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China's supply chain challenge: Mitigating supply risk
in Supplychainer, on July 5, 2009
...s "creates a dilemma" for many global companies. As those companies continue to enjoy the advantages of cheaper material and labor costs, as well as the potential to reach vast consumer mark...
Is there room for Cisco in the online office suite space?
in The CIO Weblog, on July 1, 2009
...er to Google and Microsoft in the enterprise online office suite market.
Cisco has two significant advantages in this game that the others are each lacking one of; unlike Microsoft, they have no inst...
Can You Get Money from the Government? Maybe...
in TJ's Weblog, on June 23, 2009
... grant?
Who can qualify?
How do you apply?
What types of grants are available?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of getting a grant?
Why would a grant application not be approved? ...
Peak oil and lifestyles
in Sox First, on May 22, 2009
...ly, he says, the transportation costs of importing products from far-off countries will erase other advantages, such as low-cost labour. It will become, he argues, 'the largest barrier to global t...
Late Motherhood and Lifespans
in Next Nine Months, on May 8, 2009
... © subactive_photo While there are many advantages to having children early in life (more energy for late nights, for example), having kids later in life also make a lot of sense (more prepared em...
To panic, or not to panic
in The CIO Weblog, on April 22, 2009
...ing all services at your own site. Having good reliable external communications is going to provide advantages far beyond simply keeping your e-mail and access to Google Docs up and running in an emer...
VMware to announce VSphere today
in The CIO Weblog, on April 21, 2009
...their efforts in the past year or so to seize the initiative and beat back Microsoft's inherent advantages in the virtualization market with something revolutionary. I have some doubts about VSphe...
Oracle 出价 74 亿美元收购 Sun
in Wangtam, on April 20, 2009
Oracle 同意以 74 亿美元或每股 9.50 美元的价格收购 Sun ，预计该次并购于今年夏季完成。
Oracle 公司总裁 Safra Catz 称，预计该并购交易完成的第一财年，将促使 Oracle 公司依非国际公认会计原则（Non-GAAP）计算的每股盈利至少增加 15 美分。
Catz 指出，预计其收购 Sun 电子计算机公司的业务在并购第一财年将为 Oracle Non-GAAP 运营利润贡献 15 亿美元 ，第二财年贡献逾 20 亿美元。而并购 Sun 电子计算机公司第一财年将实现的每股收益要高于 Oracle 并购服务器软件供应商 BEA 系统公司的计划每股收益...
Oracle acquires Sun
in The CIO Weblog, on April 20, 2009
...ll for corporate support of MySQL, which may put a cramp in some of the customary arguments for the advantages of free open-source software.
On the whole, however, this seems like a suprisingly good ...
What is up with Enterprise 2.0, anyway?
in The CIO Weblog, on April 13, 2009
... need to build an ROI case for new technologies, even those which seem to have "obvious" advantages which are nonetheless difficult to quantify. I've never been able to do a study (it t...
Enterprise 2.0: Reality Check
in The CIO Weblog, on April 10, 2009
...nd most of the audience showed well-considered positions which balanced corporate needs against the advantages and individual freedoms tied up with the Web 2.0 concept. That's better than I have h...
Here we go again
in The CIO Weblog, on April 6, 2009
...ther vendors. Sun isn't unique (no established computer company is) in its capabilities. It has advantages and disadvantages like any vendor, but the risk of failure is a big minus. And the intern...
Should You Store Your Digital Photos Online?
in Digital Shot, on March 31, 2009
...not store your digital photos online, preferably for free, in a central location.
There are great advantages to online storage such as having all your shots available 24/7, not only for yourself but ...
Cloud computing killed your future
in The CIO Weblog, on March 17, 2009
...o raging-against-the-machine territory, Harris is careful to point out that there are real economic advantages to adopting the utility computing models. He also re-states the popular conception that e...
Whither the call center?
in The CIO Weblog, on March 9, 2009
...nada, in largely rural areas, are well underway and have been for some time. Regardless of the cost advantages of off-shore centers, the customer relations aspects of presenting users with support sta...
The key themes in the supply chain of tomorrow
in Supplychainer, on March 8, 2009
...cellent sustainability practices that can help companies reap substantial financial and competitive advantages....
Opmanager online
in The CIO Weblog, on March 2, 2009
... move a number of their ManageEngine components to the platform by the end of the year.
One of the advantages of ManageEngine has always been their web-based platform, so it seems like a fairly easy ...
Please Don't Take Away Our Tax Breaks!
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on February 27, 2009
...rbolic reaction to the budget presented by President Obama this week. No doubt, the removal of tax advantages for outsourcing will affect some contracts, although it is even more likely that the ince...
Viewing new technologies through old prisms
in The CIO Weblog, on February 19, 2009
...same versioning and repository behaviors as professional software developers does much to erase the advantages of giving them easy-to-use pseudo-development tools in the first place. It matters little...
Pontiac, Great Indian and GM Chief, Soon to be Buried
in carzz.org, on February 18, 2009
...ement by product heads who had no understanding of brand loyalty and little appreciation of product advantages, this was it. Bye, bye, Pontiac, we'll miss you....
SaaS expected to grow through the downturn
in The CIO Weblog, on February 17, 2009
...encroach increasingly on traditional software provisioning in both good times and bad. The economic advantages may accelerate a trend that already seemed like a clear winner to many of us. Whether you...
Linux vs. Windows 7
in HackITLinux, on January 17, 2009
...week about the arrival of Windows 7 , and what it means for the future of Linux.
"Given the advantages of using Windows, particularly if you use open source software to do your office function...
Hamilton Island - the Great Barrier Reef
in Hidden Travel Gems, on January 17, 2009
... photo diaries and video updates. Sounds like fun. I thought of applying myself. I have a couple of advantages. I know how to blog. And I spent four years Down Under, so I already speak Australian...
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Outsourcing safely
in The CIO Weblog, on January 9, 2009
Implicit in the conflation of agile operations with fragile support is a requirement that your users have access to services which are at once flexible and scalable and which are also efficient for your business to provide. When you put those three words together, the next thing you come to is i...
Innovation in the downturn
in Sox First, on January 7, 2009
...ent technology, ever increasing in speed, breadth, and scope." He has a point. There are many advantages to starting up in a downturn. Hard times force you to ask hard questions, be more frugal ...
Linux in 2009: It's Good to Be Free
in HackITLinux, on January 1, 2009
...n's Jim Zemlin "sees Linux and the FOSS ecosystem surrounding it as having insurmountable advantages in any market over its main competitor Windows - advantages that an economic downturn onl...
Microsoft layoffs may be imminent
in The CIO Weblog, on December 29, 2008
...rketplace.
From my perspective, Microsoft is heading into this significant downturn with far fewer advantages than it has enjoyed historically. Those advantages are still tremendous: a significant c...
Biofuels May be Obsolete Before We Can Make Enough to Matter - Part II
in IfEnergy, on December 29, 2008
...n. The technology is new, and it's growing and changing. But cellulosic ethanol has a number of advantages over corn-based ethanol: The materials needed to make cellulosic ethanol are cheaper. In...
Raising A Son With Your Mother
in The Parenting Weblog, on December 21, 2008
...one big grandma's boy. Yup, he isn't a mama's boy but a grandma's boy!
It has many advantages of course, as my mother is always there to tend to his every little needs. She's prac...
Hydrocyanine Fluorescent Dyes to Detect Reactive Oxygen Species
in The Biotech Weblog, on December 16, 2008
...ot;gold standard" for imaging reactive oxygen species, does not have. The dyes also have other advantages over DHE.
The details of the hydrocyanine synthesis process and experimental results on ...
BackBlaze Intros Mac Beta of Unlimited Online Backup Service
in On Storage, on December 12, 2008
...f the operating system," writes TechCrunch's Jason Kincaid . "Online backup has some advantages over local storage (its disks aren't open to theft or destruction during a flood or f...
Google's Native Client
in The CIO Weblog, on December 8, 2008
...omputing environment dictates, this effort has the potential to topple yet another of the remaining advantages of traditional desktop-based software by allowing web-based software access to the full...
CTO of the United States
in The CIO Weblog, on November 7, 2008
... curious about how others see this, though. After all, Obama's campaign did realize tremendous advantages from a well-run IT operation, and there is considerable appeal to the thought of him lever...
Dreamforce
in The CIO Weblog, on November 4, 2008
...o matter what the marketers might want you to think. The company has become adept at leveraging the advantages in flexibility and communication that are integral to SaaS and the broader it spreads the...
EC2 comes out of beta
in The CIO Weblog, on October 23, 2008
... cheaper than buying and running a Windows box... and that's before you account for any scaling advantages you may accrue from the approach.
I think this is a good move from Amazon at a good time...
Flying through the air
in The Parenting Weblog, on October 7, 2008
...ps - I think she'll ache some in the morning and I did give her a dose of kid's motrin. The advantages of being young and limber!
Of course, I'm nowhere near fine yet!...
The end of capitalism as we know it?
in Sox First, on September 27, 2008
...stress accept pervasive government regulation in return for insurance against failure. In which the advantages of free trade are sacrificed in the interests of preserving jobs in industries best l...
Why You Should Play Poker Online Rather Than In Person
in The Gambling Weblog, on September 26, 2008
...easons why playing Poker online may be better for you.
Read this article and be amazed at how many advantages there are to getting on the Internet to play Poker online rather than in a bricks and m...
Commentary: Bailouts will lead to rough economic ride
in Fastweblogs - Test Blog, on September 24, 2008
...y position in the mortgage market, especially the mortgage-backed securities market, because of the advantages bestowed upon them by the federal government.
Laws passed by Congress such as the C...
Exercise Desk?
in Biz Plan Hacks, on September 23, 2008
...ave mentioned many times that it is important that we have time to ourselves.
While there may be advantages to exercising while you are working, are you not creating just another distraction that wi...
Shortening URLs
in The Search Engine Weblog, on September 22, 2008
...but in themselves meaningless.
There is an article up at SEJ that summarizes the benefits and disadvantages of the same.
To quote from the article:
* use the services when you can't do witho...
Nintendo is world's most profitable company per capita
in House of Nintendo, on September 17, 2008
...ndo staffer apparently makes 1.6 million of profit per year. Pretty impressive.
Nintendo has some advantages though. As any "gaijin" that has attempted to secure work in Japan can tell you...
Application virtualization from Microsoft
in The CIO Weblog, on September 11, 2008
...al launch event, presents a seamless user experience that is easily managed and offers considerable advantages to IT departments. With System Center (also shaping up to be a formidable product), App-V...
Is "dual supplier" a good strategy?
in Supplychainer, on September 9, 2008
... a large base of your required items, having two strong suppliers is a good thing. It provides many advantages including the ones mentioned above and the successful examples of companies such as Nokia...
Duelling analysts
in The CIO Weblog, on September 4, 2008
...rimarily at manufacturing. The skyrocketing oil market has clearly impacted some of the traditional advantages of off-shoring manufacturing processes, considering the increasing cost of transport. Pur...
Are managed computer dumb terminals?
in The CIO Weblog, on August 30, 2008
..., which by their very nature don't need to be imaged. In fact, that can be seen as one of their advantages. But Sam isn't wrong; you can turn a PC into something approximating a dumb terminal ...
Poly-D-Lysine Matrix for Growing Animal-Free Stem Cells
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 26, 2008
...l coating could be replaced with "poly-D-lysine," a chemically synthesized ECM. The major advantages of poly-D-lysine over Matrigel are that poly-D-lysine is completely animal-free, easy to ...
Advantages and Disadvantages of Rent to Own
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on August 25, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Ugur Evirgen
Saw this ABC article "Bad Credit? Why You Shouldn't 'Rent to Own" today. It can sort of be summed up with this passage:
I once priced a 25-inch television at a rental store and a regular retailer. The rental store wanted $86.25 ...
Death throes of the corporate data center
in The CIO Weblog, on August 22, 2008
...and I think it's short-sighted to suggest that this is the last of those transitions. There are advantages accruing to some early-adopters of cloud services now; is it so unreasonable to assume th...
Silk Optics: Biodegradable and Biocompatible Optics
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 7, 2008
...sticated nanoscale optics with biological readout functions. In addition, silk optics offer further advantages in that they are biocompatible and biodegradable, and can be manufactured and stored at r...
The consultant as a CIO
in The CIO Weblog, on August 5, 2008
...ny do not manage the interaction well, either by being overly suspicious and making poor use of the advantages that consultants genuinely can offer, or by being overly trusting and being taken for a...
Bootstrapping big deals
in BootStrapMe, on July 31, 2008
... with what you have tailoring an approach that fits your limitations and plays to your advantages.
• Grow with success. Avoid the pitfalls of expanding too fast by borrowing or financing for ...
Who says SaaS is hard?
in The CIO Weblog, on July 31, 2008
...o lose and everything to gain by pursuing the SaaS route. Hoffmann says that they saw early on the advantages of providing their offering as a service online. While big vendors have legacy customer ba...
French Winemakers Going to Screwtops
in Celebrate Wine, on July 26, 2008
...-Conti and Bordeaux's Chateau Margaux, are considering the switch. Screw tops have a number of advantages. They (arguably) keep the wine fresher longer, are less expensive to use, and are more ec...
Offshore outsourcing in trouble?
in The CIO Weblog, on July 21, 2008
...erspending) made technology an easy mark for cuts, but an improved understanding of the competitive advantages (or requirements, at least, if one is not to fall behind ones competitors) and an increas...
SAP jacks support costs
in The CIO Weblog, on July 18, 2008
...this type anyway, then you already are at their mercy; if an outsourced approach offers any other advantages at all, then this sort of objection is rendered somewhat moot by the behavior of SAP and ...
Run a country like a corporation
in TJ's Weblog, on July 16, 2008
... reviewing it's success by its own revenue (not just taxes/ capital increases) but comparative advantages of its subsidiaries (i.e. private enterprises) and ranking in FDI inflows.
I agree this i...
Why Offshore Services Are Being Adversely Impacted by the Global Economy
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on July 16, 2008
...factor" in the global offshore markets is not purely because of a reduction in labor arbitrage advantages, but instead is caused by the simple fact that, in this downturn, companies are not tryin...
General Thoughts on E3 So Far
in House of Nintendo, on July 15, 2008
...osoft presser is a microcosm of their whole situation in the industry right now: they have inherent advantages, but make many small mistakes that limit their success....
ThinApp 4 Released
in The CIO Weblog, on July 15, 2008
...irtualization, and which provides at least some of the same benefits. You will not realize the same advantages in the Maximization of hardware utilization as you would with desktop virtualization,...
More UK Doctors Opt for Elective Caesarean
in Next Nine Months, on July 13, 2008
...aying though that a caesarean method of childbirth is the best way to give birth. While it has its advantages, going under the knife even if you deliver your child isn't a joke. I dread the though...
Ratproxy, a passive audit tool for your web services
in HackITLinux, on July 12, 2008
Ratproxy is described as a " semi-automated, largely passive web application security assessment tool", by Google. This tool was released by Google to help developers and system administrators monitor their web traffic without taxing the system too much.
Find how Ajax can be used for entering information without having to refresh the browser
in Java Entrepreneur, on July 10, 2008
...e and numerous websites on the internet have been implementing this technology as it offers several advantages to the user. The good thing about Ajax is that improves user interactivity and experience...
Maritz Goes to VMWare
in The CIO Weblog, on July 9, 2008
...on platform... the first Microsoft virtualization offering which offers any significant competitive advantages over Vmware's platform.
Some analysts are suggesting that this is a more or less ine...
Bootstrapping advantages
in BootStrapMe, on July 5, 2008
... Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 6191773
I was recently reminded of the competitive advantages of the bootstrapping approach after coming across a recent reposting of one of the articles ...
Nikon 公布 D700 D-SLR，售价 2999.95 美元
in Wangtam, on July 1, 2008
...both formats seamlessly, and achieve the end-results that best fulfill their photographic vision."
The legendary Nikon FX-Format CMOS sensor
The D700's 12.1-megapixel FX-format CMOS image s...
PlayStation 3 Boosting Blu-Ray Past DVD Player Sales
in The Digital TV Weblog, on June 18, 2008
...arch firm, Futuresource, show Blu-Ray Disc hardware is outperforming DVD hardware. Blu-Ray feature advantages such as the Sony Playstation 3, is expected to continue the lead until the next decade.
...
Dressing Made of Silica Gel Fibers For Difficult Wounds
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 10, 2008
...th the structure they additionally need for a proper supply of growth-supporting nutrients.
The advantages of the said dressing are:
shape-stable
pH-neutral
100 percent bioresorbable
Rea...
The Great Hardware debate
in The CIO Weblog, on June 10, 2008
...ity boxes is the alternative, not vice versa. And it was done, and still is, because despite the advantages the generic offerings are still more cost-efficient than the specialized hardware in man...
A lesson in customer service from Starbucks...
in Biz Plan Hacks, on June 9, 2008
...the fact it is hurting the company long term.
As I have stated before this is one of the biggest advantages small companies have over the large corporations. Although you cannot advertise it to an a...
