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- Worried about your medFICO score?
- I have written before here about how it seems some practitioners take advantage of the "good insurance." Once a clerk runs up my insurance card (the insurance is the wife's) I get treated like a partner. It's not quite money out the wazoo, but it is first-class...
- Tags: Treatment, Payment, medFICO, Tenet, Insurance, Financial Planning, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
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- Quality assurance for SOA requires a different mindset
- Quality assurance for SOA requires a different mindsetSOA or ESB - the lines are blurredWhile I agree that SOA does require a different mindset to QA, I don’t necessarily agree it's more complex than or as dismal as this article suggest. It's just different - and if done right,...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, Service Orientation, SOA, Enterprise Service Bus, QA, SOA Principles, messaging
- Discussion threads 2008-04-09
- Value in hospital branding
- Branding is a hush-hush topic among hospital administrators. Most prefer to think of reputation. That's different. You throw out a name at someone, they nod, and that's a good reputation. They throw a name at you, that's branding. Individuals like Rusty...
- Tags: Brand, Mayo Clinic, Technology, No., Branding, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- Mozilla launches Mozilla Messaging unit; Can it fix email?
- Mozilla on Tuesday unveiled its Mozilla Messaging company--formerly MailCo--and outlined a few plans for Thunderbird 3, the open source email and communications suite. In a blog post, David Ascher, who joined Mozilla to lead Mozilla Messaging in September, said the company's goal is to help fix email--quite...
- Tags: Mozilla Thunderbird, Messaging, Mozilla Corp., E-mail, E-mail Clients, Online Communications, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Rackspace's really bad 36 hours: The Internet is fragile
- Rackspace's really bad 36 hours: The Internet is fragile99.999% Uptime = 100% chance of failureIt's pretty simple:If it can be hit...it will beIf it can be cut...it will beIf it can be burned...it will beIf it can be flooded...it will beIf it can be damaged, destroyed, or affected...it will be.Are...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Rackspace, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Internet is Fragile, bad 36-hour, Internet
- Discussion threads 2007-11-13
- Preparedness and the Force of Law
- It is a long held and accepted legal tenet that a Presidential Executive Order has the force of law and is for all intent and purpose "the law of the land." Such Executive Orders have been issued from time to time by Presidents to meet specific national needs or executive...
- Tags: President, Law, High Alert, Homeland Security, Corporate Insurance, Business Security, Government, Business Operations
- White papers 2007-10-20
- More 'out-of-the-box' SOA thinking
- My recent post on SOA-in-a-box, inspired by the ruminations of Jack van Hoof, stirred up some interesting discussion across the blogosphere. Jack posits that vendors offer many of the components needed for SOA, and those companies that buy and install SOA packages will have a jump on those building their...
- Tags: SOA, Custom Development, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
- Dell and the wish for Apple's cool
- At a briefing in San Francisco on Monday, Michael Dell and other company officials presented a vision for "Dell 2.0," a leaner, meaner selling machine. However, from comments after the huddle, there appears to be a monkey on Dell's back and it's wearing an Apple t-shirt. Apple...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Apple Inc., Jarvis, Apple Brand, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- Oracle's misconceived SaaS strategy
- Oracle president Charles Phillips passed through London recently and spoke to a handful of journalists about the company's prospects and direction, including its SaaS strategy. I noticed Angela Eager's write-up for CBR a couple of days before going off on a week's vacation, and although it had me mildly fuming...
- Tags: Software, Strategy, Software-as-a-service, Database, Oracle Corp., On-demand, Customer, Multi-tenancy, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- SEM Beware: Google deals blow to search engine marketing
- In one fell Universal Search swoop, Google has wreaked havoc not only on searchers and Websites, but on the entire multi billion dollar search marketing industry.(SEE Why Google Search will NOT rule the Universe!)Think the almighty Google PageRank was an impossible organic nut to crack? Even fearsome Matt Cutts won't...
- Tags: AdWords, Advertising, Google, Google Ads, Marketing, ROI, Search, Search Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- Web 2.0: Is O'Reilly's vision a keeper? Amazon vs. Alexaholic
- Tim O’Reilly graciously bestowed a “Blogger’s Code of Conduct” upon the blogosphere earlier this month. In 2004, he christened “Web 2.0” for the world. Tim O’Reilly has helped publish many a tech how-to manual. But, has he really written the definitive book on Web 2.0? O’Reilly Media touts...
- Tags: ecommerce, Business Models, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- ZT Group Reliant VPX6001
- The marketing efforts behind Intel's various platforms have met with differing degrees of success. While the Centrino mobile platform was one of Intel's more successful campaigns, it's safe to say that the Viiv platform for Media Center PCs has failed to resonate with PC buyers. The jury is still out...
- Tags: Desktops, Processors, NETWORKING, Intel vPro, Intel Corp., PC, ZT Group, Intel Core 2 Duo, network
- Product reviews 2006-12-12
- Can game design make your company more efficient?
- Your companys most valuable player in the future may be a video game designer, according to Indiana professor Edward Castronova, a leading researcher on virtual worlds. If Castronova is correct game designers may be critical to making corporations more efficient partly...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Government, Edward Castronova, game, virtual world
- Blog posts 2006-12-03
- Google: Happy Birthday to us!
- Google's homepage today features a special Google logo incoporating a birthday cake and an oversized number eight designed to celebrate "Google 8th Birthday!"According to Google's FAQ:When is Google's birthday? Google opened its doors in September 1998. The exact date when we celebrate our birthday has moved around over the years,...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-09-27
- L'Unix programming contest
- L'Unix programming contestLest you be Judged[how would you judge the resulting programs to determine a winner if this were a programming contest?]A course I took as part of my Master's degree was called Software Quality and attempted to do just that - judging code. It's main tenet was the Coupling/Cohesion...
- Tags: Development tools, Operating systems, programming, programming contest, programmer, Unix
- Discussion threads 2006-09-25
- US chip leadership is in trouble - but business is good
- US chip leadership is in trouble - but business is goodDistorting the market forces...If I remember correctly, letting the market forces take care of this would be a better approach in the long-term. Right?If so, those chipmakers should be looking for the best place to set their factories and then...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Investment, chip, leadership, FREE ONLINE sex, Free Online, Click Here
- Discussion threads 2006-07-03
- What do you think of Office 2007?
- What do you think of Office 2007?A few exceptions...Thanks, Jon.The old Office tenet of putting commonly used UI elements (e.g., Format Font) in several places is replaced by a philosophy that there's only one single place for everything, which further guarantees it's on a different tab.There are some exceptions. For...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Word processors, graphics, Microsoft Office 2007, ribbon, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2006-06-04
- Brightcove opens IPTV service to public
- Brightcove opens IPTV service to publicQuicktime, Real, Windows Media, IPTV, etc, whats the difference?Maybe I am missing something, but from the basic tenet that a video signal streaming over an IP network could be called IPTV, what is it that Brightcove is doing that hasnt been done by the Quicktime...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital music, Digital media, NETWORKING, IP television, Brightcove
- Discussion threads 2006-04-28
- Capitalism Gone Amok
- Capitalism Gone AmokAt least Bill won't have to worry about abusing...his market power in China and being investigated. A totalitarian regime is so much simpler to manage.Why shouldn't Chinese consumers have the same right to be abused as the rest of the world?And this is different how?"...where secrecy and...
- Tags: Investment, Vertical industries, bankruptcy, bond, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-04-25
- Senator: Net neutrality may not happen
- Senator: Net neutrality may not happenThe final solution...I keep seeing these bills and proposed bills to legislate the internet and it occures to me that the final solution will come when the US nationalizes the backbone and WiMAX replaces the existing connection paradigm.The only real question in my mind is...
- Tags: auction, Net neutrality legislation, Internet, Net Neutrality, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2006-03-14
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