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Thanksgiving reading. Soccer and enterprise apps: the similarities and differences
The other evening I had the pleasure of visiting Old Trafford soccer stadium. It's the home of Manchester United, arguably the most successful soccer team in living memory. Consistently at the top or near the top of the British Premier League and European Champions League in the late 20th and...
Tags: Team, SAP AG, Team Management, Management, Dennis Howlett
Blog posts 2009-11-25
Six updates for your parent's computer over Thanksgiving
Bring a flash drive to your parent's house over Thanksgiving and make sure their Mac is in tip-top shape with six easy software upgrades. by Jason D. O'Grady
Tags: Thanksgiving, Parent, Computer, Software Upgrade, Flash Memory, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Jason D. O'Grady
Blog posts 2009-11-25
News to know: Thanksgiving tech support; Apple; Silverlight; Facebook; Black Friday
Thanksgiving tech support, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple's non-smoking warranty, Dell and Black Friday deals are the headliners today. by Larry Dignan
Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Silverlight, Thanksgiving, Apple Inc., Larry Dignan
Blog posts 2009-11-25
Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I
(NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog.  Let's see how that...
Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg
Blog posts 2009-11-23
Vizio announces Black Friday deals on its LCD HDTVs, Blu-ray player
You may have noticed that Vizio hasn't been prominent in the Black Friday ads leaked online from Best Buy, Target, or Wal-Mart (save for a 26-inch LCD HDTV early special through Wal-Mart). But that doesn't mean the company, which has remained the number-one shipper of HDTVs in the U.S. for...
Tags: Costco, HDTV, LCD, 1080p, Blu-ray, Vizio, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
Blog posts 2009-11-19
Black Friday '09: Motorola Cliq, $79; Samsung 50" plasma HDTV, $699; Sony 15" dual core laptop, $399
Black Friday '09: Motorola Cliq, $79; Samsung 50" plasma HDTV, $699; Sony 1I'd love to score one of the 32" lcd tv's and that $399 sony laptop but I'll be out of town on Friday. That will make it a bit hard to travel with those items :-/If it's a...
Tags: Digital cameras, Digital photography, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, dual-core, Sony Corp., HDTV, Motorola Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Black Friday
Discussion threads 2009-11-17
Newegg offers some early Black Friday deals on LCD HDTVs
Online retailer Newegg got its start and still does a great business in selling computer components to DIYers, but it's expanded its reach and revenue by selling all sorts of electronics—even some small kitchen appliances. Of course, that roster of products includes HDTVs, and Newegg, like Wal-mart before it, is...
Tags: Newegg.com, HDTV, LCD, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Sean Portnoy
Blog posts 2009-11-16
Best Buy Black Friday ad leaks online. Here are the HDTV and Blu-ray deals.
For electronics fans, the Holy Grail of Black Friday ads is the one from Best Buy, which can list more deals on laptops and home theater stuff than general retailers like Wal-mart and Target can squeeze into their circulars. Unfortunately, those deals are never as good as you hope—is this...
Tags: Sony Corp., Best Buy Co. Inc., Advertisement, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., HDTV, Blu-ray, Home Entertainment, Tv & Home Theater, Managed Hosting, TVs, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
Blog posts 2009-11-14
Amazon Kindle Wireless Reading Device (U.S. & International Wireless, Latest Generation)
On October 22, 2009, Amazon discontinued the U.S.-only version of the Kindle and replaced it with the international Kindle model and set the price at $259. This new model--now called the "U.S. and International Kindle"--runs on AT&T's network and can access content on cellular networks inside and outside of the...
Tags: wireless, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Sprint Communications
Product reviews 2009-11-07
Wal-mart preempts Black Friday with HDTV specials this Saturday
Every year, retailers' ads for Black Friday—the day after Thanksgiving and the unofficial starting of the holiday shopping season—manage to leak out a few weeks beforehand this year being no exception. And every year, said retailers freak out when the ads appear online, perhaps fearing that competitors could...
Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Retail Company, HDTV, 1080p, Retail, Sean Portnoy
Blog posts 2009-11-04
Season's Greetings Vol. 2 1.0 (Mac)
Specially for Apple Mail, Season's Greetings Vol.2 helps you to efficiently create snazzy, personal greetings for every occasion throughout the holidays. Be it for Christmas, New Year, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or Thanksgiving, this volume has your wishes covered. The 22 high-quality templates enhance the Mail Stationery collection to make it simple...
Tags: Apple Macintosh, Equinux, Desktops, Hardware
Software downloads 2009-11-04
Thanksgiving Boom for Firefox 1.0.2 (Windows)
Celebrate the fall harvest, family and the things we're thankful for. We've gathered some great sites into the toolbar from online games and holiday history, to the recipes you'll need to wow the family. Explore the links, enjoy the theme. These themes are free and we switch your default search...
Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Brand, Theme, Toolbar, Microsoft Windows, Brand Thunder, Branding, Marketing
Software downloads 2009-10-29
Dell: A few examples of what's wrong with your tech support
The on-site tech support tech was obviously in the U.S., but ....it sounds like the "other end" of the line is somewhere half way around the planet (maybe also taking orders for "Shammy Wows") while reading off a scripted Q&A screen.Kinda like "cloud tech support"?What really hurts is that this...
Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Dell Computer Corp., tech support, cheap machine
Discussion threads 2009-10-21
Move over Enterprise 2.0, it's now Social Business Design
Given the relatively friendly pounding I took over my Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock post, it's gratifying to see that it has stirred some interesting interpretations and thoughts on the topic. That's always good and especially pleasing when one considers that most blog posts are the equivalent of digital...
Tags: BPR, Enterprise 2.0, Re-engineering, Cohen, Oliver Marks, Business Process Engineering, Organizational Structure, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Dennis Howlett
Blog posts 2009-09-21
If everyone bets on Android does anyone get an advantage?
Motorola---along with a bevy of other wireless carriers---has gone gaga for Android, the mobile operating system hatched by Google. For Motorola, a big Android bet boils down to saving the company's handset business. The nagging question: If everyone---Samsung, LG, HTC, Sony Ericsson and Motorola---go Android happy does anyone really have...
Tags: Smart Phone, Handset, Motorola Inc., Sanjay Jha, Android G1 Fixing Motorola, Cellular Phones, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
Blog posts 2009-07-07
Greeting Card Builder 2.1.0 build 2237 (Windows)
Greeting Card Builder is a useful program which was specifically designed to create stunning photo greeting card for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, New Year, Valentine's Day, birthdays, anniversaries, or any occasion.It helps you easily create cool greeting cards with your own photos, clip art, frames, masks, and backgrounds, and email or...
Tags: Card, Microsoft Windows, Photograph, PearlMountain Software, Greeting Card Builder
Software downloads 2009-06-24
Can we force anyone into care?
Can we force anyone into care?This is the problem with religion!You get a bunch of followers to follow something there's not even proof to, than you control them. Remember David Koresh? Those wackos in Utah? I hope they find the mother of this kid and lock her away for life....
Tags: SECURITY, Symantec Internet
Discussion threads 2009-05-20
Navigon gets priced out of the North American PND market
Navigon gets priced out of the North American PND marketit's not surprising...I've never heard of Navigon before. So I did a little looking around. I found teo very short comments about three models Navigon released in 2008. The 8100T at $599 (http://www.nerdgrind.com/navigon-releases-8100t-navigator-calls-it-uber-premium/) and two affordable devices both...
Tags: Handhelds, Cellular phones, user guide, Navigon, North American PND, GPS
Discussion threads 2009-05-07
Start cooking: can you explain SOA or mashups in two minutes?
We allude now and then in this blog to "elevator speeches" about SOA and enterprise architecture. This is often intended as a method to boil down the essentials to make them easily digestible by business decision makers with limited time and attention spans. Call it bursts of...
Tags: Web, Web Service, SOA, Essentials, Mashup, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Collaboration, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
Blog posts 2009-03-30
iGeneration 2008 in review
I started on this blog, a nervous and precarious young man, and remain somewhat a young man. To be honest, I'm surprised I've been here this long, let alone seconded onto another blog. Still, it's been an interesting year and I'll run through some of them in a minute. So...
Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Blog, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Post, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Blogging, Software, Zack Whittaker
Blog posts 2008-12-18
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