January 2010
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By Brian Sommer on January 31, 2010
Are the big gains from ERP, quality programs, shared services and other techniques and technologies losing their ability to deliver big benefits? What else can companies do to further their operational excellence goals?
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Current Affairs, erp, India & Services, Outsourcing, Professional Services, sap, software. applications, Think About IT, Web/Tech
By Ismael Ghalimi on January 31, 2010
If you find yourself on the road as often as I do (every other week) and most of your traveling is done abroad (Japan, Korea, Philippines last week), you will want to optimize your mobile setup for portability, connectivity, and affordability. I tried quite a few combinations of countless devices, and I learned a few [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged apple, iPhone, MacBook Air, mobile setup, mobility, road warrier, Sony, Wi-Fi
By Ismael Ghalimi on January 31, 2010
As a frequent traveler (300,000 miles last year), I am always looking for ways to shave some pounds off the gear I am carrying, without sacrificing convenience or performance. That’s the reason why I recently switched from a MacBook Pro 13” (4.5 pounds) to a MacBook Air (3.0 pounds). But with the iPad (1.5 pounds) [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged apple, iPad, iWork, MacBook Air, mobility, Sony, Vaio
By Zoli Erdos on January 30, 2010
This is going to be a fairly detailed how-to guide, so if you are not using Google’s Picasa program, you’ll probably find it boring – and if you are, I strongly suggest you start at Part 1, where we define the problem (Picasa being hopelessly single-user, single-PC focused), why earlier solutions, whether sync-based or [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged google, Home network, multi-user, networked picasa, photo management, photo sharing, Photography, picasa, picasaweb, synchronization, vista, Windows 7, windows hacks
By Brad Feld on January 30, 2010
I had a very interesting meeting yesterday with an MIT Professor who I’ve known for a long time. He is anti-software patent, as am I. However, he suggested something I hadn’t really spent much time thinking about, namely that patents slow down innovation. Some very credible folks have been talking about this for a little [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Al Capone, innovation, intellectual property, ip, Law, Patent, Patents
By David Terrar on January 30, 2010
The first thing I’ve got to say is the title of this post was supplied in a tweet from Alan Patrick (@freecloud), but it perfectly encapsulates the controversy going on in the geek world around the new Apple tablet device announced on Wednesday. Is it going to be as successful and “game changing” like the [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged apple, appstore, Convergence, darwin, design, divergence, ebook, epub, ibook, iPad, iPhone, ipod, Mac, newton, Productivity, tablet
By Michael Coté on January 29, 2010
Windows 7, telco billions, paywall #fail, China attacks.
Posted in Business | Tagged Numbers
By Zoli Erdos on January 29, 2010
For being a netbook-fan I admit I am in the market for a super-slim lightweight laptop. The market has evolved, the current slimbooks are only slightly more expensive than netbooks, and I find the 13.3” screen size an ideal compromise between portability and straining my eyes with the tiny screens. So I was quite happy [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Business, consumer alert, consumerist, customer service, deceptive advertising, false advertising, Hewlett-Packard, HP DM3, laptops, netbooks, notenooks, Office Depot, OfficeDepot, online shopping, rant
By Zoli Erdos on January 29, 2010
Reporter for Forbes Watch him interview TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington on the iPad.
(Cross-posted @ CloudAve)
Posted in Business
By Michael Krigsman on January 29, 2010
The Devil’s Triangle and “pain chains” bind together enterprise customers, technology vendors, and system integrators in an unholy trinity that leads to failed projects.
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Altimeter Group, Bob Warfield, CIO issues, Cultural issues, Devil's Triangle, Due diligence, IT issues, Politics, project management, Ray Wang, Vendor relationships
