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- Corner of Bar vs Corner of Library: The Twitter Conundrum
- On the eve of a couple of international Enterprise 2.0 Conferences, I'm revisiting in this post a core concept about the fundamental dichotomy of behavioral patterns around marketing people and business operations people. As a general rule the people running the strategy and...
- Tags: Twitter Inc., Marketing Research, Marketing, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-01
- B&N's Nook e-reader: Weirdly unrevolutionary
- In addition to this posting, please visit this clarifications posting to get the whole picture. It would be nice to say, as Matt Miller has, that the e-book and e-reader market was revolutionized today. It simply got more interesting. A careful reading of the $259 Nook's...
- Tags: E-reader, Device, E-book, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Inc., Wireless, B&N, Nook, Cover-flow, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Lexmark Platinum Pro 905
- Businesses shopping for a new multifunction printer already have enough decisions to make without throwing a touch-screen option into the mix, but most of the big printer vendors already have models with one or one in the works. We've reviewed the Brother MFC-990CW and the HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless,...
- Tags: Printers, Keyboards, Monitors & displays, printer, Platinum Pro 905, touch screen, Lexmark International Inc.
- Product reviews 2009-09-25
- Perks for all workers: remote/metro, small/large firms, etc.
- Leveling the playing field for workers' perks I’m on the board of a firm with operations throughout the United States. About half of their workforce and plants are in major metropolitan areas while the other half are in some pretty remote areas. Management is challenged to find...
- Tags: Employee, Worker, Next Jump, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- Brother MFC 7340 - multifunction ( fax / copier / printer / scanner ) ( B/W )
- MFC7340 user reviewThe main function of my computer work is storage and retrieval. I regularly use MS word, excel, access, PowerPoint and outlook as well as other business specific application software. I regularly scan to PDF (B&W, greyscale and colour), I rarely scan to any other format and my printing...
- Tags: Printers, fax, photocopier, scanner, printer, printing
- Discussion threads 2009-09-01
- Social Media Revolution?
- Extension of Advertisement channel ...Loved the post Oliver, especially the last line - "online variation of TV Home Shopping Networks" LOLNo doubts on the power of social media, but I'd commented on another blog that we can either use it as 'Speech' or a 'Conversation'. It's not that speech does...
- Tags: social media, Social Media Revolution
- Discussion threads 2009-08-17
- Free VPN 2.0 (Windows)
- Free VPN protects your entire Web surfing session; securing your connection at both your home Internet network & public Internet networks both wired and wireless. Free VPN protects your identity by ensuring that all Web transactions (shopping, filling out forms, downloads) are secured through HTTPS. Free VPN also makes you...
- Tags: Web, Microsoft Windows, Standard Antivirus Software, Channel Management, VPNs, Network Security, Telecommunications, Networking, Security, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-07-15
- Cisco Live! - CEO Chambers on Collaboration Business Value
- The above video clips from my handheld Flip are from John Chambers Cisco Live! keynote address today and are specifically two edits about Cisco's strategic perspective on collaboration and Web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise. In the second edit Chambers talks about Cisco's business architectural re-engineering...
- Tags: Web, Collaboration, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Web 2.0, Internet, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- General Imaging starts shipping new touch-panel GE E1250TW
- General Imaging, the licensee of GE branded cameras, began shipment of its GE E1250TW today, after debuting on Home Shopping Network last week. What's so special about this camera? The 3.0-inch LCD touch-screen allows for swiping, rotation and zoom, among other features. However,...
- Tags: General Electric Co., Imaging, Camera, Keyboards, Document Management, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Components, Rachel King
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Twitter Trust #Fails
- There's a big difference between a 'Trust Fall' and a 'Trust #Fail' to use the increasingly tiresome valleygirl slang #word Twitter users assign to stuff that doesn't meet their high standards. A 'Trust Fall' is a trust-building exercise often conducted in turns in...
- Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Metal Sludge, Corporate Communications, Team Management, Marketing, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- News to know: Microsoft; Amazon; SOA; AMD
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft bends a little on Windows 7 due date Five unanswered questions after Microsoft's Q3 earnings call...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Cybersecurity, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Operating Systems
- Blog posts 2009-04-24
- In the Bag Shopping List (Mobile)
- In the Bag will save you time! Here are some things that In the Bag users had to say:"My husband is a much better shopper now that he uses In the Bag. He comes home with everything on the list, and he doesn't spend as much time at the store....
- Tags: Mobile, Item, Department, Store, JDR Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Food & Beverage, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Manufacturing
- Software downloads 2009-04-19
- More Microsoft competitors join European browser-bundling antitrust case
- More Microsoft competitors join European browser-bundling antitrust caseI think the EC should just shut up...having IE bundled with windows does NOT harm the consumer. Its the consumers choice to use it OR (wait for it..) download [b]a competitor of their choice[/b]. Yes, all you have to do is fire up...
- Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, More Microsoft competitor, browser-bundling antitrust case, European browser-bundling antitrust case, MORE Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., antitrust
- Discussion threads 2009-04-16
- Should Apple keep its exclusive iPhone deal with AT&T?
- Should Apple keep its exclusive iPhone deal with AT&T?Perhaps We May Paraphrase ClarkeAny sufficiently advanced shillery is indistinguishable from parody.And vice versa.RE: Should Apple keep its exclusive iPhone deal with AT&T?Absolutely not! They have had the original advantage for sufficient time already. Now the other companies deserve to have the...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., exclusive iPhone, Verizon Communications Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-15
- Anatomy of Microsoft's "It's a PC" ads
- Anatomy of Microsoft's "It's a PC" adsPC adsWhy would M$ which doesn't even make a PC be so aggressive pitching a PC over a Mac? There's the rub. A company with a given 90% of the market is threatened by lil' ol' Apple? And Apple is just a hardware manufacturer,...
- Tags: Desktops, M$ Office, advertisement, Microsoft Corp., PC, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2009-04-10
- Top laser printers: ZDNet's guide to the best
- Printers can be so, so cruel. A misbehaving printer can make a work day a living nightmare. Paper jams. Read errors. Sitting there waiting for more documents to print, happy as a clam, while you pace back and forth from your office to the printer wondering how...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Page, HP LaserJet, Network, Laser Printer, Laser, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-03-20
- BBC team buys a botnet, DDoSes security company Prevx
- BBC team buys a botnet, DDoSes security company PrevxDid the BBC break the law?Surely what the BBC did was in contravention of the UK Computer Misuse Act?They made unauthorised changes to people's computers without their permission. Sophos has been asked many times by the media to take part in...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Team management, SECURITY, Spam, team, British Broadcasting Corp., botnet, BBC team
- Discussion threads 2009-03-12
- The Twitter Fantasy
- It seems everywhere you turn these days there's an excitable story about Twitter, the microblogging tool that is a mystery to some people, a miracle to others, and a service some are noisily evangelizing in hope of self publicity. As Twitter scales up...
- Tags: Twitter, Desktop Publishing, Productivity, Blogging, Collaboration, Groupware, Software, Internet, Enterprise Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-02-21
- Gartner CIO advice: The good, the bad and the plain odd
- Gartner CIO advice: The good, the bad and the plain oddWith the exception of ....teleconferencing and HOME GROWN cloud, it is time to get back to the basics. Computers were meant to do three things - take data input, manipulate that data, and then output the results. Forcing them to...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, Gartner Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-01-14
- Julius Genachowski & The FCC: A Failure to Communicate?
- So Julius Genachowski is to be Barack Obama's choice to head the Federal Communications Commission. Genachowski and president-elect Obama were classmates at the Harvard Law School. And Obama was his boss back then, too, at the Harvard Law Review. GigaOm...
- Tags: FCC, Barack Obama, Broadband, Ticketmaster Corp., Interactive Corp., Wireless, Federal Government, Internet, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Wireless And Mobility, Government, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-01-13
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