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- Dell's Rollins shoots for $80 billion by 2009
- Dell's Rollins shoots for $80 billion by 2009WOW, I never knew!How much did Dell pay for that commericial advertisement? How is this news when you throw in the adware with the Kevin Rollins statement? I thought they were supposed to reach $80 bilion already?All without messageboards!Dell is for...
- Tags: spyware, spyware, adware & malware, dell computer corp., rollins
- Discussion threads 2005-07-15
- Dell's Rollins dismisses iPod as a 'fad'
- Dell's Rollins dismisses iPod as a 'fad'Kind of show's he doesn't understand what he's saying[i]"It's interesting the iPod has been out for three years and it's only this past year it's become a raging success," he said. "Well, those things that become fads rage, and then they drop off. When...
- Tags: digital music, digital media, media players, desktops, i-pod, dell computer corp., sony walkman, apple ipod, fad, music player, portable music player, rollins, apple inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-01-18
- Can Dell's Rollins keep the streak alive?
- Can Dell's Rollins keep the streak alive?Rollins - Shut the lights off when you close the doorsYour stuff is GARBAGE.Nobody wants a Dell DJ, TV, or any of the other Consumer Electronics garbage you sell.Look at Gateway - nobody wanted their junky CE stuff either.Your PC's are garbage, I'm still...
- Tags: rollins, steve jobs, dell computer corp.
- Discussion threads 2004-11-02
Additional Resources
- News to know: Apple patch; IBM; PC upgrades; EDS; Yahoo
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Apple finally ships DNS flaw fix, patches 16 other Mac OS X holes Nate McFeters: Black Hat talk on Apple encryption flaw pulled Black Hat Sneak Preview Larry Dignan: IBM plans building spree: To build $360M...
- Tags: google inc., facebook, larry dignan, pc, yahoo! inc., apple inc., electronic data systems corp., ibm corp., firewire, sales strategy, desktops, consumer electronics, personal technology, sales, hardware
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Pondering Apple in a post-Jobs world
- Before all of you start sending nastygrams my way about how tasteless and premature this blog post is, let me just say upfront I agonized about whether or not it should even be written in the first place, and my industry colleagues I consulted about it told me that the...
- Tags: steve jobs, apple inc., strategy, corporate governance, management, business operations, corporate law, jason perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Vonage refinances debt; Off of deathwatch
- Vonage isn't out of the liquidity woods yet, but on Friday the company took a big step in the right direction. Vonage said in a statement Friday that it signed a letter of intent "with a third party financing source" to provide $215 million in private debt...
- Tags: vonage holdings corp., financing, investment, financial accounting, finance, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- FCC: Verizon Wireless a big 700 Mhz auction winner; Now what?
- Updated: Verizon Wireless was the biggest winner in the Federal Communication Commission's 700 Mhz auction. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin revealed Verizon Wireless as the biggest winner of spectrum. Martin made the comments at a press conference at FCC headquarters. Here's Martin's statement (also see...
- Tags: fcc, at&t corp., verizon wireless, spectrum, auction, federal government, wi-fi, wireless, government, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Farewell, Bill. Yo, Ballmer, now it's your turn!
- Steve Ballmer may be the worst CEO among large tech companies - now that Kevin Rollins got booted from Dell and Sanjay Kumar of CA is in jail. Put him in a room with Steve Jobs of Apple, John Chambers of Cisco and Mark Hurd of HP and he'd look...
- Tags: google inc., msn, steve ballmer, microsoft windows vista, fiasco, microsoft internet explorer, microsoft corp., smart phones, games, cellular phones, handhelds, consumer electronics, personal technology, hardware, robin harris
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- Critical Challenges of E-mail Retention
- Ben Franklin's quip about the disaster that can occur "for want of a nail" can now be applied to e-mail retention, since these days a missing message can lead to costly legal and regulatory problems. That's why it's absolutely essential to implement and automate effective e-mail retention policies. ...
- Tags: messageone, e-mail, online communications
- Webcasts 2007-12-12
- Dell's mis-statements are not trivial
- Dell's mis-statements are not trivialSOX violations?Given the dates of these shenanigans, aren't the SOX reporting requirements applicable?Return the money from the sale of the company to the investorsFamous last wordsLook out Dell, Acer's comingMy last notebook computer purchase was not a Dell like in 2004. In Dec. 2006, I...
- Tags: sarbanes-oxley, regulatory compliance, regulations, notebooks, dell computer corp., acer inc.
- 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
- HP, Dell expected to benefit from cheaper parts
- The parts that go into your PC are getting cheaper. And that's good news for Hewlett-Packard and Dell. Both companies will report earnings this month with HP on deck August 16. Dell follows up on August 30. What we're likely to hear is that unit sales are up, demand is...
- Tags: dell computer corp., hewlett-packard co., pc, benefit, sales, unit growth, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2007-08-13
- Vonage: Has the bleeding stopped?
- Vonage reported its second quarter earnings Thursday and there were plenty of negatives. However, there were a few reasons to have a little optimism. The emphasis here is on little. In no way should you run out and buy Vonage shares, unlike some folks that are driving VG up 11...
- Tags: vonage holdings corp., larry dignan
- Blog posts 2007-08-09
- Thompson uses the Web to claim spot as Republican standard-bearer
- Unannounced Republican presidential candidate Fred D. Thompson is using the Web to make sure hard-core Republicans know just where he stands on the issues, the Washington Post reports.Among his messages: The Virginia Tech massacre showed that students should be allowed to carry guns to protect themselves; global warming scientists are...
- Tags: elections
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- What Yahoo's bio for co-founder and 'Chief Yahoo!' Jerry Yang says
- Yesterday, some folks here at CNET Networks asked if I had anything to say about Jerry Yang replacing Terry Semel as CEO at Yahoo. Yahoo's media relations site lists Yang as co-founder and "Chief Yahoo!." I couldn't think of anything to say that hadn't already been said. ...
- Tags: web technology, general
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Michael Dell back as CEO; Rollins resigns
- Michael Dell back as CEO; Rollins resignsNot selling AMD's was Dell's BIG mistakeNot selling AMD based computers was Dell's big mistake.Yes Michael, INTEL is not alone anymore, there is millions of AMD fans and even after core 2, still a big market share for AMD and growing. Just a week...
- Tags: productivity, processors, advanced micro devices inc., computer, intel corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-31
- CIO Sessions: San Francisco Giants CIO Bill Schlough
- In this CIO Sessions interview, SF Giants CIO Bill Schlough outlines his multiple roles, managing back-end operations for the business of Giants baseball and AT&T Park and applying technology to improve profits and player performance and development with sophisticated digital video systems. He also talks about the free wireless access...
- Tags: entertainment, cio sessions, general, mobile, web technology, wired & wireless
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- CIO Sessions: Alcatel-Lucent's Ray Gilbert
- In a CIO Sessions interview, Ray Gilbert, assistant vice president for IT Enterprise Collaboration at Alcatel Lucent discusses how the telecom services provider is addressing mobility needs and convergence challenges for the next generation of devices. Watch the video More CIO Sessions videos Boeing CTO: Vaho Rebassoo...
- Tags: wired & wireless, web technology, voip, telecommunications, mobile, ip telephony, general, cio sessions
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- CIO Sessions: Tim Stanley, Harrah's Entertainment
- In this CIO Sessions video, Harrahs Entertainment CIO Tim Stanley talks about his high-tech vision for attracting customers to the world’s most popular casino destinations, from implementing business intelligence software to deploying wireless gadgets and RFID. Stanley is also Harrahs chief innovation officer. As part of his innovation mission, he...
- Tags: business intelligence, cio sessions, datacenter, general, it management, rfid, software infrastructure, telecommunications, wired & wireless
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- CIO Sessions: Harnessing wireless wagering at the Kentucky Derby
- In a CIO Sessions video, Jay Rollins, the CIO of Churchill Downs, talks about turning around the venerable race track with 21st century technology, such using wireless networks and mobile devices for wagering. He equates the technology requirements of horse racing for wagering elements and data collection and analysis to...
- Tags: cio sessions, general, it management, web technology, wired & wireless
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
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- Rollins Inc.
- Rollins provides pest control services to both residential and commercial customers in North America. Services are performed through a contract that specifies the pricing arrangement...
- Rollins Inc. company page on BNET »
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