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A modest proposal for an IT bailout

With so many industries looking for their share of the bailout pie from the federal Troubled Asset Relief Program TARP, here's an idea: why not channel some of those hundreds of billions of dollars to the information technology sector? Think about it. The IT world has plenty...

Tags: Asset, Information Technology, SOA, IT World, Asset Management, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-12-19

Recession Proof Your SAP Strategy - A SAP Decision Makers' Survival Guide During Time of Recession

The IT world has already been affected by news of the global recession with CIOs facing shrinking budgets, limiting new projects and prospects of staff layoffs. CFOs increasingly cast their critical eyes on the till to realise most IT shops are behemoths on the spending front. For large companies, SAP...

Tags: Recession, Information Technology, SAP AG, Zui, IT World, Strategy, Management

White papers 2008-12-01

Microsoft aims at VMware's virtualization lead

Microsoft aims at VMware's virtualization leadVMware is yesterday's story...Microsoft's virtualization products really kick butt. Their complete and total inability to run Linux or Solaris decently means no engineering time is wasted on has-been OS's. The "all Windows, all the time" mantra is certainly where I want to be and I...

Tags: Storage management, Utility computing, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., VMware Inc., virtualization, IT World, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-09-07

Sony, Panasonic, others stump for Linux

Sony, Panasonic, others stump for LinuxSony, Panasonic, others stump for Linux"Companies won't have to reinvent everything with every product," said Richard DohertyAre you kidding me? The whole basis around Linsux is to reinvent everything. Reuse code? Nope, not in Linsux. Now the embedded market is going to get...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Panasonic, Sony Corp., Microsoft Corp., SAP AG, IT World

Discussion threads 2004-07-02

Additional Resources

Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I

(NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog.  Let's see how that...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Hacker scores by posting East Anglia global warming emails

Control over eating a hamburgerGood grief please stop the madness of all of these un-truths about global warming trash.I want a burger I will eat a burger, if I want to drive to town to ride around so be it, if I want to raise cattle and have them pass...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, burger, PCB, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

iPhone - is it a good tool for traveling business people?

yes- hmmmm....You're right Dan. Droid? Then you can have google navigation and we'll be able to find a better restaurant in NYC than the worlds busiest Korean :p Maybe those nice people @ 451 will buy you one ;)Thanks for the thoughtOne issue with the current Android V2 phones is...

Tags: Smart phones, calendar issue, tool, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Research paints ugly IT employment picture: Almost 2 million jobs gone in 14 years

Depressing...So much innovation happened in America in the 90's. Alot of what we have now was accomplished by American engineers, and now we are not being included anymore because of what? Arbitrage. Sad, Sad, Sad....Of courseBecause all these CEOs and wannabe businesspeople think quality doesn't matter so...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, information technology, comeback, profit margin, job, worker

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Users should be smug, and why the Apple iPhone makes you feel smarter

It works and it is NOT MicrosoftIt is so nice when people have the option to choose what they want than some lethargic aged NT kernel that is a virus/worm magnet.GOOD bye Windows Mobile it was as if you never existed!ha haI am happy!:)Now to get rid of Windows on...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, computer, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., operating system

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Do we need a 'beautiful mess' in operating systems? Yup

To make a good soup, you've got to stir the pot...Ok, sure - it turns cloudy, short-term. Just be sure to filter it or let it settle, before serving.Whereas the classic 'design-by-committee' model so often fails, its always useful to have multiple, talented teams working on similar projects, independently. With...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Programming languages, Linux Distro, operating system, John Gruber, Linux, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

ShareTool 1.3.3 (Mac)

ShareTool is hands down, the fastest, easiest, and most secure way to access all of your Bonjour services from anywhere in the world. No server or technical skills required. Also works with VPN connections. For anyone that's been itching to get Bonjour working over VPN, ShareTool is for you! Why...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Network, Apple MacBook, Apple iMac, Apple iTunes, Yazsoft, ShareTool, Desktops, Digital Music, Networking, Digital Media, Hardware, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-11-19

AOL/Facebook in the Enterprise

In 1994 America Online trailed Compuserve and Prodigy, a third subscription option in how you hooked your modem up to the internet to go cyber surfing. What propelled AOL to global dominance by the end of that decade was their proprietary 'rainman' platform, which enabled partners...

Tags: Facebook, America Online Inc., Shop Logic, Business World, Internet, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Salesforce Chatter: Social operating systems emerge on the IT stage

The next big shift: Intranets, portals, and software suites that are the integrating force of the social fabric for our organizations. This morning's announcement here at Dreamforce today from Salesforce of Chatter, an enterprise-class realization of Facebook and Twitter, is further evidence of the industry's push for social Web capabilities...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Information Technology, Operating System, Environment, Social Computing, Chatter, Status Update, Groups, Sales Force Management, Social Networking, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-11-18

ATI Radeon HD 5970 is world's fastest graphics card

Isn't this card a little.... bigEven for most gaming class full-tower PC's?No, this is typical for high-end gaming cardsMost ATX cases will handle this. The main problem might be the power supply!And It's ATI...So I Will PassATI is garbage....I'll wait for NVIDIA's 300 series response...I was an ATI fan...

Tags: Games, ATI Radeon HD 5970, video card, ATI Radeon, graphics, ATI Technologies Inc., NVidia Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Firefox faces browser clone war in China

Come on ZDNet!!!!Is this really newsworthy????Newsworthy? That's not the point...ZDNet's intent was not to write about anything worthwhile. It's intent was to draw you in and to have you read further in order to get you to visit at least one more page in their web-site.If they had...

Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

ATI Radeon HD 5970 is world's fastest graphics card

AMD has just announced today their newest graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 5970, which they are touting as "the fastest card ever created." Get ready. AMD is proclaiming many firsts with this card. Besides being the fastest, it's the one of the first...

Tags: Card, Video Card, ATI Radeon, Overclocking, ATI Technologies Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, ATI Radeon HD 5970, HD 5970, Video Cards, Hardware, Components, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Call of Duty: World at War Zombies for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

Call of Duty: World at War Zombies for iPhone is a zombie-slaying game mode to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Featuring the original zombie map, fight to survive in the barricaded bunker where it all began and you can bring along your friends to help push back the endless waves...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Vivendi Universal, Zombie, Games, Smart Phones, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-11-18

And Yet It Moves 1.1.0 patch (Windows)

Guide your paper-crafted hero through a surreal two-dimensional world that can be rotated at will, and where everything is relative.

Tags: Hero, Broken Rules, Patches, Microsoft Windows, Security, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-18

Tibco: What's next? - moving beyond real-time IT

Tibco describes an Enterprise 3.0 world where businesses can respond in real-time using predictive analytics... by Tom Foremski

Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., Information Technology, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-11-17

Internet Governance Forum goes to Egypt and hits a few snags

Yeah, leave it to the Arab countries to defend freedom.ntAllow the UN to practice "Governance" over the Internet?I will never understand the sort of cognitive disconnect required in order to think that it's a sane idea to let the world's premier body of corruption, mostly run by the world's political...

Tags: Internet Governance, Internet Governance Forum, Totalitarianism, Article 29, Human Rights, Universal Declaration, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-17