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Dell bets on Salesforce.com's platform as a service

Amid a quarter that Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff called "spectacular," but spooked analysts worried about future growth was an interesting nugget: Dell has jumped on the platform as a service bandwagon. On Salesforce.com's second quarter conference call (earnings recap, InStranet acquisition) Benioff revealed that Dell signed a...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Marc Benioff, Billing, PaaS, Summer Sales Cycle, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-21

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iPhone suffers as Android buoys Linux cause

iPhone suffers as Android buoys Linux causeiPhone suffers as Android buoys Linux causegive my applause to analyst for being full of shite and they predictions as just as good as end of world predictions."report"how can some cristal ball looking by a "research" firm be a report? and and i still...

Tags: Sales strategy, Telecom & Utilities, Operating systems, iPhone Users, Apple iPhone, phone, Apple Inc., Linux

Discussion threads 2009-03-13

Jobs to take medical leave; Cook in charge; Will Jobs appear at WWDC?

Updated: Apple CEO Steve Jobs said Wednesday that he will take a medical leave until the end of June to focus on his health. In the meantime, chief operating officer Tim Cook right will take over day-to-day operations. The news (Techmeme, Apple statement) is likely to start...

Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Health Care, Apple Inc., Tim Cook, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-14

Report: PC makers to provide free Vista-to Win-7 upgrades starting July 1

Report: PC makers to provide free Vista-to Win-7 upgrades starting July 1Seems like you're setting them up for failureevery time you say it's going to be released 3Q-2009 even though they insist it's 1Q-2010.RE: Report: PC makers to provide free Vista-to Win-7 upgrades starting July 1Well heres one to everyone...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Vista-to Win-7 upgrade, Vista-to Win-7, Microsoft Windows Vista, PC company, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

iPhone clouds true Smartphone snapshot

Can Apple, specifically its iPhone, save an entire industry? The iPhone - now ranked the second most popular smartphone - saw strong enough adoption in the quarter ending Sept. 30 to mask the sluggishness of the overall smartphone market this past summer, according to a report by...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Smart Phone, Smartphone, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Forget the damn netbooks. Can “Windowsâ€� replace Windows?

Forget the damn netbooks. Can “Windowsâ€� replace Windows?It's not about Windowsbut It's about pirated Windows. In my country, you will rarely see a person who willing to buy a genuine copy of Windowseven the rich people except it's coming with the PC they buy. So, if they couldn't afford a...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

How to avoid receiving a $837.20 iPhone bill

Former colleague and iPhoneDevCamp founder Raven Zachary recently got whacked with a $837.20 iPhone bill for international data usage. This was despite securing an AT&T World Traveler plan and a 20GB Data Global plan. He offers the following tips for iPhone users traveling abroad this summer: Disable...

Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, E-mail, jason D. O'Grady, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Wireless, Wireless LANs

Blog posts 2008-06-25

Rolling your own starts to make more sense

Rolling your own starts to make more senseComputer storeA computer store builds them for me, at my own specifications. Without operating system or any other software, ofcourse. Same price as when I would buy the components separately and assemble them myself. Plus I have one year warranty.Then I pump Ubuntu...

Tags: Linux, computer store, Ubuntu, Lenovo Group Ltd., education

Discussion threads 2008-03-11

Book publishers finally getting their digital acts together?

Book publishers finally getting their digital acts together?Schools / Books / LearningDoes anyone know if there is merit to saying that books are a better method of teaching than a computer?Cost of books? Perhaps a little respect for the written word should be implemented.Notes? Do you remember looking through that...

Tags: E-books, Digital rights management (DRM), e-book, digital-rights management, book publisher, Books, sales

Discussion threads 2008-02-12

Mac OS X Leopard release to set off wave of hardware upgrades

The buzz is building over what Mac OS 10.5 Leopard will mean to Mac users and Apple's bottom line, in advance of the update's expected release later this month and the company's quarterly conference call next Monday, respectively. Unlike the fizzle that PC users showed for the...

Tags: Developer, Apple Mac OS, Apple Macintosh, Hardware Upgrade, Performance, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, IBM PowerPC, User, Machine, Leopard, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2007-10-15

Can Apple cuddle up to the enterprise?

Whether Apple can be an enterprise player has been the subject of debate for years, but one analyst thinks that the companys recent purchase of a U.K.-firm may give it an entry. Apple quietly acquired the technology and intellectual property of Proximity Corp. earlier this week. The acquisition...

Tags: Proximity Corp., Apple Computer Inc., Apple, General

Blog posts 2006-12-06

Week's developments prove BlackBerry shutdown a race against time

The way I see it, this past week's developments related to the potential shutdown of BlackBerry sales and services in the U.S. have everything to do with process.Earlier this week, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office issued a tentative final rejection of the last of five NTP patents that...

Tags: patent, suspension, NTP

Blog posts 2006-02-03