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No self-respecting professional wants to be known as a paper pusher or bureaucrat, but it can be a hard label for them to avoid when they're managing projects. Projects create paper, or more specifically, they create documents. Whether those documents are paper or electronic, they can take on a life of their own. Updating, circulating and basically babysitting documents can consume managers' time, distracting them from more productive tasks.
The founders of Lustre software technology company Whamcloud openedfor business in June with a lot of potential and years of experienceworking with high-performance computing. What they lacked from theirfirst day was any signed contracts Whamcloud Cofounder and CEO Brent Gorda still is waiting to sign thedotted line with his company's first custome...
Many a techie is looking at the cloud and seeing the shape of the future -- but that shape is often starkly defined by the data center, leaving little room for visions of mobile. Yet the cloud will undoubtedly shape-shift mobile devices in fascinating and often unexpected ways "The cloud is the perfect ying to mobile devices yang," Oxygen Cloud CEO...
Intel on Monday announced that 12 new netbooks based on its dual-coremobile Intel Atom processors, code-named "Pine Trail," are nowavailable These are available from eight vendors, including Acer, Asus, Lenovoand Toshiba. Other vendors will announce their new netbooks runningthe N550 soon, Intel said....
HP has made an eyebrow-raising counterbid for a data storage company that Dell is trying to acquire. Last week, Dell made a play for 3Par, offering US$1.15 billion. HP has topped that offer with its own bid of $1.6 billion -- a 33 percent premium on Dell's $18 per share bid, and a huge premium for 3Par, whose shares were trading at $9.65 before Dell made its first offer...
Computer users today face a new round of attacks that pose newchallenges to both consumers and businesses. These new attack vectorsoften sidestep traditional security defenses. Hackers, supported byinternational crime gangs with deep pockets, are accostingconsumers and office workers with sophisticated technology The threat landscape is changing. H...
As e-commerce continues to evolve at a record pace, websites must keep up with the ever-changing demands of increasingly knowledgeable and sophisticated online shoppers. Companies need to enhance their online presence by applying modern techniques and technologies -- from dynamic personalization, social shopping, mobile sites and location-based ti...
I just finished both reading The Big Lie, a fabulous book if you are into board room dynamics and disasters, and doing massive coverage on the HP Mark Hurd scandal. It is, however, a little unnerving to see some of the most powerful people in the world behave worse than six-year-olds My own management training forces a process that focuses on the ...
Nokia on Friday announced that it will purchase San Francisco-based mobile analytics firm Motally The Finnish mobile phone giant did not disclose what it's paying for Motally, but it said the transaction is scheduled to close in the third quarter....
Facebook rolled out its Places feature this week to much fanfare -- so much, in fact, that the official Facebook Blog has an update note posted that users who are unable to access the service should try back soon to see if they can check in. The app, available on the iPhone as part of Facebook for iPhone and available to all other mobile users through the touch.facebook.com website, allows people to indicate their location in the physical world to all their Facebook friends in the virtual world...
A US$30 billion information technology market is hard to pass up. That's why the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) program to invest that huge amount of money in health records technology has received a lot of attention in the IT vendor community. That's normal. It is decidedly unusual, however, for Congressional committees to co...
This story was originally published on May 19, 2010, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. By this point, most businesses understand that they exist in a new reality -- the reality that allows customers to communicate with them and with each other in new, faster and in a more pervasive way. Some businesses are actuall...
In the March 2010 Aberdeen benchmark report "Multi-Site and Campus-Area Wireless LANs: Advantages of the Centralized Approach," 163 institutions were surveyed regarding their use of multi-site and campus-area ("non-site-contiguous") wireless local area networks (WLANs). This article provides an analysis into the pressures driving the higher educat...
Research In Motion, maker of BlackBerry mobile phones and the new Torch handset, is looking to make a play in the mobile ad market. That's according to a report in The Wall Street Journal that quotes "people familiar with the matter" as saying that RIM has held talks with mobile ad firm Millennial Media. Those talks broke down over acquisition price, said the sources. Millenial was asking between US$400 and $500 million, a price that RIM executives felt was far too high...
Chipmaker Intel on Thursday announced that it will acquire computer security vendor McAfee for about US$7.8 billion The deal will create a behemoth that may improve the semiconductor's position in the burgeoning mobile and cloud computing fields....
Foursquare began nudging social networks out of the virtual world and into the real one when it launched its "location-awareness" service roughly a year ago. On Wednesday, Facebook pushed real-world social networking smack into the mainstream by unveiling a location awareness service of its own The new service, called "Facebook Places," allows Face...
An overture by WikiLeaks to the U.S. Defense Department to collaborate on sanitizing classified documents on the Afghan war before the whistleblowing website makes the material public has been spurned by the federal agency "[T]he Department of Defense will not negotiate some 'minimized' or 'sanitized' version of a release by WikiLeaks of additional...
About 15 years ago, I had an office next door to Barry Green. At the time, our businesses had nothing in common. I was a wireless analyst and he was in healthcare. I recently got a call out of the blue from Barry asking for my help in evaluating an opportunity. When I took a look at what he was doing, I realized the world has changed dramatically. Suddenly, our previously unrelated businesses of wireless and healthcare were crashing together.
A funny thing happened to open source CRM over the last few years: It stopped being all about open source and started being about delivering CRM -- at least, for some vendors. That shift makes sense. Customers of CRM products want applications that meet their business needs, not their desire to have access to the source code. That access is a bonu...
Cable premium channel HBO has all but come right out to say it intends to compete head-to-head with online streaming video service Netflix. That's according to comments HBO co-president Eric Kessler made in an interview with Bloomberg. Remaining exclusive has a value of its own, Kessler said, and it can command a hefty price tag when consumers want the content badly enough...
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