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Obama counts Mundie, Schmidt, hedge fund founder Shaw as tech advisors

President Obama named Microsoft research chief Craig Mundie and Google CEO Eric Schmidt to his panel of science and technology advisors along with a few other notable characters. The full name of this panel is the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology PCAST and the goal is...

Tags: Eric Schmidt, Barack Obama, Hedge Fund, Advisor, William Press, David E. Shaw, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-27

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British scientists call for action in Copenhagen

RE: British scientists call for action in CopenhagenThe exposed emails sure tell the truth about this whole GW movement.If you don't trust science...Then give up its benefits. That includes just about every piece of tech discussed here.If you don't believe in climate change, can I suggest you join the...

Tags: climate change

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

The Dixie Chicks of the health reform debate

On the other hand...While he might have messed with the heads of the Birkenstock set, he also might have more than compensated by drawing in other people. Personally, I've been turned off by stores touting "natural" foods as the answer to every question, but after hearing the boss speak...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Advertising & Promotion, Whole Foods, Mackey, health care, Singer Natalie Maines

Discussion threads 2009-08-14

Lofty aspirations for power efficiency: Power Loft seeks silver certification for new data center

Colocation data center Power Loft began dreaming about greener data centers several years ago, long before it became vogue to do so. Now, in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard's Critical Facilities Services, the company has designed a 200,000-square-foot facility in Prince William County, Va., that can deliver between 120...

Tags: Facility, Certification, Data Center, Virginia, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Excerpt: Marketing 2.0 From CRM at the Speed of Light 4th Edition

I'm going to try something out here. I am ready to cringe as the tomatoes and old iPods are thrown at me, or the praise is showered on me...oh, wait, that's someone dumping buckets of tar over my head. I'm providing an advance excerpt of Chapter 13 of CRM...

Tags: Advertisement, Attention, CRM, New Competition, Engagement Rating, Marketers, Marketing Professional, Marketing Research, Marketing, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-05-29

True Knowledge API lies at the heart of real business model

Semantically powered question answering start-up True Knowledge today made its Semantic Search API available for public consumption, taking the next step on the company's journey out of beta and providing a clear steer as to the way in which they intend to generate revenue. As the company's...

Tags: Knowledge, Knowledge Base, True Knowledge, Query API, True Knowledge Home Page, Strategy, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-04-13

Patent wars: RealNetworks wins; Global Crossing pays up

RealNetworks defeated a patent infringement suit that was trying to come back from the dead. Meanwhile, Global Crossing licensed a portfolio of call center patents from Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, an outfit that collects dough from a who's who of corporate America. First, RealNetworks said on...

Tags: Patent, Global Crossing Ltd., RealNetworks Inc., Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, Katz, Ronald Katz, RAKTL, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-13

CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Second Verse, Different Than the First

Industry Giants -the New Adults on the Block Most of these might not be surprising to you but they are to me. With maybe the exception of Sage...and NetSuite....and RightNow and.....ah well.  I guess they aren't really all that surprising.  But to some degree, IBM and Cisco are surprising. ...

Tags: Strategy, Application, NetSuite Inc., IBM Corp., CRM, Zach, Zoho, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-16

'Leading with Kindness'

There is an interesting book and associated US public television series I'm intrigued by entitled 'Leading with Kindness: How good people consistently get better results' The two authors are William F. Baker, Ph.D., (Chief Executive Officer of Educational Broadcasting Corp...

Tags: Team, Doll, Gore, Team Management, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-12-10

Dolch Sight Words PPC (Mobile)

This program will help you teach your child the Dolch Sight Words. After they read the word correctly simply press the "OK" button to move to the next word. If they are not able to say the word then pressing the "Again" button will have that word listed again after...

Tags: Mobile, Word, SkyWriter Software, Wiki, Online Communications

Software downloads 2008-12-08

Bill Gates bids farewell

Bill Gates bids farewellHe brought a lot to the computer world!Yeah, vicious predation, greed, and arrogance.iMiss BilliWill miss Bill. He brought a lot to the computer world!Bill Gates bids farewellA fine speech from a magnificent man! He had visions, he had missions, he had it all! The IT...

Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Windows NT, Bill Gates, Abramoff, Preston Gates, vision, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

Dolch Sight Words (Mobile)

This program will help you teach your child the Dolch Sight Words. After they read the word correctly simply press the "OK" button to move to the next word. If they are not able to say the word then pressing the "Again" button will have that word listed again after...

Tags: Mobile, Word, SkyWriter Software, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2008-05-22

Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?

As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...

Tags: Bebchuk, Board, Business Operations, Carl Icahn, Chairman, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Director, Larry Dignan, Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Shareholder, Yahoo Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc.

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Microsoft Meets Open Source: Glasnost 2.0

Last week I spent two days on campus in Redmond with about 40 of my industry colleagues at the Microsoft Technology Summit, an annual invite-only event where Microsoft selects a swath of people from all over the world -- key technology influencers -- to learn about what the company is...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-03-31

True Knowledge enters the semantic search ring

True Knowledge is previewing in private beta a new search engine that deliver answers rather than a list of statistically relevant links as in most search engines. Type in "Is Jennifer Lopez single?," and the engine disambiguates the term "single," and produces a correct, structured response. ...

Tags: Knowledge, True Knowledge, Strategy, Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-07

Monitor the processes and performance of your Windows network systems

An important part of every Windows system administrator's job is to monitor network systems and ensure that everything is running smoothly. Watching the event logs closely helps detect and track problems with applications, security, and essential services. Then, when you detect a problem, digging deeper to search out...

Tags: Monitor, Network System, Performance, Network, Microsoft Press, Monitoring, Chapter Coverage, Microsoft Windows, Performance Management, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Book chapters 2007-06-28

Google, Dell in URL redirection 'spyware' flap

Google, Dell in URL redirection 'spyware' flapSo much for "Do No Harm"Google has grown too big. I knew the Google we all loved would die as soon as they went public, and they did. Now it's all about revenue and satisfying shareholders. The USER is now second-rate.It's...

Tags: Web browsers, Now IT, Google Inc., URL Redirection, socialist, Dell Computer Corp., spyware

Discussion threads 2007-05-23

MA exposes thousands of private data - and doesn't plan to stop

In a truly incredible display of governmental disregard for personal privacy, Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin has refused to take down - or provide any access restrictions - on tens of thousands of personal data records that identify borrowers SSNs, bank account numbers, home addresses and phone numbers, The...

Tags: State &, Local Govt, Government technology, Privacy

Blog posts 2007-04-06

Why Google's universal library is an assault on human identity

Why Google's universal library is an assault on human identityIts either left or right in this caseMS actually just plans to do the same. I agree that a book is best read in full, but wouldn't it be great to find all books with a certain quote?If you look at...

Tags: Reading, binaries, Google Inc., human identity, identity, assault

Discussion threads 2007-03-06