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- Can savior-elect resurrect General Motors?
- This General Motors saga has it all: pathos and bathos, tragedy and comeuppance, hubris and ignorance, innocence and foolhardiness. Oh, and it could be the trigger to an even nastier American economy than the one we already expect for next year. Even back in January some GM execs...
- Tags: General Motors Corp., Litigation, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-22
- On a personal note
- I passed the California Bar Exam. ;-) I'll be combining writing this blog with building a law practice in cyberlaw, small business and consumer protection. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Richard Koman, Consumer Protection, Blogging, Internet
- Blog posts 2008-11-22
- SAP's Apotheker: 'Happy John Wookey joined us'; Business hasn't gotten worse
- SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker said Friday that John Wookey, a former Oracle executive, is "a great software man" who will help the enterprise software giant push its software as a service meets on-premise applications strategy. Separately, Apotheker noted that business hasn't gotten worse from the outlook the company gave on...
- Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Bargain Apples
- Apple is undoubtedly one of the hottest tech and consumer brands in the world and they should easily sell more than 2 million Macs and 20 million iPods in the upcoming holiday quarter. With all the Mac gear out there it's sometimes hard to choose. Here are...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod, Battery, Richard Solo 1800 mAh Battery, Inserts, NewerTech Voyager, Engineering, 3G, Digital Music, Digital Media, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Beggars, and no longer choosers
- Detroit, its auto industry and its UAW find themselves facing a whole new era. A Congress that may NOT come across with dollars to keep the Detroit Dinosaurs (that's a management team not an NBA team) playing. And today a new powerful figure in charge of the House...
- Tags: Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- What does the spam ISP shutdown really mean?
- It has been over a week since the takedown of an ISP responsible for directing a large portion of Internet's spam. While many groups immediately hailed a massive drop in spam, the true story was more nuanced. Everyone, save the spammers, hates spam, and this story...
- Tags: Internet Service Provider, Cyberthreats, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Spam, Security, Internet, Spam And Phishing, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Dell data dump: More energy ammo for the procurement checklist
- Two Dell-related green tech proclamations this week: First, the company has done one of those fun green math exercises and is calculating that its customers have saved an estimated $3 billion in energy costs and 29 million tons in carbon dioxide emissions by using OptiPlex desktop systems since 2005. Whether...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell Optiplex, Procurement, Desktops, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Review: OtterBox Impact and Defender Series cases for the BlackBerry Bold
- I picked up a RIM BlackBerry Bold a couple of weeks ago and was extremely happy with the device. The inability to sync with my Exchange account forced me to return it though. If you own a BlackBerry Bold then you may want to check out one of these two...
- Tags: RIM BlackBerry, BlackBerry Bold, Handhelds, Hardware, Matthew Miller, Membrane, Holster, OtterBox Impact Series, OtterBox Impact Series Case, Defender Series
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Image Gallery: OtterBox Impact and Defender cases for the BlackBerry Bold
- OtterBox is known for creating cases that offer major protection for mobile devices. They have a couple of cases with different levels of protection for the RIM BlackBerry Bold. The Impact case provides a minimal level of protection while the Defender series gives you a much higher level of protection...
- Tags: Protection, RIM BlackBerry, BlackBerry Bold, OtterBox, Impact Case, Handhelds, Hardware, Matthew Miller, product photos, rim, blackberry, bold, otterbox, cases
- Image galleries 2008-11-19
- Fake Windows XP activation trojan goes 2.0
- Known as Kardphisher and "in the wild" since April, 2007, last week the malware author of this trojan horse mimicking the Windows XP activation interface while collecting the credit card details the end user has submitted, has made significant changes to visual interface and usability of the trojan, consequently improving...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Credit Card, Trojan Horse, Malware, Social Engineering, Microsoft Windows, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Sales Channel, Viruses And Worms, Financial Services, Security, Sales, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Microsoft kills OneCare, replaces it with freebie 'Morro'
- Microsoft today announced plans to kill its Windows Live OneCare PC care and security suite and replace it with a free anti-malware utility. The new product, code-named "Morro," will be designed for a smaller footprint that will use fewer computing resources, making it ideal for low-bandwidth scenarios...
- Tags: PC, Microsoft Windows Live, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Live OneCare, Microsoft Windows, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- 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
- Can Facebook do anything without raising a ruckus?
- Facebook rolls out what appears to be a fine move: Verify applications are trustworthy and validate them. I could use the help given I don't download a lot of Facebook apps since a lot of them would be described as crap. But this seemingly straightforward effort has raised a ruckus...
- Tags: Facebook, Pricing, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Apple turns to Google for Safari anti-phishing
- Apple has quietly teamed up with Google to add anti-phishing features into the latest version of the Safari browser. The feature, turned on by default in Safari 3.2, displays a warning page see screenshots below when Safari users surf to a fraudulent Web site. It is powered...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- New carbon monitoring resources available via the Web
- If one of your near-year-end resolutions is to build out the carbon and greenhouse gas emissions reporting for your company, there are a couple of new resources that have been released in the past week. First off, Sun Microsystems has updated the tools that are available on...
- Tags: Web, Monitoring, Greenhouse Gas, Greenhouse Gas Emission, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Gartner: 85 percent of companies using open source
- The analyst house warns that, although take-up of open-source software is widespread, most companies do not have formal procurement or governance policies in place for such software. Eighty-five percent of companies are already using open-source software, with most of the remaining 15 percent expecting to do so...
- Tags: Software, Open Source, Open-source Software, Gartner Inc., OSS, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, open source, governance, Gartner
- News items 2008-11-17
- Maxtor introduces Central Axis Business Edition 2TB network-attached-storage device
- Maxtor introduced the Central Axis as its flagship network-attached-storage NAS device a few months ago, and now it's trying to extend the brand to the small business segment with its Central Axis Business Edition, which will come packed with 2TB of storage and can automatically back up 20 computers on...
- Tags: NAS, Maxtor Corp., Axis, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Hardware, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- Court's decision is boon for alternative energy
- Good news for alternative energy technologies: An environmental review board has shot down EPA approval of a new coal plant, saying that the Environment Protection Agency needs to come up with nationwide standards for dealing with carbon dioxide. Wired reports that the decision means lengthy and stricter...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- What role does IT play in privacy protection? [video]
- One of the side effects of the information age is that personal privacy has become a major concern for average citizens. And IT often bears much of the responsibility for safeguarding privacy and protecting personal information. This episode of Sanity Savers for IT executives discusses some of the ways that...
- Tags: Information Technology, Video, Episode, Privacy Protection, Corporate Communications, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
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