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- Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic"
- RE: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are One report has at 4% market share the weekend of launch so im sure its past that already.Has Windows 7 marketshare eclipsed total OS X marketshare yet?Just wondering. :)MSFT: 1/2000 = $56. Today, $28.40Win 7 may not be the catastrophe the last...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Businesses, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, stock split, Win7, recession, Steve Ballmer, sales, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- SOA, Roman, Greek, or Modern: you don't 'do' architecture
- Service Oriented ImplementationAnd by the way there's virtually no ROI you can associate with doing architectural work in a service oriented way. It's actually implementing the architectural plan that provides the benefit. Service Oriented Implementation anyone?My 2 centsMiko
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Service-oriented, SOA
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- SAP Q3: sales down, profit up
- SAP's Q3 results demonstrate continuing softening in the enterprise software sales market. Revenues were down year on year by 31% to €525 million ($787 mill) from €763 million ($1.144 bn) in the same period 2008. Software and software related service revenues declined 3% or €57 million...
- Tags: SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-28
- Google's Schmidt: Mimicking Office completely not 'a good use of our time'
- Commonsense! Please get rid of MS Office!Please do NOT copy anything MS Office has leavethis lethargic conglomeration of software vendorsMS purchased and created the 2G office suitethat is full of security holes.I hope they go their own route and NO one needsa office suite that cost $400+$700 for a companyseat...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- 8 reasons I like the Motorola Cliq Android smartphone and 7 reasons I don't
- "Surface" is not a transitive verb.Sheesh.That's incorrect.You'd know that if you ever surfaced your driveway with asphalt.RE: 8 reasons I like the Motorola Cliq Android smartphone and 7 reasons I don'tSo what about someone who is not a social social networking fanatic but likes good access to email and facebook...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Smart phones, Cellular phones, smart phone, phone, carrier, SIM card, Apple iPhone, Motorola Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Self insured may be biggest winners in health reform
- more nonsenseAvoiding insurance companies and creeating death panels are not going to improve the healthcare.The only measures that can relly reform helthcare are in the republican bills that the democrats don't want you to see.Noo thanks"Intervention in maintaining wellness."If by "intervention" you mean "we know what's better for you than...
- Tags: Insurance, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, patient, Dana, Obama, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-10-12
- A single national market for health care
- health care should wait untill we get rid of the liberals in the governmentonce the Democrats are no longer in power we could start talking about some real healthcare reform based on tax credits and tort reform.Socialist ideeas like single payer or public option are a non starter.Heaven forbid, a...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Healthcare reform, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Verizon-Google changes mobile landscape; Customers have real options again
- I had to take a moment to pause and think about this new Google-Verizon chumminess and their common, yet unspoken, quest to go after the Apple-AT&T relationship with the iPhone that includes today's partnership news and a new ad campaign. For those who don't know, I am...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Mobile, Verizon Communications Inc., Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Poll: How often do you use a tripod?
- TripodHaving image-stabilized lenses helps a lot. I can actually shoot 3-4 shots handheld and do a reasonable job stitching a panorama in Photoshop. But if I'm shooting HDR, going after a 360-degree panorama, or shooting in very low light, I'll still drag out the old Manfrotto.Poll is inconclusivebecause...
- Tags: photograph
- Discussion threads 2009-10-02
- MobiAccess Benchmark Demo 1.0 (Mobile)
- Benchmark application What is MobiAccess Benchmark? The MobiAccess Benchmark application is a useful tool to determine the database performance figures. It is available for free from MobiAccess homepage along with uploaded benchmarks from other users for comparison purposes. Comparing the benchmark results helps enquirers choose the optimal platform based on...
- Tags: Mobile, InfomatiX Kft, MobiAccess Benchmark Application, Benchmark Application, Storage, Productivity, Performance Management, Databases, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-09-30
- If open source were a monopoly
- As always thoughtful, Dana. But there's a related problem..Open Source projects are notoriously bad a promoting the unpopular decisions. As such you can see open source as a form of populism.If someone wants to do a clean break - the sort of break which move technology forward - you will...
- Tags: Open Source Project, open source, fork, Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- Lower costs or mandate coverage
- More Politics on ZDNET?This is a tech site - please stick to TECH.Pitching this spin is not productive. It's also so one sided as to be laughable.America is a capitalist nation. Let the free market do its job and stop interfering.The marketThe market says policy is important. I...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Palin, Carl Rapson
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- Could Microsoft fix Windows Mobile by buying Palm?
- Nokia remain the strongest by far."The platforms in the strongest position are the Apple iPhone and RIM?s BlackBerry."Ex-US sales don't back that up I'm afraid. Nokia still dominate despite being behind technologically in terms of interface. With the release of the N900 and the X series this will...
- Tags: Mobile operating systems, Operating systems, Handhelds, PDAs, Mobile applications, default control, Palm Web OS, Palm Inc., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Corp., WinMo, Nokia Corp., Microsoft Windows, mobile
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- Free the Orphans: Are we being played for fools in Google Books play?
- Give me a BreakGoogle paid to digitize those books. Google paid to setup the storage and bandwidth infrastructure to host the books, and google made an agreement with the authors to be able to publish those books. If anyone else would like to do the same thing they...
- Tags: Google Inc., agreement, orphan
- Discussion threads 2009-09-23
- Google gets more aggressive than Microsoft at moving users off IE 6
- Could be a great product, and a great way for companies to keep IE6 forcompatibility reasons, but, pack a modern browser for modern websites. And, for all those users that still think that IE is the Internet, adding a Google plugin might just be the easiest way to get them...
- Tags: Web browsers, Web site development, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer, IE8
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- FastMaint 5.2.3 (Windows)
- FastMaint CMMS is preventive maintenance management software for small to mid-size maintenance teams. Uses plant, facility, building, fleet, or other equipment maintenance. Designed to be fast to setup and use no training required. Available for single user (Basic/ Standard editions) or multi-user (Professional/ Web editions). Features: equipment register; task templates...
- Tags: Audit, Microsoft Windows, Edition, SMGlobal, FastMaint CMMS, Financial Accounting, Databases, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-09-22
- FCC to announce net neutrality principles
- One thing I have learned about our "great" government is that it acts slowly, no matter what the subject/task at hand. To be ready by spring says it's either a rubber-stamp issue and/or has been well paid for ahead of time. Even then I'd be willing to be nothing...
- Tags: Federal government, INTERNET, FCC, Net Neutrality, net neutrality principle
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- California screenin': Majority of residents oppose big-screen TV ban
- Regulate power, not sizeThey should be regulating the power consumption of TVs, not necessarily their size. Force the companies to make big screen TVs less power hungry and more efficient. Not flat out ban them.TVs should strive to be Energy Star compliant because I'm sure many of them...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, big-screen TV
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- Companies to offer free foreign travel for their sick
- Wow, a great way to force our overpaid doctors to compete. Doctors should have a comfortable life, but, they do not need to earn 100x what they do in other countries.and if there are complications?If a US citizen travels abroad for a procedure and returns home, who will treat any...
- Tags: Financial Planning, insurance
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
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