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Deskless Workers, Useless Services: Microsoft Online Misses the Mark

Deskless Workers, Useless Services: Microsoft Online Misses the MarkWTF? You ZDNet writers are idiots...check your facts FFS!WTF planet are you living on ZDNet? Microsoft is not offering "read only" Online or Hosted services.ZDNet you are idiots!.More information on Microsoft Online or Hosted Services here - http://www.microsoft.com/online/learn.mspxGet your facts right before...

Tags: Deskless Worker, Hosted Services, WTF, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-08

Practice Fusion brings free, on demand service to physicians

Practice Fusion brings free, on demand service to physiciansLimitationsDocs are limited in what they can charge for a patient visit. To put ads in their face during a patient encounter is not going to be popular, even if its free. Anything that gets in the physician's face during...

Tags: PDAs, Cellular phones, Games, Consumer electronics, Hosted Services, Docs, physician, COEX, Korea IT, Seoul Korea, Korean Events Organize, IT show, information technology

Discussion threads 2007-03-17

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Inside the Google Chrome OS security model

The proof will be in implementationAll of these lofty goals are one thing. Making it happen in code is quite another. It sounds like they are just giving a laundry list of what people want them to say. I'm in the "believe it when I see it" camp. Good intentions...

Tags: security, Google Inc., licence, Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Business Productivity Online Suite - Highly Secure and Reliable Cloud Services

Learn about fully hosted productivity tools in the cloud with Microsoft® Business Productivity Online Suite BPOS. With real time communication and collaboration tools, including, instant messaging, email, video conferencing, shared calendars, and SharePoint, BPOS is one suite that gets everyone working together. With BPOS, you can collaborate from virtually anywhere...

Tags: Business Productivity, Business Customer, Strategic Planning, Collaboration, Strategy, Management

Webcasts 2009-11-16

Cisco Announces Hosted Email Service

Cisco just announced a new hosted email offer, WebEx Mail. at its collaboration summit. This isn't the first time that Cisco has entered the email business, but it does come at time when Cisco is moving to challenge Microsoft and IBM in broader collaboration space. Similar to...

Tags: Collaboration, Cisco Systems Inc., Semantic Inbox, Outlook Experience, E-mail, Online Communications, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-11-10

Which should a small business choose: Windows Home Server or Windows Server Foundation?

CompetitionThe $1000 Mac-Mini with Snow Leopard Server and no user-count limits may have inspired the outreach.That depends on your needs.WHS is a great solution for file sharing and/or client backups. It's backup feature is a strong selling point, IMO. It would be nice to see this extended to every version...

Tags: Backups, Servers, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Home Server, WHS, server, backup, small business, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

Cloud Computing and Its Security in Higher Education

Interest in cloud computing has witnessed a significant surge in the past few years. The basic tenet of this concept entails the reduction of in-house data centers and the delegation of a portion or all of the Information Technology infrastructure capability to a third party. This holds the promise of...

Tags: Education, Security, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2009-11-03

Microsoft chops prices of its hosted enterprise cloud offerings

Microsoft is cutting prices of its Microsoft-hosted Exchange, as well as its suite of business services (known as the Business Productivity Online Suite, or BPOS), and is refunding the difference to existing hosting customers. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Strategic Planning, Collaboration, Strategy, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Enterprise IT's trust level of Google will increase

That pie will increasingly favor Google. Though Google DOES need to support something more like what Amazon does, so you can just rent a Linux box in the cloud that grows and shrinks.Great potential here for Google; p.s. - dont make Yahoo's mistakesThere is great potential for Google from...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, Enterprise IT, Google AppEngine, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

How to know when to send your email to the cloud

Email will ultimately move to the cloud/software as a service model, but the math may not add up for larger companies. How do you know when to make the jump? Gartner analysts Matthew Cain and James Lundy went through the cloud vs. on-premise email conundrum, but what...

Tags: Gartner Inc., E-mail, Online Communications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-22

News to know: Apple; Alex; Microhoo; Droid; FCC

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: Another strong quarter for Apple; credit strong iPhone, Mac sales Jason D. O'Grady: Apple announces most profitable...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Advertisement, Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, E-books, Federal Government, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Government, Web Services, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Free Silverlight streaming service to be replaced by paid Azure-hosted service

Ought to be interestingSilverlight is the means by which Netflix streams their on-demand content. I cannot help but wonder if MS cut a deal with the new Blockbuster service.Does MS support "open internet", or do they want us to pay for itDoes MS support "open internet", or do they want...

Tags: cloud computing, Strategy, Media Streaming, Microsoft Silverlight, NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Corp., open-Internet

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

What makes Microsoft's SharePoint tick?

Make a post explaining what SharePoint is...As you said, it is a complex product. I remember when Lotus Notes came out, it was difficult to pin it to a traditional category - what IS it? SharePoint may have some of the same issues of perception.What is SharePoint:There are 2 SharePoint?s,...

Tags: Content management, Groupware, Collaboration, Enterprise software, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SharePoint

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

News to know: Google, IBM; AMD; Apple

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. Earnings wrap: Sam Diaz: Schmidt: Worst of recession is over; Google is hiring Larry Dignan: IBM...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, IBM Corp., E-books, Desktops, Networking, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Survey: After Sidekick Failure Would You Buy Cloud Services?

NoNo I would not buy from them again, I don't need a scare of all my info being deleted.http://gizmoelectronics.blogspot.com/http://www.stophighcosts.comI will never trust the cloud.I will use the cloud but not if it means I have to forgo a local copy and not if the data is private. I like Office...

Tags: Marketing research, mushroom cloud, SideKick, Buy Cloud Services, survey

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Microsoft adds POP e-mail, better Mac support to its hosted business applications

Microsoft is rolling out a number of new feature additions to its Microsoft-hosted family of "Online" services, including POP e-mail compatibility and better support for Mac clients. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Business Application, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Online Communications, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-10-15

Microsoft recovers 'most, if not all' Sidekick users' data

I lost my contacts for a few days. Give me ONE HUNRED BILLION DOLLARS!!!Says with pinky raised to mouth.RE: Microsoft recovers 'most, if not all' Sidekick users' dataI don't feel sorry for anyone who owns a Sidekick and lost their data. It is moronic to purchase a device that...

Tags: Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Next-gen operating systems: Facebook on steroids?

Chrome OS is a key building blockThis is why I think the concept of Chrome OS is so powerful.Sure you will be able to use your web apps offline, like desktop apps (thanks to HTML5/Gears), but the core functionality of the apps will live in the cloud. And because the...

Tags: Operating systems, Chrome OS, Facebook, Next-gen operating system, operating system, Next-Gen

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

When will Microsoft's Live Mesh matter?

I consider live Mesh to be one of the killer apps...... on my Windows Mobile phone. That explains a lot there. If Microsoft can't get Windows Mobile straight, what hope is there for ancillary services?it is oddIt's bizarre that they haven't used it in other ways. I love it...

Tags: Mobile operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Live Mesh matter, Microsoft Live Mesh

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Hosted Hosting: Should Service Providers Go Hosted?

No one can argue the fact that the IT industry, even in these troubled economic times, is continuously developing at astounding rates. This can be seen across all sectors of the industry, whether it is application development, platform evolution, online services hardware development and even research. To some degree, though,...

Tags: Industry, Evolution, Service Provider, Hardware, Business Services, Software Development, Strategy, Software/Web Development, Management

White papers 2009-10-07