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- Microsoft Big Brains: Gary Flake
- Today I am launching a new series, "Microsoft Big Brains." Over the course of the coming weeks, I'll be profiling Microsoft's Technical Fellows -- the 22 or so individuals who are helping to fill Chairman Bill Gates' shoes at the company, in terms of setting Redmond's future product/strategy agenda. The...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Team Management, Search, Strategy, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Microsoft: How we'll take on VMware
- The software maker believes it has the tools and the right price point to beat VMware in the battle for the virtualisation market. Microsoft has a three-pronged strategy to beat VMware in the virtualization market, according to the company's senior director for virtualization product management, Zane Adam. ...
- Tags: Hypervisor, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk, virtualization, Microsoft, VMWare
- News items 2008-10-10
- Apple makes it official. Notebook announcement next week.
- The blogosphere was abuzz this morning with news of a sub-$1,000 Mac notebook - based on a price list that was given to retail stores and subsequently leaked to bloggers. But where's the confirmation from Apple? The company wouldn't announce some sort of milestone - and a sub-$1,000 notebook is...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook Pro, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Tempest or Nuclear Winter
- A Hurricane Ike for Tech Start-Ups VentureWire Alert free subscription required today reported that venture capitalists are advising their portfolio firms to prepare for a potential nuclear winter. One venture capitalist featured in today's newsletter was quoted as telling firms "to slow down their burn rate, and...
- Tags: Firm, Venture Capital, Product Development, Investment, Product Marketing, Workforce Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Human Resources, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Making money on open source
- IBM has used Linux to unify its product lines, it has used open source to deliver services, and it has continued to get top dollar for the time of its people despite their using open source tools. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- BPM Done Right: 15 Ways To Succeed Where Others Have Failed
- Business Process Management BPM promises are real, but the path to success is littered with pitfalls and shortcuts to failure. Adopting best practices gained from our wealth of experience can help you avoid them. In this informative whitepaper Mike Lees, Senior Director, BPM Product Marketing, Software AG, outlines how to...
- Tags: Business Process, BPM, Software AG, Business Process Management Promise, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software
- White papers 2008-10-09
- RegistarLite (zip)
- Registar Lite is your basic Point of Sale or POS sofware geared towards ease of use and essential retail needs. Product features include item database for small or large item inventory, and transaction retention and search by day month or year. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Point-of-sale, ADS, Registar Lite
- Software downloads 2008-10-09
- Renaissance in Portfolio Management & GRC?
- Why Oracle Bought Primavera Now ? (Note: I actually prepared this post 24 hours before the Oracle - Primavera announcement. Now, it seems a bit obvious.) A few months ago, businesses had access to vast amounts of inexpensive capital. With lots of exceptionally low cost...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Initiative, Project Portfolio Management, Primavera, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Oracle + Primavera
- Where are the lucky couple registered? Yesterday, Oracle announced that it would be purchasing Primavera. Details of the transaction have not been made public. Already we see that Oracle has stated that Primavera management and employees will become part of a global business...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Professional Services, Primavera, Project Management, It Operations, It service Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Updated: Restraining order against RealDVD stands
- Updated: Restraining order against RealDVD standsMiss GuidedWithout going into too much detail I can safely say that DVD X COPY is not the only product in this marketplace. I can understand to a certain extent the wish to impose stricter digital rights management. What the court must ask...
- Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, RealDVD stand, RealDVD
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Vodafone posts Blackberry Storm with iPhone screen shots
- Vodafone posts Blackberry Storm with iPhone screen shotsOoopsntRE: Vodafone posts Blackberry Storm with iPhone screen shotsRIM deserves the embarrassment. Copycopycopy. Once again, we see yet another manufacturer launching a 'new' product that's just another copy of the iPhone. Copycopycopy. I thought only Asian companies did that...
- Tags: Handhelds, Copycopycopy, BlackBerry Storm, Apple iPhone, iPhone Screen, Vodafone Group Plc., RIM BlackBerry
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate
- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debateSAP MaintenanceSAP is a large company that feels they are bulletproof. They make their money on large accounts, and increasing maintenance is just a money grab in lue of increasing market share in SMB where thay have no clue how to penetrate.RE: Forrester...
- Tags: SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- RIM's Storm: Why it matters
- Research in Motion launched its Storm touch handheld and it is critical to the company's long-term plans. RIM, along with Vodafone and Verizon Wireless, launched the Storm on Wednesday (Techmeme, statement, Crave review, gallery). The phone, a rival to the iPhone 3G, signals a product barrage for...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Keyboards, 3G, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- C'mon, Vista really isn't that bad
- C'mon, Vista really isn't that badRE: C'mon, Vista really isn't that badI agree, it eases the transition from the digital to the physical world for computer users and seems especially geared towards newer computer users and explaining steps and giving more information about the system itself and any software installed....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, C'MON, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Smart grid tech player Silver Spring receives a cool $75M
- Despite the ongoing financial meltdown, people still are throwing money around for greentech/cleantech companies. For now, at least. Silver Spring Networks, which develops Smart Grid technology, said it has received an additional $75 million in funding intended for global expansion. The investment round was led by Kleiner...
- Tags: Financial, Venture Capital, Financial Accounting, Investment, Telecom & Utilities, Finance, Financing Startups, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Open source in a time of recession
- Open source in a time of recessionWhen the water hole shrinks,the kangaroo mice flourish.HistoryYes, the end of the dot-com bubble killed a number of illusions. The most prominent lesson was, Don't give away your main product. So at that time pure Linux and other open source plays disappeared.What was...
- Tags: Rewriting History, recession, open source, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- The IT role in the mortgage meltdown
- The IT role in the mortgage meltdownNobody likes a WhisleblowerYou got blacklisted for publicly Whistle-blowing at a company meeting. For your trouble you lost a job, faced economic hardship, and had to explain at interviews why this employer would not give you a reference. You did not follow...
- Tags: Leadership, information technology, mortgage meltdown, IT role, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Cisco SONA
- Cisco caught my attention by asking me if I wanted to see the results of a study indicating how organizations are seeing Web 2.0 and/or Service Oriented Architecture SOA application adoption. Having executed dozens of studies of this nature while I was at IDC, I was interested in the results,...
- Tags: Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- PC Speeduper (zip)
- PC Speeduper increases computer performance by allocating higher portions of CPU power to active applications and games. It is a revolutionary product which enhances processor intensive software to run at even faster speeds. Very easy to use, fully compliant with all versions of Microsoft Windows and compatible with most software....
- Tags: Performance, PC, Performance Management, Desktops, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-10-08
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