Fireplace!

December 29, 2011

Want a big, techy, pixelated fireplace for your bedroom or office? Maybe your kitchen? Doesn’t matter. Nothing says winter like 8-bit warmth. Take my word for it: go download Fireplace now. It’s available for Mac OSX or Windows. You can type words to interact with your new fireplace, or you can just chill and watch [...]

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11 Books Every Leader Should Read

December 27, 2011

Got some downtime this week? Bob Sutton wants to help you fill it. Here’s his list of the 11 books every leader should read, and it’s a good one. I have Made to Stick already downloaded as a sample on my Kindle, and I’m going to download Thinking, Fast and Slow too (I’m a bit [...]

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Linkology: 2011 Holiday Edition

December 23, 2011

A Note About Blogging Frequency As we head into the holidays, posting will be a little light here. It’s not that I don’t love you guys, but I’m pretty sure/hopeful you have other things to be doing over the next two weeks than reading a blog. If you seriously can’t get enough, I have two [...]

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RIM Now Worth Less than Apple’s App Store Alone

December 22, 2011

You read that right: RIM, as a company, is now worth less than Apple’s App Store, a fragment of a company, alone. An analysis from Trefis places the value of the App Store at 2 percent of Apple’s market cap. AAPL stock has a market cap of $354 billion, or more than 50 times greater [...]

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Mark Hurd: Oracle Knows CIOs

December 21, 2011

The backstory: there’s some sentiment (especially from Information week editors/contributors) surrounding this past Oracle OpenWorld that suggests Mark Hurd and other Oracle executives didn’t demonstrate enough vision. In such a wake, Oracle’s Mark Hurd granted InjformationWeek’s Rob Preston another interview to relay a message that’s refreshing clear and to-the-point: Oracle knows CIOs.  Here are the [...]

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More Thinking About Oracle, Endeca, Unstructured Text and Social Media

December 20, 2011

On October 18, 2011, Oracle announced it had entered into an agreement to acquire Endeca, a leading provider of unstructured data management, web commerce and business intelligence solutions (see our original blog post here). The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close before the end of t his year.  Here’s [...]

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Tech Firm Implements ‘Zero Email’ Policy

December 19, 2011

Atos, a tech company, has just banned internal email by decree of CEO Thierry Breton: CEO Thierry Breton of the French information technology company said only 10 percent of the 200 messages employees receive per day are useful and 18 percent is spam.  That’s why he hopes the company can eradicate internal emails in 18 months, forcing the company’s [...]

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 12/16/11

December 16, 2011

Do you overthink things? Does this article sound like something you need? I have chronic, epic, daily failures with this, as I can overanalyze what gym socks to wear on what day given forecasted temperatures, footwear expectations and workout frequency (this is a real example, one that’s even scarier and more anxiety-inducing when I see [...]

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Did You Know PeopleTools 8.52 Is iPad Certified?

December 15, 2011

Talk about an undersold feature. Dave Bain over at Oracle’s PeopleSoft Technology Blog has the scoop on something Oracle should be talking about more: One of the real gems in the PeopleTools 8.52 release is the certification of PeopleSoft applications running in the Safari Browser on an iPad.  It is nice that PeopleSoft is not constrained [...]

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MIPRO VIDEO: How to Create XML Reports Within PeopleSoft

December 14, 2011

In previous blog posts I wrote about the value of XML Publisher, and I’ve outlined instructions on how to create an XML report. In the video blog below we take it a step further and show you how to create a simple XML report with a chart and table.  We take you from the creation [...]

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