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...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
Read More...Oracle has released a brand new white paper discussing how Oracle EPM is the bridge to Fusion applications. While the white paper does not contain a lot of specific details, it does provide a nice foundation to begin to outline a strategy if an organization is considering moving to Fusion and either has Oracle EPM
Read More...“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.” — Albert Einstein (via SvN) ### More links: MIPRO Consulting main website. MIPRO on Twitter and Facebook. About this blog.
Read More...Know This Steven Soderberg’s media stream: here’s a list of Soderberg’s favorite books, movies, TV shows, plays and short stories he enjoyed over the past year. The science of why we don’t believe in science. Does anyone in Silicon Valley care about Windows anymore? Robert Scoble on the PC-to-Mac ratios he’s seeing in major tech
Read More...This is hardly tech related, but it’s a passion of mine, so please bear with me while I climb atop a nearby soapbox. Ah, there’s one. Ahem. Formula 1 racing is the pinnacle of autosport. It’s widely regarded as the absolute top of the heap, attracting the best of the best, and is not comparable
Read More...CFO/CIO alert! Have you reviewed the cost of your custom interfaces lately, particularly those associated with your “third party” software systems? Best-of-breed app systems have been on the decline for years, as clients realize enormous savings in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by going to mature, integrated ERP software add-on modules, by such providers as
Read More...Know This Longer body, longer life? Amazon introduces $114 ad-supported Kindle to combat Apple’s iPad. A $25 discount to have your reading experience smattered with ads? How about a free Kindle with ads? That’s more like it. I don’t see the $25 incentive as being anywhere near worth the intrusion of ads while you try
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