• NEXT09: deconstructing the enterprise gulf

  Attending NEXT09 was a breath of fresh air for me. As seems to be the way, there's always a good showing by controversial polemicists. You won't for example get two ...

  Tags: Dennis Howlett, Advertising & Promotion, Conference, Online Communications, Marketing, Social Computing, Social Networking, CODA, Google Inc.

  May 07, 2009 10:39 AM PDT

• Dial-up diary: erotically fast broadband

  Nearly one year has passed since I first organised the broadband and phone line into my now previous house. After moving in to my brand new house today, I am ...

  Tags: Zack Whittaker, Telecommunications, Phone, Network Technology, Router, Telecom & Utilities, Socket, Networking, Phone Line, British Telecommunications

  May 07, 2009 10:22 AM PDT

• When Americans were well-trained

  There was a time when Americans could take the train, and go places. Schedules then connected towns and cities more than once per day. Here's what one curious person discovered ...

  Tags: Human Resources, Workforce Management, America, Harry Fuller, Internet, Real Estate, Blogging, Business Operations, Mph, Texas

  May 07, 2009 10:07 AM PDT

• Creating unified strategy to cross the IT / business chasm

  Many IT failures ultimately arise from so-called gaps, or misalignments, between business and technical groups inside an organization. Here's how to avoid those problems. by Michael Krigsman

  Tags: Management, Information Technology, Strategy, Chris, Michael Krigsman

  May 07, 2009 9:45 AM PDT

• Vonage shares soar on Q1 profit but watch for churn

  Shares of Vonage Holdings Corp. soared on reports that the company had reported a net profit for its first quarter. But I can't imagine this Wall Street lovefest lasting long. ...

  Tags: Finance, Personal Finance, Vonage Holdings Corp., Sam Diaz, Operational Accounting

  May 07, 2009 9:44 AM PDT

• New Security Tool: Your Ear

  Researchers at the University of Southampton are about to give new meaning to the expression "Can you hear me?" The team led by Dr. Steven Beeby have been awarded funding ...

  Tags: Management, Team Management, Security Tool, Tool, Dave Greenfield, Ear

  May 07, 2009 9:25 AM PDT

• With Windows 7, 'Genuine' is out; 'Activation' is in

  Microsoft is giving its anti-piracy/DRM technology a PR face lift with Windows 7. The "Windows Genuine" branding is being supplanted by a new name: Windows Activation. by Mary Jo Foley

  Tags: Public Relations, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley, Corporate Communications, Software, Microsoft Windows

  May 07, 2009 8:56 AM PDT

• Is Psystar planning a netbook?

  Miami-based Apple clone maker Psystar may be planning to sell a netbook pre-configured with Mac OS X. A year after entering a headline-grabbing legal battle with Apple's legal department over ...

  Tags: Psystar, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Apple Inc., Hardware, Jason D. O'Grady, Apple Macintosh

  May 07, 2009 8:54 AM PDT

• Could your software CEO be a TV pitchman? Benioff might...

  Salesforce's CEO & Billy Mays - the ultimate pitch team! satire I (and 600 others) attended the recent Salesforce.com event here in Chicago. Salesforce was promoting its platform-as-a-service PaaS, Force.com. ...

  Tags: TV, Salesforce.com Inc., Sales, Cloud Computing, Brian Sommer, Marc, Force.com, PaaS, Software, Sales Force Management

  May 07, 2009 8:29 AM PDT

• Cybercriminals promoting malware-friendly search engines

  The cybercriminals behind the ongoing blackhat search engine optimization attacks hijacking swine flu related queries in order to serve scareware, have re-introduced an old social engineering tactic - the use ...

  Tags: Dancho Danchev, Cybercriminal, Malware, Search Engine, Search, Google Inc., Search Engine Optimization

  May 07, 2009 8:14 AM PDT

• Here every day is a Sun-day

  Courtesy: Wakeland Housing. A newly opened San Diego housing complex is certified to be the most energy efficient in the U.S. Built in Chula Vista for under $18-million, the 42-unit ...

  Tags: Finance, Personal Finance, Harry Fuller, Income, San Diego, Operational Accounting

  May 07, 2009 7:56 AM PDT

• AT&T considering cutting prices for iPhone service plans

  Scott Moritz at TheStreet.com reports on a rumor that AT&T is considering a $10 price cut for the iPhone's monthly service plan which would drop the lowest plan from $69 ...

  Tags: Management, Sales, Pricing, Marketing Research, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Strategy, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., Jason D. O'Grady

  May 07, 2009 7:56 AM PDT

• Nvidia: We're ready for Microsoft this time (no, really)

  When chalking up what went wrong with Vista, incompatible hardware/software always makes it into the Top 10 lists. So it's understandable that the Windows team is doing everything in its ...

  Tags: Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Corp., Construction, Team Management, Mary Jo Foley, Software, NVidia Corp., Microsoft Windows

  May 07, 2009 7:55 AM PDT

• Skype for iPhone at almost 4 million downloads

  Remember near the end of March when Skype became available for download on the iPhone and iPod touch? Well, if you're one of the 37 million people who own either ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Touch, Jennifer Bergen, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Digital Music, Apple iPhone, Skype Technologies S.A.

  May 07, 2009 7:47 AM PDT

• Why the London Olympics is closed source

  This is about the fact that BT won the IT contract last year, plus its marketing rights. BT is a phone company. Phone companies are among the last hold-outs against ...

  Tags: Marketing Research, Telecommunications, Phone, Dana Blankenhorn, Marketing, Telecom & Utilities, Telephone Company, British Telecommunications

  May 07, 2009 7:26 AM PDT

• Will BlackBerry kill the iPhone?

  Is it time for Apple to panic after the BlackBerry Curve outsold the iPhone for the first time in the last quarter? Here's what Apple should or shouldn't do to ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Engineering, Sales, Handhelds, BlackBerry, Hardware, Seb Janacek silicon.com, iPhone, Apple iPhone, Consumer Electronics

  May 07, 2009 7:24 AM PDT

• Intel, Novell stump for Moblin netbook OS

  Intel and Novell on Thursday announced a deal to push Moblin, the open source Linux platform designed to work with the chip giant's Atom chip. Intel cooked up Moblin and ...

  Tags: Operating System, Hardware, Intel Corp., Moblin, Novell Inc., Linux, Netbook, Semiconductors, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan

  May 07, 2009 6:50 AM PDT

• Microsoft under fire for ODF glitch in Excel

  Microsoft has come under fire for spreadsheet interoperability issues in its latest release of Office 2007 SP2, but the company said it is an issue inherent in ODF 1.1. Microsoft ...

  Tags: Office 2007, ODF, Office 2007 SP2, Emerging Technologies, ODF 1.2, Productivity, Excel, glitch, Microsoft Excel, Victoria Ho ZDNet Asia

  May 07, 2009 6:49 AM PDT

• Recording VoIP Calls: Is it Legal?

  I was on an interview the other day and began thinking about how nice it would have been to record the rather long-winded engineer on the other end of the ...

  Tags: Permission, Telecommunications, VOIP, Phone, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Vonage Holdings Corp., Networking, Telephony, Dave Greenfield

  May 07, 2009 6:48 AM PDT

• What does open source community mean?

  Those open source businesses which remain true to their community ideals through this recession are going to come out stronger for it. If the companies don't come out despite high ...

  Tags: Open-source Community, Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source, Ideal

  May 07, 2009 6:21 AM PDT

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