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Europe's new 'monopoly' tariff on Microsoft bypasses WTO

The European Commission has just levied a new $689,900,000 "fine" (read: tariff) on American software company Microsoft under the pretense of anti-trust which conveniently bypasses WTO agreements.  The Brussels based think tank Globalization Institute has published a paper PDF where it recommends a ban on OS Operating System bundling for...

Tags: World Trade Organization, European Commission, Operating System, Market Share, Tariff, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Globalization Institute, EC, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Free Trade, Productivity, Software, Finance, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-09-26

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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

Do college degrees get you anywhere?

Do college degrees get you anywhere?Just another thought...In the sector of work I'm in, I think IT is losing it's "elite" status as a job. With basic IT skills being aquirable with just a few certifications it is becoming less elite and more like a tradeskill not unlike an...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, payroll solutions, Benefits, Development tools, salary, job, IT IS, worker

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Europe's new 'monopoly' tariff on Microsoft bypasses WTO

Europe's new 'monopoly' tariff on Microsoft bypasses WTOSOX applies to all companies, not just targeted at Europe"Stick to the subjects you actually have knowledge about."I'll tell you what: We won't censor you and you don't get to silence me. You're getting a lot nastier these days behind the anonymity...

Tags: Free trade, Regulations, Now Let, Adobe PDF, World Trade Organization, tariff, Microsoft Corp., Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Discussion threads 2007-09-26

GE CEO Jeff Immelt: India, globalization and the economics of scarcity

The influence of India on the technology industry was on display at the Indian Institute of Technology IIT Alumni 2007 Global Conference taking place at the Santa Clara Convention Center in the heart of Silicon Valley. The IIT is India's premier technology university and its toughest. Last year nearly...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-07-06

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

Microsoft to assess software quality in India

Microsoft to assess software quality in IndiaHeaven FORBID they train US workers...NTShrewd move...I was just threatening some of my top-Top-TOP MCSD's here the other day: either work longer hours or I will offshore your jobs. My rep told me Microsoft was going to be boosting productivity in India and hinted...

Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Recruitment & Selection, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Corp., rep, business driver, software

Discussion threads 2005-08-25

The future of the enterprise and grids

Remember all the talk about outsourcing and offshoring, building virtual corporations in the same way Hollywood assembles disparate groups to make a movie? That’s become passé now, or at least more of a background to the larger issue of globalization. Enterprises are shifting their focus to have footprints around...

Tags: Larry Smarr

Blog posts 2005-05-25