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Motorola names Qualcomm alum mobile CEO

Motorola on Monday named Sanjay Jha CEO of its mobile handset division, which is in the process of being split from the rest of the company. Jha had been the chief operating officer of Qualcomm. He was responsible for overseeing Qualcomm's R&D and Flarion Technologies. Ahead of...

Tags: Mobile, Handset, Qualcomm Inc., Motorola Inc., Sanjay Jha, Cellular Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-04

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Google shares more of its secret sauce: Protocol buffers

It's a common problem in computer science: how do you get data from one part of your program to another part? What if the two parts were written by different people, at different times, in different languages, on different machines? Search giant Google has to deal with this issue all...

Tags: Google Inc., RPC, XML, Programming Languages, Storage, Networking, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, Hardware, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Citrix integrates security appliance with XenDesktop

Citrix has integrated one of its security products with its recently released XenDesktop virtual desktop solution. The latest incarnation of Citrix's Access Gateway appliance, version 1.8, will allow companies to deliver virtual desktops to users based on identity, location and security status. The Ft...

Tags: Desktop, Security, Citrix Systems Inc., Virtual Desktop, XenDesktop, Desktop Virtualization, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-06-09

Financial-Software Leader Credits Productivity Boost, Reduced IT Costs to 2007 Software

Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. JHA, a leading provider of software and services to banks and credit unions, has long depended on Microsoft Office Word, Office Excel, and Office PowerPoint to produce timely and effective marketing, sales, and support documents. Seeking to further streamline document production, strengthen collaboration, and reduce...

Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Case studies 2008-04-07

The future of SaaS billing

In the past few weeks, all of a sudden, I've been approached by any number of vendors wanting to tell me about their billing, settlement and subscriber management offerings to the SaaS market. I must say, it's about time. For the past ten years, SaaS vendors have struggled to manage...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Billing, LeCayla, Vindicia, Enterprise Software Buyer, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-04-03

Who kicked up the cell phone scare?

His name is Vini Khurana right. Doctor Khurana to you. Best known until now for having performed the first brain keyhole surgery with the patient awake, he has now compiled a review of all the data he could find on cell phones and brain cancer. (The last...

Tags: Phone, Dr., Cell Phone, Telecom & Utilities, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-01

Microsoft reorg: Who's in; who's out

On February 14, Microsoft announced a corporate reorganization affecting many of its divisions. As with any Microsoft early-year reorg -- which typically occur after the company's fiscal mid-year reviews -- there are winners and losers. Check out my slideshow of who's in and who's out as a...

Tags: Mobile, VP, Vice President, Microsoft Corp., Senior Vice President, Corporate, Vehghte, Lees, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-02-14

Farewell, Bill. Yo, Ballmer, now it's your turn!

Steve Ballmer may be the worst CEO among large tech companies - now that Kevin Rollins got booted from Dell and Sanjay Kumar of CA is in jail. Put him in a room with Steve Jobs of Apple, John Chambers of Cisco and Mark Hurd of HP and he'd look...

Tags: Google Inc., MSN, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Fiasco, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Smart Phones, Games, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-01-29

Google's parallel programming model

Two Google Fellows just published a paper in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM about MapReduce, the parallel programming model used to process more than 20 petabytes of data every day on commodity-based clusters. The latest statistics included in the paper are from September 2007. They show that...

Tags: Google Inc., Programming Model, Programming, MapReduce, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-14

The Microsoft reorg week in review

It's time, yet again, to update the ever-changing Microsoft org chart. Here's another piece to add to the seemingly never-ending stream of Microsoft reorg news: Developer and Platform Evangelism DPE Chief Sanjay Parthasarathy has given up his post (as of mid-December, 2007). Parthasarathy has led evanglism of...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Parthasarathy, Microsoft DPE Chief Sanjay Parthasarathy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Structures, Microsoft Word, Investment, Finance, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-01-11

i-Snake, a new robotic surgeon

Several newspapers in the UK have published today very short articles about the i-Snake, a new surgical robot which will be developed at the Imperial College London ICL. For example, The Times of London writes that the ICL team has won a £2.1 million grant (€2.84 million or US$4.2 million)...

Tags: Robot, Imaging, Surgery, Surgeon, i-Snake, Robots, Document Management, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-29

Today's Debate: Is Dr. Gupta bad for your health?

CNN supposedly has John Roberts and Kiran Chetry anchoring its morning show these days, but the real star lately has been Sanjay Gupta. Gupta, the network's medical editor, has been on more than Wolf Blitzer lately, because each day has brought a new health scare. Today it's...

Tags: Dr., Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-17

Microsoft finally unveils its answer to Google Docs

After months of speculation about what it would do to stave off potential encroachments on its Office turf by Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Microsoft has spelled out its strategy: Office Live Workspace. Office Live Workspace is, in Microsoft's words, "a new web-based feature of Microsoft Office which...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Docs, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Corp., Office Live Workspace, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-09-30

Microsoft brands its managed services with the 'Office Online' name

A year ago, Microsoft's head of Office Live told me that Microsoft planned to extend the Office Live both up and down market. On October 1, Microsoft finally explained how it plans to do this. Earlier this summer, Microsoft officials said that they were rebranding the existing...

Tags: ThinkFree Office Online, Managed Services, Brand, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-09-30

Today's Debate: Ban cell phones from hospitals?

I was wondering why Dr. Sanjay Gupta was waving his phone in my face this morning as I sweated to the oldies at my local YMCA.Here's why. A Dutch study shows radiation from data-enabled cell phones can interfere with critical hospital equipment from as far away as 3 meters -- that's...

Tags: Cellular phones, U.S. Here, Dana Blankenhorn, data phone, phone, GPRS, UMTS, cell phone, hospital

Blog posts 2007-09-06

Microsoft reorgs again

On May 18, Microsoft announced that it is moving its Server and Tools unit out from under Platforms and Services to the Microsoft Business Division MBD. That means Senior Vice President Bob Muglia's group now falls under MBD President Jeff Raikes' organization. Muglia will report directly to Raikes as part...

Tags: Corporate strategy, Database, Development tools, SQL Server

Blog posts 2007-05-18

SAP acquires OutlookSoft for corporate performance management

SAP doesnt go after the big fish like its rival Oracle, but it occasionally picks up a relatively smaller strategic acquisition. OutlookSoft will give SAP another entry point, beyond its core ERP software, into the CFO office with corporate performance management solution, covering planning, budgeting, forecasting and consolidation. OutlookSoft is...

Tags: SAP, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2007-05-08

Microsoft Tech Summit: The 'non-fanboys' descend on Redmond

Microsoft is big on inviting not just its customers and partners, but non-believers, too, to visit the Microsoft campus and discover for themselves that Softies are people, too. (And who better to ask than Java, PHP and Linux developers -- as Microsoft execs seemingly did several times during...

Tags: WPF/e, Windows server, Windows client, Web 2.0, Visual Studio Orcas, Shared Source, Linux, Development tools, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-03-30

The real question: How to keep Microsoft on the transparency track

The April Wired Magazine cover story on "Radical Transparency," with its case study on Microsofts Channel 9 and blogging initiatives, is making some waves, but for the wrong reasons. Some media members are simply shocked that Microsofts PR team keeps dossiers on the reporters and bloggers who cover the...

Tags: Public relations, Blogging, Microsofts, Microsoft Corp., dossier, team

Blog posts 2007-03-28

50 ways to kill an asteroid

It is almost certain that a big asteroid will one day land on Earth and provoke a huge catastrophe. This is why hundreds of scientists have attended the Planetary Defense Conference 2007, held this week in Washington, D.C., to try to develop plans to protect the Earth from such an...

Tags: Space &, Aerospace, Science &, Nature, Engineering &, Innovation

Blog posts 2007-03-08