Profile of Paul McDougall
Editor At Large, InformationWeek
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Paul McDougall is a former editor for InformationWeek.
Articles by Paul McDougall
posted in January 2007
1/31/2007
EDS, Lockheed Martin, CACI, Booz Allen Hamilton, Science Applications International and SRA International will share a slice of improving the Encore II program.
1/31/2007
Based on advice from the European Commissioner for Competition, Microsoft made changes to several parts of Windows Vista to resolve concerns that competitors would be disadvantaged.
1/30/2007
Under the plan, a manufacturer of, say, video cards could submit specs to the Linux kernel community and its members will create a driver for the device that the manufacturer can ship with the product or users can download.
1/30/2007
Author Malcolm Gladwell says a tipping point occurs when a phenomenon starts to multiply exponentially, as though it were an infectious virus. Outsourcing's tipping point occurred this week when Accenture announced it would have more workers in India than in the United States by August.
1/30/2007
The industrialization of malware production will make it tougher for corporate IT security departments to stay ahead of hackers.
1/29/2007
More than 2,500 products bearing the Certified for Windows Vista seal will be available when the product officially launches at midnight.
1/29/2007
Accenture CEO William Green said the consulting and outsourcing company will add 8,000 workers in India this year, bringing its total head count in the country to 35,000.
1/29/2007
IBM will add Softek to its Global Technology Services unit, which suggests the company plans to offer Softek's storage management technology through managed services deals.
1/26/2007
It offers to pay a blogger to comment on the ODF/OOXML discussion
1/26/2007
The folky popstress will perform January 30th to mark the retail debut of Sony's Vista-equipped VAIO PCs
1/26/2007
Support for the programming language includes Linux and AIX for computers running on x86 chips as well as 32- and 64-bit PowerPC.
1/26/2007
IBM's Identity Mixer software lets consumers use a "token" to make purchases online without revealing personal information.
1/26/2007
Elements of Vista violate a 2004 European Commission finding that Microsoft's bundling of applications and operating systems is anticompetitive, the group charges.
1/25/2007
Company says it pushed $1.13 billion in net income into the next quarter to account for a program that lets buyers of Windows XP PCs get a low-cost upgrade to Windows Vista.
1/25/2007
InfoPrint Solutions will pay IBM $130 million per quarter during the first year of the deal, then $100 million per year for the remaining four years.
1/25/2007
Microsoft's download for the new Windows operating system will include security updates, hotfixes, and additional quality changes.
1/25/2007
Ricoh will initially take a 51% stake in the company and will acquire the remaining interest over the next three years.
1/24/2007
Wal-Mart said the Linux deployment will allow it to reduce IT costs by paving the way for a move to lower-cost, commodity servers without sacrificing performance.
1/24/2007
An additional 280 workers will transfer to IBM.
1/24/2007
ASP.Net Ajax 1.0 is available, but will Web developers bite?
1/24/2007
Microsoft and its partners are poised to release dozens of new information services designed to be pushed directly to the Windows Vista desktop.
1/23/2007
Kirk Arnold takes the reins of the outsourcing firm after the son of the company's founder resigned.
1/23/2007
Topologi's Rick Jelliffe will offer Redmond's spin on public articles pertaining to the ODF/OOXML standard.
1/23/2007
In the United States, there's been much hue and cry about the thousands of tech jobs that have been offshored to India over the past couple of years. But viewed in football terms, outsourcing is only in the first five minutes of the first quarter. Get ready for tens of thousands more American IT jobs to head overseas in the next few years.
1/23/2007
Consumers who participated in the beta program for the new OneCare release will receive 60% off the annual $49.95 fee if they enroll between Jan. 23 and Feb. 12.
1/22/2007
The study, commissioned by Microsoft, estimates that more than 6,500 companies in Massachusetts will be involved in the production, sales, or distribution of Vista-related products.
1/22/2007
IBM unveils a host of new products designed to allow businesses to create the kind of loosely organized, ad hoc communication networks and knowledge repositories found on community-driven Web sites like MySpace and Wikipedia.
1/22/2007
Under the four-year deal, which includes a pair of two-year extension options, CSC will maintain and support BlueScope's software applications and disaster recovery systems.
1/22/2007
Platform Solutions charges that IBM is engaged in anti-competitive and deceptive acts intended to eliminate competition in the worldwide market for mainframe computers.
1/19/2007
The retailer will opt instead to upgrade its information systems, according to SEC documents.
1/19/2007
The buyout of Vertex is an indication that the private equity boom of 2006 is poised to continue through this year.
1/19/2007
Under the extension, EDS will supply services to the Kansas Health Policy Authority through June, 2011.
1/19/2007
Third quarter revenues increased 33% year-over-year and the company added 2,746 employees during the quarter.
1/18/2007
For the full year, IBM said revenue in 2006 was $91.4 billion, a 4% year-over-year increase.
1/18/2007
My colleague Mitch Wagner and some other journalists have picked up on a report by an organization called Grass Roots Freedom that a Senate bill designed to bring transparency to the lobbying process could result in the jailing of political bloggers. Did you know that the bill does not even mention the words "blog" or "blogger"? There's also a couple of things you should know about "Grass Roots Freedom."
1/18/2007
Clinical trials could produce vaccines against nerve agents such as Sarin, Soman and VX.
1/18/2007
In addition to technology help, Accenture also will provide AIG with so-called business process outsourcing services, which cover a range of back office functions.
1/18/2007
The bright spot for IBM could be the company's enterprise software business with offerings like Websphere and Tivoli, along with security and SOA products.
1/17/2007
The retailer will opt instead to upgrade its information systems, according to SEC documents.
1/17/2007
Five-year deal lets Big Blue's Global Services maintain and control its European rival's legacy ERP systems.
1/17/2007
By contrast, top U.S. outsourcers IBM and Electronic Data Systems have posted only modest, single-digit sales gains in recent quarters.
1/17/2007
The lawsuits, if they had been reinstated, could have cost the computing company a total of more than $1 billion in damages and penalties.
1/16/2007
Corporations like IBM and GE led the charge to India and beyond. But cheaper bandwidth and new technologies mean small businesses can now get in on the savings offered by offshore outsourcing--a welcome development for the entrepreneurial minded.
1/16/2007
The company will sell technology that Indian companies can use to connect enterprise applications to mobile devices.
1/16/2007
Having booked $3 billion in revenue through its first three fiscal quarters, TCS is now on pace to become India's first $4 billion outsourcer.
1/16/2007
Kimberly-Clark will outsource maintenance, development and operation of its SAP business software environment and several other applications to Cognizant, which operates primarily from India.
1/12/2007
Raghavan will be responsible for marketing Microsoft's online products, including MSN and Windows Live, within the country.
1/12/2007
1/12/2007
1/12/2007
About 600 local employees will staff the facility, which will provide near-shore business process outsourcing services to U.S. customers.
1/12/2007
IBM will provide development and integration services for The Economy Project, which will provide the Norwegian Armed Forces with integrated accounting, management, and logistics capabilities based on SAP software.
1/12/2007
A document filed in bankruptcy court states that ACS has agreed to make two cash payments to Delta in the amounts of $6,570,000 and $1,103,211.
1/11/2007
Under the extension, CSC will continue to provide software application development and maintenance services to John Hancock through May, 2011.
1/11/2007
For the period ended Dec. 31, revenue was $821 million while per share earnings rose to 39 cents.
1/11/2007
What's unique about the contract is that it employs a relatively new DoD contracting model known as performance based logistics.
1/11/2007
IBM received 3,651 patents in 2006, easily surpassing second-place finisher Samsung Electronics, which received 2,453.
1/10/2007
Accenture veteran Ed Harbach assumes the post of COO and the newly created role of president.
1/10/2007
CIOs are likely to take a conservative approach with their IT budgets at the start of the year.
1/10/2007
Despite all the outrage over outsourcing from Lou Dobbs and other protectionists, the practice of sending jobs to low cost countries like India has to date had only minimal impact on the U.S. labor market. But that may be about to change, according to a new survey from Merrill Lynch.
1/10/2007
HP has been posting a compound quarterly growth rate of 4.7% in managed services revenues over the past four quarters.
1/9/2007
Survey finds middle managers are frustrated; their pet peeves include being overworked and underpaid. Companies must engage those managers to beat the competition, Accenture says.
1/9/2007
Lockheed Martin will implement a range of IT systems -- including demand forecasting and inventory management applications -- to help the military keep track of tires used on their aircraft.
1/9/2007
The center will house research and development functions as well as business process outsourcing support to ADP's global business divisions and clients.
1/9/2007
IBM also asserted that Amazon never once mentioned its patents in the four years of talks between the two companies that preceded the lawsuits.
1/8/2007
The move is part of a major cost reduction initiative that the papermaker outlined in 2005.
1/8/2007
The services will come from an alliance between Infosys and HVS International, a consultancy offering valuation and other services to the hotel, restaurant, gaming, and leisure industries.
1/8/2007
In a SEC filing, ACS said its compensation committee improperly backdated options for several corporate officers during a period from 2000 to 2005.
1/5/2007
The two cases involve patents that have different origins, different inventors, different claims, different uses and cover different infringing activity by Amazon, IBM says.
1/5/2007
Outsourcing giants Infosys and Wipro were the apparent targets of suspected Kashmiri separatist
1/5/2007
Computer giant asks bankruptcy court to order payment for a system that tracks corpses transported on Delta's aircraft
1/5/2007
A Muslim electronics engineer claims the computer maker fired him because of his religion and that managers at the company mocked him.
1/4/2007
In addition to a hangover, Vermonters rang in the new year with higher electricity rates thanks to a 9% increase by Green Mountain Power Corp., which supplies much of the state's electricity. Among the opponents of the hike was that bastion of populist outrage--IBM.
1/4/2007
Training will include teaching police officers how the Internet, e-mail, and other computer-based tools can be used by criminals to illegally obtain information stored in databases operated by India's outsourcers.
1/4/2007
EDS is undertaking the work as lead contractor in the so-called ATLAS consortium, which also includes Fujitsu, General Dynamics, EADS Defence and Security Systems, and LogicaCMG.
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