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Cloud and the European SaaS provider

The SaaS scene in Europe deserves more attention, and the intersection with cloud is especially interesting, considering how many cloud pioneers there are in Europe. Will European innovation here rival the US? by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Software Information Industry Association, Software-as-a-service, Europe, Conference, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-02-09

Software makers may sue eBay

Tired of being "stiff-armed" by eBay, the Software and Information Industry Association is signaling its ready to sue over pirated software sales on the dominant online auction site, PC World reports. SIIA has offered eBay several suggestions for stemming the sale of pirated software on...

Tags: Software, Software Information Industry Association, eBay Inc., Tiffany, Tools & Techniques, Piracy, Sales Strategy, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Web 2.0: Putting webware on the webtop

David Thomas, executive director of the software division at the software industry lobby group the SIIA, pulled me to one side last night to confide a guilty secret: "I invented the term software as a service," he told me, "back in 2000." But since then, the term has taken...

Tags: Web 2.0, Architecture

Blog posts 2007-04-16

SaaS seeks definition with help from SIIA

SaaS seeks definition with help from SIIASaaSGood ideas and, yes, it's about time that the industry gets together in a body like this. It will be interesting to see how all this pans out because some of the ideas expressed in the blog really go to the heart of...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), software-as-a-service, Software Information Industry Association

Discussion threads 2006-07-27

SaaS seeks definition with help from SIIA

The US software industry's leading advocacy group has launched a much-needed initiative to define some key metrics around SaaS. Building on work begun at the SIIA as much as a year ago, the SaaS Executive Council launched yesterday PDF of release here and will be rolling out its programs over...

Tags: Saas

Blog posts 2006-07-26

Additional Resources

The First Amendment rights of anonymous defamers

Photo posted on 'Skanks of NYC' blog Yesterday I wrote that a Manhattan federal judge has ordered Google to tell supermodel Liskula Cohen the identity of the blogger behind the "Skanks of NYC" blog, which brands Cohen "a psychotic, lying, whoring, still going to clubs at her...

Tags: Defamation, First Amendment, Cahill, Courts, D.C. Case, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-20

NetSuite offers discount for green-friendly organizations

First, Symantec published some enterprise survey results suggesting that businesses are exploring software as a service SaaS as a green computing option. Now, on-demand business applications company NetSuite has tied some specific metrics to the trend. According to an "impact" study conducted for NetSuite conducted by Greenspace,...

Tags: NetSuite Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-27

TealGlance Plus 4.12 (Mobile)

Today View and Key Guard: Welcome Day View A pop-up key guard and appointment reminder, TealGlance shows a "quick view" window on power-up showing commonly-needed information such as date, time, day of the week, upcoming datebook appointments, unchecked tasks (to-do list items), and the current battery level. Special Functionality A...

Tags: Shareware, Mobile, TealPoint Software, Palm OS, Mobile Operating Systems, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Green Dam's day not done

Chinese students were out partying in celebration of the news that China has delayed its mandate that PCs sold in the country must have intalled some spyware named Green Dam Youth Escort, according to Reuters. "We are very happy because we got what we wanted," a young artist said....

Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., Ed Black, PC, Manufacturer, Desktops, Manufacturing, Government, Hardware, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-02

Best practices resources for paper cuts of the environmental sort

Chances are someone has traipsed through your cubicle recently, spouting off about become a paperless office. Trust me, in the scheme of pitches, paperless office initiatives are reaching the same hype-cycle in my inbox that telepresence and videoconferencing technologies as a green tool did maybe six months ago. You can...

Tags: Best Practice, Paperless Office, Chances, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-06-17

PC makers plead with China for release from Youth Escort

True to form, having figured out the wind is blowing strongly against Green Dam - Youth Escort the censorware that China had ordered PC makers to install before selling computers in the country, the tech industry has now lent its name to a tepid letter of protest to the Chinese...

Tags: Software, China, PC Company, Tools & Techniques, Government, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-16

TealPhone French Plus 5.29 5.29 (Mobile)

The Better Address Book: Address Book Improved A drop-in replacement for the Standard Address Book, TealPhone offers a superior interface and numerous convenient and invaluable improvements, making it the ultimate contact manager. Enhancements include a one-screen integrated display, eye-saving large number view, quick seek index bar, recently-used city and country...

Tags: Shareware, Phone, Mobile, TealPoint Software, TealPhone, Palm OS, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-06-03

TealPhone German Plus 5.29 5.29 (Mobile)

The Better Address Book: Address Book Improved A drop-in replacement for the Standard Address Book, TealPhone offers a superior interface and numerous convenient and invaluable improvements, making it the ultimate contact manager. Enhancements include a one-screen integrated display, eye-saving large number view, quick seek index bar, recently-used city and country...

Tags: Shareware, Phone, Mobile, TealPoint Software, TealPhone, Palm OS, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-06-03

TealPhone Plus 5.29 5.29 (Mobile)

The Better Address Book: Address Book Improved Supercharge the address book with TealPhone, the contacts replacement with superior interface and options. Highlights include enhanced display, search, phone-dialing, groups, and linking options for all your contacts. TealPhone includes a one-screen integrated display, eye-saving large number view, quick seek index bar, recently-used...

Tags: Shareware, Phone, Mobile, TealPoint Software, TealPhone, Palm OS, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-06-03

Overused words of the decade: 'open' and 'enterprise'

"Open" is what we would like every piece of code to aspire to, and "enterprise" means a harmonious collection of industrious people and purring machines. They are the magical marketing words, evoking images of all that is good and wholesome. But perhaps they are getting overused. Everything...

Tags: Open Standard, Seth Godin, Enterprise, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-05-13

Google on the defensive as book deal starts to come apart

Google on the defensive as book deal starts to come apartall books should be free in electronic formCan't the publishers see the tidal FOSS wipping out proprietary software?They don't realize that there is an analogy between copyrighted books and proprietary software that points to their demise.It's already happening with the...

Tags: INTERNET, Google Just, Google Inc., book deal

Discussion threads 2009-04-29

Got waste? Feed it to the algae. Presto chango it's valuable.

Helix bioreactor. Courtesy Origin Oil. For a healthier environment today, tomorrow and in the distant future: algae. That's the belief of Riggs Eckelberry, CEO of OriginOil, in Los Angeles. Sound like just another bodiesel start-up? No way, this is a company that...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Sapphire Energy, Solazyme, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-27

RIAA drops mass lawsuits, recruits ISPs to crack the whip

The headlines across the blogosphere make it sound like the Recording Industry Association of America has thrown in the towel and decided to stop going after music pirates on the Internet. That's not exactly the case. Instead, the RIAA is teaming up with Internet Service Providers to...

Tags: Lawsuit, RIAA, Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-19

The 10 best IT certifications

Guest post from TechRepublic's 10 Things blog: IT pros tend to have strong opinions when debating the value of professional certification â€" and views become even more polarized when it comes down to a discussion of which certs are meaningful. TechRepublic's Erik Eckel put together a list of the accreditations...

Tags: Project Management, Security, Expertise, Certification, Skill, Exam, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., MCITP, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist Certification, Project Management Professional Certification, Quality, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-11

Straight Talking: License This Software

Many organisations unknowingly overspend on software license agreements and maintenance. This is typically a result of organisations struggling to understand and manage complex licensing and pricing models, across multiple vendors. Technology changes also complicate licensing and are difficult to predict. For example, the growing popularity of virtualisation and increasing employee...

Tags: Quocirca, Software, Pricing Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Pricing, Management, Marketing

White papers 2008-09-23