean track of every song and then shutdown the illegal DRM servers forever.DRM Sucks!!!!!It harms the genuine buyers. Pirated software and music has...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'
- Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'Where are these returned MachinesI keep looking online for refurbished Linux Netbooks and cant find any. Are they being resold as new?'teething problems'well written but i would like the know the return rate for Linux not compared XP or vista, is it...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Forget the damn netbooks. Can âÂÂWindowsâ replace Windows?
- Forget the damn netbooks. Can âWindowsâ replace Windows?It's not about Windowsbut It's about pirated Windows. In my country, you will rarely see a person who willing to buy a genuine copy of Windowseven the rich people except it's coming with the PC they buy. So, if they couldn't afford a...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate
- The last few days I've been exchanging email with R 'Ray' Wang, VP and principal analyst at Forrester about the kerfuffle over SAP's unilateral decision to apply a price hike to its maintenance and support fees. Ray specializes in the enterprise market and has special experience of SAP going back...
- Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc., Ray, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- 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
- Pirates plunder Adobe Creative Suite 4
- Adobe's Creative Suite 4 has shown up on popular BitTorrent tracking sites in large numbers, little more than a week after its global launch Little more than a week after its global launch, Adobe's Creative Suite 4 has shown up on popular BitTorrent tracking sites in large numbers. ...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PhotoShop, BitTorrent, Adobe Creative Suite, Piracy, Adobe Creative Suite 4, Lynda, Workforce Management, Tools & Techniques, Training And Certification, Human Resources, Management, Adobe, Creative Suite 4, pirate, P2P, Renai LeMay, ZDNet Australia
- News items 2008-10-02
- What, me worry (about mobile viruses)?
- Kaspersky, via PC Magazine, has graciously told the public to worry about mobile phone worms. I'm not worried, and there are many reasons why you shouldn't be concerned... yet. It is commonly accepted that there have been very few pieces of mobile malware that have ever...
- Tags: Mobile, Handset, Malware, Cell Phone, Virus, Mobile Malware, Handset Population, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Advertising & Promotion, Viruses And Worms, Cellular Phones, Security, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- The 'Social Media' Conundrum
- I'm fascinated by '30's depression era attempts to foster business innovation, not least because of the financial challenges that seem likely to dominate our coming years. Surprisingly I've found The Rotary International Club is in many ways a precursor to the looser social media movement which has been a feature...
- Tags: Marketing, Social Media, Brian, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Microsoft says crisis will impact tech
- The way economists see it, there's the financial economy and the "real" economy. While Wall Street is in a genuine crisis and there's clearly been a tightening of credit, it's not clear that the collapse of the investment banks has severely impacted non-financial companies yet. But while...
- Tags: Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Smart Turn: blowing up inventory management cost
- I recently spent time noodling around SmartTurn an on-demand inventory and warehouse management application. I also spoke at length with Jim Burleigh, CEO and Richard Yim, VP products and marketing. Inventory and warehouse management is at once complex and costly, especially for tier 2 companies that have...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Inventory Management, Pricing Strategy, SmartTurn, Richard Yim, Pricing, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Marketing Research, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- Financial cesspits and compliance
- Financial cesspits and complianceA true oxymoron......business ethics."Whatever regulation comes out of this mess, it needs to be rooted in a genuine sense of ethical business activity."On Wall Street? Yea right...and I bet you still believe in the Tooth Fairy.The fat-cats who created this mess will walk away with millions in...
- Tags: Business ethics, compliance, financial
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- Financial cesspits and compliance
- Governance risk and compliance are not the most popular of topics. Until there is a monumental screw up that is. Then everyone with a GRC solution emails to remind me they have the solution that could have avoided last week's mayhem in the financial markets,which will fix the ongoing situation...
- Tags: Trader, Financial, Compliance, Investment Banking, GRC, Government, Financial Accounting, Litigation, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- The New Adventures of Christine's Old PC
- Windows XP virtualized within Vista SP1 using VMWare Player. Some of you may be aware that I have another identity besides professional technologist and tech/computer industry blogger -- I'm also passionate about restaurants, cooking, and eating (albeit with a healthier focus these...
- Tags: PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, VMware Inc., Computer, Christine Nunn, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Productivity, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Enterprise Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- The lessons in Sarah Palin's email adventure
- The lessons in Sarah Palin's email adventureThis is just the price paid ...for using a third party cloud provider.Networks the size of Yahoo or Google manage technology with technology instead of hands on. Any business that uses the cloud provided by a network like this can expect a loss of...
- Tags: Sarah Palin, email adventure, security, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-09-20
- Ballmer sets a new (and potentially much later) retirement date
- Ballmer sets a new and potentially much later retirement dateOh goodie................:-(RE: Ballmer sets a new and potentially much later retirement dateGod, no.RE: Ballmer sets a new and potentially much later retirement dateDOH!On one hand, happy, on one hand, feel bad for MS.Balmer would be the perfect CEO if it was...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Corporate law, Microsoft Windows XP, Steve Ballmer, retirement date, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- Profiting from Contagion
- With the global financial contagion continuing to spread today, forcing the 'invisible hand of the market' to roll up multiple titans of industry into single defensive units against the credit crunch, the frothier end of the tech scene parties on. The fall tech conference season is...
- Tags: Innovation, Train, Financial, Compartment, Dennis Howlett, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Palin's Yahoo email hacked
- Wired reports that Sarah Palin's Yahoo account has hacked and several screenshots of her email posted to WikiLeaks (server not responding at this writing.) At least one of the emails has been confirmed as genuine: Amy McCorkell, whom Palin appointed to the Governor's Advisory Board on Alcoholism...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Palin, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Opportunities in the impending tech fallout
- Richard Koman writes an interesting piece on what he sees as the impact of the current financial crisis. The extract from Jay Bhatti, cofounder of people search engine Spock caught my attention: The big players like Oracle, Sun, Microsoft and SAP … will feel an immediate impact. Financial Service...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, SAP AG, MindTouch, Smb/Sme, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
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