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August 31, 2009

Collaboration Takes Center Stage at HP Labs

The San Francisco Chronicle takes a look at what's been happening within HP Labs since it restructured its research efforts more than a year ago.   HP cut the number of projects from roughl... More >

Microsoft Hosts 'Screw Google' Meetings?

Microsoft's top lobbyist in Washington, D.C., convenes weekly meetings with outside consultants and hired public-relations people to devise strategies to undermine Google, according to the AOL site ... More >

Apple iPhone App Store Brings in Millions

It's no wonder everybody wants to have an app store. Mobile advertising outfit AdMob reports Apple sells $200 million worth of iPhone applications each month -- that's $2.4 billion a year.   I... More >

August 26, 2009

Emerging Markets Expected to Fuel Mobile Advertising

Juniper Research predicts worldwide spending on advertising on the wireless Web will reach nearly $2 billion by 2014 from $500 million this year, fueled primarily by markets such as India and China... More >

August 25, 2009

Apple Ads Poke Back at Microsoft

Apple continues the tit-for-tat with Microsoft in two new ads. They feature a red-haired woman looking to buy a computer, an obvious reference to Lauren in one of Microsoft's "Laptop Hunters" ads. ... More >

Study Finds Money in the Budget for Cloud Computing

Though companies may not agree on exactly what cloud computing is, two-thirds of IT managers in a recent survey have money for it in their budgets , reports InformationWeek.   The June survey ... More >

Wedding Registry for a Tech Startup

Though it's considered tacky to ask people for money rather than wedding gifts, a Silicon Valley couple is asking for help getting their startup off the ground in lieu of wedding gifts, reports Th... More >

August 20, 2009

Be Ready for Changes in IT Services

In a piece on CIO.com , Christine Ferrusi, a vice president and research director at Forrester Research, looks at the future of IT services and what you can do to prepare.   The market is cha... More >

Putting Social Networks to Work

This Information Management article delves into how to take a page from social networks to perform business functions such as to foster teamwork, organize around a project or build a knowledge ba... More >

August 19, 2009

PowerPoint's Bullet-Point Problem

Here's another article calling PowerPoint presentations the very definition of snoozeville.   A previous CIO.com article made the point that over-reliance on slides means you don't adequately ... More >

Tech Execs Optimistic About 2010

Tech executives polled by KPMG expect their industry to recover from the economic downturn faster than the economy as a whole, reports TG Daily .   In fact, two thirds as a whole said so, whi... More >

August 18, 2009

Planning for BI Success

Dave Hatch, vice president and group director of technology research at Aberdeen Group, talks about the planning required for a successful business intelligence initiative in this IT Jungle piece... More >

Business Plan in a Nutshell? No, Make it a Tweet

There's the KISS  -- Keep It Simple, Sam (or some people end it with "Stupid") -- mantra for focus in your business plan. But billionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson's idea of having you tweet y... More >

August 17, 2009

Microsoft Calls Research an Investment that Pays

This New York Times column looks at research labs at the likes of IBM, Hewlett-Packard and General Electric that have been somewhat forced to become more open in the Internet era.   A second... More >

Web Testing Spurs Innovation

Technology is making it cheaper and faster to test new ideas , making it easier and safer than ever to challenge conventional wisdom, writes The Wall Street Journal.   The result, the story sa... More >

August 13, 2009

Mining Stories, Art out of Data

If the future is in statistics , then it's all about the data -- how to present it, how to analyze it and how to use it.   BusinessWeek 's piece on data visualization talks about being able t... More >

IT Execs Report Intense Pressure to Show ROI

Though IT executives polled by AT&T foresee economic recovery in the first half of 2010, they say it's still going to be a tough row to hoe until then , reports Information Week.   They sa... More >

August 11, 2009

Improving Business-IT Communication

Though it's written for the business boss, not the IT boss, Susan Cramm's piece on Harvard Business Publishing, "How to Answer IT's Annual Cry for Help," offers something for both.   She ref... More >

Downturn Fueling Interest in BPM?

Companies that use business process management will increase spending on BPM by at least 5 percent in the next year, according to a Gartner survey at BPM conferences.   More than a third in th... More >

August 10, 2009

Getting Down to Business on Facebook

Eighty percent of the largest U.S. advertisers promote themselves on Facebook, according to Financial Times , which quotes the social network's figures.   The company says advertisers have ov... More >

August 5, 2009

Aberdeen: Connection Between BI, ERP Not Maximized

Take an integration mindset toward business intelligence and ERP , advise the authors of an Aberdeen report, "The ERP/BI Connection: Adding Value through Actionable Intelligence." Without that appro... More >

August 3, 2009

Gartner: Business Process Management Spending to Rise

Gartner says results of a survey on business process management spending may indicate that it is a way for companies to "do more with less." More than half of surveyed attendees of the Gartner BPM Su... More >

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