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Goteborg University Improves Data Management With Business Intelligence Solution

Goteborg University is one of Sweden and Northern Europe's largest and most extensive seats of learning. Goteborg University wanted to improve financial management across the decentralized organization and provide high-quality business-critical information from a number of different source systems. The challenge was to introduce one centralized storage location and effective...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Goteborg University, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Financial Management, Tools & Techniques, Data Management, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Hardware

Case studies 2008-04-01

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Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergency

They're even talking about it on the radio now--can Detroit automakers survive? If you listened to this show on NPR the future of Chrysler is south of bleak. Ford and GM may just be bigger and have more blood to lose. The local Detroit paper's headline: auto sales...

Tags: Fuel Cell, Car, Automobile Company, Plug-in, Fuel Cells, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gain

Larry Dignan pours lukewarm water on Microsoft's acquisition of Powerset. Talking about Google's near monopoly in the search market, Larry says: Microsoft can reinvent search, but it's still running up a natural Google monopoly. The analogy here is Windows: Microsoft didn't have the best operating system on the planet....

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Powerset, Wiki, Document Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Speech Recognition, Channel Management, Search, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Investment, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Thinking -- Or Feeling -- Like A Computer

So an unknown billionaire named Jeffrey E. Epstein has spent millions trying to develop a thinking and feeling computer. But winds up in jail instead. This sounds eerily like a wish to build a HAL 9000 computer that was the central character of Arthur C. Clarke's science...

Tags: Thinking Machines, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Computer, Astronaut, Productivity, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-01

About that cellular interference...

So... maybe it is a real problem.  Pedram Amini top picture on the right, noted researcher and reverse engineer, posted an article to the Tipping Point DVLabs blog on some interesting observations he made on cellular interference.  From the article, Pedram comments on the discovery: "I had...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Researcher, Laptop Computer, Pedram Amini, Keyboards, Notebooks, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Google curbs essay-writing service advertisements

Corporations over time gain social responsibility for the products they release: Microsoft and their report abuse features, Facebook and their privacy settings, and now Google are adding more to the list. I spoke some time ago about plagiarism, more on a positive note, considering the use of...

Tags: Google Inc., Essay, Advertisement, Plagiarism, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 1: USA

Eek, from Slashdot today: The FBI has confirmed to Popular Mechanics that it's not only adding palm prints to its criminal records, but preparing to balloon its repository of photos, which an agency official says 'could be the basis for our facial recognition.' It's all part of a new...

Tags: FBI, Privacy, Washington Post Co., Slashdot, Government, Federal Government, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Your correspondence so far

It's been just over a month now since I started writing here, and it's certainly been an interesting one. I've had many emails over the last month asking me this, that and the other, not even a single death threat yet! I'd like to share some questions and my answers...

Tags: Web Server, Operating System, Server, Microsoft Corp., Q., E-mail, Web Servers, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Online Communications, Internet, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-29

Cell phones tracking nightlife activity

A Columbia University computer science professor has co-founded a New York-based company named Sense Networks to sell tracking software to other companies. It is also distributing a free version of this software named Citysense, which shows on your cell phone where the wild things are happening in your own town....

Tags: Application, Phone, Columbia University, Cell Phone, Macrosense, GPS, Cellular Phones, Sales Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-29

Biometric IDs for African penguins?

University of Bristol researchers have developed a non-intrusive visual surveillance system for wildlife habitats. They've used their system to monitor the behavior of 20,000 African penguins on Robben Island in South Africa. By definition, conventional tagging techniques can only monitor animals which have been tagged. On the contrary, the 'Penguin...

Tags: Chest, Monitor, Researcher, Camera, Species, African, Image-recognition System, Monitors & Displays, Corporate Communications, Hardware, Components, Marketing, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-28

Bill Gates bids a teary farewell to Microsoft

Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft, the software maker he built into the world's most valuable technology company. Redmond, Washington--Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft, the software maker he built into the world's most valuable technology company based on the ambitious...

Tags: Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management, Reuters, Microsoft

News items 2008-06-27

Security researchers hack the London underground train for free ride

A group of Dutch security researchers were able to clone the "smartcards" that commuters use to pay fares in the London Underground system, allowing the group to ride for free.  This is an interesting attack vector that I actually talked to Adam Laurie about when I was at Black Hat Amsterdam. ...

Tags: Card, Smart Card, Researcher, London, Smart Cards, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-26

U.S. tech sector jobs show strong growth, but lack of engineers could hurt in future

U.S. tech sector jobs show strong growth, but lack of engineers could hurt in futureIn other news...IBM, AMD, Intel, Boeing..announce job cutsThese "shortage of engineer" articles are starting to smell fishy when balanced against job cuts and outsourcing news from the same companies that complain about shortages.Why not just cut...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Brother-In-Law, U.S. tech sector job, sector job, U.S. Tech, job, strong growth, H1B

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

Hey, kids! IT isn't boring!

Hey, kids! IT isn't boring!There is no future in ITThe IT bubble bust around 2000 was only the tip of the ice burg. Today, IT is a mediocre industry that has an ecosystem of incompetent and insufficiently educated people from the "IT Recruiters/HR", the people doing the hiring to the...

Tags: Professional development, Strategy, Outsourcing, Recruitment & Selection, IT IS, information technology, career

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

Lifehacker are gods: the ideal student solutions

As you can imagine with universities breaking up for the summer, it's been a slow news week. I subscribe to Lifehacker on my list of favourites (as well as many others as you'd imagine) because it has some mindblowingly good tricks, tips and technology news. I would like to show...

Tags: IM, Music, Lifehacker, SonaFM, Linux, Instant Messaging, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Online Communications, Office Suites, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-25

Cheat High Tech Cheaters

Cheat High Tech CheatersOld-fashioned wayOh, heck, consider the old-fashioned way. Years ago a Japanese father got caught dressing up as a girl to take his daughter's exams that are used to determine which high school the child can enter. Of course, the best universities basically only take students...

Tags: Laziness, Bill Gates

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

News to know: Vista reliability; Nokia-Symbian; Open source drivers; diversITy

 Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Improving Windows Vista's reliability Mary Jo Foley: Gates hints about Microsoft's cloud futures on his way out How many people does it take to fill Bill Gates' shoes? Dennis Howlett: Time to...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Android, Phone, Nokia Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Symbian Inc., Open Source, Broadband Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-06-24

Stanford University data breach leaks sensitive information of approximately 62,000 employees

Stanford University data breach leaks sensitive information of approximately 62,000 employeesNo end to these breaches.As long as we're dealing with human beings, breaches of this sort will happen again, and again. The only solution is to enforce full disk encryption, and any employee not doing that would face a firing...

Tags: data breach, Stanford University, sensitive information

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

Stanford University data breach leaks sensitive information of approximately 62,000 employees

A data breach resulting from a stolen laptop has leaked sensitive information including Social Security Numbers of approximately 62,000 as reported by Stanford University former and current Standford University employees.  The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a site devoted to the collection of data breach information, reports this number as 72,000, and I'm...

Tags: Sensitive Information, Stanford University, Data, Information, Stanford, Laptop Computer, Kroll, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-23

How long ago did we begin to disagree about global warming?

How long ago did we begin to disagree about global warming?It took Mother Nature...millions of years to lock up the carbon into fossil fuels that we have managed to release in a hundred.Nature can not fix it as fast as we are polluting it. That is the issue. Take a...

Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2008-06-23