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Mississippi Choctaw's Use GIS and Mapping to Manage Tribal Lands

This paper is intended to show how the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians are using GIS/Remote sensing to manage, maintain and acquire tribal lands, is being used to evaluate the 8 Choctaw Communities and plan for growth. Leica GPS Units with Panasonic Toughbook PDA's containing ESRI's ArcPAD are being used...

Tags: Land Acquisition, Mississippi Choctaw, GIS, PDAs, GPS, Handhelds, Software, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

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Cisco acquires Pure Networks, home networking software

Cisco Systems has cable set-top boxes and your home along with the routers. Now it wants the software that puts your entire home network together. Cisco, which is determined to be a big consumer player as well as an enterprise behemoth, on Wednesday that it will buy...

Tags: Software, Pure Networks, Cisco Systems Inc., Home Networking, Networking, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Virtual Iron Customer Profile: Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann, LLP

I had the chance to speak with Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann's David Roden, a few questions about their use of Virtual Iron's virtual server environment. Thanks for spending time with me, David! Here are my questions and David's answers: Who are you and what...

Tags: Virtual Iron, Server Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Yahoo: Microhoo, Icahn drama cost us $22 million; Economy soft

The Carl Icahn proxy battle and Microsoft buyout drama appears to have been a slight distraction for Yahoo, which is seeing slowing display ad demand amid a weak economy. Yahoo on Tuesday reported second quarter net income of $131 million, or 9 cents a share, on revenue of...

Tags: Revenue, Jerry Yang, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-22

VMWare looks ahead at Microsoft, year-end financials and morale

updated: VMWare, whose recent headlines have included an ousted CEO and a re-pricing of its employee stock options, reported second-quarter earnings of $92 million, or 23 cents per share, up from $52 million, or 16 cents per share, for the same quarter a year ago. Revenues were $456 million, an...

Tags: Revenue, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Evil tech administrators

Evil tech administratorsEvil Tech Admin'sI've work at a few places where some of the Admin's I worked with were a bit on the sneeky side. So As a admin I made sure there was a back door incase one fo these admins tried to pull the same stunt. Its happened...

Tags: NETWORKING, Recruitment & Selection, administrator, network

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle

On July 7, the day before the release of the patch for the now infamous DNS design flaw, hacker Dan Kaminsky with the help of Black Hat conference organizers invited reporters to a press conference to "discuss the massive multivendor patch being released this Tuesday." "A synchronized...

Tags: Black Hat, DNS, Conference, Dan Kaminsky, Thomas Ptacek, Domain Names, Patches, Security, Networking, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-22

AOL's ousted CEO being considered for Yahoo seat

Can Jonathan Miller do for Yahoo what he tried to do for AOL? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Investor Carl Icahn, who reached a compromise with Yahoo this morning to avoid a nasty proxy battle for seats on the company's board of directors,...

Tags: America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Miller, Corporate Governance, Venture Capital, Team Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Brocade to acquire Foundry in $3 Billion deal

Brocade has said it will acquire Foundry Networks, a company that does enterprise and service provider switching and routing, in a deal valued at $3 billion. The acquisition, which still needs final approval, comes on the heels of corporate problems for Brocade, notably the criminal misconduct sentence...

Tags: Stock Option, Foundry Networks Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Backdating, Stock Options, Benefits, Investment, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Unintended Consequences and the Future of Maintenance Revenue: SAP Jettisons TomorrowNow

When Shai Agassi called me in early 2005, he asked me a loaded question: How would I respond if SAP decided to take the fight to Oracle by providing third party maintenance for Oracle's recently acquired PeopleSoft customers? I told him it would be an incredibly aggressive move, but that...

Tags: Revenue, Maintenance, Oracle Corp., Customer, SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Software As A Service (SaaS), Public Relations, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-07-21

AMD on road to recovery, says research firm

Technology Business Research says Opteron and Puma are boosting AMD's chip business, but the company could be hurt by the economic downturn. While AMD's processor business is showing strength, the company is still in a worse position than Intel to face a dip in demand for the rest of...

Tags: Recovery, Technology Business Research, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, AMD, Opteron, processors, servers, PCs, Victoria Ho, ZDNet Asia

News items 2008-07-21

Another call for Yahoo-Icahn compromise

Carl Icahn's push to get a new slate of directors on board at Yahoo took another hit late Sunday when another shareholder stepped up to call for a compromise. According to Reuters, Eric Jackson, manager of hedge fund Ironfire Capital and leader of shareholder group Yahoo Plan B, will announce...

Tags: Slate, Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Master of Defence (exe)

Hordes of evil monsters are intruding upon your ancient kingdom. You, as the protector of the land, must build a strong defense to protect the people taking refuge in your castle. But are you up to the challenge? 5 locations to explore, Survival mode - 120 raids of evil monsters...

Tags: Voodoo, Monster, Raid

Software downloads 2008-07-21

Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.

Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.I guess the video maker is contesting that the polar ice isnt meltingntHe showing that you're dumber than dirtYou don't even realize that the ice displaces more volume than liquid water and the melting makes the...

Tags: wind energy, neighborly concern, ice, thin air

Discussion threads 2008-07-19

The green tech edition of ‘what I did on my summer vacation'

How would you like to spend your summer break doing some groundbreaking green technology research? IBM has hired a couple of hundred college students worldwide to lend their brains to projects across the company's 13 research labs, including several focused on solving problems related to making data...

Tags: Green Technology, IBM Corp., Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-18

The potential fallout from Apple vs. Psystar

The potential fallout from Apple vs. Psystaranticompetitive argumentThe problem with the anticompetitive argument is that the company engaging in the activity has to command a substantial share of the overall market. Apple doesn't even have 8% of the market. Also, Psystar never even tried to license Apple's intellectual...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Psystar, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Yahoo may revisit News Corp if AOL dims: source

Yahoo is unlikely to get into a bidding war over AOL with Microsoft because Yahoo could instead renew talks over News Corp's Web properties. NEW YORK--Yahoo is unlikely to get into a bidding war over AOL with Microsoft because if Microsoft gets in the way, Yahoo could instead renew...

Tags: America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft-Icahn Proposal, Financial Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Finance, Investment, Reuters, Yahoo, Microsoft, Microhoo, merger, News Corps, AOL

News items 2008-07-18

AMD CEO Ruiz out; Can Meyer turn it around?

Updated: AMD CEO Hector Ruiz has stepped down and the chipmaker has named chief operating officer Dirk Meyer as its new leader. The news comes amid the latest financial miss for AMD--a second quarter loss that missed estimates by a wide margin. Meyer's job: Restore credibility. According...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Meyer, Product Momentum, Asset Management, Research & Development, Processors, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Google earnings fall short; Says it can thrive in weak economy

Updated: Google's second quarter earnings missed Wall Street estimates and executives moved to allay concerns about the company's ability to weather a dicey ad environment. The search giant on Thursday reported net income of $1.25 billion, or $3.92 a share, on revenue of $5.37 billion excluding...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Earnings, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Microhoo, MicroAOL, and challenging Google

Microhoo, MicroAOL, and challenging GoogleContentUnless you're including content in your definition of an advertising platform, you've left out a most important factor. People look at ads because of what else is on the page. And that other material has to be located and purchased profitably.Yahoo has been successful...

Tags: Web browsers, Financial accounting, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., America Online Inc., advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-07-17