Quick update today on the news everyone’s (already) talking about, which is that Skype has agreed to be acquired by Microsoft for $8.5B. From Skype’s corporate blog: I’m excited to announce that Skype and Microsoft have entered into a definitive agreement whereby Microsoft will acquire Skype for $8.5 billion US. Once the acquisition closes, Skype
Read More...It might not be the first thing on your mental checklist, but enterprise software consulting firms play a key role in the overall return on investment for K-12 education by implementing applications – in our case Oracle and PeopleSoft, which enable significant organizational efficiencies. In today’s economic climate, K-12 education administrators must be especially mindful
Read More...Ric Elias was a passenger aboard Flight 1549, which crash-landed in the frigid Hudson River in New York in January 2009. As his plane went down, he learned a few things about himself and his life. Here’s his story. [5 minutes, 3 seconds] ### More links: MIPRO Consulting main website. MIPRO on Twitter and Facebook.
Read More...So it’s been a scant two-and-a-half months since I announced an experimental format change for these Friday Linkology posts, and today I have another announcement: we’re going back to the way things were. Meaning, I will begin every Friday post with a preamble, which likely will make little sense, that will murkily tie together some
Read More...Without getting academic about it, Vinnie Mirchandani breaks up technology markets into old and new, which mean, nutshelled, traditional and innovation-driven revenue, respectively. I’ve often looked at it the same way; in fact, one of the reasons I’m linking to Vinnie’s post is because he articulated my thoughts better than I could. Here it is
Read More...Eric Jackson, writing for Forbes.com, on what questions he would ask RIM co-CEO Jim Balsille over a cup of coffee: Last month, when you reiterated your guidance that you cut yesterday, had you done any “confirmation” of the numbers beforehand? Your excuse for cutting the guidance was because you had recently completed some “confirmation” process
Read More...Joe McKendrick, writing for ZDNet’s Service Oriented: Although its been a challenge to wring benefits out of bottomless pit investments in enterprise software, the study says things are drifting slowly in the right direction. 2010 marked the first year that organizations collectively achieved an average effective usage rate greater than 50%, the survey finds —
Read More...We’re pretty thrilled to see our good friends and partner Blue Dot Solutions highlighted on Bruce Kyle’s MSDN Channel 9 blog demoing their Advanced Mobile 311 solution. Says Kyle: Blue Dot’s Advanced Mobile 311 solution is an innovative crowd-sourcing solution for Public Sector that enables citizens to quickly and easily create non-emergency Service Requests through
Read More...Know This The PlayStation Network was (badly) hacked, and 75M user accounts were compromised. What’s been taken? Passwords, billing information, and likely credit cards. If you our your children game on the PlayStation network, you need to know the details. Here they are. A biologist’s postdoc student wanted to buy a book about flies. In
Read More...Mitch Albom did a story recently that really hit home for me personally and I imagine it will for others as well. It’s entitled, The College That Rejects You May Do You a Favor. Our second daughter is going through the college application/decision process. While our first daughter pretty much knew where she wanted to
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