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- How to package up the SaaS platform
- When I agreed to deliver the keynote at Oracle's Industry Summit on SaaS this Friday [disclosure: this is a paid engagement] I obviously had no idea that it would come on the heels of two acquisition announcements of great import for anyone interested in Oracle's role as a SaaS enabler....
- Tags: Acquisition, Software-as-a-service, Database, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., SOA, Software As A Service (SaaS), Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making
- View Available Dates and Locations Effective decision makers are those rare individuals who are able to consistently identify and choose the best option among multiple alternatives. Their decisions are imaginative, reasoned, and defensible. In this course, you will be provided with the training and tools ...
- Tags: Technique, Decision-making, Quality Control, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Quality, Management, Business Operations
- Training 2008-01-01
- The peril of panels: Can Web traffic stats be trusted?
- ComScore repeatedly warns in its Securities and Exchange Commission filings that if its statistics can't be trusted its business model is in jeopardy. I'm calling jeopardy. I'm calling a bit of BS too. Why? There's no way that ComScore traffic metrics and what I see internally can be...
- Tags: Panel, TechCrunch, Traffic, ComScore Networks Inc., Marketing Research, Servers, Marketing, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- Dell's wayward bookkeeping downplayed
- Dell's wayward bookkeeping downplayedWhile the restatement is only a few cents per share..it's about 10% to 13%. That's a pretty big percentage of 'restatement.'Dell is getting it easy nowI don't think that this internal audit is all there is to it either. At best they may be just showing...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Financial accounting, Dell Computer Corp., Dell WAS
- Discussion threads 2007-08-17
- Dell's mis-statements are not trivial
- Dell's mis-statements for the years 2003-6 are being downplayed as 'trivial.' Rubbish. As Larry Dignan notes:While the restatements were small, Citigroup analyst Richard Gardner notes that Dell would have missed estimates during its first fiscal quarter of 2003, second quarter of 2003 and fourth quarter of 2005 without the accounting...
- Tags: KPMG Consulting Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Audit, Net Income, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-08-17
- FBI remotely installs spyware to trace bomb threat
- FBI remotely installs spyware to trace bomb threatNow HERE'S a reason to buy a Mac or use Linux!"Another is that the FBI has found or paid someone to uncover unknown vulnerabilities in Windows or Windows-based security software that would permit CIPAV to be installed."Say what you want.... This is wrong....
- Tags: Federal government, PRODUCTIVITY, Cyberthreats, NOW HERE, Olympia, FBI, computer, Original Story, spyware
- Discussion threads 2007-07-18
- On the campaign trail with Dave DeWalt
- Fifty days into the job, McAfee's CEO Dave DeWalt is pumped up about his new position and is on a campaign to change public perceptions about the company. The former CEO of Documentum and then EMC's President of Customer Operations and Content Management Software which acquired Documentum, told me that...
- Tags: EMC, General, Mobile, Security, Software Infrastructure, Symantec, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- Joris Evers leaves News.com, lands at McAfee
- CNET News.com security reporter Joris Evers is leaving the journalism field to take a job in McAfees PR department.Evers has confirmed he will join the Santa Clara, Calif. security vendor on May 21 as director of public relations. He joins McAfee at a time when the anti-virus powerhouse is looking...
- Tags: Viruses and Worms, Symantec, Spyware and Adware, Spam and Phishing, Rootkits, Responsible disclosure, Privacy, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Microsoft, McAfee, Hirings and firings, Hackers, Exploit code, Data theft, Browsers
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Nancy Heinen to take the fall in Apple options scandal (Updated)
- Nancy Heinen to take the fall in Apple options scandal UpdatedAnd if you watched Battlestar Galactica last night...Then you know that Steve Jobs is a cyborg, seeking to exterminate the human species.ZDNET always provides the most interesting spin.I wonder who is going to take the fall at PixarWhats common between...
- Tags: Federal government, Investment, Benefits, Financial accounting, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-24
- Apple takes $84 million charge, defends Jobs
- Apple takes $84 million charge, defends JobsWell, that's newon a old story. Again, as I said before, won't dent consumer enthusiasm over its product lines, especially iPod. Corporate America may love it even more, . . it's joined the ranks.The last line in this story.....http://www.blackfriarsinc.com/blog/2006/12/apple-restatement-much-ado-about.htmlsays it all......"At least...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Apple Takes $84, Apple Takes, Apple Inc., job
- Discussion threads 2006-12-29
- Apple: In Jobs we trust
- Apple: In Jobs we trust$84 M out of $1.9 B(that's earnings restatement, vs 2006 profits)Unless Jobs is somehow dragged into this more than we can see now, this is less than nothing. In January we get the iPhone announcement, more on iTV and Leopard, and a blowout earnings report.I'd say...
- Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, job, Apple Inc., Steve Jobs, stock, stock holder
- Discussion threads 2006-12-29
- Apple: In Jobs we trust
- Apple Computer filed its tardy quarterly and annual statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday and indicated that Steve Jobs was "aware or recommended" backdated options. However, Apples board has "complete confidence in Steve Jobs and the senior management team." In other words, anyone worried about Jobs standing amid...
- Tags: Apple, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-29
- Apple announces fiscal Q4-2006 earnings
- Apple yesterday announced preliminary financial results for its fiscal 2006 fourth quarter ended September 30, 2006. They also noted that the preliminary results may be subject to "significant adjustment" as a result of a likely restatement of historical results.The company posted revenue of $4.84 billion and net quarterly profit of...
- Tags: Apple Computer Inc., IPODS, stock option
- Blog posts 2006-10-19
- Apple threatened with NASDAQ delisting
- Apple received a Staff Determination letter on Friday from the NASDAQ threatening that its stock could be delisted from the prestigious exchange because it is "not in compliance with the exchange's rules." According to CNet's Ina Fried: Apple is the best-known of dozens of companies that are...
- Tags: stock option grant, Apple Computer Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-08-14
- Taking the Devil's dollar
- Reviewing the comments on the section summaries for my putative Sun Ray book has been interesting. Arnout Groen hit one of my concerns bang on the head in the first comment on the series: It smells in here Murphy.. The issue is that...
- Tags: Thin clients, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, thin client, PC, information technology
- Blog posts 2006-08-09
- Rambus restatement expenses to be 'significant'
- Rambus restatement expenses to be 'significant'Rambus shares fell 6 percent? Boo HooSo, your stock price fell, eh? Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. What, did you run out of companies to sue? You guys are the scourge of the IT industry. I think if you ever...
- Tags: Investment, Rambus Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-07-19
- Lawrence Lessig and free media
- Lawrence Lessig and free mediaRTF*[i]In the creative business, free samples are a standard approach for those without resources or a contract. They sometimes work by fluke. The sure and solid path to prominence costs a lot of money. To be repaid by sales of performance.[/i]For crying out [b]loud[/b], would you...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Mercedes Lackey, prominence, Baen Books
- Discussion threads 2006-06-02
- HP rejects compensation proposal
- HP rejects compensation proposalSarbanes Oxley Section 305"The first proposal would have allowed HP's board of directors to recoup bonuses paid to executives in the event of a restatement of earnings "Doesn't Sarbanes Oxley cover this, I thought this was one of the reasons CEOs are campaining against it?"Section 305: Officer...
- Tags: Benefits, Corporate governance, Corporate Greed, compensation, issuer, compensation proposal, board, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2006-03-16
- Are security vendors prepared to deal with virtual machines? Probably not.
- Are security vendors prepared to deal with virtual machines? Probably not.Trusted Computing GroupDon't they have an approach that would work?www.trustecomputinggroup.orgMicrosoft licensing is just fine, you're the one making a mistakeI can think of a dozen and one reasons why, even if the home user could come up with a good...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Network security, UNIX, Wi-Fi, virtual machine, security, Microsoft Windows, WPA
- Discussion threads 2006-02-28
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