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- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate
- The last few days I've been exchanging email with R 'Ray' Wang, VP and principal analyst at Forrester about the kerfuffle over SAP's unilateral decision to apply a price hike to its maintenance and support fees. Ray specializes in the enterprise market and has special experience of SAP going back...
- Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc., Ray, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Discovering Venice with a CINeSPACE device
- There are many existing services to help you to discover a city you don't know, but the EU-funded CINeSPACE project is quite unique. It combines GIS and semantic technology to provide you with an intuitive and interactive way to discover the cultural heritage of a city. The CINeSPACE project combines...
- Tags: Image, GIS, GPS, Handhelds, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Skype says Tom violated agreement for Chinese service
- Skype says Tom violated agreement for Chinese serviceSo when do we clean up our own act?First we need to clean up our own operation, put a little sunshine into the dark corners of the domestic-"intelligence" "community", enact and enforce strong privacy legislation (at least on par with what's in effect...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Skype Says, agreement
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Accounting vs. Technology - Who's At Fault
- Accounting vs. Technology - Who's At FaultActually two people are responsible for the mess......and it involves the repeal of Glass-Steagall in 1999.Sen. Phil Gramm for sponsoring it in the first place...and President Bill Clinton for signing it into law.RE: Accounting vs. Technology - Who's At FaultBrian - this is something...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, Regulations, Financial accounting, accounting
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Norway to challenge closed iTunes model
- Norway to challenge closed iTunes modelAnd so it begins......although Norway aren't part of the EU you can be damn sure the Trade Commission are watching this one closely.It would solve DM problems, but create a large one for Appleas if many iPods are purchased on the strength of iTunes, then...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iTunes, Apple Inc., iTunes Model, iPODS
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- House votes to save webcasters, Senate votes today
- House votes to save webcasters, Senate votes todayRE: House votes to save webcasters, Senate votes todayThank God. I know I called and wrote my congresspeoples.RE: House votes to save webcasters, Senate votes todayever since the napster ruling in 2000, the music industry record companies have gotten greedier. I agree...
- Tags: Strategy, Peer to peer (P2P), Advertising & Promotion, Digital media, Webcaster, record company, U.S. Senate, industry
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- How big the Google open source credibility gap
- How big the Google open source credibility gapSame script, different actorsEveryone hates "the king of the hill." Once upon a time, Microsoft was David and the Goliath was IBM... and everyone was filled with schadenfreude as IBM lost control of the PC market hardware and wound up seriously restructuring its...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google open source credibility gap, IBM Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- EFF sues NSA over warrantless wiretaps
- EFF sues NSA over warrantless wiretapsCounter: two words"State Secret." The plaintiffs can't prove standing, thus no subject matter jurisdiction, thus dismissed.RE: EFF sues NSA over warrantless wiretapsWhats the point? Bush stole the last 2 elections, free elections no longer exist in the US, its all a sham orchestrated...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, EFF Sues NSA, warrantless wiretap, wiretap
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- Ballmer sets a new (and potentially much later) retirement date
- Ballmer sets a new and potentially much later retirement dateOh goodie................:-(RE: Ballmer sets a new and potentially much later retirement dateGod, no.RE: Ballmer sets a new and potentially much later retirement dateDOH!On one hand, happy, on one hand, feel bad for MS.Balmer would be the perfect CEO if it was...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Corporate law, Microsoft Windows XP, Steve Ballmer, retirement date, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- Hey, Microsoft. About those ads... Yeah, like that.
- Hey, Microsoft. About those ads... Yeah, like that.In fairness......no-one likes you at all.re: I WAS a PC[i]I WAS a PC... And I am in my daily life. Got tired of the constant care, feeding, and BS associated with it.Now I'm a Mac and make my living fixing the PC mess.[/i]Ohh,...
- Tags: Desktops, Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Microsoft Corp., Apple Macintosh, advertisement, PC, digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before Linux
- Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before LinuxTestTestRE: Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before LinuxHiRE: Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before Linuxbig deal the browser is useless anyway, im way happier with my ff3 :)RE: Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before LinuxAwww poor...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Web browsers, OPEN SOURCE, Chrome, Google Inc., Linux, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-09-18
- Cleaning ship hulls with a robot
- This is the goal of a EU-funded project called HISMAR Hull Identification System for Marine Autonomous Robotics. European researchers and engineers are working on an automated robotic cleaning system that removes marine growth from the hull of a ship. By cleaning a ship's hull, this robot will allow ships to...
- Tags: Vessel, Ship, HISMAR, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- LHC ready for trial collisions
- LHC ready for trial collisionsLet's not and say we didn't.Some stuff just shouldn't be done.lhcfacts.orgStart your timersThe theory goes that five years give or take after the first collisions making a mini black hole, we'll see the first radiation jets shooting up through the earth's crust. After that, it's have...
- Tags: LHC, black hole, insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-09-18
- An Android, far from the Android
- An Android, far from the AndroidLOL @ GoogleNothing will get you Oooohs and Ahhhhs like whipping out your phone and patiently explaining to someone that it's the next great thing because it's made by google, because it's running android, because, because, becase...I don't own any Apple products, but the reason...
- Tags: INTERNET, Telecom & Utilities, Channel management, Handhelds, Apple iPhone, phone, Internet client, Apple Inc., Web
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- What the credit crunch means for IT
- The credit crunch has dominated the front pages in 2008, and claimed a number of high-profile scalps, such as that of the 158-year-old Lehman Brothers bank. As job losses mount, and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, here's...
- Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Outsourcing Company, Industry, Supplier, EquaTerra, Outsourcing, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Nick Heath silicon.com, economy, IT management, HP, layoffs, hardware, software
- News items 2008-09-17
- News to know: Windows 7; Tech economy; Samsung eyes SanDisk; NetSuite
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 hits Milestone 3 Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer VMware's Datacenter OS: Windows isn't the competition ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., NetSuite Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- EU scrutinizes Google-Yahoo deal
- EU scrutinizes Google-Yahoo dealthat's some M$ ployI bet the M$ agents are fomenting unrest among newspapers to call in the the big brother and shift attention from its dirty deeds.Uh, Excuse me, EU - I have an important msg...No one cares how you feel about it.Now please shut up.Thanks.RE: EU...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- EU scrutinizes Google-Yahoo deal
- More trouble for Google's advertising deal with Yahoo: The European Union is launching an antitrust "inquiry" into the deal, even though it only applies to Yahoo's search in North America. If the inquiry proves fruitful, the EU Competition Commission could escalate it into an "investigation." How is...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Internet, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Google Desktop gets huge performance boost
- Google Desktop gets huge performance boostLittle paranoid there???Ah, yes, the iron hand of IT exerting his 'itpro' power on those rascally Google Toolbar users. Best get back to ruling your fiefdom - someone surely has Lotus 1-2-3 questions for you to attend to.same here... also yahoo anything -...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Performance management, Desktops, Google Inc., Google Desktop, huge performance, desktop, Microsoft Windows Vista, performance
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
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