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Going beyond the status quo to improve online services

FCW.com reports that the House is seeking new technology to better reach Spanish speakers. Specifically, they're researching commercial human-based and machine-based foreign-language interpreter systems that will, for the time being, provide only English-to-Spanish services. The move will save lawmakers from the trouble of hiring bilingual staff to update FirstGov en...

Tags: Value at Risk, intangible value

Blog posts 2005-08-05

Additional Resources

JaHoCa (zip)

Jahoca is simple system independent application which was created to administrate home finances. The program allows to manage more users. The user gets easy to handle environment to evide his money transactions incomes and expenses with additional completive informations. Summary of all operations is possible to be filtered by time...

Tags: Income, Period, Arcanea, JaHoCa, Operational Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2008-07-16

Tech, telecom join up to beat back trolls

Tech, telecom join up to beat back trollsa larger problemThe laws concerning patents, copyrights, and trademarks have spiralled out of control. What was once protection for a short period of time for something truly inventive has become indefinite protection for any casually obvious concept.The "intellectual property" experiment has failed. We...

Tags: E-mail, telecommunications

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

Taking the 'H' Out of HR

Taking the 'H' Out of HRand trying to get it back ?The ultimate goal behind self-service has always been in my opinion to solve the issue you are pointing out now.A few years back, HR department was struggling with tons of paper forms and manually entering tons of information in...

Tags: Human Resources, HR Department

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

What open source teaches publishers

I have a more in-depth analysis of today's C|Net news on my personal blog. But there are important comments to make about open source and what it implies to publishers. (What does this classic Geico commercial have to do with anything? Patience, grasshopper.) The...

Tags: C|Net, Profit Statement, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Most powerful brands: Sure Google is No. 1, but Apple shines as does tech overall

Millward Brown is out with its annual ranking of most powerful brands and Google is the top dog, but let's not forget the broader technology story here: Six out of the top 10 brands are technology companies. Apple and Blackberry brands are surging and folks even like their wireless carriers...

Tags: Google Inc., Brand, Brand Equity, Apple Inc., Millward Brown, Branding, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-21

What Yahoo could bring to Microsoft: Some media sense

Yahoo launched Shine, a fashion and beauty site targeted at women, and the move illustrates one of the biggest assets the portal could bring to Microsoft--some media sense and the ability to target demographics. In fact, if Yahoo really wants Microsoft to raise its bid perhaps it...

Tags: Women, Yahoo! Inc., Media, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Finance, Gender And Diversity, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-31

War declared against JBOWS architecture... but is it something we can live with?

War declared against JBOWS architecture... but is it something we can live with?SOA is thin air. It is an idea...that can never come to fruition because there is no substance to it. Everyone has a definition but they are so ethereal that you can't bring any substance to it....

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, JBOWS, SOA

Discussion threads 2008-03-22

ROI study: Product portfolio management yields results

Project portfolio management PPM software is receiving growing attention from CIOs. Riding this wave, HP sponsored The Gantry Group to analyze key ROI measures for PPM software. Although the results are somewhat coupled specifically to HP PPM Center software, the research is useful to anyone studying the PPM category....

Tags: Project, IT Budget, Information Technology, Project Portfolio Management, ROI, Project Portfolio Management Software, Project Statu, Project Management Efficiency, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-03-07

Richard Waters showcases the 'world wise web'

At the risk of getting tied in knots by timezones (x-8 to get on ZDNet's blog publishing timezone is hard when you only have two hands and need to keep typing...) and the distribution schedules of the print media, let me begin... Richard Waters writes in this...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Artificial Intelligence, Tim Berners-Lee, Vision, Advance, Richard Waters, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-03-03

NakedIT: JP Rangaswami says, 'Don't call them IT projects'

NakedIT: JP Rangaswami says, 'Don't call them IT projects'Most tangible elementProjects, especially challenging ones, tend to focus on their most tangible and short-term measurable aspects. Budgets and schedules are tangible. Whether a server is in place or not is tangible. Whether an application is accessible to the...

Tags: Strategy, IT Project, NakedIT, information technology, JP Rangaswami, Business Value

Discussion threads 2008-02-13

Breaking: VoIP Inc. shuts call termination, network ops

Fierce Markets is reporting that VoIP Inc. has shuttered its call termination and network operations. Some 25 engineering staffers are now jobless. The company will recast itself as a pay-to-click services provider. Deals with Google and eBay are now in force. ...

Tags: VoIP Inc., Termination, Network, Network Operation, Fierce Markets, Asset Management, Workforce Management, Networking, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Human Resources, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-07

Security lessons from the SoGen debacle

Jerome Kerviel, the Societe Generale trader that managed to lose more than $7 billion without the bank noticing, is facing charges of fraud and forgery. Security lessons of this debacle abound. As background Societe Generale, the French banking giant, last week said that Kerviel, a 31 year...

Tags: Bank, Control, SoGen, Stiennon, Financial Services, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-28

AMD loses $1.77 billion in December quarter

AMD on Thursday reported a fourth quarter net loss that equaled its revenue total. AMD reported a net loss of $1.77 billion, or $3.06 a share, on revenue of $1.77 billion. Revenue was up 8 percent from the third quarter and was flat from a year ago....

Tags: Loss, Impairment, non-GAAP, ATI Technologies Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., GAAP, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-17

StockBase POS 2008 (exe)

StockBase POS is a complete and easy to use business and retail management software, whether tangible or intangible goods or services, is the ideal billing inventory control and point of sale software solution with barcode and credit card processing. Version 19.3 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

Tags: Software, StockBase POS, Strategic Planning, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management

Software downloads 2007-12-26

Outsourcing Predictions for 2008... in a nutshell

Outsourcing Predictions for 2008... in a nutshellMessage has been deleted.Yin and yangBeing one of the people companies outsource support to doesn't make me feel any better about it some days. This is a very good analysis, although there are some technology trends that could alter the current landscape very...

Tags: outsourcing, Outsourcing Predictions, nutshell, outsource, job

Discussion threads 2007-12-20

Congress passes 7-year Net tax ban

Congress passes 7-year Net tax banTime for Boston Tea PartySeven years of good luck...?? Not only a permanent tax-ban ought to be approved but a hands-off Internet control from the great socialist republic ever known since roman times. When any kind of Government impose taxes unto a...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, tax, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2007-11-05

The balance sheet on Windows Vista

The balance sheet on Windows VistaThat which sits on a store shelf is entirely differentthan sitting in a consumers home (MS just ask Sony on the PS3 up until recently). For the way users use the Windows OS, the perception of good enough is a stalling factor to migration....

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Balance sheets, MSFT, Microsoft Windows Vista, balance sheet, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-10-29

ROI is so Business 1.0: not

As social computing technologies start to make their presence felt in larger enterprises, the ROI question looms large in people's minds. Or rather the CFOs mind. Like it or not, any enterprise project is going to require a check cutting and unless it is something that goes under the departmental...

Tags: Conversation, Social Computing, ROI, Sales, Assumption, CFO, Forrester Research Inc., Roi/Tco, Social Networking, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-10-01

Is open source the stock flavor of the month?

Is open source the stock flavor of the month?Sun needs a management changeThe board had a chance to really shake things up with the departure of Scott McNealy. Too bad they played it safe and appointed Jonathan instead of replacing the leadership team. McNealy and company were simply...

Tags: stock, hardware, open source, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-08-29