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- Bleezer is a blogging tool that works with any blogging service. Features include: WYSIWYG editing, Image uploads, Category support, Add tags for any tag service, and Custom Markup Creation.
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- IT warning: Turbulence ahead
- The technology budget is on the skids. The business types don't quite get IT (and by the way you don't get them either). And amid all this turmoil all you have to do is keep your infrastructure humming and solve the 25 most contentious business-technology issues by the first half...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- SharePoint: What are the risks, rewards?
- What does it say about SharePoint when a presentation focused on whether you can survive it packs the house? Mark Gilbert's presentation--"Can the CIO survive Microsoft SharePoint?"--at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo filled up an auditorium. There are two ways to read this: There is...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Gilbert, MOSS, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Negotiating with your hardware vendor 101
- Squeezing the most out of technology budgets seems to be a running theme these days, but customers frequently give up leverage in negotiating hardware deals. According to Gartner analyst Leslie Fiering most hardware negotiations go wrong early on. A customer's maximum leverage occurs when a company is...
- Tags: Leverage, Hardware Maker, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Gartner's worst case for 2009 IT budgets isn't so bad
- Gartner has revised its 2009 IT budget prognostications, a move that isn't surprising, but the firm's projections could be a lot worse. Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president of research at Gartner, outlined the research group's new projections in his opening keynote at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in...
- Tags: IT Budget, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Gartner's CIO pep talk: Make a difference or be automated (or worse)
- Gartner analyst Mark McDonald late Sunday laid out the chief information officer agenda for 2009 and the big theme is that tech executives need to make a business difference or fade away. Why? Companies have other options--software as a service, cloud computing and shared services--that could deliver more value than...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., McDonald's Corp., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- News to know: Wimax; Tech economy; Microsoft's big brains; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Hiner: Beyond mobile broadband, WiMAX is about blowing up the wireless business model Larry Dignan: Gartner's CIO pep talk: Make a difference or be automated (or...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- MySpace launches ad platform for small businesses
- MySpace on Monday will unveil a targeted ad platform called MyAds, a beta designed to enable smaller advertisers to use its HyperTargeting technology. HyperTargeting is the MySpace platform used by its larger advertisers. With MyAds, MySpace is trying to tap into smaller advertisers that can be used...
- Tags: Advertisement, Small Business, MySpace, Advertiser, MyAds, HyperTargeting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Entellium's lost millions
- Larry Dignan outlines the main points of the Entellium fraud. Regardless of the final outcome, there are three glaring questions: How did the CFO and CEO overstate revenues across THREE financial years by a factor of four to five times without someone noticing the obvious problem of...
- Tags: Entellium, Board, Compliance, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Forrester: Credit crunch may freeze tech services projects
- Forrester Research in a report is confirming that the credit crunch is beginning to hit technology services firms. The extent of the damage is unclear, but IBM's lower-than-expected third quarter revenue its earnings are stronger than expected may indicate something worse is afoot. Forrester's...
- Tags: Service Provider, IBM Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Business Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- The Apple II is baaaaccckk (via emulator)
- In the Friday nostalgia department, TechRepublic's John Sheesley has unearthed an emulator for the Apple II. All you need is a browser and you're off to memory lane. Sheesley writes: Unlike the TRS-80 Model I Basic emulator page, the Virtual Apple site doesn't use a Java...
- Tags: Apple II, Apple Inc., Emulator, ActiveX, Sheesley, Virtual Apple, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Churchill Club podcast: Irrational decisions and the rational people who make them
- Renowned organizational thinker Ori Brafman and his brother, psychologist Rom Brafman, say that anyone--under the right set of circumstances--is capable of irrational action. But irrational behavior is not random. In conversation with Guy Kawasaki--one of the Club's most popular moderators--the authors of, Sway: The Irresistible Pull of...
- Tags: Decision, Podcasts, Strategy, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Entellium executives arrested by FBI for making up revenue figures
- Software as a service company Entellium's future is uncertain after its CEO and CFO were arrested by the FBI for inflating sales to land venture capital. The U.S. Department of Justice said in a press release that CEO Paul Thomas Johnson, 40, and Parrish Jones, 39, were...
- Tags: Revenue, Entellium, FBI, Revenue Figure, Federal Government, Operational Accounting, Corporate Governance, Government, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Amazon cuts S3 pricing; Dangles carrot in front of enterprises
- Amazon said Thursday that it will cut prices on its Simple Storage Service (S3) and offer more volume discounts. The pricing, which goes into effect on Nov. 1, may reflect that Amazon is looking to grab share as competition from Microsoft and others is about to heat...
- Tags: S3 Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- IBM: Beats earnings target but...
- IBM said that it will beat Wall Street's earnings estimates for the third quarter, but there were enough nuggets disclosed to raise a few eyebrows. First, the headlines. IBM statement said it would report earnings of $2.05 a share, a good 3 cents better than estimates. Revenue,...
- Tags: Revenue, Earnings, IBM Corp., Thomas Weisel, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- News to know: IBM earnings, Blackberry Storm, WiMax arrives, Oracle+ Primavera
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: IBM reports early. Profits up 20 percent, full year estimates reaffirmed. Larry Dignan: IBM: Beats earnings target but... Times are officially...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, RIM BlackBerry, Earnings, IBM Corp., E-mail, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, WiMAX, Monitors & Displays, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Wireless, Components, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Times are officially tough: Sequoia says so
- Talk about the insulated bubble that is Silicon Valley. Sequoia, one of the best venture capital firms out there, emails a bunch of portfolio companies and tells them to hunker down. And now everyone notices that things may not be so peachy in Web 2.0-ville. GigaOm has...
- Tags: Web, Sequoia, E-mail, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, Government, Channel Management, Investment, Online Communications, Finance, Financing Startups, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- RIM's Storm: Why it matters
- Research in Motion launched its Storm touch handheld and it is critical to the company's long-term plans. RIM, along with Vodafone and Verizon Wireless, launched the Storm on Wednesday (Techmeme, statement, Crave review, gallery). The phone, a rival to the iPhone 3G, signals a product barrage for...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Keyboards, 3G, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Symantec buys MessageLabs for $695 million; Bolsters SaaS lineup
- Somebody is finding some values out there in techland. Symantec on Wednesday said it is acquiring MessageLabs for $695 million in cash. MessageLabs, which offers messaging and Web security services, had about $145 million in revenue for the fiscal year ending July 31. Symantec...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Symantec Corp., MessageLabs Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Security, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
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