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Owens Corning Plant Hands Access Off to Biometrics: At the Owens Corning 250-acre campus in Newark, Ohio, those seeking access to the manufacturing plant, as well as other facilities, must present their hands for a biometric scan to verify identification before admittance to the facilities. The challenge was to secure the building without the use of badges or...; Tags: owens corning, microsoft access, ingersoll-rand, biometrics, authentication/encryption, manufacturing, microsoft office, security, office suites, software; Case studies
Oracle Case Study: Owens Corning: Owens Corning began to look for ways to position itself as a stronger and more viable company. Preparing to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the company needed to quickly and dramatically increase productivity and reduce costs. Owens Corning successfully upgraded to PeopleSoft 8 Human Capital Management HCM from Oracle,...; Tags: owens corning, oracle corp., human capital, enterprise resource planning (erp), customer relationship management (crm), operational accounting, workforce management, recruitment & selection, enterprise software, human resources, software, finance; Case studies

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Predictive markets: Can they work for the enterprise?: Best Buy, Corning, Google and a bunch of other companies are dabbling in prediction markets for corporate decision making and there may even be a little return on investment given that traditional forecasting methods aren't better. Prediction markets are speculation hubs where traders predict future events. In...; Tags: prediction market, tools & techniques, sales force management, strategy, management, sales, larry dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-31
Obama resisters claim campaign to silence blogs: On the battlefield that is Blogger, a fight is raging, apparently, between pro- and anti-Obama bloggers. Some pro-Clinton, anti-Obama bloggers are reporting that, all of a sudden, their blogs are being flagged as spam – and Google bots have dutifully blocked the bloggers from updating their sites. Simon Owens reported...; Tags: google inc., blog, blogger, blogging, internet, richard koman; Blog posts 2008-07-01
Dow Corning Uses Enterprise Rights Management to Help Protect Intellectual Property: Dow Corning is a global leader in silicon-based technology and innovation. The company is based in Midland, Michigan. Dow Corning needed to make it easy for employees to share information while following the company's information protection policies, which dictate how intellectual property must be protected. The company deployed Active Directory...; Tags: corning inc., rights-management, the dow chemical co., intellectual property, digital rights management (drm), microsoft windows server 2008, research & development, business operations, security, operating systems, microsoft windows, software; Case studies 2008-02-27

Off the grid: energy independence in the real world: Courtesy: Builidng With Awareness and Ted Owens. Forget the campaign year political slogans. "Energy independence." Out in the real world, designers and engineers are making real headway in building homes and work spaces that are off the grid, and in some cases water...; Tags: grid, energy, home, ted owens, bwa, colorado court, corporate communications, dvd, consumer electronics, marketing, personal technology, home entertainment, harry fuller; Blog posts 2008-02-21
Politician files charge over Nazi symbols on Wikipedia: Politician files charge over Nazi symbols on WikipediaWasn't the Pope part of Hitler's Nazi kids?I don't mean disrespect for the Pope, but wasn't that the case that he was one of the Hitler's youth group?People have to understand that the internet is GLOBAL. If you don't want it displayed...; Tags: world war, nazi, hitler, wikipedia; Discussion threads 2007-12-06
Microsoft's Ballmer calls out Red Hat with more patent threats: Microsoft's Ballmer calls out Red Hat with more patent threatsWHy would they show you?Are you a judge? Are you a company that has a patent claim or obligation? In fact do you have any legal standing at all?Hmmm, I guess we see why they don't feel a need...; Tags: open source, steve ballmer, eolas technologies inc., red hat inc., patent, microsoft corp.; Discussion threads 2007-10-09
$8 million later, CO brings out-of-control DMV program to halt: In a story that wreaks of poor communication and bungled bureaucracy, the new computer system of the Colorado motor vehicle registration has, at least temporarily, crashed and burned, reports the Rocky Mountain News.Despite warnings from outside auditors, county clerks and state employees who issue license plates, the state spent a...; Tags: state &, local govt; Blog posts 2007-05-15
Microsoft tries to stamp out Windows 'Fiji'references: In the new Windows regime, all references to Windows futures seem to be verboten. After I linked to Windows Media Center Product Manager Charlie Owens post about Microsofts release plans for the next version of Media Center (code-named "Fiji,"), Owens pulled his post and deleted from his blog...; Tags: media center pcs, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), operating systems, microsoft corp., fiji, charlie owens, media center pc, microsoft windows; Blog posts 2007-03-21
Should Ballmer be throwing headcount stones at Google?: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has thrown down the gauntlet and called Googles headcount growth plans "insane." Hmm. Lets look at a few interesting facts: Microsoft = 75,000 employees Google = 10,000 employees Microsoft officials have stated that their plan is to grow headcount in Microsofts Online Systems...; Tags: microsofts, microsoft corp., google inc.; Blog posts 2007-03-16
Podcast: Majority of Startup Campers give "unconference" format a thumbs up: In addition to finding out why attendees were attending Startup Camp and whether or not they were getting anything out of it, ZDNet podcaster James Hilliard also checked in on their satisfaction with the unconference format. Like Mashup Camp, Startup Camp is an unconference thats largely based on the idea...; Tags: general, podcasts, it matters, startup camp, unconference; Blog posts 2006-11-06
American Red Cross CIO: Steve Cooper: Dan Farber:Now, it's the year 2006 I can remember in the past five years when we used to talk about cost cutting and consolidation, and now all of a sudden we're talking about innovation again. Now, you've been at Corning Inc, you were in the Dept. of Homeland security as...; Tags: uncategorized; Blog posts 2006-09-26
American Red Cross CIO: Steve Cooper: Dan Farber: Now, it's the year 2006 I can remember in the past five years when we used to talk about cost cutting and consolidation, and now all of a sudden we're talking about innovation again. Now, you've been at Corning Inc, you were in the Dept. of Homeland...; Tags: innovation, cio, recommendation, cooper, red cross, technology, american red cross, identity management, katrina, leadership, strategy, management, administrator; Blog posts 2006-09-26
Neutrality opponents start the battle anew: The Net Neutrality debate is picking up steam as Congress tries to get a a few last things done before the November elections. Towards that end, high-tech manufacturers conducted a press conference Tuesday to support passage of the Senate's telecom overhaul bill without net neutrality provisions, News.com reports. At...; Tags: net neutrality, u.s. senate; Blog posts 2006-09-20
AMR: SOA will kill ERP: Bruce Richardson of AMR Research predicts the unthinkable: that "rapid adoption of SOA will lead to the end of the ERP market as we know it." "Here’s the doomsday scenario, circa 2010: SAP and Oracle customers have stopped buying applications from their ERP vendors. Instead, they contract with low-cost Indian...; Tags: soa, erp; Blog posts 2006-08-28
Tiny school district signing up thousands for online courses: A tiny rural district in Colorado has seen a huge jump in enrollments in their online courses, from 3483 to 5730, and state aid has risen accordingly from $19.6 million to $32.6 million. The skyrocketing payments have brought the ire of state legislators down on little Vilas School District in...; Tags: online program; Blog posts 2006-04-05
DKMailChecker (zip): DKMailChecker automatically checks your Outlook inbox for new email messages and resides in the system tray next to the time on the taskbar. DKMailChecker notifies you when you receive email by displaying an email alert window in the bottom right corning of the screen. This will display the number of...; Tags: dkmailchecker, e-mail, online communications; Software downloads 2006-03-30
Nicollette Sheridan Sex-E Screensaver (exe): This ageless beauty is back on the scene as the sexual vixen Edie Britt on the hit series Desperate Housewives. She also had tongues wagging when she ran nude into the arms of Terrell Owens in a controversial skit preceding NFL Monday Night Football. People Magazine recognized her as one...; Tags: screensaver, image; Software downloads 2006-01-27
Ten examples of SOA at work, right now: 1 To manage a world of data: An SOA-focused deployment is helping the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to streamline access to its mounds of data, as well as link users of the data to the services they need to process the data.2 To manage workflows: A BPEL-based workflow system...; Tags: soa; Blog posts 2006-01-03

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