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- Microsoft to its hosting partners: Get ready. Here we come
- At its Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver this week, Microsoft officials are trying to walk the tightrope when it comes to explaining Microsoft's plan to get into the managed services business in a major way.Microsoft officials have made no bones about the fact that Microsoft is planning to offer a...
- Tags: Channel, Corporate strategy, CRM Live, Dynamics CRM, Exchange Server, Network service providers, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, Systems integrators, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Microsoft headed for a services show-down with its hosting partners
- Microsoft is on a collision course with its hosting partners.During the past couple of weeks, Microsoft officials have started touting publicly the handful of hosted managed services that Microsoft is selling directly to customers. This week at the NXTcomm 2007 show in Chicago, Microsoft was out hawking its"Microsoft Solution for...
- Tags: Channel, Corporate strategy, CRM Live, Dynamics CRM, Exchange Server, Network service providers, OEMs, Resellers, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, System builders, Systems integrators, Telecommunications
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- Microsoft readies updated version of its Live Meeting conference service
- Some time this fall, Microsoft plans to roll out the third version of its Office Live Meeting conferencing service, company officials announced at TechEd 2007 on June 5.Expected to be dubbed Office Live Meeting 2007, the new release will include a redesigned and simpler user interface; improved training and event...
- Tags: Web video, Web conferencing, VOIP, TechEd 2007, Systems integrators, Office Live, Network service providers, Corporate strategy, Channel
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- Microsoft and Google seek partners for hosted productivity apps
- There are more similarities than differences in Microsoft's and Google's approaches to building out their partner ecosystems for their respective hosted productivity suites.Google Apps and Office Live are not head-to-head competitors. Google Apps includes hosted mail, calendar, document and spreadsheets. Office Live includes hosted mail, small-business accounting, workspace and (with...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Systems integrators, SharePoint Server, Resellers, Office 2007, Office Live, Office, Network service providers, Google, Corporate strategy, Channel
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- Could Microsoft take a community lesson from Sun?
- Microsoft talks a lot about community and wanting to foster/tap into it. But there really is no single, cohesive "Microsoft community," akin to the Linux community. The reasons for this are many and varied. A dominant market player-- vs. an up-and-coming underdog -- seems to inspire less vocal customer/developer...
- Tags: Systems integrators, System builders, Resellers, OEMs, Novell, Network service providers, Linux, Corporate strategy, Channel
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Ex-Softie weighs in on how to avoid the dancing Microsoft elephant
- Speaking of Microsofts unified-communications strategy, former Softie Alec Saunders has an interesting post on how to "avoid becoming Microsoft roadkill" in the converging VOIP/conferencing/phone market. (Saunders spent nine years at Microsoft in a variety of product management and marketing roles, including the initial launch of Microsoft Internet Explorer. He...
- Tags: VOIP, System builders, Speech, Resellers, OEMs, Network service providers, Telecommunications, Systems integrators, Exchange Server, Channel
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Cisco's Chambers claims a three-year lead on Microsoft
- Cisco CEO John Chambers has thrown down the gauntlet. At Ciscos Partner Summit in Las Vegas this week, Chambers told the press corps in attendance that he believes Cisco has a three-year lead on Microsoft in the unified communications space. And, according to TechIQ Magazines "VAR Guy," who...
- Tags: VOIP, Telecommunications, Systems integrators, System builders, Speech, Resellers, OEMs, Network service providers, Corporate strategy, Channel
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
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- Next year is THE year for cloud computing
- Here is what Indu Kodukula, CTO of SunGard Availability Services thinks how cloud computing is likely to transform the computing industry landscape in 2010. Commentary - Yogi Berra had it right - it?s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. It?s especially difficult...
- Tags: CIO, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, cloud, Indu Kodukula
- News items 2009-11-17
- Samsung Mythic SGH-A897 (AT&T)
- Even though AT&T launched its live mobile TV service more than a year ago, but few support it-- the last one we saw was the Samsung Eternity, which was released in October 2008. Now it seems that AT&T may be looking to breathe fresh life to the service by releasing...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Telecom & Utilities, NOW IT, phone dialer, Mythic, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., home screen, phone, AT&T Corp.
- Product reviews 2009-11-14
- Splunk 4.0.6 (Mac)
- Splunk is a Silicon Valley company inventing large-scale, high-speed indexing and search technology for IT infrastructures. The company's freely downloadable software indexes and makes it possible to search and navigate data from any application, server or network device in real time. Logs, configurations, messages, traps and alerts, scripts and metrics....
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Compliance, Splunk, Business Services, Networking
- Software downloads 2009-11-09
- RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700 (T-Mobile)
- Photo gallery:RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700It's been about a year since the original RIM BlackBerry Bold made its debut, and while it remains a very solid device, it's about time that a flashier, faster model took over the reigns. And that device would be the RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700. Not only...
- Tags: Handhelds, BlackBerry Bold 9700, RIM BlackBerry, RIM BlackBerry Bold, RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700, Research In Motion Ltd., T-Mobile, Bold 9700
- Product reviews 2009-11-05
- Phishing experiment sneaks through all anti-spam filters
- A recently conducted ethical phishing New study details the dynamics of successful phishing experiment impersonating LinkedIn by mailing invitations coming from Bill Gates, has achieved a 100% success rate in bypassing the anti-spam filters it was tested against. The experiment emphasizes on how small-scale spear phishing campaigns...
- Tags: Anti-spam, LinkedIn, E-mail, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- Google, Android 2.0 sticks fork in GPS devices
- It would also be great if Android could automatically re-route you in real-time, when things like the Bay Bridge suddenly close. This means munincipalities automatically posting closures on a web site, that all providers can use in real-time. Munincipalities could also distribute traffic in real-time. Lots of possibilities to replacing...
- Tags: Handhelds, Mobile operating systems, Smart phones, GPS, Google Inc., Google Android 2.0, GPS Devices, battery, Google Android
- Discussion threads 2009-10-28
- Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud
- Amazon on Tuesday launched a public beta of a service dubbed the Amazon Relational Database Service RDS. The main appeal: Allow customers to operate and scale database clusters while leaving pesky tasks like patching and administration to Amazon Web Services. Adam Selipsky, vice president of Amazon Web...
- Tags: MySQL, Amazon Web Services, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., RDBMS, EC2, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- A Net Neutrality Solution: Opinions Wanted
- I’ve been thinking about Net Neutrality for some time and wanted to get your thoughts and feedback on a solution that seems, well, so simple and obvious that I can't believe nobody has proposed it. A bit of background before you dive-in. Before analyzing and tracking...
- Tags: Content Provider, Net Neutrality, Gold/Platinum, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- News Corp. prepares to destroy more online value
- Finally Good PointsYou may have wanted to mention that comcast wanted to buy out 51 percent and then charge. Maybe they are delaying the inevitable but a reverse scenario? Due to sites like Hulu and other I and other have not paid for cable or satellite for over 3 years....
- Tags: OpenOffice, Piracy, Blogging, Network technology, Hulu, News Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- AT&T cuts churn rate; Activates 3.2 million iPhones; Touts network upgrades
- It will be interesting to see if Droid ....... effects that churn rate.If AT&T wanted me in their network......AT&T must lower the deposit to $100 instead of $500.Sorry, AT&T! You lost and Sprint is the winner! :)What deposite?We paid no deposite.Not at the start.Many people just bought into the 2...
- Tags: Smart phones, network upgrade, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone, network, Verizon Communications Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- InterMapper RemoteAccess 5.1.6 (Windows)
- InterMapper RemoteAccess provides access to maps, sub maps, and configuration options from any connected location. Management, help desk personnel, and technicians can monitor and respond to network issues concurrently. InterMapper RemoteAccess can handle multiple copies of InterMapper simultaneously, making it an ideal choice for organizations with multi location sites, consultants...
- Tags: Monitor, Microsoft Windows, Dartware, InterMapper RemoteAccess, Help Desk, Call Centers, Monitors & Displays, It Operations, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-10-22
- Antitrust: Time to break apart the phone companies -- again?
- Actually,those 'guaranteed revenue' companiesAre not so rare. Food companies, oil and gas companies, phone companies, electric companies, water utilities.... the list goes on and on if I had enough time to think of them all.That is why we need to break up any company that gets more than a 10%...
- Tags: Corporate law, Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, Food & Beverage, 360Networks Corp., phone company, phone, antitrust
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- AT&T encourages employees to speak out against net neutrality
- AT&T's top policy exec - aka lobbyist - has turned to AT&T employees for a last-chance campaign to flood the FCC with anti-net neutrality messages. In a memo that's starting to circulate around the Internet, Senior Executive VP Jim Cicconi tells encourages the employees, their friends and family to "join...
- Tags: FCC, AT&T Corp., Net Neutrality, Cicconi, Federal Government, Government, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
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