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- Yang's recovery runway: Months to days (and board should go too)
- It had looked like Jerry Yang would at least get a few months to prove he could right the listing ship that is Yahoo. Perhaps it's days now. The issue: Can you really turn a company around when the talent is heading for the exits at a...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Recovery, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Yang, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Microsoft continues paring back the Windows Live family
- Microsoft continues paring back the Windows Live familyIll-informed as usualWide-of-the-mark comment as usual from you Mary-Jo.The tools that you mentioned are not the core set of live services that you think they are. Those are the software bits of the Windows Live software+services model.The services that they are complement are...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Sabotage and the cost of change
- Sabotage and the cost of changeNot doing a very good job......of keeping the confidentiality of your clients. From what you have written, it's easy to guess that there is only one provincial political party that you would even consider doing work for, and it's not the Liberals.Only question is...
- Tags: Operating systems, Servers, I.T, Only Question, Office 07, Sun Microsystems Inc., HP-UX, Unix, Microsoft Office, Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-05-29
- Twitter: An IT failures management perspective
- Twitter, the well-known social messaging service, has finally acknowledged the depth and severity of technical problems causing downtime and disruption to users. While such candor is refreshing, it also offers a glimpse into the kinds of management issues that underlie virtually all IT failures. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Twitter, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-26
- Are you wary of the insider on the outside?
- Are you wary of the insider on the outside?Policy is step oneHaving good policies for employee termination are step one. Step two is for IT and non-IT personnel to partner up to get this accomplished ASAP.Having a checklist has helped clients of mine to know what to do and when....
- Tags: Financial Planning, risk & compliance, Financial services, Strategy, risk management
- Discussion threads 2008-05-20
- The changing SAP culture
- The changing SAP cultureHow will SAP attract developer talent?The #1 issue I see with SAP, as an outsider, is that it is a closed, proprietary system with which it is impossible to get experience. People who implement SAP scream and scream for developer talent who can make it sing and...
- Tags: Programming languages, Enterprise software, SAP AG, ABAP
- Discussion threads 2008-05-06
- Storage Vault (exe)
- Storage Vault is a file protection technology based on usage of RSA keys and ciphering algorithms. A distinctive characteristic of Storage Vault technology is a deep integration with operating system so no advanced skills except basic skills of working with Windows operating system are required to use the application. The...
- Tags: ILYNS, Storage Vault, Storage, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-04-21
- Zune VideoX: Microsoft's iTunes killer?
- Zune VideoX: Microsoft's iTunes killer?yawn...yet another itunes/ipod killer, doomed to be more blood on Apple iPod's Click Wheel.This Zune owners patience is wearing thinI'm getting a bit impatient for the Zune offerings in come along. I want television, movies, more artist and a way to put podcast into playlists. If...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Microsoft Zune, Zune VideoX, Microsoft Corp., Apple iTunes
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- Questioning IT
- Questioning ITSome grammarYou have quite the run-on sentence (Basically if your organization ... — skills mismatch disaster.)You also need to remove negative words like fail (Windows skills don’t carry forward to Linux, mainframe skills cause Solaris to fail.), and replace them with "pleasant sounding euphamisms" like "have difficulty" or "be...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Strategy, information technology, corporate board, Enron Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-11
- F1 Championship Season 2000 (sit)
- Re-live the gladiatorial battles between Michael Schumacher and David Coulthard or tear up the record books and take an outsider to World Championship glory. With in-depth behind the scenes technical support from the Orange Arrows and Benetton Formula One teams never before has the game player been able to enter...
- Tags: Team, Feral Interactive, Games, Team Management, Personal Technology, Management
- Software downloads 2008-03-19
- Personal information of Harvard grad students compromised
- Harvard's graduate school of arts and sciences said that roughly 10,000 individuals may have had their personal information compromised by a security breach. The intrusion was discovered in February, according to a Harvard statement released Wednesday. Of the 10,000 affected, 6,600 got a year's worth of free...
- Tags: Personal Information, Social Security Number, Harvard, Social Security, Operational Accounting, Security, Government, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Microsoft: Vista SP1 will break these programs
- Microsoft: Vista SP1 will break these programsNYT ReaderI had the NYT Reader installed when I ran the SP1 package. I also kept all my peripherals (7 USB devices) connected during the upgrade and it went surprisingly without errors and finished in 19 minutes. NYT Reader and all my other apps...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), NVidia Corp., Dxdiag, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, SP1, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- Brief: 4
- This is the fourth excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. From chapter 2 "Evaluating IT Proposals 2.1 Processes and ground rules Three kinds of IT proposals come to the board for...
- Tags: Project, Information Technology, Board, Benefit, Bottom Line, Decision, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- Microsoft accused of patent violation in China
- Microsoft accused of patent violation in ChinaMore frivolous claims...Microsoft does not need to infringe on patents. They have the most talented pool of software developers in the world. For a small fee, my rep brings me and my top-Top-TOP MCSDs to Redmond to watch some of Microsoft's developers in action....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows NT, Development tools, Microsoft Corp., patent violation
- Discussion threads 2008-01-18
- Microsoft shake-up: The e-mails on President Raikes' depature
- We know what Microsoft told press and analysts about yesterday's announcement by Microsoft Business Development MBD President Jeff Raikes that he'll be passing the torch, come September, to former Juniper Networks Chief Operating Officer Stephen Elop. But what did Raikes and CEO Steve Ballmer tell Microsoft's near-80,000 employees about the...
- Tags: Jeff Raikes, Business, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Business Development, Jeff, Stephen, Microsoft Business Solutions, Leadership, Professional Development, E-mail, Business Structures, Management, Career, Online Communications, Finance, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- Researchers map China's underground cybercrime economy
- Researchers from Peking University in Beijing and the University of Mannheim in Germany released a paper this week that aims to map the underground cybercrime economy in China. The paper concludes that 1.49 percent of the 145,000 most popular sites in China "contain some kind of malicious content." While...
- Tags: Asset, China, Researcher, Trojan Horse, Malware, Web Site, Attack, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Asset Management, Security, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-06
- Does 10+20+30+40 = Microsoft buying Yahoo?
- Much is being made of Microsoft President of Platforms & Services Kevin Johnson's statement this week that Microsoft is planning to become No. 2 online advertising player within three to five years. Johnson and the Microsoft online-advertising crew have made this same boast a few times this...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Internet, Sales Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Web Site Development, Corporate Law, Web Technology, Sales, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Are you surprised? Microsoft beats Google with Facebook deal
- I admit it: I am surprised. When word began to leak today that Microsoft allegedly had beat Google in a race to invest in Facebook and strike an ad partnership with the social network, my first thought was that Google somehow would still manage to triumph. After...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Microsoft Corp., Business Structures, Finance, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
- Turnaround strategy for Los Angeles school district payroll failure
- Payroll problems on the Los Angeles Unified School District's LAUSD SAP implementation have been ongoing since February and continue to the present. This troubled project vividly illustrates how implementation failures can affect real people, in this case teachers who've suffered for months with incorrect paychecks. The obvious...
- Tags: Strategy, Superintendent, Problem, Payroll, SAP AG, Teacher, LAUSD, Personnel Assignment, Deloitte, Operational Accounting, Finance, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-10-13
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