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Like the G1, the battery seems to be the Palm Pre's Achilles heel

Like the G1, the battery seems to be the Palm Pre's Achilles heelWell, shazamApple really wasn't lying when it said multi-tasking kills battery life. RE: Like the G1, the battery seems to be the Palm Pre's Achilles heelMatthew, I had a couple of issues that you are experiencing. 1st: The...

Tags: Engineering, Pre, Palm Inc., battery, phone, Achilles heel, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-06-09

Like the G1, the battery seems to be the Palm Pre's Achilles heel

I took a look at laying out what we knew about the Palm Pre in my first Clash of the Touch Titans article and found the Pre to be an exciting device. After getting a bit of hands-on time with the Pre at CTIA in April, I asked if the...

Tags: Palm Inc., Battery, Achilles Heel, Engineering, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-09

CTIA 09: Is the Palm Pre keyboard the Achilles heel of the device?

CTIA 09: Is the Palm Pre keyboard the Achilles heel of the device?Are you kidding?The keyboard will increase the ease of use on this device. A full screen device that requires you click the screen to input text can be extremely annoying. Ask iPhone users.RE: CTIA 09: Is the Palm...

Tags: Keyboards, Cellular phones, keyboard, Apple iPhone, Pre, Palm Pre, CTIA 09, Palm Inc., Achilles heel, Centro, CTIA

Discussion threads 2009-04-06

CTIA 09: Is the Palm Pre keyboard the Achilles heel of the device?

Since I didn't have a chance to see the Palm Pre in person and there are no review units out yet, I couldn't really pick a favorite in my first Clash of the Touch Titans article. Last week I was able to see the Pre in person and get my...

Tags: Palm Inc., CTIA, Achilles Heel, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-04-06

Addressing virtualization's achilles heel

Addressing virtualization's achilles heelJust built a VMWare farmHave the servers using their hard drives directly from a SAN infrastructure. Then we have IBM servers which have 10 NICs each. ( two 4 port gig and 2 onboard ).As for sharing.. yes, you may run out of I/O on a...

Tags: Servers, Storage management, Utility computing, server, virtualization, Achilles heel

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

Addressing virtualization's achilles heel

The benefits of virtualization are quite obvious but when you start to really increase the density of virtual machines in order to maximize utilization suddenly it ain't such a simple proposition. The latest CPUs from AMD and Intel are more than up to the task of running 10-20 or more...

Tags: Bandwidth, Virtualization, Network Interface Card, Blade, Achilles Heel, VM, Networking, Servers, Hardware, James Staten

Blog posts 2008-11-17

NetSuite reveals Salesforce.com's Achilles heel

NetSuite reveals Salesforce.com's Achilles heelSalesforce Connector for SAP R/3 – Great ProductSalesforce launched "Salesforce Connector" in July. I have reviewed its features on the Salesforce official website. It sounds good and gives support to back-office by providing customer data. This integration of Salesforce and SAP R/3 is a great...

Tags: Sales force management, Salesforce.com Inc., Achilles heel, NetSuite Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-27

Compliance: Is Remote Office Data Your Achilles Heel?

This white paper discusses the risks of non-compliance—from financial penalties to job loss—and explains how deploying Asigra software as part of an overall compliance solution can help protect both you and your remote office data. Asigra solutions help companies attain remote site data backup/recovery goals to achieve compliance.

Tags: Microsoft Office, Compliance, Remote Site, Achilles Heel, Asigra

White papers 2007-06-26

JetBlue fiasco: A database could have made a difference

JetBlue fiasco: A database could have made a differenceThey were probably using an access database...and it fell over with all of the updates.Glad to know they're a MS Shop. I'll never fly them.Scary to think that they are running an airline on MS software. And proud of it.Guess...

Tags: Storage, Databases, Achilles Heel, database, JetBlue Airways Corp., fiasco

Discussion threads 2007-02-20

NetSuite reveals Salesforce.com's Achilles heel

Just prior to a panel at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit panel on software as a service that includes the three bigger upstart players--Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com; Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite; Greg Gianforte, CEO of RightNow Technologies--NetSuite send out a press release touting Salesforce.com defections to NetSuite. The...

Tags: NetSuite Inc., Salesforce.com Inc.

Blog posts 2006-07-26

Additional Resources

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Free Microsoft open-source content management app to get its debut next week

Very interestingStrange - Ballmer was all excited about how the SharePoint 2010 team focused on internet facing capabilities. Why play with Orchard if you can get all the features CMS and more with a hosted version of SP2010 at a fairly cheap investment?I guess for small businesses who just...

Tags: Content management, open source, Microsoft Corp., open-source content management app, Free Microsoft open-source content management app, FREE Microsoft, open-source content management, Microsoft Windows NT, content management system, OSS Projects

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Corner of Bar vs Corner of Library: The Twitter Conundrum

On the eve of a couple of international Enterprise 2.0 Conferences, I'm revisiting in this post a core concept about the fundamental dichotomy of behavioral patterns around marketing people and business operations people. As a general rule the people running the strategy and...

Tags: Twitter Inc., Marketing Research, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-01

News to know: iPhone; Win 7 upgrade answers; Psystar; SOA; Google

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Finally, some answers to Windows 7 upgrade questions Dion Hinchcliffe: Are the iPhone and social networks making...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Psystar, Photograph, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Less than 24-hours on and a potential Windows 7 Achilles' heel surfaces

3 Words for you...Windows Live Essentials...Saves on bloat?It was nothing to do with that. Microsoft have said that they unbundled a lot of things from the OS build as it allowed for easier and more frequent updates.Good point.I use Hotmail but also use Live Mail on my own machines as...

Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Operating systems, Groupware, E-mail providers, e-mail, Microsoft Windows, Windows Mail, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

UPDATE: Less than 24-hours on and a potential Windows 7 Achilles' heel surfaces

Yesterday was Windows 7's launch day - WooHoo! Yay! PARTAY!!! - but now that the parties are over and people are settling down to actually use their PC, a potential Windows 7 Achilles' heel emerges. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-10-23

RealNetworks: It can get worse

It couldn't happen to a more deserving company. ntntReal is paying a price for not open sourcing its codeTrying to be like M$ harmed Real.They must GPL their code immediately, in order to survive.Real should also shoud push for M$ removing media player from windoze, and embrace Linux as the...

Tags: Digital media, OPEN SOURCE, RealNetworks Inc., RealDVD

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

Liveblog: Sony announces $399 7" Wi-Fi 3G e-book Reader; will it kill the Kindle?

Goodnight KindleWitch cheaper competition Amazon is finished. I'm surprised that it was Sony who stepped up.The game is getting interestingThough I am pretty sure it's a few years or decades too early to be declaring anything a "Kindle killer" or a "Sony killer". Basically the market is still very...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Games, Wi-Fi, Amazon.com Inc., Sony Corp., game

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

News to know: MySpace-iLike; Gmail; Twitter; Sony Ericsson; Secure smartphones

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: MySpace to acquire social music service iLike for $20 million Matthew Miller: Push Gmail comes to the...

Tags: Google Gmail, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Dana Blankenhorn, Smart Phone, Andrew Nusca, Matthew Miller, Twitter, Sam Diaz, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows 7, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), E-mail Providers, E-mail, Research & Development, Cloud Computing, Smart Phones, Hardware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Online Communications, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2009-08-18

Windows 7's Achilles' heel - XP Mode

XP Mode is a crutch, for a wounded patient, that is supposed to get better.Microsoft is betting it will go away soon, and, like the Windows Ultimate Extras, disappear forever.I believe it will, as anyone serious about using XP will bypass the Windows 7 middleman.This is news?Is XP Mode not...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, XP Mode, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-08-17