Thursday, September 9, 2010
Why Everything Wireless Is 2.4 GHz | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
A band of frequencies clustered around 2.4 GHz has been designated, along with a handful of others, as the Industrial, Scientific, and Medical radio bands. “A lot of the unlicensed stuff — for example, Wi-Fi — is on the 2.4-GHz or the 900-Mhz frequencies, the [...]
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Sales Athletes: Seven Qualities of Elite Sales Professionals
Dr. Drew Stevens wrote: "Jeb Blount likes to say that “Sales Professionals are the Elite Athletes of the Business World.” I agree with him but here is the question: What are the core characteristics of elite sales athletes and how does one join this elite group?
Based on my [...]
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Move Off the Solution
Mahan writes: Everything the client asks of you, and everything you offer a client, is an intended solution. When you walk in the door and they ask you for something, anything, it's likely to be a request for a solution (We need a…, We want…, We're looking for…, Do you…, Can you [...]
Preview Word files (docx) in HTML using ASP.NET, OpenXML and LINQ to XML
Maarten Balliauw wrote: The main idea of this project was to be able to type in a URL ending in ".docx", which would then render a preview of the underlying Word document. Luckily, ASP.NET provides a system of creating HttpHandlers. A HttpHandler is [...]
A Void in the Enterprise Software Space Equals A Perfect Storm of Opportunity?
Bob Brauer writes: Acquisitions of companies such as Sun, BEA, Peoplesoft, Cognos, Siebel, Business Objects, and countless others the past few years have created a competition vacuum in the enterprise software space.
Interestingly, some of the Fortune 500 have annual I.T. budgets north of [...]
StrikeIron Blog: The Advantages of Web Services APIs
Bob Bauer wrote: If an organization is utilizing external data sources to improve business processes, there are a couple of different approaches that can be taken. The first option is to acquire, update, and maintain these external data sources yourself. The other option is to "plug in" to [...]
Two Approaches to Promoting Data Standards | Blogs | ITBusinessEdge.com
Loraine Lawson wrote: “The wonderful thing about standards is there are so many to choose from.” Fridsma knows the struggle of standards first-hand: He is overseeing the effort to sift through standards for electronic medical records as acting director of the Office of Interoperability and Standards [...]
SAS Kicks It Up A Notch
To bulk up against Big Blue and its 4,000 consultants, SAS has teamed up with Accenture, who is also feeling the heat from IBM, but in consulting services. Together, SAS and Accenture will spend $50 million initially to develop new analytics products for six industries. For its part, Accenture [...]
Software Patent Absurdity
Brad Feld wrote: As long time readers of this blog know, I’m strongly against software patents. Succinctly, I think they are (a) invalid constructs, (b) totally unnecessary, and (c) a massive tax on and retardant of innovation.
The film is based on a series of interviews conducted during the Supreme Court’s review of [...]
Still Living In A Flat File Interface World
Michael Krupa wrote: The HR SaaS application vendors are starting to incorporate messaging or ESBs into their offering. The most prominent example of this is Workday purchasing ESB vendor Cape Clear back in February of 2008. Since then Workday has embedded Cape Clear into their application [...]