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Steve Jobs for President. Of GM?

Steve Jobs for President. Of GM?Technical innovations?Is the iPod or the iPhone successful because its technology is far in advance of any available to other companies? Or because existing capabilities are being used to design devices appealing to the public?Wouldn't Steve Jobs be a more appropriate replacement for Mr....

Tags: Investment, labor cost, General Motors Corp., Steve Jobs, car

Discussion threads 2008-11-12

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Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform

In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-08

Scary study on how lack of IPOs is harming US economy

The cart before the horse?With low skilled/educated labor and low negative savings rate, I don't think the ingredients for a fundamental rebound exist in the US. I guess Wall Street would like to continue to be able to fleece us, but hopefully, being taken once is enough for most investors....

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, economic destruction, same policy, IPO, carbon tax, USSR, socialist

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Maingear unleashes Shift desktop, child-sized 'personal supercomputer' for $2,199 (or $13,394)

Without demonstrated Linux or OSX support......what's the point? Who does video stuff on Windows?Plenty do.....You just don't get out much. My XP system with cakewalk software did me just fine and that was on a P4 system that couldn't keep itself cool, ever. But my audio quality...

Tags: Desktops, Maingear, personal supercomputer, supercomputer, desktop

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

40 years ago the Internet was born - now it devalues everything it touches

you are devaluing your proffesionshame on you.internet is one of the greatest invention in human history.Establishing walled islands on the InternetThe Internet is like a huge river, or better yet, sea, that allows users to move from small island to small island web application, to find the things they care...

Tags: Web site development, e-reader software, e-reader, Internet, Web site

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Facebook freezes deceased person's profiles

Depends on cost to FacebookThere is some labor involved in converting the pages. There is, of course, the storage cost.And by removal of advertising links on those pages, a loss of revenue.On the other hand, if Facebook were to offer the families a "perpetual memorial page" similar to a...

Tags: Facebook

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Can open source software stop IT failure?

I'm not so sure #1 is valid#1 is a variation of "many eyes make all bugs shallow"Does it help? Yes. But it also makes the implicit assumption that everyone that can view the code is competent to do so. So it goes back to resource allocation being an issue, if...

Tags: Strategy, OPEN SOURCE, information technology, IT Failure, F/OSS, software, open-source software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

The chief value of open source

Custom code solutions...It's great you can see the code, but for companies I disagree that is a "value".What SMB has the resources to comb through thousands of lines of code to assure reliability and security? Even if they do manage to find a bug, are they going to fork...

Tags: open source, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

eSTM8 Construction Estimating Software 2.1.1 (Windows)

e-STM8 Construction estimating software can help you gain a competitive advantage by facilitating your preparation of detailed, profitable bids while managing job costs and subcontractor bids. e-STM8 offers basic and advanced estimating features which allow the accurate construction of an estimate. The software enables you to set your default labor...

Tags: Software, Construction, Microsoft Windows, e-STM8 Construction, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2009-10-23

Some prepare for Copenhagen climate meeting

Here in the U.S. most folks don't even know where Denmark is. Hint, it's just a little east of Kennebunkport. But elsewhere the positioning before the December climate talks in Copenhagen has begun. In Britian, for example, all three major political parties actually admit there's global warming. ...

Tags: Copenhagen, Leadership, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-19

GM to sell small electric car for less than $6,000

it would be nice......if GM would sell these cars in North America...just my two centsRE: GM to sell small electric car for less than $6,000It aggravates me. Why is the US the last one to get this type of innovation that is affordable. I WANT ONEOh yeah people in a...

Tags: car, General Motors Corp., electric car, small electric car

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Customer Intimacy wins in SAP SI's and Channel Partners

Yesterday, several bloggers at the SAP TechEd conference in Phoenix had an opportunity to speak with Zia Yusuf, EVP, Global Ecosystem & Partner Group of SAP. I asked Zia what characteristics typify the best SAP partners. He rattled off five qualities that the best systems integrators and...

Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Firm, Channel Partner, Business Services, Strategy, Supply Chain, Product Development, Management, Business Operations, Research & Development, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-14

TechGuard keeps spam and botnets at bay with one-click, enterprise-level security for SMBs, SOHOs

One of the most difficult things for a small or medium business to do is set up a security scheme that's effective, affordable and intelligible to the average employee. Chesterfield, Mo. and Baltimore, Md.-based TechGuard is attempting to address that problem by bringing its enterprise and government-level...

Tags: Security, Firewall, Network, SOHO, Small And Medium Business, TechGuard, SM, Smb/Sme, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-10-13

The troubling thoughts re: outsourcing

Watch this space for future problems! There’s a lot going on in the outsourcing world lately. Things like: - Perot Data Systems being acquired by Dell - ACS getting bought by Xerox Add to these deals,...

Tags: Solution, BPO, Outsourcing Company, Customer, BPO Deal, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, It Services, Managed Hosting, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-05

The burnout risks for E2.0 community managers

Dion Hinchcliffe's piece on community management surprised me. There is a sense that Dion is trying to lay down some ground rules in an area that is too new for anyone to draw anything other than tentative and early stage conclusions. That's not to say that conclusions are incorrect. There...

Tags: Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Reducing IT Deployment Time, Labor and Costs with Hyper-V and Dell

Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 with Hyper-V™ offers virtualization capabilities that can help IT organizations reduce server deployment time, cut labor requirements and lessen operating costs. In this white paper, learn how Dell provides a fully engineered, end-to-end, holistic virtualization solution that includes hardware, services, and support for Windows Server 2008...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Storage, Hardware, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

White papers 2009-09-22

Before Google Books, we took on-demand publishing to the streets

Different plans for different worlds?What's needed here is for Google to have different business plans/models for different worlds. Clearly a first world business plan like what they have now is not sutiable for the third world. A third world business plan of free as in beer books would not be...

Tags: Google Inc., Third World, public domain, on-demand

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

Office Web Apps: OneNote (Office Web Apps: New screenshots)

Office Web AppsNot at all impressed with the Offfice Web Apps....while the other issue that many will still have to decide upon, if they want/ or should allow their own, or business data to be stored on the web/ internet/ cloud.....MS, along with many others pushing Web based apps have...

Tags: cloud computing, Office Web Apps, Office Web, Web application, Microsoft Office, New screenshot, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

Feds launch Apps.gov; Cloud computing players salivate

Any bets on how long it takes someone to hack in and screw it up? nt...Why don't I feel good about this???Hmmm... Could it be that some government a55-clown could store sensitive data in the cloud... And that there are tons of other countries with extremely skilled hackers that would...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Virtualization, Apps.gov, agency, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Taleo, Talent Management and What???s Wrong With ERP Spending

He's not far off.Brian, I blogged and provided details on my blog in 2005 "So, even without factoring in costs of your own staff or incremental hardware you are looking at $7.50 at the low end and $ 21 or more at the high end for every $ 1 dollar...

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, talent management, talent, Taleo Corp., ERP

Discussion threads 2009-09-15