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The Great Negotiator (exe)

The Great Negotiator is a learning and business support program that will help you to effectively prepare and conduct successful business negotiations. This program uses the latest interactive multimedia technologies to provide you with a Self-Managed Interactive Learning Environment. The program includes: Lectures, Library of Example Phrase and Video Skits,...

Tags: Negotiator, Negotiation, GLOBALINX, Free Trade, Finance

Software downloads 2008-02-15

The Danish Directorate of Fisheries Tames a Sea of Data to Gain Upper Hand in EU Fishing Industry

Supplying accurate and easy-to-use data on fish catches, the Danish Directorate of Fisheries DDF keeps Danish negotiators ahead of the game when hammering out EU regulations and quotas. The data is vast, covering fish numbers and species landed in 340 locations across Denmark. The information must be available quickly, the...

Tags: Industry, SAS Institute, Negotiator, Quota, European Union, Data

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SAP 'Mittelstand' customers upset at new maintenance charges

Following on from yesterday's announcement of a hike in SAP maintenance charges, the German title Computerwoche implies that the powerful 'Mittelstand' group in the German SAP user group are far from happy. Under the title: "Higher maintenance costs upset SAP customers ," Computerwoche interviewed Gunther Rheinhart, executive member of  the...

Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Mittelstand, Gunther Rheinhart, Auto-renew, Software As A Service (SaaS), Workforce Management, Outsourcing, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-17

House approves telecom immunity in 'compromise'

Congressional leaders reached a compromise on a telecom immunity bill and the House passed it handily 293-129, AP reports. Compromise hardly seems like the word it, though. Listen to Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.), the lead Republican negotiator, quoted in the Wall Street Journal: ...

Tags: Immunity, Telephony, Government, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-20

iTunes announces same day movie releases as DVD

iTunes announces same day movie releases as DVDJobs one Awesome NegotiatorAs Silicon Valley Insider said "Steve Jobs Gets His Mega Studio Deal".Steve Jobs sees to be an incredible negotiator and seemingly has a magic touch in bending very tough managers from very different industries to his will.Examples: signing all those...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, movie, digital-rights management, Apple iTunes, DVD, Steve Jobs

Discussion threads 2008-05-01

Once more on SCO

Once more on SCOJust admitThat you got it wrong Rudy. Trying to dress up SCO's real intentions with your verbal diarrhea does not change that.SCO made a stupid gamble and it's plain to see. Trying to make out that the way this case hase gone is the result of unfortunate...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, SCO Group Inc., IBM Corp., Novell Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-01-08

Open source swimming instructor

The Register has a profile today of Mark Radcliffe, the kind of advertising a lawyer can't buy, the kind that is priceless. Radcliffe, who works at DLA Piper, has been behind some of the most controversial legal efforts in open source over the last few years. He's...

Tags: Open Source, SugarCRM, Square, Attribution, Register, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-08-31

INTERVIEW: Don Dodge (Microsoft) on Avoiding Project Failure

Don Dodge has been around the software industry for a long time. Currently Director of Business Development, Emerging Business Team, at Microsoft, Don works closely with startups and venture capitalists. I'm an avid reader of Don's blog called the Next Big Thing, so it was with pleasure that I ran...

Tags: Red Herring East 2007, Interview

Blog posts 2007-07-08

Drumbeat for Dell's move into retail intensifies

Drumbeat for Dell's move into retail intensifiesCompUSA/WalMart?CompUSA might be an alternative, but they already have Apple Stores and Sony Stores so Dell would have to offer a very good deal. (Best Buy is also rolling out Apple Stores after a successful trial in a limited number of stores.)Then...

Tags: Retail, Overall IT, Dell Computer Corp., CompUSA Inc., Apple Store, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-05-23

How much is the iPhone name worth?

I pinged several people at Macworld, including Apple executives regarding whats behind Apples use of the iPhone name, given than Cisco owns it. Cisco issued a lawyerly statement earlier in the day indicating that the two companies are close to working out some agreement that allows Apple to use the...

Tags: General, Personal Technology, Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Apple, Cisco, Apple Computer Inc., iPhone, Apple iPhone

Blog posts 2007-01-09

Is ESPN committing reverse Net neutrality?

A little more than a week ago I had a Net neutrality debate with Russell Shaw. Russell Shaw speculated that there had to be some sort of Net neutrality violation going on and that the ISPs were locking ESPN out without some sort of special contract. In Russell's...

Tags: ESPN360

Blog posts 2006-06-21

Internet identity is about authentication

As Doc Searls, Kaliya Hamlin, and I ramp up preparations for the second installment of the Internet Identity Workshop, (May 1-3, Mountain View, CA) we've put up a wiki for participants and others interested in following the event. Last time, we used a wiki...

Tags: OpenID, authentication

Blog posts 2006-04-11

Apple and Intel tryst

The speculation is running rampant in anticipation of an announcement tomorrow of some kind about Apple using Intel chips and scrapping its long-time partnership with IBM. One thing for sure--Steve Jobs will be getting Intel chips at bargain basement prices. Intel is highly motivated to gain Apple as a...

Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Intel Corp., Intel x86

Blog posts 2005-06-05

EnterpriseTenFold: Too good to be true?

EnterpriseTenFold: Too good to be true?Hmmmm .. maybe it is ...I have worked on several systems already like this one. Yes, he is re-inventing the wheel, and sounds like he wants to charge for a set of 24 spinners.I have a project along these same lines, difference is, it's going...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Development tools, Middleware, Databases, Now IT, TenFold, EnterpriseTenFold

Discussion threads 2005-05-02

Google VoIP? Why Ben's wrong, and I'm right (I think)

This week, colleague Ben Charny posted an item that indicated several Google execs met with several VoIP providers at the Spring 2005 VON Show.Ben seems to think these meetings could be an indication that Google is thinking about offering VoIP services - perhaps as a reseller.Given Google's Gmail initiatives, I...

Tags: Google Inc., VoIP

Blog posts 2005-03-11

Damage control dominates Sun CTO's maiden voyage into blogosphere

With so many things going on at once for Sun Microsystems, it was only a matter of time before another Sun big gun was enlisted to help load balance the blarketing (blogs+marketing) that the company's COO and president Jonathan Schwartz has so far been handling single-handedly. Enter, Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Greg Papadopoulos

Blog posts 2005-02-08

Google VoIP? No way: read the ad again

Funny how rumors start.The Times of London and other news organizations have been all aflutter about an ad on Google's corporate Job Opportunitiessite. The ad invites applicants for a "Strategic Negotiator, Global Infrastructure" position that would involve negotiating facilities and communicationsforand in between data centers.Here's the catch phrase in the...

Tags: Google Inc., Google VOIP, advertisement

Blog posts 2005-01-25