There is life after the recession. But it calls for a more evolved, employee-centric CEO
HCL's Nayar welcomes the rebirth of the CEO. Photo: HCL Technologies
By Vineet Nayar, CEO, HCL Technologies Ltd.
The inherent human urge to deny, avoid and fight change is a hard one to beat.
Take the current recession: Most corporations tried to battle and beat the game of change. And yet, the only ones MORE
Sep 9, 2009 8:00 AM ET
Apple's (AAPL) "secrecy machine" kicked back into high gear in the days leading up to Wednesday's "It's only rock and roll" event, according to Daring Fireball's John Gruber.
But that hasn't stopped Gruber and the rest of the Apple-watching trade press from publishing surprisingly definitive (and deliciously contradictory) statements about what announcements Apple will and won't be making in just a few hours.
Gruber, for example, confesses that he's heard very little MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 9, 2009 6:47 AM ET
Verizon, Sybase and Quickcomm team up to manage corporations' mobility needs. Their service just scratches the surface
Chen wants to help your company go mobile. Photo: Sybase
Telecom giant Verizon (VZ) says it is launching a suite of services to help corporate IT departments manage their fleets of mobile devices. Corporate clients can hire Verizon to track their inventories of phones and monitor billings, add and drop devices as employees come MORE
Stephanie N. Mehta, Executive Editor - Sep 9, 2009 3:00 AM ET
The clearest indication at whom Palm is aiming its newest smartphone, dubbed Pixi, is the new Facebook application that debuts in the younger, smaller sibling to the Palm Pre. If that is your thing, then perhaps your gadget has arrived.
Michael V. Copeland, Senior Writer - Sep 9, 2009 12:19 AM ETBen Baer, Senior Producer - Sep 8, 2009 11:29 PM ET
As cloud computing spreads, so does your company's data.
Tobolski: The cloud also has a dark side. Photo: Accenture
By Joseph F. Tobolski, director of development, Accenture Technology Labs
It often starts off innocently, say with a twentysomething employee seeking additional servers to do a data analysis project. Studies show, after all, that it's these "millennials" who expect to use their own preferred technologies for work rather than those supplied MORE
Sep 8, 2009 8:00 AM ET
Google does "the wisdom of crowds."
Google trends offers a near real-time view of life concerns. Image: Google
If you think about the millions of searches conducted daily using Google, (GOOG) there is reason to believe you ought to be able to divine patterns or trends from the activity. If everyone is searching for a particular song for example, you might expect that artist to climb the charts. If searches are MORE
Michael V. Copeland, Senior Writer - Sep 8, 2009 7:29 AM ET
Image: Apple Inc.
New iPods? Check. With cameras? Very likely. iTunes 9? Why not. Steve Jobs on stage? Who knows. The Beatles on iTunes? Don't count on it -- but don't count it out, either.
Apple's (AAPL) invitation-only special event Wednesday could go either way.
It could be a ploy to get the press to publicize some relatively inconsequential improvements in Apple's increasingly long-in-the-tooth iPod line (a product line that once accounted MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 8, 2009 6:18 AM ET
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"iPhone makes for worldwide loss" reads the headline in Sunday's Guardian, whose editors apparently missed the flurry of similar pieces that appeared three weeks earlier.
"Telcom operators hurt selling iPhones" was how Reuters handled the story, back on Aug. 17. "Who's screwing who? (sic)" asked Shanzai.com the next day. And from ITWire.com: "iPhone -- The Paris Hilton of mobile phones?"
That last one actually dates from Dec. 5, 2008, when MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 7, 2009 8:32 AM ET
Bill Campbell. Photo: Intuit
According to an SEC Form 4 filed Friday, Bill Campbell, a key Apple (AAPL) board member and a close friend and adviser to Steve Jobs, executed a "non-sale transfer" of 60,000 shares of Apple stock worth more than $7.7 million in late August -- including directors options he'd been holding for eight years.
It's not clear where Campbell transferred those shares or for what purpose. In 2007 MORE
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