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- The Bad HR software demo
- Am I too sensitive? The other day I took a demo from an HR vendor â€" and â€" one aspect of that demo really bothered me. When we got to this point in the demo where a user could craft the requirements for a new hire, I...
- Tags: Software, School, Firm, Software Executive, Tools & Techniques, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Management, Human Resources, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-05-01
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- Is Google the Center of the Universe?
- It's not even a year since the triumphalism of Jeff Jarvis's Google 'reverse engineering' book 'What Would Google Do?' hit the book shelves, but it seems an age ago now. Jarvis's publisher Harper Collins claims this book is 'all about you' in their promo blurb - how you...
- Tags: Google Inc., Rupert Murdoch, Jarvis, Wiki, Online Communications, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-24
- ProposalSmartz 4.2 (Windows)
- ProposalSmartz Desktop appears as an add-on to the Word tool bar. The software is easy to use with a tabbed interface. Rather than starting from scratch and taking hours to flesh out your proposal you can now access our bank of ready content and edit as per your need. Select...
- Tags: Proposal, NetSmartz, ProposalSmartz Desktop, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Financial Services, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Finance
- Software downloads 2009-11-24
- Next year is THE year for cloud computing
- Here is what Indu Kodukula, CTO of SunGard Availability Services thinks how cloud computing is likely to transform the computing industry landscape in 2010. Commentary - Yogi Berra had it right - it?s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. It?s especially difficult...
- Tags: CIO, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, cloud, Indu Kodukula
- News items 2009-11-17
- Collaborating on Cost Savings: A Scalable Software Whitepaper
- It should surely therefore come as no surprise to anyone that IT executives are unlikely to own up to years of unnecessary expenditure, indeed it is more likely that they deny it and thus perpetuate it, if they feel to confess now would put them at the front of the...
- Tags: Firing, Information Technology, Cost Savings, Scalable Software, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2009-11-11
- Logitech Buys LifeSize. Now what about Polycom?
- A few weeks after Cisco's Tandberg acquisition, peripheral manufacturer Logitech has announced that it was acquiring LifeSize for $405 million in cash. LifeSize provides high definition HD video communication solutions. The video acquistion positions Logitech with a comnplete range of video conferencing equipment. Last year, the company acquired...
- Tags: Video Conferencing, Logitech, Video, Polycom Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- New tool aids .Net developers in writing Linux, Mac OS X apps
- Windows only applications will be a thing of the past before long.We could also use some good tools for porting general Win32 apps to Mac and Linux using WineLib.Agree, but, for the transition, these kinks of tools will helpNTmore reasons to avoid NovellThese proprietary apps that work only with M$...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, .NET, Operating systems, tool, Linux, Microsoft .NET, Mac OS X app, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform
- In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...
- Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-08
- Thunderbird 3: Near-final version due next week
- Thunderbird 3, an update to the email software Mozilla hopes will give it some of the advantages its Firefox browser has enjoyed, is due to arrive in near-final form next week. Thunderbird 3, an update to the email software Mozilla hopes will give it some of the advantages its...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Corp., E-mail Clients, Web Browsers, Software, Internet, Mozilla, Thunderbird, e-mail, Stephen Shankland CNET News
- News items 2009-11-06
- Skype deal averts shutdown, allows sale
- Skype's founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis are to regain some of their control over the company as part of a deal that will let Skype carry on using its core peer-to-peer technology. Skype's founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis are to regain some of their control over the...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Peer To Peer (P2P), Operational Accounting, Telecommunications, Internet, Finance, Skype, eBay, David Meyer ZDNet UK
- News items 2009-11-06
- The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda
- Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...
- Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Open source needs successful champions
- The open-source industry needs profitable champions to demonstrate success and attract funding and participation in open source, according to Red Hat's CEO. The open-source industry needs profitable champions to demonstrate success and attract funding and participation in open source, according to the chief executive of Red Hat. ...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Champion, open source, Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst, Victoria Ho ZDNet Asia
- News items 2009-11-05
- Figuring the value of software
- Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- Nintendo president: 'The Wii has stalled'
- Though it once appeared to be a tiny sales juggernaut, Nintendo's top-selling Wii console has struggled in 2009. Though it once appeared to be a tiny sales juggernaut, Nintendo's top-selling Wii console has struggled in 2009. Nintendo said Thursday that sales fell 34.5 percent to 548...
- Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Nintendo Wii, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Performance Management, Sales, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Wii, video games, Tom Magrino CNET News
- News items 2009-11-02
- 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
- Apple releases iTunes 9.0.2, kills Palm Pre sync ... again
- Round up the executive and throw them in jailApple's behavior is simply unacceptable.Palm... Shakes HeadNote to Palm: Make a Front end that uses the iTunes DB or quit trying to keep hacking. It is REALLY stupid. A) You will never keep ahead of this.B) Even if you keep fixing it,...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Smart phones, Apple Inc., Palm Inc., Apple iTunes, Palm Pre
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- Accelerating Business Performance: San Francisco & Frankfurt Enterprise 2.0 Conferences
- Next week sees the inaugural West Coast iteration of the Enterprise 2.0 conference, which is also an annual June event in Boston on the east coast. Sameer Patel and I will be running a track throughout the event which is focused on Selling the Case for...
- Tags: Performance, Use Case, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- More e-readers - more misconceptions
- my thoughts . . ."Like any good Massachusetts liberal, I?m a big fan of NPR."Well, do keep in mind some of us are conservative.Please?As much as I like ZDNet for tech news, it can be a tad disheartening when there's the occasional trip down political lane, and ZDNet does tend...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, E-books, open mind, NPR, Car Talk, education, e-reader, tax, misconception, British Broadcasting Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Was Windows 7 totally your idea?
- W7: Whose ideas?It is pretty clear that Apple and Microsoft "borrow" from each other. I don't think that's a problem, all competitors "borrow" each others' ideas and the consumer wins.What is clear, though, is that Microsoft did listen to alot of people but it wasn't those people that use...
- Tags: Desktops, Crispin, Microsoft Corp., PC, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- My 7 favorite Windows 7 features
- I must say ...... your impressive list, just isn't that impressive to me.#1 - Performance boost -- subjective#2 - More restrained UAC -- more duck tape#3 - 64-bit becomes the new default -- had 64 bit for years now#4 - Improved troubleshooting tools -- no comment, biting my tongue#5 -...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, UAC, Microsoft Windows Vista, favorite Windows 7, 64-bit, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
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