Posted on January 27th, 2009 by
Zohaib
General Motors Chief Operating Officer Fritz Henderson said the automaker expected to receive a delayed U.S. government loan payment in the next several days that it needs to avoid running out of cash.GM received an initial $4 billion in emergency funding from the U.S. Treasury on December 31 and had expected to receive its next [...]
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Filed under: Business Dynamics, World Economics, financial crisis
Posted on January 26th, 2009 by
ali.zaidi
Obama seems to be the most tech-driven leader following John. F. Kennedy. Recently got his BlackBerry customized for security purposes and to eliminate concerns like e-mail could be hacked or GPS used to locate president, phone capable of encrypting voice conversations, handling classified documents.
The most significant item provided by Obama is the Technology and Innovation [...]
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Filed under: Business Dynamics, Enterprise Agility, Enterprise Software, Global Technology Market, financial crisis
Posted on January 25th, 2009 by
ali.zaidi
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The online user-generated encyclopedia Wikipedia is considering a radical change to how it is run.
It is proposing a review of the rules, that would see revisions being approved before they were added to the site.
The proposal comes after edits of the pages of Senators Robert Byrd and Edward Kennedy gave the false impression both had [...]
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Filed under: Web 2.0
Posted on January 20th, 2009 by
Zohaib
Despite the global economic turmoil, it seems that the media shall continue to create hype around President Elect, Barrack Obama’s ‘Blackberry’ (which happens to be a commercial brand), and how he may have to forego this ‘business necessity’ of his, owing to national security issues.
Instead of using this matter as an excuse for creating brand [...]
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Filed under: Business Dynamics, Global Technology Market, Outsourcing & Agility, World Economics
Posted on January 15th, 2009 by
ali.zaidi
Information technology is a driving fuel for any organization today. As important as sales, marketing, HR or any other supporting department for an organization to survive. In the current financial crisis where its difficult to come out of the debt, it has become almost inevitable for organizations to carry out their plans to be on [...]
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Filed under: Agile Applications, Business Dynamics, Enterprise Agility, Enterprise Software, Global Technology Market, Uncategorized, financial crisis
Posted on January 15th, 2009 by
Zohaib
Satyam Computer Services, Wipro, Megasoft Consultants Ltd, and another 3 major software exporters from India are on WB’s list of debarred companies. According to news agencies, it is due to inconsistencies in their financial representations, charges of bribery and lack of proper documentation of invoices. Satyam alone has been banned for eight years.
There is little [...]
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Filed under: Global Technology Market, World Economics
Posted on January 15th, 2009 by
M. Ali Nasim
Recession is the only real time where the organizations get enough time to re-think and make radical changes to their strategic assets. While in boom the best you can afford to do is continuous improvement; you normally can’t afford to experiment and re-engineer your core business processes (and IT assets supporting them) while you’re overwhelmed [...]
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Filed under: Business Dynamics, Enterprise Agility, Enterprise Software, Outsourcing & Agility, World Economics, financial crisis
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