Aug. 21, 2007
The questions for Chambers and Ballmer
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Scott Bishop got an unexpected email from Charlie Rose, the moderator for yesterdays public forum with Steve Ballmer and John Chambers, asking for some questions to ask.
” Checking my e-mail Sunday night, I was pleasantly surprised to find a message from Charlie Rose. The television interviewer was preparing for his session today with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Cisco CEO John Chambers, and he explained that he had seen the post last week in which I said I hoped his questions would be better than when he interviewed Bill Gates last year.”
Dell in audit spotlight
Tech Target
Dell founder gets himself in the spotlight after accounting audit.
“Dell’s disclosure that executives routinely adjusted accounts to meet financial goals raises questions about the role of founder Michael Dell.”
The Skype Outage Explained
Turbo blog
Todd Watson is in his 15th year with IBM. He began his career working on two software magazines, for which he wrote on a variety of business technology topics before joining IBM’s Internet division in 1995.
“The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users’ computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine set of patches through the Windows Update.”