Software patents are vitally important to all companies in the high tech arena. Now an analysis by John F. Duffy -- the leading patent scholar who engineered the Supreme Court strategy for the ground-shifting KSR v. Teleflex decision -- suggests that the new U.S. Patent and Trademark Office position on...
The Find: Recent research reveals almost all of us vastly underestimate the number of people willing to offer help if confronted with a direct request. The Source: New research from Stanford Graduate School of Business reported in the...
For years, high tech has largely been the home of the mass market mindset. Given the marginal cost of new product units, it's little wonder. An additional software license is the cost of a piece of paper and burning a DVD, and for hardware, when you've moved into selling millions...
There's certainly news value to Apple opening an iPhone application store for third party software. But it's easy to misinterpret the potential lesson. As the Times puts it: [CEO Steve] Jobs failed to make his personal computers dominant, in part because software developers did not write as many programs...
Leading businesses rely on Business Intelligence for strategic and operational decision making. Today Phil Dobbie talks to Noel Pettitt, Teradata's Vice President, South Pacific, about the importance of a data warehouse as a repository for your business information. How can it be used and what sort of...
If you run a small or medium business, you know how challenging it can be to keep tabs on all the hardware and software in your organization. Paglo, which bills itself as "a search engine for IT," offers inventory and network management, software auditing, remote monitoring, and alerts. Here's what...
By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - Business software maker VMware Inc VMW issued a revenue outlook on Tuesday that fell far short of expectations, saying customers were delaying purchases or opting for smaller and shorter contracts due to a weak economy. Shares of...
In the old days, copy editors often seemed to be the Rodney Dangerfields of their profession, i.e., they didn't get no respect. At least they had jobs. These days, you can visit many a news organization that doesn't even have any copy editors at...
It's official. Google is now a big time software developer. How can we tell? Its largest software development project ever — the Google Android smartphone platform — will officially be delayed. When Google announced Android in November 2007, it said that Android-powered phones would be available by the second half...
Software as a service has turned into platform as a service (as if we needed another "aaS") and as this application battle royale gets underway developers need to think about these efforts in terms of audience. For instance, Bill Appleton, CTO of DreamFactory, which makes cloudware–rich Internet...
Understand the key trends, spot hot new start ups and track the movements of the big players in digital media through the five most influential sectors in Q1. This package includes separate reports detailing all Merger & Acquisition and Venture Capital deals in: advertising; social media; search; broadcasters & channels;...
With spying software, a criminal can grab your passwords and usernames. Ultimately, you could lose your money or have your identity stolen. That should tell you enough to be wary of public PC terminals. Spies usually use software because it is invisible to the untutored eye. Hardware to do virtually...
You've got antivirus software and firewalls guarding your computers and routers. You religiously download security updates. You've done everything you can think of to stay secure. But your network is still at risk. Why? Because an employee could unwittingly give away the castle's keys. The biggest threat to a computer...
This case study describes problems and opportunities of leveraging musical structure in musical software applications. Musical structure is a generally acknowledged, but often neglected topic in music software and musical data formats. Yet it is important for interactive applications, especially music tuition, music retrieval, and multimedia. Some problems in the...
Basin Electric, headquartered in Bismarck, North Dakota is a consumer-owned cooperative, which supplies power to nine states in the upper Midwest. Basin Electric decided to explore a more cost effective solution for editing their drawings. A little more than two years ago, they purchased 10 copies of GTXRaster CAD raster...
The Severnside prill tower is operated by Terra Nitrogen UK Ltd to manufacture ammonium nitrate fertilizer. Despite a history of regular maintenance and repair parts of the reinforced concrete structure have deteriorated over the years due to the severe operating environment and by 1998 significant structural repairs were required. Taylor...
Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management EPM Solution has been a key factor in building the Design Change Collaborative Management DCCM platform for Nissan Motor Ib?rica, S.A. To manage the engineering changes in the past, Nissan used documents in paper and very basic IT tools. Nissan has implemented a project management...
A $300M developer of biomedical research technology was struggling to identify a long-term product road map that would raise company revenues to $1B. Building off the company's existing product development program, PRTM implemented a comprehensive portfolio management process for guiding decisions surrounding the company's five-year product road map. PRTM also...
Over the decade, companies have spent a huge amount of money installing supply-chain-management software. After looking at 63 high-tech companies that installed supply chain software, the paper distills four guiding principles for success. Unless the software is coupled with improvements in a company's most important supply chain processes as well...
Fully understanding the Project Management Institute's (PMI®) approach to project management can be difficult. Fortunately, if you are trying to prepare for the Project Management Professional (PMP®) exam, an overview is available through Global Knowledge. The Project Management Network Diagram PM Network Diagram provides a visual illustration of the project...
