Business Intelligence

We don't need al-Qaeda to blow us up. We are perfectly capable of lighting the fuse ourselves, courtesy of our inability to share information vertically and bilaterally.

Analyzing data from online and your network may be a little easier because of a new browser. Yes, a browser.

Randall Craig stole sensetive data on more than 17,000 U.S. Marines and military employees with the explicit purpose of selling it to a foriegn government. His act, which netted him a whopping $500, should carry with it a special punishment.

Today, CIO means being more than a competent manager of IT. It should mean Lord of Process, and we should grasp that title and run with it.

Apple and Google are both hoping to increase their presence in the business world. Google has its Google Apps, Google Mini Search Appliance, and App Engine (with Salesforce.com and many others). Apple wants to sell more Macs and now more iPhones in the business space. Both have complimentary services and both would like to thwart their rival, Microsoft.

So why don't these two titans play together better in the enterprise?

The short answer is: nothing. And that's a problem, not only for large companies that are trying to make plans, but equally for Microsoft's credibility in the small-business and consumer markets.

Consultant pilot fish gets the order to build an online store for a major client. "When I ask for the specifications, I'm told it's a basic shopping cart, nothing special. This worries me."

John Nack, Senior Product Manager, Adobe Photoshop at Adobe waxes about the upcoming Photoshop CS4 in his blog. The show-stopper is that the Macintosh version of CS4 will be only available in 32-bit form while the Windows version will run in full 64-bit mode.

Census Bureau, Harris Corp. fail to resolve requirements dilemma

Rabbits, white rabb-it's IT Blogwatch: in which the world goes to heck in a handbasket. Not to mention Portal in Flash...

Sir Richard Branson is over the moon:

I'm delighted today to announce Virgle, Inc., a joint venture between the Virgin Group and Google ... [its] goal is simple: the establishment of a permanent human settlement on Mars. Larry Page, Sergey Brin and I feel strongly that contemporary technology is sufficiently advanced to make such an effort both successful and economical, and that it's high time that humanity moved beyond Earth and began our great, long journey to explore the stars and establish our first lasting foothold on another world ...

By many measures, Blackberry seems to be heading toward a pretty big battle with Apple's iPhone in the coming months.  So it comes as a big surprise that they've basically taken the iPhone's look and feel and put it on their new flagship product like they were some cheap knock-off shop in Shenzen.

Remember back in June when all of the analysts told Enterprise IT not to touch the iPhone? One of those analysts, Ken Dulaney, said of it,

"We're telling IT executives to not support it because Apple has no intentions of supporting [iPhone use in] the enterprise. This is basically a cellular iPod with some other capabilities, and it's important that it be recognized as such."

Oh man. How about some fries and a coke with those words?

As far as Apple is concerned, Windows Vista appears to be the gift that keeps on giving. Apple snagged an astonishing 14 percent of U.S. computer sales last month, and its sales were up 64 percent from a year earlier. This confirms my own Coffeeshop Index survey and, points to some really, really ugly turf wars in enterprise computing in the near future.

As expected, the executive board of INCITS, the group representing U.S. interests in ISO, voted in favor of Microsoft Corp.'s Office Open XML specification.

Predictive analytics is a core part of many politicians' election strategies.