Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
- Stinks to be the CIO: The 2010 IT budget may spike to 2006 resource levels
- Welcome to 2010 with the same resources you had back in 2006 and 2007 (if you're lucky). Now go out and be useful to the business. That cheery outlook was delivered by Gartner in its 2010 CIO Agenda talk. Some pep talk, guys. Gartner analyst Mark McDonald...
- Tags: IT Budget, CIO, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- News to know: Apple and anti-virus; Vista SP2; Kumo; Palm; Linux
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Christopher Dawson: Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)? Ryan Naraine: Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virus Breaking...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Nokia Corp., Antivirus, Service Pack 2, Palm Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Security, Viruses And Worms, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- 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
- Why "better" often doesn't sell
- Why "better" often doesn't sellGeneralizationsWhen it comes to marketing there are lots of strange things:1. Better may sell but it may not make profits.2. "Better" is in the eye of the beholder3. Better but sacrifices business plan.At the core I think sometimes companies get so involved with...
- Tags: Murph, Microsoft Corp., PC Products, End Users
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- See the demo of Windows 7 multi-touch
- See the demo of Windows 7 multi-touchOld news Mary Jo....My rep has given me alpha access to a Touch Wall in my palatial office. The walls were installed and loaded with the latest code. Pretty quickly I was using the walls like Tom Cruise in Minority Report, moving around servers...
- Tags: Construction, Operating systems, Keyboards, wall, Windows 7 multi-touch, Microsoft Windows, multi-touch, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- Gartner's latest pep talk: CIO as corporate change super hero
- It's time for chief information officers to step up and be the big difference makers in their companies. Welcome to another CIO pep talk. This one comes from Mark McDonald, analyst at Gartner. His pitch at the Gartner Emerging Technologies conference in Las Vegas: The CIO role...
- Tags: CIO, Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Of Skype, wooly mammoths and Big Macs
- Last week, Skype announced they attained the 100 billion minute level in terms of free Skype-to-Skype voice and video calls since Skype launched in 2003. As a representative of Skype just pointed out to me, frequently cited research that estimates the number of humans who have ever...
- Tags: Mammoth, Apple Macintosh, Skype Technologies S.A., Corporate Communications, Blogging, Desktops, Telecommunications, Marketing, Internet, Hardware, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Open source parties like it's 1999
- Open source parties like it's 1999QuestionYou wrote:"Buy a project, anger the developers, and they'll take the code somewhere else. They were in their basements before, they can go back to their basements, and they'll show you, brother."Will they take the wife and kids with them this time?Is news really that...
- Tags: Keats, Darien, open source, basement
- Discussion threads 2007-10-19
- Microsoft's worst run project: Windows 2000
- Microsoft's Iain McDonald, director of project management for Windows Server, says the worst run project at the software giant was Windows 2000. That tidbit comes from an interview Mary Jo Foley just posted.To folks that aren't familiar with the intricacies of Microsoft this revelation is a bit of a stunner....
- Tags: General, IT Management, Microsoft, Software Infrastructure, Vista
- Blog posts 2007-07-03
- Identify C language issues that can lead to software vulnerabilities
- When reviewing software to uncover potential security holes, it's important to understand the underlying details of how the programming language implements data types and operations, and how those details can affect execution flow. A thorough auditor should be familiar with the source language's underlying implementation and how these...
- Tags: Software, C, Addison-Wesley, C/C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Book chapters 2007-01-30
- YouTube, Facebook: Is billion dollar Internet land rush fools' gold?
- The relatively calm “back to serious business” September has gotten a jolt of good old fashioned Internet frenzy with two billion dollar acquisition “rumors”: New York Post ups its own previous rumored $1 billion valuation for YouTube by 50% to $1.5 billion and The Wall Street Journal signals a replay...
- Tags: Facebook, MySpace, Mark Zuckerberg
- Blog posts 2006-09-21
- Incoming Nortel CEO sued by Motorola
- Incoming Nortel CEO sued by MotorolaAmerica has become a hog farm.Suey, suey, suey. And the lawyers are making a killing.The US way of protectionismThe US is using its expensive lawsuits in may areas as a form of protectionism. Nortel being Canadian has more chances to be condemn by...
- Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., McDonalds, McDonald's Corp., Motorola Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-10-20
- Net blackout sparks talk of new rules
- Net blackout sparks talk of new rulesSolution from a genius!Keep the system commercial but make it more like the electric grid, whoever has the proper equipment and license can plug-in a server. No more of this I'm bigger than you stuff.What if someone dies because of this?I wonder if Level...
- Tags: Vertical industries, regulation, government, Internet
- Discussion threads 2005-10-07
- McDonald's Wi-Fi recipe could define industry
- McDonald's Wi-Fi recipe could define industryMcDonalds is on its way down, because of competition serving [real] foodMcDonalds, has hit a road bump they have tons of competition in the marketplace. In my opinion I would concentrate on serving HOT and FRESH food. NOT some fly by night idea that will...
- Tags: food, McDonald, McDonalds, Nothing, Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2004-03-12
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
-
-
Smart Tech
Expert advice on innovations in healthcare and the green technologies that make it happen.
Find out more
-
Smart Business
Discussion and advice on management issues that revolve around making your world smarter and more useful.
More Smart Advice
-
Smart People
The best and worst moves in the management and strategy trenches.
Learn More
White Papers and Webcasts
Read about top issues IT decision-makers face every day, plus get cost-effective solutions to real-life IT problems.
A simplified IT environment isn't just less complex. It's also more reliable. Standardize on a single Linux platform with SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell, and get the world's most interoperable Linux
The Business Essentials Guide provides you useful tools and templates to help grow your business and save you time with automated shipping solutions.
