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Currency Crunch?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 9, 2009
© Jake Wasdin
Given the weakening dollar , we may be heading toward some challenges to existing deals caused by the decreasing strength of the U.S. dollar. The pain of these changes will not be felt equally, as some deals have currency-adjustment provisions that favor the client, while other ...
Addressing Management Challenges of Converged Mobile Devices
in The Wireless Weblog, on September 25, 2009
© Alex E. Proimos
The following is a contributed article by Mark Gentile, founder, president and CEO of Odyssey Software :
The use of converged mobile devices that combine communication and computing capabilities is growing dramatically. Research shows that it will double in three yea...
America´s Cup: Statement von Alinghi
in Das Segel Blog, on 08.09.09
"Es ist schade, dass BMW Oracle und der Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC) an ihrem Plan festhalten, den America's Cup mit Rechtsklagen anstatt auf dem Wasser zu gewinnen. Dies ist nun das sechste Mal, dass sie den Titelverteidiger vor Gericht zerren. Vielleicht liegt der wahre Grund dafü...
微软与 Yahoo 达成为期 10 年的搜索合作协议
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-31
微软和 Yahoo 今天共同对外宣布，双方已达成为期 10 年的搜索和广告合作协议，称该交易将为全球消费者和广告主带来更多选择，并有利于进一步加强全球互联网产业的技术创新步伐。
微软、 Yahoo 称，总而言之，通过该交易，微软将成为 Yahoo 搜索的技术提供商，而 Yahoo 将独家负责两家公司全球范围内的搜索广告销售事务。
两家公司称，对网民和广告主而言，该交易在整合双方产品资源和搜索平台后，将推动互联网产业的持续技术创新。网民们会发现，他们查找信息的速度将更快，所获得信息准确性也更高。通过微软具有市场竞争力的搜索平台，将为广告主、内容提供商带来更多价值，并提高网民们的互联网活...
Azure pricing announced
in The CIO Weblog, on July 15, 2009
Microsoft has released the pricing and SLA commitments for their Azure cloud offering, currently in limited beta testing and scheduled to be generally available for commercial use this November.
The company is distinguishing services as belonging to either Windows Azure, SQL Azure, or .NET ser...
PS3 Slim?
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 30, 2009
There's been lots of rumours about a slim model of Sony's Playstation 3, and today we are hearing that agreements may have been made with Foxxcon and another manufacture in order to produce consoles for a July 2010 launchdate...however, the same rumour also states that this will be the ...
Windows 7 Pricing announced
in The CIO Weblog, on June 25, 2009
...October may not mean much to various enterprise clients with separately negotiated volume licensing agreements, but the trend may be indicative of what you can expect next time negotiations roll aroun...
EU Citizens Get New Visa Waivers in Six Countries.
in Global Mobility Report, on May 31, 2009
If you're an EU citizen, you will soon be able to travel for short stays without a visa to some new destination, accordig to a recent news report . The European Union (EU) signed short-stay visa waiver agreements on Thursday with Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Mauritius, Saint Kitt...
Speed Sourcing - An Over-Reaction to Long Procurement Cycles?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on May 19, 2009
...discipline instilled by corporate procurement departments, a clear need for thoroughly fleshed-out agreements, and the importance of retaining deal-making leverage throughout the deal making process.
...
Zer01 Announces $69.99 Unlimited Voice and Data Plan
in The VoIP Weblog, on April 2, 2009
At CTIA Wireless today, VoIP-based mobile operator Zer01 Mobile announced plans to launch nationwide on July 1st of this year with its $69.99 'True' unlimited voice and data plan.
According to MobileBurn's Michael Oryl , the company "has data agreements with multiple ...
Hacking as a Service
in The CIO Weblog, on March 13, 2009
It's funny, usually the criminals and malcontents on the Internet are among the first to adopt new technology trends. But we had them beat with the whole aaS (as a Service) phenomena... until now.
IT News Australia reports on a talk given by Vasco Bank technical account manager Vlado Vajdic...
The complex reality of end-user application development
in The CIO Weblog, on March 6, 2009
...egulated corporate environments. The end user who uses mashups incognito to circumvent terms-of-use agreements, subscriptions, or security policies is going to create huge liabilities for his or her o...
Microsoft Elevate America
in Wangtam, on 2009-02-24
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• Another Way To Look At Terms Of Service Agreements: Wordle Visualizations
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Qtrax Finally Ready to Launch
in P2P File Sharing, on February 16, 2009
The free, ad-supported P2P music service Qtrax this week announced a deal with Warner Music Group that puts it (finally) in position to launch.
"A year ago, the company misfired on its initial launch, announcing deals with major labels that had not yet been finalized, but has since ...
CBS Television Coming to Verizon
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on January 14, 2009
Verizon and CBS have announced an expanded deal to carry CBS television shows like "CSI" and "Survivor" on the VCAST video service.
The companies said Verizon has broadened and extended the rights for retransmission consent for CBS network stations as well as its affiliates...
RIAA to no longer sue individuals.
in Digital Music - The Future, on January 4, 2009
...nfringe on their copyright by sharing digital music. It will instead be persuing ISP wide filtering agreements, which to be fair, are really rather unlikely!
In other news, thousands of music pirates...
IP infringement is the new risk category in SCM
in Supplychainer, on December 29, 2008
AMR recently published the results of its new supply chain risk management survey and as the result, it was revealed that energy cost is the top concern for supply chain managers. The other categories on the top of the list included:
1. Energy costs
2. Transportation costs
3. Commodity price...
Exchange and Sharepoint Online officially released
in The CIO Weblog, on November 17, 2008
Microsoft has announced today the general availability of their latest additions to their Online Services portfolio, hosted Exchange and Sharepoint services.
Exchange is the most significant component, representing one of the largest and most convoluted server-side packages which nearly every c...
Recession impacts India based outsourcing
in The CIO Weblog, on November 12, 2008
As if having China encroaching on them weren't enough, the powerhouses of Indian IT outsourcing are feeling the impact of the global economic crisis.
Conventional wisdom, including that espoused by yours truly, held that outsourcing shops and their ilk (including consultants) could prosper ...
AIG's bigger bailout
in Sox First, on November 10, 2008
Less than two weeks ago, I did a blog entry looking at how AIG was chewing up that $123 billion loan extended by the US taxpayer. Now, The Wall Street Journal tells us that AIG is about to get a bigger package. The worrying part is that we don't yet know what will happen with those cred...
Competes and Non-Competes
in The CIO Weblog, on November 4, 2008
You may have been, as I have, vaguely following the IBM versus Apple shootout (now seemingly destined for litigation after the opening press release bombardments have failed to budge either party) over former IBM VP Mark Papermaster's move to take over the iPod/iPhone division at Apple. It&#...
In-transit shipment tracking is still top measure for inventory visibility, research finds
in Supplychainer, on October 18, 2008
Logistics Management Magazine and Sterling Commerce recently conducted a survey among supply chain professionals to see what is the status of inventory management practices in the market. I saw some interesting results when I was browsing the research report and I decided to bring the summary here...
BT Openzone Announces Price Cut, New Wi-Fi Roaming Deals
in The Wireless Weblog, on October 15, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Catalin Plesa
Having recently announced the end of its roaming deal with The Cloud , the UK's BT Openzone this week announced significant cuts in the price of its Wi-Fi service.
"On Tuesday, the provider introduced a flat rate, under the new Openz...
Juicy Couture Designer Watches
in The Jewelry Weblog, on October 3, 2008
juicy Couture is a contemporary line of casual and somewhat dressy apparel and accessories based in Arleta, California. Gela Nash-Taylor and Pamela Skaist-Levy originally founded a company called Travis Jeans that specialized in maternity wear, especially comfortable jeans.
Juicy Cout...
Verizon Offers Contract-Free Wireless Service
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on September 22, 2008
Have a fear of commitment but want to reap the benefits of the Verizon Network anyway? Take comfort, Verizon announced today that beginning immediately wireless customers can sign up for month-to-month service, without a contract.
The new Month-to-Month agreement will allow consumers to p...
Best Buy 出价 1.21 亿美元收购 Napster
in Wangtam, on 2008-09-16
Best Buy 刚才宣布 ，将以每股 2.65 美元现金的价格收购数字音乐服务供应商 Napster Inc.。该收购价格包括 6700 万美元现金，以及 Best Buy 截至 6 月 30 日对 Napster 总计 1.21 亿美元的投资。
如果该项收购顺利完成，将使 Best Buy 拥有来自 Napster 的 70 万个在线音乐用户，并使其获得新的客户。Best Buy 连接数字解决方案部门执行副总裁 Dave Morrish 在一份声明中表示："我们能够预见到，Napster 作为一个平台将加快我们在数字娱乐这一新兴行业的成长。"
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Wal-Mart Unionized? In China...
in China Venture News, on August 4, 2008
Interesting story in China CSR this morning on labor in China: Nineteen wal-mart China branches have signed collective contracts with Wal-mart China trade unions since the Wal-Mart Shenyang outlet signed the first contract on July 14, 2008. Among the details of the contracts in Shenzhen:
...
Outsourcing as Merger Preparation
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on July 30, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Stefan Witas
Ann All, one of my favorite writers on the subject of outsourcing, reported recently that companies "sometimes employ IT outsourcing to help prepare for mergers." For a number of reasons, this makes a lot of sense.
First, going through ...
Exceptions on Cash Solicitation Rule For Fund Advisers
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on July 22, 2008
The SEC has clarified its position on the "Cash Solicitation Rule" saying that a registered investment adviser may compensate a person for soliciting investors for, or referring investors to his or her investment fund.
Usually, under the rule, it is illegal for an investment adviser t...
Long outage calls S3 stability into question again
in The CIO Weblog, on July 20, 2008
The issue still hasn't been corrected as of this writing, but today's six-plus hour outage of Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) continues to cast doubts as to the suitability of not only itself, but cloud-based services in general, for commercial, mission-critical applications.
C...
Sierra Wireless Terminates Plans to Buy CradlePoint Technology
in The Wireless Weblog, on July 7, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Simon Smith
Sierra Wireless today announced the termination of its agreement to acquire CradlePoint Technology , the plans for which had been announced on April 7th of this year.
Remaining impressively vague about the reasons behind the termination, Sierr...
Who will control your computers?
in The CIO Weblog, on June 30, 2008
There is a broad disparity between the views of software manufacturers and their customers with regard to who is ultimately in control of the software running on the customer machine. Businesses (and consumers) like to think that they own the machines they have paid good money for, and that they...
The Cost of Risk Awareness
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on June 16, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 5134971
In recent years, it seems as if corporate decision making has become increasingly risk driven. This is unquestionably true in when we look at outsourcing deals. The deal documents for outsourcing agreements seek to accomplish two goals - worst-case...
The Tale Of Crossbream Studios is all too common
in House of Nintendo, on June 8, 2008
Image from Nintendo-revolution.blogspot.com
Nintendo blogger extraordinaire Falafelkid (who deserves that title just for this article, really, it's impressive!) tells the tale of Crossbeam Studios, a developer who received some press during the run up to the Nintendo Wii's release. Afte...
Earth Cycles: A Pathway to Healing
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 2, 2008
What: Earth Cycles: A Pathway to Healing
When: June 19 - 22, 2008
Where: Breckenridge, Colorado
Sacred Tree - a center for holistic health care and medication - will launch a line of signature health and wellness retreats beginning with a summer solstice celebration, Earth Cycles: A Pathway to H...
EarthLink Pulls the Plug on Wireless Philadelphia Wi-Fi Service
in The Wireless Weblog, on May 13, 2008
© PPDIGITAL
EarthLink today announced the termination of its Wi-Fi service in Philadelphia - the company is giving its Wi-Fi customers 30 days to find new service before it shuts the network down on June 12th.
"A few weeks earlier, Atlanta-based Earthlink announced it would shut d...
Mobile WiMax Gets A Major Push
in The Search Engine Weblog, on May 7, 2008
The partnership between Clearwire and Sprint to deploy Mobile WiMax had been facing certain financial hurdles till late. Now with $3.2 of funding from firms including Google, Intel, Comcast and Time Warner it looks like finally Mobile WiMax has got a new lease of life.
An excerpt from SearchEngine...
Malware Authors Fighting For Their Rights
in I got Spam?!, on May 3, 2008
© Ioan Sameli
The Associated Press is reporting that malware authors are Fighting to protect their rights-their copyrights that is. Professional virus writers (imagine that on a resume!) are now distributing licensing agreements with their malware, promising stiff penalties for distribut...
Danish ISP offers unlimited free music downloads..
in P2P File Sharing, on April 9, 2008
Danish ISP TDC has taken a groundbreaking step an is now offering free, legal music downloads to all its customers. They are in agreements with all major labels and as such the library is full with quality tracks from artists you have all heard of.
Unfortunatly DRM comes with it, but as...
Crooks go free
in Sox First, on April 9, 2008
Last month, I did a blog entry looking at data showing a big drop in efforts from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Secret Service, postal service and Internal Revenue Service in fighting white collar crime. The figures suggested a clear shift in US Government policy post-Enron to go...
Fisher and Ury - 25 Years Later
in Bizinformer, on April 1, 2008
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. - Indira Gandhi
Last week I learned that one of my former high school administrators (who retired last year) was diagnosed with cancer. Always upbeat and a great educator, he is heading up the local Relay for Life effort - which is how I lear...
Finding Cheap Fares Just Got Easier
in The Flyaway Weblog, on March 29, 2008
If you enjoy travel, finding discount air fares can sometimes be a full time job. Sure, you can subscribe to email alerts from a variety of travel sites. However, they will only give you information about which airlines are giving them a substantial commission. Happily, help has arrived...
Book Review: Increase Your Financial IQ by Robert Kiyosaki
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on March 27, 2008
Robert Kiyosaki is back with another in his "Rich Dad" line of books; this one's called Chicken Soup for the Rich Dad's Soul . Just kidding. But the Rich Dad theme has been beaten about as often as the Chicken Soup horse at this point, so if you've read Kiyosaki's ...
Read the car rental small print
in Wandalust, on March 27, 2008
by leath
Many people rent a car for their holiday. It gives you more freedom and flexibility in your choice of accommodation and makes it easier explore further afield in your destination. If you travel on a package tour, where transfers from the airport to your accommodation are an additional...
Legacy and open-source
in The CIO Weblog, on March 26, 2008
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...
MySpace Digital Music Store 将于下周正式上线
in Wangtam, on 2008-03-26
等待了一年多，MySpace Digital Music Store 终于要在下周正式上线了。根据 纽约邮报的消息 ，MySpace 目前与 Sony BMG 和 Warner 的谈判已经进入尾声了，而早些时候，MySpace 还与四大唱片发行商中的 EMI、环球接触过：
Big Win for Microsoft: Nokia to Add Silverlight Support
in The Wireless Weblog, on March 4, 2008
Nokia today announced an agreement with Microsoft to make Silverlight available on Symbian S60 devices as well as on Nokia Series 40 phones and Internet tablets.
"Silverlight is Microsoft's answer to Adobe Flash , and enables the kind of integrated rich media the Web 2.0 cro...
Vista price cuts
in The CIO Weblog, on February 29, 2008
To be honest, the Vista price cuts Microsoft announced today don't mean a thing to you, the CIO. They affect retail box copies only, not the volume agreements you are using. They aren't even particularly aggressive, maybe $30 or $50 off, depending on your location.
But they may mean som...
4Q VC Deals Up 6% Over Last Year
in China Venture News, on February 25, 2008
Xorte is reporting that venture capital deals in the fourth quarter of 2007 were up 6% over that same period of 2006. The fourth quarter saw 60 deals, with $660 million being invested in China compared to 63 deals for a value of $622 million in the fourth quarter of 2006.
For the year as a wh...
Microsoft Licensing conundrums
in The CIO Weblog, on February 14, 2008
I'm sure if you've been reading this blog long enough you have had a chance to hear some of my tired anecdotes about the idiocy of Microsoft's licensing programs, but today from Britain I have fresh fodder. Web-hosting provider Fasthosts began to offer last week an innovative, stream...
Dolby Enters Mobile World
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on February 14, 2008
It seems everyone wants to enter in the wireless industry. The latest addition is Digital Dolby, the trusted name in audio technology, and its bold ambition of bringing "rich, vibrant surround sound to music, movies, and television programs on mobile phones and portable media players....
Turkey Fund Launch
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on January 23, 2008
In a HedgeCo story today; Strateji Asset Management this week announced a newly launched equity hedge fund, the VV Madaus Strategy Turkey. The new fund is Euro based with a 50.000 mimimum investment($73.000), a 1.5% management fee and a 10% performance fee.
The Luxembourg based fund is registe...
Reverse flow of offshoring back to America
in Supplychainer, on January 23, 2008
...shifting their sourcing base from Asia to the Americas. The falling U.S. dollar, limited free trade agreements, high energy costs, and rising production costs in Asia are some of the factors which acc...
APCW Untangling the WTO Ruling
in Internet Poker, on December 27, 2007
Perspectives Weekly is back from our friends at the APCW (Association of Players, Casinos, and Webmasters) to bring us all up to date on the recent WTO trade agreements between the United States and European Union concerning the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.
As I wrote earlier i...
Easy time for corporate crooks
in Sox First, on December 20, 2007
Just over five years ago with the stench of Enron around him, President Bush declared that corporate criminals would no longer have it easy. "Every corporate official who has chosen to commit a crime can expect to face the consequences. No more easy money for corporate criminals, just hard ...
How to improve the quality of data for Transportation Management System?
in Supplychainer, on November 29, 2007
One of the interesting issues which I saw in a new research report from Aberdeen Group was that, most of the companies that want to implement International Transportation Management Systems (TMS) find it very difficult to have accurate data regarding the logistics activities in their supply chains...
Jonathan Trenn Gives Us the REAL 411 on Facebook Beacon- and It's NOT a Good!
in Cool Picking, on November 27, 2007
Jonathan Trenn 's MarketingConversation.com's blog ( from Abraham Harrison) had a recent post about a new program featured on Facebook called Facebook Beacon . Abraham does a great job explaining what this program is- and isn't- and perhaps the operative word is ISN'T- becau...
JetBlue To Sell Tickets on Online Travel Agencies
in The Aviation Weblog, on November 27, 2007
JetBlue, one of America's newest airlines, finally will begin selling tickets on Travelocity, orbitz , and Priceline.com. The low cost carrier, which touts leathers seats and in-seat entertainment, previously sold its tickets only on its own website, but rising fuel costs caused JetBlu...
Alcatel-Lucent Announces Billion Dollar Deal in China
in The Wireless Weblog, on November 26, 2007
Alcatel-Lucent today announced agreements valued at 750 million Euros (approximately $1.1 billion) with both China Mobile and China Unicom , secured through the company's China-based (and partly China-owned) subsidiary Alcatel Shanghai Bell .
"The solutions Alcatel-Lucent is pr...
Orange Signs Wi-Fi Pact with The Cloud
in The Wireless Weblog, on November 22, 2007
UK operator Orange this week announced an agreement with The Cloud to give Orange customers access to The Cloud's UK Wi-Fi hotspot network.
Orange already has Wi-Fi agreements with BT OpenZone, France Telecom and WeRoam - this agreement extends Orange's Wi-Fi network to more t...
Auditors, litigation and caps
in Sox First, on November 2, 2007
Hat tip to Francine McKenna at Re: The Auditors for alerting to us the prospect of entrepreneurial litigation funders threatening to drive auditors out of business. Certainly the case of third party funders in Britain is an interesting development and might well put the fear of God in ma...
Wi-LAN Sues the World
in The Wireless Weblog, on November 1, 2007
Wi-LAN Inc. today announced that it has initiated lawsuits against 22 major companies regarding Wi-LAN patents related to Wi-Fi and DSL.
The companies are: Acer Inc., Apple Inc., Atheros Communications Inc., Belkin International Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc., Broadcom Corporation, Buffalo ...
Data Center Hieroglyphics
in On Storage, on November 1, 2007
In its worldwide State of the Data Center Research report, Symantec reveals that data center managers are implementing virtualization and server consolidation strategies to manage the growing complexities in today's data center. symantec 's report suggests data center managers fa...
ISU Sensor Can Detect Single Molecule of HPV
in Straightfromthedoc, on October 31, 2007
A sensor technology that can detect a single molecule of the human papillomavirus (HPV) have been developed by Iowa State University researchers
We know that HPV is the virus associated with cervical cancer in women. The new technology is a significant improvement to current HPV tests av...
What to Know Before Making that Outsourcing Deal
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 20, 2007
This blog post would focus on exactly what the title is saying: the things companies should consider before signing that outsourcing deal. The factors which I am going to mention here was given by Nick Abrahams, partner at Deacons law firm.
Here are the factors which he mentioned:
a. Scope ...
Internet: AGB, Lizenzabkommen und Nutzungsvereinbarungen
in Das CIO Weblog, on 21.10.07
Wozu dienen im Internet AGB, Lizenzabkommen und Nutzungsvereinbarungen?
Der insgesamt nachvollziehbare Schutz geistigen Eigentums trägt von Zeit zu Zeit merkwürdige Früchte oder besser formuliert: immer mal wieder kommt mir die Frage auf, ob einige "Urheber" im weitesten Sinne irgend...
How to bootstrap your start-up for 50K or less
in BootStrapMe, on October 18, 2007
We've focused a lot here at BootStrapMe.com on starting a business for next to nothing.
By definition such startups must be small and lean using mostly existing tools and services and plenty of bartering to get cash flow going in the beginning.
But in this post for Sucklevine Develop...
Truphone Offers Global, Automatic WiFi Roaming With Quiconnect
in The VoIP Weblog, on October 18, 2007
Truphone , which we've covered quite a bit on the VoIP Weblog , provides the ability for you to make cheap or free wifi calls from your compatible Nokia Nseries or Eseries handset at rates far more reasonable than your mobile operator would charge.
It's not enough that these ...
AT&T Announces More "Customer-Friendly" Policies
in The Smart PDA, on October 17, 2007
The service provider, which is undergoing informal scrutiny as the iPhone's anti-unlocking network partner, recently announced some welcome changes to its service contracts:
Beginning in November, customers who change to any one of the company's standard wireless calling plans during t...
Is your business vulnerable to fraud?
in Sox First, on October 9, 2007
...lier or customer, ensuring that employees with access to proprietary information sign nondisclosure agreements, implementing policies and procedures addressing the identification, classification and h...
