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Software AG and Cognos bring BI and BPM into common orbit

The much-discussed marriage of business intelligence BI and business process management BPM may be a step closer to the altar with last week's announcement by Software AG that it will embed Cognos 8 BI with the webMethods product suite. ...

Tags: Cognos Inc., BPM, Software AG, Layer 7 Technologies Inc., Natural 2006, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Enterprise Software, Databases, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Business Operations, It Operations, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-11-11

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This is going to blow some fuses among global warming deniers

RE: This is going to blow some fuses among global warming deniers"The current Pope, a self-proclaimed Christian..."???Is that writing from ignorance of Catholicism, Christianity, both, or taking a swipe at the largest Christian denomination?global waming journalist...afraid to lose a job?when people realize that CO2 caused global warming is a...

Tags: global warming, global warming denier, NASA, fuse

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

Kerry-Boxer bill battle set for Tuesday

That is just the bipartisanship ........ President Obama campaigned on. Not!!!Harry leaves and we're all better offWhy don't you go somewhere else to blow off all this hot air and perhaps the U.S. emissions will be cut in half? :-)Harry's blogs: e-pollution on this IT tech site.ntLeveling the playing field...The...

Tags: Blogging, Arctic

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

The burnout risks for E2.0 community managers

Dion Hinchcliffe's piece on community management surprised me. There is a sense that Dion is trying to lay down some ground rules in an area that is too new for anyone to draw anything other than tentative and early stage conclusions. That's not to say that conclusions are incorrect. There...

Tags: Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Republicans rail against FCC's new net rules

How They RollThis is just how the GOP rolls. When Bill Clinton left office we were number one or two in broadband. Now we're down around 17 behind some Eastern European countries. The GOP keeps saying they're about competition, but they keep passing bills to stifle real competition. Sort of...

Tags: Federal government, FCC, GOP, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Samsung SGH-T659 (T-Mobile)

Photo gallery:Samsung SGH-T659 (T-Mobile)Samsung, we have a message for you: 2006 called and it wants its phone back. All right, maybe that's mean, but the fact remains that the Samsung SGH-T659 exhibits a design trend that was popular three years ago. And as features go, the SGH-T659 offers nothing that...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Instant messaging, slider mechanism, display, T659, Samsung SGH-T659, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., phone, T-Mobile

Product reviews 2009-09-14

Conspiracy theory: Yellow Submarine iPod touch on 9/9/9

already predictedNo, we didn't hear it here first. Merlin Mann's been predicting this particularly the Yellow Submarine iPod since 2007. Give credit where credit's due.RE: Conspiracy theory: Yellow Submarine iPod touch on 9/9/9Interesting theory. It would be nice to finally see the Beatles on iTunes since they clearly are a...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Merlin Mann, Beatles, conspiracy theory

Discussion threads 2009-08-27

Apple tablet rumor rehashed, this time October and $800

Apple tablet rumor rehashed, this time October and $800Yes, I love the mockups tooApple's mockups reminded me a lot of the actual, real product shots I saw in an article in early 2006.http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS5744056110.html:)RE: Apple tablet rumor rehashed, this time October and $800While I love my Acer Aspire One, the form-facter...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, Apple Inc., Apple Tablet, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

China's porn obsession not just a coverup for political repression

China's porn obsession not just a coverup for political repressionOur children should be so lucky!If our government would protect our children from porn, maybe we wouldn't have may of the problems we have in our society with our children and sex!RE: China's porn obsession not just a coverup for political...

Tags: Chinese Government, porn obsession, repression, political repression, coverup

Discussion threads 2009-06-26

SAPPHIRE and The Story of Stuff

Annie Leonard’s Story of Stuff sustainability presentation has been doing the rounds in American classrooms and has stoked up many on both sides of the political divide. On one side, parents tell of angst ridden kids now wondering about the ecological footprint of Lego and on...

Tags: Sustainability, General Motors Corp., Annie Leonard, Sustainability Question, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-05-19

How that mercury gets into your salmon

A study of mercury pollution finally shows how mercery from natural and human-controlled sources gets through the rain cycle and into the ocean and its inhabitants. The research shows mercury levels in the Pacific rose 30% in the fifteen years prior to 2006. Also, much of the mercury...

Tags: Coal, Pollution, Mercury, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-03

OIN spearheads review of Microsoft FAT patents

OIN spearheads review of Microsoft FAT patentsThe OIN is nothing more than a bottom feeder trying hard....to do away with patents they think they can fight. If Linux based systems are not guily of major patent abuse, as MS has claimed in the past, why would there be an OIN...

Tags: patent, OIN, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

Don’t Bet On The Calculator. Bet On The Thinker.

Sure, Goldman Sachs thinks it knows best or it wouldn’t have created its own digital system for analyzing financial risks it faces, aka its SecDB database and security pricing system. But that is not what has protected it from making the kind...

Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Management, Marketing, Pricing, Strategy, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-02-11

Yahoo confirms Bartz in charge; Can she save Yahoo?

Yahoo has confirmed that Carol Bartz is its new CEO. Now the real fun begins: Turning around Yahoo amid a horrid economy and deciding whether to do a search deal with Microsoft. But first Bartz will need a No. 2 as Yahoo president Sue Decker will resign. ...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carol Bartz, BoomTown, Corporate Governance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-13

CES 2009: World's thinnest plasma is 8.8mm thick [day 3]

Panasonic has taken the crown again for world's thinnest plasma with their 1/3-in. thick NeoPDP HDTV: This recently-developed NeoPDP technology has been incorporated into two types of PDPs: a super high-efficiency 42-inch PDP "that achieves triple luminance efficiency while reducing the power consumption...

Tags: Panel, Panasonic, Power Consumption, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Storage networks

Storage networksBack me upThe main selling point of SANs was the promised ability to do "offline backups". IOW since you have moved all of your data into one place, you should be able to back that stuff up to tape - in the background. Every sysadmin would welcome giving up...

Tags: Storage area networks (SAN), Storage management, Backups, IP storage, network, storage, SAN, Sun Microsystems Inc., Network File System, backup

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

Some minor criticisms of the Windows 7 beta

Some minor criticisms of the Windows 7 betaiTunes working fine...Also, having just installed iTunes, it seems to be working fine for me!On the related note..Yes! Windows Live Messenger is amazing, thank you! Anyway, just wanna say that the entire Windows Live is really amazing.RE: Some minor criticisms of the Windows...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, natural language, minor criticism, WINDOWS 7 BETA

Discussion threads 2008-12-29

Climate vagaries and the zdnet time machine

Climate vagaries and the zdnet time machineInformation sources and observational dataThought I would give some information sources for the "other side" on the debate with the IPCC:The Heartland Institute's environment page: http://www.heartland.org/suites/environment/index.htmlIcecap: http://icecap.us/ BTW they have an article saying some Democrats want to delay implementation of Obama's cap...

Tags: Relative Humidity, Gore, climate model

Discussion threads 2008-12-13

VW model gets "Green Car of the Year" in Los Angeles

VW model gets "Green Car of the Year" in Los AngelesThe US needs to take a lesson from the Europeans and switch over to diesel.ntRE: VW model getsOur family loves our 2006 Jetta TDI. Most of the time we get between 42 - 46 mpg, and on long trips we...

Tags: VW

Discussion threads 2008-11-20

Test case: what happens when a government requires renewable energy?

Test case: what happens when a government requires renewable energy?....It's pioneers like Colorado that will finally propel us into the 21st century. Great news! Love it when the old ways are trounced by new tech AND soundly at that!"[B]Despite a continuing boom, oil and gas companies here are on the...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Telecom & Utilities, Westinghouse, mW, tax, Xcel Energy Inc., renewable energy

Discussion threads 2008-08-18