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- CBS Evening News: Cyber-security at the Olympics
- Overseas travelers are being warned that personal information sent out electronically can be stolen. Bob Orr talks with National Counterintelligence Executive Joel Brenner on cyber-security in China.
- Videos 2008-08-08
- Bright idea: Verdiem offers free energy-monitoring software
- I've written a fair amount about Verdiem, which sells enterprise power management software called Surveyor that happens to be loaded up onto some of Hewlett-Packard's green-er PC models. Well, this week the company is releasing a free consumer application called Edison that can be used to manage your desktop computer's...
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- IBM: Linux in 2018?
- At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, IBM executive Bob Sutor talks about what a desktop will mean in the future, saying it will focus more on mobile devices like iPhones and collaborations across platforms. He then calls for better graphics designers in the open-source world to make them easier...
- Videos 2008-08-07
- Video: IBM: Linux in 2018?
- At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, IBM executive Bob Suter talks about what a desktop will mean in the future, saying it will focus more on mobile devices like iPhones and collaborations across platforms. He then calls for better graphics designers in the open-source world to make them easier...
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Time Warner's Olympic boost, courtesy NBC
- If you're Jeff Bewkes, the chief executive of Time Warner, you might get pleasantly surprised over the next couple weeks at the number of your Time Warner Cable subscribers who use their Internet connections to access streams of video of the 25 sports being sent live via www.nbcolympics.com. ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- When IT culture changes with or without you
- Are you suddenly a bad fit for your IT department?Workplace culture is one of those terms you hear HR professionals, executive strategists and job boards throw around all the time, but what it means is generally less clear--and usually depends on who's doing the talking. HR pros often speak about...
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Managing risk in your career
- At the Women Tech Executive Roundtable at the Churchill Club, panelists discuss how to balance risk and responsibilities and how to see an uncertainty as an opportunity. Speakers include Gina Bianchini of Ning, Charlene Li of Forrester Research, Carol Mills of Adobe, and moderator Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad Venture...
- Videos 2008-08-06
- The social media corporate identity crisis
- The recent "hijacking" of the ExxonMobil brand for Twitter use made a whoosh as the news traveled around the socialsphere. It also brought into view a lot of questions around brand validity and responsibility in terms of social networking. Joel Postman, principal of Socialized, authored this guest piece on the...
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- IOC puts Beijing Games highlights on YouTube
- Clips and highlights of Olympic events are to be made available on the Google-owned video-sharing site YouTube. BEIJING--Clips and highlights of Olympic events are to be made available on the video-sharing site YouTube, owned by Google, under an agreement with the International Olympic Committee, the IOC said in a...
- News items 2008-08-05
- Churchill Club video: Women tech leaders
- At the Women Tech Executive Roundtable at the Churchill Club, moderator Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners asks Charlene Li, formerly of Forrester Research, how she rose to such an influential role. Li explains how she gained confidence, got a few speaking tips, and gives her strategy for standing...
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Making the call: Distinguishing yourself among executives
- At the Women Tech Executive Roundtable at the Churchill Club, moderator Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners asks Charlene Li, formerly of Forrester Research, how she rose to such an influential role. Li explains how she gained confidence, got a few speaking tips, and gives her strategy for standing...
- Videos 2008-08-04
- Schoolyard antics take Microhoo drama to new level
- Something doesn't smell quite right here. Techcrunch reports earlier today that Jonathan Miller, former AOL chief executive and one of the names that popped up as part of Team Icahn on the newly expanded Yahoo board, has been blocked from serving on that board by a non-compete...
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Community solar: "Why don't they get it in Washington?"
- The man from the bank stood in front of the small gathering and talked about solar energy and why his bank helped put together a community solar project in my new hometown: Ashland, Oregon. Bank of the Cascades, Executive Vice President, Bill Haden, said he explained the...
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Yahoo's Bostock says Board "called the shots" about Microsoft.
- updated: Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock takes the stage to address shareholders. The bottom line: The handling of the Microsoft proposal was handled by the board from the beginning. "We called the shots and we were deeply involved in every step of the way... Our Number One prirority...
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Yahoo's shareholders chance to talk
- In most cases, a shareholder's meeting is usually a sleeper. But today, all eyes are on Yahoo's meeting, underway now at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. It's up in the air as to how much excitement there will be now that the company and investor Carl Icahn, who is...
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- My Awesome IT Job: Senior vice president, CA
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that love their work. ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- The Ultimate Geek Vending Machine
- Imagine my surprise when I spotted this vending machine on a recent trip to Minneapolis. Stationed in Concourse E of the Lindbergh terminal of Minneapolis-St. Paul International, this machine has been in operation at least since late 2007. Although this machine is missing the essentials such...
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- The empty debate over open source security
- Guest editorial by Roger Thornton Last week, Fortify published a study on adoption of security best-practices within the Open Source community. Given mounting risk posed by extensive use of Open Source technologies within business and government IT, we were gratified to see the passionate discussions that followed....
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Mulling the impact of new Reg FD guidance
- While most commenters on the new Reg FD guidance are understandably cautious, I'm going to stick my neck out. Trying to parse the opaque language used in the guidance is not easy, couched as it is in unhelpfully vague terms. That doesn't stop the social media mavens...
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- Eight pitfalls of predictive markets
- Predictive markets sound like such a great idea for determining what will work in the market and what won't. But misplaced trust in these markets can spell gloom and doom for many an organization. Here then are eight problems you'll want to avoid as...
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
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