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Salesforce approval (gg): Salesforce Approval Helper gadget to optimize performance of approval process. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Approval, Sales Force Management, Sales; Software downloads 2008-01-09
Glue for eye tears wins sales approval: HyperBranch Medical of Durham, NC has won CE approval for its OcuSeal liquid ocular bandage, meaning it can be sold outside the U.S. OcuSeal is a liquid hydrogel polymer which becomes a transparent gel 30 seconds after being brushed on to a wet surface. ...; Tags: Wound, Gel, Approval, Microsoft Windows CE, Sales Strategy, Handhelds, Thin Clients, Sales Force Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Sales, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-01-08
Compliance Strategy Review and Type approval for South Africa: The client is a large Electronic Engineering Company. The client contacted BABT and requested TUV's assistance with identifying how to enter their Wireless LAN product onto the South African market. BABT completed a Compliance Strategy Review, which described in detail how to obtain approval and gain entry into the South...; Tags: Compliance, WLAN, South Africa, Client, Approval, LANs, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking; Case studies

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Delaying a PC revolution in cell diagnosis: What if we could revolutionize medical testing, a platform as basic as a PC? Then what if every application, and every input, had to be separately inspected and approved by the FDA? That's life. Iknoisys of New Haven says it has just such a...; Tags: FDA, PC, Test, Clearance, Party Solution, Federal Government, Government, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Is Enterprise Software Recession-Proof?: Amidst the PR blitz and the blizzard of 1:1 meetings that constitute the foreground experience of SAP's Sapphire user conference this week (see Larry's coverage here, and Dennis' coverage here), there's an interesting back story emerging. If you look at SAP's last quarter, and believe the formal and informal guidance...; Tags: SAP AG, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum; Blog posts 2008-05-06

Microsoft walks away from Yahoo: Assessing winners, losers and Plan Bs: Microsoft walks away from Yahoo: Assessing winners, losers and Plan BsOther winners include1) Office chairs producers2) The free marketsRE: Microsoft walks away from Yahoo: Assessing winners, losers and Plan BsGoogle is a winner? Uh no. Google has been intefering with this deal from the beginning and should be put...; Tags: advertisement, audio track, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Plan B; Discussion threads 2008-05-04
SAP's SaaS pull-out will help rivals in Europe: The news that SAP has pushed back the roll-out of Business ByDesign by twelve to eighteen months should be music to the ears of its SaaS competitors, especially on SAP's home turf in Europe. By announcing its own SaaS product for the midmarket late last year, SAP put its stamp...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, On-demand, NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-02
Fixing Windows Vista, Part 2: Taming UAC: The User Account Control feature in Windows Vista has been known to drive normally level-headed people over the edge with frustration. If you find it annoying, you might be tempted to turn it off. According to Microsoft research, somewhere between 12 and 16 percent of all Windows Vista users do...; Tags: Program, Account, Microsoft Windows Vista, UAC, Dialog Box, OK, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott; Blog posts 2008-04-29
Rumor: 3G iPhone to sell for US$199: Rumor: 3G iPhone to sell for US$199But..But Wait...No_Ax Predicted This Wouldn't Happen!!Oh Lordy...THREE predictions to fall?VonageYahoo takeover...Now the IPhone selling 10 million???Man, this is gonna really hurt Don's reputation here.RE: Rumor: 3G iPhone to sell for US$199Will it still be available only on AT & T ???RE: Rumor: 3G iPhone...; Tags: Cellular phones, WIRELESS, US$199, 3G, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, ATT; Discussion threads 2008-04-29
Oracle closes BEA deal; Last 'logical' purchase?: Oracle said Tuesday that it closed its acquisition of BEA Systems following European Commission approval. In a statement, Oracle president Charles Phillips BEA will help the company's vision of a "a modern service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure" and provide "a series of complementary and well-engineered middleware products." ...; Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Wall Street, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Mergers & Acquisitions, Construction, Middleware, Corporate Law, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-29
No cell phone for NYC school kids: No cell phone for NYC school kidsThere is not a single reason ....... why a kid should own a cellphone.The excuse about "emergency" is pure BULL. Kids in society have survived more than 2 million years without the need of cellphone. The new trend of giving "brain cancer" to...; Tags: Cellular phones, cell phone, school kid, phone; Discussion threads 2008-04-23
To chip or not to chip – that is the question: Our fearless leader, Larry Dignan, wrote this morning to say VeriChip is launching a consumer campaign. The chip was approved for use back in 2004 after many years of being used on animals. (The picture is from an MSNBC story on the approval.) The...; Tags: VeriChip, Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-04-22
Fixing Windows Vista, one machine at a time: If the "Vista sucks" movement has a public face, it's the Sony Vaio. No one knows that better than my new friend Jeremy Toeman. In May 2007, this 15-year Windows veteran replaced his old, beloved, XP-powered Vaio with a newer Vaio that came with Windows Vista Business installed. Practically overnight,...; Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Vaio, Clean Install, Installation, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, Machine, Recovery Partition, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott; Blog posts 2008-04-21
Microsoft Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance test: Microsoft Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance testYes Microsoft said this months agoThey have not yet changed Office to keep up with spec changes negotiated during the ISO standardization process. They have long ago made announcements regarding this and their plans for bringing it into compliance.I can't decide which was more...; Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, ISO, software, Microsoft Office 2007; Discussion threads 2008-04-21
How this blog saved my life and saved me $100,000: A few months back, I told you about how my neck had gone bad, really bad. At that time, I was in the middle of a six-month dive into pain, alleviated only by gobbling unwholesome quantities of Percoset. Three weeks ago last Friday, I had an amazing surgery that relieved...; Tags: Blog, Doctor, Disc, Health Care, Surgery, Healthcare, Mitch Ratcliffe; Blog posts 2008-04-20
Exclusive: Pictures of Psystar's corporate home; Clone maker's store is open: As this Psystar saga turns--the alleged Mac clone maker is either an overwhelmed legitimate business, a scam or something in between--it's helpful to have some feet on the street. A reader--an local IT guy in Miami--visited the last address for Psystar and verified two things: There's activity and inventory on...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Payment, Psystar, Payment Processor, Orders, Desktops, Operational Accounting, Hardware, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-19
Microsoft accidentally delivers Office Genuine nagware: Microsoft is acknowledging that on April 15 it accidentally delivered its new Office Genuine Notifications to users outside of its planned pilot areas of Chile, Italy, Spain and Turkey. Infoworld quotes Cori Hartje, the Director of Microsoft's Genuine Software Initiative, on the mix-up: "The Office Genuine...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-04-18
Interesting social media profile data: Dale Vile of boutique analyst house Freeform Dynamics has released raw data from a social media survey his firm conducted in September, 2007. Given the data is six months old, the patterns may have changed. However, some of the inter-relationships are worth noting. The following graphic indicates the different patterns...; Tags: Data, Blog, Social Media, Dale, Wiki, Blogging, Online Communications, Internet, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-04-18
SocialText moves the collaboration goalposts: SocialText moves the collaboration goalpostsSocialText *IS* onto something... WIKIS work!Not that this Google Trend is "proof" or anything but it certainly helps support a theory that I have that wikis are culturally more signficant and potentially far more powerful than e-mail. http://www.google.com/trends?q=wiki%2C+email&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0It's the awakening/acknowledgement of the hive mind,...; Tags: Wiki, Socialtext, goalpost, collaboration; Discussion threads 2008-04-17
OOXML appeal possible, but looks unlikely: The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has not received a formal appeal of its approval of Office Open XML as a standard, but it looks more unlikely with each day that passes. To date, there have been "no appeals and I have no way...; Tags: ISO, Office Open XML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-04-17