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- Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Laptop computers
- This year the laptop list was a tough assignment for several reasons. First, the emergence of a new class of ultra-thin laptops--spawned by lower-cost processors from Intel and AMD--has made things more complicated. Second, there's a fresh crop of Windows 7 laptops, and...
- Tags: Processor, Hard Drive, Performance, Apple MacBook, Memory, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Netbook, Computer, Intel Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Compaq CQ61z, Timeline 1810T, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris
- Blog posts 2009-11-01
- Finally! A Three-Cornered Consulting Service for Enterprise 2.0
- Managing Change is the Biggest Challenge for Enterprise 2.0 & Social MediaGreat post Paul- and agreed that congrats are in order. What is often missed in deploying new technologies or old standards is the degree to which it changes how people do their job, what their daily life looks like-...
- Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Leadership, Enterprise software, Dion, Managing Change, Enterprise 2.0, CRM
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Nokia: Please start again with your not-so-smartphones
- With the exception of my first mobile phone at the age of 12, my heart was set on Nokia. Back then, growing up and living in a rural part of the English countryside, we had very little to occupy our minds. Anything new and shiny would be idolised as it momentarily...
- Tags: Phone, Nokia Corp., E-mail, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- US government sanctions hit Windows Live Messenger in embargoed countries
- US government sanctions hit Windows Live Messenger in embargoed countriesgreat opportunity for Google and YahooNow is the time for an agressive campaign by Google and Yahoo to convert all those users blocked by M$ to their IM.By the time we invade them or bomb them into the rock age, M$...
- Tags: Zack, American Values, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, U.S. Government, Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft Windows Live
- Discussion threads 2009-05-28
- Sun & Symantec: A New Breed of Sustainability Leadership?
- The passage of the Waxman Markey Bill through the US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee this week has left behind it some hard feelings and a split in the business lobby. The US Chamber of Commerce came under severe pressure for lobbying against the...
- Tags: Sustainability, Symantec Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Duke Energy Corp., Climate, Chamber, Bjorn Lomborg, Globalization, Security, Strategy, Management, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-05-24
- Gartner: Businesses don't need to wait for Windows 7 SP1
- Gartner: Businesses don't need to wait for Windows 7 SP1"OK ? stop laughing now"?MJ,i have a problem with this sentence. i call myself an IT professional. I worked as a software developer since DOS 3.0. I have worked on whole range of operating system. i DO NOT think vista has...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, service pack, Gartner Inc., Microsoft Windows XP, operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-03-24
- Will a move right get health reform done?
- Will a move right get health reform done?the key lies with the SenateThe senate filibuster can easily sink the bill.Taxing health benefits makes a lot of sense since they amount to tax free money in the pocket for individuals as of today.If the reform succeeds everybody but the lawyers and...
- Tags: Insurance, Vertical industries, Benefits, Taxes, HEALTHCARE, filibuster, move right, health care, Obama
- Discussion threads 2009-03-18
- Closing the Gap Between Apps and Ops: Reducing the Time, Cost and Risk of Application Delivery
- Application deployment and maintenance is far too slow and expensive due to a gap that has long existed between application development and production operations. This gap is the result of competing objectives. "Apps" is about delivering value to the Lines Of Business LOB as rapidly as possible through innovative new...
- Tags: Gap, rPath, Software Development, Change Management, Development Tools, Middleware, Software/Web Development, Tools & Techniques, Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2009-03-14
- HP imposes more salary cuts for EDS employees
- HP said late Friday afternoon that it was temporarily cutting base salaries for EDS employees by an additional 10 percent beyond what was announced last month. On February 18, the company said it was cutting base pay across the board and making adjustments to benefit plans as part of a...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Salary, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Personal Finance, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
- Facing Microsoft licensing decisions? Bridge the gap between Operations and Sourcing
- Whether or not to sign or renew an Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft is a sticky question that many organizations face. For many companies out there, their spend on Microsoft licensing can be a significant portion of a company's IT budget, whether it be Enterprise Agreements or Select License agreements. Some...
- Tags: Software, Sourcing, Virtualization, Server, Microsoft Corp., Software Assurance, Chris Voce
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
- VOD chief: Comcast will survive in face of TV.com, Hulu
- This week, Comcast announced its OnDemand Online service, promising anywhere online access to Comcast programming (broadcast, basic and premium channels, etc.) for its customers. I sat down with Doug Sylvester, President and COO of TVN Entertainment, to talk about how Comcast's entry into the broadband video on-demand...
- Tags: VoD, Comcast Corp., Cable Company, TV, Cable, Programming, Hulu, TVN Entertainment, ZD, DS, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-27
- Stationarity Testing in High-Frequency Seasonal Time Series
- Deciding whether seasonality is of a stochastic nature, and thus slowly changing over time, or deterministic and thus repeating in the same way each season can have a substantial impact on forecast accuracy. Tests for stochastic seasonality, called seasonal unit root tests, have been developed for certain common seasonal periods,...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Seasonality
- White papers 2009-02-27
- Microsoft to open retail stores. Yeah, good luck with that
- Microsoft to open retail stores. Yeah, good luck with thatTime frame?"The time frame for opening the stores, as well as locations, will be the first order of business"How about a time frame of "never"? :)(That exec should take a cue from Libertarians who run for an office that's been vacant...
- Tags: Retail, Microsoft Corp., retail company, good luck, hardware
- Discussion threads 2009-02-12
- 5 tips to reduce outsourcing risk
- Service providers present a special challenge to organizations involved with complex IT projects. Although consultants are integral to many projects, dysfunctional service provider relationships can increase the customer's risk of failure. To explore this issue, I spoke at length with Alec Miloslavsky, CEO of Exigen Services, an...
- Tags: Risk, Managed Hosting, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-01-27
- CES 2009: Five important technologies this year
- This year's ICES is a wrap, and while many proclaimed its demise due to a considerable reduction in attendance at the event, it was still an impressive display of technological prowess. Simply stated, it's still a foot-destroying affair. Now that I've had some time to think on...
- Tags: Phone, Palm Inc., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
- The Satyam saga worsens â€" terribly so
- The Enron of India (Probably!) The news today re: Satyam is really bad. It makes the events of last month pale in comparison. To begin, you should read Satyam Chairman Raju’s letter of resignation where he accounts for the accounting sleight of hand he says that...
- Tags: Satyam, Andersen, Asset Management, Balance Sheets, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- Satyam fallout: Should customers stick? Full text of chairman's stunning letter
- Indian outsourcing company Satyam has cooked books, a $1 billion cash sink hole and its chairman and founder B Ramalinga Raju has fabricated figures. Meanwhile, Merrill Lynch has bailed on being an adviser to the company and shares of the firm were down 90 percent or so in premarket trading...
- Tags: Board, Satyam, Maytas, Task Force, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- Satyam crashes with $1 billion cash hole
- In a shock announcement this morning, Satyam, India's fourth largest outsourcing companies reported that B Ramalinga Raju, founder and chairman has resigned following an admission that there is an estimated $1 billion cash hole in the company's balance sheet. The company's shares crashed 77% in the aftermath. According to Finextra:...
- Tags: Satyam, Balance Sheets, Outsourcing, Litigation, Asset Management, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Operational Planning, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- Blu-ray sinks the PS3
- Sony's Blu-ray fiasco is the gift that keeps on giving. The latest gift: handing the game console market to Microsoft and Nintendo. The Blu-ray albatross The Wall Street Journal subscription may be required reports that US sales of the PS3 fell 19% last month from a...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation 3, Blu-ray, Nintendo Wii, Games, Game Players, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-12-30
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