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- Microsoft delivers a first piece of 'Zune VideoX' via new Zune update
- Microsoft has delivered the first pieces of its anticipated Zune VideoX video store as part of its new Zune 2.5 software update, rolled out on May 6. The 2.5 update allows Zune owners to download TV shows, but not movies so far from the Zune online store....
- Tags: Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Game Players, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Handhelds, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Why Yahoo's ad inventory is so important to Microsoft
- With all the threats, promises and negotiations around the pending acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft, it's easy to lose sight of the key driver of the deal: Increased ad inventory. While folks trying to read the tea leaves for signs of CEO Steve Ballmer's moods or Yahoo...
- Tags: Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Zune, Video, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Twitter outages and Forrester predictions
- In my last post about Forrester's predictions, I suggested that Enterprise 2.0 won't pan out the way they suggest. On one prediction, I think they're spot on but for different reasons: Consumer services like Blogger, Facebook, Netvibes, and Twitter are aimed squarely at consumers, and they typically offer free...
- Tags: Outage, Twitter, Forrester Research Inc., Manufacturing, Web 2.0, Internet, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- An Open Source Class-Five Switch
- Open source projects have revolutionized operating systems, web servers, web browsers, and so why not carrier switches? The FreeSwitch open source project released its Release Candidate 1 (RC1) yesterday providing and by early accounts the software rocks. "We replaced a cluster of 10 Asterisk servers with...
- Tags: Software, Open Source, Server, Softswitch, BroadSoft, Carrier, FreeSwitch Open Source, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Tools & Techniques, Management, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- WOA may soon eclipse SOA as most impactful business transformation agent
- In a recent blog post I questioned whether services oriented architecture SOA was driving substantive transformation inside of enterprise IT. My conclusion is that something is not quite right in SOA-ville. The uptake of general-purpose service enablement is by no means a hockey stick trend line. The...
- Tags: Web, Agent, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- The future of SaaS billing
- In the past few weeks, all of a sudden, I've been approached by any number of vendors wanting to tell me about their billing, settlement and subscriber management offerings to the SaaS market. I must say, it's about time. For the past ten years, SaaS vendors have struggled to manage...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Billing, LeCayla, Vindicia, Enterprise Software Buyer, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- Adobe Photoshop Express
- Adobe's VP of Hosted and Consumer Services refers to Photoshop Express as "the on-ramp to the Adobe digital-imaging franchise." Next exit, Photoshop Elements? Construction delays? Slippery pavement ahead? The mind reels with metaphorical possibilities. With its familiar-looking organizational tools, slick Flash-based interface and robust retouching algorithms, Express embodies Adobe at...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PhotoShop, Photoshop Express
- Product reviews 2008-03-27
- Avaya Changes the UC Game
- The battle for enterprise Unified Communications took a pivotal turn this morning when Avaya announced its Intelligent Presence server here at VoiceCon. The Intelligent Presence server collects and integrates presence information from multiple sources for a richer view of a worker's status. More specifically, the Presence Server will...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Avaya Inc., Intelligent Presence Server, Presence Server, Presence Source, E-mail Providers, Servers, Internet, Hardware, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Danger to be Microsoft's entry into consumer-focused phones
- How does Microsoft intend to take on Apple's iPhone? The Redmond software maker's plan to gain traction in the consumer-focused mobile-phone market hinges heavily on Danger Inc. -- the company that invented the Sidekick and is soon to become part of Microsoft, according to Robbie Bach, president...
- Tags: Phone, Partnership, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Business Structures, Microsoft Windows, Marketing, Finance, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- Farewell, Bill. Yo, Ballmer, now it's your turn!
- Farewell, Bill. Yo, Ballmer, now it's your turn!So Robin, what are you trying to say? kiddingBeware of 'flying chairs'.RE: Farewell, Bill. Yo, Ballmer, now it's your turn!What I would do...Buy into Apple; stock is low and ups are massive a good time to get in. Buy into Google they are...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Business structures, Game players, current Windows kernel, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Farewell
- Discussion threads 2008-01-29
- WorkLight secures Facebook for enterprises
- Social networks are growing like weeds. This creates a difficult weeding problem for enterprises, who fear adverse impact from employees spending time and sharing company info in Facebook groups, which aren't protected by corporate firewalls. WorkLight is addressing both issues with WorkBook, a Facebook application that allows...
- Tags: Facebook, WorkLight, Social Networking, Financial Services, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Don't weep for underappreciated enterprise software
- For weekend entertainment and attention, Robert Scoble used the word "sexy" in a headline, referencing a LiveSide.Net interview with Bill Gates where he said that the press naming the Wall Street Journal doesn't appreciate that Microsoft's enterprise/business software is underappreciated and at the heart of the company's vast riches....
- Tags: Fact, Business Computing, Consumer Computing, Scoble, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-09
- Windows Live Apps
- The Windows Live apps package is a free download of six tools that manage e-mail accounts, chatting, blogging, photos, and parental controls for children surfing the Web. This download includes Windows Live Mail, Messenger, Photo Gallery, Writer, Toolbar, and OneCare Family Safety. Rather than serving as a portal to and...
- Tags: Operating systems, E-mail providers, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Live Mail, e-mail, photograph
- Product reviews 2007-11-12
- Salesforce.com Winter '08 edition goes live
- Salesforce Winter '08 edition of the Force.com platform is now live, as well as two new applications-- Salesforce Content and Salesforce Ideas (previously covered here when the software was rolled out at Dreamforce 07). As usual, salesforce.com is not shy about jabbing at rivals. "Competitors seem stagnant...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-02
- Another option for BEA: Sell yourselves to a big, honking telco like AT&T
- While the potboiler of the Oracle-solicits-BEA story simmers on the front burner, there could be another option for BEA's board. Rather than BEA -- which states it will be happily acquired for $21 per share -- awaiting another software vendor to rescue it from the flinty grips of Oracle, why...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Information Technology, AT&T Corp., Carrier, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- Will Microsoft Unified Communications kick enterprise VoIP, IM into high gear?
- On our sister site TechRepublic, Jason Hiner offers his view that the just-released Microsoft Unified Communications Server may convince heretofore skittish enterprise users to embrace VoIP and instant messaging. The reason, Jason strongly implies, is that these features and so much more are...
- Tags: IM, Microsoft Corp., Instant Messaging, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Internet, Online Communications, Networking, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- OpenID for unlocking enterprise value
- Neville Hobson's views on OpenID struck a chord:It seems to me that OpenID is still a very early-adoption technology, the domain of serious geeks and tech enthusiasts.Well, I'm as enthusiastic as the next geek but I just don't really get OpenID yet.Since reading Neville's piece, I've been trying to contextualize...
- Tags: Groupware, Dennis Howlett, OpenID, Plaxo Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-08-22
- The realities of municipal Wi-Fi
- While, in principle, I agree with my colleague, Chris Dawson (Why municipal Wi-Fi is an educational expense), the problems with this approach are huge -- and have nothing whatsoever to do with education. In the 1930's the rationale for providing ubiquitous radio, electrical, telephone, and water resources to everyone was motivated by the...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- YouTube, MySpace, Facebook: Is the honeymoon over?
- Is Facebook really the next Google, royalty in waiting?Chad Hurley declared himself and his partner Steve Chen Internet "Kings" upon the YouTube buyout by Google for a royal ransom of $1.65 billion in GOOG.The world has since concurred, literally at least on the Chad front.From the World Economic Forum in...
- Tags: YouTube, MySpace, Google, Facebook
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- How Google will get inside YOUR head
- Why does Google become even more "valuable" day after day? That is not the $64,000 question, it is the $150 billion market cap question.The Google CEO has the answer: "Network Effect," big time.The more information that goes into the "search" network, the more valuable it becomes, Eric Schmidt said in...
- Tags: Privacy, Google Software Applications, Google
- Blog posts 2007-05-20
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