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- AT&T's Motorola Q Global reports 9 hour talk and 30 day standby times
- It has been a couple of years since I checked out a Motorola Q Smartphone and it looks like Motorola has made some major improvements. The Moto Q Global is now available from AT&T for US$299.99 after mail-in rebate and 2-year contract (US$499.99 list price). The keyboard is curved and...
- Tags: Keyboard, Microsoft Windows Mobile, AT&T Corp., Motorola Q, Motorola Inc., Moto Q Global, Motorola Q Global, Smart Phones, Microsoft Windows, Keyboards, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
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- Best practices group formed for IT data center managers
- Struggling to marry your company's environmental concerns with the right IT management philosophies? The Business Performance Management Forum BPM Forum and hosting company Rackable Systems have started a new "thought leadership" program, Think Eco-Logical, to help companies share ideas and data that can serve as the foundation for industry best...
- Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Industry, Best Practice, E-business, Think Eco-Logical, Data Centers, Business Process Automation, Web Technology, Storage, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Data Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- American auto industry low on fuel and popular support
- After today's Senate hearings the Detroit Big Three are nowhere nearer getting any federal aid than they were after their last visit. Whatever you may think of the automakers "plan" to change and become viable, there is no plan in the Senate itself that would lead to a bill that...
- Tags: Car, Automobile Company, Detroit, Industry, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 2 - Sticking My Hands Out To Be Slapped
- Last week at this time I was throwing my neck out there forecasting some of CRM's moves in 2009 - and no one chopped it off, thank goodness. So, now, in the same spirit, I'm going to do part 2 of three and stick my hands out to be slapped...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, PaaS, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Emerging Technologies, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Adobe lays off 600; skips Macworld Expo
- Adobe Systems, Inc. announced yesterday in a statement that it will eliminate 600 full-time positions, or roughly 8 percent of its workforce, amid weaker than expected fourth quarter earnings. Fellow ZD blogger Larry Dignan notes that demand for Creative Suite 4 was weaker than expected and the...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Macworld, Workforce Management, Operational Accounting, Human Resources, Finance, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Open source thrives in downturn
- Collaboration initiatives are all about streamlining business processes, and the interfaces between legacy closed systems and open source stacks are an increasingly common place to find business collaboration environments. According to research firm Gartner, open source software is present in 85% of enterprises and the...
- Tags: Intalio Inc., Collaboration Initiative, Alfresco, Open Source, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- So just what is a 21st Century Skill?
- We hear a lot about 21st Century Skills lately; I'm certainly guilty of using the phrase. There's a whole website devoted to building them (actually, there are thousands, but this one has the domain name www.21stcenturyskills.org). We also know that a lot of our kids don't have them...
- Tags: Student, 21CS, Ruby On Rails, Productivity, Domain Names, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Adobe lays off 600 workers, CS4 demand weaker than expected
- Adobe said Wednesday that it will eliminate 600 full-time positions, or roughly 8 percent of its workforce, amid weaker than expected fourth quarter earnings. The company said in a statement that it will deliver fourth quarter revenue between $912 million to $915 million, down from its previous...
- Tags: Revenue, Adobe Systems Inc., Earnings, Worker, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Roadmap: Open source to take over mainstream IT
- Roadmap: Open source to take over mainstream ITDelusion DayJust saying it every year for the last decade does not make it any more real.If Linux desktop ever gets to 1% global usage, it will still be irrelevant.Who's deluded?It's already happening and will continue to proliferate.I can understand how some people...
- Tags: Desktops, open source, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- It's getting worse out there
- And this has nothing to do with faltering banks or auto makers with begging bowls. This has to do with the air we all must breathe. Right now there's a major international conference on the atmosphere. The 14th session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations...
- Tags: Atmosphere, Meltdown, Emission, Carbon Dioxide, World Meteorological Organization, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Roadmap: Open source to take over mainstream IT
- Open source-based IT jobs will grow and the cloud will be ubiquitous, as long as the community takes certain steps, according to a roadmap from the Open World Forum. Within the next 12 years, 40 percent of IT jobs will be related to open source, and open-source-based cloud computing...
- Tags: Information Technology, Floss, open source, cloud, Floss Roadmap, Open World Forum, predictions, Peter Judge ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-12-03
- Extranet collaboration platforms - coming soon, but many-to-many problem remains
- In our conversations with many information and knowledge management professionals, it's clear that their distributed and multicompany teams need better extranet collaboration tools. And they feel the problem is only getting worse as companies go virtual, global, distributed, outsourced, green, travel-less, and partnered, thus driving the need...
- Tags: Extranet, PBwiki, Thomson Reuters Messaging, Networking, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Ted Schadler
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- ICANN terminates EstDomains, Directi takes over 280k domains
- Following ICANN's notice of termination sent to cybercrime-friendly domain registrar EstDomains in October, on the 24th of November the termination became a reality and EstDomains is no more. Despite the public concerns of who will take the 280,000 domains, and that includes the cybercrime facilitating ones, Directi's ResellerClub is new...
- Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Domain, EstDomains, Directi, Security Community, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Should you run your laptop on battery or charger power?
- An interesting article in Slate by Jacob Leibenluft the other day asks a simple question: Do you save more energy keeping your laptop plugged in during use, or should you use your charger only after the battery runs out of juice? It's a complicated...
- Tags: Battery, AC Power, Laptop Computer, Engineering, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Kudos for a good research approach
- The Conference Board publishes an annual report, CEO Challenge, where hundreds of CEOs globally are quizzed as to their firm's most pressing concerns. This summer, the Conference Board sent out its surveys but as they began to tabulate responses for their report, the stock market,...
- Tags: Report, Board, Conference, Corporate Governance, Marketing Research, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Marketing, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Server sales slide; IBM, HP nearly tied for market share lead
- Global server sales fell 5.2 percent in the third quarter, the largest decline since the fourth quarter of 2002. Meanwhile, Hewlett-Packard maintained a very slight market share lead over IBM, but statistically it's a tie, according to IDC. According to IDC, third quarter global revenue was $12.6...
- Tags: Revenue, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Operational Accounting, Sales Strategy, Servers, Finance, Sales, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- RIM warns for the third quarter; Blames Bold, Storm slippage, weak Loonie
- Research in Motion said its third quarter sales and earnings will be lower than expected primarily due to "shifts in product launch dates" and a weak economy. In a statement late Tuesday, RIM said that revenue for the third quarter will be $2.75 billion to $2.78 billion....
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Quarter, Storm, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Google feeling the pinch?
- ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with senior editor Sam Diaz about Google's financial future according to Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry. Diaz also discusses what the outlook may mean for the company's employees and its competitors.
- Tags: Google Inc., Financial, Financial Accounting, Google, layoff, revenue, finance, search, Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo, Sumi Das, Sam Diaz
- Videos 2008-12-02
- Group calls on Washington to establish national Broadband strategy
- It's time for the U.S. to step up to the broadband plate. A coalition of companies that includes Google, Cisco, AT&T and Verizon, among others, has sent an open letter PDF, asking President-elect Obama and Congress to make broadband deployment a high priority for 2009, according to a CNET report....
- Tags: Strategy, Washington, Network, Broadband, American, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Google analyst sees falling revenue and board conflict
- Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry predicts Google's revenue will fall in the next two years and the company is about to hit its adolescent stage with board conflicts and layoffs. In a research note, Chowdhry lays out the case. The gist: The economy is putting pressure...
- Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Board, Trip Chowdhry, Contacts, VC, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
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