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Medicare bargains going away

The real issue is the growing budget crunch, and promises made by both sides. Republicans won big subsidies in creating a partly-privatized Medicare covering prescription drugs. Doctors once promised to cut their reimbursements but now resist that. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Medicare, Prescription Drug, Wall Street Journal Analysis, Notices, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-09-28

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Microsoft tries toppling Google with a bribe

Big CatchMySpace, Fox News, couple dozen newspapers, couple dozen magazines, other Fox channels, Sky.The major News Corp viewers will see that if they want to search, they'll Bing it.Even if people link News Corp content in Twitter or Blogs, Google can't go to those links and crawl the content on...

Tags: Blogging, SEARCH, Bing, Google Inc., News Corp., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Nook Clarified: Really solid progress for e-readers

Yesterday, I posted a long analysis of what I thought was right and strangely wrong about the Barnes & Noble Nook. Matt Miller today got a clarification about my main concern, which was that Barnes & Noble seemed to have said, according to several published reports, that Wi-Fi would work...

Tags: E-reader, Barnes & Noble Inc., Wireless LANs, Wireless And Mobility, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-10-21

LogMeIn's IPO: The VCs made money. Will you?

LogMeIn, which offers on demand remote access software, goes public today at $16 a share and is getting a nice round of applause from the folks following the venture capital world. After all, LogMeIn raised $107.2 million or so in a stock market that stinks. LogMeIn shares...

Tags: LogMeIn, Small And Medium Business, Smb/Sme, IPO, Financial Services, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Stratus Avance 1.5 - A Simple, but Powerful, Way to HA/DR for SMB

There, I got three acronyms into the title of a post!  That was just about as much fun as getting the Wall Street Journal to unknowingly publish a pun as part of a quote! Now that I've said that, let's get down to business. Lee Kaminski, a...

Tags: Stratus Technologies, Small And Medium Business, Avance, Avance Software, Virtualization, Storage Management, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Marketing Research, Hardware, Storage, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-04-29

Not all the statin news is good

A CNBC anchor joked today about "putting statins in the water" but not all the news which came about about statins today was good, especially if you're long the stock. (Picture of rosuvastatin molecule from Wikimedia.) Statins do not help dialysis patients, and they are no longer the...

Tags: Stock, News, Crestor, Investment, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-03-30

Yahoo shareholder pushes for Microsoft search deal; Assumptions too optimistic

Updated: Ivory Investment Management, a hedge fund that owns about 1.5 percent of Yahoo, is pushing the company to do a search deal with Microsoft, but the sticking point is valuation. Analysts say that Ivory's assumptions sound optimistic. In a letter reported earlier by CNBC, Ivory urges...

Tags: Revenue, Shareholder, EBITDA, Search Business, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Ivory Investment Management, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Search, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-10

More worries for Beijing visitors

If you are headed to or already at the Olympic Games and you weren’t worried by my Tech Tips for Beijing Visitors at the end of last month, maybe you should be now, In telling the Wall Street Journal’s readers “Don’t Forget About China’s Dissidents,” Ellen Bork...

Tags: olympic games, hard drive, analysis, government, tom steinert-threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-07

Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle

On July 7, the day before the release of the patch for the now infamous DNS design flaw, hacker Dan Kaminsky with the help of Black Hat conference organizers invited reporters to a press conference to "discuss the massive multivendor patch being released this Tuesday." "A synchronized...

Tags: Black Hat, DNS, Conference, Dan Kaminsky, Thomas Ptacek, Domain Names, Patches, Security, Networking, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Study: Offshore outsourcing dings customer satisfaction; Taking back office offshore ok

A trio of professors working with the national Quality Research Center at the University of Michigan finds that offshore outsourcing hurts customer service ratings, but farming out back office operations has a limited impact. The working paper, conducted by the University of Michigan as well as Nasscom,...

Tags: Offshore, Customer Service, Offshore Outsourcing, Customer Satisfaction, Back-office, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Product Marketing, Operational Accounting, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-07

Does business really oppose universal coverage?

That's the headline the Boston Globe put on the launch of a new business interest group dubbed the Coalition for Affordable Healthcare. The Wall Street Journal heartily agrees. By the way don't confuse this group with the Coalition for Affordable Health Coverage, a Washington-based industry group...

Tags: Business, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Taxes, Benefits, Healthcare, Free Trade, Enterprise Software, Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Leaked Pentagon doc slams Lockheed

A leaked Pentagon report said Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest defense contractor, failed to "provide the requisite definition and discipline to properly plan and control complex, multi-billion dollar weapon systems acquisition programs." This allegation casts doubt on Lockheed's ability to manage large programs, including major IT...

Tags: Lockheed Martin Corp., Pentagon, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Performance Management, Productivity, Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Investment, Finance, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-06-05

On the (mis-) use of DNA

Fascinating piece in the Wall Street Journal recently about the English/Welsh DNA database. We'll sneak up on it. The movie GATTACA always bugged me, or rather people's reaction to it did. Whenever I'd mention biometrics, people would say, "Have you seen GATTACA? Isn't that a frightening view...

Tags: DNA, Analysis, Employee Discrimination, Biotechnology, Ed Gottsman

Blog posts 2008-04-11

QA failure in Yahoo unlimited email

  Yahoo's unlimited storage email service fails under certain conditions that prevent users from accessing their mail. Most likely, poor testing is to blame. According to The Wall Street Journal, when users leave too many messages directly in their inbox, login becomes impossible: ...

Tags: QA, Yahoo! Inc., E-mail, Storage, Online Communications, Hardware, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-03-21

Creeping totalitarianism: The NSA, personal data and you

Here's a simple rule for preventing totalitarian rule in any nation: Don't build the systems for monitoring people's daily lives closely in the first place, and you will not be at risk of totalitarian rulers using those systems to overwhelm individual choice. The Wall Street Journal today has a long...

Tags: Monitoring, Terrorism, NSA, Government, Homeland Security, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-03-10

Tata Consultancy: new IT failure stats and COO interview

Tata Consultancy Services TCS, one of the largest Indian outsource consulting firms, with $4.3 billion in revenue, has released new IT failure research, based on survey results of 800 middle and senior IT managers from large companies. According to the study findings: ...

Tags: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Governance, Information Technology, Eric, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-12-12

More thoughts on Facebook's new platform

Earlier this week I reported on Facebook's plans to further open up and to turn the social network into a platform. Third parties would be able to partner with Facebook, who in return would provide the necessary hooks for those companies to port their applications, and set-up-shop inside of the...

Tags: Facebook, MySpace, Social Networks, Widgets

Blog posts 2007-05-25

WSJ: Yahoo, Microsoft talks no longer active

The Yahoo-Microsoft talks are apparently no longer active, according to the Wall Street Journal, which just updated its story. The Journal reports: Microsoft and Yahoo in recent months discussed a possible merger of the two companies...

Tags: Yahoo, Web Technology, Search, Microsoft, General

Blog posts 2007-05-04

Has About.com doubled in value?

The New York Times, under intense heat at its shareholder meeting today, will argue that its About.com unit is worth twice the $410 million in cash it paid for it in February 2005.Hmmm. Heres what Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Chairman of The New York Times Company, will say at its shareholder...

Tags: Web Technology, General

Blog posts 2007-04-24

Does RIM owe you more than an explanation?

Research in Motion got around to explaining its BlackBerry outage Tuesday into Wednesday, but it may be a case of too little too late in terms of customer perception. In a statement, RIM outlined what went wrong and started out...

Tags: RIM, Personal Technology, Mobile, General

Blog posts 2007-04-20