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With virtualization, a way to wrangle mobile data costs in the enterprise

Are you an IT pro who's tired of rising mobile bills? Does incorporating personal smartphones under the enterprise security umbrella keep you up at night? Bob Tinker may have a solution. Tinker, chief executive of mobile enterprise solutions provider MobileIron, is...

Tags: Virtualization, Mobile, Information Technology, Smart Phone, Enterprise, MobileIron, single-OS Strategy, Employee Self-service, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-08-10

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Live Webcast: Process Improvement is Everyone's Business

Two years ago, Aviva kicked off an initiative, 'One Aviva', to provide a single way of working across the organization. Their strategy was to enable policy by providing regulatory and legislative compliance to ensure robust processes and controls are in place. The goal was simply to provide a 'single version...

Tags: Lombardi Software Inc., Webcast, Aviva Plc., Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations

Webcasts 2009-11-11

What would make you trust Microsoft?

Flame on!Let me save a couple people the time of posting"Microsoft is the most evil thing on earth and should be destroyed" - Linux Geek, Ole Man, D.T, No More Microsoft Software ...."I trust Microsoft with my life" - Mike Cox, Loverock, ... "They are a company. I trust them...

Tags: SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., extremist, open source, MHD

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Turret Wars Lite for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

Turret Wars Lite for iPhone is a single player arcade style pseudo strategy game. Find and destroy all the enemy turrets before they find and destroy you. You can collect powerups bunkers to help you survive longer as well and increase your projectile damage or increase your health. There are...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Clickgamer, Smart Phones, Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management

Software downloads 2009-10-29

Turret Wars for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

Turret Wars for iPhone is a single player arcade style pseudo strategy game. Find and destroy all the enemy turrets before they find and destroy you. You can collect powerups bunkers to help you survive longer as well and increase your projectile damage or increase your health. There are even...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Clickgamer, Smart Phones, Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management

Software downloads 2009-10-29

Battle for Wesnoth 1.7.7 (Mac)

This is a fantasy-focused turn-based strategy game with units carrying over and gaining experience between scenarios. Both single player campaigns and multiplayer games are supported. This game is currently being actively developed, but is already at in a highly playable state. Although cross platform in nature, great effort is being...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Wesnoth Open Source Developers, Games, Strategy, Personal Technology, Management

Software downloads 2009-10-24

Ballmer: Zune services coming to 'next release' of Windows Mobile

As if Windows Mobile wasn't slow or bloated enough already...not much left to say. Windows Mobile is toward the horse's heiney of mobile platforms, right now and I doubt Apple or RIM will screw up their products just to let proven crapware back in... In a socialized world,...

Tags: Smart phones, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Microsoft Windows, Apple iPhone, phone, Steve Ballmer, strategy, Internet, smart phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Zune, mobile

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

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

Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant

Friday October 23rd will see Gartner argue a motion to dismiss a complaint by ZL Technologies Inc about the famed Gartner Magic Quadrant. According to court papers, Gartner will argue to dismiss based on First Amendment rights citing that the Magic Quadrant is not meant to represent statements of fact...

Tags: Quadrant, Analyst, Vendor, Gartner Inc., Vinnie, MQ, Blogging, Operational Accounting, Marketing Research, Internet, Finance, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-20

RISK 1.33.95 (Mobile)

Rule the world with RISK! Crush opponents for global domination with distinct tactics and unique levels of aggression. Use strategy to fortify your territories and conquer all six continents. Build armies to attack enemies on your march towards domination. Customize your play in a single-player Conquest mode on the world...

Tags: Domination, Mobile, Electronic Arts Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-20

Cannons for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

Cannons for iPhone is a story about vicious pirates, great sea battles and enormous treasures. Take command on the ship, blow up your enemies and find the hidden gold in this addictive puzzle game. Rotate tiles to create fuses and fire cannons, earn coins firing multiple cannons and use them...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Battle, Readdle, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-20

The Ubiquitous Password Problem

The attendee of this webcast will learn how Imprivata customers BJC Healthcare, Bridgestone Europe, and Tayside Fire and Rescue all found a common solution in OneSign Single Sign-On. The presenter talk about the identity and access management challenges they faced, how they formed a broader identity and access management strategy,...

Tags: Password, Access Management, Imprivata

Webcasts 2009-10-17

Mono-mania: It's risky business

M$ must give away its patentsIf M$ want to have its technolgies adopted by FOSS it must give up all its patents and GPLed the code.Until then we must stay away from any code that resembles M$ technologies and support Stallman and FSF in their fight against software tirany.RE: Mono-mania:...

Tags: .NET, C#, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Development tools, Operating systems, Programming languages, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mono, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

"Most, if not all" Sidekick data recovered

Well this is going to be interesting...So they had a catastrophic screw up and it looks like they worked their tales off to get it fixed.So that got a big black eye but at the same time it looks like they got it fixed. Whoever fixed this just got...

Tags: Backups, backup

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

What we may/may not hear @ Oracle Open World this week

Fusion is the Mirror and Unveiling of Oracle Customer ContemptOracle has punted on delivering integration as a product:IF you consider the definition of integration to be 'supplied as a buyable product and supported by the vendor.' Oracle's definition seems to be integration the same way that Facebook and YouTube are...

Tags: Oracle Corp., maintenance stream

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Oracle's integration strategy: Customer trade-offs

We Already Thought The Stuff From One Vendor Was IntegratedI'm simply blown away that no one is pointing out that many buyers thought that, when they bought EBS, for example, they were already getting a VERY high degree of true integration across all the applications. Same for PeopleSoft customers....

Tags: Oracle Corp., integration

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

RISK 1.17.12 (Mobile)

Rule the world with RISK! Crush opponents for global domination with distinct tactics and unique levels of aggression. Use strategy to fortify your territories and conquer all six continents. Build armies to attack enemies on your march towards domination. Customize your play in a single-player Conquest mode on the world...

Tags: Domination, Mobile, Electronic Arts Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-13

Two Perspectives of the HR Technology show

Some positive surprises - strong attendance Last week, Dr. Katherine Jones and I attended the HR Technology show. Katherine is one the best known HR analysts out there and covered the space for Aberdeen Group for a number of years. Together, we sat down with 21...

Tags: Human Resources Inc., Katherine, Herewith, HR Tech, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-07

Saying goodbye to OpenOffice.Org

RE: Saying goodbye to OpenOffice.OrgMS Office appears to be a really expensive trap. Your solution: Softmakerhttp://www.softmaker.comSuperior compatibility with all MS versions. No bloatware. Simply solid German engineering.If this came from a credible author I would be confused too butMr Kusnetzky has an habit of interspersing his zdnet stream with...

Tags: goodbye, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice.org

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Xerox buys ACS; Makes its big services bet

ASCII/xerox allianceASCII group the worlds oldest group of solution providers has teamed with xerox in print managed services in the smb spaceRE: Xerox buys ACS; Makes its big services betI work for ACS. I was a bit surprised to get this news this morning.What Makes This Deal Different Larry ?...

Tags: Document management, Outsourcing, Xerox Corp., ACS, big service

Discussion threads 2009-09-28