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- NetSuite vs. SAP â€" How Newton would see this contest
- Competition is a great thing. It forces even the biggest firms to become humbled. It makes innovation a necessity. It can lower pricing and expand markets to everyone’s benefit. Competition in the SaaS software as a service world of ERP got a little hotter this week...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, Barron, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- WebEx augurs ill for Cisco's cloud ambitions
- Cisco's track record with WebEx belies its pretensions as a big player in cloud services, PaaS and SaaS. Despite its market presence, the Web meetings platform has not matched the pace of innovation seen elsewhere in Web collaboration by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: WebEx Communications Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Robo Logic 1.1.2 (Mobile)
- RoboLogic is a logic game. You have to "program" a robot's movements by dragging commands to the memory of the bot. Your goal is to activate all the marked boxes. Very soon you will realize though that using only the main memory is not enough and you will have to...
- Tags: Mobile, Command, Memory, Tommy Kammerer, Robots, Flash Memory, Emerging Technologies
- Software downloads 2009-07-01
- MyDeskFriend: Robotic penguin connects you to your Facebook friends
- It's no lie that people love penguins. Just look at the slew of penguin movies that have come out in the last few years: "Happy Feet," "March of the Penguins," "Madagascar," and the list goes on. So, to aid in our obsession, Swiss company Arimaz has...
- Tags: Facebook, Friend, MyDeskFriend, Robots, Telecommunications, Emerging Technologies, Jennifer Bergen
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- MacSpeech Dictate 1.5.2 (Mac)
- Forget about typing; with MacSpeech Dictate you're free to focus on what you have to say. MacSpeech Dictate's accuracy and capabilities make it as fun, productive, and intuitive to use as the Mac itself. MacSpeech Dictate is the only desktop speech recognition solution for the Macintosh. MacSpeech Dictate provides unprecedented...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, MacSpeech Dictate, Speech Recognition, Desktops, Emerging Technologies, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-06-30
- BS Contact 7.2 (Windows)
- BS Contact enables the visualization of applications in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality through integration of interactive realtime 3D technology. The software is a stable and a high performance visualization software applicable for PCs, CD ROMs/DVDs, E-mails and the Internet/Intranet. VRML and X3D are certified ISO-Standard formats that are exported...
- Tags: 3D, High-performance, Microsoft Windows, Bitmanagement Software, BS Contact, Virtual Reality, Leadership, Emerging Technologies, Management
- Software downloads 2009-06-29
- Comfort On-Screen Keyboard Pro 3.6.8.0 (Windows)
- Comfort On-Screen Keyboard is an application displaying a virtual keyboard on the screen and allowing you use the mouse pointer or touchscreen to type the way you do it with the regular keyboard. Ideal for using on Ultra-Mobile PC UMPC and TabletPC with touchscreen.Version 3.6.8.0 adds ability to make simple...
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Ultramobile PC, Microsoft Windows, Comfort Software, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Keyboards, Microsoft Office, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Peripherals, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2009-06-29
- Find and Run Robot 2.68.01 (Windows)
- Find and Run Robot is a program for keyboard maniacs. It helps you rapidly find programs or documents from within the depths of the start menu or other directories. One key press launches the utility, and then just starts typing the first letters of the application you want to launch....
- Tags: DonationCoder, Robots, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-06-28
- Robo-furniture eats household pests
- Robotic furniture that eat vermin, like mice and flies, are a part of a design project at the Royal College of Art, London. Designer James Auger is exploring a new breed of domestic robots that he says can sit comfortably at an intersection of products and...
- Tags: Robo-furniture, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-06-27
- News to know: Vizio; Apple-Psystar; Buffett; Facebook status; Palm Pre; AT&T
- 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. Sean Portnoy: Vizio spills the beans on its Internet TV plans Sam Diaz: Court allows Apple-Psystar case to resume...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard Co., Palm Inc., AT&T Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Software As A Service (SaaS), Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Security, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Categorizing the SaaS Vendors
- Can't tell the players without a program! I get a couple of vendor briefings a week from SaaS vendors or their wanna-be cousins. As I listen to the various spins and pitches, it occurs to me that we need a new lexicon for these firms. Here’s my...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- LucidEra's demise is about money, not SaaS
- Contrast reactions to the shutdowns this week of SaaS BI vendor LucidEra and airport security fast-track channel operator Clear. They tell us a lot about the fragility of startups; nothing about the viability of SaaS. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, LucidEra, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- From Big Blue to Big Brown as IBM expands into sewage management and other green initiatives
- IBM representatives were in San Francisco on Tuesday to announce a partnership with the city around several green initiatives and also to launch several broader initiatives that include the development of advanced battery technologies at its Almaden Research Center in San Jose. I met with Alan Ganek,...
- Tags: Battery, IBM Corp., Engineering, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- Infor Flex: innovation or fail?
- Infor Flex Overview View more OpenOffice presentations from First Last. Infor today announced Infor Flex, a program designed to keep customers happy and keep those all important maintenance dollars flowing Infor's way. At first viewing, the Infor prgram looks exciting: Infor Flex makes it easier...
- Tags: Innovation, Customer, SOA, Infor Flex, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Software As A Service (SaaS), Web Services, Managed Hosting, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Ozum 5.03 build 5030 (Windows)
- Powerful newsreader and file downloader optimized for images, sound & video with a built-in cross-group search engine. Ozum lets you preview and listen to individual parts of multipart audio or video files before downloading and assembling the whole file. Includes a built-in viewer for images, programmable automatic news scanning robot...
- Tags: built-In, Oz Insight, Microsoft Windows, File, Corporate Communications, Robots, Search, Marketing, Emerging Technologies
- Software downloads 2009-06-22
- Snake surveillance: Israel's latest battlefield weapon
- The Israeli Army have developed a snake-like device which can cross terrains with ease. Not much is known about this device as it is not only from a foreign military but that it will be used in battlefield scenarios. What makes this device...
- Tags: Device, Military, Snake, Robots, Productivity, Emerging Technologies, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- Who's Architecting the Cloud?
- Will the cloud succumb to the same short-sighted, market pressure that doomed the ASP model and still plagues SaaS approaches? It’s not up to vendors to answer this question. It’s up to you … the enterprise architect. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Cloud, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Scripting Languages, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- Cheap jibe sullies SAP's SaaS strategy
- Is SAP as serious about SaaS as John Wookey claimed in his widely reported speech last week? A comment by SAP CTO Vishal Sikka, trashing Salesforce.com in an interview published this week, suggests not. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Strategy, Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Scientists envision inflatable alternative to tethered space elevator
- An inflatable free standing tower could one day carry equipment and tourists 20 kilometers above Earth, and it could be completed much sooner than a cable-based space elevator, say researchers at York University in Toronto, Canada. They envision a giant tower assembled with a series of modules made up...
- Tags: Elevator, Kilometer, Team Management, Cable, Nanotechnology, Network Technology, Management, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Emerging Technologies, Networking, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Outsourcing? Avoid long-term deals
- Gartner says the good news for companies that plan to outsource is that the cost of doing business will decrease. But that's the bad news, too - outsourcing partners may go out of business. Organizations should monitor the health of outsourcing partners and avoid long-term contracts, according to research...
- Tags: Gartner Inc., Supplier, Prices, Managed Hosting, Software As A Service (SaaS), It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Emerging Technologies, outsourcing, India, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2009-06-17
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