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- Pepsico Saved from Suicide Campaign by Twitter?
- It's not easy to push consumer products these days as discretionary spend dries up and advertising channels become ever fragmented. Understandable then when corporations are seduced into more edgier terrain by their creative agencies. And yet where trust and sustainability is at a premium, its hard to figure how BBDO convinced Pepsico to cross the line...
- Tags: Advertisement, PepsiCo, Suicide, Twitter, BBDO, Christine Lu, TBWA, James Farrar
- 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
- The emerging case for open business methods
- The Internet has been the genesis of countless useful business innovations over the last several decades. These include a globally unified e-mail network, the advent of search engines, the rise of rich user experiences and SaaS, and most recently cloud computing to name but a few. But perhaps...
- Tags: Network, Industry, Business, Business Strategy, Business Method, Reasons Organization, Dave Bort, Internet, Strategy, Open Source, Management, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- IBM launches first Linux-OpenOffice desktop with virtualization features
- IBM has added a Linux desktop with new virtualization capabilities to its portfolio. The Virtual Desktop, which bundles Canonical's Ubuntu Linux, Virtual Bridges' KVM-based desktop virtualization software and IBM's Open Collaboration Client Solution, is available now, Big Blue announced on Thursday. None of the...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Virtual Bridges, IBM Lotus Symphony, Linux, Virtualization, Desktops, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- JavaFX Q&A
- To learn more about the technical aspects of today's launch of JavaFX including its support in NetBeans and Eclipse I spoke in depth with Eric Klein, VP of Java Marketing at Sun, and Octavian Tanase, Senior Director of the Java Platform Group. For a more business oriented perspective see the...
- Tags: Developer, Application, Mobile, Ed, Eric, FX, JavaFX Script, Q., FX Common, Flex, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- 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
- A new laptop for me is really all about the kids
- It's no secret that I want one of the new MacBook Pros. I've blogged about it. I promised Santa I'd be a good boy for the rest of my whole entire life if I could have one. I've explained all of the great new features to my...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Laptop Computer, Computer, Apple MacBook Pro, Notebooks, Productivity, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Adobe lays off 600 workers, CS4 demand weaker than expected
- Adobe lays off 600 workers, CS4 demand weaker than expectedserves them rightIs anyone else tired of the endless Acrobat format changes that seem designed to do little more than sell software updates?Price adjustments maybe?Something a little lower possibly?...No?:(
- Tags: weaker-than-expected, CS4, Adobe Systems Inc., worker
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- Almost every Windows PC contains at least one insecure program
- Almost every Windows PC contains at least one insecure programI Think Obviously Not Windows-OnlyWell, I hope it was a case of the surveyors or researchers appropriately delimiting their sample. As to the ZDNet headline writers, perhaps, here, we meet our Dr. Pavlov.I was facilitating a skype roll-out at the office...
- Tags: Operating systems, PC, insecure program, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Windows PC
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- Apple removes Mac antivirus language from site
- Apple removes Mac antivirus language from siteProbably Windows"Previously, the company’s security message in its KnowledgeBase was as follows: “Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult.” "I think they...
- Tags: Operating systems, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, antivirus, Microsoft Corp., Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- Microsoft's OOXML viewers, translators, SDK to help interop with Firefox, OpenOffice?
- Microsoft's OOXML viewers, translators, SDK to help interop with Firefox, OpenOffice?Microsoft announcement URL, pleaseThe link provided in the article text merely jumps to another ZDNet news posting that also fails to provide a link to MS content.It is just that everybody stopped using .docx format, since most people cannot read...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft OOXML, Office Open XML, OpenOffice, SDK, Mozilla Firefox
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- A plea to the Windows team: Don't make Windows 7 too Mac-like
- A plea to the Windows team: Don't make Windows 7 too Mac-likeCrawl Back Under Your RockWe didn't miss you.The only onesIts just that Mac does it better.Good for MacThinking like this will only keep Windows stagnant and drive up Apple market share. I thought the Mac ads were parody, but...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, team, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- Microsoft's OOXML viewers, translators, SDK to help interop with Firefox, OpenOffice?
- I must admit I'm more than a bit skeptical when any company, Microsoft in particular, goes out of its way to make rivals' software work better with its own, especially if it's a cash cow product. But here we are, nine months after Microsoft announced its document...
- Tags: Interoperability, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Office, SDK, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, OpenXML Document Viewer, OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibility
- Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibilityI really do not know anybody using OOXML. Because of the problems, almosteverybody using the new version of MS Office has switched it to always save in .doc format. I got some .docx attachments at first, but, that has pretty much stopped, as people realize that there...
- Tags: Office Open XML, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- Active Endpoints beefs up visual SOA orchestration with added features and expanded OS support
- ActiveVOS now allows Java objects to maintain state, significantly increasing the number of use cases that can be fulfilled using the POJO capabilities. Previously, developers could reuse POJOs as native web services, providing the ability to invoke stateless Java objects directly from a process. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Business Process, Operating System, Server, SOA, BPEL, Modeling, ActiveVOS 6.0.2, Development License, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Research & Development, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Java, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Software, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Podcast: gadgets for Christmas, iPod lovin' and the Blu-ray war
- Podcast: gadgets for Christmas, iPod lovin' and the Blu-ray warNit PickingSorry to be picky guys, but the rival format was HD-DVD as you mention, and the XBOX 360 extension to play High Def movies was HD-DVD ONLY. XBOX 360's cannot play Blu-ray discs no matter what you do, and therefore...
- Tags: HD DVD, Game players, DVD, Consumer electronics, Apple iPod, Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, HD-DVD, podcast
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case study
- Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case study1.48 Million?!Does the study actually list where this kind of money was saved? Because I honestly do not see it. There would have to be a HUGE difference in IT cost to account for that.RE: Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case studySounds...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, Microsoft Corp., TCO, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case study
- On December 3, Microsoft issued a press release entitled "Microsoft Gives Businesses Lower TCO Versus Hidden Costs of Open Source." The message: Open source software costs businesses more than Office and other closed-source Microsoft products. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Software, TCO, Microsoft Corp., Speedy Hire Case Study, Roi/Tco, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibility
- Documents created using the Office Open XML document format can now be viewed through a simple Firefox plug-in, while OOXML's compatibility with ODF and Apache has also been enhanced. Microsoft on Wednesday announced several incremental enhancements to the compatibility of its Office Open XML document...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, OOXML, standards, ISO, OpenDocument, Standard, OpenOffice, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-12-03
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