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- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate
- The last few days I've been exchanging email with R 'Ray' Wang, VP and principal analyst at Forrester about the kerfuffle over SAP's unilateral decision to apply a price hike to its maintenance and support fees. Ray specializes in the enterprise market and has special experience of SAP going back...
- Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc., Ray, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- TRO hearing today on RealDVD
- Federal Judge Marilyn Patel will hear arguments today on whether Real should be temporarily restrained from selling its RealDVD copying software. The software has been unavailable since Friday, when the Hollywood studios won an emergency halt on sales, a move that Real claims caused them "irreparable harm." ...
- Tags: DVD, RealDVD, Real, CSS, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- News to know: AMD; iPhone security; Linux; SAP
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: AMD to spin off manufacturing. Techmeme Heather Clancy: The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Information Technology, SAP AG, RIM BlackBerry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web Servers, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Strategy, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Copyright Board's ringtone decision shows failure of the system
- The Copyright Royalty Board's decision last week to keep composer royalties for downloads at 9.1 cents per song keeps Apple's iTunes store online (OK, the idea that Apple would shut down the key leg of its iPod empire was just corporate posturing) but the Board also set a...
- Tags: Board, Ring Tone, Rate, Copyright Royalty Board, Corporate Governance, Government, Vertical Industries, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Dropping the iPhone NDA is good for security
- Last week Apple lifted their NDA on iPhone developers, freeing them to discuss amongst themselves how to properly build applications. This decision is a "good thing" for not just applications but also application security on the iPhone. The iPhone NDA was antithetical to how developers work....
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Flaw, Programming, Development Tools, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- Sarah Palin debate flowchart [off-topic]
- Sarah Palin debate flowchart [off-topic].....Sounds similar to the other candidates too... ]:)Simplified version/* Sarah's playbook */repeat {__receivequestion; __if (IMayHaveAClueAboutquestion)__{____reciteMyScripts;__}__else __{____winkAtCamera;____ignorequestion;____printf("... but I'd like to focus on my own topics.");____dumpIrrelevantAnswers;__}} until (hostLeavesMeOffHook)RE: Sarah Palin debate flowchart [off-topic]Spot on!BidenIn the case of Biden he just makes stuff up. Facts never...
- Tags: Government, Sarah Palin, flowchart
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Yahoo wins confidentiality order for Google ad deal
- Yahoo said Friday that the Securities and Exchange Commission has granted it a confidentiality order to keep certain parts of its Google ad deal out of the public eye. In its quarterly filing with the SEC Aug. 8, Yahoo redacted multiple details about its search advertising deal...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., SEC, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Put your PC on an energy diet!
- Put your PC on an energy diet!The wonders of USB and Firewire...Almost all of my new "toys" are either USB or Firewire; I don't know how much power these things draw when they're not in active use, but the really infrequently used ones can at least be hot-plugged on demand.But...
- Tags: Desktops, Network technology, PC, chip, CPU, USB
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Salesforce.com: Worries emerge
- Salesforce.com on Friday was downgraded from a buy to a sell by UBS analyst Heather Bellini because software as a service companies are likely to face the same headwinds as larger applications vendors. Meanwhile, Salesforce.com is targeting larger enterprises and that means it faces a slower buying cycle. ...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Apple wins royalty rate showdown
- Guess Apple won't have to shut down iTunes after all. Apple had warned that if the royalty rate for music downloads increased, iTunes would become unprofitable and they might pull the plug. But the Copyright Royalty Board handed Steve Jobs, as well as...
- Tags: Board, Apple Inc., Royalty, Apple iTunes, Corporate Governance, Digital Music, Digital Media, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Five unfortunate ways the financial crisis affects your daily grind
- Five unfortunate ways the financial crisis affects your daily grindJob SecurityWhile some of those points are quite good, I have to question " Skilled workers might not be spared". When was the last time skilled workers *were* spared? In the IT field, our jobs have been hanging on a...
- Tags: Financial services, bank, financial
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- YouTube debuts post-roll ads
- YouTube, which always has had far more eyeballs than ways to monetize them, is adding post-roll advertisements to its clips. As NewTeeVee suggests, if you don't click on an overlay ad when it shows up in a clip you're watching, the video ad it would have played...
- Tags: Advertisement, YouTube Inc., Video, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Apple lifts iPhone NDA to dull Android's edge
- Responding to a crescendo of criticism from the developer community, which saw books canceled, long time fans lose enthusiasm, and some calls for defections to Android, Apple finally relented Wednesday: We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement NDA for released iPhone software. ... The NDA has created too...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Android, Tools & Techniques, Management, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Microsoft steps up online search R&D in Europe
- Microsoft is stepping up efforts to improve online search, where it considerably lags market leader Google, by establishing a three-center research facility in Europe. LONDON--Microsoft is stepping up efforts to improve online search, where it considerably lags market leader Google, by establishing a three-center research facility in Europe, it...
- Tags: Google Inc., R&D, Europe, Internet Search, Microsoft Corp., Research & Development, Business Operations, Reuters, search, Microsoft, Google
- News items 2008-10-02
- Citrix desktop virtualization
- I've been thinking about a virtual desktop demonstration Citrix presented at its analyst day a few weeks ago. I posted a bit about my experiences see Mark Templeton shares his vision at Citrix event, but haven't been able to post reviews on everything I saw there. Their desktop virtualization demonstration...
- Tags: Desktop, Citrix Systems Inc., Virtual Desktop, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Forex Tracer (exe)
- Forex Tracer personal review kit is a personal experience written to assist other forex interested persons make an informed decision when looking for a forex resource that can help them profit in their forex trades. This version the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Kit, Sherman Choo
- Software downloads 2008-10-02
- Stallman vs. the cloud computing tidal wave
- Stallman's recent statements regarding his dislike of "cloud computing" didn't surprise me in the least, given what I understand about his software preferences. In fact, I think this is less about Stallman's worry about the security implications of cloud computing, and more about his desire for a software ecosystems that adheres...
- Tags: Software, GPL, Cloud Computing, Stallman, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- How is the credit crunch impacting your economy?
- The economy is mired in a slowdown, Wall Street allegedly needs a bailout and stocks are on a roller coaster that is mostly headed down. What's less clear is how all of this turmoil is impacting the tech industry and your personal economy. A simple question was...
- Tags: Wall Street, Economy, Consulting Client, Deals, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance, Outsourcing, Financial Services, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- I... B... Wha?
- I... B... Wha?I. B. AmazedYou have to think though, after the 90's the markets are flooded with consumer products based on technology. People associate with what they are exposed to. However in the 70's and better part of the 80's if you wanted a PC, it had to be "IBM...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Branding, Desktops, Operating systems, Mindshare, IBM Corp., Wha
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
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