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- The real power of the PC
- After selling his company, Brazilian entrepreneur Rodrigo Baggio turned his attention to using technology as a means of economic empowerment for the underprivileged.
- Tags: Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, Management, News, ina fried, south america, microsoft, google, pc, schools
- Videos 2008-08-27
- Campaigning for the Empowerment of Women in IT in Zambia
- Barbara Munyati is one of Zambia's rare female success stories. As a lecturer in Computer Sciences at the University of Zambia, she is amongst the few women in her country who have a responsible job, and she is often approached by headhunters to work for rival organisations. Barbara understands the...
- Tags: Women, Information Technology, Empowerment, Cisco Systems Inc., Barbara Munyati, Barbara, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources
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- ExpressScripts faces sum of personal health record fears
- ExpressScripts faces sum of personal health record fearsAnd better yet[i]But, as Jack Ryan teaches in Tom Clancy’s spy novels, it is much wiser in the long run to face these threats down and counter than to give in to blackmail.[/i]And better still to have no secrets worth blackmailing.Anyone who commits...
- Tags: Channel management, Web site development, PHR, personal health record fear, ExpressScripts, personal health record, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- SPAM and the free lunch
- SPAM and the free lunchSIMPLE SOLUTION: Mandatory email server registration!(1) Get rid of "Reply-to:" tags.(2) Mandatory email server registration using credit cards, at yearly rate $2~3 dollars.This will make spammers impossible to operate without being caught.What SPAM is that?During the height of the "bad old days" of spam, I got...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, spam
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- Sub-prime and the other seven deadly bubbles . . .
- Now that the distraction from the election is gone, I wish there was another distraction out there because we still have a way to go in regards to the financial crisis. There seems to be a widespread perception that the mess caused by the sub-prime bubble has...
- Tags: Financial, Derivatives, Bubble, Philanthropia, Financial Services, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-11-08
- BI Crystal Ball – Next Gen BI May Be Closer Than You Think
- Most modern large enterprise Business Intelligence BI tools are very robust and feature rich these days. Up until a few years ago BI users could blame vendors for most of their BI ills. This is getting harder and harder to do. Many of the BI tools, especially the ones reviewed...
- Tags: Application, User Empowerment, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Boris Evelson
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- iRobot's Brooks starts worker bot company
- Even as iRobot won a wide-open contract with the Army, the company's part-time CTO, Rodney Brooks, left the company to start a new robotics firm, Cambridge-based Heartland Robotics. The new company is focused on industrial robotics, which logic would dictate would put...
- Tags: iRobot Corp., Robotics, Bot, Worker, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Does your OS matter in a cloud?
- Does your OS matter in a cloud?Some questionsI have two questions:1) Data. Where, exactly, is my data and is it secure. More importantly is it still legally my data. We all put money into the bank knowing that if the bank goes so does our money - does this same...
- Tags: cloud computing, operating system, desktop, computing, bank, Web application
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
- What could Open Office do with a business model?
- What could Open Office do with a business model?No need for built-in AV in OOoWhy in the world would an office tool need a "built-in" anti-virus??Security should be part of the original design and not just an after thought. Including an anti-virus program from the same company that created (and...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, government start, antivirus, anti-virus package
- Discussion threads 2008-07-05
- Achieving magical results in IT
- Achieving magical results in ITClient assignments, no thanksI agree that Trust and empowerment are powerful motivators, but I doubt that there will be many cases where empowerment will be on the menu while assigned to a client area. This will require a similar shift in thinking for the client, away...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Enterprise 2.0 - Giving the Hype a Second Thought
- The Internet boom forced organizations to get online and looking back it was much simpler compared to making an organization Web 2.0 ready because this involves understanding of an abstract concept called Enterprise 2.0. While the advantages of Web 2.0 in an organizational context can't be denied - agility, responsiveness,...
- Tags: Concept, Jupitermedia Corp., Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0, Internet
- White papers 2008-06-24
- Business PCs are going nowhere fast
- "Everything that can be invented has been invented." If Charles Duell, in 1888 the Commissioner for the U.S. patent office, actually said that, then he would, of course, have been wrong; but I think the claim may have some applicability to the business PC in 2008....
- Tags: PC, Business PC, Unix, Desktops, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- SAP's CTO: Business knows 'what', IT knows 'how'
- The Naked IT interview series talks with innovators about the evolving relationship between IT and business. Please listen to the audio podcast and enjoy the brief excerpts below. Vishal Sikka is SAP's Chief Technology Officer. Reporting directly to CEO Henning Kagermann, Vishal is responsible for driving...
- Tags: CTO, Line Of Business, Information Technology, Packaged Application, SAP AG, Business byDesign, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- WOA may soon eclipse SOA as most impactful business transformation agent
- In a recent blog post I questioned whether services oriented architecture SOA was driving substantive transformation inside of enterprise IT. My conclusion is that something is not quite right in SOA-ville. The uptake of general-purpose service enablement is by no means a hockey stick trend line. The...
- Tags: Web, Agent, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- UI guidelines: one reason the Mac shines, Windows sucks
- Is there a method behind the madness of the Windows experience and the elegance of the Macintosh? One reason can be seen with just one look at the human interface principles found on Apple's and Microsoft's developer sites. This exploration was sparked by a blog post on...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, User Interface, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Kermadec, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Software, Apple Mac OS, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Any former Microsoft execs looking to turn over a new leaf?
- Any former Microsoft execs looking to turn over a new leaf?About rightMS is enormously wealthy, but at the cost of their reputation Hugh Hefner is rich too. OLPC doesn't need that.Enough with the sarcasm, alreadyObviously (regarding Negroponte's previous statements about Microsoft) the quote is simply equating "Microsoft" with "ubiquitous,"...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., new leaf, leaf
- Discussion threads 2008-03-07
- The worst PC myth of all
- The worst PC myth of allThe myth is that you know what you're talking about.You start off by defining "the best lie" and then you set about telling it.I've been working with personal computers since they were first invented, and have been working as a consultant to corporations using them...
- Tags: Desktops, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
- ICANN might spit out domain-tasting grace period
- ICANN might spit out domain-tasting grace periodPLEASE! DO IT!!!I don't care if the original purpose was for typos. That's a lame excuse. Millions of addresses are locked up by cybersquatters. Many times, they just renew it for another free "trial". Or, another cybersquatter picks them up. They are never freed...
- Tags: Typos, grace period, ICANN, domain-tasting grace period
- Discussion threads 2008-01-30
- Follow-up: Build-A-Bear says it will take privacy suggestions to heart
- There were lots of reactions to my last post about Build-A-Bear luring kids and parents into divulging personal information they might otherwise, in other contexts, guard more closely. While some responses channeled Scott McNealy, most seemed to get that my beef was not with the fact of the data...
- Tags: Information, Build-A-Bear, Privacy Policy, Upshot, E-mail, Online Communications, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2008-01-26
- The Big Switch: The network becomes the data center
- The Big Switch: The network becomes the data centerSounds like McNealy's Big Friggin Webtone Switch 2.0Sounds like McNealy's Big Friggin Webtone Switch 2.0. Only this time, there won't even be ANY servers. It will be in the magical cloud. The network is the computer, who needs computers....
- Tags: Data centers, Servers, Reading, data center, server, consolidation, Big Switch, network
- Discussion threads 2008-01-13
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