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Blockbuster sees media Convergence; Offers to buy Circuit City: Updated: Here's a deal where 1 + 1 = 0.5: Blockbuster is offering to acquire Circuit City for "a least $6 a share." Blockbuster went public on Monday (statement) with an offer to buy Circuit City. Blockbuster says it sent a letter Feb. 17, but Circuit City...; Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Blockbuster Inc., Convergence, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-14
New SSD from Intel points to serious UMPC expansion: New SSD from Intel points to serious UMPC expansionThis will enable a host of portable deviceThe UMPC/MID market will surely benefit from this. I would just love to carry a thin, 1/2 pound handheld, 5 inch screen that runs the full internet. This helps get us there.It's just a...; Tags: Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), INTERNET, Advertising & Promotion, Desktops, Intel Corp., boundry, convergence, ARM, ultramobile PC, mobile; Discussion threads 2007-12-18
Enterprise Fixed Mobile Convergence: Deploying Dual Mode Devices and Other Options: Because today's workforce spends much time away from a fixed workspace, the ability to bridge communications between the traditional office desk and the mobile world has become critical for today's IT professional. This webcast discusses about fixed-mobile convergence: what it means, what the benefits are, and how a business can...; Tags: Mobile, Unified Communications, Convergence, Workforce, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing; Webcasts 2007-12-01
Enabling Mobility With HP Innovation and the HP Integrity Platform: The ability and willingness to move or change is about mobility. Mobility is a catalyst for these changes as traditional ways of doing business and divisions across segments - media, network, and device companies - are changing as the industry converges. Lifestyle convergence is apparent to all - the boundaries...; Tags: HP Integrity, Innovation, Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, Mobility, Convergence, Lifestyle Convergence, Device Convergence, Network Convergence; White papers 2007-11-01
Week in review: Where's the Apple iKiller?: Week in review: Where's the Apple iKiller?iKiller? Not likelyWhen discussing the iKiller one wonders: "why is it so hard to beat Apple?" After all, just a few years ago they were on the brink of keeling over? How come they are now a force to be reckoned with, distinguishing themselves...; Tags: VOIP, Ther, Apple iKiller, Apple Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-10-05

Microsoft and Nortel Give Customers a Head Start in Communications Convergence: Companies are looking for ways to improve their communications infrastructure to shorten sales cycles, improve customer service, and drive overall business performance. Responding to this need, Toronto-based Nortel, a leading telecommunications equipment manufacturer, and Microsoft established the Innovative Communications Alliance to help customers move from stand-alone communications methods to unified...; Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Unified Communications, Data Networking, Microsoft Corp., Systems Integration, Convergence, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2007-10-01
Travel and Procurement: The Convergence: According to a recent Aberdeen Group survey, companies that don't use an integrated travel and entertainment (T&E) expense management service, like Concur Travel & Expense, are falling behind in almost every measure of financial management. Aberdeen refers to these companies as "laggards" and presents figures showing that...; Tags: Aberdeen Group Inc., Procurement, Convergence, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations; White papers 2007-10-01
Avaya, Cisco, Nortel tech chiefs on enterprise IP telephony apps in the oven: I'm sitting here in the audience at VoiceCon in San Francisco, checking out the CTO Roundtable.Line-up: Mun Yuen Leong, CTO of Avaya; Phil Edholm, CTO & VP, Enterprise Network Architecture, Nortel, and Hank Lambert, CTO, Cisco.Each are talking about network management-related IP data and voice R&D, what's in the labs,...; Tags: Telephony, CTO, Mobile, Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Voice, IP Telephony, IP, SOA, Cisco Systems Inc., Avaya Inc., Convergence, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2007-08-22
SOA and SaaS Convergence points to new market demand for 'integration-as-a-service': Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: Cape Clear Software.Take SOA and SaaS to their natural maturation and adding more interoperability and integration into the online services mix becomes inevitable. When standardized services come from a variety of sources, then a variety of means to connect them makes more...; Tags: Web Services, Virtualization, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA architect, SOA, SaaS, Podcasts, Internet, Enterprise 2.0, datacenters, convergence, Cape Clear, Application Lifecycle Management, Agile Development; Blog posts 2007-07-09
PCI Data Security Standard: SSO - Strong Authentication - Physical/Logical Security Convergence: During the last ten years there has been an explosion in the use of Internet-based commerce, as well as a drastic increase in credit and debit card usage in the physical storefront. Despite the best efforts of organizations to protect customer data, consumer fraud and identity theft have hit new...; Tags: Credit Card, PCI, Debit Card, Single Sign-on, Imprivata, Authentication, Convergence, Identity Theft, Financial Services, Sales Channel, Security, Sales; White papers 2007-07-02
UPS uses wireless tracking via SMS to extend shipping locations to today's mobile set: Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: UPSAs wireless communications technology becomes embedded in the lifestyles of consumers -- led by the younger generations that have always known it -- small businesses are seeking ways to catch the mobile wave.Gaining an advantage with younger shoppers online and off can...; Tags: Web Technology, Podcasts, Mobile, convergence; Blog posts 2007-06-21
Small and Medium Enterprise Business Communications in the UK: The term "convergence" is much overused, and applied to many similar but differing scenarios involving various mixes of products, services and technologies. Whatever the benefits, the common factor in most 'convergence' scenarios until recently has been that the market and technology infrastructure has not been there, nor a clear picture...; Tags: Orange PCS, Small And Medium Enterprise, Convergence, Smb/Sme, VOIP, Benefits, Telecommunications, Networking, Human Resources; White papers 2007-06-07
The CDDL example: The CDDL exampleNow, if we could just replace the GPL with this (or the FreeBSD licence)...then maybe development would extend from the community to the commercial much further (with respect to Linux etc).Communism, sorry, socialism never worked in Mother Russia and it sure doesn't do a damn thing for open...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Sun Microsystems Inc., convergence, CDDL, GPL, LGPL; Discussion threads 2007-05-31
The story of Web 2.0 and SOA continues - Part 1: It's nearly the middle of 2007 already and I've had occasion to sit down and look at where Web 2.0 and SOA software models have evolved lately. Partly it's because we're now seeing some of the bigger software companies seriously embrace lightweight SOA recently, and it's also because we're...; Tags: Ajax, Architecture of Participation, ATOM, Collective Intelligence, Convergence, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Enterprise Web 2.0, Global SOA, Governance, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Products, REST, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Right To Remix, RSS, SOA, SOAP, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), WS-*; Blog posts 2007-05-17
Sun plans developer-focused, on-demand application grid services: Before the end of the year, Sun Microsystems will follow the lead of Amazon and Microsoft in providing a "pay as you drink" applications hosting service that provides a lifecycle approach to new web application development and deployment.In addition to announcing JavaFX Script, a lightweight programming language for creating rich...; Tags: Web Services, Virtualization, Testing Tools, Sun Microsystems, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SaaS, Open Source, Mobile, Microsoft Live, Java, Internet, Google, Enterprise 2.0, Developer Tools, datacenters, convergence, content delivery network, Application Lifecycle Management; Blog posts 2007-05-08
Case study touts .NET development for IBM portal server deployment: Call it a suck-up job for developer choice, but Ive been appraised of an interesting case study that highlights the ability to develop using Visual Studio/.NET -- but to then cross-compile the applications to play as portlets for deployment on IBM WebSphere Portal server on ... a System Z mainframe....; Tags: Windows, Vista, Virtualization, System Z, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA architect, SOA, SaaS, Red Hat, Open Source, Microsoft, Linux, JBoss, Java, ITIL, IT Service Management, IT Management, IDEs, IBM, Hardware Infrastructure, Enterprise Java, Developer Tools, datacenters, database, convergence, Application Lifecycle Management, Apache, .NET; Blog posts 2007-05-02
A tale of two Web 2.0 conferences and mashups: Ive just come off a whirlwind conference tour that started in San Francisco last week with Web 2.0 Expo and ended with the Web 2.0 Kongress yesterday in Frankfurt. I was fortunate enough to be able to speak at both conferences and it was fascinating to see the differences...; Tags: ATOM, Badges, Convergence, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Wikis, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Right To Remix, RSS, SaaS, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), Widgets, Wikis, WS-*; Blog posts 2007-04-27
Another strong voice enters the blogosphere: Even when you work in a sprawling office you get to know who the "go-to" people are, theyre the ones with the door thats flung open so often its like a revolving door as they repeatedly, briskly stride out with high-intensity on to the next task or discussion. As someone...; Tags: VOIP, search, Mobile, Internet, Google, convergence; Blog posts 2007-04-09
Convergence case in point: SOA approach eases hotel's development of in-room communications/Web portal: Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: BlueNote Networks, Inc.When I first heard of the Seaport Hotels in-room "Seaportal" application, built using SOA principles to attain a true IP convergence features, I was jazzed and blogged on it. The Boston hotel recently took part in a webinar deep dive...; Tags: Portals, Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web technology, Web services, SOA, portal; Blog posts 2007-03-14
Encouraging Enterprise 2.0: As simple as possible, but no simpler?: Blogger Euan Semple recently highlighted a key point about Enterprise 2.0 adoption that ZDNets own Dan Farber also found worthy of note over the weekend. And that is that Enterprise 2.0 will happen in your organization entirely by itself, whether you encourage it, discourage it, or even consign it...; Tags: Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Web, Wiki; Blog posts 2007-03-12

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