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by Scott Wilson on April 01, 2008
It's hard enough to separate fact from fiction on the 'net today so I'm not even going to try. Nor am I creative enough to come up with my own joke, so I'll just link to others I...
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by Scott Wilson on March 11, 2008
I caught the original spat between Techcrunch's Michael Arrington and Redfin's Glen Kelman when it first popped up last month, debating whether or not Seattle is now in contention to be...
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by Scott Wilson on March 08, 2008
Daylight Savings Time, at least in the US. For the first time in a couple of years, I can't think of any imminent catastrophe waiting to happen to any electronic devices the instant the clock...
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by Scott Wilson on February 29, 2008
I saw the same Seattle Times article as Nick Malik and had a similar thought to that expressed in his blog post: there ought to be an open source fix for this issue. The issue, briefly, is one...
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by Scott Wilson on December 06, 2007
Todd Bishop at the Seattle PI, among others, is reporting on a testy exchange on Tuesday between Bill Gates and blogger Jonathan Snook over whether or not Microsoft has been innovative or reactionary...
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by Scott Wilson on October 26, 2007
It must seem like Michael Krigsman is paying me off, considering how often I've been linking to him lately, but I swear, it's really just that he keeps posting stuff that piques my interest....
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by Scott Wilson on October 18, 2007
Microsoft's Silverlight project, a browser-based Flash competitor, is apparently sparking some concern among the states which sued, and won, against the company based on anti-trust violations....
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by Scott Wilson on October 16, 2007
Much of the speculation over the first Linux patent lawsuits filed last week against Red Hat and Novell revolved around whether or not Microsoft-famously vocal about its belief that its patents were...
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by Scott Wilson on October 15, 2007
It's Ballmer Gone Wild at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando this past week, it seems... in addition to the previously described dust-up with analyst Yvonne Genovese, we are getting word now of...
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by Scott Wilson on October 10, 2007
If Mom had been an experienced former IBM consultant and current distinguished Vice President of Research at Gartner, that is. Gartner analyst Yvonne Genovese served up a warm helping of something to...
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by Scott Wilson on October 09, 2007
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer is out on the warpath again, spreading Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt about potential patent infringement issues in Linux. This time, he's targeting Red Hat...
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by Scott Wilson on October 05, 2007
This post is apropos of nothing to do with CIOs or technology in general, but I just couldn't not say anything when I saw this gem on the Microsoft PR wire today: "Microsoft and Bungie...
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by Scott Wilson on September 15, 2007
Well, maybe not exactly. But neither the Evil Empire of yore, according to this recent post from Mary Jo Foley. Writing in response to the upcoming resolution of Microsoft's appeal of the...
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by Scott Wilson on September 11, 2007
So, after some review I have kept a few items from the previous tenant and added a few new ones to my own taste. I imagine it will be a work in progress, though, so please keep getting me......
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by Scott Wilson on September 06, 2007
So I still have most of the previous tenant's links and recommendations over in the sidebar. I don't want to empty it out, and intend no disrespect to those choices and recommendations, but...
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by Scott Wilson on September 04, 2007
Hello, my name is Scott Wilson and I will be writing for the CIO Weblog starting today. Although I am not a CIO, I am the owner and principal consultant at Indigo Moon Systems Consulting, based out of...
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Yippy! We have a new blogger for our CIO Weblog. Look out for him to stop by here very soon. Thank you to all the applicants. As usual, we had some talented folks apply and it was not an easy......
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Creative Weblogging is looking for a blog editor to take over this blog. Applicants should be prepared to commit to daily posting and adhere to all contract requirements, some of which you can see on...
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by prashanth on February 23, 2007
Excerpts from AMI report on the topic: Both ERP and CRM are increasingly becoming mainstream applications for U.S. medium businesses (MBs), according to AMI-Partners. Over one third of respondent MBs...
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by prashanth on January 01, 2007
India's domestic IT Market including hardware, software and services is expected to grow at 21.5% during 2007 to touch Rs.75,891 crores. This will make India the fastest growing market in theh...
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by prashanth on December 29, 2006
During the Sapphire'06 at Orlando, Hasso Plattner's key note was on design a topic he seems be really interested in, he helped launch and fund at the Institute of Design at California's...
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by prashanth on December 26, 2006
Have been thinking about the SaaS model a lot and also came across this post on the notion of that is enabled by SaaS applications, two thoughts that occurred to me on similar lines are: 1.Ad...
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by prashanth on December 18, 2006
Satyam Computer Services Ltd today announced that it will resell Oracle's JD Edwards applications to mid-market Companies in India. The arrangement is a natural extension of the Company's...
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