Gary Eckstein Internet 2 bookmarking, cdc, flu info, google, Internet, it, pandemic, search, sharing, swine flu, swine influenza, technorati, twitter, web, website, widgets, WordPress, world health organization, youtube
Swine influenza is the first pandemic since the widespread sharing of information via the Internet. The last pandemic was the 1969 Hong Kong pandemic at which time the Internet did not exist. The amount of information relating to swine flu which is available on the Internet is huge (but unfortunately not all entirely accurate). WordPress, [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 0 blog, blogger, blogging, blogs, facebook, flickr, google, gpl, Internet, it, it strategy, open source database, OpenSource, oracle, search, Software, sun, web, weblog, website, wikipedia, WordPress
Sun Microsystems has been acquired by Oracle Corporation (after it looked like Sun would be part of the IBM stable). Of particular interest to many bloggers and corporate Internet Application developers is what will happen with MySQL, the GNU General Public License (GPL) database engine. A Bit about MySQL MySQL was acquired by Sun in [...]
Gary Eckstein Management 0 ansoff, Management, mba, strategy
Igor Ansoff identified four growth strategies; Market Penetration, Product Development, Market Development and Diversification. Ansoff’s Product-Market Growth Matrix is a commonly taught Strategy Matrix in MBA programmes and many case studies may be related to the four Ansoff quadrants; Virgin Group for its diversification into new markets with new products, Coca Cola for its Product [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 0 business, it, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Software
Microsoft, the software giant, has reported that ales have fallen for the first time in 23 years. Microsoft states that poor sales of PCs and Servers (the area where Microsoft is dominant with its Operating Systems and Office software) have led to the 6% decline in sales from the same quarter in 2008. The shortened [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 1 Australia, business, it, ITIL, Management, telstra, transformation
Well done to Telstra on ‘winning’ the ten year $1bn contract to provide Managed Services to Commonwealth bank of Australia (CBA). This is obviously a very large contract especially given the current challenging economic times. Telstra is making significant effort to mature its ITIL processes further which will benefit CBA and other Telstra Managed Service [...]
