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Amazon's Kindle: A customer relationship management appliance?

Amazon's Kindle: A customer relationship management appliance?WOWAs we all know from reading these forums, anything can be spun, and this article proves it.RE: Amazon's Kindle: A customer relationship management appliance?Following this logic an alternate explanation is possible -- Kindle is primarily a walled-garden distribution platform for maximizing sales by cutting...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), E-books, Advertising & Promotion, Customer relationship management (CRM), Digital media, Amazon.com Inc., customer-relationship management appliance, Amazon Kindle, CRM

Discussion threads 2009-07-20

Additional Resources

Finally! A Three-Cornered Consulting Service for Enterprise 2.0

Its not too often I endorse a new service - in fact, I never have without a lot of due diligence and at least some production history.   So, for the first...and potentially only....time ever, I'm telling you that I'm truly excited about the launch of Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0.  I'm...

Tags: Socialtext, Enterprise 2.0, Framework, Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0, Michael Krigsman, Ross, Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Oracle's big plan: Double revenue in five years

Oracle capped off its OpenWorld conference with a powwow with analysts where management was described as extremely confident about the company's prospects. Although I'm not sure you could ever describe Oracle management as timid---does Larry Ellison allow that?---analyst notes seem to portray executives as exceedingly confident. Judging...

Tags: Revenue, Oracle Corp., Ross MacMillan, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Cisco Buys Tandberg on its way to be your B2B video conferencing partner

I spent a day with Tandberg management last week and came away very impressed with some things I can't share and also some things that I can share. Tandberg has: Great HD videoconferencing solutions in room-sized all the way down to Webcam. Yep, a Webcam image looks...

Tags: Video Conferencing, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., B2B, Tandberg, Business Person, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ted Schadler

Blog posts 2009-10-01

Optimum Ultra: So how fast is it?

Optimum Online's $99 per month Ultra DOCSIS 3.0 service is one of fastest residential broadband offerings available today. But is it really "Up to" 101Mbps as advertised? As I mentioned in a post last week about broadband service outages, Last Friday, I was...

Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Router, Network, Adobe PDF, Broadband, Server, NetGear, Ultra DOCSIS 3.0, CISCO DPC3000, Speed Test, OOKLA, SRXN3205, Network Technology, Routers & Switches, Modems, Home Networking, Cable, Firewalls, Broadband Internet, Networking, Telecommunications, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-07

Teradata: Fending off rivals with focus on data warehousing

Data warehouse player Teradata has been increasingly mentioned by the likes of Oracle and HP so much so that you have to wonder what all the hubbub is about.  Teradata is a company that has come up frequently through my various case studies in a past life....

Tags: Data Warehouse, Teradata, Oracle Corp., Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-27

Certeon aCelera 3.0

Certeon's Co-founder, Shawn Cooney, and Director of Marketing Communications, Jane Shurtleff, made the effort to reach out to me in order to introduce me to aCelera 3.0. Those of you having long memories will recall the name "Certeon" from a previous post on the company (see Certeon's aCelera Application Acceleration...

Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Certeon, Virtualization, Benefits, Hardware, Human Resources, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-05-19

News to know: Cisco; Kindle DX; MySpace; Microsoft

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: Cisco's third quarter: Better than expected; Sales down; Economic recovery 'eventual' Andrew Nusca: Amazon Kindle DX: The solution to...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Twitter, Amazon Kindle, MySpace, Notebooks, Strategy, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-07

Dude, Where's My Phone Bill?

The OOMA is a Voice Over IP VOIP appliance that plugs into your broadband connection which provides you unlimited local and long distance telephone service. What's the difference between this and other consumer VOIP solutions such as Vonage or Packet8? No phone bill. ...

Tags: Phone, Caller ID, Call, OOMA, OOMA Scout, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-27

Oracle buys Sun; Now owns Java; Becomes a hardware player

Updated: Oracle said Monday that it will buy Sun Microsystems for $9.50 a share in cash, or about $5.6 billion excluding debt, in a deal that plunges Larry Ellison & Co. into the hardware market. The company added that the acquisition of Java "is the most important software Oracle has...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Larry Ellison, Mergers & Acquisitions, Sun Solaris, Data Centers, Corporate Law, Storage, Databases, Investment, Finance, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Data Management, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-20

New year fast approaching, and so is the next-generation enterprise data warehouse

This has been one of the most pivotal years in the evolution of the enterprise data warehousing EDW market. Every EDW vendor of note has firmly repositioned its go-to-market strategy around the appliance approach, with some also taking tentative steps into what is sure to be a key theme in...

Tags: Appliance, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., I&KM, MPP, Business Intelligence, Databases, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Tools & Techniques, Data Centers, Pricing, Programming Languages, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Web Services, Management, Storage, Hardware, Marketing, Software Development, Software/Web Development, James Kobielus

Blog posts 2008-12-24

CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Part Tree, er...Three

To Recap We're heading into the homestretch.  Which is why the Giants need to beat the Panthers....last night.  Oh, snap. This isn't my NFL blog. I don't have one. This is the final episode in that hilarious sitcom, Greenberg's Fools Gold.  For those of you who missed the previous...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, CRM, Greenberg, Connectbeam Management, Zuora, LucidEra, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-22

MSDN Webcast: SQL Server 2008 as a Back-End Database for Embedded Applications (Level 100)

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides new functionality that is valuable to appliance Original Equipment Manufacturers OEMs. Some of the new features include data compression, Resource Governor, spatial data support, policy-based management, and a new Report Builder. The attendee of this webcast will learn what is new with SQL Server 2008,...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Webcast, Microsoft SQL Server, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2008-12-16

TI execs ramp up green tech contributions, at work and at home

The trouble with the Green IT blog beat is there are literally hundreds of things that you could write about every day, often from the same company, but since this isn't the ONLY thing I do to put food on my table, I have to be really selective about which...

Tags: Green Technology, Texas Instruments Inc., Ogboenyiya, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-24

In tight times, Microsoft launches two new servers

In tight times, Microsoft launches two new serversWell done MS...some of us had given up on them releasing anything.This product update comes with multiple SKUs to squeeze every last dollar out of customers. Keeping CALs is a unique feature.Appears they've added "Remote Web Workplace" and 120-day [b]trials[/b] of "Microsoft Forefront...

Tags: Firewalls, Servers, Operating systems, Wess, server, firewall, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-12

MSDN Webcast: SQL Server 2008 as a Back-End Database for Server Applications (Level 100)

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for Embedded Systems provides new functionality that is valuable to appliance original equipment manufacturers OEMs. Some of the new features include data compression, Resource Governor, spatial data support, policy-based management, and a new Report Builder. The attendee of this webcast will learn about the new features,...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Webcast, Microsoft SQL Server, Server, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2008-09-30

News to know: Google; Typosquatting; Apple; IDF

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Garett Rogers: Google gains share again, should Microsoft give up? Christopher Dawson: Can Dell compete on cost anymore? Dancho Danchev: Typosquatting the U.S presidential...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Open Source, Security, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-22

Cyberoam - The Spam Killer Gives 25,000 Clean Mail Boxes to Space2Host

Space2host Web Services Private Limited is a Chennai India based privately held web hosting company established in the year 2001 with 5000 satisfied clients. Space2Host supports more than 25,000 Mail Boxes and 3,500 sites and virus and spam protection is the primary business need. Space2Host sought a strong anti-virus and...

Tags: Solution, Anti-spam, Chennai, Elitecore Technologies, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Web Hosting, Spam And Phishing, Internet

Case studies 2008-08-08

Dell customers unhappy with BIOS band-aid for faulty NVIDIA GPUs

Dell customers unhappy with BIOS band-aid for faulty NVIDIA GPUsNot a viable solution at allFor most people, this is simply not possible without swapping out the entire motherboard. Dell should replace the defective parts, and charge the cost directly to nVIDIA. I happen to prefer nVIDIA graphics cards,...

Tags: NVidia Corp., Dell Computer Corp., GPU, faulty NVIDIA GPU, BIOS, NVIDIA GPU

Discussion threads 2008-07-29

Panda Security delivers cloud-based security management service for SMBs

Panda Security delivers cloud-based security management service for SMBsBuyer BewareAfter our experience with Panda's Gateway Defender and the lackluster customer service we received in trying to address the multiple shortcomings of that appliance, we steer clear of Panda. But they do certainly talk a good game.

Tags: SMB/SME, risk & compliance, security, PANDA SECURITY, security management service, security management, small and medium business

Discussion threads 2008-05-20