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Shai Agassi trades SOA for electric cars

Former SAP executive, Shai Agassi has resurfaced as a potential 21st century day Henry Ford, but with a green intent. He is moving from ERP and SOA to electric cars with his for-profit Project Better Place. And, he has raised more that $200 million from VantagePoint Venture Partners, Israel Corporation,...

Tags: Car, SOA, Shai Agassi, Project Better Place, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-29

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Constellation Wines (maker of Mondavi, Wild Horse and other big U.S. wine brands) goes solar

Pacific Power Management is building out a 1.2-megawatt solar system that will cover the winery warehouse roof for theConstellation WinesU.S. Gonzales Winery in Monterey, Calif. The system, set to be completed by the end of 2008, is supposed to produce more than 1,700,000 kilowatt hours per year. ...

Tags: Winery, Brand, Wine, Pacific Power Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Signs your company might soon go belly-up

Before a company goes under, just about everybody knows it. And before everybody knows it, a bunch of people are already whispering in the corridors and around the water cooler, certain they see the writing on the wall. But what about you? Can you read the clues sprinkled like breadcrumbs...

Tags: Job, Recruitment & Selection, Real Estate, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-10-15

JetBlue unveils high-tech terminal Oct. 22; IT as customer service tool

Joseph Eng, executive vice president of JetBlue's systems and technology, said the company will unveil its high-tech terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York Oct. 22. The terminal when it launches will be the culmination of one big technology project. JetBlue's terminal at JFK,...

Tags: Customer Service, Information Technology, JetBlue Airways Corp., Tool, Projects, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Operational Accounting, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Apple vs. Dell: Battle of the 13-inch notebooks

Since my last comparison, Apple and Dell have both come out with even smaller notebook computers to tempt you away from your old fashioned desk-bound workstation. How do they stack up? Today I look at the low end MacBook White and Dell Inspirion 13 to find out. ...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Battery, Apple Inc., Centimeter, MacBook White, Engineering, Serial ATA, Notebooks, Storage, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Use this presentation to plot your organization's projects

Classifying your projects will help you ensure that they're aligned with your company's business goals. Jay Rollins classifies projects as infrastructure, transactional, informational, or strategic -- a system that can help you balance your project portfolio so that it reflects your company's risk tolerance. This PowerPoint presentation will help you...

Tags: Project, Jay Rollins, Blogging, Microsoft Office, Internet, Office Suites, Software

Download resources 2008-10-15

Surviving the recession with Free Enterprise OSes (Part 2)

In Part 1, I discussed the four Free Linux distributions that are best position to provide extended support and ample functionality to an end user through a protracted recession,  as well as having the characteristic "safeness" or "stability" factor in terms of being able to weather...

Tags: Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Sun Solaris 10, Red Hat Inc., Recession, Operating System, Novell OpenSuse, BSD, CentOS, Scientific Linux, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Child predators apparently don't use Gmail

A few years ago, a piece of popular legislation made its way past Illinois lawmakers (including Barack Obama, who voted in favor of it, as well as teacher unions, public health officials, etc.) offering comprehensive education to school children that, among other things, would have taught them to identify and...

Tags: Education, Google Gmail, Sex Offender, Safety Education, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Secunia: popular security suites failing to block exploits

In a recently conducted comparative review, Danish security company Secunia, tested the detection rate of 12 different Internet Security Suites against 300 exploits (144 malicious files and 156 malicious web pages) affecting popular end user applications, to find that even the top performer in the test is in fact performing...

Tags: Web, Malware, Exploit, Secunia, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-10-14

IT's challenges: The end of device charging; ROI; Super programmers

Gartner on Tuesday outlined its grand IT challenges from 2008 to 2033 and it includes a world where you'll never have to charge your device. That was one of the futurama type predictions outlined by Gartner analyst Ken McGhee at the firm's Symposium ITxpo. These prediction presentations...

Tags: Device, Information Technology, Gesture, ROI, Programmer, Programming, Wireless, Roi/Tco, Strategy, Development Tools, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Keeping the dream alive - bootstrap your way out of the death spiral

Jennifer Leggio is on the road. Guest editorial by Ryan Kuder I was very publicly laid off from Yahoo! back in February. It's a gut-wrenching experience for anyone who has gone through it. At the time, my choices were to get a new...

Tags: Dream, Network, Yahoo! Inc., Start-up, Jennifer Leggio, Ryan Kuder, VC, Angels, Networking

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Apple gadget lust for me, but anything for Ed Tech?

Apple gadget lust for me, but anything for Ed Tech?Your Mac Lust borders on Creepy....Geez... that article is just a little bit scary. The kid on the eTrade commercials is in my head..."I seriously underestimated the creepiness factor"... he says this about a clown and I am applying it...

Tags: Corporate communications, Desktops, DVD, Consumer electronics, Notebooks, Apple Inc., video

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Bureaucracy and open source: Do they mix?

Bureaucracy and open source: Do they mix?Being left alone may not be a problem.Remember the executive whose open source company was purchased by Red Hat. He complained that Red Hat wouldn't provide the resources needed for the project, but instead expected a "community" to do the work at much...

Tags: open source

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

What OpenOffice site crash means

What OpenOffice site crash meansSo, I should pay for free software so I don't pay Microsoft?It's not for everyone. However, the reason Microsoft has more robust features is because they spend more money on it. That money is funded by higher prices for their software. If you or your company...

Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, object-oriented, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, free software, Open Office Writer

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Poll: Best personal finance software?

Poll: Best personal finance software?MoneydanceMoneydance - moneydance.comSplashMoneyGreat little app originating for the Palm OS. Has been ported to Windows and iPhone worlds. I can keep track of my expenses on my iPhone and sync it via wireless connection with my desktop. Good tool set and it is a darn sight...

Tags: INTERNET, Financial accounting, personal finance software, personal finance, Moneydance

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Are software megavendors too big to stumble?

Are software megavendors too big to stumble?Upstarts are unlikely to arise...... so long as open source limits the profitability of alternatives. And, as Oracle has shown, when there's real value and credibility, an open source project can be purchased becoming part of the stack.So the real question is, which...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, software-as-a-service, software

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Would you pay $1,499 for the Microsoft 'Oahu' Surface table?

Microsoft has been dangling the possibility of a smaller, more consumer-centric version of its Surface multi-touch tabletop computer for the past few months. Now that form factor has a codename: Oahu. Long Zheng of istartedsomething.com has more details on Oahu, which he has gleaned from a Microsoft...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Survey, Oahu, Marketing Research, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Lead, Melamine, and Backdoored Routers

Lead, Melamine, and Backdoored RoutersBackdoored Routers - A Good IdeaWhat's the problem with backdoored routers? It's a good handy way to make sure that you are not stealing Intellectual Property. If the Chinese government, RIAA, etc. watches every move you make, then probably your moves will all be...

Tags: Routers & switches, Manufacturing, Backdoored Routers, Melamine, router

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

SAP's forced march may be good news

At SAP TechEd Berlin, Leo Apotheker, co-CEO reinforced the message that the enhancement packages will significantly reduce the amount of testing that customers need undertake as part of an upgrade. However, consultants disagreed. Jim Spath of Black and Decker for instance said: "There is no way we...

Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Audience breakdown of for podcast downloaders

as groups of internet users February-April 2006 August 2006 May 2008 Total internet users 7% 12% 19% Men 9% 15% 22% Women 5% 8% 16% Age 18-29 10% 14% 27% Age 30-49 8% 12% 20% Age 50-64 5%...

Tags: Internet User, Experience, Podcasts, Internet, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, NB

Blog posts 2008-10-14