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- Taleo's November to forget
- An HR Soap Opera This month hasn't been a good one for Taleo. Here's the timeline of events and an analysis of the lawsuits that are originating from recent events. On 11/3/2008, the company announced its Q3 earnings and they didn't delight Wall...
- Tags: Revenue, Taleo Corp., Stock, Revenue Recognition, Investment, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Cost cutting pays off for Dell; IT spending, demand 'challenging'
- Updated: Dell's third quarter was a mixed bag. Revenue was down amid weak demand, but earnings were better than expected by a wide margin. The outlook was "challenging" as expected. The company reported third quarter earnings of $727 million, or 37 cents a share, on revenue of...
- Tags: Revenue, Dell Computer Corp., IT-spending, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Open source to the rescue of gene analysis
- Scientists can upload data sets directly and the system compares them to known gene sequences. This allows the sample to be quickly categorized. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Analysis, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn, Bottleneck, Roche Holding AG
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Advantages of the Storm over the iPhone (updated)
- (Update: I took the number out of the headline, because it keeps changing.) I got to play with a Blackberry Storm earlier this week and a couple of features immediately jumped out at me that beat the iPhone hands down: Copy and Paste...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Battery, Apple Inc., Blackberry Storm, Keyboards, Engineering, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Hardware, Peripherals, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Wyse, more than just thin clients
- I've followed Wyse for the longest time and yet, when I had an opportunity to speak with Jeff McNaught, CMO of Wyse Technology I was surprised at how far they're business has evolved from that base. The company now is doing interesting things in three areas: virtual clients, cloud computing...
- Tags: Thin Client, Wyse Technology Inc., Thin Clients, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- What's blowin' in the wind? Alternative energy in China
- A new study of the Chinese wind energy market finds the country's growth will likely continue despite the global economic spasms. EER's report finds China will be #1 in generating electricity from wind by 2011. As much as the once communist state now embraces a brand of capitalism,...
- Tags: China, Alternative Energy, Wind Energy, EER, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Yang resignation, successor the talk of the Valley
- Silicon Valley is atwitter over what kind of CEO Yahoo needs to hire to replace the outgoing Jerry Yang. CNET's Kara Tsuboi hears opinions and analysis from some "armchair quarterbacks" over this crucial decision for the Internet giant.
- Tags: Internet, News, kara tsuboi, yahoo, jerry yang, google, shareholders, microsoft, san jose, santa clara
- Videos 2008-11-19
- Unstructured transparency - the management methodology that pulls us through the crunch?
- I've just spent a couple of fascinating days at the HCL Global Meet in Orlando, Florida. As the name suggests this was a very international gathering of HCL's partners, clients, staff and thoughtleaders in the management and collaboration space. I've written before about...
- Tags: Innovation, Pyramid, Employee, Financial, CEO, HCL Global Meet, Vineet Nayar, Nayar, HCL Tech, Krishnan, Hamel, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Leadership, Strategy, It Services, Team Management, Branding, Financial Accounting, It Operations, Management, Marketing, Finance, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Lanamark Vready
- Mark Angelo, CEO of Lanamark, dropped by to tell me about Vready, a new service his company is offering. I've spoken with representatives with many smaller organizations and think that Lanamark has a good grasp on the problems these organizations are facing when they choose to embark on the journey...
- Tags: Server, Lanamark, VReady Assessment Report, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Mobile industry calls for RFID payment push
- The GSM Association has called on manufacturers to build technology for contactless payments into their handsets by the middle of next year The GSM Association has called on phone manufacturers to build RFID technology into handsets from mid-2009, in a bid to kick start the mobile-payment industry. ...
- Tags: Payment, Contactless Payment, Mobile, Industry, Handset, Manufacturer, U.K., RFID, GSMA, Operational Accounting, Cellular Phones, Strategy, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, mobile payments, GSM Association
- News items 2008-11-18
- Will Microsoft apply 'Vista-Capable' lessons to Win 7 netbooks?
- As the e-mail trail in the "Vista-capable" class-action suit continues to unfold, I can't help but wonder whether Microsoft will apply some of the lessons it hopefully learned about working with OEMs to Windows 7 -- especially in the netbook space. The original suit, filed in March...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, OEM, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Passcode, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Addressing virtualization's achilles heel
- The benefits of virtualization are quite obvious but when you start to really increase the density of virtual machines in order to maximize utilization suddenly it ain't such a simple proposition. The latest CPUs from AMD and Intel are more than up to the task of running 10-20 or more...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Virtualization, Network Interface Card, Blade, Achilles Heel, VM, Networking, Servers, Hardware, James Staten
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Conversation with Replicate Technologies
- Rich Miller, CEO, and Oren Teich, VP Product, both of Replicate Technologies spent a while providing an introduction to the company and an explanation of what they're doing. It was great catching up with both of them. Rich was the CTO of Univa, a company focused on bringing high performance...
- Tags: Oren, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Getting greener at home could be a gas
- Courtesy: Lehr The folks at Lehr say they have a better idea for many of your home machines: lawn mower, wire trimmer (turns out "weed whacker" is a copyrighted name for Kenmore;s wire trimmer), leaf blowers, etc. Lehr is going to be selling those...
- Tags: Gasoline, Lehr, Bernardo Herzer, Propane, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- Kindle Economics
- A few weeks ago I evaluated Amazon's Kindle. While I really liked the device, the big problem I had with it was that at its current price of $359.00 it was too expensive at this point for mass consumer adoption. I also had a number of...
- Tags: Cost, Semester, Amazon.com Inc., Textbook, Amazon Kindle, E-books, Microsoft Excel, Personal Technology, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- BearingPoint's Q3 earnings call - part 1
- To BE or not BE Several news groups and Wall Street firms covered BearingPoint's BE Q3 results this week but one point was not well covered, if at all. Look at this bullet point that is at the bottom of a list of points BE...
- Tags: Attrition, Earnings, Worker, Career Advancement, BearingPoint Inc., Professional Development, Training And Certification, Career, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Nokia: Global mobile phone market will fall in 2009
- Nokia said today that the world's mobile phone market would fall in Q4 2008 and 2009 as the slowing economy eases consumer demand around the world.1.24 billion phones would be sold worldwide this year, down from a previous estimate of 1.26 billion, with handset market volumes and the overall telecommunications...
- Tags: Phone, Nokia Corp., Mobile, Cell Phone, Telecom & Utilities, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Will OpenID catch on?
- A survey of more than 300 people shows that few people have heard of OpenID, and even fewer are actually using it. Chris Messina, the guy with the guitar pictured here, has written up results of a survey conducted using Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Messina, rightly, took...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Survey, OpenID, Marketing Research, Marketing, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Live migration across different platforms demonstrated
- A while back I received a note from Red Hat's PR company that exclaimed that Red Hat and AMD had successfully migrated a running virtual machine from a dual socket Intel Xeon DP Quad Core E5420-based system to a system based on the forthcoming 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor, utilizing...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Microprocessor, Migration, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Virtual Machine, Desktop Virtualization, Semiconductors, Processors, Open Source, Hardware, Components, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
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