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- Patricia Dunn, don't let the screen door hit you on the way out
- HP board chair Patricia Dunn, she of privacy-invading and quite possibly illegal investigatory practices against fellow Board members and several journalists, has resigned from the HP board effective immediately.Now, I wonder how many other HP board members and execs who had knowledge of these disgraceful tactics are going to be...
- Tags: HP board, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Blog posts 2006-09-22
- Media misses the mark: HP is treating Patricia Dunn with kid gloves
- The mainstream media, and sad to say, most of the blogosphere, are getting this story of Patricia Dunn's "ouster" from the chairpersonship of Hewlett-Packard completely wrong.First, the quickest of backgrounders: Dunn is front and center in a full-blown scandal that has involved HP using investigators using shady "pretexting" practices to...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Patricia Dunn
- Blog posts 2006-09-14
- Hewlett-Packard's Patricia Dunn, I have a problem with you
- So now it comes out that investigators working for HP (that'd be Hewlett-Packard) have been using phone pretexting to investigate reporter's records to track down a leak believed to come from the corporate boardroom.The leak angered HP Chair Patricia Dunn enough that she reportedly authorized this pretexting. Or, at least...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., pretexting
- Blog posts 2006-09-09
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- Open source in a time of recession
- We face what my late friend Russell Shaw called "a shrinking water hole." Not every company will survive the drought. But open source as a business model will survive, because it's an adaptation that is meant for days like these. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Recession, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- VMware enlists Cisco to help supercharge virtualization
- Now that virtualization has evolved into a proven data center solution, attention is turning to how to optimize it to improve performance and make it scalable to thousands of systems. In partnership with VMware, Cisco wants to play a major role in taking virtualization to the next level, and on...
- Tags: Data Center, VMware Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Virtualization, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Best Buy acquires Napster; Eyes digital music distribution
- Best Buy is gobbling up Napster for $121 million, or $2.65 a share, double the online music service's closing price on Friday. In a statement Monday, Best Buy outlined its rationale: Best Buy intends to use Napster's capabilities and digital subscriber base to reach new customers...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Digital Music, Napster Inc., Retail, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Is VoIP the way forward?
- Is VoIP the way forward?VOIP Works Well For MeI disconnected at the street telco box for a coupla yrs now.The Shaw cable signal here in Calgary is reliable. I have an APC UPS unit to carry me thro' a brown/blackout. I'm paying for cable anyway to give me high speed...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telecom & Utilities, VoIP
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- Alcatel-Lucent names new CEO, Chairman
- Alcatel-Lucent said Tuesday it has named Philippe Camus as non-executive Chairman and Ben Verwaayen as CEO. With the move Alcatel-Lucent has put the not so-glorious reign of CEO Patricia Russo behind it. Telecommunications equipment company Alcatel-Lucent, which was formed by the merger of Alcatel and Lucent, has...
- Tags: Lucent Technologies Inc., Alcatel, CEO, Ben Verwaayen, Mergers & Acquisitions, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Investment, Finance, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Novell: Quietly developing some momentum
- Novell's fiscal third quarter was notable for reasons beyond Linux sales and its core product line. Novell's most recent quarter was the sixth consecutive one that topped expectations. That consistency may mark the days where Novell becomes something more than an afterthought. Now it's no coincidence that...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Linux, Operational Accounting, Operating Systems, Open Source, UNIX, Software, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- It's official: OOXML is a standard
- It's official: OOXML is a standardA right decisionYou can only FUD so much.Now......we get to see who's going to implement it and how much of it will be implemented. Note that if multiple vendors are using the same MS-Windows API to support OOXML, they're not creating independent implementations of...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Fast Tracking, Office Open XML, oXML, OSI, Microsoft Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- Make Outlook 2007 folders work for you
- This sample chapter from Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 explains how to navigate in Outlook's new interface, create folders, move and copy information between folders, and manipulate properties to fine-tune your folders. Title: Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 ...
- Tags: Folder, Que Publishing, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software
- Book chapters 2008-08-15
- Dell's 'Cloud Computing' and other strange stuff
- Â and When I took a wee poke at Dell the other day I could not possibly have known that labeling something Hybrid and expecting us to meekly gobble it up was only the tip of what can only be described as an ill-conceived marketing strategy iceberg....
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hoover, Cloud Computing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Wanted: New Alcatel-Lucent leaders to fix merger debacle
- Alcatel-Lucent said chairman Serge Tchuruk and CEO Patricia Russo--the architects of the 2006 merger that formed the company--are out. The Alcatel-Lucent merger hasn't gone so hot and both Tchuruk and Russo get the blame. The networking company, which was bulked up when Alcatel and Lucent merged, couldn't...
- Tags: Lucent Technologies Inc., Merger, Leader, Alcatel, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Q'n'A: Your correspondence to date
- Over the last week or two, I've been inundated with an email. On a serious note, there have been a few questions asked; not that they need clarification as I've already covered these things, I'll answer these anyway. Q. [Email] Open Source ERP5 is now used to...
- Tags: Mobile, E-mail, Public Relations, Online Communications, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Using Flash and Silverlight to move web standards forward
- Via John Carroll I saw a blog post by Paul Ellis in which he talks about the shortcomings of open standards, or more specifically, standards bodies, and how that affects the open web. In short, it's led to the innovation and widespread adoption of proprietary technologies like Flash and Silverlight....
- Tags: Innovation, Web, W3C, Microsoft Silverlight, Standards, Alex Russell, Channel Management, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Sun releases JRE Version 6 Update 7, 90ò0of desktops currently at risk*
- Sun releases JRE Version 6 Update 7, 90ò0of desktops currently at risk*RE: Sun releases JRE Version 6 Update 7, 90�0of desktops currently at risk*I have been trying to d/l the upgrade all morning & get error 1101. I followed all the steps outlined in the error, but still can't upgrade...
- Tags: Web browsers, JRE Version 6 Update 7, Sun Microsystems Inc., JRE, Nate, Java, desktop
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- About that cellular interference...
- About that cellular interference...Fire:Fire: ie://malicious_mpack.site.com/Or something like that. :-DVery Cool AND...I very much think this can be done but also if you can focus enough high frequency energy at a device you will cause a parasitic SCR effect (by the effect of raising a CMOS chip signal input level...
- Tags: power supply
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Geek Squad: Best Buy's secret sauce?
- Best Buy last week reported solid fiscal first quarter results, but did dish out enough detail to bring out a few worries. Home office gear is selling, but the consumer is winded. But the big takeaway is that Best Buy's services business--specifically Geek Squad--is posting twice the growth of the...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Taxes, Free Trade, Retail, Sales Strategy, Financial Planning, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Demo exploits posted for unpatched MS Word vulnerability
- Demo exploits posted for unpatched MS Word vulnerabilityThe latest Office 2007 is not affectedThe latest Office 2007 is not affectedDamn it... and on a day I have reporting to doSee, I work with a group of guys where all we do is hack for our clients and show them how...
- Tags: Word processors, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., MS Word vulnerability, Microsoft Word, vulnerability
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- 90ò0of all statistics can be made to say anything... 50ò0of the time, aka my thoughts on the Verizon report
- 90ò0of all statistics can be made to say anything... 50ò0of the time, aka my thoughts on the Verizon reportHow many breaches from External...sources were facilitated by poor practices of inside sources? Weak passwords, poor surfing habits, poor security implementations, etc. External breaches only occur when an insider allows it to...
- Tags: Firewalls, SECURITY, NETWORKING, Network security, Verizon Communications Inc., WAF
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
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