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Score one for the little guy: FCC entirely backs consumer in Sprint slamming case

The meme that this FCC is highly partial to the interests of large broadband service providers and telcos has often been hammered home on these screens. While I am certainly not ready to contradict those overarching feelings, I nevertheless...

Tags: FCC, Commission, Subscriber, Charge, Rule, Sprint Communications, Carrier, Complainant, Section 258, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-03-04

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Taleo: Management's comments regarding their November to forget

A Different and More Optimistic View - Execs Confirm Many Prior Assumptions Last week, Taleo's Katy Murray, CFO, and Nate Swanson, Investor Relations, were kind enough to spend a few minutes with me to discuss my recent post on Taleo. The overall tone was positive and not...

Tags: Taleo Corp., Operational Accounting, Revenue Recognition, Sales Strategy, GAAP, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Sales, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-11-30

Top video sites ranked by number of streams

Brand Streams, 000 Audience, 000 YouTube 5,354,392 81,881 Yahoo! 264,266 29,908 Fox Interactive Media 242,444 19,258 MSN/Windows Live 164,776 10,980 Nickelodeon Kids and Family Network 162,971 6,152 Hulu 142,261 6,324 ESPN 127,794 8,434 CNN...

Tags: Network, Video, Corporate Communications, Networking, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2008-11-28

iPhone vs. Android development: Day 4

It's day 4 of a 5-day course on iPhone programming. As before I'll be sharing my observations from the classroom on how development on the iPhone compares to Android development. The class is presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. [Read: Day 1, Day 2, Day...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Animation, Camera, View, View Transitions, Core Graphics, Android API, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-11-20

Beggars, and no longer choosers

Detroit, its auto industry and its UAW find themselves facing a whole new era. A Congress that may NOT come across with dollars to keep the Detroit Dinosaurs (that's a management team not an NBA team) playing. And today a new powerful figure in charge of the House...

Tags: Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-20

It's green report card season: Proclamations from IBM, SAP, Toshiba and Xerox

Some scintillating corporate sustainability reading for your perusal today, folks. In all seriousness, the last few weeks have seen several of the biggest of the big high-tech vendors publish their latest environmental reports or corporate responsibility statements. Here's a list of some of the most recent, along with a brief...

Tags: Sustainability, Xerox Corp., Card, Corporate Responsibility, Greenhouse Gas, SAP AG, Toshiba Corp., IBM Corp., Business Ethics, Leadership, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-20

iPhone vs. Android development: Day 3

This is the 3rd in a series of 5 posts about an iPhone programming course I'm taking this week. The course is presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. To make things more interesting I'm writing about how iPhone development differs from Android development, a subject with which I'm...

Tags: OpenGL, Apple iPhone, Android, Timers, Textures Textures, MultiTouch, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-11-19

GM takes its bailout case to...Yahoo Finance

While General Motors executives are on Capitol Hill begging for money the automaker is also taking its case to Yahoo Finance's news section. And you can't escape GM's pitch. Based on a few dozen reloads it appears GM has bought a nice rotation in...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., General Motors Corp., Social Security, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Government, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Unstructured transparency - the management methodology that pulls us through the crunch?

I've just spent a couple of fascinating days at the HCL Global Meet in Orlando, Florida. As the name suggests this was a very international gathering of HCL's partners, clients, staff and thoughtleaders in the management and collaboration space. I've written before about...

Tags: Innovation, Pyramid, Employee, Financial, CEO, HCL Global Meet, Vineet Nayar, Nayar, HCL Tech, Krishnan, Hamel, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Leadership, Strategy, It Services, Team Management, Branding, Financial Accounting, It Operations, Management, Marketing, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-19

CRM 2.0 = The Conversation - But First....The Intro

This is my first post for ZDNET.  I'm back from a 10 day cruise to the Caribbean - had a great time - came back to the economy worse than what I left - though gas prices are great - and I'm feeling relaxed anyway - so I thought it...

Tags: Strategy, Community, Customer, CRM, CRM 2.0, Social Customer Thing, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-11-18

More OLPC Give One Considerations

It's the second day of sales for the OLPC Give One Get One program on Amazon; the site is still up and still claiming next day delivery is available (anyone who gets theirs in a day, please talk back below). I posted several musings yesterday on this latest effort...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-18

Expensive repairs for Large Hadron Collider

So this Large Hadron Collider thing is a pretty sensitive piece of equipment. An electrical failure shut the great atom smasher down in September after only a few days on the job. It was supposed to be brought back online this month, but now, the BBC reports, the...

Tags: CERN, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Gmail launching voice and video chat!

Google just updated their "What's New" page for Gmail with information about a new feature called "Voice and Video Chat". The voice and video chat plugin that you must download in order to use the feature incorporates a technology called Vidyo. Vidyo provides for high-quality, low-latency,...

Tags: Video Chat, Google Inc., Google Gmail, Voice, Video, Feature, Vidyo, Corporate Communications, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-11-11

AVG and Rising signatures update detects Windows files as malware

Yesterday, a signatures update pushed by AVG falsely labeled a critical Windows file as a banker malware, prompting the company to quickly fix the issue and issue a workaround, following end users complaints at its support forums. AVG's false positive causing downtime for Windows users is happening...

Tags: Malware, Virus, AVG, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-11-11

Cyber terrorists to face death penalty in Pakistan

According to a recently signed "Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2008" in Pakistan, any person who commits cyberterrorism causing the death of other people will face death penalty or life imprisonment : "Whoever commits the offence of cyber terrorism and causes death of any person shall be punishable with...

Tags: Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-11-10

The Business Resource Planning Farm League

The enterprise juggernauts in the Enterprise resource planning ERP space are duking it out in rapidly changing business conditions - SAP are offering packages of applications with zero percent financing, Oracle are on the acquisition trail, buying regulatory compliance rules company Haley, their tenth buy this...

Tags: Intuit Inc., Intuit QuickBase, Small Business, Productivity, Taxes, Smb/Sme, Financial Planning, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-08

Obama community blog redirecting to malware

Hot on the heels of yesterday's Obama-related spam campaign comes the discovery that attackers are redirecting people from an official Barack Obama website to malware when they search for anti-virus to address the threat. During the course of follow-up research on the Obama malware blast, Sascha...

Tags: Blog, Malware, Community Blog, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Adam O\'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-11-06

Opera Mini rocks out loud

You know how most mobile web browsers will take you to the mobile version of a website if it exists and just make a mockery of a website if it lacks a mobile equivalent? And no, I'm not talking about the iPhone. I know its browser is uber-cool....

Tags: Opera Software, Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, Web Site, SiS, Advertising & Promotion, Web Site Development, Marketing, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-05

Sharp Aquos LC-46D85U

A 120Hz refresh rate is the current step-up feature of choice among LCD manufacturers, and while Sharp has arrived late to the double-refresh party, the company's D85U series, represented here by the 46-inch LC-46D85U, is finally here. This set eschews the dejudder processing found in 120Hz models from many other...

Tags: LC-46D85U, Sharp Corp.

Product reviews 2008-11-05

Social to CRM to Enterprise: Not So Fast....

Darn, I missed it: Salesforce.com is opening itself up to Facebook. Or is it the other way around? I had received a belated invite to attend SFDC's Dreamforce from Marc Benioff, but too much real work prevented me from attending. So I had to read the press releases and my...

Tags: Facebook, Marc Benioff, LinkedIn, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-11-04