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Oregon AG office to RIAA: 10 things we want to know about how you find file-sharing students

If you think the Recording Institute Association of America is going too far in its prosecution (or should that be persecution?) of college students who file-share from time to time, you'll love the news that Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers is adding meat to the University...

Tags: RIAA, File-sharing, Myers, Lindor, Peer To Peer (P2P), Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-11-30

IN: Machines fail, hours extended, court fights galore

In Indiana, voters are suffering serious difficulties at the polls. In Delaware County technical glitches in e-voting machines prevented voting in 75 precincts and a judge extended voting hours in the county until 8:40 local time. On a blog-like page on its website, the Indianapolis Star is posting...

Tags: E-voting, ballot, voter

Blog posts 2006-11-07

PA schools adopt handheld tech for test-taking

No longer will elementary students at several Pennsylvania schools scribble their answers on paper when a teacher gives a pop quiz. This year, teachers at some Penn Hills elementary schools will be using remote devices to answer test questions, and the answer will appear on teachers' computer monitors, reports ...

Tags: teacher, Penn

Blog posts 2006-09-11

IT consultant names five competitive forces affecting VoIP

Telecommunications information technology consultant John Myers is a rarity: a technical architect and systems integrator with both a ground-level take on appropriate solutions, as well as a broad view on competitive market forces that affect companies making these deployment decisions. ...

Tags: VoIP, Myers, John Myers

Blog posts 2005-07-27

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SAP pulls the trigger on higher support costs

SAP pulls the trigger on higher support costsPlease be careful when you claim "paid support"Dennis, Unless you have a copy of the invoice from IDC, you shouldn't flatly state that she was paid or otherwise compensated for her quote in a press release. Bad form from an otherwise reliable...

Tags: Firewalls, Dennis, SAP AG, support cost, financial relationship, trigger

Discussion threads 2008-07-17

Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergency

They're even talking about it on the radio now--can Detroit automakers survive? If you listened to this show on NPR the future of Chrysler is south of bleak. Ford and GM may just be bigger and have more blood to lose. The local Detroit paper's headline: auto sales...

Tags: Fuel Cell, Car, Automobile Company, Plug-in, Fuel Cells, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-07-02

What value in medical endorsements?

What is the real impact of a celebrity endorsement for a medical product? We all remember the Robert Jarvik contretemps. I thought it was fair that a man whose device was made nearly obsolete by a medicine might do ads for it, but others disagreed, since he...

Tags: Advertisement, Endorsement, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-27

Local market prepared for digital TV transition

New York is the local television market most ready for digital TV transition, with just 3.5% unready television sets. Portland, OR is the least prepared local market, with 22.4% of all households using only analog sets and over-the-air television Market % of Over the Air Only...

Tags: Network Computer, Digital Television, Computer Associates International Inc., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Thin Clients, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, NB

Blog posts 2008-03-25

Router Backdoors: Hacked by Chinese Part 2?

Router Backdoors: Hacked by Chinese Part 2?Typo AlertCite, not Site.Typo Alert: "They site no cases of any backdoors in any current routers sold from China."Correction: "They cite no cases of any backdoors in any current routers sold from China."Sorry to be nitpicking about typos, but this is probably because bloggers...

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, router, Chinese Part 2, Router Backdoors

Discussion threads 2008-03-06

Judge reconsiders injunction in Wikileaks case

If you're a lawyer, you gotta love this. At the end of the day Thursday, Federal Judge Jeffrey White -- the judge who issued the shut-down notice against Wikileaks -- released his questions for argument PDF for Friday morning's hearing regarding that order. White also...

Tags: Plaintiff, Wikileaks, Web Site Development, Productivity, Government, Web Technology, Domain Names, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-02-28

BrightIdea.com manages your bright ideas...

BrightIdea.com is one of the companies on my 2008 watch list. The company offers enterprises a process in which they can encourage and manage innovation. Last month I sat down with Matthew Greeley, CEO and founder, at my favorite business meeting place, the "Lucky Penny" diner in San...

Tags: Innovation, Cisco Systems Inc., BrightIdea.com, BrightIdea, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-01-16

Protectionism never works

Protectionism never worksNow if you can just convince...those in the unemployment line that have lost their jobs to outsourcing... Or the parents of kids who have been chewing on lead based painted toys from China.Totally free markets work only in perfect economic models. The true answer lies in the middle...

Tags: Protectionism, Daimler AG, free trade

Discussion threads 2008-01-08

Management and Leadership Skills for New Managers

View Available Dates and Locations This course focuses on the interpersonal and management skills you need to be an effective manager. It's an ideal primer for new managers and a helpful refresher for those who have long been in a management role. Discover the difference between...

Tags: Team, Leadership, Stress Management, Team Management, Management

Training 2008-01-01

Why Bristol-Myers dumped its hockey stick

Why Bristol-Myers dumped its hockey stickGrowth driversAh, but what has been driving the growth in medical diagnostics lately? Has the diagnostics sector increased its ability to diagnose illness dramatically?Alternately, has the growth in diagnostics been driven by CYA and the demand by insurers for triplicate proof of medical necessity?If...

Tags: Insurance, Bristol-Myers

Discussion threads 2007-12-19

Why Bristol-Myers dumped its hockey stick

Bristol-Myers Squibb quietly tossed aside a hockey stick this week. The hockey stick is the medical imaging market. Recent estimates from BCC Research are the market will grow to $11.4 billion by 2012. Bristol-Myers Squibb got $525 million for its imaging unit from Avista Capital...

Tags: Imaging, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-19

EDS lands $715 million outsourcing pact

EDS said Monday that it will manage Bristol-Myers Squibb's IT infrastructure in a deal valued at $715 million over seven years. According to EDS it will manage Squibb's operations data at the pharmaceutical company's data centers around the world. EDS will also take over help desk support...

Tags: Electronic Data Systems Corp., Squibb, Outsourcing, Help Desk, Data Centers, Call Centers, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-10

Google and the 'American Idol' creator: The secret tapes

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk considers what Google and Idol creator and entertainment impresario Simon Fuller might be cooking up that could revolutionize TV. It has been revealed that Google has been meeting with Simon Fuller, he of the Spice Girls, David Beckham and "American Idol," amongst others,...

Tags: Google Inc., Winner, TV, Entertainment, Chris Matyszczyk, BRIN, Brinny, SoYouThinkYou'veGotTheSpiceToBeAGoogIdol.com, Chris, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing

Blog posts 2007-11-12

Path 101: Starting up in plain sight

In my morning feed reading I came across a post from a startup company Path 101 about how it would like to work with Linkedin on its APIs. Linkedin has been promising to deliver APIs that would allow developers to tap into its business network. Path 101...

Tags: Job, LinkedIn, Path 101, Professional Development, Career, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-28

Quietly the electric car may be creeping up on your gas hog

The electric cars are parked in the courtyard here at University of California at Davis. From the Jaguar-wannabe Tesla EBS Viper to the covered motorcycle from Myers Motors, they catch your eye. And green tech transport is one of the themes of this AlwaysOn first conference...

Tags: Car, Vehicle, Motorcycle, Myers Motors, ZENN, Barium, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-09-11

Inventor of political microtargeting applies his craft for Romney

Alex Gage is the guy who invented microtargeted election campaigning, the trend that sealed Karl Rove's reputation as political wunderkind. Using the wealth of personal data on Americans that's available for a price, the strategy was to use databases to identify Republican voters on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood, even home-by-home basis. In...

Tags: Elections

Blog posts 2007-07-05