By David Sims
[email protected]
The news as of the first coffee this morning and the music
is Carole King's Tapestry:
We here at the rolling First Coffee headquarters campus
outside of Milwaukee thought you, our Loyal Readers, would appreciate a glimpse
inside the fast-paced, exciting world of Business Journalism – beautiful girls,
fast cars, blazing guns and e-mails!
Yes, the secret is out – frequently we here in the
glittering, dazzling world of biz journo are informed of what’s going on Out
There via our sources Out There themselves. Now you too may see the raw material we work from here to get the story
out to you:
Hello David,
You wrote
about us on TMCnet in October. I thought this news would interest you.
STEVE PURDHAM APPOINTED CHAIRMAN OF IDENTUM
Co-founder of SurfControl turns his attention to
email encryption for everyone.
London -- 5 April 2006 -- Steve Purdham, co-founder and
former CEO of SurfControl, has been appointed chairman of Identum. Alan Lamb,
outgoing chairman, will remain on the board as non-executive director.
Identum,
a Bristol University spin-out, emerged from stealth mode in July 2005 with
Private Post, the first product in the world to bring email encryption
technology into the mainstream by making it user-friendly enough for every PC
user.
Karl
Feilder, CEO of Identum, highlighted Steve’s global success as a perfect fit
for the company. “Steve took SurfControl from a small British operation in 1996
to one of the world’s leading internet security companies listed on the LSE
with profitable sales exceeding $100m in 2005. With the market for secure email
expected to be worth $811m by 2008 [IDC], we’re even more
ambitious for Identum…
…
Dear David:
Dovarri has chosen OpSource’s Optimal On-Demand SaaS
enablement and delivery solution for Dovarri’s PRO-One suite of customer
relationship management (CRM) and sales force automation (SFA) applications.
Please see the news release below. If you’d like more
information or an interview with a Dovarri or OpSource executive, please
contact Cristina or Maureen.
Regards…
…
( BW) LongBoard Names Industry Veteran Hari Haran as
President & CEO
Business
Editors/High-Tech Writers [That’s us!]
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 4,
2006--LongBoard, Inc., a leading developer of open IP Multimedia and Mobile
VoIP services for telecommunications carriers and service providers, announced
today that it has named industry veteran Hari Haran as President and CEO,
effective immediately.
Haran, who has served as LongBoard Senior Vice President of
Global Sales since March 2005, replaces JD Howard, who has resigned to pursue
other interests.
Haran is a 25-year veteran of the telecommunications
industry with proven sales, business development, and general management
experience.
Haran has also worked for Bell Labs managing a P&L
practice, and opened up new markets in Latin America, where he served as
Director of Sales for Mexico and grew that new business to over $75 million.
Hari has also worked with several start-ups in the telecommunications and IT
market, and has served as a consultant for companies in the systems integration
market.
…
Dear David,
I read your article about Willow's win of the Virgin America
account. Are you interested in a possible trends story about virtual contact centers, or about telework in general
-- perhaps from an outsourcing, technology, business
strategy or other angle?
Following are some trends in the
home-based worker arena. I can arrange interviews with VIPdesk (a provider
of a virtual contact center solution); with a company that uses such
services to employ home-based workers (e.g. OnStar, Interval International or
perhaps Travelocity); with the Washington DC-based nonprofit Telework Consortium;
and with any of a number of home-based workers who are industry experts
providing specialized service from home…
…
Dear David,
The review of the book in your article "Outsourcing?
Watch Out For These Pitfalls" makes for interesting reading.
I am yet to read the book, and will perhaps have a better
understanding of the narrative, addressing core techno-business issues.
However, I don’t agree with a few points including “Outsourcing providers build
in a lack of transparency, they find, the "black box" of costs and
margins.” While I empathize with the writers who point to this issue, it is
hard to generalize on the “lack of transparency” in the industry!
Also, there is little distinction that the authors seem to
draw between outsourcing of services -- which has matured in the past two
decades with large players like IBM, EDS et al – and offshoring, that is only
now taking off.
Best Practices of managing Offshored projects are only now
emerging, as I realized while researching for my recently published book “Offshoring
IT Services: A framework for managing outsourced projects” [Publisher
McGraw-Hill, India] A review of the book was recently published in Express
Computers.
I would like to invite you to acquire a copy of the book and
review it.
…
David,
Wanted to ask if you could write up a report and some
analysis on the Lucent-Alcatel merger. As soon as possible would be good, as we
should have something up on the site about this.
Hope that can work.
…
David,
You wrote something (nice) about us in October last
year and I thought you might like to know that we have recently updated
our website and made a lot of changes. We have also decided to make our
Private Post products FREE for private use - companies must pay.
best regards
Karl
…
David, gosh that three months maternity leave went by fast.
Now back in the saddle again. Did the SAS folks treat you good while I was gone
or did you not hear hide nor hair from them? How have you been?
Haven't sussed out what went on in my absence yet as
everyone is at SUGI. Speaking of which, here is some of the news we released
today from San Francisco…
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