Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Berlin-based PR agency Zucker.Kommunikation and Blatterwald, media-resonance analysis specialists, have produced the first survey of content produced by companies that communicate by Twitter, such as Volkswagen, BMW, Deutsche Telekom, Daimler, Deutsche Bahn, Google and Lufthansa, to name a few. Over a period of one week, the way that companies work with the micro-blogging service Twitter…
Cloud services will be what the electrical grid was a century ago: the basis for a whole new set of services, markets and possibilities that can change the way we live and operate, but also threaten the dominant computing hierarchy, said Nicholas Carr, controversial author of Does IT Matter?, in his closing keynote speech at…
The problem is getting worse. Every year, research firm Basex calculates the cost of information overload and the numbers keep going up by a staggering amount. For 2008, Basex estimates information overload cost the U.S. economy $900 billion in lost productivity. For 2006, that figure was $588 billion. “We’re continuing to generate more content, and…
As we enter 2009 in a financial crisis, companies may be tempted to scale back and wait for a better day. Is this the right approach? Perhaps not, according to Bobby Cameron, vice president and principal analyst at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research. Cameron, who predicts the recession will end in the second half of 2009,…
Hammered by the global recession, players in the IT industry will have to undergo radical changes to simply survive, according to research firm IDC. But that’s not bad news for everyone. Enterprises and small to midsized businesses (SMBs) may be poised reap the benefits of a transforming IT industry — in the form of new…
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — The financial crisis, now officially a recession, isn’t slowing some tech giants’ interest in acquisitions. Investment officials from a cross section of tech heavyweights agreed in a panel discussion here that the economic downturn isn’t swaying their interest in doing deals. “We won’t shy away from deals because of the…
SAN FRANCISCO — What exactly is the cloud, and why should a company want to go there? That was the question put to four tech executives on a panel here at the Web 2.0 Summit Thursday. Cloud computing, the sexy name for Web-based applications, is a hot topic that’s been heating up even more recently…
Call Apple’s iPhone the wireless world’s rock star. In 2007, in the U.S. alone eight million sold. In 2008, in the first three days after release, the high speed 3G iPhone sold a dazzling one million units. But feast on this paradox: as far as enterprise is concerned the iPhone is a dud. Apple highlights…
Although some folks are chatting about Software Plus Service (S+S), few have heard it mentioned around the water cooler yet. It is a subject, however, that will grab the buzz before much longer. Central to the Google-Microsoft wars, S+S pertains to the upcoming cloud computing phenomenon, as well. On the one hand, Google’s approach to…
In their book Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath mention the “curse of knowledge” and define it as follows: once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. When IT professionals fail to take this into account, it can become frustrating for them and for…