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- AT&T cuts churn rate; Activates 3.2 million iPhones; Touts network upgrades
- AT&T's bet on the iPhone continues to work well. The company reported a better-than-expected third quarter, delivered post paid churn of 1.17 percent (a low for AT&T), activated 3.2 million iPhones and boosted data revenue by 33.6 percent. The telecom giant on Thursday delivered net income of...
- Tags: Network Upgrade, Apple iPhone, Network, AT&T Corp., Wireless, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- News to know: Oracle OpenWorld; Google Wave; Intel; Windows 7; WiFi
- 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. Sam Diaz: Ellison's keynote: Linux, Exadata, the Governator and more Paul Greenberg: Oracle OpenWorld 2009 - Social CRM...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Wi-Fi, Sam Diaz, Netbook, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- How event driven architecture changes the SOA service flow
- Does event driven architecture EDA represent the next phase of SOA? This is a subject of continuing debate, but Udi Dahan makes the case for EDA as the next logical stage of SOA. In a recent post, he connected the dots between SOA and EDA, suggesting that EDA will...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- ScreenConnect 1.3 (Windows)
- Use ScreenConnect Remote Support Software to quickly and securely access the remote computer screen of your users. With just a few clicks, anyone on any operating system is immediately connected. The software is self-hosted which provides for ultimate reliability and speed. Reliability is based on the reliability of your own...
- Tags: Network, Microsoft Windows, Reliability, Elsinore Technologies, Networking
- Software downloads 2009-10-12
- IBM Helping Lay Enhanced Collaboration Foundations for US Bank
- Here's an interesting collaboration case history: US Bank, the 6th largest bank in the United States, are rationalizing around IBM's Lotus Notes 8.5, Quickr, and Sametime for their 58,000 employees. This week I spoke first with Bob Picciano, general manager of IBM Lotus...
- Tags: Bank, IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Corp., Collaboration System, Groupware, Financial Services, Collaboration, E-mail Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-09-18
- Imagine that! More innovation in PPM
- When Ideation Meets Project Management Innovation in the PSA/PPM space was missing for much of this decade. Professional Services Automation software and Project Portfolio Management software had fallen into a WYSIWYG what you see is what you get status for a while. That’s...
- Tags: Innovation, Software, PlanView, Tools & Techniques, Product Marketing, Project Management, Management, Marketing, It Operations, It service Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- Make Money with Any Affiliate Program 1.0 (Windows)
- Affiliate marketing is perhaps the easiest way to make money on the internet. In simple terms, affiliate marketing is simply promoting other people's products and getting a certain commission. You don't need your own product, website, or list. And the product owner will provide all the customer support. Even if...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Marketing Research, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-08-14
- xTuple 3.3 open source ERP debuts
- xTuple is making its open source ERP platform more sophisticated and easier to use. The xTuple 3.3 release, which was announced today at the start of OpenSource World, offers support for international taxation and distribution requirements planning as well as numerous usability improvements. "We're...
- Tags: ERP, xTuple, Taxes, Free Trade, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Personal Finance, Open Source, Financial Planning, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Surgical decisions: How to change business executives' minds about information technology
- Let's face it, without IT, there's no business. But, IT has always been viewed by business executives as a cost center, versus a strategic asset. A relatively new work published by Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross puts forth some ideas how to turn this thinking around. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Aetna Inc., Strategy, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Stories that warrant watching: SPSS, HP, Acer, Google, SAP, Oracle, NetSuite
- Wedding bells for a Chicago software firm Last week, IBM offered to pay $1.2 billion for SPSS, nee Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. SPSS was one of those niche firms with a lot of brilliant folks on board. They possessed a number of slick apps that...
- Tags: Google Inc., Software-as-a-service, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., NetSuite Inc., SPSS Inc., SAP AG, Acer Inc., Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Organizational knowledge
- Organizations have many moving parts. There are groups focused on finance, sales, production, research and the like. Over time each of them face issues and develop responses. How effective the responses are tend to define how successful they are in addressing their mission. Unfortunately, in many organizations that knowledge is...
- Tags: Knowledge, Productivity, Strategy, E-mail, Management, Online Communications, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Microsoft-Yahoo: Gauging the IT integration risks
- Once you strip away the financial, strategy and ad prospects for Microsoft's 10-year search partnership with Yahoo you're left with a lot of information technology integration heavy lifting. Make no mistake about it: The Microsoft-Yahoo search pact will flop if it doesn't have some good old fashioned...
- Tags: Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Integration, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- SAP: cautious optimism going forward
- Following on from this morning's earning announcement, it was a calm, cautious but emphatic SAP board fielding a set of disappointingly soft questions on today's earnings call. First some selected quotes: Leo Apotheker, CEO: "Things are still tough...closure rates are more volatile then in the past...I am...
- Tags: SPSS Inc., SAP AG, Leo, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Sales, Finance, Investment, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- It's official: Microsoft-Yahoo ink 10-year search pact; Regulator scrum begins
- Updated: Microsoft and Yahoo made it official on Wednesday. The two companies announced a 10-year pact where Microsoft will power Yahoo search. Yahoo also becomes the sales force for Microsoft's premium properties. The companies said the search deal will accelerate innovation and bring more value to advertisers...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Regulations, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- Palm's Pre can't offset Sprint's subscriber losses
- Sprint called the launch of the Palm Pre a success, but it wasn't enough to offset a net subscriber loss of 257,000 in the second quarter. The subscriber loss, which came amid a churn rate of 2.05 percent, illustrates Sprint's challenge. The company is launching new handsets---Palm...
- Tags: Palm Inc., Sprint Communications, Subscriber Loss, Palm Pre, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- SAP revenues slump, in line with analyst expectations, bottom line up
- SAP has revealed its Q2 2009 numbers and as widely predicted, top line software revenues are off 40%, down from €898 million in 2008 to €543 million this time around. Software services, support and maintenance was also off, 5% from €2,061 million to €1,953 million. That left total revenues down...
- Tags: Revenue, SAP AG, Operational Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- Sprint increases bet on prepaid; Buys Virgin Mobile USA
- Sprint Nextel on Tuesday said it acquired Virgin Mobile USA in a stock swap worth about $483 million. The move is designed to cement its growing position in prepaid calling plan market. Sprint already owns 13.1 percent of Virgin Mobile. In a statement, Sprint said it plans...
- Tags: Virgin Mobile, Virgin Mobile USA, Sprint Communications, Branding, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- eBay to identify top sellers with badge
- In eBay, being considered a top-notch, honest and reputable seller is a good thing for the seller. It keeps people coming back. Now, eBay - with a virtual badge that identifies those top sellers - is looking to tap into and showcase those seller reputations to push...
- Tags: Seller, eBay Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Verizon keeps wireless churn lead in second quarter; Palm Pre coming 2010
- Verizon delivered second quarter results Monday that were a bit better than expectations, but the company added fewer net wireless customers than some analysts expected. Â Verizon's wireless churn rate continues to lead the industry. In addition, Verizon also confirmed that it will add the Palm Pre to its lineup early...
- Tags: Revenue, Alltel Corp., Palm Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Verizon Wireless, Wireless, Palm Pre, Operational Accounting, Wi-Fi, Finance, Wireless And Mobility, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
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