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- Outsourcing? Avoid long-term deals
- Gartner says the good news for companies that plan to outsource is that the cost of doing business will decrease. But that's the bad news, too - outsourcing partners may go out of business. Organizations should monitor the health of outsourcing partners and avoid long-term contracts, according to research...
- Tags: Gartner Inc., Supplier, Prices, Managed Hosting, Software As A Service (SaaS), It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Emerging Technologies, outsourcing, India, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2009-06-17
- Android gets voice search in Google Maps
- The search-engine company adds voice search to Google Maps on its Linux-based Android software platform. Google has updated the version of Google Maps found on its Linux-based Android software platform to include voice search, along with a bug fix and a new feature. Android is designed...
- Tags: Software, Google Inc., Dell Latitude, Android Market, Tools & Techniques, Notebooks, Telecommunications, Management, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Google, Android, Google maps, voice, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2009-06-16
- New Linux kernel adds file-system support
- Linux 2.6.30 has been released with support for new file systems, along with performance improvements and new hardware drivers. Developers have released the Linux kernel version 2.6.30, adding support for new file systems as well as performance improvements and new hardware drivers. The Linux kernel...
- Tags: File System, Hardware, Kernel, Linux 2.6.30, Linux, Open Source, Software, Linux kernel, GNU/Linux, operating systems, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2009-06-15
- Microsoft-sponsored lobbyist to the EU: It's a mistake to floss us
- TechWorlds Matthew Broersma writes:A leaked letter to the European Commission has revealed the extent of lobbying by proprietary software groups to prevent the widespread adoption of open-source software....Sent in response to a recent report on the role of open-source software in the European economy, Microsoft-funded pressure group, the Initiative for...
- Tags: software, FLOSS, ISC
- Blog posts 2006-10-19
- GPL legal controversy running on spin
- When a reporter calls with an angle, the temptation of an analyst to go along and get their name in the paper can be irresistible. That's how I read Red Monk analyst James Governor's comments to VNUNet this week, implying that the General Public License remains under legal threat.The quote...
- Tags: GPL
- Blog posts 2005-04-22
- First VB gets the axe. What's next COBOL?
- Perhaps the moral of this story is that you can't teach a dog new tricks. Particularly these old dogs, who, like my old dog, bite back if you don't handle them just right. After all, you can't read Matthew Broersma's report about how more than 100 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Basic
- Blog posts 2005-03-11
- Phoenix toughens up BIOS
- Phoenix toughens up BIOSHow about standards?BIOS? Is BIOS still around? How about making this ancient piece of historical code become standards compliant? There is an Open Boot PROM standard for firmware that can allow or help any kind of computer to boot up from.when will x86 systems move into the...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), TrustedCore NB, BIOS, Phoenix Technologies, digital-rights management, hardware, PC, operating system
- Discussion threads 2003-11-26
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