Archive for March 11th, 2008
The revolving door at Motorola could spin off a new business as an executive exodus continues. On the heels of Paul Liska stepping into the CFO role, Motorola announced that Stu Reed, who was president of the mobile-devices business until Motorola President and CEO Greg Brown took over in February, will leave.Reed and his team launched a number of key initiatives for the mobile-devices business that Motorola said it will continue. Reed also generated significant cost savings by consolidating suppliers and implementing a supply-chain strategy.
“We appreciate Stu’s many contributions to Motorola and wish him the best in the future,” Brown said. Motorola is searching for a leader for its mobile-devices business, which Brown told an audience at the Morgan Stanley conference last week is consuming 80 percent of his time.
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March 11th, 2008
Telecom bills may seem trivial compared to server 
expenditures and building leases, but managing telecom expenses can save enterprises a small fortune.Indeed, it may surprise you to learn that telecom expenses can gobble as much as 3.6 percent of a company’s revenues, according to the Aberdeen Group, with mobile expenses accounting for a growing share of the telecom pie. For large enterprises telecom expense savings could add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
So, the question becomes, are your managing your telecom expenses with an eye on savings? If you are doing a fair job on the hardwire expenses, are you paying close enough attention to the wireless world? Aberdeen reports 67 percent of enterprises proactively manage wireless expenses — but only 57 percent manage wireless costs. Late payment penalties alone can cost a bundle.
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March 11th, 2008
While Yahoo looks for ways to thwart a Microsoft takeover, Microsoft is already planning to integrate Yahoo. In an interview Sunday, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s chief software architect, told the Financial Times that the company will take its time, even if it means delaying potential shareholder benefits.”Technology companies, if they dive in and just smash things together for smashing them together’s sake, it’s reckless, it’s just simply reckless,” Ozzie told the Times. “They have a number of different types of technologies. They have their own corporate culture.”
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March 11th, 2008
A new study from The New York Times is trying to pin down how just how much consumer data Internet companies have. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft , AOL and MySpace — the five largest Web firms — record at least 336 billion transmission events each month, according to the Times. That does not count their advertising networks.ComScore conducted the analysis for the Times. Advertising executives say it is the first broad estimate of how much consumer data Internet companies have in their control. The results confirmed what privacy advocates have been warning about: Companies use the information to predict what content and advertisements Web-site visitors are likely to want to see.
“The Web companies are, in effect, taking the trail of crumbs people leave behind as they move around the Internet and then analyzing them to anticipate people’s next steps,” The Times reported. “So anybody who searches for information on such disparate topics as iron supplements, airlines, hotels and soft drinks may see ads for those products and services later on.”
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March 11th, 2008
