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Sales Force Automation Solution for a eCRM Solutions Provider

The client is a leading eCRM solutions provider based out of USA. The NIIT Technologies' Mobile Centre of competence created a wireless roadmap and architecture to extend a Sales Force Automation eCRM product for access from mobile devices and PDAs. As sales representatives are expected to be mobile, they may...

Tags: Mobile, Sales Force, eCRM, Client, SFA, NIIT Technologies, Sales Force Automation (SFA), Sales Strategy, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Advertising & Promotion, Software, Sales, Marketing

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Gartner Top 10 embraces the Cloud

As in previous years, the analysts at Gartner have unveiled their 'Top 10 Strategic Technologies,' and Jason Hiner provides details elsewhere on ZDNet. The press release is here. One of the analysts involved David Cearley discusses the Top 10 over on YouTube, and posts the information from...

Tags: Gartner Inc., David, Jason, Semantic Web, Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-15

News to know: Gartner, Firefox 3.1, Apple notebook event, Intel

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Hiner: Gartner: Top 10 technologies to watch over the next three years Larry Dignan: IT's challenges: The end of device charging; ROI; Super programmers ...

Tags: Richard Koman, Mozilla Firefox, Apple MacBook, Gartner Inc., Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Notebook Event, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Can the Semantic Web help education?

Dr Jason Ohler certainly thinks so, and discusses his views in a recent paper and during a conversation that we recorded earlier this week. Both Jason and I struggled to think of examples where educationalists and educational technologists are already working with these technologies, or seriously considering...

Tags: Education, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-15

The Future looks very Cloudy

I've just attended the one day, highly-focused executive 'Cloud Summit' conference. The Cloud—used to describe everything from internet-based computing utilities to Software as a Service — was examined and its future impact explored within the highly appropriate venue of the Silicon Valley Computer History Museum. ...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Trend Micro Inc., Information Technology, Cloud, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Video: Apple unveils new multitouch trackpad

At a press event in Cupertino, Calif., Apple CEO Steve Jobs demos new trackpad technologies for the company's MacBook line. The new trackpad is made entirely of glass and has a 39% larger tracking area than previous trackpads. More video from the event: Apple's latest MacBook...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Video, CEO, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Gartner: Top 10 technologies to watch over the next three years

On Tuesday, Gartner analysts Carl Claunch and Dave Cearley gave a crowd of IT leaders at the Gartner Symposium 2008 a list of the top 10 technologies that will provide important strategic advantages to IT over the next three years. by Jason Hiner

Tags: Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner, Business Intelligence, Social Networking, Cloud Computing, Information Technology, Technology, Mashup, Servers, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Apple unveils new multitouch trackpad

At a press event in Cupertino, Calif., Apple CEO Steve Jobs demos new trackpad technologies for the company's MacBook line. The new trackpad is made entirely of glass and has a 39% larger tracking area than previous trackpads.

Tags: Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Apple

Videos 2008-10-14

Digging into the Silverlight 2 announcement

Digging into the Silverlight 2 announcementEclipseRyan - I guess the point with the Eclipse stuff is to appeal to Java developers who don't want to step out of Eclipse to do RIA development, much the same approach Adobe took with Flex.RE: Digging into the Silverlight 2 announcementHey Ryan,I totally agree...

Tags: Java development tools, .NET, Middleware, Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe Systems Inc., Eclipse

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

You know a trend has gotten broad when..

The New York Times, a well-known font of information in the area of information technology, published Revived Fervor for Smart Monitors Linked to a Server, an article by Ashlee Vance October 13th. If the NY Times gets around to saying something about technology, it's pretty well known by those in...

Tags: New York Times Co., Virtualization, Strategy, Desktops, Hardware, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-14

And speaking of Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems is not a name we often associate with education outside of high-end technical fields at the university level. Of course, Sun is responsible for OpenOffice and has recently acquired both MySQL and VirtualBox, all of which (especially OO.org) have quite a bit of relevance here. ...

Tags: K-12, Sun Microsystems Inc., Virtualization, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-13

OK, now OpenOffice is definitely good enough

OK, now OpenOffice is definitely good enoughSadly, it falls short of my needsI have a spreadsheet that works beautifully in Excel. It's unbelievably slow for OpenOffice Calc. 12 minutes to open, each drop down takes 2 minutes to register.No scripts, just formulas.RE: OK, now OpenOffice is definitely good...

Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, Microsoft Office, object-oriented, OK now OpenOffice, OO 2.4, OpenOffice

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

Free national Wi-Fi? Pardon me not holding my breath.

Free national Wi-Fi? Pardon me not holding my breath.So if the task gets sold to ONE bidder......what company is big enough to "connect" the entire country? And wouldn't that be creating a monopoly? Or wouldn't a monopoly exist, because the system is free?If it is free, where is the financial...

Tags: Taxes, Wireless LANs, Free trade, WIRELESS, Internet, tax, Wi-Fi

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

Growing open standards pressure on healthcare

The devil here is in the details, but we do have the ingredients of an agreement, in the form of Internet standards, XML technologies, and such standards as HL7. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Open Standard, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Silverlight 2 is released, available for download tomorrow

Silverlight 2 is released, available for download tomorrowThanks are due.Many thanks to Microsoft for delivering Silverlight 2 with all haste and for not making developers wait until PDC 2008. As there is heavy local competition against Flash shops, this is most welcome news sorry Ryan, particularly within the context of...

Tags: Silverlight 2, Microsoft Silverlight

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

Step-on scanner lets air passengers keep shoes on

Magshoe has introduced a step-on scanner that spares airline travelers the nuisance of having to remove their shoes so they can be X-rayed for hidden weapons. LOD, Israel--Israel has introduced a step-on scanner that spares airline travelers the nuisance of having to remove their shoes so they can be...

Tags: Shoe, Israel, Magshoe, Scanners, Hardware, Peripherals, Reuters, scanner, security, air travel

News items 2008-10-13

Gartner's worst case for 2009 IT budgets isn't so bad

Gartner has revised its 2009 IT budget prognostications, a move that isn't surprising, but the firm's projections could be a lot worse. Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president of research at Gartner, outlined the research group's new projections in his opening keynote at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in...

Tags: IT Budget, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Beyond mobile broadband, WiMAX is about blowing up the wireless business model

Beyond mobile broadband, WiMAX is about blowing up the wireless business modelBut were is that highway system going?Sure, WiMax is building a highway system, so it was with the cellular network and, so it is now with 3G too. The problem is where are those highways going. They...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Broadband Internet, Network technology, Satellite Service, WiMAX, broadband, wireless business, mobile broadband, wireless, mobile

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

Surviving the recession with Free Linux distributions (Part 1)

Times are tough. You're a computer geek and you need to feed your PC with the latest and greatest applications. What's a frugal nerd to do? A group of industry peers was recently asked by a colleague the following question: "If an SMB...

Tags: Ubuntu, Linux Distribution, Recession, Fedora Project, Novell OpenSuse, Debian, Times, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Debian Support Cycle, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-12

Tim Bray on surviving the tough times

Image via WikipediaTim Bray, director of web technologies at Sun Microsystems gave what I believe to be the most practical advice I've heard so far for those in startups looking forward. Speaking at FOWA, Tim's blunt view is that we are headed for tough times but that should not blind...

Tags: Personal Technology, Tim Bray, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-11