‘Net Buzz: A hypothetical showdown: e-mail vs. the Web, 09/18/06
You must give up one or the other – just play along with me now – so how do you intend to work and live the rest of your life?
Editorial: VON spreads wings, embraces IP video, 09/18/06
The Voice on the Network conference celebrated its 10th anniversary in Boston last week, with founder Jeff Pulver noting that the first show attracted 224 attendees while this one was expected to draw more than 10,000.
Tolly: Real-world testing – a real-world perspective, 09/18/06
Testing being at the core of what we do at The Tolly Group, a newspaper story with these words was certain to attract my attention. It might seem to some that any test is an incomplete test, and by extension, without value – but I don’t agree.
Kamens: Change management is key to SOX success, 09/18/06
While perusing a draft of “IT Control Objectives for Sarbanes-Oxley, 2nd Edition,” I discovered several profound statements in the section on compliance and IT governance:
Johnson: We need to fill the Internet measurement void, 09/18/06
I’ll admit it: I’m a data junkie.
Kobielus: Real-time needs drive data retooling, 09/18/06
Business battles are fought in real time, and IS must keep pace. Real-time business intelligence infrastructures promise a never-ending stream of fresh information, insight and decision support to frontline knowledge workers.
Backspin: $#&* your newsletter! 09/18/06
I just received yet another unasked for newsletter by e-mail. It was from a company that has a product I think is pretty good and the newsletter started with the following spiel from the vice president of marketing:
Nutter’s Help Desk: Using USB drives to help fix workstation problems, 09/18/06
There are times that I don’t have the laptop with me, so I have created a couple of CDs with the same tools but this means that I then have to install the software and sometimes debug when things don’t work right. In some cases, installing the …
Bradner: Goat cheese as a metaphor for what customers want, 09/18/06
Clegg Ivey, a vice president with VoIP company Voxeo, recently told me a story about a restaurant near the company’s Orlando headquarters that was losing track of what made it successful.
Cool Tools: Hands-free speakerphone for your car, 09/18/06
Here’s a quick roundup of some cool in-car accessories that I’ve enjoyed recently.
Dr. Internet: Are there USB-to-PCMCIA adapters for EV-DO? 09/18/06
I bought a new laptop without a PCMCIA card slot and need a way to connect my PCMCIA-based EV-DO broadband wireless card so I can travel with the new notebook instead of the old one. Are there adapters available?
Gearhead: Data-intense, design-simple graphics, 09/18/06
Say you’re writing a report on how your Web site’s sales system has been performing, and you want to show the vice president of sales the important statistics. You could hit her with one big graph or a set of graphs created in Excel, but you know she’ …
