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Jeff Stiefler, Chairman of TouchCommerce, is a former president of American Express and CEO of IDS Financial Services. He also was the CEO of banking outsourcer Digital Insight, now part of Intuit. Stiefler spoke recently with ECT News Network interviewer Blake Glenn about technology and the economy. The financial crisis sweeping the U.S. economy will cut a wide swath of destruction that will include the fast-growing technology sector. He predicts a tightening of capital markets, including both venture capital and debt financing.

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It’s Gonna Get Ugly: Q&A With TouchCommerce Chair Jeff Stiefler

Jeff Stiefler, Chairman of TouchCommerce, is a former president of American Express and CEO of IDS Financial Services. He also was the CEO of banking outsourcer Digital Insight, now part of Intuit. Stiefler spoke recently with ECT News Network interviewer Blake Glenn about technology and the economy. The financial crisis sweeping the U.S. economy will cut a wide swath of destruction that will include the fast-growing technology sector. He predicts a tightening of capital markets, including both venture capital and debt financing.

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It’s Gonna Get Ugly: Q&A With TouchCommerce Chair Jeff Stiefler

Virtual worlds provide not only a new universe in which brave explorers stake their claims, but also a new legal landscape in which the colonists are often at odds with the natives from the “old world.” How do real-world laws apply? How do traditional concepts of intellectual property — patents, copyrights, and trademarks — apply in a virtual world? Can virtual worlds contract around intellectual property rights by forcing users to license their intellectual property, or forego such claims altogether?

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The Rocky Legal Landscape of Virtual Worlds, Part 1: Trademarks

Oracle introduced a new collaborative platform called “Beehive” at OpenWorld last week. To be sure, it was hardly the only announcement the enterprise software vendor made — but it did serve as grist for many bloggers. Oracle is basically jumping on a bandwagon in the collaboration space, said David Brunet, principal at Mipro Consulting and an OpenWorld attendee, as several best-of-breed vendors already offer such functionality. “[However,] it is still a good opportunity for Oracle. It has put all the various pieces together in one enterprise package.”

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The Buzz About Beehive

You have to give Oracle credit for persistence. The software giant has been trying to build out its groupware business for nearly 10 years, and has as yet modest success. Now, with Beehive, the next generation of its collaboration suite, Oracle may be sniffing some fresh and meaningful blood in the enterprise messaging waters. The investment Oracle is making in Beehive signals an opportunity born more by the shifting sands beneath Microsoft Exchange and Outlook, than in any new-found performance breakthroughs from Oracle’s developers.

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Will Oracle’s Beehive Sting Microsoft Where It Hurts?