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HP continues growth with 3COM acquisition
in The CIO Weblog, on November 11, 2009
Hewlett-Packard has been making hard choices over the past year but the aggression seems to be paying off. The EDS acquisition has become the most profitable part of the company, market share has held steady or increased and now the company has announced plans to acquire network company 3Com to ext...
Seen that? - Project Manager : Organize your life
in Tech Intelligence, on November 10, 2009
...elf with Foldera at Web 2.0 When you mainly work at a desk with a computer on it, you may get stuck in a cyberworld where you loose track of where you lef...
Probably no wolves for Ballmer
in The CIO Weblog, on October 30, 2009
When I saw this post at the Seattle PI this morning I was all ready to get up and watch the show as the pack of wolves materialized baying for Steve Ballmer's head. On the heels of a similarly negative article in the New York Times last week, I was sure that two made for a trend.
Then I saw th...
Microsoft Has a Win with Windows 7 and Zune HD
in The Gadgets Weblog, on October 25, 2009
....net, I am able to steam my media to my Mac via Fox or Safari. Zune.net has replaced Pandora on my desktop and the Zune HD has replaced my iPod for music on the run. There are several reviews about ...
Apple 新款 Magic 鼠标
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-21
Apple 今天推出了新款 Magic 鼠标，依然是单键设计，顶面支持触摸控制。操作要比 Mighty 鼠标更复杂一些。使用两节 A A电池，提供 4 个月的持续使用时间。十月底开始接受预订，售价 69 美元。
以下是官方新闻稿：
Apple Introduces Magic Mouse — The World’s First Multi-Touch Mouse
CUPERTINO, Calif., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® today introduced the new wireless Magic Mous...
Apple 推出新款 21.5/27 英寸 iMac
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-21
今天，Apple 更新了不少产品，首先就是新款的 21.5/27 英寸 iMac，新的四款基本型如下：
21.5-inch iMac (MSRP of $1199)
• 21.5-inch LED backlit screen with 1920×1080 resolution (16:9)
• 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU
• 4GB of DDR3 RAM
• 500GB hard drive (7200RPM SATA)
• Slot-loading DVD burner
• NVIDIA GeForce 9400M gra...
Times dismisses Microsoft
in The CIO Weblog, on October 19, 2009
... of the company's chances as the industry spins slowly on an axis leading away from the traditional desktop market it dominates. While haters such as myself have long questioned Microsoft's commitmen...
It's the Law
in The CIO Weblog, on October 17, 2009
I just noticed this post by Michael Krigsman over at ZDNet's IT Project Failures blog linking to a post at OPENforum on "The Seven Laws of Projects, and How to Break Them." The post, and these laws, were formulated by Matthew May, author of "In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Some...
Can a CIO be successful without IT experience?
in The CIO Weblog, on October 15, 2009
Something that's been sitting on a back burner over here for a while is a post commenting on Chris Curran's post last month at CIO Dashboard asking "Can a CIO be Successful Without IT Experience?" It's not an academic question at all; a fair chunk of industry CIOs come to the position from the ge...
Blackstone 计划上市或出售旗下公司
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-13
...a Die A Natural Death
• Zaypay - Big in small payments
• Ubidesk - Online team collaboration workspace, project management, document and task collaboration, SSL
• VisualDNAShops
• DailyPer...
Seen that? - A CERTIFICATE THAT MATTERS?
in Java Entrepreneur, on October 11, 2009
...eractive features and downloadable course materials that are powerfully engineered to ease IT, help desk and support professionals' training experience - making training and certification faster, ...
IBM versus who?
in The CIO Weblog, on October 6, 2009
... a reasonable price ($3 per user per month; right in line with both Microsoft's pricing for the Deskless Worker Suite and Google's Premier Apps pricing) available for you. Companies have been ...
Seen that? - FlatOut 2, Better than the First?
in PCGamers Blog, on October 2, 2009
... were boring and the game just did not grab me. I played it once and now it sits dust covered on my desk. Here is hoping that the follow up is better than the original.GameSpot has a hands on preview ...
Seen that? - Bring some Life into your office
in Cool Picking, on October 2, 2009
... All you working people - we spend more than 8 hours daily sitting at our office desktop. Right?! And if we are lucky we have some windows....if we are unlucky we do not even have a...
Security breaches up in 2009
in The CIO Weblog, on September 30, 2009
A confluence of circumstances have led to an explosion of security breaches in corporations over the past year, according to a study by Canadian security researchers. The number of breaches tripled the 2008 findings in a survey of 600 Canadian IT security professionals.
The report also indicates ...
Addressing Management Challenges of Converged Mobile Devices
in The Wireless Weblog, on September 25, 2009
...evice failures. Therefore it is important to support wireless devices with systems that allow Help Desk staff to monitor operations in real time and remotely take control of devices to perform trouble...
EDS assimilation into HP is complete
in The CIO Weblog, on September 23, 2009
Or so HP is signaling with their announcement today that the EDS division, acquired last year, is to be re-named HP Enterprise Services.
HP has reaped dividends from the acquisition in very little time; EDS was the most profitable division in the company during the 2nd quarter this year, and...
SOA: Just try it, you'll like it
in The CIO Weblog, on September 14, 2009
Or was that crack cocaine? I forget.
At any rate, if you can get past all the teapot tempests that have troubled the concept of Service Oriented Architectures recently and actually begin to implement it, there seems to be a pretty good chance you'll stick with it for the long term, according to...
Amazon Kindles the UK's Imagination
in Business Computer Blog (UK), on September 9, 2009
...ur nearest bookstore and browse. With the Kindle you can order your next book without leaving your desk. And unlike online ordering, you can read it instantly.
4. Write an E-book. With Kindles b...
Web OS shaping the future
in The CIO Weblog, on September 9, 2009
...sual, that the only obstacle right now is the recession, who think cloud computing is a fad or that desktops will continue to predominate in both personal and corporate computing....
Whither the mashup?
in The CIO Weblog, on September 3, 2009
A year ago, I was all about the mashups... an awesome, user-friendly, IT-controlled way to plunder the corporate data mine, safely and easily for the benefit of all involved. A lot of companies were coming out with easy-to-use mashup builder software supporting any number of backend database standar...
Blackwater founder implicated in murder
in Sox First, on August 20, 2009
...these contractors would not have the same protection as a US Government operative. That can make it messy. But then, Blackwater has always operated in a moral vacuum. The most outrageous is the lates...
Powermat: The wireless charging system for your iPhone and Blackberry
in The RFID Weblog, on August 8, 2009
... even come across Powermats which could be easily embedded into tabletops and walls making your desk an invisible connectivity point for wireless energy.
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What to do when those mortgage payments get hard to make
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 6, 2009
...your hours. Maybe you're going through a serious injury. You might even be struggling through a messy divorce.
All of these can cause you to miss a mortgage payment. Or more.
You wouldn't b...
Shapely Secrets: New Motionless Exercise Techniques
in Well Woman Blog, on August 6, 2009
... Shapely Secrets offers easy steps that can be done anywhere whether it is your home or your office desk.
Please let me know if you would be interest in reviewing the program.
I look forward to hear...
The missing XP - 7 upgrade path
in The CIO Weblog, on July 28, 2009
...h to business users, either; the trend in corporate IT has been to systematize and centrally manage desktops, and like as not, a new operating system deployment in the corporate environment avoids the...
Kensington Nightstand iPhone Charger Is Alarmingly Smart
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 24, 2009
...landscape mode with a small kickstand device, and is small enough to not add to the clutter on your desk. The Rise and Shine application keeps the iPhone in landscape mode and displays the weather and...
Washable Keyboard Takes the Ewww Out of Typing
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 20, 2009
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I was cleaning my desk out earlier this summer, and when I picked up my keyboard, I heard rattling. I thought it was a rock or a screw, but I was not that lucky. It was a piece of peanut butter an...
Temporary vacation
in The CIO Weblog, on July 17, 2009
As summertime comes to the Pacific Northwest, workers get lazy and gazes start to linger on the cool blue and green scenery just outside the office windows. I am by no means immune to this malady and so once again it's time to take a vacation and enjoy life out under the big glowing blob in the ...
Skipping Seven
in The CIO Weblog, on July 13, 2009
I'm not sure I want to hop on this bandwagon yet, but it sounds like someone is already trying to start up a "Skip Seven" movement in the same way that some of us argued for skipping Vista.
I say this not because of the recent poll that indicated, quite appropriately, that some s...
Nokia N97 Review
in The Smart PDA, on July 10, 2009
...#39;t impressed with the poor battery cover, mediocre keyboard, unappealing Resistive touch screen, messy UI and slow device performance.
Here is how he concludes the review:
I could go on and on a...
Netbooks may be the new mobiles
in The CIO Weblog, on July 6, 2009
While everyone has been busy catching iPhone fever, and Blackberries have firmly entrenched themselves as must-have tools in corporate America, the consumer-oriented, scorned netbooks may be the next hot device for businesses.
Although netbooks are viewed by traditional IT types as little better th...
The Mother of all Dashboards
in The CIO Weblog, on July 1, 2009
So, after running across the CIO Dashboard of Twittering CIOs last week , I had been toying with the idea of doing a post on dashboards in general. I'm of mixed opinions on them, generally; I think it's valuable and important to have relevant metrics available as close to real-time as possi...
Jackson's estate: the blooduckers zero in
in Sox First, on June 29, 2009
...tate wasn't settled until 2005. If Jackson's liabilities outweigh his assets, we can expect messy bankruptcy proceedings. Then there is the question of the publishing rights to a music catalog...
Lots of changes rolled out yesterday!
in WebKinzBlog, on June 25, 2009
...tta bring in some new so replacing them will be five new items - Gas Pump, Moon Rover, School House Desk, Seaside Palace Sandcastle and Time Warp Clock.
— The rest of the Grocery store theme...
CIOs who tweet
in The CIO Weblog, on June 21, 2009
If you are one of those CIOs who likes to know what other CIOs are up to, then you have probably spent some time scouring the blogosphere and tools like Facebook and Twitter for accounts of other CIOs (although, really, who has time for Facebook when they are running an IT department?). If so, your ...
ROI metrics for SOA
in The CIO Weblog, on June 11, 2009
I posted a couple of weeks ago a reference to a recent Gartner study showing that some 40% of companies engaging in SOA projects do not associate ROI metrics with those projects. I posited at the time that perhaps this wasn't quite the travesty that it seemed, or that other commenters held it ...
Your weekend funny
in The CIO Weblog, on June 7, 2009
Courtesy of Thomas Wailgum, telling us the difference between "What a CIO Says, and What He's Really Thinking." I don't doubt that a few of these have run through your minds from time to time, either.
Apps adoption not so terrible
in The CIO Weblog, on June 5, 2009
In the face of recent assertions that "the Cloud isn't enterprise-ready" or "cloud adoption is more theoretical than real right now" it turns out that the people who actually have the data say they are doing just fine. Google Enterprise president David Girouard, in a...
Microsoft releases new MOF documents
in The CIO Weblog, on June 1, 2009
I thought I would pass this along quickly since I doubt many of you spend a lot of time monitoring the hotbed of activity that is the Microsoft MOF and Service Management blog .
The Microsoft Operations Framework Team has released three new documents (linked from this post ) extending the fr...
ROI Measurement and Misunderstanding
in The CIO Weblog, on May 26, 2009
So I have a question for the audience: when you are measuring ROI on SOA projects, are you looking at just the SOA team production, or do you look at secondary effects?
That's assuming you look at ROI on your SOA projects at all; apparently 40% of companies engaging in SOA projects don't....
Easier imports to AWS
in The CIO Weblog, on May 22, 2009
Amazon has removed another significant obstacle to enterprise adoption of Amazon Web Services with the introduction of AWS Import/Export to allow easier movement of large datasets in and out of the service.
AWS Import/Export uses the old and still surprisingly efficient snail mail method of ...
Infosys CEO interviewed
in The CIO Weblog, on May 20, 2009
TechFlash has posted an interview with CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan of Infosys. It's worth a read if you're trying to get a sense of the upheaval in the offshoring market. Gopalakrishnan is a featured panelist at Microsoft's CEO summit this week and will speak on the future of technolog...
Finally
in The CIO Weblog, on May 19, 2009
I see Gartner is finally getting on board the "Skip Vista" bandwagon, a bit too late to be of much use to any audience which might have made productive use of the analysis, but anyway, you know, welcome.
More surprising is the quote later in the same article from Senior VP for Wi...
Time to lob a Molotov cocktail
in The CIO Weblog, on May 14, 2009
© Marek Peters
So, speaking of revolutions , it strikes me that this one isn't being evangelized very well. Nick Carr has turtled, turning off blog comments and going largely off the radar after the brief flurry following his publication of "The Big Switch." Werner Vogels'...
Cordotz Prove That Little Things Can Make A Big Difference
in The Gadgets Weblog, on May 14, 2009
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My desk is a cable nightmare. At any given time, I have at least five devices plugged in, five USB connections flowing, and a few sound and video cables. More than once, I have unplugged the wrong...
The Revolution
in The CIO Weblog, on May 12, 2009
Maybe I'm just overly optimistic (that's a rare accusation for me) but I'm having trouble thinking that the combination of technology advancements made these past few years and the current wide, deep recession could possibly not result in revolutionary changes in how IT happens in most...
D u s t y T u n e s
in Wangtam, on 2009-05-12
...ing with Deletion of IHT.com
• The KEEP CLEAR Desk
• Egg Substitutes: Handy Recipe List
• EncodeHD Offers One Click Conversion for Popular Portable Devices
• A New Employer: 8 Steps to Put You...
Madoff's secretary tells all. What's next?
in Sox First, on May 11, 2009
...t me,' he would say to me. Sometimes when he came out of his bathroom, which was diagonal to my desk, he would still be zipping up his pants. If he saw me shaking my head disapprovingly, he would ...
Microsoft needs LESS focus, not more
in The CIO Weblog, on May 8, 2009
...nswer I have seen yet to that question, who quotes the old company motto, "A computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software." But I am not sure I can accept that as evi...
Lawyers cash in on Chrysler bankruptcy
in Sox First, on May 2, 2009
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The Chrysler will probably be messy. First, it has to get through the court battles as Chrysler lenders object to the move into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection under the government brokered dea...
Pandemic preparation in the IT department
in The CIO Weblog, on April 28, 2009
© The Pug Father
It's too early to say whether or not the swine flu will rise to pandemic proportions; so far, as is their wont, news media seem to be blowing the disease all out of proportion and public health agencies have reacted defensively so as to avoid any accusations of under-reac...
Tixx Induction Cooking System: What’s cooking with RFID today?
in The RFID Weblog, on April 27, 2009
...of the day is automated control for every cooking appliance which does away with the need for any messy wires or switches. Cooking simplified I must say!!
...
That's no moon... it's a vSphere!
in The CIO Weblog, on April 24, 2009
I've read through all the press releases at least twice now for VMware's vSphere, and I'm still not clear on how it is much more than a routine upgrade from the company's VMWare Infrastructure product.
Don't get me wrong, VMWare Infrastructure is a great package in and of i...
Is all this free sustainable?
in The CIO Weblog, on April 16, 2009
It's not a new question, I know. And on the face of it, it may not seem terribly relevant to the average CIO, working for businesses which are generally wiling to pay for the services they consume. But I maintain that the question of whether or not all these free-to-use, ad-revenue supported Web...
What is up with Enterprise 2.0, anyway?
in The CIO Weblog, on April 13, 2009
ZDnet's Dion Hinchcliffe has a good (longish) post up considering the difficulties of determining the ROI of Enterprise 2.0 . This is a good counter-point balancing my post least week title Enterprise 2.0 Reality Check , where I discussed some of the realities facing IT managers and CIOs faced...
Here we go again
in The CIO Weblog, on April 6, 2009
This time it's IBM and Sun instead of Yahoo and Microsoft (although Yahoo and Microsoft haven't gone away yet, much to my annoyance). What is up with these companies? Just roll over and be acquired already! Does anyone at Sun imagine a song and dance routine is going to improve their po...
Sanyo Introduces HD Waterproof Video Camera
in The Gadgets Weblog, on April 6, 2009
...ck. I just hope you don't drop your video camera in the ocean while I am slaving away behind my desk. If you are worried about this sort of technological nightmare happening to you, then you might...
Yet Another Amazon Web Service
in The CIO Weblog, on April 2, 2009
YAAWS... I think it's got a certain ring to it, don't you. At the rate Amazon Web Services are rolling out new products, I feel the need for an acronym to lighten the typing load. It looks as if there are significant synergies to be had in the web services business once you build out th...
Rest in peace, GM
in Sox First, on April 1, 2009
...pull out of the deal. As Jeffrey McCracken writes in The Wall Street Journal , the surgery will be messy. If nothing else, it's likely to produce lots of law suits. Watch this space, it will defi...
Clarifications on HP and Mark Hurd
in The CIO Weblog, on March 31, 2009
Perhaps predictably, my praise of HP's handling of the recession touched a raw nerve, particularly among HP (or former HP) employees.
Unfortunately this morning is also when our comments and editing system has decided to have a conniption (I'm looking at you, Amazon [just kidding... I b...
The importance of corporate DNA
in The CIO Weblog, on March 30, 2009
...because they dedicated themselves to the advancement of the new paradigm ("A computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software") while their larger and more powerful compe...
A service pack milestone
in The CIO Weblog, on March 27, 2009
..., instead of adopting "Skip Vista" as my mantra, I should have been saying "Skip the Desktop."
In five years, when XP finally hits Extended Support EOL, what are the odds you'...
EMI: Still Sizzler, not Google
in The CIO Weblog, on March 25, 2009
All Things Digital has posted an internal memo from recording industry giant EMI's CEO Elio Leoni -Sceti announcing the departure of recently hired ex-Google CIO Douglas Merrill from the label's "digital unit." Of course none of this would be of any interest in the first place...
Systems and the AIG catastrophe
in The CIO Weblog, on March 18, 2009
I'm sitting here watching AIG CEO Ed Liddy testify before the House Financial Services Committee insisting that he had to pay out massive bonuses to a bunch of people who, rightly or wrongly, are widely seen as culpable for leading the company into the dire straits in which it is in today.
Lidd...
CIO Weblog now powered by Amazon
in The CIO Weblog, on March 18, 2009
Just a quick note; this is my first post since the change over yesterday of the CIO Weblog to run using Amazon's EC2 and S3 systems on the back-end. I can feel it running faster already!
The blog remains unaffiliated with Amazon despite my occasional cheerleading; in fact, if it blows up, ...
Cloud computing killed your future
in The CIO Weblog, on March 17, 2009
...ary accounting processes with full compliance and no tech-talk is the day the CIO can clean out his desk.
That day isn't here yet, except for in some relatively narrow verticals, but it's on ...
微软下周发3款补丁软件 影响所有Windows版本
in Wangtam, on 2009-03-07
... - Desk Space Genie
• Swapaskill | a favour for a friend
• Sky News realises news breaks first on Twitter, not TV - Creates a Twitter Correspondent
• Firefox 3.1 renamed Firefox 3.5
• It's...
IBM, Apple resolve Papermaster matter
in The CIO Weblog, on January 29, 2009
...problematic hiring of former IBM executive Mark Papermaster by Apple last year which resulted in a messy non-compete lawsuit has been resolved out of court.
I had been following the suit because o...
Thain's bonanza
in Sox First, on January 23, 2009
... $15,000; four pairs of curtains for $28,000; a pair of guest chairs for $87,000; a "George IV Desk" for $18,000; six wall sconces for $2,700; six chairs in his private dining room for $37,0...
