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- IT justice: Weighing the scales on failure
- IT justice: Weighing the scales on failureReally?Doesn't some portion of these problems enter in to every IT project?Kill or cure?The three criteria for killing a project are Flawed approvals, Changing needs, and Poor execution.Projects too essential to kill will have to be cured, no?!Also, if the project approval process was...
- Tags: information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-07-29
- 200,000 sites spreading web malware, China's hosting the most
- 200,000 sites spreading web malware, China's hosting the mostJust a guessI would suspect that most of the china sites are owned by American spammers,malware owners.I say we just cut China's segment off...Until the Chinese government seems to give a damn about poision food, poison web sites and rampant piracy, I...
- Tags: tools & techniques, channel management, web site development, spam, spyware, adware & malware, cyberthreats, looking back, web malware, software, web
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- FCC wants no-porn, free broadband wireless auction
- FCC wants no-porn, free broadband wireless auctionHmmm....Is Porn illegal? If not is this not a governmental nose-snubbing at freedom of speech, making it highly illegal ?Do we really WANT this sort of action by our government?Do we want to become China?I dunno. I'm just askin'...The moral crusaders :)Ok,...
- Tags: federal government, broadband internet, telecommunications, government, wireless, broadband wireless auction, broadband wireless, fcc, broadband
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Authoria challenges some SaaS mantras
- Authoria challenges some SaaS mantrasOn-Premise Software vs. On-premisesNot to be a grammar cop but the entire CRM industry has fallen into the trap of saying "on-premise" software when in fact it should be "on-premises." From Wikipedia, a premise is a claim that is a reason or objection against some...
- Tags: software as a service (saas), cloud computing, authoria, software-as-a-service
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- Venezuela - and possibly Denmark - file appeals of OOXML
- Venezuela - and possibly Denmark - file appeals of OOXMLSo let me get this straight....... during an investigation of irregularities in the vote they are allowing an appeal after the dealine. Priceless!Glad to see it.When a company can't even implement their own creation that speaks for itself.No surprise on...
- Tags: opendocument format (odf), iso standards, process improvement, venezuelan government, iso, office open xml, opendocument format, irregularity
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- Brazil, India, South Africa protest OOXML vote
- Brazil, India and South Africa have filed appeals to the ISO/IEC approval of Microsoft's OOXML. At the Standards Blog, Andy Updegrove outlines some of the issues: Brazil's objections fall under two main headings, the second of which was also raised by South Africa. That...
- Tags: brazil, appeal, south africa, office open xml, iso standards, process improvement, quality, business operations, richard koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Negroponte's big lie
- Nicholas Negroponte is working nothing less than a fraud on international governments by washing his hands of support, deployment and maintenance issues. Those costs and tasks are shifted back onto OLPC's government customers, probably the worst possible candidates for an IT support organization. I talked yesterday with...
- Tags: pc, one laptop per child project, negroponte, nicholas negroponte, government, richard koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Ideology and self interest won't win health care debate
- The knives have already come out in the fight against health care reform in 2009. On the one hand we have ideology, represented by former Rep. Dick Armey, who complains that some Republicans are getting weak-kneed in their rejection of any but the most "market-oriented" (i.e., tilted...
- Tags: physician, ideology, health care, vertical industries, benefits, healthcare, enterprise software, software, human resources, dana blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- How PaaS pulls software pricing down
- Platform-as-a-service startup Bungee Labs this week released a new utility pricing model that really starts to put the spotlight on the pricing charged by established software-as-a-service providers. Bungee also announced what it calls 'federated hosting', which gives customers the choice of where to host their Bungee-developed applications; with Bungee in...
- Tags: software, salesforce.com inc., application, paas, pricing strategy, pricing, sales force management, marketing research, marketing, sales, phil wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Shuttleworth makes corporate case for Ubuntu 8.04 on its launch
- Shuttleworth makes corporate case for Ubuntu 8.04 on its launchUBUNTU RulesI have tried numerous distros of linux and have found ubuntu the easiet to useI am downloading the latest version nowVersion 7 had drivers for all of the harder on my pc and installed everything automaticallyCool features!Have been looking forward...
- Tags: linux, open source, operating systems, lord jesus christ, ubuntu, kde, kde 4, corporate case, ubuntu 8.04, shuttleworth, kubuntu
- Discussion threads 2008-04-24
- Is IT abuse a threat to democracy?
- Is IT abuse a threat to democracy?Mind ControlWith my X-files inspired name, and a subject line like that, I probably deserver to be dismissed as a loon, but...A read of Derren Brown's book "Mind Control" should make even the the most ardent sceptic ponder on just how controllable people are....
- Tags: biometrics, government, authentication/encryption, mind control, google inc., information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-04-17
- Salesforce.com and Google opens more cans of worms
- The world and his dog seem in rapture about the announcement that Google and Salesforce.com have tied the application knot and that they've both effectively become channel partners. Phil Wainewright has the most detailed analysis: Salesforce.com has more than 41,000 customers, including a growing number of large enterprises. It's...
- Tags: salesforce.com inc., google inc., google apps, worm, phil, sales force management, marketing research, sales, marketing, dennis howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Microsoft presses on regardless with OOXML SDK
- Microsoft presses on regardless with OOXML SDKExcellent!And yeah, some MS bashers will whine, the rest of the world will move ahead.SpiteCan you really call it spite if people oppose a standard that actually contains a company's product's name? Seems like a fair enough objection to me.I'm Shocked![i]Durusau has an interesting...
- Tags: quality, microsoft corp., ooxml, ooxml sdk, sdk
- Discussion threads 2008-03-13
- Time to regulate drug prices?
- A new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation, USA Today, and Harvard shows that most Americans now want drug prices regulated This is their chief concern with the industry. Safety and advertising are less important. The study's summary PDF shows people are having a tougher...
- Tags: compound, industry, genentech inc., risks, strategy, management, dana blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- In close First Amendment case, Virginia court upholds spammer conviction
- What do geeks hate more than free speech restrictions? Spammers! Thus, anti-spam laws are an interesting collision. Spamming is clearly speech -- albeit commercial speech. So are antispam laws constitutional? The Virginia Supreme Court took that matter up in the case of Jeremy Jaynes, a particularly obnoxious...
- Tags: speech, anti-spam, first amendment, spamming, statute, virginia, jeremy jaynes, spam, security, spam and phishing, richard koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Coming soon: Movies on flash memory cards
- Coming soon: Movies on flash memory cardsA dead duckAny time I see "proprietary", it just reminds me that people will use it because they have to, until the next big thing comes along. Theres also the issue of cost.Speaking about the reality, there is a lot of internet movie copying...
- Tags: digital rights management (drm), memory, digital media, digital-rights management, movie, memory card, flash memory, video store
- Discussion threads 2008-03-03
- My 10 favorite Windows programs of all time
- I've been using Windows for nearly two decades, and during that time I've tried hundreds of programs. Most come and go, but a handful have stood the test of time for me by solving a particular problem particularly well. In this article and accompanying gallery, I list...
- Tags: program, folder, password, page, microsoft internet explorer 7, product, microsoft windows vista, search technology, microsoft corp., requirement, roboform, feeddemon, fineprint software, process explorer, clipboard, updates, microsoft windows, operating systems, software, ed bott
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- The U.S. voted no on Microsoft Office standard at ISO
- The U.S. voted no on Microsoft Office standard at ISOHoly Spin, you must be dizzy![B]Those advocating greater sales of products other than Microsoft Office see this as their best opportunity to prevent the free market from operating as expected,[/B]There was no free market, this may well be the start of...
- Tags: iso standards, process improvement, microsoft corp., iso, free market, microsoft office
- Discussion threads 2008-03-02
- Apple: All signs point to a more business friendly iPhone
- Apple: All signs point to a more business friendly iPhoneApple getting ahead of itselfHow about making the iPhone / Touch a USB mass storage device?People are forking out $500 for a 32gig touch... why doesn't safari allow downloads of files while browsing?Enterprise-grade equipment indeed. Apple needs to get over it's...
- Tags: keyboards, e-mail, web browsers, most phones, rim blackberry, apple iphone, apple inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-28
- Which way is the wind blowing? Into your face
- The headwinds are picking up because the economy is slowing down in America. That's what the "experts" tells us. So crude oil was over $100 per barrel Tuesday because of weak dollar, and because the U.S. doesn't control its own energy supply and we're the self-proclaimed rich...
- Tags: food, energy, headwind, food & beverage, manufacturing, harry fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
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