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What Apple can learn from ESPN Mobile

Its no secret that Apple is considering jumping into the mobile phone business (at least by their trademark filings, anyway) but before doing so, I hope that the company is paying attention to the recent death of ESPN Mobile.According to a notice posted on the companys Web site, Mobile ESPN...

Tags: MVNO strategy, Mobile ESPN, ESPN, mobile, MVNO

Blog posts 2006-10-18

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Can IT strengthen the economy?

At the Garner IT Expo in Orlando, Fla., Cisco CEO John Chambers explained that many company heads are looking for flexibility along with cost effectiveness--aspects that video conferencing and social networking provide. He says that, soon, IT and business strategy will be so intertwined that we won't know the difference...

Tags: Information Technology, Social Networking, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Cisco, collaboration, Gartner, CEO, cost effective, video conferencing, IT, business strategy, economy

Videos 2008-10-15

80 ways to mix open source and business

Open source and business do mix. In fact, according to Matthew Aslett at the 451 Group, you can mix open source into more than 80 combinations of development model, licensing model, and revenue schemes. Usually, people talk about three licensing combos: Proprietary, mixed, and "pure" open source...

Tags: Aslett, Open Source, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-10-15

The Future looks very Cloudy

I've just attended the one day, highly-focused executive 'Cloud Summit' conference. The Cloud—used to describe everything from internet-based computing utilities to Software as a Service — was examined and its future impact explored within the highly appropriate venue of the Silicon Valley Computer History Museum. ...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Trend Micro Inc., Information Technology, Cloud, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Secunia: popular security suites failing to block exploits

Secunia: popular security suites failing to block exploitsPatch your applications...And don't run your browser with administrative rights (in case you forget to patch those applications, e.g., WinAmp, QuickTime, etc).If you're on Windows XP/2000 or Vista and you've foolishly turned off UAC, you can use this tool:http://www.download.com/RemoveAdmin/3000-2381_4-10824971.html?tag=lst-1&cdlPid=10835515Thing is, RemoveAdmin is a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Secunia, popular security suite, exploit, security suite, Kaspersky, security

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Facebook: Is there a Moore's Law for sharing?

Facebook: Is there a Moore's Law for sharing?Why doesn't Zuckerberg get it???What Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand is that all the "clutter" like the shared status updates, the virtual gifts, the applications for good karma or whatever, was what made Facebook FUN.How can someone who invents a social networking...

Tags: Facebook

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Keeping the dream alive - bootstrap your way out of the death spiral

Jennifer Leggio is on the road. Guest editorial by Ryan Kuder I was very publicly laid off from Yahoo! back in February. It's a gut-wrenching experience for anyone who has gone through it. At the time, my choices were to get a new...

Tags: Dream, Network, Yahoo! Inc., Start-up, Jennifer Leggio, Ryan Kuder, VC, Angels, Networking

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Lessig: Five proposals for ending copyright wars

Lessig: Five proposals for ending copyright warsThis article is right on track...Now if we can just get the lobbyists to leave Washington and get the Congress to repeal all the copyright acts passed since 1975.Never Going To HappenThe recent meltdown of Wall Street and the financial markets world wide pretty...

Tags: patent

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Cisco's Chambers sees collaboration fueling productivity gains; Web 2.0 as new enterprise engine?

Cisco CEO John Chambers said Tuesday that there will be an "instant replay" in technology-led productivity gains in the current downturn just like the U.S. saw in the mid-1990s. The difference this time around: In the mid-90s those productivity gains were based on big enterprise resource planning...

Tags: John Chambers, Web, Collaboration, Cisco Systems Inc., Web 2.0, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Starcraft II splits into trilogy

At Blizzcon 2008, Blizzard revealed that rather than a single real-time strategy game, Starcraft II will now be released as a trilogy. ANAHEIM, California--For many, this morning's keynote address from Blizzard president Mike Morhaime at Blizzcon 2008 was a bit anticlimactic. After revealing Starcraft II, World of Warcraft: Wrath...

Tags: Games, Personal Technology, video games, Starcraft. Blizzard, Rob Pardo, Gamespot

News items 2008-10-14

Dell negotiations: Street ball without the refs

Negotiating hardware deals with Dell isn't for everybody. In fact dealing with Dell can be downright difficult relative to other hardware vendors. That takeaway came from Gartner analyst Leslie Fiering's presentation at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo. In that presentation, Fiering noted that Dell's pricing isn't transparent if you're an IT...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Negotiation, Free Trade, Pricing, Finance, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Still pushing the obvious: Sun Ray

Still pushing the obvious: Sun RayGreat for the environment to!Lasting up to 20 years and pulling 8-10 watts ( inc. network overhead ) reduces materials energy and waste... And once you buy more than IRO 50, cheaper purchase price, running costs, support maintenance updates and no upgrades...So why would any...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Recruitment & Selection, Anton, Sun Ray, security, Sun Microsystems Inc., attack

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Live Webcast: Simplified IT with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

One of the most important functions of IT professionals is the never-ending process of updating, maintaining and supporting all of the various software services and applications that their companies rely on for business. It's a difficult job, even under the best of circumstances. But what if there was...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Webcast, Information Technology, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies

Webcasts 2008-10-14

Windows 7 will be called... Windows 7

Windows 7 will be called... Windows 7Great overview of Windows 7 available here...Here is a great overview and FAQ of what is in Windows 7 and what has changed etc.Go here - http://www.winsupersite.com/faq/windows_7.aspRE: Windows 7 will be called... Windows 7, but not Vista ME Part DeuxBut won't Windows 7 be...

Tags: Operating systems, Vista SP2, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-over

Being a CEO today just stinks. The economy is melting down. No one trusts each other. And the chieftains don't even know if their customers will survive. What's this mean for your technology department? A lot of upheaval and perhaps one big do-over that starts in 2009. ...

Tags: CIO, Information Technology, CEO, Technology Department, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Education: Driver for a lower-cost MacBook?

Education: Driver for a lower-cost MacBook?The e-Mac had a short lifeI'm not buying the education argument although it is credible.Marketshare has never been an Apple driver. Technological innovation and leadership.I think we are going to see something that none of us are expecting, something radically new that makes the...

Tags: Notebooks, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Market-Share, education, MarketShare

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

Silverlight 2: Google Chrome support, yes; iPhone, no

Silverlight 2: Google Chrome support, yes; iPhone, noThe choose their words carefully. Like "has access to" a computer withSilverlight. They might lead you to think that one in four computers has Silverlight installed. But, NO, that just means one in four persons has access somewhere, somehow, to Silverlight, though possibly...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, PRODUCTIVITY, Web browsers, Google Chrome, Google Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Silverlight 2

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

Google ignores some reported security problems?

Google ignores some reported security problems?Just Disclose itJust disclose it,they should be no better then anyone else.Its obvious they have ignored your Bug report.RE: Google ignores some reported security problems?It appears to me that this kind of corporate apathy is running ramped throughout the web community. Many companies have adopted...

Tags: reported security problem, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

Creating a Value Driven Change Capability for Executing Organisational Strategy

Investment in change is in an attempt to create a 'better tomorrow' for the organisation. This free article looks at how organisations enhance their capability for executing the business strategy. As the school report might say "More emphasis needed on 'strategy execution' and rather less on 'creating the perfect...

Tags: Cranfield University, Strategy, Management

White papers 2008-10-13

Why Apple will shift to an NVIDIA chipset

Why Apple will shift to an NVIDIA chipsetNvidia- Extent of Chip PerformanceThe move if true could leverage Transmeta's Intellectual Property.It would be a fast trac expedite, but the leg work could have been done during the due dilegence by Nvidia.Yes I am a Transmeta shareholder.This may balance the NVidia vs...

Tags: Chipsets, Performance management, Notebooks, Semiconductors, NVidia Corp., graphics, performance, chipset, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-12