Archive for April, 2009
April 29th, 2009
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, Twitter, YouTube and the like are full of Swine Flu related content published by individuals. The Bookmarking and Sharing sites are Read the rest of this entry »
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April 27th, 2009
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 February 2008 which basically gave the rights of MySQL intellectual property (e.g. documentation) to Sun (which has now been procured by Oracle). MySQL is distribute under GPL therefore is available to download, install and use without financial cost.
MySQL is very widely used particularly for Internet Applications including search engines, content management systems and blogging platforms. High-traffic sites such as WordPress, Google, Wikipedia and Read the rest of this entry »
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April 25th, 2009
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 Development with introducing ‘new Coke’ to existing customers (oops…that was a total failure) etc. Well Europcar may now be added to the list of Product Development strategy proponents.
Europcar Sells Packaging and Photo Services
I don’t hire cars often and was very interested to see on a recent trip to Canberra that Europcar Australia’s Product Development strategy includes; Packing Supplies and iPix among the common Read the rest of this entry »
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April 24th, 2009
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.
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April 22nd, 2009
Well done to Telstra on ‘winning’ the ten year $1bn contract to provide Managed Services to Commonwealth bank of Australia (CBA).
Telstra Share Price
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 customers.
Here is a copy of the media release Read the rest of this entry »