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Number 3 most-read post of 2007: thumbs up for iPhone

Number 3 most-read post of 2007: thumbs up for iPhoneIt's amazing what people wil doPersonally, I prefer using a real cell phone, you know, like the Nokia N95, which, by the way, can actually be operated using just 'one' hand! Hand surgery is optional! ;)Les Paul's elbow was shattered..in...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Cellular phones, Number 3, Apple iPhone, Les Paul

Discussion threads 2007-12-29

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Sage to step into the on-demand ring

News started leaking late last week that Sage, the UK's largest software company, will release an on-demand accounting application called SageLive aimed at the SMB market. Details are sketchy beyond a blog post by competitor KashFlow but it seems the company is finally getting serious about the on-demand space after...

Tags: Accounting, On-demand, U.K., Details, Sage 50, Cloud Computing, Smb/Sme, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Databases, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Where to next for ERP et al? (part 1, SAP)

With a Gartner probability of 0.9, I guarantee that what follows is not how things will turn out. At least not exactly. Paul Greenberg's post casting the enterprise CRM runes for 2009 provides the perfect springboard for something I've been thinking about since the middle of the year. Where the...

Tags: SAP AG, ERP, Leo Apotheker, Paul Greenberg, Paul, Claus Heinrich, Wookey, Sales Strategy, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Force Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Sales, Marketing, Software, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-12-02

'Semantic Web for Business' ultimately misses the mark

Weighing in at 416 text-packed pages, Semantic Web for Business could have been the latest attempt to bridge the divide between the university hotbeds of Semantic Web research and a business community ripe for persuading of semantic technologies' multifarious benefits. In that, though, the volume proves ultimately unsatisfying and a...

Tags: Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Gulf of execution

When someone mentions the "gulf of execution" I tend to think Tonkin or bay of pigs, but in IT the term has another meaning entirely - more akin. I think, to "gulf of delusion" than anything to do with geography or mission. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Gulf, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Identity Theft, Wireless, Security, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-12-02

News to know: Mumbai attacks, Microhoo, Holiday shopping, HDTVs

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jennifer Leggio: Mumbai attack coverage demonstrates good and bad maturation point of social media Social media marketing opportunism during tragedy = fail Oliver Marks: Mumbai Attacks...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Digital Video, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Open Source, Personal Technology, Internet, Security, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Some seriously good advice from "Narg"

Last week's discussion of the lawsuit launched in honor of an IT mis-judgment brought a piece of remarkably good advice from a comment writer - not all problems, he said, are computer problems. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Time Clock, PC, Desktops, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-11-30

Catholic Church flirts with green tech of the solar sort

Poking around the Web looking for green technology news on an otherwise quiet Thanksgiving weekend, when I came across this item about solar panels being installed in Vatican City. Apparently, the new Roman Catholic pope has a green bent. According to news reports,...

Tags: Green Technology, Catholic Church, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-29

Why C wins: the cold realities of abstraction

The sad reality underlying many of the handy abstractions we rely on every day is that they only work most of the time - and what that means is that the abstractions we choose to use define limits to the quality of our work. by Paul Murphy

Tags: C, TCP, Actor, Abstraction, Joel Spolsky, Tom Godwin, Tcp/Ip, Networking, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-11-29

Hapax CEO recognises importance of shared infrastructure moving forward

I had an enjoyable conversation with Mark Redgrave recently, ahead of his company's unveiling of their 'meaning platform,' Amplify. Mark is CEO of London-based Hapax, a company that has been applying patented technology to natural language processing NLP since 2000. According to the Press...

Tags: Natural Language Processing, Advertisement, Brand, Ontology, Amplify, Branding, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-11-28

Thanking open source developers

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day in the United States - and today I want to say "Thank you" to the people whose work makes open source so valuable to me and everyone else who uses it. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Open Source, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-11-26

No Beatles iPod for Christmas

It looks like you won't be able to buy The Beatles music on iTunes this holiday season, which threatens to take a bite out of Apple revenue for the all important holiday quarter. Talks between Apple and The Beatles' record label Apple Corps Ltd. have "stalled" according...

Tags: EMI Group Plc., Apple Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-25

CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 1 -Sticking My Neck Out

(8)Mobile CRM will be in increasing demand by sales organizations in particular - and vendors will continue to invest in it, downturn or not (6)There is a divergence of interest between how large enterprises will look at and buy CRM 2.0 Social CRM and how small businesses will do...

Tags: Application, Customer, CRM, Sage, Atlassian, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-11-25

News to know: Ubuntu; New Macbook; BlackBerry Storm; Google layoffs

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Christopher Dawson: Are you sure you don't just want to use Ubuntu? Netbooks + Ubuntu: OS solid but... Robin...

Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Layoff, Apple MacBook, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Notebooks, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-11-25

No accounting software for Linux?

The key issue in evaluating the open versus closed source argument with respect to mid range financial software is organizational philosophy, not software features - if you've got the skills, the courage, and the organizational support, open source is simply the smarter choice - and if you don't, it isn't....

Tags: Accounting, OSS, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Will Storm's delays hurt RIM's Q3?

I know you're probably on Blackberry Storm overload by now - but please indulge me once more. Last month, I asked all of you whether I should go iPhone or wait for the Storm. Overwhelmingly, you all told me to wait for the Storm, that it would be a game-changer....

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-24

TI execs ramp up green tech contributions, at work and at home

The trouble with the Green IT blog beat is there are literally hundreds of things that you could write about every day, often from the same company, but since this isn't the ONLY thing I do to put food on my table, I have to be really selective about which...

Tags: Green Technology, Texas Instruments Inc., Ogboenyiya, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-24

News to know: Kumo; Zune; Storm; Google

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Would you 'Kumo' it? Phil Wainewright: When to spend cash in a SaaS business Brian Sommer: Taleo's November to forget ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Zune, RIM BlackBerry, Nokia Reliability Labs, E-mail, Home Entertainment, Handhelds, Open Source, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-11-24

Sun reseller contacts

I recently asked readers to contact their local Sun resellers, ask about Sun Rays and Coolthreads products for their own use, and then tell me how the resellers reacted. I got some red hot email out of this - but of course this kind of thing self selects for negativity,...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, CDW Corp., Marketing Research, Marketing, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-11-24

The brutal truth - but not, I think, about Vista.

A lawsuit alleging that workers are being forced to contribute unpaid over time because their PCs record start times only after long boot periods has that laugh until you cry feel to it because it's more revealing about the organization than about Vista. by Paul Murphy

Tags: PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-11-22