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Study: Good SOA testing needs a lot of sign-offs: Last month, I talked about Aberdeen Group's latest survey that contrasted the SOA practices of "best-in-class" companies versus those of the "laggards." In that survey, it was found that the top companies were seeing greater payback and customer satisfaction as a result of their efforts because they were "enterprise-aware." ...; Tags: Laggard, Aberdeen Group Inc., QA, SOA, Automation, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2007-09-06
Survey: Done right, SOA pays: Is your company a best-in-class enterprise or a laggard when it comes to SOA adoption? Is you're part of a best-in-class operation, chances are good you have seen appreciable payback from your SOA efforts. If you're a laggard, well, chances are you're still fussing around with Just a Bunch...; Tags: Laggard, Middleware, SOA, Survey, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2007-08-07
Are batteries the gating factor on mobile productivity?: Are batteries the gating factor on mobile productivity?Glad to see you get the point Marc!The world is not flat. We all know that, but every debate I get into on this subject seems to end in some diatribe from someone on why devices are getting more power hungry.I don't...; Tags: Engineering, laggard, battery, mobile productivity, mobile; Discussion threads 2007-04-06

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Microsoft: Silverlight 1.0 breaks with Firefox 3: Microsoft: Silverlight 1.0 breaks with Firefox 3It seems odd that if it's a Firefox...problem that it would be fixed by a Silverlight update.M$ is trying to break firefoxsame old story: M$ releases an update that screws third parties.MS bad code, MS fix exists but not released?!According to the bug report,...; Tags: Web browsers, Nigel, Reading, Obviously Microsoft, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Silverlight 1.0; Discussion threads 2008-06-17
Government endorsement of technology standards: As reported yesterday on ZDNet, the European Commission is considering whether to officially back DVB-H as the "preferred" European Union standard for mobile television. This has been percolating for quite awhile (from at least July of last year, as gleaned through a quick Google search), so it's not exactly "new"...; Tags: Phone, European Commission, Mobile, DVB-H, Verizon Communications Inc., Europe, Cell Phone, Standards, GSM, Cellular Phones, Government, Internet, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-03-18

Pity the fools at Time-Warner: Pity the fools at Time-WarnerBitTorrent and DivXSeems [url=http://www.divx.com/company/press/press_detail.php?pr_id=286]Sony[/url] and [url=http://www.divx.com/company/press/press_detail.php?pr_id=287]AMD[/url] have taken an keen interest in using DivX.The interesting part about DivX is that it is portable across many devices, and the compression is excellent resulting in relatively small video files without sacrificing video/audio quality.My money is on DivX and...; Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Network technology, DivXNetworks, Time-Warner; Discussion threads 2008-01-21
Companies and products to keep an eye on in 2008: Companies and products to keep an eye on in 20082007 slowwwww year...... for computers anyways. Lots of phones, gadgets and game systems, but where's the love for my PC? First year in a while I haven't bought a new computer. Boo-urns!Microsoft will crush all...My rep and I...; Tags: Microsoft Office, steak, cigar, Microsoft Corp., Broiler; Discussion threads 2007-12-14
Sun: Laggard or gaining momentum?: Sun: Laggard or gaining momentum?The increase in gross margins the most interesting thingSun has seen a significant increase in product gross margins, which has directly translated into an increase in gross profits.What is causing the increase in margins is the real question. Most of the systems Sun has added...; Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Sun Microsystems Inc., SUN HAS, sales; Discussion threads 2007-11-06
Sun: Laggard or gaining momentum?: Sun Microsystems is becoming a bit of a battleground company for analysts. On the plus side, Sun has implemented good cost controls and ongoing profits. The negative: There's no growth. Given these two largely offsetting developments it's no surprise that analysts are torn. Sun reported fiscal first quarter net...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, Acquisition Price, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-11-06
Greenland becoming a green land: This picture is from NASA/JPL. What do you see here? You see stresams of water on the surface of a melting Greenland ice sheet. The streams converge on a moulin which is a shaft or tubular path down which the water pours until it...; Tags: Greenland, Ice, United States Coast Guard, Ice Sheet, Web Site Development, Blogging, Web Technology, Internet, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-10-25
SAPs 429 page lecture: who's learning what?: Dan Farber's discussion of a meet up with SAPs Denis Browne could not come at a better time. Independently, I was pinged with a message from Martin Guenther at the SAP Developer Network that advised me of a 429 page Hasso Plattner lecture entitled Trends and Concepts in the Software...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., SAP AG, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2007-09-06
Get ready for the 'Twitterization' of mainstream media: Back in 1991, when I first started as a tech journalist for PC Week now eWeek, there was no Web. There was print, TV, and radio. PC Week was a print book and, to the extent that any of the parent company Ziff Davis' publications were online, it...; Tags: Media Company, Web, CNET Networks Inc., Media, Blog, Information, Blogging, Investor, Twitter, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-08-16
Health care roils search engine rankings: Health care is shaking up the search engine market.Long-time laggard Ask.Com is suddenly a contender, at least in consumer satisfaction, and it's making a new effort in health care with what it calls Health Smart Answers.Revolution Health and HealthLine are acting as the main information providers to Health Smart Answers.At...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Dana Blankenhorn, search engine, health care; Blog posts 2007-08-15
C'mon Microsoft, don't be shy: I disagree with my colleague Josh Greenbaum on several aspects of his analysis of the SAP/Oracle/Microsoft position and specifically around Microsoft. Relegating Microsoft to an also ran position doesn't fit with how I perceive Microsoft Dynamics. Josh asserts:Two data points versus the plethora of filings and comprehensive analyses that Oracle...; Tags: Enterprise applications; Blog posts 2007-07-23
Vista's growing pains leave room for XP: Vista's growing pains leave room for XPSo blame who?How about Microsoft, or the software, or hardware vendors. Don't blame the users! Most users only know how to do a few simple things with PC.It would be great if Microsoft would play nice with the software vendors, so blame them.Hardware is...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, operating system, software, hardware; Discussion threads 2007-07-20
Blockbuster to eschew HD-DVD in favor of Blu-ray. But are Blu-ray discs 'rotting'?: Interesting developments in high def DVD world. On the one hand, it looks like Blockbuster is going all Blu-ray (in other words, no more discs that conform to the HD-DVD format). According to a story from the Associated Press as seen on Fox (there's also a blog on News.com about...; Tags: Entertainment, General, Hardware Infrastructure, Hollywood On Demand, Personal Technology; Blog posts 2007-06-18
Get ready for GBT--Green Business Technology: Guest post: Christopher Lochhead, the former chief marketing officer at Mercury, was the driving force behind the concept of BTO Business Technology Optimization, which is about aligning IT investments deeply with business goals. Now Christopher is thinking "green," looking at what he is called Green Business Technology GBT. In this...; Tags: Datacenter, General, Green Tech, IT Management; Blog posts 2007-06-18
MacTel: "the real story": MacTel: "the real story"Backwards CompatibilityBackwards compatibility is important for the most widely used operating system in the world. Gee, go figure... All the haters out there continue to criticize MS but we would not be where we are today without Microsoft. What most likely you are going to see is...; Tags: Processors, Games, Backwards-Compatibility, Intel Itanium, Cell, Intel x86, Microsoft Corp., PPC, Sun Sparc, performance, river, Sony PlayStation 3; Discussion threads 2006-12-15
SAP crossing the chasm by the end of 2007: SAP crossing the chasm by the end of 2007SAP is crashing in the chasmIn Geoffrey Moore's work, the ERP product space was characterized as moving from Main Street to the laggard market. SAP crossed that chasm years ago. SAP, Oracle and Microsoft are attempting to own the software platform with...; Tags: Development tools, SAP AG; Discussion threads 2006-12-05
Moral hazards and net neutrality: Moral hazards and net neutralityRegulation...Is never a good thing unless really necessary. And there are almost no situations where it's necessary. Look what a bang up job the government has done in literally all areas of regulation and it's easy to see why it's not the best course of...; Tags: Regulations, regulation, Net Neutrality, government; Discussion threads 2006-08-03