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The economy is blamed for most everything these days and it's getting a big rap in news reports showing the growth of Internet advertising seems to be slowing, according to The Wall Street Journal .... More >
As Macworld tries to adjust to life without Apple's participation, the expo will move from January to February, reports Ars Technica . The 2010 event will be Feb. 9-13 in San Francisco's Mosc... More >
Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile USA have agreed to adopt the best practices of the Mobile Marketing Association, reports mocoNews.net . The move is expected to save $200 mi... More >
Is anybody making money off Twitter? The NBA is, according to Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. The NBA has fined Cuban $25,000 for criticizing the officiating in Denver's 103-101 win over Dallas, r... More >
The San Jose Mercury News does a post-mortem on networking startup Hammerhead Systems , which closed March 19 after being considered poised to take on Cisco at one point. The economy kept po... More >
During the next two months, Amazon says it will close distribution centers in Red Rock, Nev.; Munster, Ind.; and Chambersburg, Pa., reports The New York Times . The 210 affected employees w... More >
Twitter has moved up its timeframe for making money with plans to offer business accounts this year, reports Reuters . Not that it's actually figured out how to make money yet, mind you, but it's ... More >
Boston venture capital firm Spark Capital has launched a seed fund for small Web businesses in New York and Boston, reports Xconomy . Start@Spark will offer up to $250,000 to startups work... More >
Most companies think of innovation as developing "the next big thing," when making small improvements to processes can radically alter the landscape by cutting costs or the time required to produce... More >
Tech folks in Massachusetts have been bandying about ideas for boosting innovation in the area. Xconomy's Wade Roush wrote that the state shouldn't worry so much about pitching itself as an i... More >
A venture by Federated Media and sponsored by Microsoft called ExecTweets shows one way that Twitter could make money , reports Mashable . The wildly popular microblogging service so far has... More >
We're all sick of that "do more with less" mantra, but the Web 2.0 conference next week in San Francisco is running with that theme. Its Web page states: These are the times when bureaucracy and wa... More >
The federal government needs help on the front end to effectively manage stimulus spending , not bashing on the back end because it didn't do it right, reports The Washington Post . The auth... More >
If you measure innovation in the number of U.S. patents , then there's only three U.S. companies in the top 10 in 2008, reports the San Francisco Chronicle . IBM, Microsoft and GE made the l... More >
A group of federal employees is pushing for better knowledge management across federal agencies, especially in how to disperse the federal stimulus funds, reports FederalComputerWeek . In a... More >
For a fun break, check out Justin James' blog post on TechRepublic, "10 management techniques we'd love to see." Here's a sample: No. 1. Pro Wresting Project Management: ...p... More >
Google and marketing and communications company WPP Group have teamed up to back scientific research on how online advertising affects consumer behavior and how that differs from traditional advert... More >
The province of Ontario plans to invest more than $200 million Canadian (US$157.5 million) in emerging technology to ease the tight market for venture capital, reports Reuters . The money w... More >
In these tough times, this mycustomer.com piece recommends using a balanced scorecard to ensure that all the cuts required in this economy don't mean a loss in customer service. That means making s... More >
Bob Champagne, chairman and CEO of ePerformance Group International, recommends an "inside out" rather than "top down" structure for performance management amid heavy outsourcing. In this piec... More >
Despite the tight budgets in this economy, spending is increasing on social media marketing , reports ReadWriteWeb . According to a Forrester research survey of 145 global interactive market... More >
Though many companies look at process improvement strategies such as Lean and Six Sigma to improve efficiency and cut costs, oilfield services provider Halliburton instead used them to better dea... More >
Stanford professor Behnam Tabrizi, who wrote the book "Rapid Transformation: A 90-day Plan for Fast and Effective Change," calls for "fast and ruthless execution" to produce effective change. The b... More >
Instead of cutting people as a first response in these tough times, CIOs should be insisting that vendors share the economic pain , according to Computerworld . Dale Frantz, CIO at Auto Ware... More >
According to the Association for Computer Operations Management, budget cuts could be the biggest threat facing some data centers , and could cause one out of every four data centers to experience a... More >
Social-networking sites have overtaken e-mail as the primary online communications medium, reports TG Daily , citing a report from Neilsen Online. The report says two-thirds of online users... More >
Moody's has put 283 companies on its "Bottom Rung," businesses it believes are most likely to default on their debt. Under fire for missing this behemoth mortgage mess, the credit-rating firm says it... More >
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Barbara Liskov has been named the winner of the 2008 A.M. Turing Award , the most prestigious prize in computer science, reports The Boston Globe . &... More >
A major search-advertising trade organization has revised downward its forecast for the year as the economy continues its slide, reports The Wall Street Journal . Based on a survey of 890 s... More >
Sure, this recession is tough on so many levels, but there's an upside to it, too, writes Bart Perkins on CIO.com . For one, it's the perfect time to rid your organization of that all-too-fre... More >
Many companies are being overly cautious about IT spending in the down economy, writes Butler Group analyst Richard Edwards, when business-performance management software should be considered mission... More >
It's one of the constants of life, but also one of the most painful: change. Author Rick Maurer has launched what he calls an "open source project," which is a Web site offering free access ... More >
Redmond Channel Partner Online takes Microsoft's recent decision to pull the Performance Point Server as a standalone product as further evidence of the commoditization of business intelligence. &nb... More >
Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen returned to the theme of the "dynamic enterprise" in his keynote at the company's annual enterprise forum in Paris, reports vnunet.com . The company wants t... More >
The subsidy business model worked so well on phones, AT&T's offering to help pay the cost of netbooks to lure customers to sign two-year service contracts, reports FierceWireless . In f... More >
If there's any good news in this recession, it's aimed at vendors of business intelligence software , according to BusinessWeek . With a crush of pressure to cut costs, companies increasingly are t... More >
U.S.-based Micron Technology is trying to convince the Taiwanese government that it should have a role in any restructuring of that nation's memory chip manufacturers, reports Reuters . Tai... More >
Companies increasingly are turning to systems that provide real-time data about sales combined with historical data to provide better analytics called "demand-signal management," according to Inf... More >
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