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When to spend cash in a SaaS business

Revealed: the magic formula that helped enterprise web analytics provider Omniture sustain rocketing growth, dwarf its competitors and become the second-largest listed pureplay SaaS provider in the US by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Omniture Inc., Magic Number, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Strategy, Cloud Computing, GAAP, Sales Force Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Financial Accounting, Finance, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-11-22

'Fifty' may be the magic number for SOA governance

'Fifty' may be the magic number for SOA governancewow that's nuts!I'm pretty amazed by this "magic number" and am going to try to heap scorn on it without any scorn getting on my good friend Joe McKendrick who is just here to report the things people come up with to...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), magic number, SOA governance, SOA, Use Case

Discussion threads 2007-04-13

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Bloons Lite Plus for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

Bloons Lite Plus for iPhone the online flash sensation has finally landed on iPhone and iPod touch. Play as the mischievous monkey as you set out to pop as many balloons as possible using an arsenal of darts and special power ups. Bloons Lite Plus for iPhone is a simple...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Balloon, Digital Goldfish, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-09

Bloons Lite for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

Bloons Lite for iPhone the online flash sensation has finally landed on iPhone and iPod Touch. Play as the mischievous monkey as you set out to pop as many balloons as possible using an arsenal of darts and special power ups. Bloons Lite for iPhone is a simple yet hugely...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Balloon, Digital Goldfish, Smart Phones, Games, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-09

Partition Wizard Business Edition 4.2 (Windows)

Partition Wizard Business Edition is a Windows based free partition manager. It supports both MBR and GUID partition table format running on 32/64 bits Operating System including Windows XP, Vista, and latest Windows 7. Working as partition magic, Partition Wizard Business Edition provides powerful and professional functions to manage partition...

Tags: Partition, MT Solution, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-06

Headline 2010: e-Reader device failure

The market knows best, right? Markets are bloody paths to progress. At this writing there are approximately 52 e-reader devices coming to market in the next 12 months. Fifty-two different devices coming to market (Here's what I wrote about Steve Jobs' approach to reader devices when there were just 45...

Tags: E-reader, Sales, Hardware, Markets, E-books, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Memory Magic for iPhone 1.3 (Mobile)

Memory Magic for iPhone is a game that helps your child memorize where letters and numbers are hidden and then match them to solve the grid. The grid consists of 24 tiles that hide numbers and letters. The child touches two tiles to show the numbers and letters and their...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Grid, iFunStuff, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-27

Psystar releases 'build your own Hackintosh' kit

there a few brain who will throw a fit big time Will nice i really wanna see what will happen on the legal side .but its a bit too late how many people already have the appz .... Well like many people ask for so long osx...

Tags: Sales strategy, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Psystar, Apple Mac OS X, EULA, EFI

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

More Apple teardowns: Fall 2009 iMac & Magic Mouse

You can watch BluRay movies via the Display Port IN. [nt][nt]Windows to the rescue!![i]Of course, until Apple releases software support, you?ll still have to boot into Windows to play movies.[/i]LOL, OS X sucks. :)LOLWhat's sad is that OS X is the best that Apple could steal!Is that the best you...

Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, mouse, Apple Inc., Pagan, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Apple's bumper crop of fall hardware, reviewed

Where is the love for Nvidia?A number of questions come up:Why not Nvidia chipsets anymore? Why did they go back to Intel for core logic when they slammed them in a previous tech show for power management concerns?What happened to added graphics options on the Mac Pro? Where...

Tags: Mice, Servers, Desktops, hardware, Mini, GT 120, NVidia Corp., server, mouse, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Magic Mouse

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

One second: The time it takes to wipe three years of work

Not all that worriedWith the cost of drives these days, and with Raid cards or raid capable Motherboards at such cheap prices these days, I've setup mine with a RAID 1 mirror.Plus an automated weekly backup.I spend alot of time and money on my music (just sitting there ripping my...

Tags: Backups, backup, Live Mesh, RAID, Acronis, hard drive

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Why I moved to iPhone

The other day I was griping about the non-availability of the iPhone in Spain. I solved that in the UK by buying a pay as you go model and then jailbreaking it. Why would I do that when there are perfectly good Blackberry's or Android phones? A...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Open source is sold and FOSS is not

I'm confusedAre you advocating breaking the GPL license by selling GPL based products by 'open source' companies?We know NT Selling software is not a violation of the GPLSelling softare is not a violation of the GPL. Not in any way, shape or form. In the words of the...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, F/OSS, GPL, software, open source

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

FOWA 2009: Microsoft Surface 'proof of concept' actually pointless

Grats on being closed mindedWell done for putting someone down, your price point argument is fair but doesn't negate the number of possible uses of the surface device, which frankly are only limited by imagination, something that seems to be questionable for you.How do you define genuine uses? That sentence...

Tags: Tablets, FOWA 2009, Microsoft Surface, proof of concept, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Wizardbrush 6.7.5.8 (Windows)

Wizardbrush, a great natural-style paint program, has been much improved with its new multilayer feature. You can work as effectively as a professional. The program comes with many tools, including a pencil, a Magic Wand, an oil paintbrush, and a watercolor brush. The application gives you the power to undo...

Tags: Eusoftware, Scanners, Tablets, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Notebooks, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-21

Are you worried that your cellphone is harming you?

The largest study showed cell users getting less cancerhttp://www.digitalsociety.org/2009/09/half-truths-on-cell-phone-dangers/The largest study showed cell users getting less cancer. I would trust the American Cancer Society before I trust the media who blindly report stories about electrosensitives without any fact checking.All this worry is over a little heat generated from the...

Tags: Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, cell phone, phone, radiation

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

Brent Leary Expounds: The SMBs Rejoice

Brent Leary, who is not only my bud, but one of the leading, no, the leading, small business consultant and analyst when it comes to small business (duh!), CRM, social CRM and social media,  is someone that I want to highlight on these pages.  Not that you need to come...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Leader, Small Business, Small And Medium Business, CRM, Brent Leary, Maximizer Needs, Price Point, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-09-14

The taboo of failure

Google plans for failureI read sometime back about google's strategy to handle hardware failure. Instead of focussing on building expensive unbreakable hardware, they assume it a given and build it into the software to handle hardware failures. So the concept is gaining ground.http://andrewchenblog.com/2009/07/13/built-to-fail-how-companies-like-google-ideo-and-37signals-build-failure-tolerant-systems-for-anything/Great managers understand it.I once worked for a...

Tags: Strategy, great manager, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-09-07

The good news about WalMart

The magic of jiu jitsuYou praise what a company reviled by the left is doing. The right rises. Then you point to WalMart's support of true health reform, and pound them with it. How does this help the public option?I don't see it.So you are saying that because of some...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Benefits, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-07

10 things you can do while waiting for the Palm Pre to boot

Sorry Jason.....Timed it on my Smart Buy HP laptop with Windows 7 and came out at 2 minutes 6 seconds to boot up, send email, and shutdown. I feel sorry for anyone that can have sex in 30 seconds, I'm sure their woman is not to happy about that...

Tags: Smart phones, Mobile operating systems, Handhelds, Mobile applications, Operating systems, Palm Pre, Pre, Palm Inc., phone

Discussion threads 2009-09-04