Tuesday, April 16, 2002

Centerbeam Fortune, 4/29/02:  TechToys Sheldon Laube Chairman and CEO, CenterBeam Inc. Through an unfortunate set of circumstances, I had to buy a new minivan a few weeks ago. The good part was that I got a new Chrysler Town and Country, and it came with an extra two sets of wireless radio headphones. That means that if there are children in the back seat, they can listen to completely separate audio from what you're listening to over the same radio--it's literally like two different radios. Or someone can listen to radio while someone else listens to a CD. For anyone who takes long car trips, it's one of the greatest inventions of the 21st century! My father-in-law is visiting, and he likes to listen to Rush Limbaugh. So he can listen to Rush, and we can listen to heavy metal at the same time! [more] IT Management CIO, 4/15/02:  Penny-Pinching All Starts You used to pity Lloyd Taylor. Like other CIOs who work for companies in low-margin industries, he was the guy with the shoestring budget who had to watch every penny, every day. Well, guess what? Taylor, the CIO at Cargill, a global manufacturer and distributor of agricultural and food products, is now a role model in these tighter budget times. Cargill may be a $49 billion company in terms of revenues, but it cleared a profit margin of seven-tenths of 1 percent, less than one penny on the dollar, in 2000. So while you've recently recalibrated your expectations about IT spending to fit a recession, Taylor has had to master the ability to do more with less—regardless of the economic cycle. [more] Microsoft Gartner, 4/8/02:  Microsoft Licensing Programs: Take Action Now! Gartner estimates that 65 percent of Microsoft customers have yet to take action as a result of the changes Microsoft has made to its licensing programs, which could prove to be a costly mistake. [more] 10:58:58 AM

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