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- RIAA willing to take its lumps in filesharing fight
- RIAA willing to take its lumps in filesharing fightFiduciary Duty???"More to the point, failure to prosecute violators could be a breach of fiduciary duty and open the record companies to lawsuits from artists."Where exactly is it their fiduciary duty to lobby for and then demand fines that are completely out...
- Tags: Fiduciary duty, filesharing fight, RIAA, lump
- Discussion threads 2007-10-10
- AmazonBrowser (widget)
- AmazonBrowser is a Widget which lets you browse Amazon (.com/.co.jp) efficiently without opening your Web browser. It shows all of editorial/ customer reviews and all of Listmania link, and you can bookmark books or DVDs that you are interested in. Also, you can also add what you want to buy...
- Tags: Lump, Shopping Cart, AmazonBrowser, Web Browsers, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Software downloads 2007-07-06
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- Dell and Salesforce.com: So cozy they could merge (someday)
- Dell and Salesforce.com have quite a partnership going on. Dell is developing its internal and some of its external application on Salesforce.com's force.com platform. Salesforce.com is moving its data centers to Dell hardware. And the two are teaming up on marketing pitches. Meanwhile, the relationship appears to be much more...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Would you abort George Clooney
- Would you abort George ClooneyWowNot willing to take on controversial topics, are you? Good luck with this one. :)Here's my two cents: Genetic research and the possibility of using it to "purify" the gene pool using whatever criteria can be justified reminds me of an episode of the old Muppet...
- Tags: George Clooney, gene
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Understanding Business Process Modeling: Learn What It Is, How It Works, and Why It's a Must for Any Organization
- Business process modeling is a discipline in and of itself. Business analysts typically perform the duties involved in it: defining and outlining business practices, processes, information flows, data stores, and systems. In other words, process models essentially lump processes of the same type into a model so that one can...
- Tags: Business Process, Business Process Modeling, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-08-19
- Google unloads Performics to Publicis Groupe
- Publicis Groupe will buy Google's Performics search engine marketing unit for an undisclosed sum. Google acquired Performics via the DoubleClick acquisition and the unit sparked a little bit of a firestorm. The problem: Owning Performics could be viewed as a conflict of interest for Google. After all,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Performics, Advertisement, Marketing Research, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- The computer mouse set to die out in the next five years? Don't bet on it!
- According to a sensationalist article by the BBC News, that lump of plastic that you have next to your keyboard will, over the next few years, go the way of the dinosaur and be replaced by revolutionary technologies such as touchscreens and facial recognition. I wouldn't bet on it ......
- Tags: Mouse, PC, Computer Mouse, Computer, Mice, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- The Andrew Carnegie of our second gilded age
- The Andrew Carnegie of our second gilded ageLump of Coal or Coke to build the next empireAlthough from the past, I do recall in my mind the perception of comparing Gates to Carnegie. I never realized the connection all this time, esp. given what you report (i.e. backgrounds, culture, beliefs,...
- Tags: Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Robert Woodruff, Carnegie, Coke
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Will Oracle answer these questions?
- Will Oracle answer these questions?In declineYears of no raises and other HR changes have demoralized the workers, sorry, the 'human capital' at Oracle; innovation is discouraged, CYA is the order of the day. Perhaps AL after Larry, there will be a purge and a reawakening, but it may be...
- Tags: Leadership, Enterprise software, Oracle Corp., fusion
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- How long ago did we begin to disagree about global warming?
- How long ago did we begin to disagree about global warming?It took Mother Nature...millions of years to lock up the carbon into fossil fuels that we have managed to release in a hundred.Nature can not fix it as fast as we are polluting it. That is the issue. Take a...
- Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Rumor Mill: What's next from Apple (updated)
- Rumor Mill: What's next from Apple updatedNot backing up while working?That's insane. That's when I WANT my hourly backups. Too much dinosaur IT thinking (back up when the system isn't under load).POC?You might want lump all low-end PCs in this category as this is all the Psystar is. It benefits...
- Tags: Notebooks, Rumor Mill, Apple Inc., Psystar
- Discussion threads 2008-05-16
- Google kicks off its Facebook ground war
- Updated: Google on Monday outlined its Google Friend Connect, a service that promises to insert social features into any application and any site. Sound familiar? It is. MySpace has its friend connect service and Facebook has its version. Add it up and you have...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Site, Friend Connect, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- 10 reasons for IT failure
- 10 reasons for IT failureThe number one reason...I still say the number one reason for failure is the mind set that in some magical way IT project management is different than other diciplines. (Engineering projects as an example.)One of the short comings I see in most curriculum for computer...
- Tags: Strategy, Project management, information technology, IT Failure
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Microsoft: Pondering the alternatives to Yahoo
- Microsoft's Saturday "negotiate or else" deadline for Yahoo has passed with an eerie silence. Yahoo's board is reportedly meeting Sunday--you'd think the company would have met before the deadline, but I guess we're all prone to procrastination. Microsoft CFO Christopher Liddell hinted on Thursday and in a broadcast to employees...
- Tags: Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-27
- SOA management, SOA governance -- keep them separated
- What's the difference between "SOA governance" and "SOA management?" Aren't they essentially the same thing? Not so, says Eric Roch, who claims some analysts wrongly are lumping the two into a single solution category. Governance is about the business, management is about technical monitoring ...
- Tags: SOA, SOA Governance, SOA Governance Tool, SOA Management Tool, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- The future of SaaS billing
- In the past few weeks, all of a sudden, I've been approached by any number of vendors wanting to tell me about their billing, settlement and subscriber management offerings to the SaaS market. I must say, it's about time. For the past ten years, SaaS vendors have struggled to manage...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Billing, LeCayla, Vindicia, Enterprise Software Buyer, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- 8 common lies told by enterprise software sales people
- 8 common lies told by enterprise software sales peopleThe Truth Is Out ThereGreat post and great e-Book! Its about time someone told the truth about enterprise sales!ObservationsHere on ZDNet I've posted:"The normal condition of software is broken."The author states:"The bottom line with custom software in the enterprise is that...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, Tools & Techniques, salesperson, IT IS, enterprise software sales people, common ly, enterprise software sale, IT Department, ROI, software, enterprise software
- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
- Microsoft tries to stop more 'Vista-capable' e-mails from going public
- Microsoft tries to stop more 'Vista-capable' e-mails from going publicPost em on ZDNet in a lesser known blogNo one will find them then.TripleIIThe truth will outBye bye MS. Can't wait for their share price crash. Tick tock, tick tock ....Message has been deleted.Oh what a tangled web...They weave, when [b]Microsoft[/b]...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Tries, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-03-09
- Does IT matter?
- As someone who has been accused of publicity seeking through grand pronouncements I can understand the motivation behind Nicholas Carr's 2003 article in Harvard Business Review: "IT Doesn't Matter". His main thesis is: For a brief period, as they are being built into the ...
- Tags: Concept, K Mart, Information Technology, Wiki, Matter, Marketswiki.com, Interactive Brokers, Strategy, Management, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-17
- No more talk of proprietary innovation please
- No more talk of proprietary innovation pleaseI'm blasting past all the headlines, but ...Of course I had to stop for your take, and as usual, you see through the noise immediately. I love your slant!btw: your 'parrot' link is screwed up.What?Your article s a rambling mess. What are trying...
- Tags: Leadership, Strategy, proprietary innovation, innovation
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
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