Nov 16, 2009
“Offshoring” is an article I found on the economist.com web site. It differentiates outsourcing with offshore outsourcing and offshoring. Outsourcing is when a company decides to shift or hand one of its functions to another company. Offshore outsourcing is when this is done with another company overseas. Many claim this is harmful to the country [...]
Nov 10, 2009
“IT’s biggest project failures — and what we can learn from them” is an article I found on computerworld.com. I thought it was interesting since it lists some of the biggest IT project failures. One of them was in Canada. In 1997, Electronic Data Systems started working on a Canadian gun registration system. The original planned [...]
Nov 5, 2009
“My week of recording a ‘digital memory’” is a recap of the writer’s experience recording his life with various media. A month ago or so I first heard about this man that has been doing this for a long time and apparently it has picked up popularity. It involves recording your daily activities with a camera [...]
Oct 27, 2009
“Microsoft to extend warranty against red rings of death to 3 years” is an article about a critical move that Microsoft did to address concerns about its failing Xbox 360. The Xbox 360 was having consistent problems with over-heating that caused many systems to fail. Three red lights would flash on the console and it [...]
Oct 23, 2009
“Report: The Top Five Supply Chain Management Vendors” is an article I found on CIO.com. It reports on how well the top five SCM software vendors did in 2007. SCM software vendors are doing very well with revenues up from 5.1 billion to 6 billion from 2006 to 2007. Thats an increase of 17.6 percent. [...]
Oct 23, 2009
“The Google Android party has begun” is an article I found on CNN. Android, Google’s operating system for mobile phones is starting to pick up. There have been over nine phones announced to carry the OS. Also in the next coming weeks different carriers will begin to offer Android phones. Previously, only T-mobile carried them. [...]
Oct 23, 2009
“UK Politicians Question the Safety of Mega Databases” is an article I found on CIO.com. Britain has used many mega databases to store vast amounts of information to help the fight on terrorism, crime and immigration problems. The opposition party in Britain the Conservatives claim that these databases have been built without the planning 0n [...]
Oct 23, 2009
“Enterprise Architect :Why you need an enterprise architect and what to look for in one.” is an article I found on CIO.com a website geared towards CIOs. After reading the chapter I wasn’t sure what exactly a EA was. It sounded to me almost like a CIO. I thought reviewing an article about EAs would [...]
Oct 23, 2009
“Cybercrime: A secret underground economy” is an article I found on the CNN website. It deals with cybercriminals and how they sell the information they steal. Cybercrime is an ever increasing illegal business. Since the payoffs can be very rewarding the number of new internet security threats rose by threefold last year to 1.7 million. [...]
Oct 23, 2009
“Going to Extremes to Build App Store Buzz”, is an article about how app sellers at the App Store for the I-phone can go to great lengths to get a positive review of their app. Traditionally buyers of the app would review it and post whether they had a positive or negative experience. Unfortunately the [...]
Oct 23, 2009
Robots and other forms of A.I. have come a long way in the past 50 years. Its use in business can be seen from Decision Support Systems to robots cleaning carpets. Also, A.I. is used heavily in the investment in stocks. A.I. supported software can trade faster than any human and spot trends in huge [...]
Oct 23, 2009
“CIOs: Let’s Make A Deal!”, talks about how important it is for CIO’s to make deals with software providers right now. Makers of servers and software, that MIS use, are hurting because of the economic downturn. Companies are not ready to upgrade their systems so investment in this sector has gone down. Cost cutting has [...]
