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- Why are we ignoring Moore's Law?
- In 1965, Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors on a chip would double every year. That was updated by Moore to two years and updated again by Intel to 18 months. According to Moore, this was a "lucky guess" based on just a few points of...
- Tags: Gordon Moore, Law, Mark Burgess, Mainframes, Strategy, Servers, Hardware, Management, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Choosing a free alternative to Microsoft Office
- Once upon a time, if you were using software that you had acquired free, you were a pirate and doing something wrong. Those days are gone forever as people have begun to embrace a new concept. Free is good. And it's legal. While this is not a...
- Tags: Information Technology, Environment, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Should I leave the laptop at home? That should be a policy decision
- On April 23rd I wrote about the Ninth Circuit court and their decisions about what is considered private and what isn't. Today a new voice weighs in. The Association of Corporate Travel Executives is now warning its members to limit the amount of proprietary business information...
- Tags: Information, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Laptop Computer, Association Of Corporate Travel Executive, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- What if business buys a Mac?
- CIO Michele Goins of Juniper Networks decided to try an experiment -- one that could prove costly in the end. She chose Mac as the platform of choice for a test group of 600 employees. From her perspective, "If the support costs aren't too high, let's open the...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Desktops, Hardware, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- AMD seeks presence in small to medium business
- AMD has always been an alternative in the consumer market for people trying to get the greatest value for their PC dollar. But in the business PC market, Intel is generally the only name in town. That appears to be about to change. On April...
- Tags: PC, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Small And Medium Business, Desktops, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Court rules that laptop searches at borders is okay
- In a decision that should be hotly contested but likely won't be, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals stated that laptop content may be searched without suspicion of wrongdoing. In short, probable cause doesn't apply. To clarify, if you had questionable content on your laptop in...
- Tags: Agent, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- The technology brain drain
- Why doesn't anyone seem to know that the mentors of the IT department are reaching retirement age? Why isn't it more important? The "heart and soul" of many IT departments is slowly trickling away. What is surprising is that business hardly notices and doesn't seem...
- Tags: Consultant, Knowledge, Information Technology, Workforce, Baby Boomers, Strategy, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Taking it to the ... Web. Starbucks wants your ideas.
- Starbucks understands that consumers talk in a myriad of ways. And one of them is through feedback. Oh sure, they have had comment cards in their stores forever. Have you ever filled one out? Have you ever seen someone fill one out? As...
- Tags: Web, Idea, Customer, Starbucks Corp., Food & Beverage, Portals, Marketing Research, Sales Tools, Manufacturing, Internet, Marketing, Sales, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Taking on a project no one wants to call a project
- A friend of mine was handed an assignment that I often refer to as a "foot bullet." It's the kind of thing that no one pays any attention to until they go to review the budget versus spend for the quarter and find that they're off. And the person who...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Tool, Crystal Reports, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- The impact of the hive mind- all of us are smarter than one of us
- Swarm intelligence is the theory that there are a set of rules that define behavior and that those rules can be distilled to an algorithm. The algorithm can then be used to find good solutions quickly. According to computational scientist Xiaohul Cui of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, swarm...
- Tags: Hive, Rule, Scientology, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- I found it on Craigslist -- an F-14 and night vision goggles
- You would think that the military would be careful about how it disposes of old or outdated equipment. And you may be wrong. Or are we blaming the victim of theft? Rep. Chris Shays (R-Connecticut) pressed a Department of Defense official for answers on how military items...
- Tags: U.S., Craigslist, Item, Vision, Army, Sales Strategy, Taxes, Free Trade, E-business/E-Commerce, Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Financial Planning, Finance, Internet, Management, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- Crimeware-as-a-Service: The next great thing in malicious attacks
- We have all learned the hard ugly truth about malicious software and the proliferation of software available to do horrible things to our computers. But Crimeware-as-a Service? I think that, secretly, many IT professionals give computer criminals very little thought. I, for one, have difficulty conjuring a sinister image....
- Tags: Criminal, Finjan Software Inc., Malicious Attack, Crimeware-as-a-Service, Social Security, Productivity, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Viruses And Worms, Security, Government, Finance, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- The viral meme -- popularity by committee
- It is a phenomenon that we never saw coming. The Internet has the power to reach out and touch us in unique and unexpected ways. And it has a business impact that we can't afford to ignore. Back in January, a group calling themselves Anonymous began what...
- Tags: Song, Internet, Sales Strategy, Corporate Communications, Sales, Marketing, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- See benefits for your organization using "ITIL Lite"
- You work for a smaller business and have been hearing a lot about ITIL. Maybe you've heard how it can cut your costs, or you've seen evidence that it can improve service delivery. But then you take a closer look. At first glance, it looks like ITIL...
- Tags: Benefit, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Storage, Databases, Quality, Business Operations, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Windows XP lives on! Sort of
- Microsoft's popular XP operating system has seen so many death sentences that it may well be referred to as "zombie-ware". Destined to reach "end of life" on June 30, 2008, the software giant is having a limited change of heart. Microsoft has announced that it will...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Microsoft's OOXML becomes an ISO standard
- The vote is in and it appears that Microsoft has won its bid to have OOXML declared an ISO standard according to voting results obtained April 1. Does this mean that Microsoft's fight to become a recognized ISO standard is over? Not really. There is...
- Tags: Commission, Antitrust, ISO, Microsoft Corp., OOXML, ECMA 376, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Corporate Law, Quality, Business Operations, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Vista Capable versus Vista Ready - were graphics drivers to blame?
- Earlier this month, I told you about the class-action lawsuit that had been given the nod by Seattle's Judge Marsha Pechman. As a result of that go-ahead, some 300 documents, including 158 pages of e-mail, were made public. At that time, the discussion was focused on whether Microsoft...
- Tags: Graphics Driver, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Graphics, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Google wants in to the television "white space"
- Google failed to be a player in the FCC auction that recently ended. Indeed, it was described as the "happy losers" in the 700 MHz space, only having been able to secure "open" definitions to insure that third-party apps would have consideration in that space -- something that we...
- Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Spectrum, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Federal Government, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Government, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Comcast considers creepy new addition to the set top box
- I have never been one of the tinfoil hat crowd in the past, but that could change --especially in light of the comments made by Comcast's Gerard Kunkel, senior VP of user experience, to reporter Chris Albrecht of NewTeeVee.com. Mr. Kunkel mentioned an experiment with different camera technologies...
- Tags: Set-top Box, Set-top, Comcast Corp., TV, Camera, PBX Hacking, Tv & Home Theater, Cable, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- When an online group becomes a force to be reckoned with
- Last month, I told you about the Internet group "Anonymous" and their fight against Scientology (The Internet and IRL- have the lines blurred?). At the time, I don't think that I fully appreciated what impact an online group would have against an organization that has a world wide...
- Tags: Scientology, Anonymous, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
