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On SocGen and spreadsheets: the similarities

On SocGen and spreadsheets: the similaritiesSpreadsheet risk conference in the city of KervielThe European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group EuSpRIG is holding its 2009 conference "The Role of Spreadsheets in Organisational Excellence" on the 2nd ? 3rd July 2009 at the Ecole Normale Sup?rieure de Cachan, Paris, France. The keynote speakers...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, spreadsheet, SocGen, keynote speaker

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

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Palm Pre (Sprint)

Photo gallery:Palm PreWe haven't seen so much buzz over a phone since the iPhone, but for the past six months, all eyes have been on the Palm Pre. Introduced at CES 2009, the Palm Pre quickly became the most anticipated phone of the year, not only for what it meant...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Palm Pre, Palm Inc., Sprint Communications

Product reviews 2009-06-04

Cat Got Your Tongue: How Gossip Will Become The New Media

If you believe the profile, there is a cat that twitters. And has 512,733 followers, as of mid-afternoon May 18. Of course, this cat â€" alternately known as “Sockamillionâ€� or “Sockingtonâ€� â€" and his voice really belongs to Jason Scott, who lives in Waltham, Mass. ...

Tags: Media, Social Media, Conference, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-05-19

News to know: Google Search; iPod Touch; Pre launch date; Yahoo; Zune; AMD

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: Google: Understanding is the next frontier of search; Meet Wonder Wheel, Google Squared Tom Foremski: How...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple iPod, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Zune, Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Google Search, Apple iPod Touch, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Piracy, Telecom & Utilities, Digital Music, Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-13

How to make technology conferences suck less

How to make technology conferences suck lessNice postJoe,Thanks for sharing this information. I attended ClueCon last year and it was great- for some of the very reasons you mention. I enjoyed it so much that I'm volunteering this year to help out. I think community-organized is important. I also think...

Tags: NETWORKING, Network technology, ClueCon, network, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-02

Microsoft's mobile strategy: Can it thread the prosumer needle?

Microsoft unveiled Windows Mobile 6.5 with a prettier user interface that will play well with touch devices, a Web synchronization service dubbed My Phone and an applications marketplace. But questions hover even as Microsoft rolls out these new services: Can Microsoft move fast enough to keep Windows Mobile fresh and...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Hardware, Larry Dignan, Marketing, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Operating Systems, Phone, Software, Strategy, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless And Mobility

Blog posts 2009-02-17

Spin, Baby, Spin â€" Oracle’s case for spending in a tough economy

How recessions should alter vendor behavior Oracle had a recent show here in Chicago. Attendees were given a very nice breakfast, a keynote from an Oracle executive and an opportunity to kick the tires on scads of Oracle products. The keynote address was...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Information Technology, Business Leader, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-02-10

From Command & Control to Collaboration & Teamwork

Cisco's John Chambers explains their approach I think this is a wonderfully succinct interview with Cisco CEO John Chambers by Harvard Business School Publishing, which is well worth 6.5 minutes of your life if you're interested in modern 'lead from the middle or...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Collaboration, John Chambers, Leader, Leadership, Linda, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-02-09

It's OK to be mad at Apple but give Schiller some respect

Lesa Snider King is mad at Apple. There. It's been said. Publicly. And maybe, through the power of the blogosphere, Steve Jobs and company over in Cupertino, will hear her. After all, King is organizing a "silent" protest so that Apple knows that she is unhappy with...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Protest, Apple Inc., Macworld, Lesa Snider King, Philip W. Schiller, Marketing Research, Roi/Tco, Marketing, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-19

Unstructured transparency - the management methodology that pulls us through the crunch?

I've just spent a couple of fascinating days at the HCL Global Meet in Orlando, Florida. As the name suggests this was a very international gathering of HCL's partners, clients, staff and thoughtleaders in the management and collaboration space. I've written before about...

Tags: Innovation, Pyramid, Employee, Financial, CEO, HCL Global Meet, Vineet Nayar, Nayar, HCL Tech, Krishnan, Hamel, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Leadership, Strategy, It Services, Team Management, Branding, Financial Accounting, It Operations, Management, Marketing, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Al Gore's 'Unified Smart Grid' vision for repowering the USA - will it happen?

This week's Web 2.0 Summit was characterized by some very big picture ideas culminating in final keynote speaker former US vice president Al Gore laying out his vision for a 'Unified National Smart Grid': a new, state of the art integrated electrical infrastructure for the...

Tags: Web, Vision, Al Gore, Grid, Web 2.0 Summit, Michael Wesch, Web 2.0, Transportation, Internet, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-08

Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson

Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet;  Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...

Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Social media...dirty word or essential skill?

I mentioned Chris Brogan in a post yesterday from the Massachusetts Superintendents Technology Conference. He gave the final keynote of the day, entitled "The Internet has changed everything, again." Not surprisingly, it was about Web 2.0/social media goodness (he even featured a screenshot from fellow ZDNet blogger, Jennifer...

Tags: Web, Social Media, Conference, Web 2.0, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-21

So I'm stuck at a conference today

It's the Massachusetts Superintendent Leadership Conference. I haven't decided yet if this is a good thing. The WiFi's snappy, so at least I can get some work done, but the 3 hours of commuting has already put a damper on things. Oh well. At least this...

Tags: Application, Conference, Blogging, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-21

Open source college revolution?

Open source college revolution?Blackboard NG "Next Generation"Keynote speaker Blackboard CEO Michael Chasen demonstrated the power and direction of Blackboad NG at today's afternoon session of Blackboard World '08 in Las Vegas.TRULY a Next Generation product that makes any institution's 'learning' go everywhere.+ It will now wrap Moodle & Satai.+ Courses...

Tags: Angel Learning, Moodle & Satai, open source

Discussion threads 2008-07-17

Cell phone as desktop computer

Cell phone as desktop computerGood stuffThat is a really good idea and if Microsoft doesn't implement it, someone will like meS. Jobs said something similar not too long agoIn a WSJ interview he said that he thought we'd see most big advances come from "devices" rather than normal computers.The conversation...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Desktops, phone, computer, cell phone, desktop, desktop computer, docking station, keyboard

Discussion threads 2008-06-20

Microsoft's Ozzie is on the Mix '08 agenda, after all

Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie will be speaking at the Microsoft Mix '08 conference, after all. When Microsoft first announced its Mix keynote line-up last year, Ozzie surprisingly was nowhere to be found on the speaker list. I say "surprisingly" because Mix is Microsoft's biggest Web...

Tags: Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-01-30

Details surface on the MacBook Air

Some lucky stiffs have already received the MacBook Air and details are starting to emerge.Take for example Walt Mossberg's revelation that "it's beautiful and thin, but omits features." Mossberg also reveals that the MBA gets 3 hours and 24 minutes of battery life running full kilter: In...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple MacBook, Battery, MBA, Notebooks, Engineering, Newsweek, Engadget, Air, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2008-01-25

Should open source cheer Gates' swan song?

Should open source cheer Gates' swan song?An open source star really could help to increase awarness of Linux, andfree software in general. Linux Torvalds does not want to be a star, and though not as abrasive as Richard, still abrasive. Eric Raymond is a great writer, but he does not...

Tags: open source, Google Inc., Linux, Bill Gates, brand

Discussion threads 2008-01-07

Web collaboration: Cisco and Adobe duke it out

A fascinating juxtaposition of keynotes from Cisco and Adobe have kicked off proceedings today at the SIIA On Demand Summit in San Jose, which I'm attending as a speaker [disclosure: I'm also on the steering committee for the event, but have paid my own way to be here]. These two...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Web, Web-based Collaboration, Software-as-a-service, WebEx Communications Inc., Collaboration, Cisco Systems Inc., Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-11-08