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Firm Improves Collaboration, Delivers Products Faster With Software Development System

International Game Technology IGT is a global designer and manufacturer of computerized gaming machines and systems for casinos. The company's software developers work from three office sites, which made project collaboration a challenge. The company also lacked a unified system for source-code control, which meant that IGT had challenges delivering...

Tags: International Game Technology, Games, Software Development, Collaboration, Groupware, Personal Technology, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-05-01

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Are the Microsoft layoffs over now?

I hope soI hate seeing "SoandSo killing X amount of jobs" in the news =/Ballmer should be the first to get laid offHis reklessness to ignore the FOSS and cling to the proprietary model drove M$ into the ground.Q1 revenues of $13Bn generating $3.5Bn in net profit ...... would tend...

Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Creative accounting, Microsoft Corp., layoff

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

73% of residential VOIP subscribers to use wireless VOIP phones by 2009

COIP Cellular Over Internet Protocol is Bandwidth Hog Answer to VOIPInteresting,Having been an advocate of VOIP since beginning, and seeing the improvements in technology eliminating the early poor quality call clarity. Cellular Over Internet Protocol, or COIP, as in VOIP, has broken new ground with the first dial tone on...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP phone, phone, wireless, VoIP, CoIP

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Social Business in Action - Establishing Excellence

Human interaction is as old as humanity, and nothing beats personal contact. We can learn more from a few seconds of personal contact and get a 'gut feel' about someone or a situation experientially in person than we can from hours of research and remote contact....

Tags: Web, Team, Information Technology, Human Interaction, Cohen, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Team Management, Strategy, Internet, Marketing, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Are IT grads learning the right skills?

Not university level informationThe type of information they are referring to is not something that applies to a university level of education. What they are asking for is the specific skills on the implementation of technologies. For example, I can talk all day about certificates and the use of them...

Tags: Businesses, IT Grad, information technology, developer

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Microsoft Word patent-infringement case: Playing chicken

They will patchand then will try vigorously to render the offending patent invalid.i4i will become the next Eolas: irrelevant but with a lot of money from MS.If you don't infringe, then why do you care to provethe patent is invalid?Because a court does think you infringeDo you know what is...

Tags: Microsoft Word, patent, I4i, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-21

News to know: Clearwire; Google Caffeine; innovation; Office and Nokia; VMWare; Windows 7

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Clearwire bets on fourth quarter WiMax tipping point Garett Rogers: Google to Caffeinate search results ...

Tags: Innovation, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Google Android, Nokia Corp., Clearwire Corp., Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Mobile Operating Systems, Data Centers, Smart Phones, Virtualization, Microsoft Office, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Office Suites, Software

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Apple: Won't somebody please think of the cellphone towers?

Apple: Won't somebody please think of the cellphone towers?24 season 9 plot thread?Jack Bauer has to foil an assassination attempt on Steve Jobs. Chloe arms him with a jailbroken iPhone that cripples every cell tower in Cupertino. Jack activates the iPhone, only to find out that Steve Ballmer has already...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., cell phone, Jack Bauer

Discussion threads 2009-07-29

Poll: Did Microsoft and Yahoo do the right thing?

Poll: Did Microsoft and Yahoo do the right thing?SuccessfulI think that this agreement has the potential to be huge. When you combine all of Microsoft's and Yahoo's page views, you have a lot of people viewing a lot of pages. As an advertiser, having one platform to get...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, SEARCH, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-29

Inside Dell's command center

If there’s a hurricane forming in the Caribbean, a major freeway closure in Los Angeles or flight delays out of Chicago, chances are that Jason Allen knows about it. Allen is in charge of Dell’s five worldwide Global Command Centers, around-the-clock operational centers where technicians are constantly...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Center, Command Center, Allen, Team Management, Web Technology, Data Centers, E-business/E-Commerce, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-22

SLA's and the Real World

There's a solid post by Jevon McDonald (who has long questioned whether there is a viable 'Enterprise 2.0' market) this weekend, titled 'Understanding the role of Enterprise 2.0 and moving towards a Social Business' on the 'Fast Forward' blog, which is focused around the FAST search...

Tags: SLA, Information Technology, Enterprise 2.0, Jevon, Global Technology Services Division, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-20

International Airlines to UN: Set us a CO2 Target Now (but US carriers still ponder)

People in business often speak of NGO's in a kind of wide eyed way, a mixture of fear and curiosity, but most vastly under estimate their capability. Granted, NGOs are as diverse as businesses - some are hopeless, some perform magnificently. For illustration of the latter & the potency of a sophisticated and intelligent NGO, then look no...

Tags: Aviation, Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carrier, Climate Group, Emission, James Farrar, Management, Nancy, Strategy

Blog posts 2009-04-09

AT&T updates wireless plans, prohibits Slingbox

Public Knowledge's Robb Topolsky reports that AT&T Wireless quietly changed its service terms after a Chicago AT&T subscriber received a $28,000 mobile bill after watching a Bears football game on his notebook computer via Slingbox. The customer was waiting for his cruise to depart from Miami when...

Tags: Billing, AT&T Wireless, AT&T Corp., Video, Terms Of Service, Allowance, Slingbox, Wireless, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-04-03

News to know: VMware; IE 8; Google; 3D Web

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Facebook responds to redesign concerns; Changes are coming Mary Jo Foley: VMware picks up yet another former...

Tags: Apple iPhone, 3D, Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., VMware Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Twitter, Smart Phones, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Open Source, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-25

CRM 2.0: The Government, Public Service & A Transformed World

I KNOW that everyone who reads ZDNET columns loves technology. I get that.  I also KNOW that everyone who reads ZDNET blogs loves it when the bloggers dish on technology companies - especially, it seems, Microsoft.  I realize that coolness and government don't go together very well - probably something...

Tags: Institution, Singapore, Public Service, CRM, Stuff Legend, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-01-14

EA Spore backlash could help end DRM

EA Spore backlash could help end DRMPirate = Potential Lost Sale. Myself = Definate Lost Sale.I am not buying this game because of it, and I really wanted to as well.I don't understand the mentality of EA. If EA consider a pirate as a lost sale why not...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Games, Removing DRM, digital-rights management, Electronic Arts Inc., EA Spore, piracy, game

Discussion threads 2008-09-25

Whatever happened to CMP?

When this decade dawned, the big three technology news publishers were International Data Group, Ziff-Davis and CMP Media. Now, Ziff-Davis has been split into multiple pieces, including this site owned ultimately by CBS. And the initials “CMP” are nowhere to be found. The business that brings you...

Tags: Acquisition, Information Week, CMP Media, United Business Media, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Thin Clients, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Hardware, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-09

Is the "killer app" argument dead?

Is the "killer app" argument dead?Great blog.It is about the browser nowadays. The age of convoluted proprietary lock-ins is going going but not quite gone .....An awful lot of devs are now building web based sharing tools, and any IE only dev, if it still goes on, is by the...

Tags: Web browsers, PRODUCTIVITY, knowledge economy, killer application, Web browser, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux!

Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux!RE: Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux![url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2008/08/nbcolympicscom-linux-users-sol.html]Hate it.[/url]Sticks in the kraw of Open Source folksas they can't stand working with anything MS related.What OS were you using?I was watching...

Tags: Corporate communications, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Web browsers, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, NBCOlympics.com, Linux!, video, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

Sun's fourth quarter solid; Growth in fiscal 2009 remains elusive

Sun Microsystems on Friday reported fiscal fourth quarter net income of $88 million, or 11 cents a share, on revenue of $3.78 billion, down 1.4 percent from a year ago. Adjusted earnings in the quarter were $275 million, or 35 cents a share. However, Sun sees another tough year ahead....

Tags: U.S., Revenue, Michael Lehman, Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Open Source, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-01