Throwing good money after bad is idiotic, but it happens all the time. Sales reps, sales teams, and entire companies continue pursue deals and strategies that aren't going to happen, simply because it's too painful to admit that the time and money already spent has been wasted. ...
Anticipating the need to make bold strategic shifts is one of the most pressing tasks facing CEOs and investors. And missing the appropriate window for an effective strategic shift can be dire: A generation ago, Digital Equipment Corporation - then a leader in the minicomputer business - missed the personal...
Stanley Kowalski III Age 39: President and CEO, FloDesign Inc. It's called 'disruptive technology,' or 'disruptive innovation.' That's a marketing term, first coined by Harvard Business professor and author Clayton Christensen, and now widely used to describe a product or service that essentially disrupts, or overturns, the...
LONDON, April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Yoggie Security SystemsTM released the world's first laptop embedded ExpressCard based mini-computer, designed to provide the most comprehensive Internet security. The Gatekeeper Card ProTM, unveiled here at the InfoSecurity Europe conference, contains 13 best-of-breed security applications built directly into the miniature card....
Your mobile phone is about to get a lot cooler. How cool? In the coming months, you'll be able to dictate text messages and surf the Web just by speaking commands -- no tapping or clicking required. If you're trying to figure out where to go to...
NORWALK, Conn. -- Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) announced today the launch of My Deals, a personal widget that appears on the priceline.com home page and displays customized travel deals and offers based on an individual's upcoming trip plans and personal travel preferences. "My Deals delivers the kind of recommendations-rich...
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Twentieth-century computing has seen the rise and fall of several "business computing models" since scientists in white coats ran their first routine on the ENIAC. IBM's white coaters and white-collar workers dominated mainframe computing, until minicomputers and high-powered workstations changed the landscape. Then the internet ...
More on CIO.com Strategic Leadership Competencies The Limits of Running IT Like a Business This orientation toward business results—driving new sales and productivity, increasing customer retention, reducing administrative costs and increasing profit—became my success formula for creating value with IT. MetLife was...
Seamless Wi-Fi, Inc. (OTCBB: SMWF) todayannounced that President John Domerego of Seamless Internet, Inc. will beattending the Capital Home & Garden Show with the famed electronicspersonality Dr. Gadget AKA Dave Dettman. The Capital Home & Garden Showwill run 4 days, February 21st through the 24th. This is the...
M2 PRESSWIRE-7 January 2008-Yoggie Security Systems: Yoggie Security Systems Introduces "Firestick Pico" Hardware Firewall; Ultra-Portable USB Device Protects PCs from Broadest Range of AttacksC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07012008 LAS VEGAS -- Taking a page from its own miniaturization playbook,...
LAS VEGAS, January 7 /PRNewswire/ -- - Ultra-Portable USB Device Protects PCs from Broadest Range of Attacks Taking a page from its own miniaturization playbook, Yoggie Security SystemsTM (exhibiting at 2008 International CES in the Sands Convention Center, Innovation...
LAS VEGAS, January 7 /PRNewswire/ -- - Yoggie Security Systems' Personal Security Computer Achieves Ultimate Industry Recognition with Award from World-leading Consumer Electronics Show The Gatekeeper PicoTM (formerly Yoggie PicoTM), a USB key-sized personal security computer with 12 security...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The story of BACnet at Cornell University really begins with the story of BACnet itself. As you may know, the initiative to develop a communication standard for building automation within ASHRAE began here. This is how it happened. It was the early 1980s and...
When it comes to construction technology, some recent advances have been earthshaking - in more ways than one. "We've been relying on a computer in the sky," said Joseph Gallo, president of Bruschi Bros. Inc., a Ludlow-based con-tractor that specializes in site work. "We have a mini-computer that interacts...
RELATED LINKS How the CIO role has evolved Be a strategic CIO As noted by Carl Wilson, 20 years ago the focus of IT was on technology only, and that technology was fragmented. The key priority for IT managers was keeping...
Seamless Wi-Fi, Inc. (OTCBB: SLWF) todayannounced that the company will be presenting at the ValueRich Small CapExpo, March 27 and 28, at the Hotel InterContinental in Miami, Florida. Seamless will also be exhibiting the S-XGenTM and PhenomTM Version 3.0at the conference as well as presenting a company overview to the...
The Lemon Grove School District received state recognition for recently implementing a high-tech learning program equipping middle school students with personal computers. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell held a news conference Feb. 23 to announce and applaud the technology project at...
To paraphrase Senator Hillary Clinton, "It will take a village to reduce the supply chain's dependency on oil." As I discussed in my last Insights column, many supply chains are insidiously permeated with this historically cheap, nonrenewal energy resource. This has happened more often by design...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50418) has announced the addition of "2007 Worldwide Electronic Computer Manufacturing Industry Report" to their offering The "Electronic Computer Manufacturing Industry Report" features 2007 current and 2008 forecast estimates on the size of the industry (sales, establishments, employment) for the 47 largest...
