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- In the minds of $1 billion CIOs
- Two CIOs with $1 billion yearly budgets shared their thoughts on their brand of IT with moderator Erik Keller of Wapiti during a panel at Software 2006 this week. Toby Redshaw, corporate vice president, Corporate IT Strategy, eBusiness & Business Development at Motorola, said he brought down his IT spend...
- Tags: Toby Redshaw
- Blog posts 2006-04-07
- Motorola seeks big agility
- Fascinating presentation by Motorola CIO Toby Redshaw at InfoWorld's recent SOA Executive Forum and Phil Windley has done a great job of capturing its essence: Key lessons learned: Start soon—its a long journey. Technology is not overly complex on the surface, but can be complicated to execute. This is...
- Tags: Toby Redshaw, Motorola Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-05-10
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- ISP snoops slink away: Adzilla quits US market
- The bottom is falling out of the market for spying on Internet users. Adzilla says it is leaving the North American market to focus on a part of the world with a seemingly limitless appetite for snooping – Asia. Adzilla's home page says: ...
- Tags: Privacy, Internet Service Provider, Adzilla, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Government, Security, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Last.fm app debuts on iPhone and iPod touch (video)
- On the opening day of the App Store, a number of competing music streaming applications were available, including major brands AOL Radio and Virgin, along with a favorite of mine, Pandora. However, one notable admission on day one was the music social network and ad-supported streaming music service, Last.fm. That...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Video, Apple iPod Touch, Music, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Roasting biomass to produce more energy
- According to engineers at the University of Leeds, UK, it is possible to use torrefaction, a process usually associated with coffee production, to increase the energy content of some of some crops by up to 20 per cent. Not only torrefaction would lead to an increase of the energy extracted...
- Tags: Energy, Public Relations, Construction, Benefits, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Human Resources, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Most frequently played artists in the US in 2007
- Nielsen SoundScan published its findings on the most frequently played artists in 2007. Most played artists in the US in 2007 Artist Detections Nickelback 967,445 Rascal Flatts 871,064 Daughtry 859,785 ...
- Tags: Nielsen SoundScan, Artist, AM
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Microsoft looking to Fast for scale, Web search help
- Microsoft looking to Fast for scale, Web search helpValue Add?The perceived dichotomy between 'financial problems' and Microsoft's buying FAST is balanced by a sound architecture, a solid foreign presence and a growing adoption curve.At some point, a solid offering can struggle with growth and/or broadening a core competency. In such...
- Tags: SEARCH, Convera, Fast Search, Microsoft Corp., Internet search, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-01-08
- Christmas is a time for mashups
- As I inevitably download "new" holiday music each year, it's painfully apparent we wouldn't *have* much new holiday music if it weren't for sampling, remixes, remakes, and mashups. The iTunes List of 44 Holiday Songs for 2007 is testament to this fact, as are the many Christmas remixes and...
- Tags: Apple iTunes, Mashup, Christmas, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2007-12-24
- Facebook e-mail: Someone did something but we're not telling you who it is or what they did
- Facebook e-mail: Someone did something but we're not telling you who it is or what they didThree brief thoughts-I agree totally that the burden of describing how two people know each other should be on prospective frienders, 'sted of friendees.-It's also pain, but just barely possible to find a...
- Tags: Facebook, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2007-10-19
- AT&T censors Pearl Jam's anti-Bush lyrics
- AT&T censors Pearl Jam's anti-Bush lyricsATT censoring phonesIt's not surprising the phone company is trying to censor programming, TV networks such as sinclair censor as common practice.Well, thank goodness it was uncensored at the live venuetoo bad AT&T did what they did with their signal. Need to use more...
- Tags: Government, American Public, AT&T Corp., ATT
- Discussion threads 2007-08-09
- More thoughts on Facebook's new platform
- More thoughts on Facebook's new platformAdding appsIt currently seems as if it's only the product directory that is limited - you can add the Obama facebook app. by going direct to http://facebook.barackobama.com CheersToby BeresfordIt’s time for Face Book to Pay Up.The recent announcements by Face Book that they are going...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Facebook, FACE-BOOK, revenue
- Discussion threads 2007-05-25
- The CIO Agenda 2006
- On April 26, the Churchill Club held a panel discussion, "The CIO Agenda: Building the New IT" podcast here. The panelists include four CIOs--Lars Rabbe of Yahoo listen to my separate podcast interview with Raabe, Geir Ramleth of Bechtel Group, John Johnson of Intel and Randall Spratt...
- Tags: CIO, McKesson Corp., Information Technology, Bechtel Group, Outsourcing, Randall Spratt, Strategy, Intellectual Property, Change Management, Management, Research & Development, Business Operations, Tools & Techniques, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2006-04-30
- On the record: Motorola's Toby Redshow
- On the record: Following up on my post on remarks by the quotable Motorola CIO Toby Redshaw at Software 2006, Dan Bricklin did a podcast interview with him a few weeks ago, focusing on how his company uses wikis and blogs to further collaboration and innovation. Also, some bits on...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Motorola Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-04-08
- If the NSA could *really* find terrorists via VoIP intercepts, it might look like this
- On his Rational Rants blog, fellow ZDNet Blogger Mitch Ratcliffe writes a post he calls NSA Eavesdropping: Deep Inefficiency."President Bush like to argue for the NSA's warrant-less eavesdropping by saying 'If you're calling al Qaeda, we want to know why,' " Mitch writes. "It was a key argument during ...
- Tags: NSA
- Blog posts 2006-02-05
- Do it for Leo
- Leo is dead. As is more and more common these days, I was informed of the sad news by Dave Winer on Scripting News, first as a Web Clip and then within Rojo. As with everything else in the Bartlett presidency, actor John Spenser's death at 58 cements the "fake�...
- Tags: Leo
- Blog posts 2005-12-22
- Maximize WLAN performance by correctly installing and configuring your access points
- This sample chapter, taken from Cisco 802.11 Wireless Networking Quick Reference, discusses how to install and configure access points. Learn how install and configure your access points APs, in order to get your wireless LAN WLAN up and running.This sample chapter, taken from Cisco 802.11 Wireless Networking...
- Tags: Performance, WLAN, Cisco Systems Inc., Access Point, Wireless LANs, LANs, Wireless, Networking
- Book chapters 2005-12-16
- Ford squeezes an office into a truck
- Ford squeezes an office into a truckNeed to buy an F-Series now...My rep showed up this morning in his new toy, a new F-Series truck. He usually drives a BMW but this morning he showed up in this fine truck. He said the new Microsoft technology made the truck crash...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Printers, Wireless LANs, Fax, Ford Motor Co., computer, mobile office
- Discussion threads 2005-11-01
- Clearing out the cobwebs
- Point-to-point integration "has crippled the health and flexibility of most IT architectures by creating a cobweb of hundreds, even thousands, of brittle linkages that have to be torn apart and reassembled every time one of the applications changes," according to an excellent piece in CIO Magazine by Christopher Koch. In...
- Tags: integration
- Blog posts 2005-09-28
- How to fight the FUD
- How to fight the FUDAn AlternativeRegardless of the actual message, what has to be conveyed is that oss is 1) an alternative to standard, proprietary software and 2) explain what the source code is and why it is important that the client has access to it.It was put me years...
- Tags: Public relations, OPEN SOURCE, deceptive practice, Nelson Pratt, Linux
- Discussion threads 2005-03-08
- CA's unified security management architecture
- End-to-end secure identity and access management across multiple platforms and applications is one those gnarly, complex problems that confutes even the most fearless IT administrator. A typical business transaction flows through multiple layers of software and a variety of hardware platforms, and each could have a different security scheme. During a...
- Tags: Computer Associates International Inc., CA eTrust
- Blog posts 2005-02-26
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