You Gotta Know When To Fold Em

On October 26, 2009

You Gotta Know When To Fold Em

It’s time we break the habit of thinking we gotta cram as much as possible above the fold because people don’t like to scroll. It just ain’t so! Here’s a nugget from a post I came across — The myth of the page fold: evidence from user testing (via The Grok): Over the last 6 years we’ve [...]
On October 26, 2009

British Airways Flies Nonstop London-Las Vegas

The first nonstop British Airways flight from London to Las Vegas landed Sunday night at McCarran International Airport, beginning a full-scale assault on Virgin Atlantic's Las Vegas-London monopoly. British Airways, which features twin-engine Boeing 777s, boasts that its nonstop flights also connects to other European, African and Middle Eastern locales at London's busy Heathrow International Airport -- unlike Virgin Atlantic, which uses Gatwick International Airport. While it's true that Heathrow can deliver connectivity, the serious damage to Virgin Atlantic are British Airways' prices -- $276 for roundtrip economy flights from Nov. 2 to Dec. 20 and Dec. 24 to March 28. (Tickets must be purchased by Thursday.) Other trips to Madrid, Paris and Milan are $358. I think that British Airways has made a...


On October 26, 2009

European Regulators to Antigenics: Take Your Subset and Shove It

News that a European advisory committee won't recommend approval of Antigenics' kidney cancer vaccine Oncophage (vitespen) provides yet another reminder -- in case anyone didn’t catch it the first few hundred times -- that regulators don't like retrospective subset data.


On October 25, 2009

HP One-Ups Google on Books

I hadn't seen this earlier in the week, but it is pretty significant that HP is working with the University of Michigan to scan out-of-print books from the college libraries and make them available. And the interesting thing is that apparently HP paid close attention to Google's efforts on the Google Books front and is systematically finding a better way to do the same thing, as the former is managing to find solid revenue opportunities, meld the worlds of print and digital publication, and even manage to do this in such a way that it can't get sued.


On October 25, 2009

The Post Bail-Out Crisis | BTalk Australia

[podcasts] Rising government debt in the US could have repercussions for the world economy through significantly higher long term interest rates. It could also see the US losing its significance as the reserve economy of choice.


On October 25, 2009

If SAP Built The Electric Car

A hilarious spoof speculating on what would happen if SAP tried to build an electric car reveals issues confronting the enterprise software vendor's actual business.


On October 25, 2009

Building ERP at the Speed of Web

I had the pleasure to recently sit down with Workday's cofounder and coCEO, Aneel Bhusri, who is responsible for the company's overall strategy and day-to-day operations. Bhusri, who also helped bring PeopleSoft to huge success, explains how Workday is raising the bar on employee life-cycle productivity by lowering IT costs through the SaaS model for full enterprise resource planning.


On October 24, 2009

Target Fashions a Comeback from Recession with Carlos Falchi, Jean Paul Gaultier

Despite the expansion of food operations in its latest generation discount stores, Target has continued to promote fashion and, as sales trends improve, the company could style something positive out of the recession. Target lately has managed to convince a number of fashion designers to step back from department and specialty stores and produce limited edition product lines that it sells in a set time frame. In a way, it’s a refinement of a long-standing Target strategy that put fashion names in its stores and kept them there just as long as they remained popular. When sales slipped in the store, the labels slipped out of the store. In the latest turn on the strategy, Target has set its sites...


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