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Using TeamQuest Model to Implement Phased Infrastructure Upgrades at LSAC

Jeff Fox is the Manager of Network Infrastructure Services at the Law School Admission Council LSAC. He implemented TeamQuest View to address performance constraints that caused bottlenecks during peak traffic periods. Modeling revealed the exact cause of the bottlenecks as well as the exact hardware required to maintain informal Service...

Tags: Law School, TeamQuest Corp., Jeff Fox, TeamQuest Model, It Management, It service Management

Case studies 2008-08-15

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The brain drain from Apple to Palm

Bloomberg reports that Palm rebuffed a request from Apple CEO Steve Jobs in August 2007 that the companies stop hiring each others employees. Then Palm CEO Ed Colligan pictured left dismissed Jobs' proposal saying: Your proposal that we agree that neither company will hire the others employees, regardless of...

Tags: Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Business Ethics, Product Development, Public Relations, Leadership, Management, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Zucker vs. Stewart: "Completely out of line" on Cramer and CNBC

NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker kicked off the 2009 Business Week Media Summit this morning by criticizing Comedy Central satirist and commentator Jon Stewart as being "incredibly unfair to CNBC and business media in general" in his critical interview of CNBC financial show host Jim Cramer last week. ...

Tags: CNBC, Jon Stewart, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Human Resources, Benefits, Marketing, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-03-18

Zucker on NBC: First and foremost, we're a cable network company

Putting aside the question of whether he will ever want to take on Jon Stewart on Comedy Central on behalf of NBC, NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker also had these comments to make on the state of its broadcasting, cable and online businesses at the 2009 Business Week Media Summit...

Tags: Cable, Cable Network, NBC Universal Inc., Network, Network Technology, Networking, Personal Technology, Telecommunications, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, Tv & Home Theater

Blog posts 2009-03-18

Election Day '08: Where to get live results

There's no better time in history to watch election results on the fly. Some, but not all, of us will have access to a television, where you can watch results stream in on ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC or Fox. But for those of you...

Tags: Result, Associated Press, Election Day, Twitter, CNN, Palm Beach Post, Northwestern, Corporate Communications, Blogging, RSS, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Marketing, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-04

Why+a+Yahoo-News+Corp.+deal+makes+sense

Why+a+Yahoo-News+Corp.+deal+makes+senseSounds good, but, if MS is persistent, 60B trumps everything.Having these talks IS a great strategy to make MS pay more, but, MS could still do a hostile takeover after the News Corp deal, it would just be a lot harder and more expensive with Rupert Murdoch owning 20%, and...

Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., News Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-13

Why the '8 things' tag meme is important

Now and again, someone will dream up a tag meme game. The idea is the writer says x-number of things and tags y-number of others to follow suit. Right now the 8 things you didn't know about me tag meme is doing the rounds and yes, I've been tagged on...

Tags: Workplace, Oracle Corp., Idea, Blog, Workforce, OraNA, Cyberthreats, Blogging, Spam, Games, Recruitment & Selection, Security, Internet, Spam And Phishing, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-01-11

MySpace to Facebook: WE have the friends, and money

Is Facebook waging the wrong battles?Facebook: Who needs Yahoo, Craigslist, newspapers? Mark Zuckerberg and company have been floating in conjunction with touted new “game changing” Facebook services in the works.HOW ABOUT MYSPACE?Despite Zuckerberg’s incredulous insistence that MySpace is not Facebook’s competitive peer, MySpace does indeed reign supreme in the social...

Tags: Facebook, Metrics, MySpace, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-05-22

MoveOn.org accuses MySpace of "selective online censorship"

I'm not at the Personal Democracy Forum, but I have been receiving regular updates from MoveOn.org about what they believe is selective censorship of some user-generated content from MySpace.A pamphlet was to be distributed by MoveOn.org to an early afternoon panel featuring MoveOn's Executive Director Eli Pariser and MySpace's main...

Tags: Regulatory

Blog posts 2007-05-18

YouTube: NOT future of media?

Does the future of YouTube portend the future of media? YouTube was not present at the 2007 Media Summit in New York City this week, but it was on everyone’s mind. YouTube may be following in corporate parent Google’s industry conference strategy: Minimal (non-guaranteed) presence. Rare is the...

Tags: Business Models, Media, Google, User-Generated Content, MySpace, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Marketing, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content, Movies, Social Networking, YouTube Inc.

Blog posts 2007-02-09

YouTube: Will TV networks call Google's bluff?

NBC, Viacom, Fox…will they ever put their money where their mouths are? Jeff Zucker officially took over the reigns of NBC Universal. His first order of business? A public but cordial wrist slap of Google’s YouTube. Zucker’s verbal “rebuff” of YouTube follows in the video footsteps of Viacom’s...

Tags: Business Models, Content, Copyright, Donna Bogatin, Google, Google Inc., Google Software Applications, NBC Universal Inc., network, Television, TV, Video, YouTube, YouTube Inc.

Blog posts 2007-02-08

Web 2.0 Summit: The players and the products

The Web 2.0 Conference/Summit gets underway today in San Francisco, and I will be posting from there. John Battelle and Tim OReilly are hosting the pricey invitation only event, which will feature interviews with some of the high and mighty players in the Web 2.0 kingdom, such as Marc Benioff...

Tags: General, Personal Technology, Web Technology, web2con

Blog posts 2006-11-07

Web 2.0 Bill of Rights: free content, users control, Websites are public goods

The Bill of Rights has NOT been amended to reflect Web 2.0 conventional wisdom that:1) content owners have no right to compensation,2) non-paying users of commercial services control decision making at the services,3) Web 2.0 properties are public goods, not private enterprises, and exist as Web 2.0 “philanthropies” to provide...

Tags: YouTube Inc., MySpace, YouTube, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-09-15

An anti-telco blind spot

An anti-telco blind spotBe afraidI would agree and do not like the prospect of turning over additional power to the government - but having spent a huge chunk of my career in telecom, the telcos are not to be trusted. The PUC public utility commissions are full of reports...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, telecommunications company

Discussion threads 2006-05-25

Dogster or Newsvine in the Fox Interactive house?

Still speculating on who Fox Interactive has acquired, but won't reveal for a few weeks, Jeff Nolan is betting on Dogster, but also thinks that Tagged, Skobee or Meetro could be the target. Newsvine has also been mentioned. At this point, Newsvine gets my vote. It just launched, and has...

Tags: Fox Interactive, Ross Levinsohn

Blog posts 2006-03-03

Patriot Act defender touts 'safeguards'

Patriot Act defender touts 'safeguards'more meaningless theaterEver wonder why the government spends so much time trying to convince us that the "Patriot Act" is necessary and lawful? It's probably because it is such a blatant attack and end run around the US constitution.But it all doesn't really matter though. America...

Tags: Regulations, U.S. Department of Justice, USA PATRIOT Act, government, Patriot Act defender

Discussion threads 2006-01-09

TiVo copy protection bug irks users

TiVo copy protection bug irks usersExterminate your television.I can't watch any broadcast programming today; it's too glossy, unimaginative, and shamelessly crude while "critics" have the vain audacity to call it "outrageously funny".I do have a small DVD collection of my favorite shows, but I watch it so little that I...

Tags: DVD, music industry, TiVo Inc., TiVo copy protection bug, TiVo copy protection, TV, copy protection

Discussion threads 2005-09-13

Spoofing flaw resurfaces in Mozilla browsers

Spoofing flaw resurfaces in Mozilla browsersFirefox Sucks Firefox Is A Piece Of Crap, Firefox Is Useless!!!!Thought I'd fill in for Mike Cox and No_Ax on this one....Why would you allow this to happenFor it to happen you have to be connected to a hackers website at the same time as...

Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, Mozilla Web browser, nothing, flaw, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web browser

Discussion threads 2005-06-06

Carnivore gone--but it's not dead

Carnivore gone--but it's not deadBWAHAHAHAHA!!![i]"The review concluded that Carnivore didn't snatch more from networks than it should, but that it had "no auditing"[/i]What?! If there's no auditing, how the hell do they have any idea what was snatched up?![i]" Unfortunately, the public knows virtually nothing about how the FBI is...

Tags: Federal government, Government Secrecy, Carnivore, FBI

Discussion threads 2005-01-31

'Bush' spam does not stop

'Bush' spam does not stopA clever ploy...To make more friends for the Democratic party. Counterproductive, no?Spam is spam is spamHopefully the senders get what's coming to them(although not likely a 9 year sentence.. http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/Prosecutor-Explains-Why-Spammer-Sent-to-Slammer-38005.html)Big spammers - RepublicansDuring the campaigning, I received tons of spam from the Republican party trying...

Tags: Cyberthreats, spam, Kerry

Discussion threads 2004-11-10