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Getting New Business from New Digital Media December 31, 2008 By Glen Farrelly Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 With the advent of new digital forms of communication, there are new means for businesses, consultants, specialists, or freelancers, to generate new business. Some sources mention the importance of a website, but then offer tips amounting to little more than creating brochureware. Therefore, I felt... Predictions for 2009 December 29, 2008 By Charlie Bess Categories: General Green Tech ICT Hardware and Infrastructure Professional Services Social Networking Software Companies Web 2.0 For the last 4 years I've put out a blog entry of my predictions for the coming year - like most others do. Since this is a year where the world will be coming out of a financial crisis, I'll try to be a bit more conservative than in the past. It this situation, the investments in technology can... For VCs It's Deja Vu All Over Again December 22, 2008 By Ron Shuttleworth Categories: General Investment It seems like the Venture Capital (VC) sector has just emerged healthy again from the tech bubble, when now it faces a potentially greater challenge as it deals with larger systemic financial problems. A Survey done by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), and reported on by the... A Review of the Predictions for 2008 December 19, 2008 By Charlie Bess Categories: General Software Companies VoIP Wireless For the last few years I've been grading my predications at the end of the year (2006, 2007), so it seems like time to look at those for 2008. My predictions for 2009 will be out in a few weeks. The predictions for 2008 were: Mobile Redefinition - Although mobile definitely has undergone some... Forget Inflation. It’s Deflation Time December 17, 2008 By consider the source Categories: General Outsourcing In only a few months the global economy deteriorated with incredible speed and with it came deflation worries. Economic forecasts are clear and so too is the news: consumer and producer prices exhibited a jaw-drop last month in the U.S. with deflation risk rising. But will the outsourcing industry... Delta Airlines (DAL.NYSE) Inflight internet plans and Guestlogix (GXI.V) December 16, 2008 By Ron Shuttleworth Categories: General Wireless Yesterday, Delta Airlines announced that it has launched inflight internet access on a few east-coast shuttle flights with AirCell's GoGo Inflight Wi-Fi Service. According to the linked article below, Delta is planning on completing the roll out of this service to its entire fleet, including... Shopping for a portable game machine? Check out the iPod Touch first December 15, 2008 By Peter Wolchak Categories: General Apple calls its new Touch “the funnest iPod ever” and, cute phrasing aside, the company is absolutely right. In addition to being a full-on iPod, it is such a good gaming device that anyone shopping for a Sony PlayStation Portable or a Nintendo DS should look at the Touch first. Slip either a PSP or... How Will Cloud Computing Affect the Information Technology Outsourcing Marketplace? December 12, 2008 By Charlie Bess Categories: General Web 2.0 I was in a meeting with some HP and HP-EDS colleagues today discussing Cloud Computing and strategies in the megatrend/shift it is causing. There are various early entry variant permutations of cloud (Amazon, Google, and Project Caroline/Hydrazine, to name a few) targeted at rapid development and... Twitter During a Crisis December 11, 2008 By Glen Farrelly Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 A friend sent me the article by Shel Holz about the role Twitter played during the Mumbai terrorist attacks. I've read other postings in response to the request by the Indian government people to stop twittering information that the terrorists could use. I read pieces about the role Twitter and... Need and relationships December 9, 2008 By Charlie Bess Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 I participated in a graduate course the other day at UNT where the class was talking about the future of technology and the impact on business. One of the individuals attending made a statement that I'd thought about to some degree, but never quite as blatantly as he put it. We started with a... Once used to Healthcare IT - Physicians feel Unsafe in Less Technology Enabled Settings December 8, 2008 By Alan Brookstone Categories: General eHealth Healthcare IT News 12/04/08 - A new study has found that physicians who receive training in a technology-rich environment but go on to work in a less modern facility feel they can't provide safe, efficient care as they could have with information technology. The study, "Performing Without a Net:... The King is Back December 4, 2008 By consider the source Categories: General Investment Outsourcing “Forget about spending LESS, how do we avoid spending ANYTHING?” There’s no question about it: cash is king today. The current global economic situation is motivating CFOs in companies across all industries to focus foremost on preservation of liquidity. And that’ll drive more BPO. My recent... Discussing Online Accessibility on International Day of the Disabled Person December 3, 2008 By Glen Farrelly Categories: General Online Education and MBAs Software Companies Web 2.0 Today is the international Day of the Disabled Person, so it’s fitting that the United Nations and Internet professionals and experts worldwide have gathered at the Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad to address the issue of improving website accessibility for the disabled. The session, my first... Dos and Don’ts for SaaS December 2, 2008 By Charlie Bess Categories: General Software Companies I stumbled upon this blog entry in the Chaotic Flow blog. Some of it is the kind of thing that has been talked about related to Internet based services for a while, but overall it is well worth the read. The more things change the more they stay the same. Here is a summary: The Top Ten Dos of SaaS... Weekend Reading December 1, 2008 By Paul Marshall Categories: General I am a reader! I love to read but rarely find the time to be able to dedicate hours to get into a book. Wasn’t convinced that audio-books were for me but I have spent a chunk of time on the weekend listening to the legend Seth Godin new book Tribes on my iPod. If you have not “read” a book using... Please select a category:
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