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Posted by Larry Dignan @ 2:39 am Year:June 15th, 2007 Source Site:zdnet
June 15th, 2007
News to know: Leopard; Opera Mini; iPhone sightings
Posted by Larry Dignan @ 2:39 am
Categories: General, News to know
Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Opera Software, Beta, Larry Dignan
In Focus ? See more posts on: News to know
Notable headlines:
Photos (right): Fourteen views of Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. Ryan Naraine: Apple plugs three Safari for Windows holes.
Ed Bott: Day 3 with a new Dell and Vista.
Larry Dignan: Opera Mini beta advances mobile Web browsing; Verizon Wireless blocks it at the door.
Satellite companies partner with Clearwire.
Ryan Naraine: Theres a hole in your laptop, dear HP, dear HP.
Mary Jo Foley: Microsofts Live Hotmail-Outlook Connector beta ready for download. Vista Ultimate users want their value-add.
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Posted by Paul Murphy @ 12:15 am Year:June 15th, 2007 Source Site:zdnet
June 15th, 2007
Hiring Qualms
Posted by Paul Murphy @ 12:15 am
Categories: General, Enterprise Policy
Tags: Hiring, Team, Paul Murphy
In an ideal world, the senior IT executive in an organization is a hands-on leader who understands the realities of daily operations and cross-trains his people both to develop their skills and to create opportunities for them to contribute in unanticipated ways.
Unfortunately there arent many organizations like that - instead almost every time Ive had to either make, or contribute to, a hiring decision external factors have out-weighed the real job related ones.
Most of the time those are organizational: things like the HR policies I discussed yesterday, or the organizational absurdity that longer term employees claim to have earnt the righ...
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Posted by Michael Krigsman @ 11:00 pm Year:June 14th, 2007 Source Site:zdnet
June 14th, 2007
Regressive and Poisonous
Posted by Michael Krigsman @ 11:00 pm
Categories: IT issues
Tags: Technology, Michael Krigsman
Walt Mossberg, consumer technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal, called large corporate IT departments the most regressive and poisonous force in technology today. He was giving a speech to 250 university presidents.
Geeze Walt, that wasnt nice at all.
Michael Krigsman is CEO of Asuret, Inc., a software and consulting company dedicated to reducing software implementation failures. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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Posted by Michael Krigsman @ 10:04 pm Year:June 14th, 2007 Source Site:zdnet
June 14th, 2007
7 Failures from Bad RFPs
Posted by Michael Krigsman @ 10:04 pm
Categories: Vendor relationships
Tags: Michael Krigsman
In my experience, many project failures can be traced back to poorly written requests for proposals (RFPs). When you buy the wrong thing, you get the wrong result.
Bart Perkins from Leverage Partners has written about this at InterGovWorld.com. Some points from his article:
RFPs that are unclear generally result in poorly defined service requirements and produce suboptimal results. They increase costs unnecessarily and contribute to disasters down the road. RFPs that are unclear typically cause one or more of the following problems:
Low bids: Unclear requirements may cause some bidders to submit low-priced minimal bids. These providers...
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Posted by Michael Krigsman @ 8:47 pm Year:June 14th, 2007 Source Site:zdnet
June 14th, 2007
Sages and Dunces
Posted by Michael Krigsman @ 8:47 pm
Categories: Project management
Tags: Team, Michael Krigsman
From an unpublished work by Axel Angeli, noted author and project expert:
Sages and Dunces
Projects fail because people are stupid, no doubt. But it is seldom the case that team members are stupid. Rather, management is ignorant, forgetting that team members have specific skills that can be relied upon only in specific domains. While a secretary may be bad at programming, the programmer is probably bad at typing texts.
Michael Krigsman is CEO of Asuret, Inc., a software and consulting company dedicated to reducing software implementation failures. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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Posted by Christopher Dawson @ 8:15 pm Year:June 14th, 2007 Source Site:zdnet
June 14th, 2007
Maple 11 now on Vista
Posted by Christopher Dawson @ 8:15 pm
Categories: Education Technology
Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Christopher Dawson
Maplesoft announced today that it had added Vista support for the latest version of its Maple mathematics software (see It runs on OS X, now it runs on UbuntuStill no Vista). According to an email sent to Maple customers:
Maple? 11 Windows? Vista? support is now available at www.maplesoft.com/vista.
Maple 11 now runs on Windows systems featuring Microsoft’s most recent release, Windows Vista. If you would like to download the Windows Vista version of Maple 11, or order a CD version, please visit: www.maplesoft.com/vista. If you reside outside of the US or Canada you will be pointed to your loc...
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Posted by Christopher Dawson @ 7:57 pm Year:June 14th, 2007 Source Site:zdnet
June 14th, 2007
How many of you give tests online?
Posted by Christopher Dawson @ 7:57 pm
Categories: Education Technology, Classroom Tech
Tags: Administration, Student, Test, Christopher Dawson
I just finished grading all of my finals, calculated final grades, and told my particularly obsessive students if they had passed. However, an emerging trend points toward giving tests, posting grades, and otherwise assessing students online (or at least via some sort of spiffy hardware/software combination). Certainly this is taking place at the college level and an increasing number of high schools are also beginning to use instant feedback mechanisms for micro-quizzes and tests.
While many finals may not be conducive to online administration (its hard for a computer to award part...
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Posted by Michael Krigsman @ 6:26 pm Year:June 14th, 2007 Source Site:zdnet
June 14th, 2007
Avoiding Failure with SaaS
Posted by Michael Krigsman @ 6:26 pm
Categories: Vendor relationships
Tags: Michael Krigsman
CIO Update describes the growing trend toward software as a service (SaaS) products. The artcle argues that SaaS implementations are less expensive and failure-prone than traditional enterprise software deployments:
Before Salesforce.com rolled out its first services in 2001, companies that wanted to keep track of sales leads and pipelines installed customer relationship management (CRM) packages such as Siebels Sales Force Automation. These products were notoriously difficult to implement, with some estimates putting the percentage of CRM licenses relegated to shelfware as 50-to-75 percent. Why? CRM packages are expensive to buy, they ar...
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Posted by Michael Krigsman @ 5:20 pm Year:June 14th, 2007 Source Site:zdnet
June 14th, 2007
Project Planning and Failure in the Mid-Market
Posted by Michael Krigsman @ 5:20 pm
Categories: Project management
Tags: Michael Krigsman
In an article on SearchCIO, several CIOs discuss project planning as a driver in making mid-market IT projects successful. A few quotes:
Experts say project management brings clarity and can help keep everyone on the same page. Without a project manager, expectations that are not constantly tweaked and adjusted can quickly get out of alignment.
Projects have to have milestones to meet, said Marvin Stone, CIO at New Century Title Co., a San Diego-based title insurance firm. You have to have deadlines, and consequences if theyre not met.
Still, many midmarket companies are just starting to realize the value of a good pro...
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Posted by Russell Shaw @ 3:35 pm Year:June 14th, 2007 Source Site:zdnet
June 14th, 2007
Black, BlackBerry Curve rumored
Posted by Russell Shaw @ 3:35 pm
Categories: BlackBerry Rumors, BlackBerry Curve 8300
Tags: RIM BlackBerry, Russell Shaw
First of all, chill. Thats a mock-up.
BlackBerry Cool was contacted last night by what BBCs Doug Soltys terms a a friend who works for a prominent BlackBerry Alliance member.
Doug notes that this friend told him about a black-colored BlackBerry Curve that may well be in development.
Doug opines this could be a test or trial unit. BlackBerry often sends these mock-ups to Alliance partners for design reactions, real-world usage testing, and sometimes both.
Because the Curve- like the BlackBerry Pearl- is more design-driven than most other BBs, I tend to go along with the assumption that this black BlackBer...
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Posted by Dan Farber @ 3:23 pm Year:June 14th, 2007 Source Site:zdnet
June 14th, 2007
Podcast: Safari for Windows, eBay APIs, the Net OS and more
Posted by Dan Farber @ 3:23 pm
Categories: General, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, Between the Lines podcast, Apple, SaaS, iPhone
Tags: Podcast, Operating System, API, Microsoft Windows, Web Browser, eBay Inc., Dan Farber
This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss the impact of Safari for Windows and opening up the iPhone to Web developers via the Safari engine. Its a good move for Apple despite the lack of support for creating native Mac OS X applications. Phil Windley agrees: The Web as platform (more specifically Safari in this case) is an idea that is more democratic, more open, and ultimately more innovative than a mere SDK with the lock-in that tha...
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In case that 19-incher was just a hair too small, Buffalos cranking out a slightly larger panel in its FTD lineup by offering up the 20.1-inch FTD-W2025ADSR. Aside from the unnecessarily long name, this unit rocks a 16:10 aspect ratio, 1,680 × 1,050 resolution, 800:1 contrast ratio, 5-millisecond response time, and a 160-degree viewing angle. Additionally, youll find a pair of skull-rattling one-watt speakers, DVI / VGA
inputs, and an RoHS-approved logo to keep those energy costs minimized. Buffalos apparently aiming for the trendy crowd, as it offers the panel in both black and white frames, and while were not really feeling those feet on the stand, you can pick this one up later this month for a currently undisclosed price.