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UK caves to Hollywood, orders net cut-off for 'hardcore' downloaders

In June, the U.K.'s Digital Britain report rejected the Draconian demands of Hollywood to cut off "hardcore" downloaders from the Internet. Now the British government has changed its tune: Stephen Timms, the minister for Digital Britain, said that proposals previously considered by the Government to...

Tags: Watson Co., Mandelson, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-25

SOA services: stop worrying about protocols, worry about the business

Richard Watson says there is too much hand wringing over service protocols and standards (REST, WS-*, etc.), and not enough thought given to why a service may be needed by the business in the first place. In a new post, he states that while "debates about whether to use REST...

Tags: Watson Co., SOA, Service, Service Modeling, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Research & Development, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Leading Law Firm Solves Compliance Issue With Webroot Security SaaS

Founded in 1984, Watson Goepel Maledy has grown from four partners to a mixed practice firm of over 35 lawyers. The firm attributes a large part of its success to a strong customer service commitment that ensures every client - regardless of size or budget - receives first-rate legal counsel...

Tags: Customer Service, Software-as-a-service, Compliance, Webroot Software Inc., Watson Co., E-mail, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Online Communications, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2008-10-23

Additional Resources

Oracle's big plan: Double revenue in five years

Oracle capped off its OpenWorld conference with a powwow with analysts where management was described as extremely confident about the company's prospects. Although I'm not sure you could ever describe Oracle management as timid---does Larry Ellison allow that?---analyst notes seem to portray executives as exceedingly confident. Judging...

Tags: Revenue, Oracle Corp., Ross MacMillan, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-16

CRM

CRM Why is it smart for Apple to go after the enterprise marketMS is the 800 pound gorilla there and has a chokehold on the industry. Enterprise is ruled by inertia and margins. Enterprise makes no business sense for Apple right now; they are seeing great success in the consumer...

Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise software, Servoy, CRM, DayLite, Daylite Training, Filemaker Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-02-16

Levi Strauss: SAP rollout 'substantially' hurt quarter

Levi Strauss: SAP rollout 'substantially' hurt quarterWhoa Nellie.....Through the magic of Google alerts I discovered something I said five (count 'em 5) years ago was used to bolster the notion that an ERP implementation SAP specifically was the cause of Levi-Strauss' revenue problems in Q2 2008.I really would have loved...

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Sarbanes-Oxley, Cultural Change, SAP AG, Levi Strauss, ERP

Discussion threads 2008-07-19

BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe This is the 4th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Note that the section this is taken from, on the evolution of...

Tags: IBM Mainframe, Environment, Mainframe, Data-processing, Computer, COBOL, IBM Corp., Flowmatic, Data Division, Identification Division, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-06

The tattered history of OOP

The tattered history of OOPCalling for Mom ..SOAP etc are not themselves messaging based, they're messaging protocols - i.e. message carriers that are not internally implemented using object messaging.OOP!Crieky, I had no idea OOP had been through so much! We're just about to start using Zend Framework PHP, I might...

Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, Programming languages, Message Passing, object-oriented programming, Java, Smalltalk

Discussion threads 2008-06-02

ADP sees incentive for SaaS

Payroll and employee services giant ADP announced an interesting new partnership today, teaming up with on-demand vendor Centive to offer its sales incentive management application to customers of ADP's national accounts division â€" those with 1000 employees or more. It's interesting for three reasons: the move reinforces...

Tags: Incentive, Software-as-a-service, Partnership, On-demand, Automatic Data Processing Inc., Business Structures, Software As A Service (SaaS), Finance, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-11-05

Today's Debate: Can kiosks save healthcare?

Remember NCR?It's over a century old. The Dayton, Ohio-based company was originally National Cash Register.In 1915, after getting caught trying to monopolize that business one of its top executives, Thomas J. Watson, left to join another outfit he renamed IBM. You may have heard of it.These days NCR is growing...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Dana Blankenhorn, health care, NCR Corp., kiosk

Blog posts 2007-08-16

Protecting genetic storage

It ain't just bits on your laptop, buckoMIT's Technology Review blogger David Ewing Duncan writes about Nobel Laureate and co-discoverer of DNA, James Watson.DNA is, of course, a very compact biotech storage medium - pure informationWatson agreed a couple of years ago to have his DNA sequenced and publicly released...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-04-03

Social Capital Theory Meets Web 2.0, by Donna Bogatin

SOCIAL CAPITAL THEORY MEETS WEB 2.0by Donna BogatinInteractive Presentation Authored by Donna BogatinFor presentation at IBM Research Center, Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 11am I am invited to share my Web 2.0 thoughts with T.J. Watson Research Labs. In Web 2.0 and blogosphere fashion, my presentation to IBM will...

Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Usability, Enterprise, Blogs, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Brands, Self-Promotion, Social Networking, Social Media, Wikipedia

Blog posts 2007-02-05

IE 7 reaches 100 million users

IE 7 reaches 100 million usersff uses a similar auto update feature...but yea in general IE users are less informed.It's the autoupdate, not the choosingthough it has gotten some users who were scared or fudded into ditching it to return. Firefox has offered a better browsing experience and features...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Web browsers, Desktops, Windows Malware, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, spam, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Discussion threads 2007-01-16

Google NYC First Look: Top Google engineer talks to NYC software industry

I had the pleasure of chatting this evening with Alan Warren, Google Director of Engineering, the guest of honor at the New York Software Industry Association NYSIA October meeting. I happened to take the seat next to him prior to the program and while he reviewed his succinct outline for...

Tags: Google Inc., NYC, Warren

Blog posts 2006-10-16

Why is open source so fast?

Why is open source so fast?The IBM precedentWhat you describe has been the case for over 40 years. It was first discovered when IBM was developing the IBM 360. For more on all this, and its cost in human terms, might I suggest Tom Watson Jr.'s memoir, "Father Son &...

Tags: open source

Discussion threads 2006-09-26

Lance Armstrong leads off AMD's Global Vision Conference

This week I am attending AMD’s Global Vision Conference at the posh Ritz-Carlton in Pasadena, near Los Angeles. The agenda is focused on innovations and global impacts, and features a diversity of speakers, including DNA co-discoverer James Watson, Dreamworks’ mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, Wal-Mart CMO John Fleming, Sun chief scientist John...

Tags: Armstrong

Blog posts 2006-09-19

Symantec updates Norton products

Symantec updates Norton productsWow, and last month our biz announcedmoving to Sophos and away from Norton Whining by late September. Win Win. :)Why did it take so long?We've been struggling with this bloated, buggy, memory hog since version 2002. Well sorry, it's too late. We don't sell...

Tags: SECURITY, Windows OneCare, Norton Co., Symantec Corp., McAfee Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-09-12