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National City Re-Architects Information Infrastructure to Support Evolution to a Customer-Centric Enterprise

National City Corporation is one of the largest financial holding companies in the United States, with core businesses that include corporate and retail banking, mortgage financing and servicing, and consumer finance and asset management. It needed to align information management with customer centric corporate strategy. National City Corporation developed a...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., National City Corp., Asset Management, Financial Accounting, Banking, Strategy, Content Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance, Financial Services, Management, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2008-10-01

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FAA hit with network glitch; Flight plans go manual

Another glitch with a linux network? Its hard to believe people still use it for anything critical like the FAA and flight tracking. Its a toy OS and should not be used when the lives of people are dependent upon it.Cisco supplies the network backboneIt will be interesting to see...

Tags: Operating systems, Sun Solaris, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, network, FAA, operating system, Flight Plan, network glitch, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?

As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...

Tags: Bebchuk, Board, Business Operations, Carl Icahn, Chairman, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Director, Larry Dignan, Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Shareholder, Yahoo Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc.

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Report: MySpace turning News Corp. stock toxic; advertisers shy of UGC

While I don't normally comment on matters relating to Wall Street here on The Social Web, a Bloomberg article published today raises a number issues relating to News Corp.'s attempts to extract profit from MySpace. After Fox Interactive Media FIM, the company division that runs MySpace, said...

Tags: Fox Interactive Media, Stock, News Corp., MySpace, Advertiser, Social Networking, Branding, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-04-21

From eco-warrior to nuclear champion

From eco-warrior to nuclear championNuclear waste hysteriaIs probably the biggest challenge facing nuclear power. And it all stems from the fact that people have been misled into thinking radiation is more dangerous than it is.The really long-term radioactive stuff is so low-level, it's more dangerous to live in North Dakota.Waste...

Tags: Waste Disposal, nuclear energy, Greenpeace, nuclear champion

Discussion threads 2008-01-31

Must employers really pay to play?

Must employers really pay to play?There's no surprise, this was predicted!Corporations have been abandoning loyalty to the employee for over 15 years now. How long has it been since any company rolled out a new pension plan or offered to repurpose a large and obsolete workforce due to changes in...

Tags: Workforce management, Outsourcing, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, talent, workforce

Discussion threads 2007-10-25

EagleEye PDA Tracking System for HW6500/HW6900 Series 2.0.0 (Mobile)

We at Targex CorpWe at Targex Corp. have been in the vehicle tracking business for over 10 years, researching and offering products that are advanced and extremely reliable. Today we are proud to introduce the newest member to our family of products, the EagleEye PDA Tracking System, a light and...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, OurEagleEye PDA Tracking System, PDAs, Mobile Operating Systems, Handhelds, Mobile Applications, Wireless And Mobility, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software

Software downloads 2007-03-03

Microsoft: Steve Ballmer sells to retail in NYC

Steve Ballmer is Microsoft’s top salesperson. This morning, in New York City, he sold Microsoft Retail Solutions to the retail industry, big time.Ballmer, Microsoft Corp. CEO, addressed the National Retail Federation NRF Annual Convention, delivering the keynote of “Retail’s Big Show 2007” to an audience offering “the highest concentration of...

Tags: Business Models, Microsoft, Enterprise, Brands, ecommerce, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft&rsquo, s

Blog posts 2007-01-15

AT&T urges FCC to set telecom mandates

It looks like industry is starting to understand what's required in creating a disaster-proof telecommunications system. And it may be industry that leads and the government that follows. Hossein Eslambolchi, AT&T Corp.'s CIO, called on the FCC to require every communications provider to adopt crisis management plans, Computerworld reports....

Tags: telecommunications, satellite

Blog posts 2005-09-13

Feds get set for Net rules

Feds get set for Net rulesAny loss of freedom is too much""What we're arguing about is how much freedom people are going to lose on the Internet," said FEC Commissioner David Mason, a Republican. "If we do it right, they won't lose much freedom." EXCUSE ME MR.MASON did I understand...

Tags: Blogging, blogger, Thomas Jefferson, government

Discussion threads 2005-03-24

Competition grows for global offshoring

Competition grows for global offshoringHow about In-Shoring...How about In-Shoring and giving the people of this country jobs back. Screw the ret of other countries they had their chance, stop putting dowm the American worker.Its impossible to compete...How can the average American living in a country which requires well over...

Tags: Outsourcing, Leadership, Free trade, Branding, American Public, American Worker, offshoring

Discussion threads 2005-02-11

Report: Offshoring only one drain on tech jobs

Report: Offshoring only one drain on tech jobshow about if we fire all the guys who did the studyshipped those jobs overseas and THEN asked them to re-evaluate their findings ?Successful businesses hire far awayFrom the article:"Companies founded in the Bay Area will typically maintain the majority of their workforce...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Outsourcing, job, offshoring, outsource

Discussion threads 2004-07-15

On the outsourcing hot seat

On the outsourcing hot seatLet's see, how can I put this..."Q: Who wins and who loses from offshore relocations? A: The Indian companies and Indian employees win, and so do the American companies that outsource. For the American companies, this clearly is an instrument for them to improve their productivity,...

Tags: Government, Benefits, Strategy, outsourcing, outsource

Discussion threads 2004-01-20

Adaptec to expand India engineering efforts

Adaptec to expand India engineering effortsGoodbye Adaptec...I'll find another supplier...A major win, India should be proudI'm sure the Indian Prime-minister will be pleased to hear of another successful outsource win. Creating an extra 18.75 jobs a year for 4 years.Whoopy, if it wasn't for the outsourcing angle this would be...

Tags: Benefits, Outsourcing, Development tools, Cost-cutting pressure, IBM Corp., Adaptec Inc., salary, job

Discussion threads 2004-01-16