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Ready Wireless Launches Prepaid Unlimited Voice Plans

Iowa-based prepaid wireless reseller Ready Wireless yesterday introduced two new Unlimited Voice Plans , priced at $10 for 3 days or $15 for 7 days. "Many of our customers really want to be able to buy unlimited services, but for many customers it's difficult to commit to an enti...

How can a supply chain react to unexpected events (similar to Michael Jackson's death)?

The death of Michael Jackson shocked many of his fans but also the company which was organizing the event. In a podcast by New York Times, I heard that the unexpected death has resulted in $150 million loss for the organizing company. This is clearly an example of an event which is hardly predicta...

Michael Jackson's debt legacy

There's bound to be massive litigation over Michael Jackson's estate. For the last years of his life, the pop icon was bogged down in controversy. But more to the point, he was trapped in a quagmire of debt. As The Wall Street Journal tells us, he left this world with $500 millio...

Questions which should be answered when buying a mid-size ERP

Supply Chain Management Review ha published a new whitepaper sponsored by Inside-ERP highlighting important questions which should be answered when choosing a mid-size ERP solution. It's worth taking a look at this piece and you can download it here . The document tries to create a balanced...

What Happens to Your Cyber Stuff When You're Dead? Legacy Locker...

Seems like everyone is talking about Legacy Locker , the new company that serves as an estate agent - passing on your cyber belonging (passwords, web addresses) to friends and family when you die. In the last few weeks I've seen articles about Legacy Locker at CNN , the Inquisitr , Life Hack...

Jewelry Sale at Bloomingdales.com

Designer Fashion Jewelry Bloomingdale's is committed to leading the way with exclusive merchandise, customized services, and alternative shopping venues. Carrying on the Bloomingdale's brothers' dream, they're always finding ways to set their stores apart. That's both the lega...

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Diana Vincent Jewelry

Designer Gemstone Jewelry In 2007, Diana Vincent was named one of the top 100 jewelry designers of the last 30 years. Simple, elegant designs, pure fluidity, and swirling shapes that evoke a sense of continuity, these are the hallmarks of Vincent's work, establishing her as one of the count...

Verizon Business Launches Hosted OCS Offering

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 8082736 At VoIP Planet , I published an article this week looking at Verizon Business ' launch of a new managed service which offers a hosted version of Microsoft's Office Communications Server (OCS) R2 . As Michael Marcellin, Verizon's ...

Simon G Jewelry

Designer Fine Jewelry To fully understand and appreciate the beauty and the detail of Simon G jewelry, it is essential to be familiar with the passion to design and the desire to create that consumes Simon G, the person. In the Armenian culture of Simon Ghanimian's childhood, every young ma...

SaaS expected to grow through the downturn

For a dim ray of sunshine in the middle of an otherwise gloomy day (gloomy, at least, for anyone watching the markets) I refer you to a recent study from IDC forecasting a continued expansion in the SaaS market despite our overall economic woes. This isn't just good news for SaaS investors an...

Finally: The Porsche Museum

A confessed automobile sentimentalist, I believe that every auto manufacturer with a recordable family tree should maintain a museum featuring the most significant cars of its legacy. Considering that Professor Ferdinand Porsche began influencing the fledgling industry at the start of the 20th ce...

Gucci Jewelry

Fine Italian Jewelry Frida Giannini , Creative Director of Gucci , has a unique talent and passionate disposition that have fueled her rise as an international designer for one of the most recognized luxury fashion brands. In September 2002, she joined Gucci as Handbag Design Director. Two year...

The SOA imbroglio

It's been a few weeks since the dustup over whether SOA is dead or not (consensus: not), a tempest in a teapot kicked off by Anne Thomas Manes claiming that it was the recession that did it , in the study, with a pipewrench. This, of course, garnered immediate responses of "nuh-uh" ...

What's ahead for US financial institutions?

With President-elect Barack Obama vowing to reshape the United States financial regulatory system, something that should have been done some time ago, it is worth looking to see what lies ahead for the US financial services sectors, particularly mortgage brokers, private equity firms and hedge...

Cox defends his legacy

Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox has defended his regime in a way that would just leave the public gob-smacked. The culture of slack oversight allowed US financial institutions and rogues like Bernard Madoff to plunge the United States into recession but Cox says the ...

On Tour With Condoleeza Rice

President George Bush has been on a "victory" tour of sorts as have other Administration notables such as Dick Cheney. The highlight of The President 's trip has to be the shoe throwing incident in Iraq; which easily eclipsed his attempt at trying to convince the world that his Pre...

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Practical tips on SCM software selection

Choosing the right SCM software solution, especially these days is of great importance for companies; that's why here in this post I will try to give some tips which I think can help increase the effectiveness of your decision making process ; so here it comes what I have found more impor...

Rubin's self-serving "innocence"

Of all the disgraceful moments following the implosion of Citigroup, this Wall Street Journal interview with Citigroup director and Bill Clinton's former Treasury honcho Robert Rubin probably takes the cake. Rubin claims innocence about Citi, insisting that no-one saw it coming. This is c...

Greenspan's legacy

In his book The Age of Turbulence , former Fed chief Alan Greenspan proclaimed that subprime was a good thing for America. "The gains were especially dramatic among Hispanics and blacks, as increasing affluence as well as government encouragement of subprime mortgage programs enabled many ...

Do old applications lead to train wrecks?

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , David Parsons I don't mean literal train wrecks... sorry, I suppose that's a rather tasteless metaphor at the moment. But it's the one used in this Silicon.com article , which may or may not have been quoting Gartner analyst Scott Nelson. I haven...

The Lehman legacy

Last month, i did a blog entry . The issue there was the size of the bonuses given out in the lead up to the bankruptcy. Which raises the obvious question of whether they knew they were going down the gurgler but neglected to inform the market and helped themselves to the piggy bank. Now The...

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Outsourcing to the Phillipines

I've been so hung up on watching China as the possible next big center for enterprise off-shoring that I seem to have missed the fact that the Phillipines have already shot up to second place behind India in outsourcing revenues. This makes perfect sense from a call-center outsourcing per...

US - the end of superpower status?

German finance minister Peer Steinbrück, has warned that the United States will lose its superpower status in the wake of the financial crisis. The world, he says, will become multipolar and will never be the same again. Of course, it's more than just the financial crisis created by the ...

Boxing Cox

The market is in meltdown mode so the heat is on Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox. A few days, I did a blog entry on John McCain talking tough and threatening to sack him. I just dismissed that as political opportunism. Still, it's hard to go past this fascinat...

Torrini Italian Jewelry

Fall 2008 Jewelry Collection Far from being the jewelry of trends, the eclectic high fashion designs of Torrini Jewelry have survived for twenty-five generations. Their designs are well known for being unique, exceptional, handcrafted pieces of elegance and beauty. Among the highly guarded secrets...

Keeping your COBOL?

© psd The last time that COBOL (that's COmmon Business Oriented Language, A 1950's era mainframe programming language) got this much press was just prior to Y2K, when the effort to purge legacy code of two-digit data references convinced many business leaders of the need to re-cod...

Persystent imaging and repair

I received a briefing last week from Persystent Technologies, the new kid on the block in the desktop imaging market, which left me deeply conflicted: is it best to eliminate the sloppy system architecture which creates the need for constant repair and re-imaging, or to look for a best of breed so...

Who says SaaS is hard?

© mandj98 Not Kel Hoffmann of Whitebirch Planning. The president of the 9 year old strategic financial planning software vendor, which offers both SaaS and stand-alone versions of its Whitebirch Planning product, says, "Basically what we want is users." Whether they use the...

Does poor security lead to innovation?

That's an over-simplification of the argument, of course, as all title lines are, but when you get right down to it, that's the implication of Jonathan Zittrain's concept of "generative systems," the open and unobstructed tools on which he lays the credit for the creation cool ...

Nikon 公布 D700 D-SLR，售价 2999.95 美元

前两天不少地方还在争论 Nikon D700 传言的可信性，今天 Nikon 官方就正式公布了 Nikon D700 D-SLR，预计售价 2999.95 美元。以下是官方新闻稿、参数表以及部分产品图片： THE AGILE NEW NIKON D700 FX-FORMAT D-SLR CAMERA DELIVERS PERFORMANCE INSPIRED BY THE NIKON D3 IN A SMALLER, LIGHTER DESIGN Nikon's Second FX-Format Camera Delivers Peak Pro Performance i...

The Virtual Data Center - Switches and Routers

© makou0629 As a key component to the backend storage systems within a data center, switches and routers play an important role in consolidation and virtualization. This document provides a great explanation of past and current methodologies to network design. It effectively presents c...

Shouldn't you have done this last month?

According to this CIO.com article, you are all carrying 40% greater costs in your departmental budgets than you need to. Time to break out the long knives. The thing about this is that while I find myself one of the more militant advocates of cost-cutting in organizations I work with, it's a ...

Ballmer unplugged

Actually, if you have ever heard Steve Ballmer speak in person, you'll know that he's never unplugged. Today at Microsoft's annual Most Valuable Professional Global Summit in Seattle was no exception... with his customary energy, Chairman Steve came clean to the core group of thir...

Windows: Dying or just chronically diseased?

There was quite a lot of reporting and commentary last week over Gartner analysts Michael Silver and Neal McDonald's recent presentation alleging that Windows is collapsing. I stayed out of it; I think my views are reasonably obvious at this point: Windows should collapse, but it probabl...

Need a pep talk?

Larry Dignan and Jason Perlow have been covering Gartner's Emerging Technologies conference in Las Vegas for the past week or so and have turned in some posts worth reading. They're all linked from this one covering Gartner analyst Mark McDonald's ra-ra presentation on business al...

Ed Levin Jewelry Designer

Ed Levin began designing jewelry while living in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he worked with a master Florentine jeweler. He brought what he learned back to the United States and founded Ed Levin Jewelry. He has passed his artistic vision and skills down to the next generation of master craftsmen ...

Microsoft makes good on interoperability pledge

Not all of their pledges, perhaps, it's a bit early yet to see what the ultimate outcome will be from their surprise February announcement committing to better relations with the open source community. There continues to be a great deal of skepticism that the announcement was anything oth...

New BMW Was Launched Upside Down

When BMW said it was introducing a new car it didn't have in mind the kind of launch an exuberant Derrick Daly performed in a Monaco GP support race. It was 1979 and I was in Monaco to watch the Grand Prix. With drivers like Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost and the mighty turbocharged Rena...

Legacy and open-source

Last month I wrote a post in response to another blogger's comments on a story in the Seattle Times about the issues Seattle public schools were having in dealing with a legacy VAX student scheduling system which was on its last legs. The other blogger, Nick Malick, suggested that pe...

Greenspan's Bubbles

There is a certain sense of deja vu watching US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke pump more liquidity into the US market to try and keep it afloat. In his damning book, Greenspan's Bubbles , William Fleckenstein accuses his predecessor of blowing two asset bubbles. He says that the subp...

Conrad Black's $200 million legal bill

Conrad Black fights on. Just days after being sent off to prison for engineering a major fraud on shareholders in his Hollinger media empire (the picture above taken by AP shows him holding his wife's hand as he left for prison through the front gates of his West Palm Beach mansion), Black ha...

Introducing... Sprint/T-Mobile? T-Mobile/Sprint? T-Mobisprex?

A Merrill Lynch analyst yesterday floated a rumor that T-Mobile USA owner Deutsche Telekom may consider buying the beleaguered Sprint "to block a price war in the mobile phone industry," according to The Kansas City Star's David Hayes . There are, of course, a number of...

Microsoft's new OS

To be honest, I am a bit Microsofted-out after the last few weeks, but I have one last thing to mention before I go on a Microsoft-moratorium (which will only last as long as they fail to make some newly egregious newsworthy move in the marketplace, I'm sure). That thing is the new operating...

Another Weekend of Food Fun!

Before I began contributing to Like to Cook I had no idea there was such a variety of food and wine festivals to attend! I try to take advantage of any events in our area. There are always wine tastings to attend and last weekend was the Fete de la Bigarade . Last October there was a weekend du...

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Uru dies once more

GameTap, the subscription based downloadable games service, has announced that it will be shutting down the Myst Online: URU servers once more; this time for good, as the game is no longer financially viable. It is a shame to see an MMO which broke the trend, by being based on puzzles rat...

Ford Mondeo Tops UK's Hit Parade

Ford might be getting hammered on our shores showing a decrees in January numbers, but they are loved in the UK. The ford mondeo topped the British sales charts for the first month of the year.

Google 公开反对微软收购 Yahoo

Google 昨天在 Blog 上发表文章 表示，准备公开采取强硬立场，反对 微软向 Yahoo 提出的主动收购 。Google 指出，这种做法可能会为软件巨头微软将垄断领域扩大到互联网打开门路：

New BMW Was Launched Upside Down

When BMW said it was introducing a new car it didn't have in mind the kind of launch an exuberant Derrick Daly performed in a Monaco GP support race. It was 1979 and I was in Monaco to watch the Grand Prix. With drivers like Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost and the mighty turbocharged Renaults co...

Suharto's legacy

Weep not for Indonesia's former president Suharto who died today at the age of 86. Suharto's iron-fisted rule bought economic growth but also ushered in nepotism and corruption. And Suharto's legacy of corruption and shady business dealings go back a long way. In the 1950s, he was ...

Subaru: Diesel-Boxer kommt im Frühjahr

Subaru stellt für das Frühjahr diesen Jahres einen neuen und frisch entwickelten Vierzylinder- boxer vor. Und damit feiert der Allrad-Auto-Hersteller nicht mehr und nicht weniger als eine Premiere. Immerhin handelt es sich bei dem knapp zwei Liter großen Boxer um den ersten Diesel in einem...

Concerns over Microsoft's datacenters

Mary Jo Foley brought up the interesting point yesterday that Microsoft's ongoing problems with the popular XBox Live service might have implications for the company's other Live or hosted software services . The XBox Live issues have been intermittent since the services debut in ...

Lobbyists, subprime and the Rolling Stones

While the US was heading into the subprime meltdown, lawmakers around the country were being dissuaded from bringing in laws to curtail their sharp lending practices and Predatory lending through deceptive or unfair practices in the sale of high-interest loans, often to low-income borrower...

Are You Ready for a New Year?

I took my daughter to lunch today and as a way of greeting asked our server if she was ready for the New Year. She replied, "I already have my resolution." I congratulated her and then in the next breath she said, "But I know I won't do it." I was reminded of Ellen Degen...

VON Coalition Europe Takes on EU Telecom Policy

One of the biggest threat to voice over ip as a technology is regulation-namely, regulation that puts undue restrictions on the use of the technology and prevents it from being utilized to it's full potential. The Voice on the Net (VON) Europe Coalition has been formed to try and educ...

Corporate communications strategies

For most businesses today, 90% of the heavy lifting for internal communications is handled via one mechanism: Electronic mail . This despite historic issues with that medium in terms of organization, security risk (both of information exposure-one of my clients just received an e-mail from...

Virgin Founder With Eyes on the Sky: Social Spotlight

(Image via Turkish Daily News) A man after my own heart, Sir Richard Branson, spoke at a leadership conference in Istanbul this past Saturday on his very high hopes and socially responsible plans for Virgin in Turkey. He has had his hands in anything and everything ever since his teens,...

Azyxxi: The big hospital information system with the funny name

Microsoft announced today that Azyxxi, their big foray into the healthcare information market, has landed a significant coup: it will be adopted by the St. Joseph Health System, a large West Coast based community hospital network with sites in California, Texas, and New Mexico. This is the large...

Axchess International stellt aktiven RFID-Tag mit Multifrequenz vor

Axchess International hat einen neuen aktiven RFID-Tag vorgestellt, der auf verschiedenen Frequenzen operiert. Das Spektrum reicht dabei von Niedrigfrequenzen (125 kHz), beispielsweise für Parkhäuser oder Zugangskontrollen bis hin zu Gen2 UHF. Dazu lesen wir bei RFIDupdate : A software-defin...

GAO slates IRS

The Government Accountability Office has once more canned the Internal Revenue Service for its sloppy internal controls, legacy systems and dodgy Information Security . In its report , the GAO said the IRS had made significant progress but there was still a long way to go. In other words,...

2012 London Olympic Stadium Unveiled

We are still about nine months away the start of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but that didn't stop London organizers from unveiling the stadium for the 2012 Olympics . The $1 billion stadium will seat 80,000 people and will be used for the opening closing ceremonies as well as track and field ...

Rupert Murdoch and the accidental director

Rupert Murdoch continues to rewrite the rules of corporate governance by appointing natalie Bancroft, a 27-year old opera singer, to the board of his global media empire. A mezzo-soprano who lives in England with little experience in journalism and business, she will join the News Corp boa...

Notorious Spyware Distributor Shuts Down

DirectRevenue/Best Offers, a company notorious for using underhanded tactics to get its spyware on millions of computers, has gone out of business. The company was also known for its use of aggressive pop up ads. Last February the company was fined over a million dollars by the FTC for its shady ...

Iraqi accounting system mismanaged

Iraq remains vulnerable to fraud and mismanagement because no-one seems to know what the hell is going on there. A new report from the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) found that the new computer accounting system there, the $38 million-plus Iraq Financial Management ...

Interview with Brian Bacon, head of the Oxford Leadership Academy

This week, I interviewed Brian Bacon, the head of international consultancy the Oxford Leadership Academy . Bacon has a client list that includes Ford, Ericsson, Coca-Cola, BP, Horwath International, Barclays, Unilever, McDonald's, Sandvik, GE, Fortis, Pharmacia, SAAB, British Aerospace and ...

Ken Burns THE WAR Soundtrack Released on Legacy + Podcast!!

Legacy Records presents the release of THE WAR soundtrack in stores now in conjunction with the PBS documentary, THE WAR , a seven-part series. In conjunction with the series, THE WAR soundtrack album is in stores NOW on Legacy Recordings , a division of SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAIN­MENT. Bu...

The Virtual Future

This topic has some direct bearing on another recent post, the one regarding the future of Microsoft, but it's really its own story, which Microsoft just happens to own a small piece of. The topic is virtualization, and the impetus behind the post is this excellent article at Information ...