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Journalist Karen Southwick succumbs to cancer

Journalist Karen Southwick succumbs to cancerSo sorry for the loss......she was a shining star among the journalists covering the tech industry. Her biting wit will be missed.It constantly amazes me"Karen was the bravest person I knew," said News.com Editor Jeff Pelline, who knew Southwick for 20 years and worked...

Tags: Karen, Karen Southwick

Discussion threads 2004-07-27

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Oracle OpenWorld: a view from the cheap seats

Oracle OpenWorld: a view from the cheap seatsLowly Bloggers?Dennis - i know we love to debate this, but i don't feel like we treat bloggers poorly! There are things other companies do that that we don't (we both know what i'm talking about), but I think we've made a...

Tags: cheap seat, Oracle Open World

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays?

I have seen an internal Oracle email that confirms persistent rumors that Jespers Andersen, SVP Application Development at Oracle has left for Cisco. The email says: "You may well have heard today, the rumour mill has been very busy that Jesper has resigned from Oracle. ...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Jesper, Team Management, Sales Strategy, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Force Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Management, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-03

Hacker wants promise he'll be returned to UK

British hacker Gary McKinnon is almost out of options to avoid extradition to the US, but not quite. The BBC reports that McKinnon is asking the British Home Office to ensure he won't be jailed in the US once he's convicted. His lawyer wants him returned to the UK after...

Tags: U.S., Home Secretary, U.K., Mr., Hacker, Government, Hacking, Vertical Industries, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-02

StatusHQ: another Twitter clone for enterprise

  Twitter clones are starting to come out the woodwork. The latest candidate is StatusHQ, which surfaced last Friday and which my pal Luis Suarez describes as: "What Twitter could have been." Maybe, maybe not. The central premise behind StatusHQ is that individuals can...

Tags: Twitter, StatusHQ, Susan, Pete, UI, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Sarbanes-Oxley, Business Structures, RSS, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Internet, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-01

Green light for hacker's extradition

The British hacker who broke into thousands of Pentagon and U.S. government computers may soon be extradited to the U.S. Britain's top court, the British House of Lords, refused to block the extradition Wednesday, according to an AP report. U.S. officials say he broke into military networks,...

Tags: Network, European Court, Hacker, Computer, Intrusion, McKinnon, McKinnnon, Productivity, Network Security, Viruses And Worms, Networking, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-30

Reformed computer criminals - your country needs you

And trust me, they really do. Over the last year, the UK and US Governments have had an awful problem in keeping basic data protection rules in check, almost to the point where they may have been broadcasting over the radio minutes of the intelligence committee meetings. ...

Tags: Computer, Hat Hacker, Productivity, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-26

Will Oracle answer these questions?

Tomorrow sees Oracle provide its Q4 results. I have no more insight into what those numbers will look like than anyone else but if past history is anything to go by, they'll likely be 'dramatic.' More dramatic for me though will be insights...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Sales Strategy, Marketing Research, Sales, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-24

Who keeps failing their FISMA compliance?

The recently released U.S Federal Computer Security Report Card for 2008, indicates that several critical to national security departments continue failing to implement the Federal Information Security Management Act FISMA. From a cyber espionage perspective, the lack of prioritization of departments that must...

Tags: Compliance, FISMA, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-05-27

A 100-million-year dragon killer

Komodo dragons are one of the largest living species of lizards, growing to a length of up to 3 meters and weighing around 70 kilograms. They're living on several central Indonesian islands for more than 100 million years. Why are they still alive? According to an international team of researchers,...

Tags: Researcher, Species, Komodo, UNSW, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-04-15

Australian senator demands open source against US "lock-in"

Australian senator, Karen Lundy, believes US software "lock-in" reduces both competition and technology innovation, thereby hurting the Australian technology market. Speaking at an Australia 2020 Local Summit, Senator Lundy's remarks made clear her commitment to open source at the expense of "proprietary" systems. Her comments also...

Tags: Software, Senator, Open Source, Software Company, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-04-09

When art meets medicine

Medical students will soon benefit from a new training tool. Surgical gowns for students have been designed by UK researchers at Durham University with the help of artists at the University of Ulster. 'The gowns, which would be worn by medical students in the classroom, will supplement the traditional plastic...

Tags: Body, Patient, Student, Training, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-30

Government turns to SaaS to salvage IT failures

The senior White House IT official, Karen Evans, said she believes software as a service SaaS can improve government IT projects and systems. Evans made her remarks during a talk at the Saas/GOV 2008 conference. From InfoWorld: "Our track record is clear -- we ...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Agency, Information Technology, Karen Evans, Software As A Service (SaaS), Government, Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Management, Marketing, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-01-21

Big Coal making big announcement...fate of states awaits

Big Coal making big announcement...fate of states awaitsSmall Woman Owned Business Goes GreenRestorative Medical Inc., a small woman owned company whose products are totally Made In America, is proud to announce its Green Initiative. We are dedicated to preserving our Earth’s natural resources while protecting our environment. Some...

Tags: Big Coal, Java RMI

Discussion threads 2007-12-18

Google, CDT call for more searchable government

It's time -- high time -- for government agencies to make their websites much more friendly to web search engines. That's what Google and Wikipedia plan to tell a homeland security Senate committee Tuesday, according to the Washington Post. The Center for Democracy and Technology and...

Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Agency, Privacy, Center For Democracy And Technology, Wikipedia, OMB, Advertising & Promotion, Government, Wiki, Marketing, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-12-10

Apple admits to 'misleading' Leopard firewall settings

Apple admits to 'misleading' Leopard firewall settingsDoes not computer. AAAAAARRRRGHHHH!!!!![i]Apple has fessed up to at least three serious design weaknesses in the new application-based firewall that ships with Mac OS X Leopard.[/i]But, but, but, I posted and I posted and I posted about how Leopard was perfect and secure and...

Tags: Firewalls, Network security, SECURITY, Now Let, Microsoft Windows Vista, firewall, Apple Inc., Leopard

Discussion threads 2007-11-15

Thoughts on Google accounts

Thoughts on Google accountsGoogle AccountsYikes - I am almost completely tied into Google - extensive gmail usage, with teams, family, work..and our family runs on goog's calendar...and all my hockey and soccer schedules/team lists on docs & spreadsheets...what do you mean locked out?RE: Thoughts on Google accountsIt would be a...

Tags: SECURITY, Spam, Backups, Google Inc., Google Accounts

Discussion threads 2007-11-09

State Dept. policy wonks blog personal!

The Washington Post's Al Kamen is a bit underwhelmed with the State Department's entre into the world of blogging, called Dipnote. That's short for "diplomatic note" but it does bring up other images ... This is what we've all been waiting for! No more media filters and distortions....

Tags: Media, Blog, Afghanistan, Washington Post Co., Blogging, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-10-05

In light of Patent woes, Vonage could be acquired by Sprint after all

In light of Patent woes, Vonage could be acquired by Sprint after allPLEASE NO!!! NOT SPRINT!Oh my gosh, if Sprint took over Vonage, I'd cancel my Vonage service! Sprint cannot even run their own network properly. They have proven that when they took over NexTel. I can't tell you how...

Tags: Telephony, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telecom & Utilities, Sprint Communications, Vonage Holdings Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-09-26

Lawgarithms Links for 8/20/07

Remember that between entries here you can keep up with the Live Web and other issues I'm spotting by subscribing to my Google Reader Starred Items. Among the links now playing:California court invalidates Alienware arbitration provision in online terms and conditions, from Internet Cases by Evan Brown"Among other things,...

Tags: Google Reader, Blog, Lawgarithms, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2007-08-20