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Murdoch: MySpace worries 'misplaced'; Calls Facebook a phonebook

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch spent a good bit of time defending MySpace's honor in the wake of the buzz machine that is Facebook. To hear the blogosphere tell it Facebook has all but eclipsed MySpace. The traffic stats beg to differ, but when it comes to growth Facebook...

Tags: Facebook, MySpace, Subtext, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-08

Google exec talks innovation: Can you find the Apps pitch?

Google Matthew Glotzbach, Product Management Director Google Enterprise, gave a keynote on innovation at the Interop 2007 and the talk was so dry I was forced to innovate. After 45 minutes of innovation cliches--fail wisely, move fast, etc.--I was hit by the following questions. ...

Tags: Innovation, Google Inc., Information Technology, Glotzbach, Subtext, Consumer Innovation, Leadership, Strategy, Software As A Service (SaaS), Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-24

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Is greenhouse gas reporting about to become the next SOX-like IT problem?

The last two weeks have brought a whirlwind of news, from both a global and domestic perspective, that suggest things are about to get really tricky for businesses that have been ignoring the little matter of climate change and greenhouse gas emissions reporting. I couldn't possibly list everything but...

Tags: Energy Efficiency, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Information Technology, Greenhouse Gas, Climate Change, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Verdantix, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-02

Philip Schiller: Apple's fireman (and perhaps most valuable exec)

That's part of the planThe plan is to de-emphasize Steve and to put "Apple The Company" and "Apple The Products" front and center. 1. Jobs resigned from having the keynote at MWSF2. Cook was put center stage while Jobs was on leave and AAPL stock rose well in that time3....

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Apple Inc., fireman, Phil

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

Verizon trashes AT&T over its lousy event coverage

Verizon trashes AT&T over its lousy event coverageAs long as customers are willing to buy ...Jason,AT&T must feel that as long as people are willing to purchase an iPhone knowing full well that they have to also subscribe to AT&T's service, they really don't have to do much to make...

Tags: Smart phones, AT&T Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Apple iPhone, network

Discussion threads 2009-07-28

OIN: TomTom settlement is no win for Microsoft, expect challenge

OIN: TomTom settlement is no win for Microsoft, expect challengeI don't get itFor all the hootin' and hollerin' about this being an attack on Linux, I just don't see what the big deal is. Microsoft signed a license agreement with Tom Tom on a couple patents that cover parts of...

Tags: Litigation, Linux, Microsoft Corp., TomTom, settlement, OIN, patent

Discussion threads 2009-03-31

Live from New York: Amazon's Kindle 2.0

10:59 a.m.: That's it! The official press release is out. 10:51 a.m. If you're a Kindle 1 owner and order in the next 24 hours you are moved to the front of the line. Translation: Amazon will still have a line and hasn't figured out its manufacturing...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Novella, Managed Hosting, Outsourcing, Sales Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-09

Knowing isn't hot but it should be

Last week Jason Newton at HP blogged about what his company thinks or at least wants you to think are the hot trends in the data center for 2009. He provides a good list that's less a reflection of what enterprise customers are necessarily doing but certainly what they should...

Tags: Asset, Data Center, Baseline, Information Technology, Newton, Data Centers, Asset Management, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management, James Staten

Blog posts 2009-01-26

SAP's Apotheker: 'Happy John Wookey joined us'; Business hasn't gotten worse

SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker said Friday that John Wookey, a former Oracle executive, is "a great software man" who will help the enterprise software giant push its software as a service meets on-premise applications strategy. Separately, Apotheker noted that business hasn't gotten worse from the outlook the company gave on...

Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Agresso's answer to ERP addiction

Earlier today I took a briefing from Agresso. Up front I'll say that I have something of a soft spot for this company. Some years back I did some very early formative work on what is now their BLINC Businesses Living In Change schtik and was...

Tags: ERP Vendor, Oracle Corp., ERP, Agresso, Aggresso, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Is Wintel IT Expense a Giffen good?

Is Wintel IT Expense a Giffen good?Theoretically, Murph should be rightLinux should be the cheaper. That is simply based on product cost. It's hard to compete with free. Google exemplifies the best use of Linux."Theoretically", if all OSs had equal pools of equally smart and well...

Tags: Linux, Branding, Operating systems, Strategy, Giffen, operating system, brand, Wintel

Discussion threads 2008-08-04

VMware: CEO Greene out; Revenue light

VMware on Tuesday swapped CEOs and said that its revenue growth would fall short of expectations. In a statement, VMware said that CEO Diane Greene has departed. She will be replaced by Paul Maritz right effective immediately. Maritz will also be president and sit on VMware's board....

Tags: Revenue, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Is it Google or China censoring Carrefour?

Is it Google or China censoring Carrefour?Sorry, but ...I need $100 to fill my gas tank now, tech companies are laying off again, and my ARM is about to adjust itself into the stratosphere. I don't much care what the French are doing to the Chinese and visa versa.If the...

Tags: Is it Google, Carrefour, IS IT

Discussion threads 2008-04-30

Spin patrol: Curious timing on AOL's 'we're growing like gangbusters' announcement

AOL on Friday touted its traffic gains in March as reported by Comscore, but it is a curious announcement given that the company is a pawn in the Yahoo-Microsoft scrum and Time Warner earnings are due next week. Sure, AOL has a redesign Techmeme and a content...

Tags: America Online Inc., Gender And Diversity, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-25

Mozilla vs. Apple on Safari flap: It's about the Google search box

Updated: Apple pushes Safari to you when you update iTunes. Mozilla CEO John Lilly blasted the move. Meanwhile, there's enough hubbub to last a few weeks over these dueling point of views. But what this spat really comes down to is Google and the fees it pays to be the...

Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Google Search, Mozilla Corp., Figure, Web Browsers, Operational Accounting, Internet, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-24

EIC podcast: Yahoo, Facebook, Intel and Apple patches

In this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan and I talk Yahoo, Facebook, Intel's multiple cores and Apple's patch day. On the Yahoo front, the company made its case that its financial health is just swell. The subtext: It wants Microsoft to raise its bid. ...

Tags: Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Patch Management, Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Podcasts, Patches, Apple Mac OS, Instant Messaging, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-18

Microsoft OSP is a pie crust promise

As any fan of Mary Poppins knows, a pie crust promise is easily made, and easily broken. (Picture from Therapy and Movies.) The Software Freedom Law Center has a paper out today making this charge regarding Microsoft's Open Specification Promise. It was easily made and can be...

Tags: ISO, Microsoft Corp., Delegation, Microsoft OSP, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-14

FOWA charts: not one enterprise app to be seen

Ryan Carson has published the top 10 web apps as voted by 3,000 of the weberati. As Ryan says: This isn't a scientific survey - it's more of a straw poll of our friends and colleagues across the industry - but we think the results...

Tags: Twitter, Ryan Carson, Channel Management, E-mail Providers, Marketing, Internet, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-03-04

Investor: EA's offer for Take-Two undervalued

Investor: EA's offer for Take-Two undervaluedEA's OfferIt does not surprise me that EA wants to buy 2k they are the only competition for EA for several games. 2K is even the better game. now that they are buying them EA has no competition, and does not have to...

Tags: Games, Electronic Arts Inc., game

Discussion threads 2008-02-27

Starbucks goes with AT&T for WiFi; T-Mobile subscribers will still get access

Starbucks said it will begin offering Wi-Fi access in its 7,000 stores via AT&T ending a long relationship with T-Mobile. Under another pact, subscribers to T-Mobile will still have access to AT&T's network. Today Starbucks customers need a paid account to T-Mobile to get WiFi access. Starting...

Tags: Rollout, T-Mobile, AT&T Corp., Starbucks Corp., Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-11