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Microsoft Student Technology Day (1 of 2)

The first half of the day before lunch with Andy McLoughlin from Huddle.net, some photos of the Live Search product, and Steve Ballmer's keynote. by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Zack Whittaker, Photograph, Microsoft, Windows Live, Huddle, Startups, Enterprise, London, Online, Careers, Steve Ballmer, Surface, Multi-touch, Windows 7

Image galleries 2008-10-03

Additional Resources

Gateway NV7802u

Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores.Gateway continues to offer some of the best bang-for-your-buck retail laptops. The NV7802u is a fine example: It's a 17-inch wide-screen model with a...

Tags: Processors, Notebooks, Intel Core 2 Duo, Gateway Inc., Intel Corp., laptop computer

Product reviews 2009-11-13

Dell Inspiron i1545-4374PBU

Editors' note: This review is part of our holiday 2009 retail desktop and laptop review roundup, covering specific fixed configurations of popular systems that can be found in retail stores. There's something to be said for simplicity. The Dell Inspiron i1545-4374PBU might not look like much and its limited supply...

Tags: Notebooks, Keyboards, Dell Inspiron, Dell Computer Corp., Intel Corp.

Product reviews 2009-11-07

7 (nasty) truths about IT spending

7 nasty truths about IT spendingWisht that I could work....For an over funded IT department. Or even have a project that is anywhere near properly funded. Where do these slices of heaven exist?agreedIt does seem simplistic to simply kill a project because it hit a threshold. If an unexpected data...

Tags: Strategy, Financial accounting, information technology, IT-spending

Discussion threads 2009-04-14

AlertThingy 3.0 (Windows)

AlertThingy brings the very latest updates from your favourite social networks direct to your desktop. Plus send Tweets, update your Facebook status, upload photos to Flickr, post to Tumblr and more. It makes it faster and easier to manage the online you. Plus you get the coolest looking RSS reader...

Tags: AlertThingy, RSS, Social Networking, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-02-11

AlertThingy 3.01 (Mac)

AlertThingy v3 brings the very latest updates from your favourite social networks direct to your desktop. Plus send Tweets, update your Facebook status, upload photos to Flickr, post to Tumblr and more. With v3 AlertThingy makes it faster and easier to manage the online you. Plus you get the coolest...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Network, Howard Baines, RSS, Social Networking, Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion

Software downloads 2009-02-09

Nuc news is not good news

Nuc news is not good newsNever win?So, we can use any alternative energy to fossil fuels we want - as long as it's not anything that is proven and can be done large scale. Can we ever win?We demand a lot of energy - and that energy has to come...

Tags: Nuclear Waste, atom, nuclear energy

Discussion threads 2009-01-31

Yahoo confirms Bartz in charge; Can she save Yahoo?

Yahoo has confirmed that Carol Bartz is its new CEO. Now the real fun begins: Turning around Yahoo amid a horrid economy and deciding whether to do a search deal with Microsoft. But first Bartz will need a No. 2 as Yahoo president Sue Decker will resign. ...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carol Bartz, BoomTown, Corporate Governance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-13

Seagate names Luczo CEO; Watkins out

Seagate Technology said Monday that Stephen Luczo will replace Bill Watkins as CEO. Luczo is currently Seagate's chairman and will remain so as he takes over for Watkins right. Watkins, who has been with Seagate for 12 years, will stick around for an orderly transition. In a...

Tags: Seagate Technology LLC, Luczo, Leadership, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-12

Student Technology Day: session videos now online

Last month I attended the Microsoft Student Technology Day 2008 full coverage here in London, with Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, Andy McLoughlin, CEO of Huddle.net and many others. It was really quite an eye-opening day to some of the work at Microsoft, and from the many emails I got...

Tags: Multi-touch, Steve Ballmer, Video, Microsoft Corp., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Microsoft Research and their secret projects

Over the years, Microsoft has dominated the marketplace with some ground breaking products. Not just Windows or Office, but spreading to the web, communications, education and research. But most people will know they work behind the scenes on seemingly insignificant stuff, that may or may not end up being the...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., 3D Face Modelling, Wi-Fi, Podcasts, Wireless, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-11-04

Trade show horrors

The global sales VP of an enterprise software company once told me that 70% of his salesforce are D-graders the company had to constantly winnow. Tip up at a trade conference and you'll see them in abundance. A guest column over at Sandhill by Elizabeth Cook points...

Tags: Booth, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-11-04

LinkedIn's apps: good idea but...

Larry Dignan offers his view on the announcement that LinkedIn has added in a bundle of applications designed to enhance the platform. Larry is mildly dismissive, suggesting that: I wouldn’t call these applications exactly enterprise class, but could be useful in the corporate environment. If we're equating 'enterprise'...

Tags: Network, LinkedIn, Larry, Tripit, Networking, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-29

LinkedIn launches apps network; Keeps its business focus

LinkedIn on Wednesday unveiled its applications platform where outside developers can offer business-oriented software. The move (LinkedIn blog, statement, Techmeme) makes sense as LinkedIn can stick to its knitting, maintain its focus in what should be a boom time (lots of folks looking to network and find...

Tags: Network, LinkedIn, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-29

To: Circuit City and Best Buy. From: You.

The CEO of Circuit City resigned last week after his failed attempt to revitalize the well-known gadget store. Since then, the 'ol City is looking like it's headed the way of CompUSA. The civic-minded Consumerist blog has decided to call on its readers to compile requests into...

Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc., Consumerist Blog, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), DVD, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Student Technology Day: how to start a start-up

Andy McLoughlin spoke a little while ago about how he started up his own web start-up, Huddle.net, from a simple idea in a pub to a fully working business and enterprise collaboration suite. It's a large network of hosted workspaces; yet another project management and team collaboration service based on...

Tags: Inspiration, Family, Huddle.net, Collaboration, Groupware, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Student Technology Day: what it's all about

It’s not often I can say this but already, I’m surrounded in  a room of 300 odd fashion unconscious, sweaty, unattractive idiots. Nevertheless, it’s quite fun listening to some of the banter going around and about the place; some people work as interns at Microsoft, some at IBM and a...

Tags: Student, Microsoft Live Search, Microsoft Corp., Public Relations, Productivity, Entrepreneurship, Virtualization, Game Players, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Student Technology Day: your questions to the presenters

I received an email this morning about the opportunity to participate in sending questions to the speakers at the Microsoft Student Technology Day tomorrow (that's Wednesday, for those who have yet to understand the Gregorian calendar). Whilst I'm not allowed to publish the number to text in your questions for...

Tags: Speaker, Microsoft Corp., Question, Keyboards, Internet, Games, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-30

New touch screen Classmates unveiled today

Intel unveiled a new iteration of its Classmate PC today, featuring a touch screen with tablet mode, a new wedge design, and motion-sensing internal hardware. According to Intel's press release, “Our ethnographic research has shown us that students responded well to tablet and touch screen...

Tags: Touch Screen, OEM, Intel Corp., Classmate, Accelerometer, Keyboards, Tablets, Monitors & Displays, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Components, Semiconductors, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Sales-driven IT failures

Sales-driven IT failuresSaving a sales-driven project from failureTop-performing project managers wear three hats: besides the titular PM role, they're also consultants and salespeople while still being paid like project managers. Often, three hats are the minimum number required to deal with a potential sales-driven project failure. And projects...

Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, sales team, sales

Discussion threads 2008-04-04