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- Palm Pre sales guesstimate: 1.5 million
- Palm's Pre introduction has won over a lot of folks--including some Wall Street bears. And one is predicting 1.5 million units 12 months after the Pre launches sometime in the first half. In a research note, Citi analyst Jim Suva upgraded the Palm to a "hold" from...
- Tags: Palm Inc., Sales, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
- Compromise on the drinking age debate
- Compromise on the drinking age debateThe Land of Misfit toysA brief conpendium of former Rice people would have to include Howard Hughes, Carrie Bradshaw and Matt Wilson, all of whom left after their freshman year.Among our graduates are John Doerr, writers William Broyles and Bill Goyen, game designer Steve Jackson...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, drinking age, beverage
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- News to know: Google Apps; Vista UAC; Microsoft Echoes; Comcast; Dell
- Notable headlines: Garett Rogers: Google App Engine pricing a disappointment Ed Bott: Dear Microsoft: Please get UAC right this time Sunbelt Blog: Microsoft: What we got here is a failure to communicate Larry Dignan: Dell delivers: Is a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Facebook, Dell Computer Corp., Comcast Corp., Vista UAC, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Netbook, Microsoft Windows, Enterprise Service Bus, Telecom & Utilities, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Facebook and the CIA
- In a piece of carefully researched critique, Guardian Unlimited writer Tim Hodgkinson does a masterful job unpacking the politics of Facebook, implying that the company's backer's real agenda is the realization of the original American dream: Here at last is the Enlightenment state longed for since the Puritans of...
- Tags: Facebook, Nature, CIA, Tim Hodgkinson, Corporate Governance, Blogging, Venture Capital, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet, Finance, Financing Startups, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- Are faux-Zuckerbergs a threat to corporate harmony?
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk wonders whether Generation Y is Cartesian with a twist: I think, therefore I am great. I had dinner with someone significant in the tech world the other day. Desdemona (guess what, not her real name) had a problem she wanted to share with...
- Tags: Dinner, Advertisement, Harmony, Chris, Entrepreneurship, Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- Encyclopedia of American Cinema. FREE first chapter in the trial version (Mobile)
- This illustrated Encyclopedia includes biographies of the best American directors and actors, reviews of the best American movies, and lists of awards. FREE first chapter in the trial version.Features Fully illustrated. Search for words or phrases. Navigate from Table of Contents or read page by page Add Bookmarks Text annotation...
- Tags: Cinema, Mobile, Biology, Director, MobileReference, American
- Software downloads 2007-09-27
- Is hot air a greenhouse gas? Or just ear pollution?
- They talked global warming down in Australia. All those leaders from the U.S., China, Japan, Russia, host-nation Australia, Indonesia and fifteen other nations agreed that they aspire to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Boy, that's reassuring. These leaders didn't do anything radical, like promise to do anything. ...
- Tags: China, Leader, Pollution, Greenhouse Gas, Declaration, Greenhouse Gas Emission, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- CBS vs. NBC: The REAL Wall Street (Wallstrip) story!
- In the Memorial Day battle of the "What is the REAL reson CBS "acquired" Wallstrip.com, diverse motivations abound:Grab the talent,Neutralize a potentially disruptive up and comer,Acquire the technology,Capture the brand,Learn about Web video...Digital Markets Blog has the REAL reason, though, REALLY!Why is CBS absorbing a bare-bones Web video start-up backed by...
- Tags: CBS Broadcasting Inc., Culture, Donna Bogatin, Lindzon Wallstrip, NBC Universal Inc., Video, Wallstrip
- Blog posts 2007-05-27
- VA loses another hard drive
- It looks like security hasnt improved much at the VA. A hard drive missing from the Veterans Affairs Department offices in Alabama may have been stolen, Government Computer News reports. The hard drive may contain personal information about veterans but the department didnt have any information about what data...
- Tags: Government technology, Security, hard drive
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- SOAphobia? (Fear of SOA...)
- Dave Linthicum got a kick out of blogging colleague Phil Wainewright's observation that many IT shops may be afraid of Software as a Service. He takes this thought another step and wonders out loud if IT shops may also fear SOA to some degree. ("SOAphobia"?) Phil quoted Crownpoint's Jim Howard,...
- Tags: SOA, information technology
- Blog posts 2006-08-15
- Nine great podcasts from MIT's CIO Symposium
- What do Monster Technology's Paul Neilson CIO, Dunkin' Brands' Rick Broughton, (Director, IT Strategy), MIT's Jerry Grochow VP of IS, COX New England's Brad Shipp Vice President for Information Technology, Accenture's Bob Suh Chief Technology Strategist, Hyperion's Howard Dresner Chief Strategy Officer, Red Hat's Brian Stevens CTO, HP's Russ Daniels...
- Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, audio, Moderator
- Blog posts 2006-08-15
- TalkBack: 'A feeding frenzy for SaaS detractors'?
- A heated TalkBack discussion developed yesterday in response to my posting on the topic of IT shops 'afraid of SaaS'. In the midst of it, SaaS advocate Matt Robinson complained: "This forum seems to be a feeding frenzy for SaaS detractors, however, the arguments presented aren't providing much constructive...
- Tags: Saas
- Blog posts 2006-08-11
- IT shops 'afraid of SaaS'
- Two thirds of companies are missing out on the potential advantages of a SaaS solution simply because the IT department are scared of trying SaaS, claims Jim Howard, CEO of website content management vendor Crownpeak. "There are these persistent myths that are eliminating SaaS companies...
- Tags: CrownPeak, IT Organizations
- Blog posts 2006-08-09
- Lieberman defeat a win for 'Netroots' politics?
- Lieberman defeat a win for 'Netroots' politics?Democracy cannot work in America......unless you register and vote.We can get bogged down in all of the "reasons" why Lieberman lost this particular election and why people don't vote because of all of the problems in politics.The candidate who is "most likely" to win...
- Tags: Lamont, Internet, Lieberman Software Corp, X-ers, voter
- Discussion threads 2006-08-09
- Crownpeak challenges top ten SaaS myths
- On-demand content management vendor Crownpeak is teasing journalists with an onslaught against "the top ten myths about software delivered as a service." In a press release hitting the wires tomorrow, CEO Jim Howard says: "There have been so many myths and misconceptions propagated about software-as-a-service, that we felt...
- Tags: Saas
- Blog posts 2006-07-31
- Veterans' data theft may cost $500 million
- Veterans' data theft may cost $500 millionOKSo this guy has a staff member that screws up big time, basically giving out critical information on 26.5 million vets and he uses it as a reason to spend another half a billion dollars. Needless to say they will need to increase...
- Tags: identity theft, vet
- Discussion threads 2006-05-25
- The Adventure Mega Collection (Mobile)
- If you've always dreamed of owning a library of the world's greatest adventure fiction, now is your chance. For the first time all in one place, The Adventure Mega Collection contains 50 of the most famous adventure stories ever written from authors such as Alexandre Dumas, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Rudyard...
- Tags: Mobile, E-books, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2006-04-11
- Preempting data warfare: The art of comprehensive vulnerability management
- This sample chapter, taken from Larstan's the Black Book on Corporate Security, discusses the importance of comprehensive vulnerability management. Comprehensive vulnerability management reduces exposure and risks from security incidents that might otherwise occur as a result of having longer time intervals between inspections.This sample chapter, taken from...
- Tags: Corporate Security, Larstan Publishing, Vulnerability Management, Security
- Book chapters 2005-12-02
- MCI chief's severance deal nears $40 million
- MCI chief's severance deal nears $40 millionAnother CEOThis guy should be thrown in jail! Run a company into the ground and get a bonus!Shareholders can sell a kidney.......to help pay for the high-priced talent.I worked at Compaq ..... for a few years in the late 90's. I remember...
- Tags: MCI Inc., Compaq Computer Corp., Alpha Processor
- Discussion threads 2005-09-02
- Telemarketers target cell phones
- Telemarketers target cell phonesInstant huge fineInstead of just telling the telecrapper do to call. it should be an instant huge fine (like 1000$ or more, and if the same telecrapper do it more then once double the fine each time) Whitout any real incentive to not call cell phone those...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Advertising & Promotion, phone, Do-Not-Call, cell phone, telemarketer
- Discussion threads 2005-06-21
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