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14 ways IT screws up projects

14 ways IT screws up projects128k image?The image is 128k in size with 100dpi resolution. Why is that too big even on a dial-up connection? Thanks for your thoughts.# 15 - Play loose and fast with bandwidthAttach needlessly large images to blog posts. Make sure image's size is inversely...

Tags: Strategy, Upper Management, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Enterprise Software at the Crossroads: Lost Execs and Lost Ground

Enterprise Software at the Crossroads: Lost Execs and Lost GroundInnovate, come onUpper management is code for golf buddies that are bored. Come on these guys don't innovate they just push paper and talk to their counterparts in different companies to actually push the innovation.

Tags: Crossroads, enterprise software, Upper Management

Discussion threads 2007-10-18

Oracle wins PeopleSoft shareholder vote

Oracle wins PeopleSoft shareholder voteAs they say, MONEY TALKS.ahh the dangers of going publicAnother good company killed by greedy stock holdersThe shareholders have spoken.The board should step down and follow the desires of their stockholders. It will do them and the company no good to prolong the inevitable. It seems...

Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, Upper Management, stock, stock holder, shareholder, Oracle Corp., PeopleSoft Inc.

Discussion threads 2004-11-20

Intel CEO wants an employee attitude check

Intel CEO wants an employee attitude checkBottom Line InHell has stumbled badly !With their complete PC line now obsolete, defective designs like the over-heating Prescott and 915 chipset, the botched copy of IA64 instruction set for the obsolete Xeon, the end of the road for the extremely over priced, over-rated,...

Tags: Processors, Semiconductors, Investment, Bottom Line InHell, Intel Corp., upper management

Discussion threads 2004-07-27

Google files for unusual $2.7 billion IPO

Google files for unusual $2.7 billion IPOI wonder[i]"In our opinion, outside pressures too often tempt companies to sacrifice long-term opportunities to meet quarterly market expectations. Sometimes, this pressure has caused companies to manipulate financial results in order to 'make their quarter.' In Warren Buffett's words, 'We won't smooth quarterly or...

Tags: Investment, Financial Planning, Upper Management, Google Inc., IPO, search engine, stock

Discussion threads 2004-04-29

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Resistance to change: The real Enterprise 2.0 barrier

Vive Le Resistance!Michael - Resistance to Change, Immunity to Change - there is a lot of activity on the "real work" beyond tech and into enacting and leveraging change agents of Enterprise 2.0 lately... great that we're all surfacing these issues in increasingly large forums.For a bit more flavor on...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, transparency, worker

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

PRPWallet - Best Price Wallet for Windows Mobile (Mobile)

Digital Password Manager Software Windows Mobile Pocket PC. Carry all your vital information with this Secure, Safe, Convenient & Powerful personal information management solution with Touch UI. Store passwords, PINs, bank account, credit cards, email usernames, group IDs, membership IDs & any other important information. DEFAULT PASSWORD - '123'Storing &...

Tags: Card, Password, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Microsoft Windows, 3GR Technologies, Flexible & Secure PRP Wallet

Software downloads 2009-11-07

Learning from the weak signals of failure

Sometimes a refusal to listen . . .Sometimes it's a refusal of top level management to listen to lower level employees as well. NASA was notorious for having unsatisfied employees who knew key facts about issues, but ignored them, even if the employee was proactive about trying to contact somebody...

Tags: Team management, weak signal

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Going commando: Four signs of CRM failure

Snake oil salesmen[i]Should you become the exit champion who calls out warning signs of a CRM effort in jeopardy?[/i]If you wait until you see warning signs, you've already lost. Every CRM and SOA project I've been involved in the seeds of destruction were sown way before the project ever...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Customer relationship management (CRM), Enterprise software, CRM

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?

Okay, butThey also go out and buy their own servers with some hidden budget line, then try to foist maintenance off on the CIO. And then we try to integrate the data - and the data isn't theirs, it's critical to the health, even survival, of the enterprise.Yes, we...

Tags: Strategy, Virtualization, cloud computing, Regulatory compliance, Marketing Guy, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Typo takes down Internet in Sweden

HeadlineI would have headlined this story "Sweden is Missing Its Period".RE: Typo takes down Internet in SwedenWhat does this imply for the rush to the cloud?RE: Typo takes down Internet in SwedenNot really the right headline.Really should read Typo blocks access to Swedish web-sites and email addresses, since they were...

Tags: Typo, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

ShareGhost 1.1 (Windows)

ShareGhost is one of the most technologically capable p2p file sharing application ever made. It was created with a focus on user-friendliness keeping at the same time all the range of useful features like multinetwork support, ghost ratings, and a queue area which users can entirely configure. ShareGhost offers exceptional...

Tags: P2P, Microsoft Windows, ShareGhost, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet

Software downloads 2009-10-12

The T-Mobile-Microsoft Sidekick data disaster: Poor IT management going mainstream

Always have local copies of your dataThe above is why it is a bad idea to put your fate in someone else's hands when you have a choice. By default, keep your data processing and data stores local, and then use cloud services when they suit you. All these kiddies...

Tags: Federal government, Advertising & Promotion, Recruitment & Selection, agency, FDA, job

Discussion threads 2009-10-11

Dell and Perot: What this means

Look at more than the upside to any acquisition Dell and Perot are getting married. This acquisition puts approximately 23,000 Perot services employees in with Dell. (see Larry Dignan's detailed post on the transaction ) (here's an InfoWorld post, too) From the macro view,...

Tags: Acquisition, Dell Computer Corp., Perot, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Samsung WEP870

Even though stereo Bluetooth is now more widely accepted, there are those who just want a simple mono headset to make and receive calls. But there's no reason you can't have both; there are a few headsets out there that can convert from mono to stereo and vice versa, like...

Tags: volume rocker, lanyard, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung WEP870, headset, ear bud

Product reviews 2009-09-14

The Linux botweb story that wasn't ...

One of the things that always confused me...If you can access the source code to Linux, then wouldn't it be possible to crack a password, and then alter the compromised system's source code to suit the hacker's needs?That doesn't seem to secure to me...The short answer is yes.But in reality...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Linux, source code, password, Apache Software Foundation, Microsoft IIS Server, security

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

ShareDix 1.1.0 (Windows)

ShareDix is a clear-cut file sharing client using the up-to-date architecture to help you download movies, music, text documents and other with greater efficiency. The availability in terms of networks, ghost ratings, a queue area you can easily configure, make it an optimal solution as a p2p software. The program...

Tags: Network, P2P, Microsoft Windows, File-sharing, Media Player, Foxmediatools, ShareDix, Peer To Peer (P2P), Media Players, Productivity, Digital Music, Digital Media, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-09-12

6 dirty tricks from enterprise vendors

GET it in WRITING!If it is NOT in the contract then you made your first mistake.Well said.Contracts & Paper Trails are more precious than gold when something goes Tango-Ultra on you.I dont agree with #5Well I do, but to further clarify, *most* vendors will support at least 1-2 major revisions...

Tags: Content management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise software, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), dirty trick, enterprise vendor, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

Europe can stick a fork where its mouth is

Problem with your thinking...Sun owns the copyright. That means that they can rebrand the license. If you fork it, it is GPL forever. Thus you are definitely loosing out.Your argument would have made sense if Sun would have said, "hey we are going to release this under the Apache license."...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, MySQL, mouth, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

iPhone users strangling the AT&T network

Network BandwidthIn all fairness, I doubt that any carrier in the US would have been ready to handle the massive amount of data streaming across it's 3G network that iPhone users have generated. If a carrier like Verizon were to offer the iPhone, a lot of people would jump...

Tags: Smart phones, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone, network, iPhone Users

Discussion threads 2009-09-03