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- The month ahead: Tech companies set sights on students [video]
- As students savor their last weeks of summer vacation, parents are trying to decide which laptop will best suit their kids' needs. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das and senior editor Sam Diaz look ahead to August and discuss what the tech companies have to offer. [video=325755] by Larry...
- Tags: Technology Company, Video, Corporate Communications, Notebooks, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- The month ahead: Tech companies set sights on students
- As students savor their last weeks of summer vacation, parents are trying to decide which laptop will best suit their kids' needs. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das and senior editor Sam Diaz look ahead to August and discuss what the tech companies have to offer.
- Tags: Technology Company, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, classroom, student, back to school, netbook, laptop, Mac, iPod Touch, University of Missouri, Apple, Microsoft, Dell, Windows 7, Sumi Das, Sam Diaz
- Videos 2009-07-28
- Medical Technology Company BD Gains Strategic View of $400 Million R and D Portfolio
- Medical technology company BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) serves healthcare institutions, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, the pharmaceutical industry, and the general public. While R&D spending at BD grew rapidly, the company's ability to analyze projects and investments lagged behind. BD needed a tool that would provide a companywide view...
- Tags: Technology Company, R&D, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., View, BD, Research & Development, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Roi/Tco, Investment, Business Operations, Human Resources, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- Tech CEOs: Will they step up in a downturn?
- Technology CEOs worth their paychecks are going to use this economic downturn to revamp business models and position for the so-called post recession era. It sounds rather obvious, but why don't all CEOs follow this playbook? We've heard the mantra repeatedly: Reload in a downturn. And a...
- Tags: Technology Company, Information Technology, CEO, Forrester Research Inc., Strategy, Social Networking, Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- The mass exodus of the technology industry
- Everywhere I look at the moment there are job cuts here, mass lay-off's there, unemployment rising and a crumbling global economy. Whilst students are working their arses off trying to cram for pre-Christmas exams, it opens up a world full of worry for students who are...
- Tags: Human Resources, Job, Recruitment & Selection, Technology Company, U.K., Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- BriefingsDirect Insights Analysts identify IT winners and losers in global economic downturn
- I think this is a great time to do a startup. Number one, VCs be damned at this point. You don't need their money at all, just some angel investors to invest in some very minute infrastructure. With cloud computing out there and the number of things you can do...
- Tags: Technology Company, Information Technology, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dana Gardner, Data Warehouse, Financial, SOA, Government, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Vertical Industries, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- Blog posts 2008-10-17
- IFRS Considerations For The Technology Industry
- Technology companies, by their very nature, are innovative, leading edge, adaptable, and quick to take notice of their competition - including any new arrivals on the scene. So, it is not a surprise that technology companies are keeping an eye on International Financial Reporting Standards IFRS and are likely to...
- Tags: Finance, Free Trade, International Financial Reporting Standards, Technology Company
- White papers 2008-09-19
- Nathan Myhrvold: Alpha patent troll?
- Former Microsoft exec Nathan Myhrvold has been collecting patents, extracting fees from technology companies via his company Intellectual Ventures. Is Myhrvold a patent troll with tech cred? The Wall Street Journal has a long account of Myhrvold's patent collecting efforts and how he is winning multimillion dollar...
- Tags: Technology Company, Lawsuit, Patent, Patent Troll, Intellectual Ventures, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Maybe It's Time for Twenty-Somethings To Take Over Media
- Media companies have to become technology companies, able to quickly and effectively deliver new services that appeal to a generation of readers who only spend about seven minutes a day of their free time reading stuff printed on paper. That’s the contention propounded this morning by Harold...
- Tags: Media Company, Technology Company, BusinessWeek, Media, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- The Secrets of Tuned in Leaders: How Technology Company CEOs Create Success (and Why Most Fail)
- Executives and staff at many companies already think they are tuned in (market-driven). Hey, the mission statement even says so! Yet, when one goes into these organizations and actually measure the things people do all day, one inevitably hears about problems and opportunities that originate as inside-out thinking Apple Newton...
- Tags: Technology Company, Leader, Pragmatic Marketing, Leadership, Digital Music, Digital Media, Management, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- White papers 2008-07-07
- Technology Company Uses Software-Plus-Services to Create a Dynamic Training Solution for Sports Users
- Established in 2005, SportsDo is a technology company based in the United Kingdom. Founders Jonathan Greensted and Nick Francis wanted to create an interactive mobile sports-tracking system, which provides users with real-time activity data - such as location, route, and speed. In 2005, Greensted and Francis created a tracking application...
- Tags: Technology Company, Training, Jonathan Greensted, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Handhelds, Human Resources, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-07-01
- Technology Company Combines Services to Create Real-Time Sports-Tracking Software
- Established in 2005, SportsDo is a technology company based in the United Kingdom. Founders Jonathan Greensted and Nick Francis wanted to create an interactive mobile sports-tracking system, which provides users with real-time activity data - such as location, route, and speed. In 2005, Greensted and Francis created a tracking application...
- Tags: Technology Company, Mobile, Training, Jonathan Greensted, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, GPS, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Marketing
- Case studies 2008-07-01
- Wall Street: Too much sway over the tech sector?
- Every technology company has three main constituencies: Employees, customers and shareholders. Does that last category overwhelm the first two? Should it? These questions are worth asking--at least when it comes to putting technology companies in context. Vinnie Mirchandani and I had this back and forth about Wall...
- Tags: Shareholder, Technology Company, Wall, Vinnie, Construction, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- VC funding in Chinese IT companies falls
- Venture capital funding in Chinese information technology companies was $992 million in 2007, down 9 percent from 2006, according to data from Dow Jones VentureSource. The slowdown in venture funding for technology companies is striking given that funding in China hit its highest level in six years...
- Tags: Technology Company, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Information Technology, Information Technology Company, Internet, Strategy, Venture Capital, Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Dry up, that's a threat not a request
- Map courtesy NASA and AAAS. Researchers are telling the western U.S. to prepare for water shortages. Does that mean fewer golf courses in Phoenix? Shorter showers in Vegas casino-hotels? Oh no, the world will grind to a halt, like China after a...
- Tags: Technology Company, Nuclear Energy, Green Technology, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-03
- List hands out props for kinder, greener capitalism
- My husband ran out to play with his motorcycle so I can indulge my blog-reading interests for a little while. I'm poking around for fun green insight written by others because I'm frankly feeling too lazy to convert my pile of notes into some blog entries. Saving that for Sunday...
- Tags: Technology Company, Green Technology, Blog, Prop, Blogging, Internet, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-01-26
- AOL to snag ad tech company
- AOL to snag ad tech companyUhohAm I the only one imagining this being used to target ads based on AIM conversations?- John Musbach
- Tags: ad tech company, advertisement, America Online Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-07
- Label MX General Barcode Labels Designing System 1.7 (Windows)
- Support all the printers. Support 24 types of barcode. Easy to connect database such as Text file, EXCEL file, Access, DBF, EDB, MySQL, SQLServer, Oracle and so on. Print the numerical order and flow-barcode if you need. The barcode drawn can be exported as picture and be imported to the...
- Tags: Technology Company, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2007-09-27
- Is Yahoo a technology company?
- Is Yahoo a technology company?I like to see lot of large technology companies in web spaceaaahh, CEO should have deep technical knowledge?To me, only three skills are enough to be a CEO, 1) Excellent in brainstorming, 2) Aggressive in exploring new domain, 3) Listening, listening and listeningyeah, I don't have...
- Tags: Channel management, Strategy, technology company, Yahoo! Inc., big company
- Discussion threads 2007-01-19
- Photos: Google builds in Oregon
- Inexpensive electric power has helped attract technology companies such as Google to the region around The Dalles, Ore.
- Tags: Oregon, Google Inc., technology company
- Image galleries 2006-06-29
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