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- Federal Reserve raises rate by quarter point
- Federal Reserve raises rate by quarter pointMake sure the economy does not overheat!!It's good to see the fed's slow down the economy.There is so much prosperity, job growth and hopefulness out there, it was concerning that it would get out of hand.Umm.. sorry I must have gone to CNN by...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Federal Reserve Board, Greenspan
- Discussion threads 2004-08-10
- Greenspan: Offshoring laws could harm U.S.
- Greenspan: Offshoring laws could harm U.S.New Careers"Among the recommendations the Federal Reserve chairman made for improving the American job market was to increase emphasis on math and science among school children and to offer more retraining programs for career changers. "... um, but those are the jobs that are being...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, Greenspan, tax, worker
- Discussion threads 2004-03-12
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- Salesforce.com As Economic Barometer
- Marc Benioff's interview with the Wall Street Journal today has an interesting little tidbit about the value of his on-demand model, and what an astute investor could do with data about the usage of a service like Salesforce.com. In the interview, Marc ponders the question of whether we're in...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force, Data, SFDC, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- SAP-Business Objects combo ready to roll
- This morning, after digesting Oracle's acquisition of BEA and Sun's consumption of MySQL, I headed down SAP's Palo Alto offices to hear how the enterprise software giant will digest its latest acquisition, Business Objects. SAP CEO Henning Kagermann said Business Objects gives his company number one leadership...
- Tags: Business Objects, SAP AG, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Investment, Finance, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- Open source adoption: More rigor, less emotion
- Open source adoption: More rigor, less emotionYes, less and less religion every day, just good business sense.Yes, Stevie would have you think this is just a bunch or religious zelots, but, companies are just quietly adopting and saving lots of money, and gaining control.Well, Stevie's patent religion is getting kind...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Stevie, software, developer, Linux, open source
- Discussion threads 2007-10-09
- Sharpening that personal productivity axe
- Sharpening that personal productivity axeThe era of vast productivity gains is overWhen a business went from no computers to having computers it had a massive boost in productivity. No changes since have been comparable to that boost. Everything done since is "fiddling". That is why I take advertising campaigns like...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Wiki, Desktops, bloatware, computer
- Discussion threads 2007-07-19
- IT spending: March 'air pocket' or something worse?
- Network Appliance NTAP reported strong fiscal 2007 results, but cut its first quarter outlook due to a technology slowdown in March. Network Appliance, which sells storage gear, called March an "air pocket" and said business rebounded in April. However, officials declined to forecast the IT spending prognosis for May and...
- Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, IT Management, Storage
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- AMD: Sales aren't up to snuff
- AMD: Sales aren't up to snuffProfits in the entire industry are downI'm sure you have all read that CompUSA is closing half of their stores, Circuit City will close almost 100 stores this year, Dell and HP have seen their unit sales slide. Even popular computer periodicals like PC Magazine...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Desktops, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., industry, Job Growth, sales
- Discussion threads 2007-03-05
- Ballmer a patent troll?
- Ballmer a patent troll?Not a threat to USERS, Other distros howeverare a different matter.Do yourself a favor, stop trying to whip up sympathy for the Linux distros by making wild a** claims of MS suing end users. It just make you appear stupid...Big dealIf Linus is staying with GPLv2,...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, MSFT, SuSE, Microsoft Corp., distro, SCO Group Inc., patent, Balmer, Novell Inc., Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2006-11-20
- News of puppets?
- Im a big fan of Second Life. But I wonder about a Reuters bureau for SL, which was launched, along with an SL news page where stories have the gushing quality of a press release, like this:Philip Rosedale and his team at Linden Lab have almost godlike powers in Second...
- Tags: Second Life, avatar
- Blog posts 2006-10-16
- MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Digg = $17.7 billion 'voodoo exuberance'?
- Ronald Regan was called out for “voodoo economics” and Alan Greenspan called out “irrational exuberance.” Is today’s fixation on fixing unsubstantiated exuberant economic values to Web 2.0 free-to-users, bandwidth consuming, copyright infringement plagued, lowest common denominator, online Generation Y social network darlings “voodoo exuberance”?The “exuberant voodoo” record: MySpace: $15 billion...
- Tags: Facebook, valuation
- Blog posts 2006-10-04
- U.S. 'lobbied' the EC over Microsoft fine
- U.S. 'lobbied' the EC over Microsoft fineWow, the Bush administration is going from prosecuting criminals to helpingthem avoid abiding by the laws in other countries.Not a very good precident indeed.U.S. 'lobbied' the EC over Microsoft fineThis story is a load of bunk. There is no way the U.S. would...
- Tags: Government, Microsoft Corp., U.S. Government
- Discussion threads 2006-09-26
- Judge OKs new Microsoft antitrust deadline
- Judge OKs new Microsoft antitrust deadlineM$ got away in USby abusing the justice system.In any other country M$ executives would have been arrested and the company split or disolved.Money runs the country.Microsoft bought the right people. It's cheaper for them to break the law in the U.S. and pay...
- Tags: Corporate law, Emperor, Vista Experience, antitrust, Microsoft Corp., antitrust law
- Discussion threads 2006-09-07
- Copyscape
- A very interesting twist on IP protection. A young genius in Israel has created something called copyscape.com. Gideon Greenspan is also the creator of www.websudoku.com Warning! don't get sucked into solving Sudoku puzzles. You will waste away your life. Copyscape uses Google API's to check if there are any...
- Tags: Copyscape, Business Plan
- Blog posts 2005-12-09
- Cerf and Khan to get Presidential Medal of Honor
- What do Vint Cerf and Bob Khan have in common with Carol Burnett, Muhammed Ali and Alan Greenspan? Yup, they're all winners of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. You may have forgotten what Carol Burnett did to deserve the honor (probably it was for years of entertaining America, but...
- Tags: Presidential Medal, Vint Cerf, Carol Burnett
- Blog posts 2005-11-06
- Microsoft Announces The Live Era
- Microsoft Announces The Live EraSociety wins here...With Microsoft moving into the Live Web, we are now going to see the Internet fulfill the promises that yokel companies like Google and Yahoo can only dream. Armed with the powers of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005, armies of MCSDs will...
- Tags: Channel management, Enterprise software, Live Era, Live Web, proof of concept, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-11-01
- Y2K's long tail
- When the clocks hit midnight on January 1, 2000 and nothing happened, some cynics wondered if all the prep work and excitement around Y2K was a waste of time and money. However, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has just pointed out that the Y2K preparations were very instrumental in helping...
- Tags: Y2K
- Blog posts 2005-10-28
- Adware drama
- My apologies for the lack of blogging the past two days. Several things have happened that are worth mentioning. Ben Edelman published a piece on Claria ads being shown by pop-ups delivered through security exploits. In his usual style, Ben presents meticulous documentation including screenshots and a packet...
- Tags: adware, settlement, Marketing Law Blog
- Blog posts 2005-10-22
- Business Week's VoIP doom and gloom: they may not be all wrong, you know
- Business Week's Olga Kharif believes that the VoIP market has entered a phase what Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan terms "irrational exuberance.""I believe that we'll see the VoIP world coming down to earth sooner rather than later, too," she writes.Kharif seems to be basing her prediction on the belief that...
- Tags: VoIP
- Blog posts 2005-09-11
- Intel plows health care field
- Intel has been unique among chip companies in that it's a market maker. The company didn't passively sit back and wait for wireless to take off, for example. It created a massive marketing campaign Centrino in an attempt to make Intel synonymous with Wi-Fi (David Berlind can tell you...
- Tags: Burns, health care, Intel Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-08-24
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