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Is there room for Cisco in the online office suite space?
in The CIO Weblog, on July 1, 2009
...ng its hat in the ring or just keeping the options open for future moves in that direction. But the more I think about it, the more I think Cisco may be ideally suited (at least in some respects) to l... ...their respective plays and come out ahead in the online office race. The predominance of WebEx as a corporate solution gives them an easy in; their support and service structure could be enough to mak...
The Mother of all Dashboards
in The CIO Weblog, on July 1, 2009
...emphasizing flash and style over the substance of the information. They get pitched and constructed more as cool toys than legitimate management tools and subsequent abandonment and neglect, followed ... ...leted, just about every spending project the federal government engages in. Which makes the average corporate IT dashboard project look all the more feeble.
Turns out this has all been in the works s...
Madoff gets the max! What now?
in Sox First, on June 30, 2009
...from Forbes notes, bankruptcy Trustee Irving Picard says there are some who got returns of 100% or more, redirected from other people's money. You can bet they'll be targets of the government... ...again, Madoff's wife Ruth might be looking at a stint in jail too. Madoff is the poster boy of corporate greed. But he was allowed to get away with it for years. We can blame the incompetent Secu...
Ruth Madoff's lost asset claims
in Sox First, on June 28, 2009
...press had "ruined" her life. Nothing to do with her psychopath husband, the poster boy of corporate greed, and his Ponzi scheme. Of course, she didn't work or contribute any many to her...
T-Mobile's New Android Phone Coming Soon
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on June 22, 2009
...Phone coming out this August. Calling it the myTouch 3G, its new Google Android equipped phone is a more equipped version of the popular G1.
It will feature a built-in 3.2-megapixel camera, music pla... ...es and offer recommendations based on them.
Google's Android software allows users connect to corporate email servers.
The T-Mobile myTouch 3G will be available for pre-order from July 8 onward...
Directors warned about greenwash
in Sox First, on June 22, 2009
...riendly products on US supermarket shelves are making potentially false or misleading claims. Once more, it's something that has potentially enormous implications for company directors if governm... ...
About two years ago, I did a blog entry predicting that climate change would become a big corporate governance issue. Directors can get into all sorts of trouble for failing in their duty of car...
Disney and toxic waste allegations
in Sox First, on June 15, 2009
The Walt Disney Company earlier this year unveiled , amidst much fanfare, its new environmental initiatives which included zero greenhouse gas emissions and zero waste. But is this Fantasyland stuff? We now have reports that the Environmental Protection Agency is looking carefully at allegat...
Data Center Overload
in Wangtam, on June 12, 2009
...arch Options in Picasa Web Albums
• Lifehacker Speed Tests: Safari 4, Chrome 2, and More
• InstantCal - Embed Interactive Calendars on Your Web Site
• Flag Counter » add our free counter to your... ......
What economy? CEO private jets take off
in Sox First, on June 11, 2009
...ks for chief executive officers, despite their abysmal performance, are soaring with reports that more are taking to using private jets. According to the reports, 79.2% of Fortune 100 CEOs got jet b... ...n) is more than what a lot of families earn over many years. As the East Texas Review points out, corporate jets is only part of the story. The money is also going on chauffeured limos, exclusive cl...
The Man Who Might Have Saved General Motors
in carzz.org, on June 10, 2009
...withdraws completely from motorsports.
Dominant personalities like Bob Lutz are becoming scarce in corporate board rooms but don't expect Maximum Bob to fade away in the mists of automobile histo...
Crunch for airlines
in Sox First, on June 8, 2009
...ew planes. It will certainly be less than last year. So what's ahead. You would have to expect more mergers, cheaper fare and there is the prospect of airlines shutting down.
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Chiquita receives 2009 Circle of Excellence award by the Distribution Business Management Association
in Supplychainer, on June 7, 2009
...r layer of complexity to reporting.
The criteria for the award is based on a company's current corporate commitment, past demonstrated programs and plans for continued commitment....
Cutting Salaries
in Biz Plan Hacks, on June 6, 2009
...morale and productivity could suffer.
But others see an upside to reducing pay rather than making more layoffs. One of them is Dan Ariely, the author of the popular behavioral economics book Predict... ..."in the right environment." Suddenly all those workshops on team building and webinars on corporate climate take on new meaning. Have you built an environment where cutting pay and keeping e...
What next for GM?
in Sox First, on June 4, 2009
...gy efficient buses as well as windmills and solar panels. He also wants tax incentives to encourage more people to buy hybrid cars. It's unlikely the government will listen to Moore and Makower. ...
Coming Soon: Java-Based Netbooks?
in Java Entrepreneur, on June 3, 2009
...at Oracle's whole next generation of business applications is built entirely on Java."
More here from PC World ... more here from The Register ... and more here from the WSJ .
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Canesta Brings Motion Control to the Masses
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 3, 2009
Everyone is getting motion control these days. We all know the Nintendo Wii features motion control; yesterday, Microsoft announced Project Natal, and today Sony announced a motion controller for the PS3. But what about the regular Joe at home without a fancy, next generation gaming system? Are th...
Sony Ericsson Aino Phone
in Wangtam, on June 1, 2009
Sony Ericsson 近日发布了一款新型手机 ，可与 Sony PlayStation 3 游戏主机连线。这是该公司圣诞节新产品之一，也是其与母公司 Sony 整合的强烈信号。
这款名为"Aino Phone"的手机将可以用来管理储存在 PS3 上的媒体，协助定位 PS3 成为媒体中心，但不能用来玩游戏，也不能撷取高清晰影片。该公司还称，Aino 手机将在第四季与另外两款手机一齐推出。
这家全球第五大手机生产商称，电信服务商非常期待可以推升数据使用量，而且不需要大额补贴的手机。
"电信服务商需要的是，可以提供无限制宽频数据传输，同时降低招揽用户...
Introducing the Sony Ericsson Aino Touch Screen Handset
in The Smart PDA, on May 31, 2009
...5 hours (UMTS)
Standby time: Up to 380 hrs (GSM), Up to 367 hours (UMTS)
Availability: Q4 2009
For more information, jump over to Sony Ericsson's official press release .
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Conrad Black's landmark case
in Sox First, on May 28, 2009
... a landmark case because it revolves around the question of "honest services" fraud where corporate executives have a duty to shareholders and if they renege on that, they have withheld hone...
微软确认 Zune HD
in Wangtam, on May 27, 2009
... next generation of the Zune portable media player, Zune HD. Available in the U.S. this fall, Zune HD is the first portable media player that combines a built-in HD Radio receiver, high-definition (HD...
More on the Satyam-PWC scandal
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
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The implosion at Indian IT specialists Satyam raises many questions about corporate governance. As Madhukar Angur says in the Deccan Herald , the debacle suggests we have learned very little sin...
Economists predict recession ends this year. As if!
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
...e forward-looking. But the truth remains that the hard data - house prices, unemployment, trade and corporate profits and inflation - all remain dreadful. Consumers can dream all they want." Eco...
Swinburne University Researchers Create 'Five-Dimensional' DVDs
in Nanotechbuzz, on May 21, 2009
...ical files like MRIs, and could be a boon in the financial, military and security arenas."
More here from Ubergizmo ... more here from Engadget ... more here from The Inquirer ... and th...
Infosys CEO interviewed
in The CIO Weblog, on May 20, 2009
...learly sees the dangers in industry consolidation and in changes in the nature of outsourcing, with more businesses taking the same tack as they have with their internal IT organizations by looking at... ... enterprises are working with cloud services, it is still on a small scale and apparently under the corporate radar. Cloud computing is all but a foregone conclusion at the SMB/SME level; enterprises ...
Jolie B. Ray Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on May 20, 2009
...re round faceted stones in colors that catch your eye. Wear them alone or group them together for a more impactful look. Available in Peridot, Blue Topaz, and Lemon Citrine, sold separately.
$750
The... ...e Troob have found a calling and a true connection, designing jewelry. After having careers in the corporate world and raising young children, these two women decided they needed a creative outlet. R...
Speed Sourcing - An Over-Reaction to Long Procurement Cycles?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on May 19, 2009
...an get too detailed, and can be a major bog-down point for outsourcing agreements, but I believe a more nuanced approach would be better. For example, instead of detailing every responsibility down to... ...urcing procurement cycles are so long to begin with, including the process discipline instilled by corporate procurement departments, a clear need for thoroughly fleshed-out agreements, and the import...
Cashing in on the disgust with banks
in Sox First, on May 19, 2009
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Last week, I did a blog entry looking at how banks were going to face more intense competition in the wash-up from this financial crisis. To put it bluntly, banks will be losing market share to ... ...ving into banking with a a full range of savings, loans and insurance products. Lucy Neville-Rolfe, corporate and legal-affairs director at Tesco told The Times that expanding into finance makes sen...
iPhone price reduction rumors missing the enterprise
in The CIO Weblog, on May 18, 2009
...e. According to the story, the carrier is considering lowering prices on data plans and/or offering more varied data plan options to cater to a wider range of consumer demand. This seems like a fairly... ... absolutely not worth the wait. They essentially offered the iPhone as a plan option on their other corporate plans, which completely ignored the strengths and different utilization patterns of the ph...
Corporate social responsibility and recession
in Sox First, on May 15, 2009
...rse. In other words, the crash has not made any difference. Indeed, one could argue the CSR is now more important than ever. I recently chatted about this with Princeton University ethicist Peter Sin... ...
With the recession, companies are cutting back on their corporate social responsibility budgets but it's not going away. As reported here , the big cuts are in corporate philanthropy but they...
Alias 2 Announced for Verizon
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on May 13, 2009
...sic and video clips, a microSD memory slot, stereo Bluetooth technology and RemoSync to synchronize corporate email, contacts and calendars from office PCs.
The Samsung Alias 2 is available for $80 a...
Do boycotts work?
in Sox First, on May 12, 2009
... Companies with strong reputations are likely to resist whereas those with troubled reputations are more vulnerable. There is a simple lesson for companies: maintain and build your reputation. And fo... ...on but the surprising part is that they did not have much impact on sales. The main damage was with corporate reputation. Companies with strong reputations are likely to resist whereas those with trou...
H1B: Frying pan to fire
in The CIO Weblog, on May 11, 2009
...There are few things more controversial in the world of IT HR than the H1B foreign-worker visa program. CIOs, as a rule, are fans; the ability to hire from an increasingly large pool of eager and well... ...he rise, not least in response to the belt-tightening that the recession has engendered on both the corporate and individual levels.
But if American IT workers feel that they are winning the battle t...
Selling to Procurement Organizations
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on May 10, 2009
... © tomsaint11
I recently became interested in the issues that arise when selling to corporate procurement departments. A legal process outsourcing company that I'm associated with is cracking...
GAO slams SEC
in Sox First, on May 9, 2009
...mmission, where some investigative attorneys came to see the Commission less as an ally and instead more as a barrier to bringing enforcement actions." Enforcement attorneys said the place was s... ...rack down on companies breaking the law. "For example, when the question of whether to seek a corporate penalty is a close one, the staff will default to avoiding the penalty," the report s...
Fujitsu Ups the Ante on Data Security
in The Gadgets Weblog, on May 8, 2009
...r command, will wipe its own HDD and become an expensive brick. This should bring piece of mind to corporate and personal users with sensitive information stored on their machines. The cool thing is t...
An End to Tax Havens?
in Bizinformer, on May 5, 2009
...ews sources have been covering President Obama's proposal to close tax loopholes and shut down corporate tax havens. Some examples of the coverage include:
The NY Times , Agence France Press ...
SOX and complacency
in Sox First, on May 5, 2009
... being employees of the company". Burger says one way to address this is to give shareholders more power to hold boards accountable through the courts. Certainly, the answer does not lie in str... ...m Georgetown University law professor Ethan S Burger in this piece Today's Financial Crisis, Corporate Governance, and the Issue of Third-Party Liability . The problem, he says, is that corpor...
TweetDeck Has a Fierce Rival in Seesmic Desktop
in Wangtam, on May 4, 2009
...itable Houseplants
• Kidlandia Maps
• Corporate Tweets and the SEC: Sometimes It's Better To Keep Your Mouth Shut
• FriendFeed创始人称将由聚合转向实时通信
• Top 10 Highest-Paid CEOs For 2008
• Pinks a...
Chrysler's Italian job
in Sox First, on May 1, 2009
... mpg would have to be modified to meet US safety and emission standards and that will cost a mint. More to the point, the change is banking on an unprecedented shift in the US car buyer market. First...
Healthcare Suppliers Honored at MedAssets Healthcare Business Event
in Supplychainer, on April 30, 2009
...ecognized its top MedAssets Supply Chain Systems suppliers for leading the way in making healthcare more affordable through competitive contracts and innovative Group Buy solutions, according to Trad... ...petitive prices.
Some of the companies and people receiving this award included:
- Vincent Kent, corporate accounts manager, Philips Healthcare. Kent was honored for his ability to deliver value to...
Coming soon: A new, smarter Google News?
in Wangtam, on April 30, 2009
• Coming soon: A new, smarter Google News?
• Home Office 'colluded with Phorm'
• moot wins, Time Inc. loses
• TrueCar
• Microsoft Vine is Twitter for Emergencies
• Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 Now Available
• comScore Releases 2009 Online Auto Insurance Report
• Facebook, Firefox, Twitt...
Window 7 coming early, as expected
in The CIO Weblog, on April 30, 2009
...nded support thus far, the logic might go, and are almost certain to be relying on it for a year or more even after 7 is released (as that is the span of time typically exercised between release and m... ... view 7 as the salvation to their time in Vista-purgatory), it is becoming less and less clear that corporate IT shops will flock to 7 as a savior. Most who dodged Vista had excellent experiences runn...
A piece based on the social activites by Infosys
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on April 30, 2009
...have built our businesses from modest resources and feel motivated to give back to society. We want more people to partake in the opportunities that made us successful."
Significant corporate d... ...y. We want more people to partake in the opportunities that made us successful."
Significant corporate donations in India began more than a century ago, when major industrial houses, notably th...
HP拟1亿美元新建科罗拉多州数据中心
in Wangtam, on April 29, 2009
...lding YouTube support into Snow Leopard
• Corporate Blogs and 'Tweets' Must Keep SEC in Mind
• Three's Company: Meet Your New MySpace Executive Team
• The Facebook Open Stream API
•...
Fox says no to Obama
in Sox First, on April 29, 2009
So Fox has announced it won't screen Barack Obama's prime time news conference and will instead screen the scheduled drama Lie To Me. Variety magazine says it's a matter of economics. It's financially based, and not political, it says. Still, it is the first time a network h...
Pandemic preparation in the IT department
in The CIO Weblog, on April 28, 2009
...ations technologies and hosting services, I am surprised this approach isn't already receiving more attention. Preparations have the added dividend of moving the company in a direction that most a... ...il access, and this may be among them. Providing a reduced functionality or lightweight version of corporate applications might also allow operation even on flooded lines. Many organizations are alrea...
Swine flu and markets
in Sox First, on April 28, 2009
So world markets have been hammered by the swine flu outbreak with airlines leading the charge. The New York Times reports that countries are now tightening their borders and the World Health Organisation has just upped its pandemic flu alert level. But how serious will it get? And what does...
Big bonuses at imploding banks
in Sox First, on April 26, 2009
...ave shrunk significantly over the last 18 months which means the ones that are left are taking home more. The Observer reports that 70% of financial services workers got a bonus in 2008 despite the...
Think Big! Could Sun/ORCL Trigger IBM/SAP Combo?
in Wangtam, on April 24, 2009
• Think Big! Could Sun/ORCL Trigger IBM/SAP Combo?
• MySQL 5.4 gets bigger anyway, encroaching on new parent Oracle's turf
• 英媒评全球最佳100家餐厅
• Mac 电脑出货量将出现五年来首次萎缩
• 视频下载：Final Fantasy Versus XIII Demo Trailer
• Final Fantasy XIII Demo 流程说明与 Q&A
• News Corp. Exploring MySpace CEO O...
Oracle and Sun: What's Next?
in Java Entrepreneur, on April 24, 2009
...e. But when it comes to MySQL and Sun's other open source offerings, the jury is out."
More here from InformationWeek ... more here from BusinessWeek ... more here from the WSJ ... an...
Oracle acquires Sun
in The CIO Weblog, on April 20, 2009
...'s reported final offer of $9.40 per share.
After the IBM deal fell through, Oracle had been rumored as a possible suitor, specifically in combination with HP, but as eWeek put it at the time, ... ...y last year. This is somewhat akin to the fox buying the henhouse, and it doesn't bode well for corporate support of MySQL, which may put a cramp in some of the customary arguments for the advanta...
Back door bank nationalisation
in Sox First, on April 20, 2009
...;. Greenspan, the former disciple of Ayn Rand, has switched from free market capitalism to creeping corporate socialism - anything to clean up the mess he helped create. Still, it's a political m...
Economic recovery a long "slog" - Volcker
in Sox First, on April 19, 2009
... is likely to last for some time. With unemployment figures increasing, people are unlikely to feel more secure. Former Federal Reserve chairman and senior economic adviser to President Obama Paul Vo... ...ing to be one long hard slog. The reality is that the fundamentals of housing, consumer demand and corporate investment need to show signs of improvement before we know the worst of the recession is ...
Googling future trends
in Sox First, on April 17, 2009
Can search engines predict economic trends? Yes they can, according to a new study which finds that the frequency with which people use certain phrases can predict trends like retail sales figures, car sales and house sales data. And because sites like Google are updated constantly, we can get t...
The long recession's impact
in Sox First, on April 17, 2009
...e? In its latest report , the IMF says that recessions associated with financial crises have been more severe and longer lasting than recessions associated with other shocks. Recovery from these sor...
Is all this free sustainable?
in The CIO Weblog, on April 16, 2009
... these free-to-use, ad-revenue supported Web 2.0 sites are sustainable under their chosen models is more important to corporate IT than you might initially imagine.
It's also not news that many o... ..., ad-revenue supported Web 2.0 sites are sustainable under their chosen models is more important to corporate IT than you might initially imagine.
It's also not news that many of these sites exis...
New Hedge Fund Manager at SilkInvest
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 15, 2009
...Zin Bekkali, CEO of Silk Invest, said "Although largely focused on Sovereigns, there will be a corporate element that will represent up to 20% of the portfolio."
Daniel Broby, Chief Investm...
IPOs: don't blame Sarbox
in Sox First, on April 15, 2009
...beyond the financial crisis. Simply put, it's the market's architecture where you have many more alternative sources of finance. Debt can be sold in the private market, there's private equ... ...s Oxley seem irrelevant in this market. As Reuters reports: "Fears about Sarbanes-Oxley, the corporate governance law many called onerous and said would drive IPOs away from U.S. exchanges, hav...
Did Vista jump the shark?
in The CIO Weblog, on April 14, 2009
... predicted?
Time will tell. But it's going to be a doubly hard sell to deploy 7 the longer and more successfully businesses continue to operate on XP and experiment with web-based alternatives wh... ...on of the qualifying "Next Year" you have to wonder why this was deemed news? What CIO or corporate IT manager in his right mind deploys any new operating system inside a year of its initi...
Henkel wins supply chain excellence award
in Supplychainer, on April 13, 2009
...ce" at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel, Germany, during a ceremony attended by more than 300 people. The award is conferred by PRTM Management Consultants in cooperation with the ... ...ess strategy. Even more, the supply chain has become a decisive factor in implementing Henkel's corporate strategy," said jury member Harald Geimer, director of PRTM Management Consultants, p...
What is up with Enterprise 2.0, anyway?
in The CIO Weblog, on April 13, 2009
...ly with my impressions from the CIO Forum here in Seattle last week, although I come away from that more optimistic about the plans and intentions of CIOs and IT managers than Hinchcliffe seems to be.... ... of magical snake-oil claims (radionics!) as to the efficacy and applicability of the technologies, corporate cultural issues, and a lack of easily quantifiable ROI cases.
This tracks closely with my...
Enterprise 2.0: Reality Check
in The CIO Weblog, on April 10, 2009
...irtualization in their companies.
The discussion of social media and Web 2.0 in the enterprise was more nuanced. As I mentioned yesterday, I was somewhat surprised at the general level of agreement o... ...; rather, the entire panel and 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. Tha...
Supply chain video: John Westerveld talks about supply chain risk strategy
in Supplychainer, on April 9, 2009
...eo from him where he talks about the fact that supply chain risk management has become increasingly more recognized as a critical part of corporate strategy. He argues that companies should move to le... ...act that supply chain risk management has become increasingly more recognized as a critical part of corporate strategy. He argues that companies should move to leaner, global supply chains and be able...
The new consumer
in Sox First, on April 9, 2009
Last year, I did a blog entry looking at the way consumer patterns have changed in the recession. The earlier this year, I did a piece looking at thrift chic, the latest trend where people are embracing frugality and a new conservatism. The lessons of the 1930s taught us that when an economy...
Airlines in tailspin
in Sox First, on April 9, 2009
...global economy means fewer seats on planes declining profits for the world's biggest airlines. More details here .The big problem lies in their fixed costs. As Morningstar analyst Basili Alukos ...
10 secrets of the downturn leader
in Sox First, on April 9, 2009
...ion making processes and asking whether you need to speed things up and talk to your direct reports more often, spending more time managing board and investor relations and talking to customers and su...
Venture Capitalists' Confidence Creeps Back
in Wangtam, on April 8, 2009
• Venture Capitalists' Confidence Creeps Back
• @TwtCop - The Twitter Cop - "To Protect and Serve Twitter"
• Artistic Hub
• Girl Gamer
• Yahoo Returns to Roots with Directory-Like Music Service
• Google's Schmidt To Newspaper Publishers: Don't 'Piss Off' Cons...
Who will buy Twitter? Google or Murdoch?
in Sox First, on April 7, 2009
Plenty of speculation at the moment that Google wants to buy Twitter. Or for that matter, Rupert Murdoch. Twitter's co-founder Biz Stone has left the markets guessing, playing it both ways , claiming the company wants to retain its independence but talks to other parties all the time. It&#...
Google to Invest in Biotechnology
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 2, 2009
...er, Bill Maris, who has a background in biotechnology and healthcare, will be based at Google's corporate headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.
Google is open to funding biotechnology start-ups. ...
