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VC funding in Chinese IT companies falls: Venture capital funding in Chinese information technology companies was $992 million in 2007, down 9 percent from 2006, according to data from Dow Jones VentureSource. The slowdown in venture funding for technology companies is striking given that funding in China hit its highest level in six years...; Tags: Technology Company, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Information Technology, Information Technology Company, Internet, Strategy, Venture Capital, Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-02-20
We'll see more acquisitions that meld telcos with IT vendors: News from London that Deutsche Telekom may make a bid to buy IT services giant EDS. This is only the opening volley in a forthcoming period of acquisitions that meld telcos with IT vendors. I recently suggested that BEA Systems, as it spurns Oracle's initial bid, may...; Tags: Acquisition, Information Technology, Telecommunications Company, Iona Technologies, Information Technology Company, Fact, Strategy, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Management, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2007-11-21
Indiecom Services (001582676-A) (widget): Indiecom Services (001582676-A) widget is RSS feeds based on an IT company's Web site called Indiecom Services (001582676-A) located in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Information Technology Company, RSS, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet; Software downloads 2007-08-01
Reuse of code is the key to keeping IBM from being a 500,000-employee company: Nice piece in the The New York Times today about how IBM is again re-inventing itself as the "blended IT provider." Those are my words. IBM is seeking the means to blend talents, technologies, locations, approaches, people-process, and -- above all -- applications and services.After attending a few IBM conferences...; Tags: Web Services, Virtualization, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA, SAP, SaaS, Patents, Oracle, Microsoft, Intellectual Property, IBM, HP, GPL, Enterprise 2.0; Blog posts 2007-07-05
CRN sleuth Barb Darrow on IT vendor sports: I began working with Barb Darrow back in 1988 at bi-monthly engineering trade pub Design News, and always respected her tenacity, verve, and newshound instincts. Barb went on to InfoWorld in 1993 but had left by the time I got there to run news for the website in 1995. Now...; Tags: Barb Darrow; Blog posts 2006-05-08

IT vendors to increase customer support staffing by 40% a year through 2008: IDC estimates that staffing of the Customer Experience function in IT vendor companies will grow by over 40% per year through 2008. Organizations that have previously invested in customer experience leadership expect their teams to grow more than 80 percent during the same period. IDC finds that IT vendors are...; Tags: information technology, information technology company; Blog posts 2005-12-05
IBM, HP and BEA results point to software infrastructure resurgence: Software infrastructure is again proving to be the "Little Train that Could" when it comes to chugging along -- even when the chips are down. My prediction is that the vendors that can sustain software infrastructure profit growth will be the biggest winners -- of any IT vendors...; Tags: software; Blog posts 2005-08-18
IBM, HP and BEA results point to software infrastructure resurgence: Software infrastructure is again proving to be the "Little Train that Could" when it comes to chugging along -- even when the chips are down. My prediction is that the vendors that can sustain software infrastructure profit growth will be the biggest winners -- of any IT vendors -- over...; Tags: software; Blog posts 2005-08-18
The Full-Service IT Provider Controls Its Business With SAS Financial Intelligence: With some 3,450 employees, FIDUCIA is one of the largest full-service IT providers in Germany. The core business of the Karlsruhe-based company is providing IT services to 811 offices of Volksbank and Raiffeisenbank, the central institutes and companies in the cooperative financial association Genossenschaftlicher FinanzVerbund and private banks. The FIDUCIA...; Tags: Financial, Information Technology Company, SAS Institute, FIDUCIA Group; Case studies
Indonesian IT Company Improves Customer Loyalty and Competitive Advantage: Leading Indonesian IT company, Mitra Integrasi Informatika's PT MII sales team, receives up to 60 calls daily. It needs to closely monitor sales performance to eliminate missed business opportunities. PT MII upgraded to Microsoft Dynamics CRM to meet changing market demands. The solution integrates with the company's existing infrastructure, which...; Tags: Solution, Competitive Advantage, Information Technology Company, Microsoft Corp., Sales Strategy, E-mail Servers, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Performance Management, Groupware, Sales Force Management, Databases, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Data Management; Case studies
IT Provider Saves U.S.$30,000 Annually, Enhances Security With System Upgrade: As a leading IT provider in Sweden, Atea seeks to stay on the forefront of technology both to gain expertise to benefit its customers and to take advantage of new capabilities itself. The company has begun upgrading to the Windows Vista operating system for the security improvements, support for mobile...; Tags: Security, Mobile, Information Technology, Information Technology Company, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Management; Case studies

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Facebook bans Google's Friend Connect: A few days ago, Google launched a new service called Friend Connect to help website owners make their stuff social without needing to do much work. This basically involves being able to host certain gadgets that use OpenSocial on a webpage by simply copy and pasting some code from...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Garett Rogers; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Run by Wall Street? A Cause or a Company?: Guest post: Anshu Sharma is author of Anshu's blog, which focuses on Software as a Service and the emerging SaaS Ecosystem. He is an Enterprise Irregular. In light of the Yahoo! - Microsoft fiasco, fellow bloggers Larry Dignan and Vinnie Mirchandani have been asking the question whether...; Tags: Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., Vision, Wall, Management Team, Software As A Service (SaaS), Financial Accounting, Construction, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Management, Anshu Sharma; Blog posts 2008-05-16
The power of you: Siemens recognizes green efforts of three U.S. communities: I've been remiss in following up some admirable community sustainability awards that are being sponsored by Siemens in conjunction with the Business Civic Leadership Center and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. While these projects aren't strictly green technology initiatives, they ARE being pushed forward by advances in alternative energy and...; Tags: Community, Green Technology, Siemens AG, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Tom Ilube ponders 'social verification' with FOAF: Writing today in the latest issue of Nodalities Magazine, Garlik CEO Tom Ilube tackles the increasingly fraught subject of Identity Theft before moving past it to consider notions of 'social verification.' Tom's company, Garlik, offers a product called DataPatrol that helps UK consumers track information about themselves...; Tags: Tom Ilube, QDOS, Social Networking, Semantic Web, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Security, Spam And Phishing, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-16
XP on XO: Negroponte has lost his bearings: At ZD's Hardware 2.0 blog, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes cites this quote from former OLPC developer Ivan Krstic about Nicholas Negroponte's rapidly shifting mission statement: In fact, I quit when Nicholas told me — and not just me — that learning was never part of the mission....; Tags: Education, Team, Microsoft Windows XP, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Nicholas Negroponte, Team Management, Management, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-16
RIM's Lazaridis on why Qwerty's still working: RIM's co-CEO tells Silicon.com why he believes smartphones are the future, why Qwerty is so exciting, and why the Bold has nothing to do with the iPhone. BlackBerry maker RIM has been very busy this week hosting the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando, Fla. One of the announcements...; Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Phone, Smart Phone, RIM BlackBerry, Qwerty, Keyboards, Smart Phones, Monitors & Displays, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Components, Silicon.com, Consumer electronics; News items 2008-05-16
Microsoft, HP ready XP SP3 endless-reboot patches: Help is on its way for users affected by the Windows XP Service Pack SP 3 endless-reboot problem that has plagued some users for the past week-plus. Both Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard are readying patches that should remedy the glitch, which seems to affect primarily users of AMD-based...; Tags: Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Office 2008 for Mac: The straw that broke the backs of Microsoft's Windows developers?: Could it be that a Macintosh program will be the tipping point for the confidence that ISVs have in Microsoft as a technology partner? One c-level technologist for a Windows enterprise app says "no more" to Redmond's vision. I wrote the other day about Microsoft's Mac Business...; Tags: Developer, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Office, Window, ISV, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Engineer, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, David Morgenstern; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Nortel Demos Virtual World Platform: Nortel demoed a virtual world prototype here in a Ottowa at a day long event. Dubbed Web Alive, the virtual world is the first project to come out of Nortel new research effort that imposes a VC-like model for funding research. Like other virtual worlds, Web...; Tags: Web, Collaboration, Nortel Networks Corp., Voice, World Platform, Web Alive, Channel Management, Telecommunications, Marketing, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-05-16