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• IT suppliers and government dispute costs of IT security

  
  Tony Collins's IT Projects Blog — Authority: 466
  Plans to introduce mandatory security improvements across government have become mired in contractual disputes with IT suppliers that do not want to carry the cost. Full story on ComputerWeekly.com homepage.  Government, understandably, wants improvements to IT security after the loss of two CDs at HM Revenue and ...
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• In Good Company - Innosight and IBM

  
  The Phoenix Principle — Authority: 415
  Seizing the White Space is a new book being launched by HBS Press (and being pre-sold on Amazon.com .)  Im very glad to read about others who are taking up the message of Create Marketplace Disruption - which first published the critical role of White Space in successfully managing any business (published in ...
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• Organize to Disrupt - and Grow - Cisco

  
  The Phoenix Principle — Authority: 415
  Cisco is an admirable company.  In the high tech world, few survive half as long as Cisco .  Even fewer maintain growth and profitability.  Ciscos willingness to obsolete its own products has been a stated objective which has helped the company keep on top of new technologies and products, growing to $36B.  ...
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• Cool Product Alert: the BOLT Lock by Strattec

  
  Best Car Ever — Authority: 156
  At SEMA, I’m always running around the floor geeking out about all the sick machines, and to be honest, sometimes I forget that people actually launch products there. And while there were hundreds of new gadgets and gizmos that dropped this year, I have to say that I was really impressed with Strattec’s BOLT lock. ...
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• Government Debt Spirals

  
  Jutia Group — Authority: 572
  I have been writing about sovereign debt risk for some time. Japan, Spain, Italy and Portugal are all facing serious fiscal deficits and funding problems within a few years. But Greece may be the first country to hit the wall. In today’s Outside the Box, we look at a short column by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  Trade Regulation Talk — Authority: 126
  Franchisor Could Have Illegally Tied Supplies to Franchises This posting was written by Pete Reap, Editor of CCH Business Franchise Guide. A franchisee of 13 fast food restaurants adequately alleged a tying arrangement against a franchisor under a Kodak lock-in theory, according the federal district court in ...
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• 451 CAOS Links 2009.11.24

  
  451 CAOS Theory — Authority: 536
  Chrome OS and Andoid to merge - eventually. Oracle and SpringSource propose Eclipse OSGi project. And more. Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory on Twitter and Identi.ca “Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have to.” For the latest on Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL via Sun, see ...
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• Management illusions - Brand management and MIT

  
  The Phoenix Principle — Authority: 415
  " The Illusion of Brand Control " is a great article at Harvard Business Publishing. Andrew McAfee, who is a research scientist at the MIT Sloan school Center for Digital Business, offers the insight that in todays market its not possible for a business to "control" its brand .  "New media" like the internet and ...
  2 weeks ago

• White Space for Electric Cars - Nissan, Chevrolet, Ford, Tesla

  
  The Phoenix Principle — Authority: 415
  According to Marketing Daily " Electric Cars Set to Tiptoe Into Showrooms ."  Nissan is supposed to introduce the Leaf.  Chevrolet,  Toyota and Ford are all supposed to begin offering a plug-in hybrid.  None have announced prices, but all indicate they intend to price them at the high end - more costly than a ...
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• The Clear Six Apart Open Web

  
  A Fool's Wisdom — Authority: 104
  One of my inspirations Simon Willison , as well as his excellent deep analysis on numerous web development issues, provides pithy links and comments in from “elsewhere” on his blog. I highly recommend subscribing to his feed . Today, he shared this quote from Anil Dash : “It’s clear that, even those who ...
  2 weeks ago

• Biting off your nose - News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch

  
  The Phoenix Principle — Authority: 415
  " Rupert Murdoch to remove News Corps content from Google in months " is the London Telegraph headline.  Claiming that Google gets a "free ride" on the newspaper content, the News Corp. Chairman claims he can block Google from referring his content - and that the conclusion will be bad for Google because it will ...
  3 weeks ago

• Some Folks Are Easily Amused…

  
  Tacky Raccoons — Authority: 427
  …and sometimes a photo needs no caption. This is one of them. [Found in here .]
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• Apex Student Lock-out

  
  LifePoint Online — Authority: 126
  Date Friday, December 4Time 8:00 PM to 6:00 AMLocation LPCStudents, come ready for an all-nighter on Friday, December 4. Be at LPC at 8:00 PM sharp for registration and pizza. We’ll head out on the town for an evening of good times and be back at the church for the wee morning hours. The more [...]
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• Why the Pursuit of Innovation Usually Fails - best practices kill innovation

  
  The Phoenix Principle — Authority: 415
  Leadership Why The Pursuit Of Innovation Usually Fails Adam Hartung , 11.09.09, 04:11 PM EST Its not what were trained for as leaders or how our businesses are set up to work. Forbes published today " Why the Pursuit of Innovation Usually Fails ."  "Most companies everywhere are s truggling to grow ...
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• #jboye09 8 Key Trends in Web Content Management Architecture and Standards

  
  Blogging — Authority: 444
  On the last day of the J. Boye 2009 Conference, Aarhus heard its mayor’s plea and slightly warmed/dried up. The event folk exclaimed, “It’s almost summer!”The rather standard for this time of the year weather was followed by the web content management standards talk. David N a2a_linkname="#jboye09 8 ...
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• Has Google Gone Evil?

  
  Regular Geek — Authority: 550
  In most technical circles, Microsoft has been considered the evil empire for many years. Well, Microsoft may have a new challenger for that title as Google has decided they want to rule the world, and the blogosphere has started to notice . Google has been given a free pass for quite some time because they ...
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• Who "gets it"? - Employment, investing and IBM

  
  The Phoenix Principle — Authority: 415
  " IBM authorizes another $5Billion for share buybacks " is the Marketwatch.com headline.  This brings the amount available for buying the stock to $9.2billion - or enough to buy about 73.6million shares.  But it begs the question, what value will this bring anyone? " The U.S. Workplace: A Horror Story " is ...
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• [Berkman] Elizabeth Goodman on walled gardens

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 611
  Elizabeth Goodman of UC Berkeley is giving a Berkman lunchtime talk on a project she’s just now beginning. It is, she says, “half-baked.” She’s going to compare walled gardens in the computer sense to the original referent of “walled garden” and experiences of community gardens which often are fenced off. ...
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• Big Software has duped us for decades – Part I

  
  fsdaily.com - Free Software News - Published news — Authority: 162
  Here’s how the software business really works: A software company charges your firm an enormous upfront licensing fee and locks you into escalating costs for decades to come, often using a set of hardball tactics. Advertisement Your ad here!
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• Defend & Extend - book publishing, movie distribution,

  
  The Phoenix Principle — Authority: 415
  If you try standing in the way of a market shift you are going to get treated like the poor cowboy who stands in front of a cattle stampede.   The outcome isnt pretty.  Yet, we still have lots of leaders trying to Defend & Extend their business with techniques that are detrimental to customers.  And likely to ...
  6 weeks ago

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