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Bad leadership causes failed IT

IT failures continue to plague organizations across virtually every industry. Poor business leaders who don't possess the skills needed to manage change effectively have created this mess. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Information Technology, Leader, Failure, Mike, Leadership, Strategy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Management, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-06-29

IT "neglects" the human side of change [SOA podcast]

Mike Kavis is chief enterprise architect at Catalina Marketing, a large data analysis company serving the retail industry. Mike is a prolific writer and speaker on topics related to implementing Service-Oriented Architecture SOA. Here's one of Mike's presentations, discussing how to sell SOA to the business side...

Tags: Information Technology, SOA, Mike Kavis, Mike, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Podcasts, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-06-22

Wanted: new term for SOA 'governance'

Here's a quote that's too good to pass up: "Let's be honest, the term 'SOA governance' sucks. It reeks of someone else telling you what to do, hectoring you over every little detail of a project. It sounds about as desirable as a colonoscopy with an IMAX...

Tags: SOA, SOA Governance, Mike, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-02-13

Twitter is useful

It's not often I call out my fellow Irregulars we usually have those arguments in our Google Group but on this occasion, Mike Krigsman has got this notion that 'Twitter is dangerous' wrong to the point of scaremongering. Mike uses the example of confidential information leaking...

Tags: Twitter, Mike, E-mail, Homeland Security, Strategy, Online Communications, Government, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-12-19

Eight lessons for a successful IT implemention

Given this blog's focus on the causes of IT failure, it's great to read about successful enterprise software implementations. Mike Kavis describes what his team learned during the course of deploying their first SOA application. Here's Mike's description of "things we did right," along with my annotations:...

Tags: Project, Information Technology, SOA, Mike, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-11-30

GMTA: Mobile TV is So overhyped

I've railed against this craze before. I think it is informed by "Platformitis," an overwrought obsession on the part of freaked-out tv types that hey, our viewers are increasingly out and about, by golly they all have cellphones, and we need to get to their eyeballs where those eyeballs...

Tags: Mobile, Mobile TV, TV, TechDirt, Mike, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-09-22

Google's new APIs and their effect on Google Talk, Gmail and yes, Google Phone

The way I interpret some newly posted information, Google could be preparing to allow developers to fashion applications that will run with Google Talk, Gmail, and more hot Google services such as the widely anticipated Google Phone. After speaking with three Non Disclosure Agreement-signing (but apparently...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Google Talk, Phone, API, Mike, E-mail Providers, Internet, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-09-22

4-Card-Keno (zip)

Four Card Keno allows you to play four cards at the same time, using the same random numbers for each card. Features include autoplay, advanced card marking features, sound, speed controls, save/load game, active stats for keno game return, editable payscale, cheat codes, and complete help file. Multi-Card and Single...

Tags: Freeware, Mike, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2006-05-18

Mega Keno (zip)

Mega Keno consists of 7 keno games. The game starts in the lobby area. The player is given $500 dollars cash to start. Mega Keno includes Vegas Keno, Devil's Keno, Snowman Keno, Ten Card Keno, Four Card Keno, Wild Square Keno, and Catch-Em All Keno.

Tags: Freeware, Player, Mike, Mega Keno, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2006-05-18

Additional Resources

Judge: Viacom gets 12TB of YouTube user data

Judge: Viacom gets 12TB of YouTube user dataWell it's not like anyone has EVER... used an IP address to take legal action against an individual....oh wait. They have.Never mind.RE: Judge: Viacom gets 12TB of YouTube user dataGlad I am not a Google Log-Oner!Of course who's to say that the data...

Tags: YouTube user data, Viacom Inc., user data, YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Michael Dell's a believer: Makes a $100 million statement

Michael Dell's a believer: Makes a $100 million statementDoes that make him...?Just wondering if that makes him the majority shareholder now? Or could that be his goal, to make sure he retains control over Dell as a rule because he may be considering stepping aside as CEO to pursue something...

Tags: Mortgages, Dell Computer Corp., Michael Dell, believer

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Does True Knowledge see value in distance from the bubble?

The flurry of attention around yesterday's Microsoft/ Powerset news set me thinking once more about UK-based True Knowledge, which has been compared with Microsoft's latest acquisition. TechCrunch UK's Mike Butcher reported last month that nameless venture capital firms were valuing True Knowledge at about £20million ($40million), and...

Tags: Valuation, Knowledge, U.K., Microsoft Corp., TechCrunch UK, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Blizzard introducing two-factor authentication for WoW gamers

Password stealing malware targeting popular MMORPGs such as World of Warcraft for instance, has become so prevalent, that video game developers are taking their authentication model a step further, by introducing two-factor authentication into play. And while marketable, is the new authentication layer actually useful in a real life situation?...

Tags: Password, Two-factor Authentication, World Of Warcraft, Malware, Gamer, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Games, Cyberthreats, Security, Personal Technology, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Autonomy CEO: Web 2.0 'under all the hype, there is something there...'

Autonomy CEO: Web 2.0 'under all the hype, there is something there...'knowledge-at-point-of-careGreat review of Mike Lynch's article.ISABEL, a clinical diagnosis reminder system based on Autonomy is a sign of things to come in the vast and underexplored area of point-of-care knowledge and expertise management in healthcare; the current generation of...

Tags: Autonomy Corp. plc, Web 2.0, Web

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Autonomy CEO: Web 2.0 'under all the hype, there is something there...'

An intriguing article by 'meaning based computing' company Autonomy's CEO Mike Lynch in today's Financial Times: Embracing the friend, taming the beast – Web 2.0 in the enterprise. Autonomy are mature and stable (with a 4 billion market capitalisation), rapidly becoming the second largest pure software company...

Tags: Web, Autonomy Corp. Plc, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Bill Gates bids farewell

Bill Gates bids farewellHe brought a lot to the computer world!Yeah, vicious predation, greed, and arrogance.iMiss BilliWill miss Bill. He brought a lot to the computer world!Bill Gates bids farewellA fine speech from a magnificent man! He had visions, he had missions, he had it all! The IT...

Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Windows NT, Bill Gates, Abramoff, Preston Gates, vision, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

Internet Explorer 'feature' causing drive-by malware attacks

Internet Explorer 'feature' causing drive-by malware attacksNo surprise hereEver single vulnerability in IE is due to a built in feature.In fact, IE itself can be considered a "zero day" attack friendly vector. The primary point of failure in IT security.what version?what version?RE: Internet Explorer 'feature' causing drive-by malware attacks[i]taking advantage...

Tags: Web browsers, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Microsoft Internet Explorer, malware, malware attack

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology is ready to roll

Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology is ready to rollActually...You should ask THAT to Apple, not Microsoft...Because Apple's usage agreement only allows OSX to run on Apple hardware?And while Psystar might be avoiding a lawsuit, it's very unlikely that Apple would hold back if MS tried to enable it's customers to easily...

Tags: desktop virtualization, cloud computing, Storage management, Utility computing, Operating systems, Tools & Techniques, non-Windows OS, hardware list, Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology, VMware Inc., virtualization, innotek VirtualBox, virtu

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

Cheat High Tech Cheaters

So Omar Khan wanted to get into college, but he didn't want to do his homework to get there. The Orange County, CA, high school senior decided instead to use spyware, grab credentials off teachers' log-ins, and then change failing grades to top grades. ...

Tags: Student, Teacher, Khan, Food & Beverage, Handhelds, Team Management, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless, Manufacturing, Hardware, Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-06-25

House approves telecom immunity in 'compromise'

House approves telecom immunity in 'compromise'Bush finally managed to do in the Constitution and Bill of RightsIn one blow, done, gone, end of the representative republic that used to be the United States of America.Long live the Republic of Socialist Horrors I Totalitarianism.God Save the World Now.How exactly is this...

Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, telecommunications, telecom immunity, government, Shrub Administration

Discussion threads 2008-06-23