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- Despite criticism, Treasury pushes big telecom contract forward.
- The Treasury Dept. plans to continue with a massive telecommunications contract called TCE, even though the department's inspector general and a congressman have found it deeply flawed, Federal Times reports. The department poorly planned the procurement, leading to delays and higher costs, the Treasury Department IG said...
- Tags: IG Report, Treasury
- Blog posts 2006-02-21
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- Harden Facebook? Sure, but where to start?
- * Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Paul F. Roberts You may have heard the news that everybody's favorite social network, Facebook, won a big legal settlement on Monday against spammers who were using the 100 million strong network to distribute what the...
- Tags: Facebook, Application, Network, Attack, Social Networking, Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- Pepsico Saved from Suicide Campaign by Twitter?
- It's not easy to push consumer products these days as discretionary spend dries up and advertising channels become ever fragmented. Understandable then when corporations are seduced into more edgier terrain by their creative agencies. And yet where trust and sustainability is at a premium, its hard to figure how BBDO convinced Pepsico to cross the line...
- Tags: Advertisement, PepsiCo, Suicide, Twitter, BBDO, Christine Lu, TBWA, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Next up for layoffs: Real
- Real Networks said today that it informed 130 employees, or 7.5 percent of its worldwide workforce, that their positions would be eliminated at the end of year. In a post on the company's official blog, the company said the layoffs were part of a larger cost cutting plan that "is...
- Tags: Layoff, Severance Package, RealNetworks Inc., Health Care, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Vertical Industries, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Seagate's "random freeze" problem: worse than reported?
- Reports that Seagate is having "random freeze" problems on its new 1.5 TB drives may be more serious than the company has admitted: 1 TB Seagate drives may be affected as well. Seagate on the case Seagate spokesman Mike Hall wrote: Seagate is...
- Tags: Seagate Technology LLC, RAID, Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Microsoft hires former Yahoo exec to run online services
- Microsoft has hired former Yahoo executive Qi Lu to run its online services business. Lu will start on January 5 and report directly to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, according to a CNET report. The company also announced that Brian McAndrews, the former CEO of Aquantive and a...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., aQuantive Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 2 - Sticking My Hands Out To Be Slapped
- Last week at this time I was throwing my neck out there forecasting some of CRM's moves in 2009 - and no one chopped it off, thank goodness. So, now, in the same spirit, I'm going to do part 2 of three and stick my hands out to be slapped...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, PaaS, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Emerging Technologies, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- NYT takes new approach, taps blogs to keep readers informed
- Have blogs become the new AP for news outlets? The New York Times has announced the launch of Times Extra, an online view of its front page that comes with links to content from other news outlets and blogs. For a long time, news outlets have been...
- Tags: Blog, NYT, News Outlet, Blogging, Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Information Agenda: A strategy shift from applications to information
- Stuck between business challenges on the one hand, and information management systems on the other hand which simply limit your ability to respond. IBM's Tom Inman wants an easy way to spread your information across the board. Commentary--As the CIO of a flourishing business, you are happy to report...
- Tags: Information Management, Business, Information, Information Agenda, IL&P, Competency Center, Strategy, Management, customer relations, IBM, application agenda, IT, Tom Inman IBM, Special to ZDNet, Tom Inman IBM Information Management division, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2008-12-04
- AMD warns of 25% drop in Q4 sales
- Bad news from chipmaker AMD today - the Sunnyvale company has warned that Q4 revenues will be about 25% lower than those for Q3. AMD blames weak consumer demand as buyers are increasingly unwilling to lever open their wallets and purses. Some quick numbers....
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Operational Accounting, Sales Strategy, Finance, Sales, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Say hello to the $99 iPhone
- Boy Genius Report first reported in October that Apple would begin selling the iPhone at Walmart and notes that employees are already receiving activation training on the iPhone. Today, BGR claims that Apple may re-launch the discontinued 4GB iPhone at Walmart for $99 (with a...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Let's be smart about patching databases
- * Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Slavik Markovich Every quarter, around the time of the Oracle Critical Patch Update CPU or the Microsoft "Patch Tuesday," rituals take place – some behind closed doors, others in the media. Web sites report of the...
- Tags: Risk, Oracle Corp., Patch Management, Storage, Strategy, Databases, Security, Hardware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Open source thrives in downturn
- Collaboration initiatives are all about streamlining business processes, and the interfaces between legacy closed systems and open source stacks are an increasingly common place to find business collaboration environments. According to research firm Gartner, open source software is present in 85% of enterprises and the...
- Tags: Intalio Inc., Collaboration Initiative, Alfresco, Open Source, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- It's getting worse out there
- And this has nothing to do with faltering banks or auto makers with begging bowls. This has to do with the air we all must breathe. Right now there's a major international conference on the atmosphere. The 14th session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations...
- Tags: Atmosphere, Meltdown, Emission, Carbon Dioxide, World Meteorological Organization, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- IPod shortage for the holidays?
- Now now. There's no need to panic. And we certainly don't want any shopping mall stampedes. But, just between us, word is that there may be a shortage of iPods this holiday season - not that anyone out there is trying to fuel a buying frenzy to ensure that little...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Roadmap: Open source to take over mainstream IT
- Open source-based IT jobs will grow and the cloud will be ubiquitous, as long as the community takes certain steps, according to a roadmap from the Open World Forum. Within the next 12 years, 40 percent of IT jobs will be related to open source, and open-source-based cloud computing...
- Tags: Information Technology, Floss, open source, cloud, Floss Roadmap, Open World Forum, predictions, Peter Judge ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-12-03
- ICANN terminates EstDomains, Directi takes over 280k domains
- Following ICANN's notice of termination sent to cybercrime-friendly domain registrar EstDomains in October, on the 24th of November the termination became a reality and EstDomains is no more. Despite the public concerns of who will take the 280,000 domains, and that includes the cybercrime facilitating ones, Directi's ResellerClub is new...
- Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Domain, EstDomains, Directi, Security Community, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Should you run your laptop on battery or charger power?
- An interesting article in Slate by Jacob Leibenluft the other day asks a simple question: Do you save more energy keeping your laptop plugged in during use, or should you use your charger only after the battery runs out of juice? It's a complicated...
- Tags: Battery, AC Power, Laptop Computer, Engineering, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Microsoft's OOXML viewers, translators, SDK to help interop with Firefox, OpenOffice?
- I must admit I'm more than a bit skeptical when any company, Microsoft in particular, goes out of its way to make rivals' software work better with its own, especially if it's a cash cow product. But here we are, nine months after Microsoft announced its document...
- Tags: Interoperability, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Office, SDK, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, OpenXML Document Viewer, OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Kudos for a good research approach
- The Conference Board publishes an annual report, CEO Challenge, where hundreds of CEOs globally are quizzed as to their firm's most pressing concerns. This summer, the Conference Board sent out its surveys but as they began to tabulate responses for their report, the stock market,...
- Tags: Report, Board, Conference, Corporate Governance, Marketing Research, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Marketing, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
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