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- Control freaks won at HP, ex-board member says
- Control freaks won at HP, ex-board member saysExamples to remember chairpersons are only that... persons.Examples to remember chairpersons are only that... persons. The board can be such a lonely and ruthless place. Your fears only help you to do silly things. And then you find others who agree with you...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Perkins, pretexting, Enron Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-02-28
- Dunn, Fiorina lash out at HP board
- Dunn, Fiorina lash out at HP boardIT Industry Male-dominated ??Well, THERE is a shocker worthy of a book ...Remember, it's always somebody else's fault.Especially when it's Carlykins telling people nobody has a right to a job.I can just hear it now..."Look what you made me do!"... sound familiar to any...
- Tags: Gender and diversity, Remember IT, Hewlett-Packard Co., board, corporate culture, Keyworth, Perkins
- Discussion threads 2006-10-09
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- Smart grid tech player Silver Spring receives a cool $75M
- Despite the ongoing financial meltdown, people still are throwing money around for greentech/cleantech companies. For now, at least. Silver Spring Networks, which develops Smart Grid technology, said it has received an additional $75 million in funding intended for global expansion. The investment round was led by Kleiner...
- Tags: Financial, Venture Capital, Financial Accounting, Investment, Telecom & Utilities, Finance, Financing Startups, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- NYT profiles iFund's Matt Murphy
- The New York Times has posted an interesting profile on Matt Murphy, the venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers that oversees the iFund. Kleiner established the US$100 million iFund to invest in start-ups specializing in iPhone applications. So far this year, Mr. Murphy and...
- Tags: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Monitors & Displays, Venture Capital, Hardware, Components, Finance, Financing Startups, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- Friendster gets new CEO, $20 million in funding and a focus on Asia
- Friendster was one of the early social networks, but wound up being surpassed by MySpace and Facebook in the U.S. The fix: Keep its lead in Asia, land $20 million in new funding and hire a new CEO. On Tuesday, Friendster said it named Richard Kimber as...
- Tags: Friendster Inc., Asia, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- NebuAd: Galileo or pariah?
- So, it would seem we have found the outer limits of user tracking and ad-serving. At a House hearing yesterday, NebuAd ran into universal condemnation for its plans to monitor broadband customers' web visits and deliver targeting advertising, reports News.com's Declan McCullagh. Contemptible. Goes against everything...
- Tags: Web, Advertisement, Cable Company, Internet Service Provider, Notice, NebuAd, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Cable, Channel Management, Network Technology, Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- News to know: Google; Microsoft; eBay; SAP; Apple
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Google's second quarter: What to expect Deb Perelman: The Techie Hall of Shame Phil Wainewright: How much is a unit of cloud computing? Joe McKendrick: Seven SOA experts explain how to 'just do it' Robin...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Microsoft as the gate keeper of video analytics
- Microsoft as the gate keeper of video analyticsNBC Olympics and TVTonic[b]Wavexpress to Provide Internet Video Download Service for NBC’s Coverage of the Beijing Olympic Games[/b]Free Service to Allow Media Center Users the Ability to Download Content During NBC’s Coverage of the Beijing Olympics, August 8-24, 2008http://www.tvtonic.com/news/?p=133NEW YORK - June 23,...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, Corporate communications, Microsoft Corp., analytics, video, NBC, Wavexpress, NBC Olympic
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- Bulls in the corn field, beware! Ethanol from corn? Mooooo.
- Those are market bulls of the two-legged sort similar to the ones currently jacking up crude oil futures. The next great investment bubble may focus on the fields of Iowa. Today's Department of Agriculture numbers on the American corn crop (the world's largest) are not encouraging for corn...
- Tags: Biofuel, Corn, Corn Production, Current Estimate, Khosla, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Risking Another Frontline Disaster
- The Wall Street Journal says in an editorial that FCC chair Kevin Martin is about to screw things up again on the public wireless Internet front. The first time around Martin tried to rig the D block auction to hand 700MHz spectrum over to Frontline Wireless, formed by former commissioner...
- Tags: FCC, Auction, Journal, M2Z, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Rule change: we're playing corporate greenmail now
- Canada is the first to offer a ransom. The government there will give GM money if GM will keep Canadians employed. So the rush to subsidize what might be a viable efficient new car from GM...or might not be, is clearly on. It's not expected the current...
- Tags: Canada, Clean Technology, General Motors Corp., Engineering, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Netflix launches device for watching movies on TV
- Netflix launches device for watching movies on TVNice at $99. Wonder why no PC content accessFrom what I see, I like this alternative to Apple TV although I use iTunes. It would be nice if this box leveraged the PC resources for stored content.at least it's not from AkimboAkimbo...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Akimbo, TV, NetFlix Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-20
- Netflix's set-top box: Is it really a game changer?
- Netflix's set-top box: Is it really a game changer?This is going to push ISP's even further over the edge...NTyet another boxThis is just another set top box in a growing stack of set top boxes. Pretty soon, my set top boxes will tower over my not-insignificant television. Netflix,...
- Tags: TV & Home Theater, Digital rights management (DRM), TVs, Consumer electronics, AppleTV, game, NetFlix Inc., set-top, set-top box, TV, Akimbo, digital-rights management, Microsoft Corp., DVD, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-20
- Silverlight: Getting ready for its Olympics closeup
- Microsoft's Siliverlight is 104 days away from its Olympics close-up and partner NBC is tweaking its site hoping to use qualifying rounds as a testing ground. That's the big takeaway from ZDNet Asia's Victoria Ho's interview with Perkins Miller, NBC's senior vice president of digital media for...
- Tags: Olympic Games, NBC, Microsoft Silverlight, Ho, Corporate Communications, Team Management, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Mowser ends, but the mobile web must live on
- I am sure most of the mobile-focused readers of this blog have read or read about Russell Beattie's The end of Mowser blog post that has turned into an "End of the Mobile Web" debate. I am sorry that Russell's mobile initiative didn't work out, but as I'll talk...
- Tags: Web, Phone, Internet, Mobile, Mobile Web, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Fortify aims for the security suite spot; Moves upstream
- Fortify Software, which heads off insecure software code in the development, said Monday that it has launched a suite designed to head off vulnerabilities in automated and older applications. The suite, dubbed Fortify 360, expands the company's market. Previously, Fortify was mostly focused on checking code for...
- Tags: Software, Suite, Vulnerability, Fortify 360, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Signs point to Benioff to succeed Ellison at Oracle
- The more I look at it the more I'm convinced that Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, will replace Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle when he retires. Of course, that would mean Oracle acquiring Salesforce, but Apple got back Steve Jobs when it acquired his Next corp....
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Oracle Corp., Oracle Profit Margin, Sales Force Management, Sales, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- 7 tips to safely kill zombie projects
- Walking-dead IT projects, also known as zombies, should be killed off -- putting these suckers out of their misery is the right thing to do. Of course, various techniques exist to repair failing projects, such as restart methodologies and live-goat sacrifice, which was pioneered by Nepal...
- Tags: Project, Zombie, Bart, Channel Management, Team Management, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Management, Finance, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- Reporter's Notebook: Apple's iPhone SDK rollout
- Cupertino — After the announcement of iPhone support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync services, and after the testimony by software developers — most of whom had never used a Macintosh or an iPhone — about the ease of coding with the new iPhone SDK, and after Apple...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Notebook, SDK, Apple Inc., Reporter, Games, Personal Technology, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Exclusive: iPhone DevCamp's Raven on iPhone SDK and what it means
- Just a few minutes ago, I had a most enlightening email conversation with someone who knows as much about the new iPhone SDK, and its effects/potential, as anyone who doesn't work at Apple. And probably know more than most who do. That'd...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, SDK, Apple Inc., Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, RS, RZ, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
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