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    Help! I’m Your Laptop and I’ve Been Stolen

    Judy Rollins, career and technology education director for the Mesquite Independent School District in Mesquite, Texas, knows a thing or two about losing laptops. Last March, she lost eight of them in a single day. “Lost” may not be the right word. The machines, worth a combined $11,000, were sto...

    By John Edwards • July 31, 2006
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    Open-source CRM Software Carves a Niche

    The Oregon Department of Human Services was in a bind. Charged with administering the state’s Medicaid assistance program, the department needed a way to more efficiently manage information coming in from tens of thousands of providers. It needed something it could deploy quickly. And cheaply.So ...

    By Esther Shein • July 24, 2006
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    The CFO Strategy for Artificial Intelligence

    Artificial intelligence’s impact on the office of the CFO continues to evolve, and finance chiefs must be aware of the opportunities it will create for growth. 

    By CFO.com staff
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    Software Users (Slightly) More Willing To Pay

    Software piracy is a source of pain for both software makers and users; the former suffer a hit to the top line, and the latter can be hit with a raft of fines. Many companies don’t even realize that some of the software they use has not been legally obtained. Others, of course, do.While piracy r...

    By John Edwards • July 17, 2006
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    In With The New

    Being under siege is nothing new at HMV. The £1.9 billion (€2.7 billion) UK retailer of music, books and movies has seen its market attacked by the likes of Amazon.com and other internet discounters since e-commerce took off some ten years ago. Plenty of pure-play online competitors have come and...

    By Jason Karaian • July 10, 2006
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    Power Source

    The first time Don Points visited Kramer Junction, California, he didn’t know what to expect. It was 2001, and the retired finance executive had booked a tour of Solel Corp.’s solar thermal power plant in the Mojave Desert. Although Points had heard about solar electric-generating plants from his...

    By John Goff • July 1, 2006
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    Home Delivery

    In the pantheon of unwelcome messages delivered to finance chiefs, “We forgot to bill the client” is number five (right between “J.J. smeared pudding all over your Treo” and “Legal says you got a notice from some guy named Wells”). When Campus Televideo president and CFO Brian Benz found out that...

    By Yasmin Ghahremani • July 1, 2006
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    Angry and Bored? You Must Be a Customer

    GE Capital Solutions has high expectations for its customers: it wants them to be so pleased with the company that they sing its praises to others. So the financial-services unit of General Electric sends out a brief survey that asks, ultimately, “Are you likely to recommend us to friends and col...

    By Russ Banham • July 1, 2006
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    ROI Trumps Innovation for Software Users

    Software applications that reduce the costs of making complex products have found great favor with the software vendors that provide them and the companies that use them. However, the two most common names used to describe these applications — product life-cycle management (PLM) software and digi...

    By John Edwards • June 26, 2006
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    Taking Offshoring Beyond Labor Cost Savings

    Most global executives know by now that offshoring can deliver more than just labor cost savings. A good offshore strategy should also generate new revenues, increase capital productivity, and manage risk in ways that would be unaffordable in home markets. But in many sectors, relatively few exec...

    By The McKinsey Quarterly • June 19, 2006
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    Park Anywhere

    Like many executives, Joseph Muscari spends a considerable amount of time on the road — the CFO of Alcoa Inc. made nine trips to China alone last year.And in true road-warrior fashion, he does not travel light when it comes to electronics. Standard components of his arsenal include a Lenovo Think...

    By John Goff • June 1, 2006
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    GE, Pepsi Join SEC Data Pilot

    The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Tuesday that three more companies have joined the commission’s pilot program to furnish their financial information in XBRL format, bringing the total number of companies in the program to 20.XBRL — which stands for eXtensible Business Reporting La...

    By Stephen Taub • May 24, 2006
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    Trash Talk

    By the time your company’s computersare ready for the scrap heap, they aren’t just worthless,they’re liabilities. Businesses spend about $30 to retirean out-of-date PC, according to figures compiled bytechnology research firm Gartner. Add to that the cost ofbacking up and “sanitizing” (that is, e...

    By John Edwards • May 15, 2006
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    Ready or Not, XBRL Is Coming

    Testifying before the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday, Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox found it difficult to keep from straying onto his pet topic. “I’m tempted to go off on a riff on all the benefits of interactive data,” he said in answer to one question about mutua...

    By Tim Reason • April 27, 2006
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    Due Diligence, Quick and Clean

    Before the Internet became widely used, companies on the selling block hired outside lawyers to store the documents needed for due diligence in rooms at their firms. Representatives of prospective suitors often traveled great distances to view the documents during allotted, separate times. The co...

    By Helen Shaw • April 27, 2006
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    Office Collaboration, the Wiki Way

    “Wiki,” the Hawaiian word for “quick,” is also the name for collaborative Web sites that let users add and edit content quickly and easily.The best-known of these collaborative sites is Wikipedia, a multilingual Web-based encyclopedia. Unlike conventional online reference works, which are updated...

    By John Edwards • April 24, 2006
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    Post-crash Confidential

    Former suicide hotline manager Kelly Chessen has never heard of someone actually killing himself because his computer’s hard drive crashed, but she hears a lot of talk about it. Chessen, now the data crisis counselor at DriveSavers Data Recovery, was hired to help re-weave the psyches of clients ...

    By John P. Mello Jr. • April 17, 2006
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    GAO Cites Poor SEC Information Security

    The Securities and Exchange Commission has extensive information-security weaknesses, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.The congressional watchdog agency found that the SEC has corrected or mitigated just 8 of the 51 weaknesses that the GAO reported as unresolved...

    By Stephen Taub • April 4, 2006
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    Bidding for Big Ideas

    Think of it as something like your next-door neighbors’ garage sale…except that your neighbors are named Hewlett and Packard.What’s billed as the first live, open auction of intellectual property will take place on April 6 at The Ritz-Carlton San Francisco. It will be the headline event of a two-...

    By Esther Shein • April 3, 2006
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    I Got It on AppExchange

    When SchoolDude.com Inc. needed a new accounting program to replace its existing QuickBooks system, it didn’t shop the usual channels. Instead, the Cary, N.C.-based maker of educational software turned to AppExchange, a new service that operates like an online mall, or, more accurately, much like...

    By John Edwards • April 1, 2006
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    Latest PC Fashion: Shorter Boots

    Years after TV sets solved a similar problem, personal computers still make us wait—and wait—between the time we switch on the power and the time we can actually do what we sat down to do. This year — in anticipation of Vista, the new version of Microsoft’s Windows operating system — San Jose-bas...

    By John P. Mello Jr. • March 27, 2006
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    Future Office

    Inside Hewlett Packard’s CoolTown IT-prototypes showcase in Singapore, Des Yee is in full steam. “This has a biometrically sealed chip,” he says, holding up an ordinary looking ID card. “During the personalization process, we scan your thumbprint, capture your signature, take a three-point biomet...

    By Cesar Bacani • March 27, 2006
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    All That Glitters Isn’t Legit

    A lawsuit by Tiffany & Co. against eBay Inc., seeking stronger brand protection for goods bearing the famous jeweler’s name, could have consequences that extend far beyond the online mega-merchant.Indeed, this is one of a series of cases that will determine “what kind of burden and liability ...

    By John P. Mello Jr. • March 20, 2006
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    Podcasting: It’s How You Say It

    Podcasts — easy-to-create, easy-to-distribute audio files, often spoken words rather than music — has become a popular means for individuals to “express themselves.” But just as with blogs — those easy-to-create web pages — companies are finding the need to set some standards on just what’s accep...

    By Esther Shein • March 7, 2006
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    By Popular Demand

    Growth comes at a price — and often it’s a company’s human-resources department that has to pay it. Consider Genmar Holdings Inc., a $1 billion maker of recreational boats sold under such brands as Wellcraft, Seaswirl, and Larson. A multiyear acquisition spree made it difficult for the company to...

    By Megan Santosus • March 7, 2006
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    Can I See Your Receipt?

    December was a bad month for software pirates. Nathan Peterson, accused of selling millions of dollars’ worth of vastly discounted software via the Web, pleaded guilty to two counts of copyright infringement and agreed to pay more than $5 million in restitution to nearly two dozen companies, incl...

    By Scott Leibs • Feb. 28, 2006