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The decline of the West

The U.S. tech industry, as represented by North American universities, is demonstratively losing it edge. The best the U.S. could do in the world finals of the Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest was 17th place the University of Illinois. Universities in China and   Russia took the top prizes. The West has...

Tags: globalization, Globalization 3.0

Blog posts 2005-04-08

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UCM70 - Upgrading to Cisco Unified Communications Manager 7.0

View Available Dates and LocationsGain the knowledge and experience necessary to migrate from Cisco Unified CallManager 4.x or Cisco Unified Communications Manager CUCM 5.x or 6.x to CUCM 7.0. In this course, you will examine the differences between the various versions of CUCM compared with new CUCM 7.0. You will...

Tags: Environment, Unified Communications, Mobility, Cisco Unified Communications System, Cisco Systems Inc.

Training 2009-02-01

CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Second Verse, Different Than the First

Industry Giants -the New Adults on the Block Most of these might not be surprising to you but they are to me. With maybe the exception of Sage...and NetSuite....and RightNow and.....ah well.  I guess they aren't really all that surprising.  But to some degree, IBM and Cisco are surprising. ...

Tags: Strategy, Application, NetSuite Inc., IBM Corp., CRM, Zach, Zoho, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-16

News to know: Intel, Adobe; Kindle economics; OLPC

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: New update of Microsoft codename tracker available now Larry Dignan: Intel launches Core i7; Who’s buying? Paul Murphy: How Intel's Nehalem...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Apple iPhone, Enterprise Software, Intel Corp., Larry Dignan, Management, Middleware, One Laptop Per Child Project, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), SOA, Software, Strategy, Web Services

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Standards competition and globalization

I've been thinking a lot more about globalization and the important role standards have played in "version 3.0" of that process due to my reading of Friedman's book "The World is Flat." In a globalized world, standards are critical, as they are what keeps the digital highways...

Tags: Desktop, Web, HTML, Microsoft Silverlight, HTTP, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Corp., Technology, Standards, AJAX Application, AJAX, Quality, Tcp/Ip, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Globalization, Internet, CSS, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Business Operations, Networking, Emerging Technologies, Strategy, Management, Scripting Languages, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-03-26

Globalization's roots in the boom 90s

I've always wanted to read Thomas L. Friedman's "The World is Flat," a book that describes the globalization forces that have shaped the first decade of the 21st century, and in Friedman's mind, constitutes version 3.0 of a globalization wave that will be more intense - and move faster - than...

Tags: Outsource, Telecommunications, Worker, Computer, Fiber, Thomas L. Friedman, Globalization, Outsourcing, Productivity, Strategy, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-03-21

Coverity work spun backward

Coverity work spun backwardAs always follow the money"An ability to acknowledge flaws is a strength of open source, yet too many in the computer media are portraying it as a weakness."Journalists don't exist anymore, they're in sales support.I think Coverity does inspect commercial software... they just sign NDA's with the...

Tags: Web browsers, RIM BlackBerry, Coverity, Firebird, ICU

Discussion threads 2008-01-09

Thoughts on Web 2.0, etc.

Thoughts on Web 2.0, etc.what are you babbling about?Your incoherent article is the worst PR M$ put forward in a long time.Stick to the hard facts: it's about OSS versus proprietary software!Pitty the "community"?John,Must you always go on with your "Daddy knows best" routine?I find it laughable how you always...

Tags: Government, Web, leadership, Web 2.0

Discussion threads 2007-08-15

Thoughts on Web 2.0, etc.

Web 2.0, among other things, would include a more advanced client side development model than the current HTML / CSS / Javascript approach. Traditional web programming technologies, though powerful, were not designed for the kinds of applications we build today, and hence, can be complicated to create.The problem with new...

Tags: U.S., Web, Web 2.0, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Technology, John Carroll

Blog posts 2007-08-15

Microsoft launches new low-cost PC effort in India

Microsoft launches new low-cost PC effort in India$500?!That seems really high for a low end machine. You can buy low end machines for less than that one at a time, much less in high quantities. One has to wonder how much of that price is just for windows.I wonder which...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, US$500, PC, Microsoft Corp., operating system

Discussion threads 2007-06-27

Intuit offers a report on the future of small business

Fellow ZDNet blogger Maurene Caplan Grey who covers collaboration and workplace productivity on her blog, recently wrote about her pursuit of time management nirvana. In her post she lays out the evolution of technologies from personal information managers PIM to groupware to collaboration. Along the way, she reflects on the...

Tags: Productivity, Mobility, Intuit Inc., I&rsquo, ve

Blog posts 2007-01-26

Study finds near-zero growth in methane levels

Study finds near-zero growth in methane levelsCutting emmisions is uselessWhile emmission are a problem and cutting them could help it would only help if at the same time the populations of the world stopped destroy old growth rain forest and started planting more trees.The problem today is we can't cut...

Tags: emmision, gigaton, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2006-11-20

Is it time for universal time?

Is it time for universal time?sense?1. my working hours could end up becoming 2000 to 0400. i'd be spending half my saturday at work! :-S. and my boss would have to say "i need this report by thursday. before you leave work, not after you come back!". on the bright...

Tags: Microsoft Outlook, universal time, world time, RFC

Discussion threads 2006-01-20

Catalog Database Model 3.0.1 (Windows)

The Catalog Database Model is a relational data model designed to manage product catalogs. It is a flexible data model, which is designed with globalization in mind. It can be used by the software developers and architects who design and develop catalogs and retail stores types of software applications. The...

Tags: Database Design, Microsoft Windows, Ecsential, Catalog Database Model, Software Development, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Development Tools, Databases, Software/Web Development, Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2005-12-21