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SXSWi - party like its 2009

Prior to SXSWi I was asked goodness knows how many times if I was likely to be there. I said the same thing to all comers: 'I don't get it. I don't see the point. Waste of time.' Much against my advice, at least one SAP...

Tags: Innovation, Austin, Enterprise, SXSWi, Drunkenness, Breakthrough Innovation, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-03-18

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CheckUp4Tiger 1.0 (Mac)

With its use of the latest Mac OS X technologies, breakthrough ease-of use and innovation,�all Mac users will find CheckUp extremely useful and even fun. It's like the dashboard of your car!��CheckUp features powerful tools to monitor the behavior and health of Mac computers.�It's a powerful and intelligent monitoring application...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, app4Mac, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-10

Better together: Engineering Collaboration at the Heart of Breakthrough Capability with VMware software and Intel hardware

Intel has a well established rhythm of technology innovation - and a lot of really smart architects who know a thing or two about cpu design - but we get innovative ideas from the outside, too. Over the years of the VMware alliance, Intel has received many requests for small...

Tags: Software, Collaboration, VMware Inc., CPU, Intel Hardware, Intel Corp., Virtualization, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components

White papers 2009-10-01

The 10 biggest moments in IT history

Missing: Tim Berners-Lee?The Mouse, and the GUI ...... without the invention of the mouse or the GUI/WYSIWYG there would not be as many users as there are today, and I would hazard a guess that it would be restricted to business applications like accounting, and Data Analysis.LudoRE: The 10...

Tags: Mice, Strategy, Operating systems, GUI, PARC User Interface, mouse, Microsoft Corp., IT History, Xerox PARC, operating system, IBM Corp., information technology

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

What the EU delay means for Oracle, Sun and us

My Guess, as requested.Insofar as the EU seems to be tardy in the extreme when investigating monopoly considerations (e.g. why have they waited 10 years to tackle M$ about bundling Internet Explorer with Windows?) I would agree with you completely. Why didn't they start proceedings in a timely fashion to...

Tags: Strategy, Backblaze, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

The! meaning! of! bing!

they're all dyingcan three men dying in a boat save one another, well I guess cannibalism could work.HP: has cut their printer line so much that I have to wait a month to get a printer shipped direct from themIntel: actually the strongest of the bunch, but your right their...

Tags: Backups, PRODUCTIVITY, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-08

Google, Microsoft and Zoho

The Battle for the Desktop and Beyond Microsoft is in the news lately with its Office 2010 announcements. It contains, no surprise, a number of tidbits to make more of the application suite more cloud friendly and less costly. Implicit in this strategy...

Tags: Google Inc., Zoho, Microsoft Corp., Software Purchase, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Microsoft Office, Management, Hardware, Office Suites, Software, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-07-21

Get ready for Oracle's 100 days of press releases aka innovation

It's a while since I read Bruce Richardson, chief research officer at AMR but a couple of his most recent posts rang bells with me. The first: Who Drives Software Innovation? The “Best-of-Breed vs. Giants” Debate raises a donkey's year old discussion where he concludes: Call me cynical, but...

Tags: Innovation, Oracle Corp., Bruce, Simon Wardley, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Philips rolls out 2009 U.S. home theater lineup. Will anyone buy?

While a major force in Europe, the Philips brand has never caught on in the same way across the pond, unable to compete with the Samsungs and Sonys in reputation or the Vizios in cut-rate pricing. Philips disclosed pricing and availability details on its 2009 lineup of U.S. home theater...

Tags: Home Theater, Philips Electronics N.V., Home Entertainment, Tv & Home Theater, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-05-07

NEXT09: domination = stagnation: now the crumbling empires

NEXT09 is one of Europe's most important conferences. It brings together some of the edgiest thinkers from around the world, people who challenge accepted norms and put some of the big issues into sharp relief. Today, Umair Haque and Andrew Keen provided conflicting yet paradoxically complementary views of what the...

Tags: Domination, Oracle Corp., NEXT09, Haque, Sales Force Management, Investment, Financial Services, Sales, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-05-05

Enterprise 2.0 promise is years off...if it materializes

At the risk of bringing the wrath of the Enterprise 2.0 fans crashing around this blog I'm taking a deliberately contrarian view of Dion Hinchcliffe's recent Determining the ROI of Enterprise 2.0. My intention is not to upend Dion's argument but to expand upon the issues....

Tags: Collaboration, Blog, ROI, Enterprise 2.0, E2.0, Hugh MacLeod, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-04-13

Who Do You Think Is On Top in Enterprise Technology Innovation?

Who Do You Think Is On Top in Enterprise Technology Innovation?Tail wagging the mutt..It seems to me that the small players develop a really cool application that creates a lot of noise and buzz.The 400lbs Gorillas try to scramble a "me too" without thoroughly understanding the value statement and dilute...

Tags: Enterprise Technology Innovation

Discussion threads 2009-04-09

Energy-efficient chips are cool, but Intel is reaching much deeper in eco-innovation

OK, OK, we've all heard a gazillion and one things this week about why Nehalem, er the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, is like, a total breakthrough in terms of energy efficiency. Intel calls the chip its most revolutionary product in the past 15 years shades of Pentium and all...

Tags: Intel Corp., Chip, Desktop Virtualization, Wi-Fi, Processors, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Virtualization, Semiconductors, Components, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-03-31

Will Android and Windows Mobile get squeezed as smartphone market shakes out?

While the iPhone has shown that there is a large consumer market for smartphones, the primary market-driver for the smartphone is - and will remain - enterprises and small businesses. This dynamic is similar to the PC operating system market. Think about Windows Vista. It has largely...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Android, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Platform, Palm Inc., Smart Phone, Business, Microsoft Windows, RIM BlackBerry, Symbian Inc., Informa, BlackBerry Let, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-03-17

Churchill Club podcast: The innovation economy, R&D and a crisis

In this episode of the Churchill Club podcast series, a panel of experts talk about innovation and the need for a technology breakthrough.  Is there an innovation drought on the way or will the Valley cook up the next big thing? Speakers on March...

Tags: Innovation, R&D, Podcasts, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-09

Hologram technology: the sub-atomic future of storage?

I was recently talking to some folks at Google about storage, specifically the amount of data that's being stored on the cloud as users upload things like photos and YouTube video clips. Gigabytes. Terabytes. Petabytes. I couldn't help but wonder, as we talked about all of this...

Tags: Hologram, Stanford, Beam, Storage, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-04

Reviewing Windows 7

Reviewing Windows 7Please...Please Murph...Spare us your "review" of anything Microsoft related. You were the one that told us that Windows "doesn't use real threads", so please spare us from giving your uninformed opinion. It was worth less than $0.02.Please stick to OSes that are becoming more irrelevant with...

Tags: Operating systems, WINDOWS USERS, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., operating system, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-01-08

Reflecting on the mobile devices of 2008, what was your favorite?

Reflecting on the mobile devices of 2008, what was your favorite?set the barhow can an avid mobile device enthusiast not love the iphone and have it on top of one's list? the single one device that was THE breakthrough in a lazy and bleak industry with no innovation happening for...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Apple iPhone, mobile, mobile device

Discussion threads 2008-12-29

Momentum Webcast: Creating an Innovation Breakthrough in Industrial Equipment Manufacturing and Machine Assembly (Level 100)

Delivering high-quality products on time is a major challenge for industrial equipment manufacturers caught in the squeeze between cost pressures and quality demands. Other worries include the rapid rate of modernization in China and other parts of the world where labor costs are a fraction of the wages paid in...

Tags: Webcast, Manufacturer, Microsoft Corp., Manufacturing

Webcasts 2008-12-11

EMC CLARiiON CX4 Series DC Power Systems - A Detailed Review

EMC CLARiiON CX4 DC-powered storage systems are based on the same breakthrough architecture and the extensive technological innovation as their AC counterparts and the CX3 DC-powered storage systems that preceded them. The DC-powered product line delivers the same industry-leading performance that the customers have come to expect from EMC product.

Tags: EMC Clariion, EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware

White papers 2008-12-01