Five Customer Reasons For and Five Customer Reasons Against the HP purchase of EDS
What do customers get from an HP purchase of EDS? A bigger stack but can a hardware company find happiness in also offering business services?
Technology
May 13, 2008
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:20 AM/EST
May 5, 2008
Monday, May 05, 2008 11:14 AM/EST
Tech Products Needed For Hard Times
What are the tech products or services you need to help you through a difficult economy? A food co-op tied to a social network? An easy way to manage your home's energy consumption. I came up with ten ideas, but I'd like to hear from you.
April 24, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:39 AM/EST
The New Rules For Tech Etiquette
I've become a fan of the recharge stations sprouting at the airline terminals. However, those terminals aren't everywhere and what should you do when your battery charge indicator is hitting zero while the guy with the 100% charge is hogging the only outlet to be found in JFK? Is there a new set of tech etiquette rules? Yes, or at least I'm trying to start the ball rolling here with a slideshow with the new rules of tech etiquette.
April 16, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 8:17 AM/EST
The five tech rules of GM.'s Ralph Szygenda
If you have the chance, read through Stan Gibson's interview of General Motors CIO Ralph Szygenda. Ralph is as close to the dean of CIOs as you will find in the U.S. He was early at redefining the role of corporate technology to be based on service agreements with hard benchmarks, redefining the role of those working for him as business and technology service managers rather than simply tech gurus and, more recently, helping a struggling G.M. use its worldwide design network to become a global auto competitor rather than U.S. centric company doing much of its business elsewhere.I've pulled out what I think are the five tech rules, Ralph might want to change the list a bit, but these are my takeaways from the interview
April 1, 2008
Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:52 PM/EST
FCC Chairman Martin Opposes Skype Petition
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said he will recommend dismissal of a controversial petition from Skype. Speaking at the annual CTIA convention in Las Vegas, the call for dismissal by FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin drew applause.
In February, Skype petitioned the FCC to stop wireless carriers from setting limits on subscribers' right to run software communications applications of their choosing. The blog Ars Technica has a good description of the petition.
March 26, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:23 PM/EST
Spectrum: Free And Worth Billions
The frequency spectrum is unlimited. How can the FCC auction off an unlimited resource?
February 26, 2008
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 2:27 PM/EST
Lundquist's Six Better IT Budget Cutting Steps
The analysts over at Gartner recently said that now is the time to cut the IT budget and they provided six steps to get the job done. The six steps play off advice offered by the company last fall which said CIOs should prepare two budgets: one that should reflect the numbers handed down from the company execs and another one held in reserve should the economy deteriorate. Gartner has called in the reserves. So, are you going to chop your budget and offer up the savings without being asked? Has anyone in any corporate position ever done this act of budget hari kari? Not to my knowledge. The wiser move is to accelerate those projects which offer cost savings. I'll offer up a couple of ideas. But first, here are Gartner's six steps. Step 1 -- Don't Wait for the Cost-Cutting Mandate from Management History proves that many...
February 7, 2008
Thursday, February 07, 2008 2:03 PM/EST
Fiber cable choke points
fiber cable is easy to tap and does move through some geographic choke points which does necessarily mean sabotage
January 14, 2008
Monday, January 14, 2008 11:29 AM/EST
IBM's Very Good Year
IBM's release of preliminary financials show a company building an international services business that can withstand any downturn in the U.S. tech economy
January 10, 2008
Thursday, January 10, 2008 10:13 AM/EST
New Tata Car For $2,500 And A Laptop For $75
Lots of attention being given to Tata Motors ability to introduce a small, five passenger car for $2,500 . If Tata can come up with a car that resets the pricing model of the car industry, does all that talk of an under $100 laptop really seem that extreme? I remember an email exchange I had with (former) One Laptop Per Child CTO Mary Lou Jepson. Jepson at OLPC did what she said she would: came up with a new laptop display technology that was cheaper, better and more energy efficient than anything else around. Now she has formed a company Pixel Qi which as their website states is pursuing a $75 laptop. That would be a price that would change the laptop industry just as Tata's $2,500 car will change the auto industry. I wrote about that new display technology in 2006 and the article includes a more...
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