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- Bleak Xmas Ahead â€" Where’s the innovation I need to fill the stockings?
- I know this is the July Fourth holiday and I’m half a year away from gift giving. But, when I looked through the Sunday supplements in today’s newspaper, I couldn’t find anything to buy. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Squat. ….. Yes, I scanned the Best Buy, Office...
- Tags: Innovation, Incrementalism, Recipe, Herewith, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-07-05
- Guy Kawasaki: What makes innovation?
- At Cisco Live in San Francisco, Silicon Valley entreprenuer Guy Kawasaki, author of Reality Check, talks about the four qualities of innovation that he believes all successful products need. They are: deep, intelligent, complete, and elegant.
- Tags: Innovation, Guy Kawasaki, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Cisco, Reality Check
- Videos 2009-07-02
- Visionary 2009: Judy Estrin says innovation is in trouble
- Judy Estrin, one of Silicon Valley's top entrepreneurs, she continues to sound warnings that innovation is in danger because of fundamental structural problems. She spoke at the SDForum Visionary Awards 2009. She was one of four recepients of the annual awards. p>"What I've been struck by, and concerned...
- Tags: Innovation, Leadership, Government, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Gatekeepers of open source innovation
- There is enormous incentive in the mobile device market, where you can get paid for hardware with open source software embedded in it. So why are Android and Moblin still serving us leftover Apple slices? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Innovation, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Get ready for Oracle's 100 days of press releases aka innovation
- It's a while since I read Bruce Richardson, chief research officer at AMR but a couple of his most recent posts rang bells with me. The first: Who Drives Software Innovation? The “Best-of-Breed vs. Giants” Debate raises a donkey's year old discussion where he concludes: Call me cynical, but...
- Tags: Innovation, Oracle Corp., Bruce, Simon Wardley, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Got some opinions about smart grid technology? U.S. Commerce Department seeks feedback
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST, part of the U.S. Commerce Department of Commerce, has published a lengthy report detailing its notions about what should be included in the U.S. smart grid. Here's a quick excerpt from the summary: "The greatest benefit from the smart...
- Tags: Innovation, Grid Computing, Diversity, U.S. Department Of Commerce, Grid, Standards, NIST, Quality, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Infor Flex: innovation or fail?
- Infor Flex Overview View more OpenOffice presentations from First Last. Infor today announced Infor Flex, a program designed to keep customers happy and keep those all important maintenance dollars flowing Infor's way. At first viewing, the Infor prgram looks exciting: Infor Flex makes it easier...
- Tags: Innovation, Customer, SOA, Infor Flex, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Software As A Service (SaaS), Web Services, Managed Hosting, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Senators ask FCC to look into iPhone-AT&T exclusivity
- Senators ask FCC to look into iPhone-AT&T exclusivityDuhThe FCC is a little too late in the game. Yes, locking devices with plans impairs innovation. Isn't it obvious? Mobile networks in the U.S. are now years behind Europe and Asia. Many features the iPhone can do were crippled because of the...
- Tags: Federal government, Government, Telecom & Utilities, Pre, phone, iPhone-AT&T exclusivity, iPhone-AT&T, carrier, FCC, exclusivity, innovation
- Discussion threads 2009-06-16
- U.S. CTO: Infrastructure growth needs private sector investment
- The technology backbone of the United States needs a major overhaul and government alone can't do it, the nation's first chief technology officer said today. It's going to take a cooperative effort, including a massive influx of "hundreds of billions" of private capital dollars, for the U.S. to catch up...
- Tags: Innovation, U.S., Investment, Government, Leadership, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Most impressive demo ever: Sony 3D controller
- Most impressive demo ever: Sony 3D controllerSince you mentioned Project NatalI thought your readers could get a glimpse at what [b]real[/b] innovation looks like:http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-06-03-n56.htmlThey might not recognize it after being used to lapping up what Apple passes off as "innovation". :)MotionPlus?Apparently you haven't seen MotionPlus in action. It does...
- Tags: Leadership, 3D, Sony Corp., Microsoft Corp., Project Natal, innovation, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-03
- Will consolidation hurt innovation?
- At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Peter Solvik, managing director at Sigma Partners, questions CIOs about Oracle's recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems. The panel includes: Matt Carey, chief information officer of Home Depot; Karenann Terrell, CIO of Baxter; and Lars Rabbe, former CIO of Yahoo. The IT...
- Tags: Innovation, CIO, Consolidation, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Yahoo, Baxter, Home Depot
- Videos 2009-05-08
- Simplify it: The Dell Path to Innovation and growth
- Enterprises of all sizes struggle with the ever increasing complexity of IT . By helping simplify and streamline the requirements for ongoing operations and systems maintenance, the Dell IT simplification approach enables organizations to reclaim the time, money, and personnel needed to turn innovation into a daily business practice.
- Tags: Innovation, Dell Computer Corp., Dell EqualLogic, Leadership, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2009-05-08
- Innovation Network Lecture Series: Authentic Time-Stamping for Archival Storage
- The authenticity of archived electronic records is established manually by ad hoc methods, such as checking software and examining audit logs. A more cost-effective and scalable mechanism is proposed to establish the integrity and creation time of electronic documents. This solution protects against a powerful inside attacker who has incentives...
- Tags: Innovation, Audit, Network, Compliance, EMC Corp., Authenticity, Storage, Hardware
- Webcasts 2009-05-06
- Open APIs for secure social enterprise computing drive innovation
- * Jennifer Leggio is at RSA Conference Guest editorial by Chet Kapoor and Michael Richardson As the "Chief Innovation Officer" now for most enterprises, the CIO needs a new portfolio of social computing capable methodologies to enable collaboration between empowered users inside and adjacent...
- Tags: Innovation, Enterprise Computing, Collaboration, API, Social Computing, Chet, Social Networking, Leadership, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-04-23
- Momentum Webcast: Learn About the Latest Innovations in Virtual Earth (Level 100)
- The attendee of this webcast will learn about the new Virtual Earth platform capabilities, new imagery capabilities, and the Microsoft Silverlight Control Community Technology Preview CTP, which enables easy deployment of rich, immersive user experiences. Virtual Earth helps to deliver rich user experiences - on desktop, mobile, or Surface computing...
- Tags: Innovation, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., MSN Virtual Earth
- Webcasts 2009-04-23
- The Microsoft Store? Here???s my design!
- The Microsoft Store? Here???s my design!Going nowhere.....Linux distro's are the future....#10 Apple shrineLove your work. I'd add#10 Apple shrine : A place to pay homage to the creator of most MS "innovations" perhaps with a fee or Apple tax to enter.You described Loverock's wet dream!and the first customer will be...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Leadership, Operating systems, UNIX, Darwin, Microsoft Corp., Linux Distro, Apple Inc., innovation
- Discussion threads 2009-04-19
- The flat of the curve: are we scared of innovation?
- Are our businesses are scared of innovation - of challenging the talent of their executives to embrace technology and global delivery models, and work more closely with their suppliers and partners to achieve this? by Phil Fersht
- Tags: Innovation, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Phil Fersht
- Blog posts 2009-04-19
- Clearwire's Silicon Valley WiMax Innovation Network
- At the CTIA Wireless 2009 Conference in Las Vegas, Clearwire's co-chairman, Benjamin Wolff, announces the launch of the Silicon Valley WiMax Innovation Network. The 20-square-mile "sandbox" will give developers free access to create and test applications for a 4G network.
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Innovation, Network, Clearwire Corp., WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Networking, CTIA Wireless 2009 Conference, Silicon Valley WiMax Innovation Network, Benjamin Wolff
- Videos 2009-04-09
- Verizon Wireless LTE Innovation Center
- At the CTIA Wireless 2009 Conference in Las Vegas, Ivan Seidenberg, CEO of Verizon Communications, announces the next initiative in the LTE Pipeline, the Verizon Wireless LTE Innovation Center. The center will serve as an incubator to test and make prototypes of new consumer electronics, telematics, and machine-to-machine products.
- Tags: Innovation, M2M, Verizon Wireless, CTIA Wireless 2009 Conference, Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon Communications, Verizon Wireless LTE Innovation Center
- Videos 2009-04-09
- Who Do You Think Is On Top in Enterprise Technology Innovation?
- I've been torn. I'm trying to figure out who is the leading technology innovation pack at this juncture but the changes come so fast and so furiously that its become almost impossible to pinpoint it. So I'd like to get you weighing in on this. Here's a...
- Tags: Innovation, Technology Innovation, Poll, Blogging, Leadership, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-04-09

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