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- Global PR Teams Discover Opportunities Using Collaborative Web Application
- Weber Shandwick serves clients engaged in global public relations campaigns. To promote and provide advocacy on behalf of its clients, the agency relied on a mission-critical contact management application that had become difficult to use and slow. To underscore its reputation for providing unparalleled service, Weber Shandwick wanted to develop...
- Tags: Collaborative Web, Contact Management, Microsoft Corp., Weber Shandwick, Public Relations, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
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- One Router to Connect Them All
- Sunday afternoons are the few times I actually get some peace and don't have to think about major IT problems. I fire up my Weber smoker, throw on a couple of racks of ribs, fire up a bucket of hardwood charcoal and fruit wood chunks, and I chill for a...
- Tags: Cable Modem, Router, Linksys Inc., Dad, Modems, Cable, Network Technology, Broadband Internet, Networking, Hardware, Components, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Opera patches 7 vulnerabilities but keeps one a secret
- Opera Software has shipped a new version of its flagship Web browser with fixes for at least seven documented security problems but details on one vulnerability -- a cross-site scripting issue reported by Chris Weber-- is being kept under wraps. Opera warned that one of the seven...
- Tags: Opera Software, Vulnerability, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Berlin subway ticket machines go down
- Another travel related failure... Ticket dispensers in the Berlin subway system stopped working on July 1 after a faulty update from central HQ. From Berliner Morgenpost (German translation by Debora Weber-Wulff in Risks Digest): More than 600 of the 700 ticket machines...
- Tags: Subway, Machine, Berlin, Servers, Security, Hardware, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Self-healing ceramics for nuclear safety
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PNNL researchers have used supercomputers to simulate how common ceramics could repair themselves after radiation-induced damages. This is an important discovery because 'materials that can resist radiation damage are needed to expand the use of nuclear energy.' These ceramics, which are able to handle high-radiation doses,...
- Tags: Oxygen, Atom, Defect, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-19
- 16.2% of top CEOs left their jobs in 2007
- The turnover rate of CEOs at the world’s wealthiest companies jumped 10% in 2007, according to Weber Shandwick. In 2007, 81 CEOs at the world’s top 500 companies ranked by income left their jobs, including 27 at North American-based businesses alone. At 16.2%, the rate of CEO outplacement is approaching...
- Tags: Job, CEO, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, AM
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- From Startup Camp: Is it possible to wall-in a safe online garden for kids?
- Here in NYC at Startup Camp, I took some time to interview a couple founders of technology-oriented companies (most were technology-oriented but some were not) to find out what they were up to and what sort of company they were bringing to market. I basically got up on stage and...
- Tags: Peace, Tolerance, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
- Gates in '04 said 'spam soon to be thing of past' and me on Charlie Rose about the real solution
- Last week, I published a video holding AOL, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo's feet to the fire for not working together to put an end to spam. Because of how many global e-mail users are covered by them alone, if those four e-mail service providers agreed to some common approaches...
- Tags: Solution Provider, Charlie Rose, Microsoft Corp., Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- Google's warehouse-size power problem
- Power to the internet!Beginning 5 years ago, Google took the lead in making a power consumption an issue for IT vendors. No one cared that much before that because no one else was building 100,000+ server data centers using free software and cheap PC hardware. Google wasn't the only...
- Tags: Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- Unified Communications Positions an Industry Leader for the Future
- Fred Weber based in Maryland Heights, Missouri, this large enterprise is the St. Louis area's industry leader in heavy and highway construction. The Fred Weber IT team had begun experiencing some issues with its data network. It simply no longer met the needs of a burgeoning, increasingly mobile workforce that...
- Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Industry, Unified Communications, Workforce, Workforce Management, Team Management, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Management
- Case studies 2007-04-18
- Google challenges NYC software engineers
- “Google wants to support and expand the New York tech community,” Marcus Mitchell, Engineering Director, told me tonight at the second of the Google NYC 2007 Speaker Series held at the Googleplex in Cheslea, Manhattan.How does Mitchell plan on such supporting and expanding? By opening up the NYC Googleplex to...
- Tags: Google Software Applications, Google
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- An alternative to Google's book-scanning project
- The Internet Archive received a $1 million grant from the New York-based Sloan Foundation to digitize the collections of the Boston Public Library, the Getty Research Institute, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, AP reports. The grant marks a challenge to Google, which has been working with universities to digitize...
- Tags: Open Content Alliance, Google Inc., Libraries, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-22
- Virtual schools come under state scrutiny
- Virtual schools are such a new and growing phenomenon that policy makers are having a tough time regulating them. Online programs are increasingly the targets of compliance investigations, reports eSchool News. Can legislation be far behind? The Oregon Department of Education claims the Oregon Connections Academy, an online charter...
- Tags: virtual school
- Blog posts 2006-09-12
- Virtual school may get only virtual funds
- Plans for a virtual school in Gillette, Wyo., have been scuttled on the grounds that it wouldn't qualify for state funding as there is no precedence for such a school, reports the Star Tribune. "It's just a setback, and we're hoping we can still make it work," said Ed...
- Tags: virtual school
- Blog posts 2006-07-27
- Judge refuses to drop spying suit against AT&T
- Judge refuses to drop spying suit against AT&TOUCHIE! Bet that had to hurt!Ouch! AT&T and the government do not good bedfellows make. Or more specifically AT&T and the NSA. It looks like a court somewhere is paying attention to this a little more than others. Good for...
- Tags: Government, SECURITY, justice system, Microsoft Corp., AT&T Corp., NSA, privacy
- Discussion threads 2006-07-20
- Electric sports car packs a punch, but will it sell?
- Electric sports car packs a punch, but will it sell?Where's the fun in a silent sports car?It just won't be the same without engine noise...PhysicsThe only way they got that kind of performance was to shed every ounce of weight and air resistance they could.Put in a gasoline engine and...
- Tags: Engineering, Tesla, battery, sports car, E85 Ethanol
- Discussion threads 2006-07-20
- Citizen backpackers
- The decline of the “late, great Golden Age of backpacking in America” is bemoaned at citizen journalism site, NewWest, a “network of online communities devoted to the culture, economy, politics, environment and overall atmosphere of the Rocky Mountain West”:the number of regular hardcore backpackers -- once pegged at about two...
- Tags: backpacker
- Blog posts 2006-05-11
- E-books, has your time come?
- E-books, has your time come?TooToo big.Too heavy.Too expensive.Too restrictive.E-books, has your time come?They have been trying to push ebooks for years with no success. If they want this to be successful they will need to have better fonts and make sure the screen isn't too bright. You want...
- Tags: E-books, e-book
- Discussion threads 2006-04-05
- Great contest for innovators and other creative thinkers
- My fellow Tablet PC MVP Warner Crocker is helping out the fine folks at the Note Talkers blog by acting as a judge in a contest they're currently running that offers some dandy prizes. Here are the basics: Note Talkers, Mindjet, and our affiliated Sponsors value innovation. That’s...
- Tags: Value at Risk, Value, Note Talkers, MindManager
- Blog posts 2006-04-04
- Wireless ad hoc networks
- Irish researchers are using collaborative learning techniques to develop a routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks MANETs. In these networks, which can integrate any kind of WiFi-enabled computing devices such as laptops, smart mobile phones and handheld devices, the "mobile nodes collectively learn and self-organize to exploit any fixed...
- Tags: network, WAND
- Blog posts 2006-03-15
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