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SaaS star leaves SAP for Salesforce.com

Enterprise software giant SAP has lost Business Objects' Steve Lucas, one of its brightest software-as-a-service stars, to Salesforce.com, where he takes up a new role driving the vendor's platform strategy by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, ISV, SAP AG, Steve Lucas, Force.com, TenWolde, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-07-07

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Encyclopedia of American Cinema. FREE first chapter in the trial version (Mobile)

This illustrated Encyclopedia includes biographies of the best American directors and actors, reviews of the best American movies, and lists of awards. FREE first chapter in the trial version.Features Fully illustrated. Search for words or phrases. Navigate from Table of Contents or read page by page Add Bookmarks Text annotation...

Tags: Cinema, Mobile, Biology, Director, MobileReference, American

Software downloads 2007-09-27

News to know: DRM; 3G iPhone; Opsware

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Everything you’ve read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 2). David Berlind: If true, Jobs quote of "A 3G iPhone later next year" should kill demand for iPhone 1.0. Matthew Miller: Steve Jobs confirms that a 3G iPhone will be...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., Digital-rights Management, Opsware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., 3G, Data Centers, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Microsoft Office, Cellular Phones, Open Source, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Security, Office Suites, Software

Blog posts 2007-09-19

Don't Look Back

How to innovate? That was both the spoken and unspoken question on everyone's minds at the Wall Street Journal's memorable D Conference last week in Carlsbad. How can we radically improve the experience and value of interacting with one's digital device? What is the next chapter in the...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-06-03

Forget Google, YouTube must pay!

In Why Google is more dangerous than Microsoft earlier today, I signaled to John Battelle that he ought not hold his breath for Google to step up to the money plate in support of "journalism," despite the fact that Google makes oodles of dollars off of gratis news.Move over news...

Tags: Google, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-05-30

Coming up: D--All Things Digital conference

This week I'll be at the Wall Street Journal's "D: All Things Digital" conference at a balmy resort near San Diego. The advertised highlight is Steve Jobs and Bill Gates making a "historic" joint appearance on stage with hosts Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. The two will "discuss the...

Tags: Apple, D5, General, Microsoft

Blog posts 2007-05-27

Steve Jobs, the iPhone and open platforms

Steve Jobs, the iPhone and open platformsWishful ThinkingApple has proven through their refusal to license their FairPlay DRM. They know that their iTunes customers don't even understand that they are locking themselves into lifetime iPod hardware purchases (which are about a year apart, as far as I can see).It...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, Apple Bimbo, Apple Inc., phone, Steve Jobs, Cingular Wireless

Discussion threads 2007-01-14

Use "POD" in your trademark, get sued. Has Apple gone to far?

Use "POD" in your trademark, get sued. Has Apple gone to far?This is what Apple doesThey are the bad guys and this is what they do. They are a company that would file a law suit against a produce store called Tom's Apple shopThe good guys aren't...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Storage, Apple Computers, Profit Pod, heaven, Apple Inc., pod

Discussion threads 2006-08-11

Jobs gets out of the Happy Meal business

Jobs gets out of the Happy Meal businessI like itDoing the right thing - even if it costs you. What a concept! Didn't Joel Osteen say this last weekend about taking the high road?HypocriticalI was recently at Disney World in Florida and most of the food sold there is the...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, persecution, Apple Inc., Disney Corp., job, Happy Meal

Discussion threads 2006-05-09

Gates dismisses Disney rumors

Gates dismisses Disney rumorsGreat, that's all we need..If I see Mickey Mouse holding the Windows logo, or the MSN butterfly, I'll puke..I could imagine what kind of brashwashing would go on in MSN/Disney flicks.. or how many "promo products" would be in movies (like a character holding up a can...

Tags: Operating systems, PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, Disney Corp., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-03-04

How Software-as-a-Service enables companies to receive the benefits of BI without additional IT investment

This interview between Steve Lucas, Vice President of On Demand Software and Services for Business Objects, and Ron Powell, Co-Founder of the B-EYE Network, explains how Software-as-a-Service enables companies to receive the benefits of a complete BI platform without additional investments in their IT infrastructure.

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Information Technology, IT Investment, Benefit, Business Objects, Software As A Service (SaaS), Pricing, Managed Hosting, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Databases, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management

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