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Internet personalities: looking at three political sites

There are things I know I'm not supposed to do, but do anyway. You should never, for example, rely on your first impressions of a person, but I'm guilty of this all the time. Although my wife denies it, I do change my mind if the facts warrant and, in...

Tags: Web, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Web Site, Site, Impression, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Gender And Diversity, Channel Management, Internet, Human Resources, Marketing, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-03-13

A quick word on Apple Pages

This weekend I'll be putting together a gallery and comparison of NeoOffice, OpenOffice for the Mac, Microsoft Office 2008, and iWork. These products have been compared and debated before for their relative merits, but my concern, as with all things on my new Mac, is how easy are these...

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iWork, Impression, Pages, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Desktops, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-02-29

Amazon's Kindle: First impressions

In this video, ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind gives his first impressions of Amazon's new Kindle book reader. From the design of the user interface to the built-in EVDO radio, David offers up his fresh thoughts on the new device.

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Impression, Corporate Communications, Cellular Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Videos 2007-12-04

Poor telephone habits can drive customers away

When a customer is on the phone, you want to be sure to make a positive impression -- courtesy and efficiency go a long way toward building loyalty. Unfortunately, we sometimes create the opposite impression by misusing our speakerphones, answering calls when we're too busy to be polite, or unwittingly...

Tags: Phone, Customer, Impression, Telecom & Utilities

Download resources 2007-04-17

Additional Resources

Spam king, phishing buddy hit for $200m

Spam king Sanford Wallace and phishing buddy Walter Rines hijacked some 300,000 MySpace accounts and sent hundreds of thousands of spam messages and comments across the service. They got their punishment today: a whopping $225 million judgment in favor of MySpace, Information Week reports. "By using hijacked...

Tags: MySpace, Phishing, Spam, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Content Protection madness on Vista

[UPDATE: For more on this issue, check out this post.] I'm a firm believer in the idea that if you pay for hardware, you should be able to make full use of it. However, DRM and content protection mechanisms are increasingly making this difficult for people. ...

Tags: Screen, Microsoft Windows Vista, Cintiq, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital Rights Management (DRM), Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Security, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?

Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?until Google finnally invest into there own OSthey should start a nice bsd that in time will be the next os x and then MS will fine that they are in real troubleRE: Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?made...

Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

Gates emphasizes PC-phone connectivity in Windows 7

Gates emphasizes PC-phone connectivity in Windows 7It is standard MS modus operandiAnd it isn't working anymore. 2010?!? Who's going to wait that long? By 2010, there won't be any Windows Mobile devices anymore. It will be all Blackberry and iPhone.phone-pc communication--a step backwardsI admit that windows synchronization between phone (or...

Tags: Operating systems, Handhelds, RE:It, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, PC-phone connectivity, PC-phone, phone, PC, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

CODA2Go and the economics of PaaS

I had the opportunity to talk money last week with Jeremy Roche, CEO of CODA, the venerable UK-based business software vendor that has become the poster child for Salesforce.com's platform ambitions after the release at DreamForce Europe of its new on-demand financials application, built and delivered entirely on Force.com. Why...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Roche Holding AG, PaaS, On-demand, CODA2Go, Force.com, Coda, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-13

The Obama Party and the Googlization of politics

The Obama Party and the Googlization of politicsTheres that loophole again........that doesn't exist. I dislike the idea of the ASP loophole. Its not a loophole. Its a change in principle thats causing the problem if you ask me. The idea of FOSS was software you could do whatever you want...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, Stallman, software, F/OSS, Obama Party

Discussion threads 2008-05-09

LG 47LG60

LG has been quietly gaining market share producing both plasma and LCD flat-panel HDTVs over the last couple of years, but there's nothing quiet about the LG60 series. The 47-inch 47LG60 reviewed here incorporates two unique design quirks that basically scream "look at me!" among the rows of nearly indistinguishable...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, LG 47LG60, LG Electronics Inc., HDTV

Product reviews 2008-05-07

Gallery: Psystar unboxing, innerds, maiden boot

Gallery: Psystar unboxing, innerds, maiden bootThe disposable Mac?Obviously due to limitations set by the firmware or software updates this can't hold up against a "real" mac. But I'm really curious to see how it stacks up as a "disposable" Mac.At $4-500 then this is cheap enough that if it starts...

Tags: Processors, DVD, Network technology, Psystar, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-06

SAP BPM - business fail?

On Sunday I sat through a day of SAP sponsored discussions around business process management as part of the company's ramp up to Sapphire08. In and among the presentations, Ginger Gatling, SAP NetWeaver BPM product manager introduced the packed room to Galaxy - aka SAP's NetWeaver Business Process Management environment....

Tags: BPM, SAP AG, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-06

Open source as the villain in its own story

Open source as the villain in its own storyhuh?I read a lot of words there, but failed to discern any content!Value of a brandMicrosoft spends so much assuring it remains one of the top 3 most respected and approved brands in the world because sales are increased by trust. ...

Tags: Branding, brand, goodwill, Microsoft Corp., real dollar, open source, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-05-06

Sometimes it takes a thousand words

Sometimes it takes a thousand wordsA lot more often than "sometimes". NT.Oh, so true......but you need the diagrams...too many people get lost in the words. That being said, adhering too closely to any standard or methodology is a self defeating exercise.BLUE!I can't believe that you were allowed to do...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, parallel, software, real world, Bookkeeper

Discussion threads 2008-05-06

The changing SAP culture

As Henning Kagermann, SAP's co-CEO prepares for what will probably be his swansong keynote speech at SAPPHIRE 2008 and Leo Apotheker, CEO-in-waiting prepares for the transfer in power, still a year away, a group of the Enterprise Irregulars were able to contrast the different styles of these two industry leaders....

Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Sales Strategy, Leadership, Biotechnology, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Sales, Management, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-05

UK Health Program: a Very Sick Patient

UK Health Program: a Very Sick PatientYou wait ages for a failed IT project and then four come along at onceThe failure of an IT project in the National Health Service is one of a number of failures in information technology recently. Other disasters are to be found at the...

Tags: Other Disasters, patient, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-05-05

SAP's Apotheker: Business ByDesign costs led to delay

SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker says that Business ByDesign, the application giant's high-profile software as a service product, was delayed because of its total cost of ownership for the company. That's a fancy way of saying SAP hasn't figured out how to make money at its $149 per...

Tags: SAP AG, TCO, Leo Apotheker, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-05

OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up

OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows upOpenSolaris at ZDNet open sourceI just posted a piece abou tthis at Open Source http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2387 but I was not under the impression that this is aimed at the desktop market at all -- only the server side.RE: OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants...

Tags: UNIX, OpenSolaris, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Wants

Discussion threads 2008-05-05

Microsoft walks: Five reasons why it's a good move

Microsoft walks: Five reasons why it's a good moveEC hating MIcrosoft?Nah, bureaucracies don't hate, they just use their system to grind people into compliance with their expectations. It's not their fault Microsoft chose to fight the system.Microsoft fails to embrace and extinguish Yahoo!.. now that's good news.Historic news?In the last...

Tags: Mainframes, Financial accounting, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-03