Technology Today

• Project tradition and IT culture [cartoon]

  Picking up on my post about failed IT culture, Oliver Widder has drawn another great Geek and Poke cartoon: Sadly, this cartoon describes the norm in many organizations, where projects ...

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

  Oct 06, 2008 4:20 PM PDT

• Yahoo: Shares dip to 5-year low; AOL deal this month?

  Things just keep getting worse for Yahoo. The company's stock reached a five-year low today, closing at $15.31 - or less than half of the $31 per share that Microsoft ...

  Tags: America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz, Business Structures, Google Inc.

  Oct 06, 2008 3:42 PM PDT

• Authorizing and clearing transactions

  Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa, describes how they are competing in the global marketplace. He also outlines their data processing strategies and how their technology operations are giving the company ...

  Tags: Management, Strategy, Administrator

  Oct 06, 2008 3:03 PM PDT

• Moving quickly with tap-and-go technology

  Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa, expresses what innovation means to him in different areas—such as their PayWave technology, which gives users the ability to send and receive money from anywhere. ...

  Tags: Management, Strategy, Leadership, Technology, Administrator

  Oct 06, 2008 2:58 PM PDT

• Handling holiday peak periods

  Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa, explains how he tests Visa's systems for dealing with high volume times, and how high those peaks can really go. by Administrator

  Tags: Visa Inc., Administrator

  Oct 06, 2008 2:56 PM PDT

• Student Technology Day: Steve Ballmer Q&A

  There was quite a lot to transcribe out, and many questions asked. Some questions put to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, include: Will we always need programmers? What's Microsoft's input ...

  Tags: Zack Whittaker, Question, Laughter, Marketing, India, Social Networking, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows, Programmer, Operating Systems

  Oct 06, 2008 2:12 PM PDT

• iPhone hits another security speedbump

  Apple's ongoing struggles with poor security-related design choices have extended to the iPhone.  According to security researcher Aviv Raff, everyone's favorite mobile device is vulnerable to two separate security weaknesses ...

  Tags: Spam, Ryan Naraine, Spam And Phishing, Apple Inc., Spamming, Image, Security, Apple iPhone

  Oct 06, 2008 1:28 PM PDT

• With Systinet 3.0, HP broadens SOA governance role to encompass services lifecycle, business processes, IT service management

  The movement is to expand SOA governance, but perhaps more importantly, expand governance in general across more of what IT touches. Rules, roles, business context, policy, development-to-deployment lifecycles, operational efficiency, ...

  Tags: Management, Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), IT Service Management, Information Technology, Strategy, Dana Gardner, HP SOA Systinet 3.0, SOA, Enterprise Software

  Oct 06, 2008 1:13 PM PDT

• Startups listen up: you've got a pricing problem

  Just about every new product coming to market is being offered as a service rather than packaged software. But pricing remains something of a mystery. A while back, I started ...

  Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dennis Howlett, Pricing, Marketing Research, Web Application, Smb/Sme, Small And Medium Enterprise, Marketing, Pricing Strategy, Phil Wainewright

  Oct 06, 2008 12:33 PM PDT

• CEATEC Roundup: Sony's 0.3mm OLED display, Sharp's solar-power TV, Panasonic's LifeWall concept

  While we all wait around until January for the Consumer Electronics Show, an event like CEATEC Japan can give us a taste of the future for home theater. And since ...

  Tags: TV, Wall, Sean Portnoy, 3D, Construction, Sony Corp., Sharp Corp., Organic Light-emitting Diode, Panasonic

  Oct 06, 2008 12:28 PM PDT

• Microsoft starts sharing details on SQL Server 'Kilimanjaro'

  Just a couple of months after releasing to manufacturing SQL Server 2008, Microsoft is starting to offer details about its next release of its flagship database. That product, code-named "Killimanjaro," ...

  Tags: Management, Pricing, Kilimanjaro, Marketing, Team, Project Madison, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques

  Oct 06, 2008 12:26 PM PDT

• Test drive: First checkpoint-friendly computer bag

  Back in August TSA issued new guidelines for travelers with notebook computers that would, for the first time, allow passengers to keep them in their bags while passing through the ...

  Tags: Tom Bihn, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, CheckPoint Flyer, Jason D. O\'Grady, Computer

  Oct 06, 2008 12:08 PM PDT

• Linux ready to replace Windows? Not yet?

  Is Linux ready to replace Windows on the desktop? Linux advocates think that light, cheap netbooks show off the advantages of an open-source OS over Windows. Out in the real ...

  Tags: Linux, Operating Systems, Open Source, Ed Bott, Software, UNIX, Microsoft Windows

  Oct 06, 2008 11:28 AM PDT

• The Secrets of CEOs

  I just finished reading an advance US manuscript of 'The Secrets of CEOs - 150 Global Chief Executives lift the lid on business, life and leadership' by Steve Tappin, who ...

  Tags: Management, Oliver Marks, Collaboration, Strategy, Software, CEO, Enterprise Software, Groupware

  Oct 06, 2008 11:20 AM PDT

• WSO2 eases enterprise data availability for SOA access, consumption

  In its initial release, the application supports access to data stored in relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL and IBM DB2, as well as the comma-separated values CSV file format, ...

  Tags: Database Administrator, Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Management, Dana Gardner, Enterprise Software, SOA, Data Service, Web, Databases

  Oct 06, 2008 11:16 AM PDT

• iPhone sales: 10 million yet?

  When it comes to product inventory, there's a clear distinction between what's been manufactured and what's been sold. And sales figures also need to take into consideration other factors, such ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Sales, Sales Strategy, Apple Inc., Sam Diaz, Sales Force Management, Apple iPhone, Consumer Electronics, Smart Phones

  Oct 06, 2008 11:14 AM PDT

• iPhone 2.2 features trickle out

  iPhone 2.2 firmware beta 1 seeded to developers on 25 September 2008 contains some hints at more new features coming to the mobile OS, despite a changelog that lists only ...

  Tags: Firmware, Apple iPhone, Jason D. O\'Grady, Google Inc.

  Oct 06, 2008 11:06 AM PDT

• 30% of iPhone 3G buyers switched to AT&T from other carriers

  30% of US consumers who purchased Apple iPhone 3G in the summer of 2008 switched from other mobile carriers to join AT&T, the exclusive mobile carrier for the iPhone in ...

  Tags: 3G, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, AM, Apple iPhone 3G, Carrier, Apple iPhone, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, AT&T Corp.

  Oct 06, 2008 11:05 AM PDT

• 46% of social networking users visited mobile social networks

  According to ABI Research, 46% of those who use social networks have also visited a social network through a mobile phone. Of these, nearly 70% have visited MySpace and another ...

  Tags: Network, Advertising & Promotion, AM, Online Communications, Marketing, Social Networking, Mobile

  Oct 06, 2008 10:55 AM PDT

• SAP: Business drop was 'sudden and unexpected'; Credit crunch hurt IT financing

  SAP said Monday its business fell off in September as the company warned that its third quarter wouldn't meet its previous targets as a broad swath of customers delayed information ...

  Tags: Management, SAP AG, Financial Accounting, Finance, Tools & Techniques, Information Technology, Larry Dignan, Strategy, Software, Revenue

  Oct 06, 2008 10:47 AM PDT

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